Trick to give an empty name for a folder in windows Xp:

Many of you might be knowing this trick to make a folder without any name (except a space as the name) in windows Xp. Any ways, here let me tell about it once more.

Just make sure that you have nums lock on.

Then go to the folder which you want to rename with no name at all, then, right click it and select rename and then clear its contents.

Then press and hold the ALT key and then type 0160 in the Num pad. Now release the ALT key.

Press enter.

Now you will be able to see that the folder has a space as the folder name.
The trick accounts for files as well.

Shortcut for organizing favorites in Windows Xp

This is quite an easy short cut for organizing favorites in Windows Xp from the My Computer interface . Just press ctrl + B.

The organize favorites dialog box appears in which you can configure your favorites.

How to manage all your shared folders in a single window in windows Xp

If you have a lot of shared folders which are widely dispersed, then you can manage them all under a single interface in windows Xp.

Go to Start > run > fsmgmt.msc

Under the shared folders windows you can manage all your shared folders.

Trick to hide filenames in thumbnail view in Windows Xp

This is a neat trick, to hide file names of files and folders in thumbnail view in windows Xp.

Just go to any other view other than the thumbnail view (using the views dropdown).

Now press and hold the shift button and then change the view to thumbnail view.

You will find that the file names are not visible now.

However if you switch to other views the file names would be visible.

To make the file names visible again, repeat the same holding the shift button, changing the view from any other view to the thumbnails view to get the file names back.

Adding a folder for indexing in windows vista

In windows vista, only the Documents folder is indexed by default.If you want the other folders in the hard drive to be indexed, then you should add them implicitly.

To add a folder for indexing, then
Go to control panel > System and Maintenance> indexing options .

Click the modify button.

Browse through all the folders and drives which you want to add for indexing and then select the required ones.

How to hide the last user who has logged on in windows Xp from showing in the secure logon dialogbox

If you have used the secure logon method, that is the login without the welcome screen in Windows Xp (similar to windows NT logon), then by default you will be able to see that when you login, the last user who has logged in the computer would be displayed in the user name text box of the secure login window.

Some people might not like this as this gives away their user name.

To prevent windows Xp from displayng the username of the last logged in user in the username textbox, follow the following steps:

Open the group policy editor.(start > run > gpedit.msc).

Open Computer Configuration > Windows settings > security settings > Local Policies > securioty Options.

You will be able to find an entry called Interactive Logon :Do not display last User name.

Right click the property and select properties.

Select the enabled radio button and click ok.

Restart your computer.

Now you will find that the username text box is empty and does not contain the user name of the previous logged in user.

How to disable the right click context menu in the desktop in Windows Xp

Open the registry editor (Start > rub > regedit)

Navigate to the following node in the registry editor:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer

Now create a registry DWORD entry named NoViewContextMenu and set its value to 1.

Restart your computer.

To reverse the effect, change the value to 0 or delete the entry.

How to Have the Explorer view as the default view instead of the Common tasks pane in windows Xp

When you open My computer, the common tasks is listed in the left side pane of the My computer Window. But some people find it better if the explorer view was made the default view in the left pane.

To make the explorer view as the default view,

Open the registry editor, Start > Run > regedit.

Navigate to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell and in the right pane of the registry editor, set the value of default as explorer.

Note: To set its value, just double click it and in the Edit string resultant dialog, enter the value data as explorer.

Automatically align the column widths in Windows Xp

Some times when you browse folders in details view, the view may be cluttered and you might want to resize the column widths manually to get the complete details fit in a single screen in the horizontal direction so that you need not use the horizontal scroll bar to view the details which are off screen.

Alternatively, Windows Xp provides an automatic way to adjust column width.

Just select any row in the list and press they key combination, “ctrl + ‘+’of the numeric key pad”.

Blogger Reactions: Get feedback from your visitors

Blogger has got a good way for blog authors to get feed back on their content. Let the content be a picture, or an article or a review, you can get valuable feedback from your blog readers through blogger reactions.

Blogger reactions occur as check boxes below your blog posts, which helps the readers to vote freely for your blog posts. This is an alternate to commenting but very effective way to express what they think. You can also pick a range of virtues for your post. For example, if you are going to post a picture as a blog post, you can set the possible reactions as lovely, ugly, cute, funny etc…

The readers now just have to check the check boxes to vote.

To enable Reactions go to the layout of your blog and then under Blog Posts page element click the edit link and in the configure blog posts window, check the reactions check box and then you can edit the possible reactions you want to get from your readers.

Click the save button.

Now readers can give you feed back at a single click.