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Windows XP compress folders How to Create a Compressed Folder To create a compressed folder, use either of the following methods. • Open My Computer: 1. Double-click My Computer, and then open the folder where you want to make the compressed folder. For example, if you want to make a compressed folder in the root folder of drive C, double-click My Computer, and then double-click drive C to open the root folder. 2. On the File menu, point to New, and then click Compressed (zipped) Folder. 3. Type a name for the new compressed folder, and then press ENTER. Your new compressed folder appears as a folder icon with a zipper. • Right-click a blank area on the desktop or in a folder: 1. Right-click a blank area in an open folder or on the desktop, point to New, and then click Compressed (zipped) Folder. 2. Type a name for the new compressed folder, and then press ENTER. Your new compressed folder appears as a folder icon with a zipper. How to Add Items to or Remove Items From a Compressed Fol

Want to Disable Shutdown button at Logon Screen ? Windows 2000 Workstation's log-in screen has a "Shutdown" button which you can use to shutdown the system without ever logging in. But you can disable Windows 2000 Workstation's "Shutdown" button on the initial log-in screen: Run "RegEdit.exe" or "RegEdt32.exe" Select the following key:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\Current Version\Winlogon Add a value named "ShutdownWithoutLogon" of type "REG_SZ" and set it to "0". Restart Windows.

You are not getting Security Tab in WinXP ? Assuming the HDD is NTFS If you're running XP Pro, you must open Windows Explorer, go to Tools, Folder Options, View and uncheck Use Simple File Sharing

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Changing default Email Client 1]Log on as Administrator 2] Open Internet Explorer, click the Tools menu, select Internet Options. Click Programs tab and select your email client from the drop-down list. Once selected, click OK/Apply button

Windows Does not Shut Down Sometimes Windows gets itself in a huff and won't shut down properly for some reason. You try to shutdown your system and nothing happens for a while, and then a dialog appears telling you that a task won't shut down and you can press End Now if you want to end it now, or you can wait for Windows to try and end it itself. Well you can avoid that hassle by making a simple registry tweak (but remember to backup your registry before editing it!). Here's how: 1. Open Regedit and navigate to HKU\.Default\Control Panel\Desktop 2. Double-click on AutoEndTasks 3. Change the value from 0 to 1 4. Reboot your machine Now hung processes will end automatically when you try to shutdown or reboot your machine. One caveat: a hung process means something is wrong, and anytime you kill a hung process (whether manually or automatically) you risk possible data loss

Computer Network Terms Bandwidth - the rated throughput capacity of a given network media or protocol. The amount of data that can be transmitted in a fixed amount of time. Backbone - A high-speed link joining together several networks. Bit – A unit of information having just two possible values, as either of the binary digits 0 or 1. Byte - a series of consecutive binary digits that are operated upon as a unit. There are 8 bits in a byte. Category 5 (cat 5) cable -A type of twisted pair network wiring in which there is a certain number of twists per foot. It is the most commonly used network cabling. Coaxial Cable - A type of cable consisting of two insulating layers and two conductors most commonly used in older networks. Collision - An attempt by two devices to transmit over the network at the same time usually resulting in the data being lost. DNS (Domain Name System) – an internet service that translates domain names into IP addresses. Dynamic DNS - A method of keeping a do

Error Accessing Windows Installer When you are trying to install, uninstall or repair a program, you may receive an error that says Windows Installer could not be accessed and that the Windows Installer files are missing damaged or have become unregistered. Here are couple of things to try: Re-register the Windows Installer components. 1. Open My Computer or Windows Explorer2. Browse to the Windows\System32 folder and make sure that the application file msiexec.exe is there. 3. Start the Registry Editor. Click on Start, Run, type in regedit and click Ok.4. Expand HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\MSIServer. 5. Select MSIServer, then make sure the value ImagePath contains C:\WINDOWS\system32\msiexec.exe /V 6. Restart your computer in Safe Mode. Click on Start, then Run and type msiexec /regserver and click Ok. 7. Restart the computer. If that doesn’t work then you can try to reinstall the Windows Installer. Download and install the latest version of the Windows Instal