Sometimes you have a file that you simply can't delete! Many are the times that the files you want to delete are a virus or protected by a virus.

If you want to delete it, this is what you do!

Please be careful what you delete! You may end up losing vital system files. If you're not sure about deleting a file, look it up with Google, see exactly what it does before deletion!!!

Tutorial tags: delete, hidden, protected

If Windows Explorer need to be restarted you don't need you reboot. This is how you can do it.

Also works in Windows Vista.

Tutorial tags: restart, windows explorer

Be careful when editing the "sysoc.inf" file, because some of those components are meant to be hidden, as they are required for your Windows XP.

I removed the hide attribute from the Windows Messenger, Pinball and TabletPC, as I know I never use one.
The process can be reversed.

From the Add/Remove Windows Components i removed the Windows Messenger, MSN Explorer, Pinball and Internet Games. Personally i never use them so why have them?

Tutorial tags: xp, remove, components

This is how you can set a custom title text to the Internet Explorer browser.

The registry location is:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Internet Explorer \ Main

Here you must add a REG_SZ (String) with the name "Window Title" and for value... put anything you want!

Caution! Registry editing is dangerous for your system. Please be sure to review this tutorial if you're unsure what to edit!

Tutorial tags: internet explorer, custom, title

If the Default User Account pictures bored you, this is how you can add any picture you want. The only thing you must remember is that the picture must be approximately squared (width ~ height) and the file format be .bmp (bitmap image).

The folder where you must copy the pictures is:
X:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\User Account Pictures\Default Pictures, where X: is the letter of the drive where Windows is installed.

Tutorial tags: custom, user account, picture

When you connect a new device, if Windows can't find a driver of it's own, it will prompt if you want to search the internet. Now.. we all know that it will never find anything, so you hit Cancel most of the time.

Now you can disable it so it won't bother you again.

Tutorial tags: disable, device driver, web search

A short description for the Desktop Cleanup Wizard from the Microsoft site: "The Desktop Cleanup Wizard helps you keep your desktop free of the shortcuts that you do not use. The Desktop Cleanup Wizard periodically checks the desktop for unused shortcuts (anything not used in the last 60 days) and provides an easy way to remove those shortcuts without harming the installed program."

Our oppinion? RUBBISH! :) We can delete unuseful shortcut for ourselves, we don't need another stupid feature to bother us!
This is how to remove it.

Tutorial tags: desktop, cleanup, wizard

If you get a BSOD (blue screen of death) or a fatal system error (you can recognize it because after auto-restarting your computer gives a pop-up message like: "Windows has recovered from a fatal error") this is what you can do.

A small correction: in the video there's a "70% chance", not "change", we appologize for the error.

Tutorial tags: xp, troubleshooting

If you don't want anyone else to change your favorite wallpaper there is an option in Windows XP that allows you to do that.

Tutorial tags: xp, wallpaper, change

This one is an oldie, but a goodie! :)

Some of you might forgotten it but... here it is again! :)

Tutorial tags: xp, autorun, disable