Repairing and Fixing Windows XP System|XP Quick Fix Plus
XP Quick Fix Plus is free application provides 40 common Windows XP problems fixes (GUI mode) and command line utility to fix 6 common problems directly from command line. XP Quick Fix Plus Portable, small and fast and absolutely free.
XP Quick Fix Plus was made for Windows XP and was not tested on any other OS except Windows XP SP2 and XP Quick Fix Plus is relased as freware. This is good software you must have on your computer.
How to use XP Quick Fix Plus (GUI )
- Download and unzip XP Quick Fix Plus to any folder and run it. Click LFX.exe to run GUI Mode
- click on the button with the relevant fix. Some of the fixes may effect only after a restart.
The size of file XP Quick Fix Plus is very small, there are two files: LFX.exe (584kb) the main program GUI with 40 fixes and QFC.exe (38kb) a command line utility with 6 fixes.
Download XP Quick Fix Plus
Categories: XP tricks Tags: Error Fix, Fix XP, Registry repair, Repair XP, Windows XP
Cool Trick To Change Thumbnail Size Of a Picture In Windows
When we browse images in the explorer, the thumbnail size of the picture’s is some time too small or too big and the quality of the thumbnail is not good, so it is possible to change the size of the thumbnail as usual as quality of thumbnail which is displayed in explorer.The Trick is related to Registry Modification,so backup your registry before changing the registry value.
Step1. Go to – start->run-> regedit
Stept2.Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ Software\ Microsoft \ Windows\ CurrentVersion\Explorer
Step3. Create 2 new DWord Value —> right click and select “new->DWORD value” and name one DWord value as “ThumbnailSize” and other Dword Value as “ThumbnailQuality”
Step4. In this step we have to change Decimal Value for both, ThumbnailSize (values 32 – 256 )and Thumbnail Quaility (values 50 – 100)
Step5. Now you can open any folder and change the view to Thumbnail and see the difference.
Categories: XP tricks Tags: Modify registry, Thumbnail size, Windows Thumbnail, Windows XP
Steps to Open System Volume Information Folder
System Volume Information Folder stores system restore points on your computer to help you in system restore. It is one of the noted position of virus creatures and some times difficult position for them. The reason is like the user don’t have direct ownership of this folder. The user (Administrator) cannot take the ownership of the folder directly and open this folder. To do this we need to change some security settings. So the steps to get the ownership of the System Volume Folder and open it follow the steps below.
How Open System Volume Information Folder
To Open System Volume Information Folder in Windows XP follow:
1. Open My Computer and Click on Tools (On Top menu)
2. Click on Folder Options
3. Click on View tab
Now perform the following sub actions:
a. Select Show hidden files and folders
b. Uncheck the Hide protected operating system files (Recommended) check box.
c. Uncheck Use simple file sharing (Recommended) check box
Click Yes when it need confirmation.Now Click on Save and OK.
Grant Access to System Volume Information
Normally System Volume Information folder it won’t allow us to access it. We need to change the This folder is located in the drive where Windows is installed.
4. Right Click on System Volume Information Folder and Click on Properties
5. Click on Security tab
Then add the user account on which we need to access the System Volume Information Folder. Now click OK and it is ready to explore.
Related:Show Hidden Files and Folders not working-Fix
Categories: XP tricks Tags: Security, System volume information
Free Way to Use and Mount Images (ISO files) Without Burning Them:XP
Microsoft has an unsupported virtual CD-ROM program. Why buy alcohol or Daemon Tools?
Alcohol and Daemon Tools are excellent software packages that allow users to mount ISO files as virtual CD-ROMs. Yes, there is a way to use that ISO without burning it to a disk.
Although I love these tools, Microsoft has a free, 60kb program that does the same thing! Of course, it is not supported… and it’s not as friendly as the software listed above; however, it works and it’s free.
Here’s the download link:
winxpvirtualcdcontrolpanel
Here’s the readme:
- Readme for Virtual CD-ROM Control Panel v2.0.1.1
THIS TOOL IS UNSUPPORTED BY MICROSOFT PRODUCT SUPPORT SERVICES
System Requirements
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- Windows XP Home or Windows XP Professional
Installation instructions
=========================
1. Copy VCdRom.sys to your %systemroot%\system32\drivers folder.
2. Execute VCdControlTool.exe
3. Click “Driver control”
4. If the “Install Driver” button is available, click it. Navigate to the %systemroot%\system32\drivers folder, select VCdRom.sys, and click Open.
5. Click “Start”
6. Click OK
7. Click “Add Drive” to add a drive to the drive list. Ensure that the drive added is not a local drive. If it is, continue to click “Add Drive” until an unused drive letter is available.
8. Select an unused drive letter from the drive list and click “Mount”.
9. Navigate to the image file, select it, and click “OK”. UNC naming conventions should not be used, however mapped network drives should be OK.
You may now use the drive letter as if it were a local CD-ROM device. When you are finished you may unmount, stop, and remove the driver from memory using the driver control.
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How To Avoid The XP Product Activation After Reinstall
Many of windows OS users faced this windows reactivation problem,after reinstalling windows XP. So during reactivation we have to convince Microsoft Product Activation Department through phone,that you are using Genuine Microsoft Product,must supply Product ID. To Avoid all these conjunction here is Trick to backup and restore current activation key for future activation
So If you want to reinstall windows XP ,on a machine that already has XP on it, you can back up the current activation keys and restore them after you reinstall. You won’t have to contact Microsoft for a reactivation.
