Ever wanted thumbnails smaller and a good quality?

If you like to use the thumbnail view, especially for browsing through photos and images you must know that it is possible to lower the thumbnail size and quality by editing the following registry keys.
Open the registry and navigate to :
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ Software\ Microsoft \ Windows\ CurrentVersion\ Explorer
Create a new DWORD value called ThumbnailSize, and set the value between 32 and 256.
Then create another DWORD value called ThumbnailQuality, and set the value between 50 and 100.
Examples :
USER Key: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ Software\ Microsoft \ Windows\ CurrentVersion\ Explorer]
Value Name: ThumbnailSize
Data Type: REG_DWORD (DWORD Value)
Data Value: 32 – 256
USER Key: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ Software\ Microsoft \ Windows\ CurrentVersion\ Explorer]
Value Name: ThumbnailQuality
Data Type: REG_DWORD (DWORD Value)
Data Value: 50 – 100

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Toolwiz Care

Toolwiz Care is a free tool set designed to speed up your PC and give your system full care. With multi-functional optimization suite, this software provides a collection of tools that includes System Checkup,System Cleanup,System Speedup,System Virtualization and 40+ powerful tools to enhance PC performance, security, and to optimize the start-up procedure. Toolwiz guarantees users that the freeware will stay free. This tool suite is designed for all levels of PC users from beginners to experts.
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Enable Auto Login - Windows XP

Below are the procedure for XP Auto login :

Start -> Run type regedit then click OK

Locate the following registry entry:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon

In Right Side Pane :

How To Disable USB Ports To Prevent Malware Infection

Many people use USB flash drives for transfer files, they often plug their Flash drives for many computers. Therefore, most of the usb drives are contained malwares, viruses etc. On the other hand, these USB drives are the spreaders of that kind of malicious applications. If you can disable or lock USB port temporarily, they can not be able to plug their Flash drives to your Computer or Laptop. There are several ways for disabling USB ports such as using Regstry Editor, Disabling autorun and using software. Today i am going to discuss about how to disable and enable the USB ports.

First, you need to go to Registry Editor (Start > Run > type " regedit " without having quotes).

* in the Registry Editor, Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE >SYSTEM>CurrentControlSet >services>USBSTOR

How to disable the right click functionality on the desktop

Today tip is very useful particularly for home users who want to protect their system default settings against unwanted changes that other users can make. For example changes in system desktop appearance, themes, and screen saver as well as other display settings. Using registry editor, you can disable the right click functionality on desktop to access the "Display Properties" dialog box and this will also prevent users to access windows explorer. 

Follow the given steps to disable the right click functionality on desktop:

To use this feature, you will need to be logged into your computer with administrative rights.

Click Start button and type regedit in Run option then press Enter for next.

creating a Login banner in windows

Login banners are used in the windows for displaying messages that user must agree to before using the system. You may want the users to abide by certain terms and conditions while using the official PC. These kings of messages may be displayed during the login of windows system.
In order to enable the login banner
GO to start--> Run --> type regedit --> Press enter
Go to following registry setting
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon

1) Select “LegalNoticeCaption” from the right side of the screen --> right click--> click on

Create a Hidden User Account in Windows XP

When logging into Windows XP, by default the operating system shows you all the available user accounts on the home screen, from where you login to the desired account. However, this is certainly not a best practice to expose all your user accounts.
In this article, i will walk you through step by step instructions to create a hidden user account which doesn’t show up on the home screen. This is particularly useful for accounts which have admin rights. This hack will make use of registry modification in Windows XP and therefore you are advised to first take a backup of your registry and also create a restoration point before moving ahead.
Follow the steps mentioned below to hide one of the already created user accounts. In case if you wish to create a new account, you can go ahead and do that using Control Panel.

1.) Click on Start –> Run. Type regedit at Run.

How To Change The Default Program Files Location For Installing Software in Windows

Windows Vista ( and also Windows 7) , like its predecessors, uses the System Disk for installing any new applications, That is, if your Windows is installed on the C Drive, the default folder where all the applications you install would automatically show up as C:\Program Files , unless of course you change in manually while installing the application’s locations.
If you almost always prefer to NOT install on the System Disk, but instead on another partition, say, the D drive, then rather then changing the default location everytime, you can edit the registry as follows:

Open Regedit and navigate to the following key:

Change / Add Restrictions on XP

1.      Open RegEdit

2.      Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies

3.      Go to the Explorer Key

4.      Then right click on the right side pane and select "Create Dword".

Select appropriate value name from the list given below and enter 1 for enabling the value and 0 for disabling it

NoDeletePrinter - Disables Deletion of Printers
NoAddPrinter - Disables Addition of Printers

Make your Start Menu Display Faster

A simple Registry tweak can give speed up your start menu and sub-menus.

How to Enable Registry Editor

There are many viruses which disable registry editing of your windows. And when you try to edit registry you get a message that "Registry editor has been disabled by your administrator". This can be solved by taking these two simple steps.

Step1: Restart your computer in safe mode and open cmd and type following command

Sabayon Linux 7 Released

Sabayon Linux 7 arrives with experimental Fusion kernel. In Sabayon 7 you will have shining at full bright, for your home computer, your laptop and your home servers.
Linux 3.0, GNOME 3.2, KDE 4.7, Xfce 4.8, LibreOffice 3.4 are just some of the things you will find inside the box. During this cycle, the development team spent a lot of time on integrating GNOME 3.2 the way users might actually start to love it. At the same time, Sabayon Xfce has been promoted to non-experimental release, for those missing GNOME2.

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