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Finally The same trick for Windows XP home users & even professional users can also use this trick. Open Registry Editor by typing "regedit" in Start > Run. Goto HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion=\Policies\Explorer\ Create a new DWORD value & name it "NoDrives". All drives will be visible as long as this value's data is set to 0. Set value NoDrive according to following list: Drive Value A: 1 B: 2 C: 4 D: 8 E: 16 so..on Z: 33554432 All drives 67108863 From the above list choose the drive value you want & write the Value in the DWORD we created above in following format. For example to hide A: & D:, NoDrives value should be 1 = 8 = 9.

Open Group Policy Editor which is not avaliable in Windows XP Home Edition. For XP Home Users stay tuned I will give it very soon. For XP Professional users Goto Start > Run & type "gpedit.msc" & press [Enter] In Group Policy Editor Go to User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Windows Explore. Here, you'll find "Hide these specified drives from My Computer" & "Prevent access to drives from My Computer". The difference between two settings is that "Prevent access" will allow the user to see the drive icon, but will give an error message when he tries access it. "Hide" will remove the icon so that user won't see it, but the drive can still be accessed by using Start > Run and keying in the drive letter. Under this setting, after you click the radio button next to "Enable", you'll see several options. Choose the one you want to apply, for example, Restrict A an...

Parents or Big Brothers might want to limit their children's or small brother's or sister's computer usage, so they can set a time limit only between they will be automatically allowed to log into their Windows account. Limited usage for particular users for certain time periods can be set through commands. The command for doing this is: net user <Username> /time:<Parameters> For example, "net user Akash /time:M-F,08:00-17:00" this will let only let the user Akash log in between 8 and 5 from Monday to Friday.

Open Registry Editor by going to Start > Run & type "regedit" & press [Enter]. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USE\Software\Mcrosoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\MUICache & chane the value of @C:\WINDOWS\system32\shell32.dll,8964 to whatever you like. Restart & See the changes.

If some day your XP refuses to run or strat up properly or the OS choice doesn't appear you don't always need to format & re-install XP. I suggest you do a dry run of Windows Recovery Console. To do this all you need is your bootable Windows 2000 / XP CD. When you insert the cd & select CD-ROM & set your first boot device to CD-ROM & boot using your Windows boot CD. Next, choose the repair or recovery option bu pressing [R]. If you have more than one installation of Windows, they will appear in choices menu, so be awareof where the copy of windows you wish to repair is installed. You need to enter Administrator password in order to "log on" to the windows installation. You will then see a command prompt window that says "X:\WINDOWS", where X is the partion of operating system. Now one by one type fixboot<drive letter> bootcnf /rebuild chkdsk x (where X is the partion letter) now try to to start the computer if it still ...

Few people know that Volume Control has a hidden, compact looking profile. You can create a shortcut with the location "sndvol32 /s" or by pressing [Ctrl + [S] with the Windows Volume control running. Press [Ctrl] + [S] again to revert to the orignal size. to open minimum volume control with only single slider, you create a shortcut & typing in location "sndvol /t"

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