Uninstall
Msn Messenger - batch script
1.
copy this code into your text document and save it with extension
"bat" without quotes
@echo off
echo Removing Microsoft Messenger...
rundll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection %WinDir%\inf\msmsgs.inf,BLC.Remove
echo Disabling it from running in the future...
echo REGEDIT4>%temp%\nomsngr.reg
echo
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Messenger\Client]>>%temp%\no
msngr.reg
echo "PreventRun"=dword:00000001>>%temp%\nomsngr.reg
echo "PreventAutoRun"=dword:00000001>>%temp%\nomsngr.reg
echo "PreventAutoUpdate"=dword:00000001>>%temp%\nomsngr.reg
echo
"PreventBackgroundDownload"=dword:00000001>>%temp%\nomsngr.reg
echo "Disabled"=dword:00000001>>%temp%\nomsngr.reg
regedit /s %temp%\nomsngr.reg
2. double click on it and restart computer
3. msn messenger will be uninstalled from you system
Speed up your web browsing Yukarı
Iv'e
personally found a dramatic increase in web browsing after clearing the Windows
XP DNS cache.
To clear it type the following in a command
prompt: ipconfig /flushdns
Clear
pagefile on shutdown
For added security you
should always clear the page file upon shutting down your computer.
Windows uses this file as extra ram. Lets say that you are working on a
confidential MS Word doc. When you load this document it is loaded into
ram. To save ram windows places certain items in the page file. The
page file can then be opened and the document can be extracted as well as any
other open program or files. However Microsoft has implemented a feature
that will clear the page file but they do not have it enabled by default.
Please note, this will slightly increase the amount of time it takes to shut
down your computer but it is well worth it.
Create
a shortcut to lock computer
Right click on desktop and select new -> shortcut. Then copy and paste this in the program location box "rundll32.exe user32.dll,LockWorkStation" Click next and enter a name for you shortcut and then click finish. Now you can copy and paste that shortcut anywhere you want on your computer
Getting
older programs to work under xp
To set
the compatibility properties for a program manually
Right-click the program icon on your desktop or the shortcut on the Start menu
for the program you want to run, and then click Properties.
Click the Compatibility tab, and change the compatibility settings for your
program.
Notes
The Compatibility tab is only available for programs installed on your hard
drive. Although you can run the Program Compatibility Wizard on programs or
setup files on a CD-ROM or floppy disk, your changes will not remain in effect
after you close the program.
For more information about an option on the Compatibility tab, right-click the
option and then click What's This.
Click start, run and write this ;
RunDll32
advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection %windir%\INF\msmsgs.inf,BLC.Remove
Will remove the msn messenger from XP
Prevent
Access to Command Prompt
Prevents
users from running the interactive command prompt, Cmd.exe. This setting also
determines whether batch files (.cmd and .bat) can run on the computer.
If you enable this setting and the user tries to open a command window, the
system displays a message explaining that a setting prevents the action.
Note: Do not prevent the computer from running batch files if the computer uses
logon, logoff, startup, or shutdown batch file scripts, or for users that use
Terminal Services.
START > RUN > GPEDIT.MSC > USER CONFIGURATION > ADMINISTRATIVE
TEMPLATES > SYSTEM > FIND PREVENT ACCESS TO THE COMMAND PROMPT > RIGHT
CLICK > PROPERTIES > CLICK ENABLE > OK REBOOT
Reboot
or shut down PC quickly
For a
one-click method to quickly shut down or reboot your system without the fuss of
going through the Start menu, make use of the Shutdown command, a command line
utility in XP.
Here's how you can set up a restart button on your desktop:
1. Create a shortcut (Right-click on desktop, select New > Shortcut).
2. For location, type the following:
shutdown -r -t 0
3. Click Next, enter a name for the shortcut ("Restart" is
appropriate), and click Finish.
When you click your Restart shortcut, Windows XP will reboot *automagically*!
The "-r" switch tells XP to reboot. If you'd like the shortcut to shut
off your PC instead, change it to "-s"; to simply log off, change it
to "-l". The "-t 0" sets the timeout (in seconds), so up
this value if you find the need for it. To force running applications to close,
add "-f" -- be careful with this one!
For more information on Shutdown, type "shutdown" in a command prompt
window (Start > All Programs > Accessories > Command Prompt), or search
for Shutdown in Windows XP's Help and Support Center.
Remove
Control Panel Applets
Ever
want to know how to remove control panel applets? According to Microsoft, the
Group Policy Editor can be used to "Hides all Control Panel items."
Before we get started I want to inform you that this tweak does not prevent the
control panel applets from running, they just do not show up in control panel
any more.
1. Click on the start button and select run.
2. In the text box type gpedit.msc and press OK.
3. Once the Group Policy Editor is open, expand the User Configuration
folder if it is not already expanded.
4. Next, expand the Administrative Templates folder and then click on the
Control Panel folder.
5. Select Show only specified Control Panel Applets from the right window
pane and right click on it and select Properties.
6. A dialog box will open and select the enable radio button.
7. Once you have clicked on the enable radio button, the show button will
be enabled, click it.
8. A new window will pop up that will display control panel objects that are OK
to show. Items not on this list will not be displayed in control panel when this
feature is enabled. To add a applet to the list so that it will show up in
control panel, Click Add.
