Close All Windows Programs quickly

A cool tip to minimize and maximize all your active windows programs. You can do all using your mouse, but if you want to do this with keyboard then simply press Windows key+M to minimize all active programs and later maximize it using Windows key+Shift+M.

If you want to minimize the all active windows programs one by one then use the shortcut by pressing Alt+Space+N keys and sequentially maximize the active windows programs using shortcut Alt+Space+X keys.

create digital photo album presentation in PowerPoint

In Microsoft PowerPoint, you can create a digital photo album of your scanned photographs to represent as slide show presentation. Using this feature, you can display your business photo album on the web. Once you have converted it into HTML document, PowerPoint will allow you to publish this album to the internet. You can create unlimited albums and also add unlimited photos in each album.

Follow the given steps to create a digital photo album of your scanned photographs:

First create a folder of your scanned pictures or transfer from your digital camera or download from the web.

Now click on "Picture" option from the "Insert" menu then click on "New Photo Album" option.

Here a small dialog box will appear with "Photo Album" title. Now click on "File/Disk" button under "Insert picture from" area to add first picture in album.

Here you can add unlimited picture in one album. If you want to get pictures from scanner or camera then click on "Scanner/Camera" button.

Now you can add effects to your pictures, for example rotates picture to different directions, background colors, picture brightness and contrast levels.

Now under "Album Layout" area, you can choose the best picture layout, Frame shape and add design template also for your photos album.
Once you have selected the all required pictures and layouts for your photo album then click on "Create" button to start the process.

Now "Save" the file and then run this photo album in Slide Show.

Restore the Windows Default Icons

You can restore the all windows default desktop icons, if you accidentally deleted them from your computer desktop.

List of windows default icons.

• My Computer
• Internet Explorer
• My Documents
• My Network Places
• Recycle Bin

Here we are discussing the recovering process of four windows default icons “My Computer, Internet Explorer, My Documents and My Network Places’ and we will cover recovery process of the Recycle Bin icon in next tip.

Fellow the given steps to restore the windows default icons:

• Go to Start Button and open Run then type the given command to open windows Desktop items dialog box.

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• Simple copy the above command and paste it in Run box and press Ok,

• Now “Desktop Items” dialog box will appear with different options.

• Under the “General” tab, select the all check box in “Desktop icons” area or click on “Restore default” button to restore the all default icons on your computer desktop.

• Press Ok to close the entire dialog box.

Make Your Windows Fast As Never BeforeMake Your Windows Fast As Never Before

Disable CD Autorun

( WinXP PRO Only)

1) Click Start, Run and enter GPEDIT.MSC
2) Go to Computer Configuration, Administrative Templates, System.
3) Locate the entry for Turn autoplay off and modify it as you desire.

Speed Up Browsing

When you connect to a web site your computer sends information back and
forth. Some of this information deals with resolving the site name to an
IP address, the stuff that TCP/IP really deals with, not words. This is
DNS information and is used so that you will not need to ask for the site
location each and every time you visit the site. Although Windows XP and
Windows XP have a pretty efficient DNS cache, you can increase its overall
performance by increasing its size. You can do this with the registry
entries below:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Dnscache\Parameters]

"CacheHashTableBucketSize"=dword:00000001

"CacheHashTableSize"=dword:00000180

"MaxCacheEntryTtlLimit"=dword:0000fa00

"MaxSOACacheEntryTtlLimit"=dword:0000012d

Make a new text file and rename it to dnscache.reg. Then copy and paste

the above into it and save it. Merge it into the registry.

DISABLE INDEXING SERVICES

Indexing Services is a small little program that uses large amounts of RAM
and can often make a computer endlessly loud and noisy. This system
process indexes and updates lists of all the files that are on your
computer. It does this so that when you do a search for something on your
computer, it will search faster by scanning the index lists. If you don't
search your computer often, or even if you do search often, this system
service is completely unnecessary. To disable do the following:

1. Go to Start
2. Click Settings
3. Click Control Panel
4. Double-click Add/Remove Programs
5. Click the Add/Remove Window Components
6. Uncheck the Indexing services
7. Click Next

OPTIMISE DISPLAY SETTINGS

Windows XP can look sexy but displaying all the visual items can waste
system resources. To optimize:

1.Go to Start
2. Click Settings
3. Click Control Panel
4. Click System
5. Click Advanced tab
6. In the Performance tab click Settings
7. Leave only the following ticked:
- Show shadows under menus
- Show shadows under mouse pointer
- Show translucent selection rectangle
- Use drop shadows for icons labels on the desktop
- Use visual styles on windows and buttons

SPEEDUP FOLDER BROWSING

You may have noticed that everytime you open my computer to browse folders
that there is a slight delay. This is because Windows XP automatically
searches for network files and printers everytime you open Windows
Explorer. To fix this and to increase browsing significantly:

1. Open My Computer
2. Click on Tools menu
3. Click on Folder Options
4. Click on the View tab.
5. Uncheck the Automatically search for network folders and printers check
box
6. Click Apply
7. Click Ok
8. Reboot your computer

REMOVE THE DESKTOP PICTURE

Your desktop background consumes a fair amount of memory and can slow the
loading time of your system. Removing it will improve performance.

