Create Your Own Logon Message.

Fallow the steps:

1. Click start
2. click run
3. type regedit, then click ok!
4. In The registry editor, drill down to the following key:
   hklm\software\Microsoft\Windows NT\Current version\Winlogon.
5. Right click LegalNoticeCaption,
6. click modify,
7. Type:Your Message,and then click ok!
8. Right click legalNoticeText,
9. click modify, and then Close your message!
10. Restart Your Computer.
11. The message will appear every time you logon!

Change the background of window

Hi friends,
You can change the background inside a folder...

1. open notepad
2. copy this these texts and paste it in a note pad document and save as "desktop.ini"

[{BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}]

iconarea_image=\2.jpg

iconarea_text=0x00ffff

1. The iconArea_Image given in red is the path(absolute path or relative path) of the background picture you want to set (2.jpg)
2. now copy this desktop.ini and the image in any folder and set your favourite pictures as your background images...

(Note:- Sometimes it doesn't work... Please excuse... If any one find out the reason, please tell me...)

How to Auto Start PC in a Scheduled Time?

Your pc must be hibernating or at standby for auto wake.

1. click Start -> All Programs -> Accessories -> System Tools -> Scheduled Tasks


2. Double-click the "Add Scheduled Task" icon to launch the Scheduled Task Wizard, and click Next. Select a program you'd like to run when your system wakes up (or u can simply select explorer.exe if u have no choice), and schedule the task. On the wizard's last page, check "Open advanced properties for this task when I click Finish" before clicking Finish.
   
   In the resulting Properties dialog box, click the Settings tab, check Wake the computer to run this task, and click OK.

Hard drive space missing.

Do you have this problem in your Windows XP computer?
My Computer shows: Total Hard Drive Size = 60 GB; Free Space = 11.6GB

1. Clicking on Properties of ALL files on C: (include hidden, system
   files etc.) yields = 15.9GB

Solution:

1. Clean up your disk using the disk cleanup utility. Select all to
   clean.
2. Make sure that you considered the hidden files and folders when you
   try to find out the total size.
3. Check the drive with anti virus.
   Still you have the space difference, try the following.

For temporary purpose do the following and find out and change in free
space.

1. Turn of your hibernate option in system power properties. (It takes
   almost the size of your RAM)
2. Reduced the allocated size of system restore to minimum in system
   properties.
3. If your drive is partitioned, change the page file size (virtual
   memory) to a different drive and after all restart the system and
   check the file size.

If you see the change, do not forget to make all these changes to
previous condition for your system stability.
Note: If the space missing in a different drive, run Drive:\recycler.
Its an recycle bin for each drive. Clean it.

Check for Disk Errors in Windows XP

The ScanDisk utility is not available in Windows XP. However, you can use the Error-Checking tool in Windows XP to check the integrity of your hard disk.

1. Double-click My Computer, and then right-click the local disk that you want to
   check.
2. Click Properties, and then click Tools.
3. Under Error-checking, click Check Now.
4. Under Check disk options, select the Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors
   check box.
5. Click Start.

How to create a boot disk

This is quite simple.

1. Go into MY COMPUTER
2. Have a floppy disk in your drive and then RIGHT click on on the floppy drive and then click on FORMAT
3. You will be greeted with a number of options. The one you need to select is "Create an MS-DOS start up disk".
4. Click ok
   Note: This requires up to 5 floppy disks and DOES NOT contain ANY CD-ROM drivers to boot from. A proper CD-ROM boot up disk is going to be release by Microsoft after the Windows XP public release. You can however use you old Windows Me start-up disk if you would prefer, as long as you have not upgraded to an NTFS drive.

Change windows startup and shutdown sounds

To change windows xp start up sound

1. You have to convert the sound which you want to put as the start up & shutdown sound
2. Rename the files as Windows XP Startup.wav & Windows XP Shutdown.wav
3. Navigate to c:\windows\media & replace the orginal winxp startup & shutdown sound with the new Windows XP Startup & Shutdown file
4. Restart the windows

Enable / disable the Ctrl +Alt+Del from logon screen ?

Do the following ...

1. Start the registry editor (regedit.exe)
2. Move to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
   NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
3. Double click on DisableCAD (create of type REG_DWORD if it does not exist)
4. Set to 1 if you don't want to have to press Ctrl-Alt-Del, and set to 0 if you do. Click OK
5. Close the registry editor
6. Reboot the machine