Booting to the Command Prompt

As you know, you can use WinBoost to disable automatic booting to the graphical user interface (see the System and Booting Enhancements section). That is the easiest and the painless way, but probably you want to try another method. To do so, create a file with Notepad. Do not type anything in the file, and save the file to the root directory of the C: drive and name it WIN.BAT. When Windows boots, and finds an empty WIN.BAT file, it will boot the PC to the DOS command prompt. To get to the graphical user interface from the command prompt, just type WIN and press Enter.

Additional Trick!

Now, open Explorer and then rename file Win.com in C:\Windows with something else, such as yourname.com. Starting from now on, you can prevent other person to access your Windows, since you are the only one that can load it by typing yourname.com and then press Enter.

Ctrl+Alt+Del for Not Responding Applications

If you open too many applications on your computer, sometimes one of those applications will make your computer stop responding. To get around this problem, press Ctrl+Alt+Del. The Close Program dialog box will appear on the screen. Select the not responding application and then click End Task.