Sunday, 16 November 2014

WINDOWS XP - TIPS [ 2 ]


Network Connection Always Shows Access Denied

Added 2/6/07
If you are always getting Access Denied errors when trying to connect to a XP computer,
and you know you have the correct user names and passwords on the computer,
the solution may be a simple registry edit.
  1. Start Regedit
  2. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE / SYSTEM / CurrentControlSet / Control / Lsa
  3. Change the value of a key called "restrictanonymous" to 0 instead of 1
  4. Don't change "restrictanonymoussam" value.
  5. Reboot

Hiding Manage My Computer

Added 11/25/05
If you want to remove Manage My Computer from My Computer
  1. Start Regedit
  2. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER / Software / Microsoft / Windows / CurrentVersion / Policies / Explorer
  3. Create a DWORD value called NoManageMyComputerVerb
  4. Set the value to 1
  5. Reboot

Finding Your XP Product ID

Added 11/25/05
There is a great little utility available to help you find your currently installed product ID
http://www.magicaljellybean.com/keyfinder.shtml
It also works for Windows 95, 98, ME, NT4, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Office 97, and Office XP

Forgotten Admin or User's Password

Added 11/25/05
You do not need to reinstall if you forgot the admin password.

There is a boot disk you can download at:
http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/

that will let you reset the password of any account on NT4, Windows2000 or XP.

Just follow all the default settings which are for the admin account. Used it many
times with great success.

They also have a bootable CD image you can download.

Showing Common Tasks in Window

Added 11/25/05
When you open a window from My Computer or the Control Panel, and you don't see the blue bar with additional options on the left side, you may simply need to turn on Common Tasks
  1. From that same windows, go to Tools / Folder Options
  2. Check Show common tasks in folders

Renaming Multiple Files in a Directory

Added 11/19/05
If you want to rename multiple files in the same directory:
  1. Using the Windows Explorer, select all the files you want to rename
  2. Press F2 or right click and select Rename
  3. Enter the prefix for the name you want (e.g. Newname)
  4. This will automatically rename the rest of the files Newname (1).jpg, Newname (2).jpg etc.
  5. Make sure you include the extension if you have the Explorer configured to show them.

Disable Windows Tour

Added 11/19/05
If you want to disable the Take Tour of Windows XP that comes up after you install WindowsXP:
  1. Start Regedit
  2. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Applets\Tour
  3. Create a new DWORD key called RunCount
  4. Give it a value of 0
Download Reg File

Windows Help and Support Error

Added 11/19/05
If you get an error Windows cannot find HELPCTR.EXE, it may be that a registry entry has gotten corrupted.
  1. Start Regedit
  2. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\HELPCTR.EXE
  3. If the key isn't there, right click and create a new key HELPCTR.EXE
  4. It should have a value of C:\WINDOWS\PCHealth\HelpCtr\Binaries\HelpCtr.exe
  5. Reboot

Speeding Up Network Browsing

Added 11/14/05
There are a lot of things which can negatively impact how fast XP will browse network shares.
One has been previously covered regarding browsing to Win9x computers.
Other things you can try, especially when there is slow browsing to network shares with a lot of files:
1. Remove current shortcuts in My Network Places
2. Change the registry so shared folders on remote computers are not automatically added to My Network Places when you even open a document from that shared folder
  1. Start Regedit
  2. Create a DWORD value:
  3. HKEY_Current_User \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Policies \ Explorer \ NoRecentDocsNetHood to 1.
  4. I have also seen setting the following help as well.
    HKEY_Current_User \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Policies \ Explorer \ UseDesktopIniCache to 1.
Download Reg file to do both
3. Increase the amount of data is buffered at one time to send to a client. On the computer with the shared directory:
  1. Start Regedit
  2. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanServer\Parameters
  3. Create a DWORD Key called SizReqBuf
  4. Give it a value of Hex FFFF
Download Reg file

Editing the Boot.ini file

Added 10/18/05
The boot.ini file is a simple text file that is on the root of the boot drive.
You can edit this with any plain text editor like Notepad (may need to unhide the file first)
  1. Right click on My Computer
  2. Select Properties
  3. Click on the Advanced tab
  4. Under Startup and Recovery, click on the Settings button
  5. Click on the Edit button
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