Use of PrintScreen for some fun

You know the use of Print screen button on the keyboard [present on top right above insert] .It captures the screen , right ?But now I will tell you how to use it for some fun .

Take screen shot of the desktop by pressing Print Screen on the desktop .

Go to Paint and paste this . Save it .

For Windows XP users

1. On the desktop right click -----> arrange icons by ----> De-select 'Show Desktop Icons '.
2. Now right click the taskbar and select properties .
3. Check auto hide the taskbar. Click OK.
4. Now change your wallpaper and keep the one you saved earlier.
5. If paint is not closed, select File ---------> 'Set as background (Centered) '.

Now on the desktop even if you click any icon nothing will happen !!!Now do I need to tell youhow you can use it for fun on someone else's PC ?

To revert back to normalcy change the wallpaper and select 'show desktop icons' on the right click menu .

Quick Shutdown

Give this a try .

• Open task manager by Ctrl + Alt + Delete .
• Now press ctrl and open the Shutdown menu on top .
• Keeping ctrl pressed click on Shutdown .
  

Some Shortcuts for Programs

Press 'Windows key' + R and type the following (without qoutes) :

1. "winword" to open Word.
2. "powerpnt" to open Powerpoint.
3. "excel" to open Excel
4. "mspaint" to open Paint.
5. "notepad" to open Notepad.
6. "wmplayer" to open Windows Media Player.
7. "wordpad" to open Wordpad.
8. "sndrec32" to open Sound Recorder.
9. "iexplore" to open Internet Explorer.
10. "firefox" to open Firefox.
11. "msconfig" to control startup.
12. "services.msc" to manage the Services.

You can put shortcuts for shortcuts!!

You can put Keyboard shortcuts for desktop shortcuts. To do this follow these steps :

1. Right click on the shortcut.
2. Go to properties.
3. Click once on the "Shortcut Key" bar.
4. Press any alphabet that you want to use as Shortcut Key.
5. Press OK.Now to open that shortcut, Press CTRL+ALT+"the alphabet".

How to Restart Windows without Restarting your PC

When you click on the SHUTDOWN button, make sure to simultaneous press SHIFT Button.

If you hold the Shift key down while clicking on SHUTDOWN button, you computer would restart without restarting the Computer. This is equivalent to term "HOT REBOOT".

Really invisible folders!!

Make your folders totally invisible ...

1)Make a new folder
2)Now rename the folder with a space(U have to hold ALT key and type 0160).
3)Now u have a folder with out a name.
4)Right click on the folder>properties>customize. Click on change icon.
5)Scroll a bit, u should find some empty spaces, Click on any one of them.click ok

Thats it, it has become invisible .

To view it just type the folder name in the address bar .

Put shortcuts for Reboot, Shutdown and even Logout!!

Follow these steps :

1. On the desktop right click ----> New----> shortcut .
2. In the location area type (without quotes) "shutdown -r" to reboot, "shutdown -l" to logout, "shutdown -s" to shutdown.
3. In the name for the shortcut type in any name you are comfortable with e.g SHUTDOWN or RESTART etc.
4. Click Finish and its done.
5. Now double-click the icon created to perform the actions.
   

Lock Folders without any Software

Yes thats right. You can lock any folder without using any software. Follow these steps.

1.Suppose you have a folder named abcd in D:\abcd.
2.In the same drive next to the folder create a new notepad file with the exact statementren abcd abcd.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}
3.Now save this text file as loc.bat
4.Create another notepad file and typeren abcd.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D} abcd
5.Save this as key.bat
6.Now there are two batch files . Double click loc.bat and your folder will change into Control Panel and its contents cannot be viewed .
7.To open the folder double click key.bat and you get back your original folder.
8.For more safety keep the key.bat in another location .Only for unlocking copy paste to the original location and double click .

If you combine this with the hidden folder trick, it will be impossible for anyone else to access it .

How to Speed up the start menu ??

