Rename Drive, Bin & Create mounted Drive

To change drive letters :-
Go to Start > Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management > Disk Management, then right-click the partition and select "change drive letter and paths."
From here you can -
Add: create a mounted partition.
Remove: the partition(mounted).
Change: the Drive letters and/or paths to the partition(mounted).

To change Recycle Bin Name :
Run Regedit and go to -
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/CLSID/{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}
Open the ShellFolder folder
change the "Attributes" data value from "40 01 00 20" to "50 01 00 20" &
change the "CallForAttributes" dword value to "0x00000000" (value data to 0).
You must change both of these values to get the Rename option on right clicking R. Bin.


#u dont want to know: hibernation needs free space equals to pc's RAM in its windows drive.

Picture at Folder & Toolbar Background

Folder Background -
In the desired folder search for desktop.ini hidden file, if doesn't exist then create it via notepad. Make sure it contain the text written below:

[{BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}]
IconArea_Image=C:\Photo.jpg

*Change the picture location here.
This process will show the choosen picture in this folder's background.


Toolbar Background -
Open Regedit from Run & goto,

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar\

Create a 'new string value' named BackBitmap and type in a path to a bmp or gif image, such as c:\windows\aks.bmp.

This process will show the chosen picture in this toolbar's background

#U dont want to know: window xp can't create the folder with name CON, PRN, NUL, COM1 to COM9, LPT1 to LPT9. (resaon? some other time...)

changing Manufacturer name and picture

Right click your My Computer icon you will see an icon below Manufacture and supported by tag, also you can see your manufacturer's name there, Now if want to change this info. as shown below, just follow me :



For changing Name:
Go to C:\WINDOWS\system32 locate file OEMINFO.INI open it in Notepad and under [general] tag you will see your original Manufacture name, change to it your desired name. Your can also change the text inside [Support Information] .

For changing Picture:
In C:\WINDOWS\system32 locate OEMLOGO.BMP ,the bitmap image. Replace it with any image which can be resoluted to 200*100 px (keeping the same name).
Now, go to My Computer, right click it, and see the effects.

#U dont wanna to know: press windows->u->u for quick shutdown

Desktop Shutdown and Reboot Icons in XP

Right click on the desktop, Click New->Shortcut to open the Create Shortcut Wizard. Type following(given below) in the location field as per requirement. Click Next and type a desired name for your shortcut icon.

Type shutdown -s -t 00 for Shutdown.
Type shutdown -r -t 00 for Restart.
Type shutdown -l -t 00 for Logoff.
Type shutdown -h -t 00 for Hibernate.
Type shutdown -a for Anti shutdown.
Type rundll32.exe user32.dll LockWorkStation for Fast User Switching.

For customizing Right click the made shortcut, click Properties->Shortcut->Change Icon and choose from the displayed icons.

#U dont wanna to know: press F11 for full screen Internet explorer

Deleting an Undeletable, Currently In-Use Files/Folder in Windows

Problems :
- It may be fully Empty(null size).
- 'File/Folder in use' error.
- Can't delete a file/folder (insert cryptic reason).
- Rebooting doesn't help delete the file.

Open command prompt in windows (run 'cmd' ).

Go to the directory where undeletable file/folder is.

Now, close the explorer.exe process from the task manager.

Enter rd "folder name" for directory & del "file name" for file.

Now your undeletable folder/file is deleted.

In Windows

Locking Folders -

Let you want to lock a folder named XYZ in your D:\, whose path is D:\XYZ. Now open the Notepad and type the following

ren xyz xyz.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}

Where xyz is your folder name. Save the text file as lock.bat in the same drive. Open another new notepad text file and type the following

ren xyz.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D} xyz

Save the text file as unlock.bat in the same drive.
Now, to lock the xyz folder, simply click the lock.bat and it will change into control panel icon/link which is inaccessible. & to unlock the folder click the unlock.bat file. Thus the folder will be unlocked and the contents are accessible.



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Locking Drives -

Inside RUN type regedit and press enter. This will open the registry editor.To hide any drive you have to follow these two steps

Step1: Hiding -
Goto HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer , now create a new DWORD value NoDrives and set its value as 2^(alpha number of Drive letter-1)

where Alpha number are simple counting of alphabets from A to Z as 1 - 26 for example: to hide C driveAlpha number of C is 3 so 2^(3-1) = 4 (decimal value)If you want to hide more than one drive than calculate the value of each drive as explained and then set sum of those numbers as value.(better be don't do this for (windows) C: drive.)

Step2: Locking -
We make our Drive invisible but it is still accesible so to lock the drive, at
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer , create a new DWORD value NoViewOnDrive and set its value same as you have calculated for hidding the drive.

Now your drive is locked. If you want to unlock and unhidden the drive then just delete these two keys and your drive is again accessible. You can also create two .reg files one for hidding and locking and another one for unlocking and unhidding .



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