Limit the Login Hours of Windows XP users

Sunday, July 05, 2009

Wondering how to limit the hours a particular Win XP User can have? It's easy!

1. Start > Run > cmd
2. See examples below

1 - net user username here i.e. Jin/time:M-F,08:00-17:00
- above means that user Jin can login from 8:00-17:00 hours only during Mondays to Fridays.

2 - net user Jin /time:M-F,8am-5pm
- above is specific in the time.

3 - net user Jin /time:M,4am-5pm;T,1pm-3pm;W-F,8:00-17:00
- above is more specific in the date and time.

4 - net user Jin /time:all
- above means this user can always log on anytime he/she wants.

That's all guys.. Hope you learned :D

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How to change Thumbnail Appearance

Monday, June 29, 2009

tested in Windows XP SP2

Hello guys. Here is another tweak that can help you easily browse photos in your computer. We need to change the quality and size a bit so that you can browse the photos faster in a thumbnail view.

This is a very easy tweak. Hope you will get it in your first try.

1. Open your registry editor. Start > Run and type "regedit.exe". Hit Enter.
2. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ Software\ Microsoft \ Windows\ CurrentVersion\ Explorer
3. Add a new DWORD Value and name it Thumbnail Quality.
4. Set its value between 32 and 256.
5. Next. Add a new DWORD Value and name it ThumbnailQuality.
6. Set it's value between 50 and 100.


You're done!

Note: This tweak was based on a tutorial I read sometime before. When I googled this topic again, the results were not what I expected to have. And I tried a much more specific search "How to change Thumbnail size and quality" there displayed the same topic as mine. But it's not the site where I first read the tweak.

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Teamviewer

Thursday, June 18, 2009

I was looking for something like this before. Glad that my friend from Israel shared to me this wonderful application. It's teamviewer. You can do a lot of thing with teamviewer. You can remotely control your friends computer, repair it even when you're at home. You can easily transfer files from one computer from any where in the world.

Both computers must have installed the same application. The other unit will connect to the other unit through the given ID and password. It's easy to use actually. It has a user friendly interface even newbies can easily understand.

One thing.. Teamviewer is free! Visit site http://www.teamviewer.com/

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Change start menu text to anything you like

Tuesday, June 02, 2009

tested on XP Sp2 only


Ok, so you would like to change your start menu button text to anything you like.
It is very easy.

In this tutorial, we will need this tool. "ResHack".

You can download this over the internet. Just Google it or if you're lazy enough not to do that. Just click the download link below.


Now you have it.

It's a very useful tool not just for this tutorial.

Let's get started.

1. Run ResHack.
2. Open windows explorer.exe. (you can find it in C:\Windows\explorer.exe or any drive where you put your windows folder ).
3. Click String Table in the tree list.
4. Expand it. Look for string 37. Again, expand it.
5. Click 1033. Now you see in the right side. Edit the text between the qoutes in the line 578. By default, it has the value "start" as it displays in your start menu button.
6. Change it to whatever you like.
7. Save As it in your windows folder. Do not use Save. Use Save As. Save it having a different name. like instead of explorer.exe you'll use explorer_modified.exe or whatsoever.

(note: it's better to always backup system files before trying to modify it. another thing. String 37 is for users who use the XP layout. If you're using the classic layout, choose String 38. and line 595.)

To the registry.
Now you have already a modified explorer.exe we can now proceed to editing the registry.
8. Open your registry editor again. Start> run .. type in "regedit" (without the qoutes of course).
9. Locate HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ SOFTWARE\ Microsoft\ Windows NT\ CurrentVersion\ Winlogon
10. Locate Shell in the right side, and then double click it. Change it's value from Explorer.exe to the name of the modified explorer.exe you did. Just like from our example a while ago. explorer_modified.exe or whatsoever again.
11. Exit Registry editor. And restart, or logout your computer. Then see the results.

If you failed to notice the changes, take this action:
-Change both the text "start" in Strings 37 and 38. and follow the steps again.

Hope you will get it at your first try!..

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