A “Send To” shortcut is one that when you right-click on a file or folder, you’ll see an option called “Send To“. This provides you a quick way to open files/folders or perform an action with the selected file/folder.

Many times, you have a text file or any other file which you know exactly contains just plain text. And the file can be viewed just by notepad – The most simple Windows Text Editor, available on any Windows machine. If you are in this situation often, you might have found that it is painful that you’ll have to launch Notepad everytime and browse to the file to open it. A simple shortcut would be very helpful.

Here’s what you’ll get

Use this trick at your own risk.

Here’s how

1. Point your mouse to the “Start” button and right-click. This will bring up a shortcut menu as follow:
   

2. Select “Explore” to open the “Windows Explore“. Once the “Windows Explore” is opened, the default path is your own profile “Start Menu“.
   

3. Select “SendTo” right above the “Start Menu“. The right panel should display the current Send To shortcuts.

   

4. Right-click on the right panel, and select “New” then select “Shortcut“.
   

5. On the “Create Shortcut” window, type in “notepad.exe” for the box “Type the location of the item“, then click “Next“.

   

6. On the next window, type in “Notepad” for the box “Type a name for this shortcut“, then click “Finish“.
   

7. Done! try this new thing out by selecting a text file, right-click on it and select “Send To“. You’ll see the option “Notepad” there, which will open the text file with Notepad.

Windows XP has a great feature that allows users to send, receive, and monitor their faxes. Having said that, if you are running Windows XP, you can send and receive faxes right on your computer, without a need of a fax machine. All you need is a modem. You might need a scanner though, if you only a hard copy of your document, to scan your document.

This instruction will show you how to send a fax in Windows XP using the Fax Service. This instruction does not provide details how to enable or configure the fax service.

I assume that the fax service has been enabled and configured on your computer. This also means that a modem has been installed and setup to use with the fax service.

Here’s how

1. Open the document, Web page, or e-mail message you want to fax. If you want to fax image(s), you can create a Word document and insert your images there.
2. On the “File menu“, click “Print“. i.e. the following sample image using Microsoft Word.

   

3. Select “Fax” from the “Printer” list. Then, click “OK“.
   
4. On the “Welcome to the Send Fax Wizard” page, click “Next“.

   

5. On the “Recipient Information” page, type the recipient name in the “To” box.
   Type the recipient fax number in the “Fax number” box. click “Next“.
   
6. On the “Preparing the Cover Page” page, select the “Select a cover page template with the following information” check box.

   Select the template you want to use under “Cover page template” list.
   Enter the subject in the “Subject” line
   Optionally, enter notes in the “Note” box.
   Then, click “Next“.

   

7. On the “Schedule” page, click “Next“.
   
8. On the “Completing the Send Fax Wizard” page, click “Finish“.
   
9. Your computer will display the “Fax Monitor” dialog and start sending fax

   

The following instructions will show you how to capture a screen shot of your entire desktop or an individual window. On most standard keyboards, the print screen button is often identified as “Print Scrn”.

To capture a screen shot of your entire desktop:

1. Hit “Print Screen” key on your keyboard (or “Print Scrn“).
2. Open an image editor (i.e. Photoshop, Paintshop, or the Windows built-in “Paint”).
3. Press Ctrl-V to paste the image and save the file as your favorite picture format (i.e. *.JPG).

To capture a screen shot of an individual window, a popup, or an error dialog:

1. Make sure the window or popup which you want to capture is active (on the very front of your screen).
2. Hold the “Alt” button and press “Print Screen” key on your keyboard (or “Print Scrn“).
3. Open an image editor and press Ctrl-V to paste the image and save the file as your favorite picture format (i.e. *.JPG).

This trick is very helpful when you want to save the result of a dos command to a file to email it or read/print it later. For example, you can print out your network configuration data and email it to a technical support.

Here’s how

simply put a “>” and the destination file at the end of the dos command. Examples:

This command outputs the IP configurations to the file “ipdata.txt” in “C” drive:

This command outputs the “Path” configurations to the file “pathdata.txt” in the floppy drive “A“:

This command outputs help text of the command “copy” to the file “copyhelp.txt” in “C” drive:

Depending on which version of Windows XP you are using, the steps might be different.

I. Windows XP or Windows XP SP1

1. From Desktop, Click on “Start” >> “Settings” >> “Control Panel“.
2. In Control Panel, double-click “Networking and Internet Connections“, and then click “Network Connections“.
3. Right-click your network connection, and then click “Properties“.

