You can put shortcuts for shortcuts!!

 

You can put Keyboard shortcuts for desktop shortcuts. To do this follow these steps :

Right click on the shortcut.
Go to properties.
Click once on the "Shortcut Key" bar.
Press any alphabet that you want to use as Shortcut Key.
Press OK.
Now to open that shortcut, Press CTRL+ALT+"the alphabet".

Recycle Bin Renaming

Hey Guys just follow thse simple steps and change the name of your Recycle Bin(where temporarely deleted files are stored)
1)Goto 'start' menu and Choose 'Run' command.
2)Type 'regedit' (without inverted commas). U will see Registery Editor Window on Ur Screen.
3)Now, On the Left Hand Side of the Window you'll see a Tree of folders Just DoubleClick on the HKEY_CURRENT_USER folder>Now in the new folder Tree DoubleClick on the 'Software' folder > then DoubleClick on 'Microsoft' folder>'Windows' folder>'Current Version' folder>'Explorer' folder>'CLSID' folder.
4)Now, You will see a Tree of 3 or 4 folder(don't worry about the no. of folders). Just Click on the folder : '{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}'.
5)Finally, after Clicking on '{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}' folder Goto the Right Hand Side of the Same window and Double Click On the Default Option and Write in the name You want for Your Recycle Bin e.g. :- Trash #. CLick O.K. button.

Goto Your Desktop and Refresh the Desktop and See the magic.
Your Recycle Bin has been Renamed.

Boost your Firefox Browser !!

 
Follow these simple steps to speed up firefox .
Type "about:config" into the address bar and press enter .
Set "network.http.pipelining" to "true".
Set "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to "true".
Set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to some number like 15. This means it will make 15 requests at once.
Do not alter anything other than this .
This will definitely improve your surfing speed.

Restart Windows without Restarting your PC

 
When you click on the SHUTDOWN button, make sure to simultaneous press SHIFT Button.

If you hold the Shift key down while clicking on SHUTDOWN button, you computer would restart without restarting the Computer. This is equivalent to term "HOT REBOOT".

Boost your internet Speed by releasing XP Reserved Bandwidth

Windows reserves 20% network bandwidth. You can release this by following these steps.

Go to run and type gpedit.msc .
Navigate to Computer Configuration ----> Administrative templates ---->Network.
Open QoS Packet Scheduler.
Double click Limit Reservable Bandwidth.
Not cofigured would be chosen. However by default the value is 20% .
Select enable and make the value 0.
This should boost your net speed considerably.

Computer acronyms list

IBM

I Blame Microsoft

Idiots Buy Me

Idiots Building Machines

I'll Buy Macintoshes

It Bit Me

It Built Microsoft

It's Better Manually

I've Been Mislead

I've Been Mugged

WINDOWS

Well, It Never Does Operate With Speed

When I Need Data Output Without Speed

While Idle, Needs DX or WorkStation

Will Install Needless Data On Whole System

WIN

Whoppingly Immense NOP

Worm Infestation Netware

MS-WINDOWS NT / WINDOWS NT

My Solitaire With Its New De-accelerator, Only With Some Network Technology

Well Intended, Network De-accelerator, Only Works Sometimes, Never Totally

Different Operating Systems

Macintosh: What You See Is What You Get

MS-DOS: You Asked For It, You Got It

UNIX: IfUHv2sk, UDntWnt2Kno

VMS: You Got It, All Of It, Want It Or Not

Random Abbreviations for Many Computer Companies

APPLE: Arrogance Produces Profit-Losing Entity

DEC: Dump Everything and Close

DEC: Do Expect Cuts

HCL: Hilarious Computer Logic

HP: Hot Pursuit

IBM: I Blame Microsoft

MAC: Most Absurd Computer

MACINTOSH: Most Applications Crash; If Not, The Operating System Hangs

MICROSOFT: Most Intelligent Customers Realize Our Software Only Fools Teenagers

NEXT: Now EXchange for Trash

OS/2: Obsolete Soon, Too.

WARP: What A Rot Program

Acronymns for Other Computer Terms

BASIC: Bill's Attempt to Seize Industry Control

CD-ROM: Consumer Device, Rendered Obsolete in Months

COBOL: Completely Obsolete Business Oriented Language

DOS: Defective Operating System

ISDN: It Still Does Nothing

LISP: Lots of Infuriating & Silly Parenthesis

MIPS: Meaningless Indication of Processor Speed

PCMCIA: People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms

PENTIUM: Produces Erroneous Numbers Through Incorrect Understanding of Mathematics

SCSI: System Can't See It

WWW: World Wide Wait

Lock ur Folder

Lock folder without any software

Suppose you want to lock the folder games in d: which has the path D:\Games.In the same drive create a text file and type
ren games games.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B303

09D} Now save this text file as loc.bat create another text file and type in it ren games.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D} games Now save this text file as key.bat Now you can see 2 batch files loc and key.Press loc and the folder games will change to control panel and you cannot view its contents.Press key and you will get back your original folder.