Disable Set As Desktop Background in WIN-XP

1. START
2. RUN
3. regsvr32 /u shimgvw.dll [Remove Right Click-> "Set as Desktop Background"
4. exit

To Reset the Option in Previous Mode Type "regsvr32 shimgvw.dll" at Step-3

BLOCKING WEBSITES IN WIN-XP FOR ALL BROWSERS

If we want to block www.facebook.com in Windows XP. Follow the following Steps..

1. START
2. RUN
3. notepad C:/Windows/System32/drivers/etc/hosts
4. 127.0.0.1 http://www.facebook.com
5. FILE SAVE http://www.mediafire.com/?5eced956ji53206

China Hacked Indian Documents

No More Disturbing Sounds

Want to listen to your favourite audio CDs through headphone without being bothered by the unexpected background sounds? Here is how: Open the volume control (double-click its icon in the System Tray), move the slider buttons up to the volume you want, and then select the Mute Box check box. Close the volume control, plug in your headphones to your CD-ROM drive, and run CD Player (Start, Programs, Accessories, Multimedia, CD Player). You can use a similar method to listen to music with the speakers. Open Volume Control and select Mute for all the check boxes except the one for the CD. This will prevent your hearing the computer sounds while you enjoy your CD.

Change Default Audio CD Player

To change your default CD player simply change its association to match the program you want to use.

To do so, inside any Explorer window, select View (Win9x) or Tools (WinMe), Folder Options. Click the File Types tab, select Audio CD in the list of Registered File Types, and then click the Edit button. Select the Play action and click the Edit button. Under Application Used To Perform Action, type the path of the program you'd like to use to play audio CDs, followed by a space and “/play” (without quotation marks).

In WinMe, just click the Change button in the Folder Options windows, and then select your new program.

Title of Your Favorites Song

This tip is for Windows 98/95 user. Before you play an audio CD, first enter the title of the songs in the appropriate box on the CD Player. So, every time you want to play a specific song, you do not have to see the track number of the song.

To enter the titles of your favorites songs, run the CD player, click on the Disc, Edit Play List menus. Enter all information that is needed in the Disc Setting dialog box, such as singer name, CD title, and the songs list. Every time you have finished setting a track, click the Set Name button

Note: The song list is saved in the CDPLAYER.INI file.

Simplified Media Player Controls

Click File, Open on the menu bar and then double-click a multimedia file you want to play. Double-click the title bar to simplify the Media Player controls that show up on the screen. To see all Media Player controls you can double-click on the title bar again.

NOTE: You need to use Mplayer.exe (located in your Windows folder). Don't use it on the Windows Media Player (Wmplayer.exe) in Windows Millennium, since this tip will not work.

Selecting WAV Compression Formats

To save your disk free space, you can convert you WAV files into a compressed format. There are several different formats. To select a format, open your WAV file on Sound Recorder, click the File-Properties menus, and then click the Convert Now button. Here is more detail about WAV compression formats:

DSP Group, Inc. Truespeech

Featuring real-time decompression but is not good enough at the compression process. The best choice to compress human voice, but not for music. Use on the WAV file that you want to insert into a document, worksheet, or mail message.

MS GSM 6.10 Audio

Featuring real-time compression and the best choice to record sounds using the Sound Recorder.

MS CCITT G.711 A-Law and U-Law

It has compression ratio 2-to-1 and compatibility with the US and Europe telephones standard.

MS ADPCM

Featuring real time compression and decompression. Good to save music. Usually used in encyclopedia, like MS-Encarta.

IMA ADPCM

Similar with MS ADPCM

MS PCM converter

Using this format, an 8-bit sound card can play 16-bit sound by decreasing the audio quality.

Recording an Audio Clip from CD

You can insert an audio clip to your Word document or Excel spreadsheet. Here is the procedure to record an audio clip from CD audio (music):

Double-click the speaker icon at the right corner of Taskbar and once again double- click the speaker icon. Two Volume Control dialog boxes will appear on the screen. Click the Options-Properties menu from one of the dialog boxes, select the Recording option at the Adjust volume for area. Only the CD input option can be selected, all other options such as MIDI input, Line-In, and Microphone must be removed.

Run the CD-Player and Sound Recorder applications. Play your favorite song on the CD Player, and then click the circle button in the Sound Recorder to start recording the song. To stop recording, press the rectangle button. The same method can be used to record the sounds from MIDI, AVI or MPEG files.

Playing WAV Quickly

Windows 98/95 use the Sound Recorder application to play all sound files with WAV format. Unfortunately, this method is too slow for big size files since Sound Recorder needs to load the complete file into the computer memory. To get around this situation, you can associate the WAV file with Media Player application. Just perform these steps:

Run Windows Explorer, and then select one of your WAV files. Click the View - Options menu and go to the File Types tab. In the list, find the WAVE SOUND item (or Sound Clip), and click the Edit button. In the Actions column select Open, click Edit, and then type c:\windows\mplayer.exe. Click OK, in the Actions column select Play, click Edit, and then type c:\windows\mplayer.exe /play /close.

Starting from now on, if you click on a WAV file, the Media Player will play it.

Playing a Single Track CD

Windows 9X/Me allows you to play a single track of Audio CD. To do so, open the Windows Explorer, and then click the CD-ROM drive icon. Before you do that, make sure you have inserted an audio CD into the drive.

On the right-pane of your Windows Explorer, you will see Track01.cda to Track??.cda. You can click one of those tracks to start playing. The track also can be played automatically by double-clicking their icons. Try to drag a track into the Windows 9X/Me desktop to create its shortcut. Rename this shortcut with the title of the songs. From now on, you can play that song (as long as the audio CD has inserted) by double-clicking its shortcut. You also can place this kind of shortcut in the Start menu or a special folder.