• Start the REGEDIT program
• Search for the word desktop
• This should be in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT / CLSID / {00021400...
• Right Click on the right panel
  Pick NEW / String Value.
• Name it MenuShowDelay, all one word.
• Select a value from 1-10, 1 being the fastest.
• Exit REGEDIT
• Restart WindowS

Windows XP Secrets

• You can delete files immediately, without having them move to the Recycle Bin first. Go to the Start menu, select Run... and type 'gpedit.msc'; then select User Configuration, Administrative Templates, Windows Components, Windows Explorer and find the Do not move deleted files to the Recycle Bin setting. Set it. Poking around in gpedit will reveal a great many interface and system options, but take care -- some may stop your computer behaving as you wish. (Professional Edition only)
• You can lock your XP workstation with two clicks of the mouse. Create a new shortcut on your desktop using a right mouse click, and enter 'rundll32.exe user32.dll,LockWorkStation' in the location field. Give the shortcut a name you like. That's it -- just double click on it and your computer will be locked.
• XP hides some system software you might want to remove, such as Windows Messenger, but you can tickle it and make it disgorge everything. Using Notepad or Edit, edit the text file /windows/inf/sysoc.inf, search for the word 'hide' and remove it. You can then go to the Add or Remove Programs in the Control Panel, select Add/Remove Windows Components and there will be your prey, exposed and vulnerable.
• For those skilled in the art of DOS batch files, XP has a number of interesting new commands. These include 'eventcreate' and 'eventtriggers' for creating and watching system events, 'typeperf' for monitoring performance of various subsystems, and 'schtasks' for handling scheduled tasks. As usual, typing the command name followed by /? will give a list of options -- they're all far too baroque to go into here.
• You can at last get rid of tasks on the computer from the command line by using 'taskkill /pid' and the task number, or just 'tskill' and the process number. Find that out by typing 'tasklist', which will also tell you a lot about what's going on in your system.
• XP will treat Zip files like folders, which is nice if you've got a fast machine. On slower machines, you can make XP leave zip files well alone by typing 'regsvr32 /u zipfldr.dll' at the command line. If you change your mind later, you can put things back as they were by typing 'regsvr32 zipfldr.dll'.
• You can use Remote Assistance to help a friend who's using network address translation (NAT) on a home network, but not automatically. Get your pal to email you a Remote Assistance invitation and edit the file. Under the RCTICKET attribute will be a NAT IP address, like 192.168.1.10. Replace this with your chum's real IP address – they can find this out by going to www.whatismyip.com -- and get them to make sure that they've got port 3389 open on their firewall and forwarded to the errant computer.
• You can run a program as a different user without logging out and back in again. Right click the icon, select Run As... and enter the user name and password you want to use. This only applies for that run. The trick is particularly useful if you need to have administrative permissions to install a program, which many require. Note that you can have some fun by running programs multiple times on the same system as different users, but this can have unforeseen effects.
• Windows XP can be very insistent about you checking for auto updates, registering a Passport, using Windows Messenger and so on. After a while, the nagging goes away, but if you feel you might slip the bonds of sanity before that point, run Regedit, go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows/Current Version/Explorer/Advanced and create a DWORD value called EnableBalloonTips with a value of 0.
• You can start up without needing to enter a user name or password. Select Run… from the start menu and type 'control userpasswords2', which will open the user accounts application. On the Users tab, clear the box for Users Must Enter A User Name And Password To Use This Computer, and click on OK. An Automatically Log On dialog box will appear; enter the user name and password for the account you want to use.
• Internet Explorer 6 will automatically delete temporary files, but only if you tell it to. Start the browser, select Tools / Internet Options... and Advanced, go down to the Security area and check the box to Empty Temporary Internet Files folder when browser is closed.
• The Start Menu can be leisurely when it decides to appear, but you can speed things along by changing the registry entry HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Control Panel/Desktop/MenuShowDelay from the default 400 to something a little snappier. Like 0.
• You can rename loads of files at once in Windows Explorer. Highlight a set of files in a window, then right click on one and rename it. All the other files will be renamed to that name, with individual numbers in brackets to distinguish them. Also, in a folder you can arrange icons in alphabetised groups by View, Arrange Icon By... Show In Groups.
• Windows Media Player will display the cover art for albums as it plays the tracks – if it found the picture on the Internet when you copied the tracks from the CD. If it didn't, or if you have lots of pre-WMP music files, you can put your own copy of the cover art in the same directory as the tracks. Just call it folder.jpg and Windows Media Player will pick it up and display it.