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  • How to prevent access to select drives using Registry

    How to prevent access to select drives using Registry

    You can disable access to select drives for a user using the Registry. Create a REG_DWORD value named NoViewOnDrive under HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersion PoliciesExplorer and enter its value as follows. You must select decimal first and then add the following values to disable respective drives. A –...

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  • Correction to the list files and folders from a directory to a file

    Correction to the list files and folders from a directory to a file

    I think you all remember OKTHEN, the one who told us all an easy way to list files and folders in a directory into a file through a context menu. He posted it as a comment. Well last day he commented on the post to...

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  • Speeding up your boot process – Windows

    Speeding up your boot process – Windows

    Microsoft Configuration wizard is one tool you can use to improve your systems boot time. This tip utilizes the msconfig utility. 1. Go to StartĀ»Run(WIN+R) and type “msconfig” , the Microsoft System Configuration Utility will pop up. 2. Select the “STARTUP” tab. This will show...

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  • PC on steroids, Improve your systems perfomance – start of series

    PC on steroids, Improve your systems perfomance – start of series

    This is the first among a series of post in which I will tell you many tips on how to make your System perform faster. The post frequency in this Series will be one post ( tip ) per week. So check out my other...

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  • Find all recently used Wallpapers from your Registry

    Find all recently used Wallpapers from your Registry

    Windows saves the list of wallpapers ever used on the system in a registry Key. HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersion ExplorerWallpaperMRU All those Registry Binary values here are the address to the images you used as wallpapers. The last part in this binary makes no sense to me but...

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  • What to do when you can’t log-in to blogger

    What to do when you can’t log-in to blogger

    Some times Blogger will show a “server was encountering a problem” message when you try to login and will give you an error code and say that an engineer had been notified. There are some things you can try to login to blogger when such...

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