tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89001829350147898442012-01-10T05:19:31.484-08:00Tweaks, Tutorials, Tips & Trickstoxictazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02382665852678357996noreply@blogger.comBlogger641100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8900182935014789844.post-48602325321917311402009-12-01T11:34:00.000-08:002009-12-01T11:34:58.000-08:00

Case modding is for those who are sick and tired of seeing their plain vanilla computer cases. It involves adding special components and making some arrangements inside that PC case so as to enhance is visual appearance and make it look awesome. Some guys take it as a hobby while others do it to make their cases the ultimate head turning machines. It doesn’t improve the performance of your save

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In order to watch a movie with subtitles, you have to have a separate subtitles file for it. You can download the subtitles file easily by just googling the movie name. A subtitles file usually has a .srt extension. Now, the problem is that if you are moving the movie file to some other location say your portable media player or your cell phone, you will have to move the subtitles file too. But

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I was looking for a neat way of removing unwanted scenes from some of the movies in my collection. After a lot of research, I found the cure. You may want to do away with those annoying advertisements in between your favorite recorded TV shows or explicit scenes in a movie not suitable for family viewing. There is a way of getting rid of them easily without hampering the audio or video quality.

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While navigating through different folders in Windows Explorer, sometimes it feels that the default thumbnail size of images should be a bit bigger. Or some may insist on having the thumbnail  smaller than its preset size, especially if it is taxing on their system. Here is a registry tweak you can do to change the thumbnail size as well as its image quality in Windows Explorer. Here is how to do

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Do you want to know how long has your system been running? This is a very simple method to find out the system uptime along with other important information such as product id, system model, system type, pagefile location etc.Just follow these steps:1.Click Start > All Programs > Accessories > Command Prompt2.In the command prompt window, type systeminfo3.A list of valuable information about your

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I have always wished that I could hide my hard disk's partitions. This can be a good way of protecting your important files from the people around you who never miss any opportunity to sneak into your PC. Or it can be a really funny and maybe a cruel prank for someone who is still a novice to computers! But someone smart enough to disable this registry tweak or simply by using a little bit of

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Sometimes it happens that a certain application hangs and prevents the PC to shutdown properly and it also consumes a considerable chunk of Page file memory. As a result, your system runs at a lower speed than its original potential. To disable these applications automatically after a particular time you will have to do some registry tweaking. Just follow these steps:But before that, do not

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I don't know if its too late, but let me say this, “Apple Safari 4 is cool”. I recently downloaded it when I discovered my recent love for everything and anything from Apple. But since I am in no condition of buying any Apple product, I thought of why not to get your hands on something which is free and at the same time Apple (rare combination!)Apple Safari has a very distinct feel compared to

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A lot of programs like download managers, DVD burners, P2P clients etc associate themselves to run at startup every time Windows XP starts. Actually, this is a good feature, otherwise you would have to start the anti virus manually whenever you boot your PC which would have been a very tiring job. But this run-at-startup feature is also one of the most common reasons for a sluggish startup. When

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Write protection was one of the most useful feature in floppies. It allowed prevented any data to be written on the disk's surface, just by sliding a small slider. USB drives have now replaced floppies but still write protection is not a standard feature in all USB drives. Sure, some pen drives do come with this nifty feature but most of them lack it.Write protection allows the user to read from

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When you install Windows XP on your PC, a default administrator account named ‘Administrator’ is created. This account is visible on the login screen when you boot Windows XP. But when you create any other account having administrator rights, the default ‘Administrator’ account is not shown on the login screen. If you want it to show on the login screen, follow these steps: Open the registry

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If you have a network card and it has got its own onboard processor, you can take off the load of network processing from your CPU. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters and create a new DWORD by right clicking on the right hand side pane of the registry editor and selecting new>DWORD. Name it as “DisableTaskOffload”. Set its value to 0 to enable

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It’s maddening when someone is working on your PC and shuts down and shuts it down mistakenly or mischievously (whatever may be the case!) even after telling him/her a hundred times not to do so. Imagine if you can disable the shut down itself! (Off course, you can pull out the power plug though!) But if you really want to disable your shutdown in your PC, follow these steps:  Navigate to

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For those who wondering about what those different HKEY commands are and what do they hold in them, here is a short guide:HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT: All file types and their associationsHKEY_CURRENT_USER: Currently logged on User Account settingsHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE: Computer’s configuration information – both hardware and softwareHKEY_USERS: All User Account settings

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Do you hate to enter the details like serial number, user name, password, your screen resolution and other nitty gritties every time you install Windows XP on your machine? Do you wish you could stay back or may be take a small nap while your operating system installs all by itself, without any need of your intervention? That’s very much possible. All you have to do is create an answer file for

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In Windows xp and its successive operating systems, the icon labels blend with the wallpaper on the desktop i.e.you don’t see any background color behind the icon text but a drop shadow behind the text. This blending effect or drop shadow effect gives a pleasant visual appearance. But sometimes, after changing the background color of desktop, your icon labels show a background color behind them

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Firefox places a list of your visited urls in the history menu by default. You can prevent Firefox from saving your visited websites' names in the history drop down box by following these steps: Go to the partition where Firefox is installed (e.g. Local Disk C or Local Disk D). Browse to Document and Settings \ !user name! \ Application Data \ Mozilla \ Firefox \ Profiles \ 0e0oiola.default.

