In order to restart your Windows without actually restarting your Pc, You have to follow the Below trick.

To do this,

1. Before you click on the “SHUTDOWN” button in the Start Menu, make sure to simultaneously press the “SHIFT “Button.

2. If you hold the Shift key down while clicking on SHUTDOWN button, you computer would restart without restarting the Computer.

3. This is equivalent to term “HOT REBOOT“.

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In order to Change the “Default Wallpaper folder” to the “My pictures” folder you can follow the below trick in order to use your own images right from the “Desktop Properties“.

To do this

1. Click on the “Start” Button.

2. Open the “Run” menu from it and type “regedit.exe” in order to bring the registry editor.

3. Then navigate down to the following key.

4. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion

5. On the Right hand side you should see a value called “WallPaperDir“. If the key does not exist, then you can create a new string value with the same name.

6. Double click on the value to change the path to your My Pictures folder. (or any other folder)

7. If you dont want the images present already in the list, You can delete these images to make them stop appearing in the wallpaper selection list from the c:\windows.

If you want to disable the “Take Tour of Windows XP” that comes up after you install WindowsXP, then follow the below tips.

1. Click on the “Start” Button.
2. Select “Run“
3. Type “Regedit” and press enter.
4. Go to “HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Applets\Tour“.
5. Create a new “DWORD key” called “RunCount“.
6. Give it a value of “0“.