Display or Hide Icons in control Panel

Hi.....here is the steps to hide or display icons in the Control panel. For eg., if u want to hide add/remove icon jusy follow below steps........


* Go to Start > Run and type regedit then press Enter.
* In the Registry Editor window, find the path like this,

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\don’t load

* Right click on ” don’t load ” folder and select New > String Value.

* Name the created String Value related to the Control Panel icon you want it to be hidden. To illustrate, I would like to hide the icon, Add/Remove Programs Option, so I must name the String Value appwiz.cpl . Each String Value name is specific and varies with the Control Panel icon.


* Double click on appwiz.cpl .

* Type Yes to hide the Add/Remove Programs Option icon and then click OK button.

* Open Control Panel, the Add/Remove Programs Option icon is now hidden.

* In case you want the icon to display again, just type No instead of Yes in Value Data dialog.

Can't see Hidden files/folders in Computer ?

If u can't see Hidden files/folders in my computer. Even U enable the option "Show hidden files/folders" in "Tools -> Folder Options", its automatically disabled again.


Solution1: Go to your Start menu, click on Run and open up your Registry Editor by typing "regedit" without the quotes and pressing OK.

Once there go to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Explorer\Advanced\F older\Hidden\SHOWALL

Delete the value CheckedValue. (Its type should be REG_SZ and data should be 0 or 1.)

Create a new DWORD value called CheckedValue (same as above, except that the type is REG_DWORD) by right clicking on the right pane->New->DWORD Value. Modify the value data to 1 (0x00000001).


Solution 2: Open regedit and goto:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Explorer\Advanced
In right-side pane, change value of "Hidden" to as following:

1 - To show hidden file
2 - To not show hidden files

If it doesn't work, then scan your computer with an good anti-virus software.

Double-Click on any drive -- opens search option (Virus Effect)

That's a virus named as ravmon.exe and autorun.inf and sometimes Because of NewFolder.exe

Scan first with a good antivirus
then try this trick.

First show the hidden files and folders options then try this method

1. Go to Start-->run and type cmd then click ok

2. If u want to remove the infected file from D drive then type D: in command prompt and press enter

3. Type autorun.inf and press enter autorun.inf file is opened


4. Now type "attrib autorun.inf -s -h -r" ( this removes System ,Hidden n Read Only attribute for a files )and press enter

5. Now delete the file by typing
"del autorun.inf" and press enter

6. Now type autorun.inf and press enter now, u will find no infected autorun.inf file.

7. same way do for all other drives then restart ur pc

Increase Hard Disk speed in Windows

If you like to increase/optimize your Hard Disk I/O - read/write speed without buying expensive software utilities to do that job or changing the HD, just follow next steps. With doing these steps you will increase Hard disk speed (depends of manufacture and specification, but its worth to try). The most speed improvement is visible with IDE drives;

In any case, it won't harm your system, so try it yourself and let me know what you find!

Steps:

1. Run SYSEDIT.EXE from the start & then Run command.
2. Expand the system.ini file window.
3. Scroll down almost to the end of the file untill you find a line called [386enh].
4. Press Enter to make one blank line, and in that line type
5. Irq14=4096 (note: This line IS CASE SENSITIVE)
6. Click on the File menu, then choose Save.
7. Close SYSEDIT and reboot your computer.
8. Restart windows!

The speed improvement will be noticed just after the system reboots, any system info. software can be used to check the improvement.

20 Ways To Increase Laptop’s Battery Life

Mobile computing has got better with lighter components, better chips and faster processors. But the Achilles heel of a laptop has remained its battery. So here are we are going to look at ways to increase laptop battery life.
Modern graphic intensive operating systems and resource hungry applications are cutting down the life of your laptop’s battery every day. The average battery life per continuous use still stands at a maximum of three to four hours. So, a fast depleting battery could very swiftly put the crutches on your ‘mobile’ road trip.
Falling just short of carrying an extra pack of batteries in the back-pack, are several ways to keep the juice flowing through the batteries.
 

Watch STAR WARS in command prompt (Secret Movie)

Command Prompt can be used to watch movies. It is generally considered as a boring application which is not used by people that often.

When I am going through some sites I came across a post which contains the method of watching STAR WARS in the command prompt. All you have to do is follow these steps :
Go to Start > Run
Type cmd to open command prompt.
Type this:

telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl

Press Enter and enjoy the movie !!!!

How to Increase the Size of Command Prompt Window

The command window shows only 25 lines when it is called up. This is too little to display longer text stretches such as help pages. Here is a simple way to increase the size of the command prompt window and thus increase the number of lines displayed:

Right Click on the upper left corner of the command prompt window and select ‘Properties’.
Then switch to the ‘Layout’ tab. Change the ‘Height’ value under ‘Window Size’
Set it at ‘50’, for instance. You can retain the default width of 80 characters since most editions take this as the default value and have also integrated a line break at this point.


You can also immediately see whether and how the window thus defined fits your screen size in the preview, so that you can make your changes accordingly.
Also increase the ‘Height’ under ‘Screen Buffer Size’ to ‘600’, for instance.

This number indicates the number of lines the command prompt notes and through which you can scroll back. This is most practical for the display of long help texts.
Confirm this setting with ‘OK’ and then close the command prompt.

The new values will be valid the next time you call up the command prompt and you can use it with your own settings. Here is a way to change color and customize the command prompt.