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Working with large files is a problem especially if you have to transfer them frequently over the internet using a slow internet connection. In MS Word XP, document files sometimes become too large in size. There is a simple and quick way to prevent this from happening. But first, let us try to understand why does this happen. Whenever you save a file in MS Word XP by pressing Ctrl+S, the program

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Windows xp has a very sophisticated hardware driver management system. Whenever you plug in any new hardware device, it automatically detects it and proceeds with the driver installation. But sometimes, it fails to identify some devices. In such a case, you have to manually install the drivers for that particular hardware device. Go to Start > Control Panel > Add Hardware, to start the add

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If you use an external dialup modem to connect to internet, you would have probably experienced a noise coming out of the modem while it tries to connect to internet. This noise can be very annoying at times. Usually, the default volume of this sound is set to maximum. If you want to disable or reduce the sound, follow these steps. Go to ‘start’ and open ‘control panel’. Click on ‘network and

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By default, the clock residing in the taskbar at the bottom of the screen in windows shows only time. But if you want it to show date and day as well, follow these steps: 1. Right click on the taskbar and uncheck the ‘lock the taskbar’ option. This will enable you to extend the taskbar vertically. 2. Keep the cursor at the upper edge of the taskbar and drag it vertically upwards so that it

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Almost all of the optical drives come with a 3.5mm headphone jack. It is used to get analog audio output. What we get from the audio card is digital output. Windows xp sets digital music playback as default playback option, that is why you do not get the audio output when you insert the headphone cable in the optical drive jack as it is meant for analog output only. If you want to hear the analog

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Headphones or Speakers usually come with a cable length of about 1m to 1.5m depending upon the brand. But for a lot of people, this length is not enough. It gets stretched whenever it is connected to pc. This ultimately leads to breaking of the cable and you have to buy a new one. You can prevent this by using a stereo audio extension cable. This cable has a 3.5mm stereo pin at one end and a

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When Windows xp does not shut down correctly due to sudden power failure or forceful shutdown by the user, it performs a check to make sure your hard disk is alright. This can be a bit annoying at times. Fortunately, there is a way to disable this autocheck.1.Go to start and click run. Type 'regedit' and hit enter.2.Go to 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE>SYSTEM>CurrentControlSet>Control>SessionManager'3.

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For those who were unaware of this, you can use your iPod as an external hard disk. In disk mode, you can transfer your data and use your iPod as a portable hard disk! By pressing a special combination of buttons you can activate disk mode without using iTunes. To do this,1. First of all, reset your ipod.2. When you see the apple logo, press back and forward(for first to third generation) until

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Does Windows forget the view settings of certain folders specified by you? Do your folders reset to some other view setting after you close  and reopen them?  this is a very annoying problem which can eat up a lot of time. This is caused  because Windows can remember the view settings of 200 local folders and network folders by default. If you increase this value, you can get rid of the problem.

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So you thought nothing in this world is free? Wrong! You can actually make free calls or send free text anywhere in the world by registering a free account at tabrio.com. You are allowed to call for free for some initial 30 minutes (depending upon your location) until your balance runs out. After that you have to recharge your account to continue using the service. When you create an account at

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If your audio or videos files are playing as though the fast forwarding is on, causing improper audio or video output, there is a very good chance that your drivers are not properly installed. Such problems usually arise when the audio or video drivers are installed before the chipset the driver. So, to fix this problem, you need to uninstall all the drivers and reinstall them in the correct

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The unmountable boot error message during booting windows xp occurs when your boot.ini file gets corrupt. To fix this problem, boot your pc with the windows xp installation CD and while the pc is booting, press the R key when your see the ‘welcome to setup’ screen to repair the windows xp installation. Type “chkdsk /f” in the dos prompt that appears and press enter. Now, windows will start

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Open notepad and type [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System]“DisableRegistryTools”=dword:00000001Save the file and change its extension from .txt to .reg. Now double click the file and click yes to the dialog box. Restart windows, and the registry editor should be enabled.

