How to rename the Recycle bin.

If you want a totally customized Windows XP, then renaming the Recycle Bin can be quite useful. You could rename it to trash, garbage [or pretty much anything you can imagine ;) ].


Follow these steps to rename the Recycle Bin:

1. Open up the Registry editor by typing regedit into the run box from the Start Menu.

2. Locate HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/CLSID/{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}

3. Change the registry value "Recycle Bin" To anything. (Remember to exclude the quotes!)

And you're done!
You may have to restart your pc to see the changes...

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Cool Windows XP tips & tricks: How to enable fast user switching.

User switching is the fastest way to switch to a different user account.
This lets you have several accounts logged in at the same time, but only one of them interacts with the keyboard, mouse, etc. and is open, while the rest continue to run open programs.


To enable fast user switching:

1. Go to Control Panel and click on user accounts.

2. Click the User accounts icon in the Control Panel icons section to open the User accounts window.

3. Click "change the way users log on and off"

4. Check the box "Use Fast User Switching"

And you're done! To Switch users, open log off from the start menu and click "switch user" or just press Windows Key + L.

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Cool XP tips & tricks: Disabling the Welcome screen

This feature is very useful if you have only one user account on your computer. The bad thing is that you can't have it ask for a password.

To disable the welcome screen:

Open the Start Menu and select run. Type "control userpasswords2" into the box.
In the user accounts window choose the users tab and clear the box "Users must enter a name and password to use this computer".
Click OK and type your user name and password in the dialog box.


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Cool Xp tips & tricks: Set sound to events

It's fun to have a customized sound scheme. You can change the sounds that xp plays when you start your computer, log on, receive an error, etc. You can even record your own sounds.

To change the sound scheme:
Go to Control panel from the Start menu and click on Sounds, speech and audio devices.
Click on change the sound scheme.
Save your previous scheme if you want to and click on any event in the Program Events box to choose its sound.



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Cool Windows XP tips & tricks: How to find out which XP service pack you have

A service pack (SP), a term used by IBM and Microsoft, is basically a collection of updates, bug fixes and improvements. The latest service pack for Windows XP is SP. You can update to SP2 here: Service pack 2 for Windows XP.

Finding out which Service Pack you have is very easy.
Press the Windows key and Pause|Break at the same time and look in the System part of the System Properties Window.

Updating to Service Pack 2 has many advantages: several fixed security issues, better operation and various bug fixes.

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