Windows XP is the best operating system from Windows compared to Windows Vista and 7. Number of Cool computer tips and tricks for Windows XP are there that you need to know. They are very useful and will make your computer experience good. Windows xp has many hidden features that you might don't know. It also has features that you are not aware of because you don't use them. These best tips and tricks will help you make understand of those computer tips.While Windows Vista life time was too short, Windows 7 lived up the expectations. Windows has now introduced Windows 8 which looks solid in appearance. Talk about performance, you should check yourself by downloading Windows 8 Developer edition from Microsoft website.
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| Windows XP - Tips and Tricks |
Here, I am going to list 5 useful computer tips and tricks for Windows XP-
1. Hide Inactive System Tray Icons - You may be using a lot of programs in your windows xp. Many of these programs create a system try icon for themselves so that you can use them from there itself. After few months, the list gets of system tray icons get bigger and you don't know what to do. Certainly you can't remove the program from you computer. So, here is a step by step process how to Control the icons-
- Right Click on Taskbar
- Select Properties.
- Now Click on Hide inactive icons or Click on Customize and choose which one you want to appear.
- Done! Now you will see an arrow just where the time appears in you system tray.
2. More Icons on Desktop - Do you have the habit of keeping number of document files on your desktop? I have this habit and sometimes I wonder how to keep more files without moving any files in the recycle bin. If I keep them somewhere else, I will forget and so do you. So it's better to keep them on Desktop. For this you need to minimize the icon spacing horizontally and vertically on Desktop. Follow the procedure-
- Right Click on your desktop Screen.
- Go to Properties and select appearance tab on the window that appears.
- Click on the Advanced button.
- Select Icons(Horizontal) or Icons( Vertical) in the coming Window.
- Now Decrease the size.
- Click ok. Then apply and ok. You are done.
3. Fast Shutdown from Desktop - You can shutdown you computer right from you desktop screen by making a shortcut icon. When you click on shortcut icon, you computer will shutdown faster than ever.
- Right click on the Desktop Screen.
- Click on New.
- Now Choose Shortcut Icon. Now , it will ask for Path name.
- Type " Shutdown -s -t 00 " without the double quotes.
- When you click on this icon, computer will shutdown immediately.
- If you change -s to -r then your computer will reboot.
4. Make Your Windows XP Start up faster - You can make your XP machine to boot faster by minimizing the number of programs that start during boot up of machine. To reduce number of programs on startup-
- Go to start and select run or simply press Windows key + R.
- Type " MSCONFIG" without the quotes and hit enter.
- It brings the system utility window. Select the start up tab.
- Uncheck all the software and apps that you don't want to start at the boot time of windows.
- Click ok and you are done. If you don't want any click disable all and then click ok.
5. On-Screen Keyboard - Do you know Windows XP has an inbuilt on screen keyboard that you might want to use? Keyboard is very useful in cases if few keys are not working on the keyboard. Secondly, in this keyboard, you can choose a number of languages to type.
- Go to start.
- Click on All programs.
- Click on Accessories.
- Click on Accessibility.
- Now, click on On screen keyboard.
- In keyboard settings, you can choose a number of languages.
I hope these Windows XP computer tips and tricks will help you a lot. Certainly there are more of cool computer tips and tricks which I am going to write in my coming post. Till then, Enjoy these.
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