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One of the coolest new features in Windows XP is its album thumbnail generator. By using this feature you can automatically places the appropriate album cover art on the folder to which you are copying music. When you download the album cover art from the Web, just save the images as folder.jpg each time and place them in the appropriate folder. Then, Windows XP will automatically use that image as the thumbnail for that folder.

By default, Windows XP is set up with passwords which will expire after 42 days. 14 days in advance, Windows will start warning you of this fact. If you do not want your passwords to expire:

• Go to Start > Run and in the text box type control userpasswords2
• Select the Advanced tab in the User Accounts window
• Press the Advanced button below the Advanced user management header
• Select Users in the Local Users and Groups
• In the right pane, right-click the user name for which you want to change the setting, and select Properties
• On the General tab, check Password never expires
• Click Apply and OK 

• Open google talk on your desktop


• Click the add button to add number


• Type in the phone number of the person you want to call in the following format.
  Use full phone number, including country code and area code:
  ph-number@talkster.gtalk2voip.com (example USA,use 12125551212@talkster.gtalk2voip.com


• If you’ve entered a valid number, it will be added to your contacts list and you will be able to make free calls to that number any time later.

You can check Supported countries

we can give password protection to folders. The folder must be zipped. Double click on zipped folder, or right click and select explore. Select add a password from the file menu. Enter password in the box. This file can be opened, but it can not be accessed by others. The password will be asked during unzip.

We can create our own icon files. For that just in to programme>
accessories> paint. Now the paint window will be open. From the menu
click on image and select attributes. Set height, width to 32. This is
the normal size of an icon. Unit should be in pixel. Click on ok. To
this image you can type text, insert picture, ect. After editing save
the file with .ico extention. Now you can use this icon file to any
folder or file.

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It's very simple to block out certain websites that you do not want to open up on your computer.You can do this by clicking the Start button and select Run. Type the following: c:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

Windows might ask you which program should be used to open this application. Click on Wordpad.

It will open up a new window on your screen showing some text information. At the end of the last line of the file, press the Enter key. Type 127.0.0.1 and the name of the website you want to block.

Example: 127.0.0.1 google.com

Save the file. The websites that you have put in this list will not open up on your system.

In case you want to open them, go back to the text file using the same commands and remove the names you have typed. Save the file.

Normal shutdown can take a lot of time if you have programs or background services open on your system. To shut down quickly, save all your open documents, open the Task Manager by pressing Ctrl + Alt + Delete, press Shut Down from the menu and choose Turn off.

Step 1- Open up notepad, the native text editor in Windows. Type in the exact line below:[{BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}]
Specify the picture to use: Now, in the next line we will specify the picture that we want to use as the background for the folder. We will do this by typing the following line:iconarea_image=C:\My Pictures\flower.bmp
Let me elaborate the above-mentioned process. The image to be used as the folder background is specified through iconarea_image. So you can type in the exact path to any image of your liking after the “=” sign as shown above.
Step 2- Now we will save the contents in a file called desktop.ini in the folder that we are customizing (in this case the folder is C:\infofolder). From the File>Save option save the file as desktop.ini and put the file name in double quotes as shown in the picture below to maintain the .ini extension
Step 3- Now we will have to give the folder system attribute. This can be done very easily through the command prompt. Open up the command prompt through Start>All programs>Accessories>command prompt. Type the following and press enter (remember we are using infofolder as an example, so the path name may vary accordingly for you) :Attrib +s “C:\myfolder”.Additionally you can hide the desktop.ini file.That’s it, done !! The folder will now display the picture of your choice in the background.