Win XP clear page file on Shutdown

Follow these steps

1. Go to Control panel --> Administrative tools --> Local security policy.

2. Then goto Local policies --> Security Options.

3. Then change the option for “Shutdown : Clear Virtual Memory Pagefile”

How to make your Desktop Icons Transparent

Follow the Steps

1. go to control panel

2. System -->Advanced --> Performance area. click it

3. Settings button visual Effects

4. use drop shadows for icons labels on the Desktop

CHANGING THE DEFAULT WEB BROWSER

Making Firefox the Default Web Browser

1.      Start Firefox

2.      Tools > Options, this will open the Options dialog box.

3.      Switch to the Advanced tab

4.      In the section System Defaults, click the Check Now button.

o        If Firefox is not the default, you'll get the option to make it the default

5.      If you want, put a checkmark in the box that says "Always check to see if Firefox is the default web browser on startup"

6.      Click OK

Making Internet Explorer the Default Web Browser

1.      Start IE7

2.      Tools > Internet Options. This will open the Internet Options dialog box.

3.      Switch to the Programs tab

4.      Just below the middle of the dialog box, where it says "Defalt web browser", click on the Make Default button

5.      If you want, put a checkmark in the box that says "Tell me if Internet Explorer is not the default web browser"

o        click Apply

6.      Click OK

7.      Exit Internet Explorer and open it again, which will make it check to see that it's the default

Making Opera the Default Web Browser

1.      Start Opera

2.      Tools > Preferences, this will open the Preferences dialog box.

3.      Switch to the Advanced tab

4.      In the column on the left, click the Programs button.

5.      If you want, put a checkmark in the box that says "Check if Opera is default web browser on startup""

o        Click the "Details..." button to see all the choices of file types (e.g., jpg, gif, bmp) and protocols (e.g., http, https, ftp) that Opera can handle as defaults in addition to HTML documents.

6.      Click OK

7.      Exit Opera and open it again, which will make it check to see that it's the default

How to add a show desktop icon to the Quick Launch toolbar in the taskbar

1. Open Notepad and type the following text. (or copy and paste it)

[Shell]
Command=2
IconFile=explorer.exe,3
[Taskbar]
Command=ToggleDesktop

2. Save the text you typed as file name Show Desktop.scf to your desktop.

3. Now the show desktop icon will be on your desktop and you can drag it to the quick launch toolbar.

Applies to Windows XP and Windows Vista

How to save your favorite Web Pages on Your PC?

1. First open your favorite web page then go to File menu in web browser to save that page. In File menu choose Save as option here. You should browse to any folder where you want to save that webpage and choose the proper format to save it in

2. This option saves the webpage in its regular HTML format. With this format, Internet Explorer saves all the graphics of that webpage only in one folder.

Web Archive, Single file (*.mht) 

Using this option, the explorer saves the webpage in a single file in a zipped format which is known as Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension HTML. There are no folders creating with this technique and it save all the graphics of webpage in only one file. If you don't want to use the code of HTML, this format is better to save any file because this option saves all the files in a single file.

Webpage, HTML only (*.htm, *. html) 

With this option you can save only the HTML portion of the webpage, with this option you can save webpage without any graphics. 

For the next time when you will try to open the page which you have saved though it might be difficult to read because graphics are normally use to hold the pieces of webpage together. 

If you want to reuse the HTML in a webpage you want to create then choose this option.

Text File (*.txt) 

You can save a webpage as text format (text only) with using this option. If you want to save only text from a page and you do not want about the pictures then this is good option for you.

When you want to read that saved page, open your browser and go to File menu and then browse to that folder where you have saved that pages.