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If you want to change the sound played by windows xp for a particular event such as startup, shutdown, critical error etc. you can do that easily by defining sound the file which you want to be played. But remember, the file should be in a .wav format. You can also stop windows from playing that sound every time the event occurs. Go to the Control Panel Start > Settings > Control Panel Double

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Some times while working in DOS, you need to copy some text to other applications like MS Word. But you cannot directly copy your text by pressing Ctrl+C and paste it by Ctrl+V. The solution is as follows:"Start > Programs > Command Prompt > DOS"  Run the character mode program that you want to import data from, and go to the screen with the data you want to capture. Right click the title bar of

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If you have to turn your computer off and back on immediately, wait for some time, say about 30 seconds before turning it back on. That gives the drive (or drives, if you have more than one) plenty of time to finish spinning and park their heads before they get the wake-up jolt. Otherwise the heads could damage the drive surface. This may lead to loss of data or replacement of your drive(s).

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You can use these search techniques to search more efficiently on Google.link:url Shows other pages with links to that url.related:url same as "what's related" on serps.site:domain restricts search results to the given domain.allinurl: shows only pages with all terms in the url.inurl: like allinurl, but only for the next query word.allintitle: shows only results with terms in title.intitle:

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Windows xp balloon tips can be very annoying at times. There is a way to turn them off. Go to Start > Run.Type Regedit and hit enter.Navigate to ‘HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrrentVersion/Explorer’In the right pane, right click and click new click DWORD. Name the new entry as ‘EnableBalloonTips’ and assign it a value of ‘0’. There you go, no more annoying balloon tips.

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ClearType is a method used by xp to smooth the onscreen fonts. This feature is quite beneficial for flat screen or TFT monitors. To turn on ClearType, right click on the desktop and click on properties.Select the appearance tab and click on effects button at the bottom of the menu.Select the ClearType option from the dropdown of the ‘use this method to smooth the edges of onscreen fonts.’Click ok

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Windows has a small inbuilt chat program which is not accessible easily. To open it, simple go to start > run. Type winchat and hit enter.

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When you copy any text, image or take a screen shot of the screen this data gets automatically in a program called clipboard. You may have come across messages by some applications asking you to leave or clear the data stored in clipboard. This is where your copied date is stored temporarily. To view the saved data in clipboard, open the run dialog box by clicking start > run. Type clipbrd and

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In windows xp, when an application crashes, you press Ctrl+Alt+Del to bring up the Task Manager to close the non responding program manually by pressing the end task button. But the application does not end immediately but takes some time to do so. You can actually reduce this time by making a registry tweak. To do this, click on start menu and click run to open the run dialog box.In the run

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When you take pictures in landscape mode from your camera and then transfer them to pc, you have to manually turn them clockwise or anticlockwise. This takes up a lot of time. To fix it, select the photos that you want to turn by holding the ctrl key, and right click on any one of the selected files and click rotate clockwise or rotate counterclockwise as per the requirement. There you go…all in

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You can use any image as a watermark in your documents, which will appear on every page’s header or footer. To do this, click on View > Header and Footer.Header and Footer toolbar appears.Now click on Insert > Picture > From File and select the image file you want as watermark for the browse menuClick the close button on the header and footer toolbar to confirm.

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When you open a file in MS Word, it keeps a track of it and displays it in the list of recently opened files in the file menu. But, by default Word displays only the last 4 opened files. To increase the number files shown in the list of of recently opened documents, Go to Tools > Options.From the resulting menu, select the General tab, notice the option ‘Recently used file list’ change the

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To insert dummy text quickly in MS Word 2003, simply type =rand(m,n) and press enter, where ‘m’ is the number of paragraphs and ‘n’ is the number of sentences per paragraph. This trick is useful if you want to print a test page.e.g. if you want to print a dummy text containing 5 number of paragraphs and 6 number of sentences per paragraph type =rand(5,6)

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If you want to add the numbers in cells A1 to A3, type the numbers in cells A1 to A3, then select the blank cell A4 and type =A1+A2+A3 and hit enter. You can use this technique to add as many cell as you like. But if want a still easier way to do this, then select the cell where you want the sum of cells to be displayed and click on the autosum button and press enter.

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It is a very time consuming practice to enter all the months or days or any other sequential data in adjacent rows or columns one by one. To reduce this effort, just follow these steps.Type the first entryPlace your cursor at the bottom right corner of the cellWhen the cursor transforms into a thin black + sign, press the left mouse key and drag it to across the rows or columns according to your

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The office online side bar can be very annoying at times when you open Microsoft Word 2003. To disable it,Press F1 to open Word HelpClick on Online Content Settings…Uncheck the checkbox next to show contents and links from Microsoft Office Online.Click OK.

