Enable Thumbnail Preview in Windows Explorer for PDF files

Methode

•Open notepad

•Write this entry in the notepad:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AcroExch.Document.7\Shellex\{BB2E617C-0920-11d1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}]
@=”{F9DB5320-233E-11D1-9F84-707F02C10627}”

•Click file save as, in the save as type set to all files.

•In the file names type, write the file name with reg extention (e.g “pdfprvw.reg”, “pdfthumvw.reg or etc) then save the file.

•Double click the file to activate pdf thumnails.

Note:
•You may need restart to take effect this regestry key.
•To disable this feature delete the key named “{BB2E617C-0920-11d1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}”

Sometimes Folder Options Missing in Windows Explorer

There are 2 way to fix this problem:

First way: Edit registry setting

1.Open registry editor by click Start menu – Run, type regedit and then press enter.

2.Navigate to “HKEY_CURRENT_USER | Software | Microsoft | Windows | CurrentVersion | Policies | Explorer”

3.At right panel, look for a value called “NoFolderOptions”, delete the value.

4.Go to “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE | Software | Microsoft | Windows | CurrentVersion | Policies | Explorer”

5.Repeat step 3 to delete NoFolderOptions entry.

Second way: Change setting in Group Policy

1.Open group policy setting by click Start Menu – Run then type gpedit.msc and then press enter.

2.Navigate to “User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Windows Components -> Windows Explorer”.

3.At the right panel, look for “Removes the Folder Options menu item from the Tools menu”, right click on it then choose Properties, and then disable it.

Change Processor Name in Windows XP

• Open registry editor



• Now goto this registry key: “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE | HARDWARE | DESCRIPTION | System | CentralProcessor | 0”



• on right Panel right click registry string named “ProcessorNameString” and click Modify, then type any Processor Name e.g from “Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.53GHz” to “Intel(R) Pentium(R) Quad Core 2.8 Ghz”

Repairing network connections

- Click on Start button
- Go to Control panel
- Choose Nework and Internet Connections
- Click Network Connections
- Right click Local Area Connection
- Click on Repair
- At last click on Close
Or
Command

- Go to Start button
- Click on Run
- type cmd and press enter
- type ipconfig/all press enter
- type ipconfig/releasepress enter
- type ipconfig/renewpress enter

Remove TCP/IP

Remove TCP/IP for the local area connection. To do this, follow these steps.

Note Before you remove TCP/IP, make a note of the IP and the DNS settings.
1. Click Start, point to Settings, and then click Network and Dial-up Connections.
2. Right-click Local Area Connection, and then click Properties.
3. In the Components checked are used by this connection list, click Internet Protocol (TCP/IP).
4. Click Uninstall, and then in the Uninstall Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) dialog box, click Yes.
5. When you are prompted to restart your computer, click Yes.

Window Xp open problem

If your Computer OPen and on desktop position and it cannot work then do following step

- open computer - press alt+ctrl+del (then open Windows Task Manager dialog box )
- Go to file menu - Click New Task(Run..)
- Type Explorer.exe - click open
- Then Copy Explorer.exe file in another computer and Rename it Explorer.reg
- put explorer.reg in your computer and Run it
- Then scan your computer
Now your computer will be open and you work easly .

10 ways to make your computer fast

1. Defragment your computer hard disk

2. You should also defragment your Windows pagefile and registry.

3. Clean up hard drive disk space being taken up by temporary files, the recycle bin, hibernation and more. You can also use a tool like TreeSize to determine what is taking up space on your hard drive.

4. Load up Windows faster by using Startup Delayer, a free program that will speed up the boot time of Windows by delaying the startup of programs.

5. Speaking of startup programs, many of them are useless and can be turned off. Use the MSCONFIG utility to disable startup programs.

6. By default, the size of the paging file is controlled by Windows, which can cause defragmentation. Also, the paging file should be on a different hard drive or partition than the boot partition. Read here on the rules for best paging file performance.

7. In Windows XP and Vista, the Windows Search indexing service is turned on for all local hard drives. Turning off indexing is a simple way to increase performance.

8. If you don’t care about all the fancy visual effects in Windows, you can turn them off by going to Performance Options.

9. You can optimize the Windows boot time using a free program called Bootvis from Microsoft.

10. Clean your registry by removing broken shortcuts, missing shared DLLs, invalid paths, invalid installer

Files Listing Command

In the Dos DIR Command is also used to list the files and folders
you can also list file and flder using several criteria such as alphabetical order, date ,size etc

/p: fills the screen with the results then pauses the screen
/w: displays the results in 5 columns
To display files according to various criteria:
/ah: displays hidden files
/ad: displays folders only
/ar: displays read-only files
/aa: displays files ready to be archived
/as: displays system files

-To display files in a required order:
/ON: sorted by name
/OS: sorted by size (ascending)
/OE: sorted by extension
/OD: sorted by date
/OG: sorted by parent folder
/OS: sorted by attribute
/s: displays the files located in a folder and all sub-folders
/b: minimal view
/l: displays results in lowercase
/v: displays additional information