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For deletion of hiberfil.sys:
 | Click Start/Settings/Control Panel/Power
Options |
| Then on Hibernate tab, uncheck the checkbox
"Enable hibernate support" |
Otherwise the operating system will not allow
deletion of the hiberfil.sys.
| Show your IP Address
Put the following in a batch file or shortcut:
cmd /k "ipconfig /all && pause && exit"
This allows the command prompt windows to open
and show the information and then close when you press any key on
the keyboard.
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| Compress Old Files - Disk Cleanup/Clean
Manager |
"Compress Old Files" is
a really nice feature of NTFS ("NT File System"), used by default in
Windows 2000 and XP: When you run the Disk Cleanup/Cleanup Manager (cleanmgr.exe)
it can look to see if a file hasn't been used or accessed in in a while,
and if not, then it can automatically compress these little-used files
so that they take up much less space.
Note that this isn't Zip-Compression per se: Files compressed by Win2K
and XP aren't renamed as a "zip" file and can be accessed normally, just
like any other file. They're just smaller than they would be otherwise.
By default, CleanMgr compresses any files that haven't been used in more
than 50 days. But the first time you run it on an older system--- or on
a system with lots of old files--- it can indeed take a very long time
to finish.
The simple solution is to set the compress option to a very old date,
say, maybe a year or so--- and then slowly advance the date with
successive compression cycles until you eventually are compressing files
from a fairly recent time. In other words, let it chew on only the very
oldest files at first, then some slightly younger files, and so on.
| Change the Windows Log On Screensaver
The logon screen saver is the screen saver you see when no one is
logged onto the computer. That default Windows XP logon screen
saver isn't very interesting, as all it does is flash a banner
that says "Windows XP" in different places every second or two.
How about using a screen saver of your choice? You'll have to edit
the Registry (and exercise the usual caution when doing so) but
it's not difficult; just follow these steps:
 | Click Start and then click Run. Type Regedt32
into the Open text box and click OK. |
| Navigate to the following Registry key:
HKEY USERS\DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop |
| Look in the right pane of the Registry Editor
and find the entry for SCRNSAVE.EXE. Double click on it.
|
| In the Edit String dialog box, replace the
logon.scr entry with the name of the screen saver you want to
use. For example, if you want to use the 3D Pipes screen saver,
type in sspipes.scr. It's important that your screen saver be in
the WINDOWS\System32 folder, so make sure it is before you do
this (if the screensaver you want to use is in a different
location, you can copy it to this folder). |
| Click OK to save the changes. |
| Close the Registry Editor. |
| The new logon screen saver will be used the
next time you restart the computer
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Get a List of Group Members from the Command Prompt
| Click Start and click the Run command. Type cmd in the Open
text box and click OK. |
| Type the command: net localgroup "group_name" (replace
group_name with the name of the group for which you want a list
of users -for example, "power users"). Be sure to include the
quotes for any groups with names that have spaces. Press [ENTER]
|
| You'll see a list of the members of the group appear in the
command prompt window. |
| You'll need to be logged on with an administrative account
to do this
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| Change the Thumbnail Size in Windows
Explorer A lot of people really like the new Thumbnail feature in the
Windows Explorer. Thumbnails allow you to see a smaller version of
a picture file, without actually opening up the file in full view.
Although the default Thumbnail size is OK, you might want to play
around with the sizes. This involves editing the Registry, so the
usual precautions about Registry editing apply. Here's how:
| Click Start, click Run and type Regedit in the Open text
box. Click OK. |
| Go to the following Registry Key and click on it:
HKEY CURRENT USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer
|
| Right click on an empty area in the right pane of the
Registry Editor, point to New and click DWORD Value.
|
| Change the name of the New Value #1 to "ThumbnailSize"
(without the quotes) |
| Double click on the ThumbnailSize value. In the Base frame,
select Hexadecimal. In the Value data text box, type in a number
between 32 and 96, inclusive. The smaller the number, the
smaller the Thumbnail. |
The changes should take place immediately, so you won't have to
restart the computer. If you don't like the size, go back and make
the number smaller or larger. If you want to go back to the
default size that was used before you started messing with things,
just delete the ThumbnailSize value by right clicking on it and
clicking the Delete command.
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| How can I determine whether the Microsoft Java Virtual
Machine (JVM) is installed on my computer? |
To verify whether JVM is installed, perform the following
steps:
| Start a command prompt--go to Start, Run and type
|
cmd.exe
| Enter the Jview command by typing |
C:\< jview
If the computer doesn't recognize the command, JVM isn't
installed. When the computer does recognize the command, the JVM
version will be displayed. For example, when I type the command in
Step 2 on my computer, the following line indicates that JVM is
installed:
Microsoft (R) Command-line Loader for Java Version 5.00.3809
| How to add or modify Microsoft Internet
Explorer (IE) command shortcuts? |
IE 5.5 lets you search the Microsoft Knowledge
Base for a specific Microsoft article by typing the article
number in the IE address bar. For example, to display the
contents of the Microsoft article "BUG: MSCDEX May Not Detect
Disk Change"
( http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=123456 ), you'd type
MSKB Q123456
in the address bar. Microsoft removed this
functionality in IE 6.0, but you can reenable this feature as
well as add your own shortcuts by performing the following
steps:
| Start a registry editor (e.g., regedit.exe). |
| Navigate to the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet
Explorer\SearchUrl registry subkey. |
| From the Edit menu, select New, Key. |
| Enter the name that you want to use as the
shortcut command (e.g., MSKB), then press Enter. |
| Select the new key, then double-click the
Default value in the right-hand pane. |
| Set the value to be the Web address you want
to use and append "%s" (without the quotes) to the end of the
URL that the shortcut points to. For example, type |
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=%s
to enable the Microsoft Knowledge Base
functionality.
| Click OK. |
| Close the registry editor. |
The change will take effect immediately.
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