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.
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Categories: XP tricks Tags: Error Fix, Fix XP, Registry repair, Repair XP, Windows XP
How to Run Multiple Operating System Simultaneously|VMwarePlayer
In some occasion we wish to run multiple operating systems but we have to uninstall or switch to annoying dual boot mode. So better way is run another Operating System virtually without installing another OS.
VMware Player is the cool way to run multiple operating systems simultaneously on your PC. Here interesting feature is you don’t need to restart your computer to switch between operating system. VMware Player provides a better platform any OS whether compatible or not.
VMware Palyer-Windows Xp on Linux
For example if you’re PC having windows 7, Windows XP,Chrome OS or Linux you can run any operating system side by side and you can use any one at a time. Do you thinking about price? No way,VMPlayer is free for personal and non-commercial use.
What’s more, Try this cool application today only!
Related: Easy Trick To Hide Your Computer Hard Disk Drives
Categories: Computer as a Virtual Machine Tags: Dual boot, Google chrome., Linux, VMware, VMwarePlayer, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows7
Minimize Currently Running Application To Desktop as a Thumbnail|miniMIZE
Generally we love to run multiple Application software simultaneously, eventually it slow down the PC but also populate on taskbar, some time it is difficult to identify which is the high priority application explorer.
Here is an interesting tool which
1) Keep your Taskbar Clean and Tidy
2) And also minimize the application explorer to desktop in the form of a thumbnail
The tool is called miniMIZE it catches the application explorers that are being minimized and creates a small thumbnail on desktop. So it doesn’t clutter up your taskbar and also you can drag and arrange thumbnail generated by this tool.
This tool also has some hot keys so that we can adjust thumbnail size, show/hide thumbnails. This tool is in beta mode and now it only supports Windows XP Operating system
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Related: How to Remove Windows Unnecessary Startup Task With Autoruns
Categories: Tips And Tricks Tags: Application, Desktop, miniMIZE, Taskbar, Thumbnail, Windows XP
Quick Fix To “This operation has been cancelled due to restrictions in effect on this computer” Error
When I am working as a Computer Service Engineer,i faced this problem at customer place in Windows XP Operating System,while opening internet explorer and fixed this problem by recovering corrupted registry.
This error not only arises due to corrupted registry some other causes for this Error
- By changing default Web-Browser from Internet explorer to other may cause this problem.
- Another possible cause for this error is Group Policy Editor, in some time it restrict execution of certain application
- Another common cause is a corrupt registry key in Internet Explorer. The registry location is HKEY_Local Machine\Software\Classes\htmlfile\shell\open\command
is either damaged or corrupt. - Older versions of Internet Explorer is also another possible cause for this error
Some Tips to Fix this Error
Error Message
Solution 1:
Go to Control Panel -> Add Remove Programs, click on Set Program Access and Defaults. Then Open up the configuration then change the default web browser to something else.
Change Default Browser
Solution 2:
If you are using old version of Internet Explorer try latest version by upgrading your current browser.
Solution 3:
Open registry editor by typing regedit in Run box of start menu and search (Ctrl + F) for the value nocontrolpanel. Change its value from 1 to 0.
Change Registry Value from 0 to 1
Solution 4:
If problem caused by corrupted registry, just download this file,unzip it and double click to extract the registry.
Let us know these solutions works or not.
Tips to Create Windows 7 Univarsal Disk-Remove Versions
Generally in Windows XP there are several editions in market like home edition,student edition,professional edition etc.Some time installation is frustrating for users due to different version of installation disc.Microsoft fixed this issue in windows vista by offering single disc to all versions of vista operating system.But in Windows 7 Microsoft again revert back old system i.e different discs to different versions of windows like home,business,Ultimate.So we can overcome this issue by editing or removing ei.cfg file.
After removing ei.cfg file we can able to seen list of all versions of windows7 during installation in a single disk,(just like windows vista),So we can directly select and install which verison of windows is we need at present.
To edit ei.cfg file there is special tool,by which we can easily edit or remove ei.cfg file and repack the iso image.Now you can burn this Windows 7 Universal iso image to disk,to proceed.
Download ei.cfg Removal Utility
Download ei.cfg Removal Utility
Categories: "Windows 7 for Beginners", News Tags: Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, Operating System, 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