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Sometimes clicking on start menu, then clicking on shutdown button and then clicking on shutdown or restart button seems a long method to shutdown or restart your pc. If you want to create your own shutdown or restart you can do it this way:Right click on desktop > click on new > click on shortcutType shutdown > hit enterHit enter again.You have your new shutdown icon on the desktop ready to be

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How to show your photos as screen saverRight click on desktop and click on propertiesSelect the screen savers tab and select the My Pictures Slideshow from the dropdown menu.It will show slideshow of your pictures saved in my pictures folder in my documents.If you want to specify some other folder containing your pics, click on the settings tab, and click on the browse button. Browse for the

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By default, windows xp installs all the new applications to the directory c:\Program Files.If you want to change the location of installing new applications, Go to start > runType regedit and hit okGo to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersionYou will find a number of values there. Double click on the ‘ProgramFilesDir.’Type the new location where you want to install your new

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It is better to change the location of my documents in order to prevent all your important documents in case of a system crash. By default, the My Documents folder is saved in the hard disk partition containing the operating system. So, if your windows xp installation goes bad, and formatting the system partition is the only way, you would lose your My Documents folder too. To prevent this, you

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To show the file extensions of all your files,Go to control panel and double click on folder optionsSelect the view tab and uncheck the ‘hide extensions of known file types’ checkboxClick ok

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You don’t need to go to any specific lyric site and then search for your favorite song’s lyrics there. There is a quicker method you can use. To search any songs lyrics just type the songs name followed by : (colon)e.g. to search for the lyrics of the song ‘In The End’ just type, in the end: lyrics

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Click tools > internet optionsSelect the connections tab and click on LAN settingsCheck the checkbox for ‘use a proxy server for your LAN’ and enter the proxy and the port in the next box.

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You can make your mouse cursor’s movement more precise and smooth.Open Control PanelDouble click on mouse iconSelect the hardware tab and click on propertiesSelect the advanced settings tab and increase the sample rate to its maximum valueAlso increase the input buffer length to its maximum valueClick okAgain click ok and finally restart your pcYou will notice the change in your mouse’s

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This is a very cool trick. It makes the text below any icon or folder disappear. So what you see is only the icon and not its label. To do this,Right click on the icon > renameHold down the Alt key and rename the file as 255.Click enter.There you go, no text beneath!This trick works only if you enter the number 255 using the keypad on the right of the keyboard, and not the number keys provided at

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If you have some of your files that you don’t want others to open, you can protect them by assigning a password to them. This way, every time anyone tries to access it, he/she will be prompted to enter the password.To make your file private, just right click on it > send to > compressed folderWindows asks you whether to designate compressed folders as the application for handling zip files.

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Here is a guide if you want to change your IP address easily. But remember that it changes your dynamic IP only, not the static IP. To do this,Go to Start menu > run.Type command and hit enter. A DOS window opens up.Type "ipconfig /release" and hit enterType exit to close the windowNow go to control panel > Network ConnectionsRight click on Local Area Connection and click on properties.Double

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If you want to find the meaning of a particular word you can do so easily by using google. Type ‘define:’ followed by the the word whose meaning you want to find. Google returns a list of meanings and definitions of the particular word in different contexts. e.g. define:exotic

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You can create your own custom shapes in photoshop and use them anywhere. To do this, just select the pen tool and draw the shape you want to set as a custom shape. When you are done with drawing the shape, use the path selection tool and select it. Right click on it and click define custom shape. Type the name of your shape and click ok.Select the pen tool and click on the custom shapes tool on

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You can automatically start your pc on its own to run a particular application. To do this go to control panel > scheduled tasksJust drag and drop the shortcut of the application that you want to run automatically when your pc starts. Double click on this new task, select the settings tab and check the ‘wake the computer to run this task’ check box.Click the schedule tab and specify the time when

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If your mouse isn’t working alright, you can always turn to your good old keyboard for help. Given below is a list of the keyboard short cuts that you can use.CTRL+C (Copy)CTRL+X (Cut)CTRL+V (Paste)CTRL+Z (Undo)DELETE (Delete)SHIFT+DELETE (Delete the selected item permanently without placing the item in the Recycle Bin)CTRL while dragging an item (Copy the selected item)CTRL+SHIFT while dragging

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If you are tired of seeing the same old windows tips and want to add your own tips, or jokes or anything, you can do that.Click on start>runType regedit.Select HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE> SOFTWARE> Microsoft> Windows> CurrentVersion> Explorer> TipsHere you will find all the available tips. To add your own tips, just right click to add new> string value. Observe the existing string value numbers and name

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If you use a broadband connection to connect to the internet then these tweaks will surely speed up your firefox browser. But if you use a dial up connection, I don’t think you will notice any change.Open Firefox and type about:config in the address bar. This will bring up a menu with a large number of parameters having their preset values. You are supposed to change the following parameters and

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The error reporting feature of windows xp can be quite irritating at times. If you want to turn error reporting off, follow this procedure.•Right Click on My Computer, click on Properties.• Then click on the Advanced tab• Click on the error reporting button.• Select Disable error reporting.• Click OK• Click OK again

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