How To Create a Desktop Shortcut for Fast User Switching.

Today’s XP Tip and Trick is a pretty cool trick for Multi-User computers. I want to show you with this XP Tweak to create a desktop shortcut for fast user switching. This will able you to quickly access a second or third account while having the other session’s active in the background.

It’s real easy; for creating a Desktop Shortcut for fast user switching you have to follow the next few steps.

First you’ll need to right click somewhere on your desktop.
And select new and create shortcut.
Now you need to give the shortcut a new location and you can do that by copy and paste this location “c:\windows\system32\tsdiscon.exe”.

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Create a XP Shutdown Button on Your Desktop.

Today I have another cool trick for you and it’s a Tip and Trick for Windows XP. Whether it’s real useful is debatable but its fun to know anyway. Today I want to show you how easy it is to create a icon on your desktop that closes down your system without any confirmations.

To create a XP shutdown button on your desktop you’ll need to follow the next simple steps.

· Right click on an empty space on your desktop.

· Select new and shortcut.

· Now type in the window shutdown -s -t 0 (the last character is a zero.)

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Turn off the System Beeps in XP.

In today’s Tip and Trick I have cool XP Tweak for you. With this XP Tweak you can fully turn off the system beeps in Windows XP.

To turn off the system beeps in Windows XP you’ll need to follow the following steps.

Go to start
Select run
And type “regedit”

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Now navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Sound

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Now right click on Beep.
And select Modify.
Change the value equal to “no”.

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Click OK
Reboot and you’re done.

Registry Repair – Key to Fast Computing

by Maxwell Hoeyberghs

If your computer seems to be sluggish and getting worse you should consider doing some registry maintenance. Most computers suffer from a dirty registry that is all junked up with the debris it collects traveling around in cyberspace. Your computer is performing millions of functions every second including wading through all kinds of garbage that gets into the registry and bogs down computer performance.

It is funny how people don’t really know or understand how a registry fix works. Unless you are a techie not a lot of time is spent discussing registry cleaners or how it is your PC actually processes data. Your computer is constantly performing millions of functions every second, going through garbage on the internet, processing calculations, all kinds of things.

How To Repair Your Computer After Spyware Attacks

by Chris Channing

There are several types of programs that can cause great harm to your computer- and spyware is one of them. Spyware is particularly dangerous since it may leech out important information from your computer and put it to work against you- making computer repair important.

Anti-spyware programs are a must if you are going to defend against a spyware problem. This may save your computer from having to be repaired in the first place, so you should investigate both paid and free options in computer programs that can protect you. Some of the more well known companies include Symantec and McAfee, although others exist.

New Software from Microsoft for Detecting Malicious Software.

There’s some news from the Microsoft website. The last couple of days/weeks there was quite some news about new viruses and malicious software and if you’re running any of the Windows versions, Microsoft has a new tool you should download and use regularly.

Best of all; it’s free. The Malicious Software Removal Tool scans your computer and removes viruses and malicious software (malware) and gives you a report of the results once it’s been run.

Even if you have security software, you should be using this. It took me about 3 minutes on my Vista system to download and run it. Make sure you open it with IE instead of Firefox.

You can download it here for free from Microsoft’s site.