   

4. On the “Advanced” tab, with the check box “Protect my computer and network…“, click to clear (disable) or to check (enable).
5. Then type in “OK” to apply the changes and exit

II. Windows XP SP2

1. Click “Start” >> “Run” then type “firewall.cpl” then click “OK“.

   

2. On the “General” tab, click “Off (not recommended)“, and then click “OK“.

Proceed at your own risks.

You have Mouse Problem ?? No Problem

I will give you suggestion

Press Left Alt + Left Shift + Num Lock Button + Ok

with the help of Numeric Keypad e.g ( Press and Hold the following Keys )

7   8    9

4        6

1   2    3

For Normal Click Press 5

Default
Left Alt + Left Shift + Num Lock

Proceed at your own risks.

How to Hide the drives(c:,d:,e:,…etc) in Ur Computer

This is a great trick you can play on your friends. To disable the display of local or networked drives when you click My Computer.

1. Go to Start -> Run.
2. Type regedit
3. Now go to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
4. Now in the right pane, create a new DWORD item and name it NoDrives (it is case sensitive).
5. Now modify it’s value and set it to 3FFFFFF (Hexadecimal) .
6. Now restart your computer.
7. So, now when you click on My Computer, no drives will be shown(all gone…).

To enable display of drives in My Computer, simply delete this DWORD item that you created. Again restart your computer. You can now see all the drives again. Magic…….

The defragmentation process might take a very long time, depending on the usage size of your hard drive. To clean up your PC and to speed up the defragmentation process, it is recommended to do a drive cleanup prior to the defragmentation.

Most likely, operating and application files are stored in your “C drive”, but it doesn’t hurt to do a cleanup + defragmentation on all of your hard drives every once in awhile.

Use this trick at your own risks

1. Launch the Disk Defragmenter utility by either:
   - “Start” >> “Programs” >> “Accessories” >> “System Tools” >> “Disk Defragmenter“, or:

   - “Start” >> “Run“, enter “dfrg.msc” then press Enter.

2. Select the disk you want to perform defragmentation (i.e. “Local Disk C”) and click “Defragment“:

   

3. Windows starts to defragment your selected hard drive as follow:

   

4. This process might take awhile depending on the size and usage of your hard drive. During this process, your computer might be running slow. Fortunately, you can always pause and resume the process if you want to use other applications on your PC at a normal speed.

You might wonder: Why Windows keeps those files if they’re not necessary? “Temporary Internet Files”, for example, everytime you browse to a webpage, your web browser requests the contents from the host, saves them locally as cache, then displays the contents to your browser window. Now, to speed up the access time when you come back to the same page, your web browser might re-use those cache files if they’re not changed from the webpage.

“Temporary Internet Files” are just one example of the temporary files you can clean up. Follow the steps below to clean up other temporary sources as well.

Most likely, temporary files are stored in the Operating System drive (“C Drive”), but it doesn’t hurt to do a cleanup all of your hard drives every once in awhile.

Use this trick at your own risks

1. Launch the Disk Cleanup utility by either:
   - “Start” >> “Programs” >> “Accessories” >> “System Tools” >> “Disk Cleanup“, or:

   - “Start” >> “Run“, enter “cleanmgr” then press Enter.

2. Select the disk you want to clean up from the drop-down box (i.e. “Local Disk C”) and click “OK“:

   

3. Windows will calculate the space on your selected hard drive. This might take a few minutes depending on the size of your hard drive:

   

4. Once Windows is done with the calculation, Disk Cleanup Utility displays. Here you can select which temporary sources you want to clean up (under “Files to delete“). It doesn’t hurt if you select them all when you really need some spaces on your hard drive. Notice the usage size on some of these sources may be very big

   

5. Click “OK” after your selections, then click “Yes” on the prompt.
6. Disk Cleanup Utility starts to clean up your hard drive. This might take a long time depending on the current usage level of your hard drive. During the cleanup process, your computer might be very slow, so go watch a TV show or something. After cleaning up your hard disks, perform a disk defragmentation could really help your pc run faster.

The following is a tool to detect the product keys of Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office installed on your machine. This tool is free to download at Magical Jelly Bean.

Here’s a screenshot

The tool also provides some nice features let you change your Windows product key, or detect the key remotely to another computer.