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How to Block A Website in All Web Browsers This action will require you to edit your Host file. Your host file is a computer file used to store information on where to find a node on a computer network. For more a more detailed description. Check out this link Host File Description Link In Windows XP1. Click Start->All Programs->Accessories->Command Prompt. 2. Click Command Prompt This will open a DOS command window. 3. Type: notepad C:/Windows/System32/drivers/etc/hosts 4. Locate the line 127.0.0.1 localhost 5. To block the website google.com for example, just add this text under 127.0.0.1 localhost: 127.0.0.1 google.com 127.0.0.1 www.google.com You can add as many sites any site, However you will need to prefix it with "127.0.0.1". 6. Save the file Google will now be blocked in all web browser. This is an advanced but easy method on how to blow a website. Enabling Multiple Remote Desktop Sessions in Windows XP Professional and Media Center Edition 2005 If you have ever used a real remote computer system like Citrix, then you have probably been craving multiple Remote Desktop sessions since you first fired up Windows XP Professional and/or Media Center Edition. Here is a HACK (translated: USE AT YOUR OWN RISK), to enable multiple Remote Desktop sessions on your XP Pro or MCE 2005 box: NOTE: You will have to have knowledge of the Windows operating system and more specifically the Windows Registry. If you have no experience with the registry, then I would recommend you find someone who does or leave these alone. I do not make any kind of warranty that this will work for you or your friends. This is provided for entertainment purposes only. Don’t call me if your computer stops working. Got it? 1. Print these directions so that you have them to work from. 2. Restart your computer in Safe Mode 3. Turn off/disable Remote Desktop Connection (RDC) and Terminal Services 1. Right click My Computer 2. Select Properties 3. Click on the Remote tab at the top of the window 4. UNCHECK the box next to, “Allow users to connect remotely to this computer“ 5. Click OK 6. Go to Start -> Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Services 7. Find Terminal Services in the list 8. Right click on Terminal Services and click Properties 9. In the Startup Type box, select Disabled 10. Click OK to close the window # Next you will replace the current version of the Terminal Services DLL (termsrv.dll) with an unrestricted version from a previous release of Terminal Services. 1. Here is a copy of the Terminal Services DLL - Save it to your Desktop or other suitable location 2. Using a file manager like Windows Explorer open C:\Windows \system32\dllcache 3. Rename the file termsrv.dll to termsrv_dll.bak or whatever you would like. 4. Copy the downloaded termsrv.dll file (the one you just downloaded from the web) to C:\Windows\system32\dllcache 5. Open the C:\Windows\system32 folder 6. Delete the file termsrv.dll in C:\Windows\system32 # Now we can edit the Windows Registry to enable more than one RDP connection. Go to Start -> Run and type regedit - Hopefully you knew that already # Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server\Licensing Core # Add a DWORD Key named EnableConcurrentSessions and give it a value of 1 # Close the Registry Editor window # Go to Start -> Run and type gpedit.msc to run the Group Policy Editor # Browse to Computer Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Windows Components -> Terminal Services and double click Limit number of connections # Select the Enabled button and enter the number of connections you would like to enable….at least 2. # Restart Windows # Right click My Computer and select Properties. # Click on the Remote tab at the top of the window # CHECK the box next to, “Allow users to connect remotely to this computer“ # Click OK # Go to Start -> Control Panel ->Administrative Tools -> Services. Select Terminal Services from the list and double click it or right-click -> Properties. Set the Startup Type to Manual. # # Restart Windows/Computer You should be good to go.

Add Copy To / Move To to the Windows Explorer Right Click Menu

A hidden functionality in Windows allows you to right click on a file,
select Copy To Folder or Move To Folder,
and the move to box will pop up and let you choose
a location to either copy or move the file or folder to.

Update: Downloadable version also available.

Here's the quick registry hack to get this working.
As usual, back up your registry just in case.
You will want to browse down to this key:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AllFilesystemObjects\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers

Once you are at that key, right click and choose the New Key option:

Now you will double-click on the (Default) value and enter the following:

{C2FBB630-2971-11D1-A18C-00C04FD75D13}

Click OK and continue.

If you want to enable Move To, you will repeat the same steps,
except creating a new key named Move To, and using this value:

{C2FBB631-2971-11D1-A18C-00C04FD75D13}

Now when you right click on a file or folder, you should see the following options:

Let's click Copy To Folder just to see what happens….

Tip taken from majorgeek


Speed up your browsing of Windows 2000 & XP machines

Here's a great tip to speed up your browsing of Windows XP machines. Its actually a fix to a bug installed as default in Windows 2000 that scans shared files for Scheduled Tasks. And it turns out that you can experience a delay as long as 30 seconds when you try to view shared files across a network because Windows 2000 is using the extra time to search the remote computer for any Scheduled Tasks. Note that though the fix is originally intended for only those affected, Windows 2000 users will experience that the actual browsing speed of both the Internet & Windows Explorers improve significantly after applying it since it doesn't search for Scheduled Tasks anymore. Here's how :

Open up the Registry and go to : HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Windows/Current Version/Explorer/RemoteComputer/NameSpace Under that branch, select the key : {D6277990-4C6A-11CF-8D87-00AA0060F5BF} and delete it. This is key that instructs Windows to search for Scheduled Tasks. If you like you may want to export the exact branch so that you can restore the key if necessary. This fix is so effective that it doesn't require a reboot and you can almost immediately determine yourself how much it speeds up your browsing processes.

is very important to defragment your disk drives, this will reduce seek time and improve overall speed.
Go to: Start--> all programs--> accessories--> system tools--> Disk defragmenter
once the disk defrag console is up you can either analize your disk or just go to defragment
repeat the defrag options for all your drives, enjoy :)

System configuration Utility.

Did you ever wondered why your machine is getting slower and slower at startup?
one of the reasons are all the programs that run at startup, yes all those little icons close to the pc clock, those are programs who run when you switch on your machine and in many cases you did not want them so to speed up your machine startup and decrease the amount of ram used
you can disable some of those startup programs, in order to do so go to start run and type MSCONFIG, this will bring up System Configuration Utility, now click on startup and untick all the programs not needed to run at startup, remember if you do not recognize what is it leave it alone
otherwise you could google it!!
once you decided which one to leave at startup click on ok, where you will be asked to reboot, once your machine reebots...TBC

System restore.

Something many people are overlooking is restore facility embedded on windows Xp
this handy tool can help recover a system in case of failure.
At times adding a new software or changing some settings could cause to have an undesired effect,
if this happens you can recover your system using this tool:

To access this tool just go to Start-->All programs-->Accessories-->system tools-->System restore.
once done you will be presented with the system restore console, then select create a restore point, click on next you will then be presented with the option to add a description,
add a description which will remind you of the change, something like game install etc, then click on create.
You have finally created a restore point, if you ever need to revert your system to a previous state you can do it now
just launch the system restore console and select restore my computer to an earlier time.
Enjoy.