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My Documents folder at Windows System Startup

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Sometimes when you log into the Windows XP or Windows 2000, you may see the My Documents folder opening up at th startup. This could be due to a long filename or a file path with spaces in the […]

Fix System32 folder at Windows Startup

Sometimes when you log into the Windows XP or Windows 2000, you may see the System32 folder opening up at the startup. This could be due to an incomplete or an invalid entry in the Windows Startup registry key. This could be for example a null value (””) or a string value with only one […]

How to Enable/Disable ToolTips in Windows

Windows Tool tips are small information boxes that appear when we place the cursor on any icon or shorcuts on the desktop. This can be enabled or disabled from the registry. I consider this is a great simple feature but if you choose to enable or disable then try the following tweak in registry.

Add “Copy To” option to Right-click context menu

We humans keep copying files onto various locations on the hard disk. While Copying is just a right-click copy & paste operation. It can be made even simpler to just a click. We may add a “Copy To” option to the right-click context menu. We can simply add a registry key for the context menu […]

Windows 2000/XP may not display files and folders in Long File name format

Sometimes, Windows 2000 and Windows XP will not display files in the Long File format i.e., A folder named Program Files may be listed as Program~.
This could happen if the registry value that determines whether NTFS generates a short file name in the 8.3 naming convention for each long file name is reset to “0″. […]