1. Right click on Desktop and select Properties
2. Select the Desktop tab
3. In the Background window select None
4. Click Ok

DISABLE UNNECESSARY SERVICES

Because Windows XP has to be all things to all people it has many services
running that take up system resources that you will never need. Below is a
list of services that can be disabled on most machines:

Alerter
Clipbook
Computer Browser
Distributed Link Tracking Client
Fast User Switching
Help and Support - (If you use Windows Help and Support leave this
enabled)
Human Interface Access Devices
Indexing Service
IPSEC Services
Messenger
Netmeeting Remote Desktop Sharing (disabled for extra security)
Portable Media Serial Number
Remote Desktop Help Session Manager (disabled for extra security)
Remote Procedure Call Locator
Remote Registry (disabled for extra security)
Remote Registry Service
Secondary Logon
Routing & Remote Access (disabled for extra security)
Server
SSDP Discovery Service - (Unplug n' Pray will disable this)
Telnet
TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper
Upload Manager
Universal Plug and Play Device Host
Windows Time
Wireless Zero Configuration (Do not disable if you use a wireless network)

Workstation
To disable these services:

Go to Start and then Run and type "services.msc"
Doubleclick on the service you want to change
Change the startup type to 'Disable"

REMOVE ANNOYING DELETE CONFIRMATION MESSAGES

Although not strictly a performance tweak I love this fix as it makes my
machine 'feel' faster. I hate the annoying 'are you sure?' messages that
XP displays, especially if I have to use a laptop touchpad to close them.
To remove these messages:

1. Right-click on the 'Recycle Bin' on the desktop and then click
'Properties'

2. Clear the 'Display Delete Confirmation Dialog' check box and click 'Ok'


If you do accidently delete a file don't worry as all is not lost. Just go
to your Recycle Bin and 'Restore' the file.

Run Commands In Windows XP

You can access all these programs by going through START/RUN or Simply Click
Windows Key+r