9. Once the add dialog box pops up, enter the name of the control panel applet
you want to be displayed. This is were it gets a little tricky. You have to
enter the filename of the applet you want shown. For example, if you want to
show the System Properties applet, then you need to enter sysdm.cpl in the box.
10. Then click OK once you have entered the file name; click OK once more to
exit the control panel applets settings.
11. Exit Group Policy editor and restart if needed.
Here are the Windows XP Pro Control Panel applets:
System Properties = sysdm.cpl
Network Connections = ncpa.cpl
ODBC Administrator = odbccp32.cpl
Display Properties = desk.cpl
Add or remove programs = appwiz.cpl
Internet Properties = Inetcpl.cpl
Game Controllers = joy.cpl
Phone and modem Options = telephon.cpl
Time and Date Properties = timedate.cpl
Region and Language Options = intl.cpl
Power Options = powercfg.cpl
Mouse Properties = main.cpl
Accessibility Options = access.cpl
Add Hardware Wizard = hdwwiz.cpl
Sound and Audio Devices = mmsys.cpl
User Accounts = nusrmgr.cpl
Speech Properties = sapi.cpl
Remove
hidden hardware from Device Manager
I used
this trick when I had a old NIC card that was removed from a system without
uninstalling. It still had DNS and IP information which caused problems. This
was used on Windows 2000 and should still apply to XP.
Add the following system environment variable:
devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1(reboot optional)
Open
Device Manager
From the View menu select Show Hidden Devices
Locate your hidden hardware in device manager.
Right click
Uninstall
Remove
Internet Explorer
This
tweak allows for the removal of Internet Explorer from Windows XP. In
order to do so you will need a system with a second operating system installed
(i.e. Windows 98, Linux, etc). My system is dual-booted with Windows 98
Second Edition and Windows XP Home Edition. Note: Both partitions must be
formated with FAT32 for this tweak to work.
Steps:
1. In order to remove Internet Explorer from Windows XP without the
Windows File Protection kicking in and restoring the files I am trying to
delete, I booted into Windows 98 by selecting Windows 98 from the boot menu.
2. Once Windows 98 was booted I used windows explorer to browse to the
drive where I installed Windows XP. In my case I double click the E: drive
in Windows explorer, then Program Files, then Internet Explorer.
3. Select all the files in the directory Internet Explorer and delete
them.
4. Reboot the computer into Windows XP.
5. Internet Explorer will be gone.
This tweak could also be performed using Linux or DOS. But not the version
of DOS that comes with Windows XP. Do not remove Internet Explorer if any
of the applications you use require it to run. Furthermore, you will no
longer be able to use the Windows Update feature, but you can download the
patches individually.
when
you connect to a web site your computer sends information back and forth, this
is obvious. Some of this information deals with resolving the site name to an IP
address, the stuff that tcp/ip really deals with, not words. This is DNS
information and is used so that you will not need to ask for the site location
each and every time you visit the site. Although WinXP and win2000 has a pretty
efficient DNS cache, you can increase its overall performance by increasing its
size.
You can do this with the registry entries below:
************begin copy and paste***********
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Dnscache\Parameters]
"CacheHashTableBucketSize"=dword:00000001
"CacheHashTableSize"=dword:00000180
"MaxCacheEntryTtlLimit"=dword:0000fa00
"MaxSOACacheEntryTtlLimit"=dword:0000012d
************end copy and paste***********
make a new text file and rename it to dnscache.reg. The copy and paste the above
into it and save it. Then merge it into the registry
Get
Messenger to run again after uninstall
It
seems when you uninstall Messenger (using the tweaks on this site) the policy is
automatically set to prevent it running.
This causes the symptom of clicking on the Messenger shortcut and seeing an
hourglass for a second or two but the program not loading.
To get Messenger installed again requires more than just reinstalling the
program from Windows Update or a downloaded installer.
After that you have to change the following registry entry with regedit:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Messenger\Client
You should change the PreventRun value from (1) to
AddRemove
more Windows Components like Accessories programs
This
tweak lets you uninstall Windows Components such as MSN Explorer and programs in
the Accessories menu on the 'All Programs' menu.
1. Edit the hidden system file SYSOC.INF in the Windows/Inf folder (or WINNT/Inf
if you upgraded from NT or 2000).
2. Delete all instances of the word HIDE. Don't put any spaces inbetween the
commas.
3. Save your changes.
4. Open 'Add or Remove Programs' in Control Panel.
5. Click on 'Add/Remove Windows Components. You will now see options for
'Accessories and Utilities' (the programs in the Accessories menu on the Start
panel), MSN Explorer and several other components.
6. Uncheck the tick box to remove that component or check it to install it from
your XP CD.
Be careful what components you remove though!
Do
you know
everything about your system?
Instead
of typing systeminfo in a dos box, your can simply do it in windows too.
1. Start
2. Select Run
3. type winmsd
Installing
Internet
Protocal Version 6
This protocal is distined to replace the Internet Protocal Version 4 used by
Internet Explorer it uses hexadecimal ip addresses instead of decimal example (
decimal ip 62.98.231.67) (hexadecimal IP 2001:6b8:0:400::70c)
To install To install the IPv6 Protocol for Windows XP:
Log on to the computer running Windows XP with a user account that has local
administrator privileges.
Open a command prompt. From the Windows XP desktop, click Start, point to
Programs, point to Accessories, and then click Command Prompt.
At the command prompt, type:
ipv6 install
For more information on IPv6, visit the site below:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/techinfo/administration/ipv6/default.asp
