Getting Screen Shots

If you need to get a screen shot, and you do not have a screen capture program, try this:
· Hit the Print Screen key. This copies a bitmap of the full screen into the Windows clipboard. Start up a graphics editor and paste it in.
· Alt + Print Screen will capture only the active window.

Different ways to shutdown ur Personal Computer or Laptop

Among these ways check one of the way to shutdown the Pc or Laptop

1. Press the WIN key and press “u” letter two times this will approach very fast
2. Click the Start Button with your mouse, then select the Turn off menu and click the Turn off icon on the dialogue box which appears on the Computer

3. Press the Win key + R key to open the run window. Type shutdown -s -t 00. [s means shutdown while t means the duration after which you want to initiate the shutdown process].

NOTE: If some open processes or application won't let you turn off, append a -f switch to force a shut down by closing all active processes.

4. Win+M to minimize all windows and then Alt+F4 to bring the Turn Off computer dialog.

5. Click CTRL+ALT+DELETE to open Task manage then click on shutdown then hold the CTRL key and click on Turn off Computer will be turned off .

Shutdown XP Faster

Like previous versions of windows, it takes long time to restart or shutdown windows XP when the "Exit Windows" sound is enabled. To solve this problem you must disable this useless sound.

Click Start button.
Go to settings > Control Panel > Sound, Speech and Audio devices > Sounds and Audio Devices > Sounds.
Then under program events and windows menu click on "Exit Windows" sub-menu and highlight it. Now from sounds you can select, choose "none" and then click Apply and OK.
Now you should see some improvements when shutting down your system.

Convert FAT drive System to NTFS drive system

It Can be done any drives Except the drive in which Operating system is loaded
NOTE: For converting this to NTFS the drive should be clean all the Data will be erased

1. Right Click on the Drive to which u have to convert in to NTFS
2. Point to Format.
3. On the format dialogue box choose file system as NTFS
4. Click the Tick mark on the Quick format
5.click ok
6. displays Format Will clear all the disk information clean . click ok
7. Format Complete ok

Changing the Recycle Bin Size

You can change the size of the recycle bin for any drive.Just right click the recycle bin icon on the desktop.Make sure that the 'configure each drive independently' option is on.Then move to the tab for the drive that you want to configure and specify the size as the percentage of the drives space.

Deleting Files Without Sending Them to the Recycle Bin

You can delete your files without sending them to the recycle binJust shift-right click the file icon and choose delete from the menu that comes up.The file when deleted will not go to the recycle bin.
BEWARE: The deleted file can not be restored

Renaming CD ROM Drive Letter

Rename the drive letters of your CD drive(s) from the back of the alphabet, eg, Z, Y. This way, if you add extra hard disks, your CD drives do not get re-lettered.
1. You can do this from the Device Manager.
2. Open up the CD ROM section
3. Open the CD ROM you want to change
4. Under Settings, change the Start Drive Letter to higher in the alphabet

To change the Startup and Logoff screens

Startup Screen

1. Create a 320x400 bitmap in the root directory and name it LOGO.SYS
2. You can use LOGOW.SYS file in the Windows directory as a starter

Logoff Screens
1. There are several files called LOGOX.SYS
2. They are actually bitmaps 320x400 that just have a different extension
3. The hidden one in the root directory LOGO.SYS is the startup logo.
4. There are two files in the Windows directory.
5. LOGOW.SYS is the Wait while Shutting down ... screen
6. LOGOS.SYS is the You may now shut-off or Reboot screen
7. To edit them, rename them with a BMP extension and use your favorite graphic editor
8. You can edit these files or create you own.
9. They just need to be the same size

Removing the Recycle Bin

To remove Recycle Bin from the desktop:
1. Run REGEDIT.
2. Find NAMESPACE key in left pane (HKEY_Local_Macine \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows\ Current Version \ Explorer \ Desktop \ Namespace)
3. Expand NAMESPACE (click '+' box)
4. Delete the value RECYCLE BIN in right pane

Removing Shortcut Arrows

An easy way to remove those irritating arrows from your desktop shortcut icons and not change their properties
1. Right click the Desktop / Properties / Appearance tab
2. Select Item
3. Scroll for Icon
4. The default size is 32
5. Change this to 30
6. Clicking Apply