1. Sound Recorder - Sndrec32


2. SQL Client Configuration - cliconfg


3. System Configuration Editor - sysedit


4. System Configuration Utility - msconfig


5. System File Checker Utility (Scan Immediately)- sfc /scannow


6. System File Checker Utility (Scan Once At Next Boot)- sfc /scanonce


7. System File Checker Utility (Scan On Every Boot) - sfc /scanboot


8. System File Checker Utility (Return to Default Setting)- sfc /revert


9. System File Checker Utility (Purge File Cache)- sfc /purgecache


10. System File Checker Utility (Set Cache Size to size x)-sfc/cachesize=x


11. System Information - msinfo32.


12. Task Manager – taskmgr


13. System Properties - sysdm.cpl


14. Task Manager – taskmgr


15. TCP Tester - tcptest


16. Telnet Client - telnet


17. Tweak UI (if installed) - tweakui


18. User Account Management- nusrmgr.cpl


19. Utility Manager - utilman


20. Windows Address Book - wab


21. Windows Address Book Import Utility - wabmig


22. Windows Backup Utility (if installed)- ntbackup
23. Windows Explorer - explorer


24. Windows Firewall- firewall.cpl


25. Windows Magnifier- magnify


26. Windows Management Infrastructure - wmimgmt.msc


27. Windows Media Player - wmplayer


28. Windows Messenger - msmsgs


29. Windows Picture Import Wizard (need camera connected)- wiaacmgr


30. Windows System Security Tool – syskey


31. Windows Update Launches - wupdmgr


32. Windows Version (to show which version of windows)- winver


33. Windows XP Tour Wizard - tourstart


34. Wordpad - write


35. Volume control for soundcard - Sndvol32


36. Password Properties - password.cpl


37. Performance Monitor - perfmon.msc


38. Phone and Modem Options - telephon.cpl


39. Phone Dialer - dialer


40. Pinball Game - pinball


41. Power Configuration - powercfg.cpl


42. Printers and Faxes - control printers


43. Printers Folder – printers


44. Private Character Editor - eudcedit


45. Quicktime (If Installed)- QuickTime.cpl


46. Real Player (if installed)- realplay


47. Records programs crash & snapshots - Drwatson


48. Regional Settings - intl.cpl


49. Registry Editor - regedit


50. Registry Editor - regedit32


51. Remote Access Phonebook - rasphone


52. Remote Desktop - mstsc


53. Removable Storage - ntmsmgr.msc


54. Removable Storage Operator Requests - ntmsoprq.msc


55. Resultant Set of Policy (XP Prof) - rsop.msc


56. Scanners and Cameras - sticpl.cpl


57. Scheduled Tasks - control schedtasks


58. Security Center - wscui.cpl


59. Services - services.msc


60. Shared Folders - fsmgmt.msc


61. Shuts Down Windows - shutdown


62. Sounds and Audio - mmsys.cpl


63. Spider Solitare Card Game - spider


64. Malicious Software Removal Tool - mrt


65. Microsoft Management Console - MMC


66. Microsoft Access (if installed) - access.cpl


67. Microsoft Chat - winchat


68. Microsoft Excel (if installed) - excel


69. Microsoft Frontpage (if installed)- frontpg


70. Microsoft Movie Maker - moviemk


71. Microsoft Paint - mspaint


72. Microsoft Powerpoint (if installed)- powerpnt


73. Microsoft Word (if installed)- winword


74. Microsoft Syncronization Tool - mobsync


75. Minesweeper Game - winmine


76. Mouse Properties - control mouse


77. Mouse Properties - main.cpl


78. Nero (if installed)- nero


79. Netmeeting - conf


80. Network Connections - control netconnections


81. Network Connections - ncpa.cpl


82. Network Setup Wizard - netsetup.cpl


83. Notepad - notepad


84. Nview Desktop Manager (If Installed)- nvtuicpl.cpl


85. Object Packager - packager


86. ODBC Data Source Administrator- odbccp32.cpl


87. On Screen Keyboard - osk


88. Opens AC3 Filter (If Installed) - ac3filter.cpl


89. Outlook Express - msimn


90. Paint – pbrush


91. Keyboard Properties - control keyboard


92. IP Configuration (Display Connection Configuration) - ipconfi/all


93. IP Configuration (Display DNS Cache Contents)- ipconfig /displaydns


94. IP Configuration (Delete DNS Cache Contents)- ipconfig /flushdns


95. IP Configuration (Release All Connections)- ipconfig /release


96. IP Configuration (Renew All Connections)- ipconfig /renew


97. IP Configuration(RefreshesDHCP&Re-RegistersDNS)-ipconfig/registerdns


98. IP Configuration (Display DHCP Class ID)- ipconfig/showclassid


99. IP Configuration (Modifies DHCP Class ID)- ipconfig /setclassid


100. Java Control Panel (If Installed)- jpicpl32.cpl


101. Java Control Panel (If Installed)- javaws


102. Local Security Settings - secpol.msc


103. Local Users and Groups - lusrmgr.msc


104. Logs You Out Of Windows - logoff.....


105. Accessibility Controls - access.cpl


106. Accessibility Wizard - accwiz


107. Add Hardware - hdwwiz.cpl


108. Add/Remove Programs - appwiz.cpl


109. Administrative Tools control - admintools


110. Adobe Acrobat (if installed) - acrobat


111. Adobe Designer (if installed)- acrodist


112. Adobe Distiller (if installed)- acrodist


113. Adobe ImageReady (if installed)- imageready


114. Adobe Photoshop (if installed)- photoshop


115. Automatic Updates - wuaucpl.cpl


116. Bluetooth Transfer Wizard – fsquirt


117. Calculator - calc


118. Certificate Manager - certmgr.msc


119. Character Map - charmap


120. Check Disk Utility - chkdsk


121. Clipboard Viewer - clipbrd


122. Command Prompt - cmd


123. Component Services - dcomcnfg


124. Computer Management - compmgmt.msc


125. Control Panel - control


126. Date and Time Properties - timedate.cpl


127. DDE Shares - ddeshare


128. Device Manager - devmgmt.msc


129. Direct X Control Panel (If Installed)- directx.cpl


130. Direct X Troubleshooter- dxdiag


131. Disk Cleanup Utility- cleanmgr


132. Disk Defragment- dfrg.msc


133. Disk Management- diskmgmt.msc


134. Disk Partition Manager- diskpart


135. Display Properties- control desktop


136. Display Properties- desk.cpl


137. Display Properties (w/Appearance Tab Preselected)- control color


138. Displays IP configuration - Winipcfg


139. Dr. Watson System Troubleshooting Utility- drwtsn32


140. Driver Verifier Utility- verifier


141. Event Viewer- eventvwr.msc


142. Files and Settings Transfer Tool- migwiz


143. File Signature Verification Tool- sigverif


144. Findfast- findfast.cpl


145. Firefox (if installed)- firefox


146. Folders Properties- control folders


147. Fonts- control fonts


148. Fonts Folder- fonts


149. Free Cell Card Game- freecell


150. Game Controllers- joy.cpl


151. Group Policy Editor (XP Prof)- gpedit.msc


152. Hearts Card Game- mshearts


153. Help and Support- helpctr


154. HyperTerminal- hypertrm


155. Iexpress Wizard- iexpress


156. Indexing Service- ciadv.msc


157. Internet Connection Wizard- icwconn1


158. Internet Explorer- iexplore


159. Internet Setup Wizard- inetwiz


160. Internet Properties- inetcpl.cpl