Windows For Beginners

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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 [...]

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

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

Most CD-ROMS are capable of supporting DMA mode, but the default in XP is still PIO. Setting it to DMA won’t make your CD-ROM faster, but it will consume less CPU cycles. In order to improve your IDE Harddisk performance which supports DMA access, do it as follows,
1. Right Click on “My Computer” on the [...]

If you want to show or hide the “Common Tasks Panel” (blue bar with additional options on the left side) you may simply need to turn on Common Tasks to do it.
1. Click on the “Start” Button.
2. Select “My Computer“.
3. Go to Tools –> Folder Options.
4. Check ” Show common tasks in folders” option.
5. [...]