Before you Reinstall:
1. Make sure that you back up all of your personal files, data, programs, license keys and product keys.
2. Gather copies of the service packs and security software that you’ll need.
3. Go to the following folder: C:\Windows\System32
4. Find the files named wpa.dbl and wpa.bak, and copy them to a floppy disk or CD.
During and After You Reinstall:
I’ll recommend that you take your PC offline (no internet connection) during installation. This allows you to install the service packs and security software before you reconnect to the internet. An unprotected PC can get infected in less than a minute online.At the end of the installation, if you get a prompt to activate Windows, follow the steps below:
1. Just say no. Microsoft will allow you a grace period to activate.
2. Reboot the PC.
3. Hit the F8 key during boot to get the advanced boot screen.
3. Choose “Safe Mode”.
4. Once in Safe Mode, open up that same folder at C:\Windows\System32.
5. Locate the two wpa files wpa.dbl and wpa.bak. If you don’t find the bak file, don’t worry.
6. Rename the files to something else, like maybe wpadbl.xxx and wpa.xxx.
7. Now copy the two files, Wpa.dbl and Wpa.bak, from the floppy or CD, into the system32 folder.
8. Reboot as you would normally.
Now you don’t have to contact Microsoft and you haven’t broken any rules, as far as I know. You’re good to go.
Do You Have XP Activation Problems?
If you have problems with your activation, I found this forum thread that may help.
You can also find out more about XP activation at this Microsoft page.
Cool and Attracting UBUNTU theme for windows xp users
Cool ubuntu look for your windows XP.Download it from here.
* Download UX Theme MultiPatcher from here
* Install it in your PC.
* Extract the rar file. Double click on the .msstyle file and apply the style.
* Done.
All the softwares required are freeware.
How to Save Windows Update for Future Use-AutoPatcher
Saving the windows update files on a disk will help you install these files on a fresh installation of windows or to install these updates on a computer which is not directly connected to Internet. For this there are two Tools. Lets see the details of what these tools do and how they work.
The Tools are :
1. AutoPatcher
2. WUtool By MajorGeeks AutoPatcher
AutoPatcher is a tool that will check what all updates you need and will download them for you. It will install the updated and will save them on disk for re-use if needed. To know more about this tool, see this page.
http://www.autopatcher.com/downloads/ 
WUtool By MajorGeeks WUtool is again a windows update tool developed by MajorGeeks. This tool will control the download and installation of windows update files and save Windows Updates files in a special folder. This is a lightweight tool which is very useful.
How to Disable Error Reporting in Windows XP
Does Word keep crashing your computer
every other day and then have the nerve to ask you to send an error report to microsoft every single time, which doesn’t seem to help with your problem!? I personally find the Error Report dialog to be a pain and therefore have disabled it. Half the time, it’s not even a Microsoft product that is crashing, so what is microsoft going to be about it? It’s either poorly written software or some other issue like a messed up registry, etc.
Here’s how to turn off the error reporting popup box when a program crashes:
1. Right click on My Computer and go to Properties.
2. Next, on the System Properties dialog, click on the Advanced tab.
3. Click on the Error Reporting button at the bottom right. Choose the Disable error reporting option and make sure “But notify me when critical errors occur“.
This ensures that you’ll be notified if something serious happens, but otherwise the daily crash of IE or Word or whatever app is not going to be bothering you with a useless Send to Microsoft popup!
OEM Editor For Windows Vista And XP
Let’s do some fun stuff today….See I have done it in my Computer…
TRICK 1
open notepad dump the following lines into it and save it with the name OEMINFO.INI in the c:\windows\system32 directory:
————————————————————————————-
[General]
Manufacturer=Your Name Here
Model=Your Model Here
[Support Information]
Line1=Your Name Here
Line2=Your Address Here
Line3=Your Email Address Here
————————————————————————————-
1. Save the file.
2. Then make a right click on my computer select properties, in the general tab a button will be highlighted (support information) make a click on it, you will be able to see the changes.
3. Now if you want to display some more information then simply increase the line in the file.
Ex: Line4=Your Working Hours Here
TRICK 2
Download And Install OEM Editor From below Link. Then Run the program,By using this software we can change OEM information Directly.
How to change Pendrive Background just like your Desktop
Just Like your desktop, you can change your pen drive background and also hard disk drives background. This tricks only works for Windows XP.
Just Copy the below code to notepad, then save it as “desktop.ini”
[.ShellClassInfo]
IconFile=%SystemRoot%\system32\SHELL32.dll
IconIndex=127
ConfirmFileOp=0
[{BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}]
Attributes=1
IconArea_Image=”example. jpg”
IconArea_Text=”0xFFFFFF”
VeBRA sources – don’t delete the tag above, it’s there for XXXXX purposes -
[ExtShellFolderViews]
{BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}={BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}
{5984FFE0-28D4-11CF-AE66-08002B2E1262}={5984FFE0-28D4-11CF-AE66-08002B2E1262}
[{5984FFE0-28D4-11CF-AE66-08002B2E1262}]
PersistMoniker=Folder.htt
PersistMonikerPreview=%WebDir%\folder.bmp
1. Where “example. jpg” is, delete that and replace with your picture name for example “redrose.gif”
2. Put “desktop.ini” and your chosen picture in your Thumb Drive then Hidden it.
3. Refresh and Enjoy with your new background.
4. You can also try on C, D, E F drives.
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