Playing a MIDI file on Windows 9X/Me Welcome

Bored with your Windows 9X/Me's welcome sound? Try to change that sound with your favorites MIDI files. Open the Control Panel, double-click on the Sounds icon to open the Sound Properties dialog box. Delete the sound reference for "Start Windows" events by selecting "none" option.

Next, create a shortcut to a .MID file. Put this shortcut in the C:\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\StartUp folder. If you do not want the applications that are used to play the MIDI file to appear every time you start Windows 9X/Me, right-click on the shortcut, and then click Properties. Click on the Shortcut tab, and then choose "Minimized" from the Run box.

Move CD Player Settings to Another Computer

You can transfer the Artist, Track, and Title settings on your CD Player to another computer by copying the Cdplayer.ini file to the other computer. To do so, copy the Cdplayer.ini file from the Windows folder to a floppy disk and then copy it to the Windows folder on the other computer. If the computers are connected to a network, use the network to copy the file from the Windows folder on one computer to the Windows folder on the other computer.

If there is already a Cdplayer.ini file in the Windows folder on the second computer, rename it before you copy the file from the first computer or you will overwrite the existing file. You can also merge the contents of two Cdplayer.ini files using the Copy and Paste commands in Notepad.

Editing Multimedia Files

It is not a secret that you can play all types of multimedia files on the Media Player. However, do you know that you can place Media player's object, such as video clips, into the clipboard and then paste it into a document? To do so, first you have to mark the beginning and the end of your selection. To mark the beginning of a clip, click the Start Selection button. To mark the end of a clip, click the End Selection button. Finally, click the Edit-Copy menus to paste your clip into the clipboard.

Count Frames

Windows keeps count of dropped frames during video playback. To display this feature, after you have played a video clip, hold Ctrl and press F5. A box called "Send MCI String Command" will appear on the screen. In the Command box type "Status Frames Skipped" and click Send. Windows will tell you how many total frames were displayed.

NOTICE: You need to use Mplayer.exe (located in your Windows folder), the default Windows (multi) Media Player to access the frame rate options. Mplayer.exe can play (among other media file formats): .AVI, MOV, MMV, .MPG, .MPEG, .MPE, .MID, .RMI, .WAV, .FLI, .FLC etc. Don't use it on the Windows Media Player (Wmplayer.exe) in Windows Millennium, since this tip will not work.

Cheap Microphone

Use any headphone as a microphone to record your voice into the computer. Just plug in the headphone to the mic-in socket of your sound card.

Control Event Volume using Sound Recorder

Open Control Panel and then double-click on the Sound icon. You have to see with what event a WAV file is associated. For example, Critical Stop event on the default setting is associated with Chord.wav. Start Sound Recorder and then open file Chord.wav in Windows\Media folder. Click on Effects, and then choose Decrease Volume. Use the playback button to listen to the result. Repeat this procedure until you are satisfied with the result. Finally, save Chord.wav file. You can do the same procedure on other events.

Adjusting Volume in The Easiest Way

The easiest way to adjust your sound card volume is by clicking and dragging its icon from taskbar to any place in the desktop. A dialog box will appears on the screen, and then you can use it to adjust your sound card volume. To make this dialog box smaller, press CTRL+S. Press this combination key once again to return it to the normal size.

Take control of the volume, using either of the following two methods:

* slide the volume control up or down by dragging it.

* move the slider by pressing the Tab key until a box appears around the slider, and then press the arrow keys to slide up or down.

A New Day, A New Sound

Try this tip if you are bored with the same welcome sound every day and want to use a different sound every time you start Windows 9X/Me.

Create a new folder, for example C:\Windows\Sound. Put your WAV files in this folder, change their names to sound01.wav, sound02.wav, sound03.wav, etc. Open Control Panel, double-click on the Sounds icon, select Start Windows option from the Events list, and then click the Browse button. Choose a WAV file that you want to play, for example C:\Windows\Media\Welcome.wav. Click OK.

Now use Notepad to create a batch file with these following contents:

cd c:\windows\sound

ren sound01.wav soundxx.wav

ren sound02.wav sound01.wav

ren sound03.wav sound02.wav

ren sound04.wav sound03.wav

ren soundxx.wav sound04.wav

copy sound01.wav c:\windows\media\welcome.wav

If you have more than four files in the C:\Windows\Sound folder, you can add as many more commands as you want, just follow the command pattern. Save that batch file, for example as C:\Windows\Change.bat. Add a command into the Autoexec.bat file to activate Change.bat file. From now on, you will hear a different Windows 9X/Me welcome sound every time you start your computer.

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Choose Line Thickness First

Want to draw a bold oval or polygon? Paint allows you to choose the thickness of the line of a Rectangle, Polygon, Oval, or Rounded Rectangle. But, before you select your geometric drawing tool in the Toolbox on the left of the window, choose the Straight Line tool. Now choose a thickness from the set of 5 possibilities. Now click on the geometric shape drawing tool you want to use. Draw that shape. This thickness will remain your choice as you choose other geometric shape tools.

Smart Erasing in Paint

Is there an element of your Paint drawing you'd like to erase, without affecting the rest of your work? Before you move the Eraser tool around your drawing elements, remember that Eraser tool will selectively erase (or replace) a single color. Drag the tool over any part of the canvas, and everything but the selected color remains untouched.

First, click the color you'd like to erase (or replace). Then, right-click the color you'd like to replace it with (usually the background color). Select the Eraser/Color Eraser tool, then hold down the right-mouse button as you drag the mouse pointer over the color you're trying to erase or replace. Only the selected color disappears!