Category: Windows XP

When Windows starts the first thing you see is the welcome screen, which gives you options to logon into Windows. This is the screen at which you have to select a user and enter username and password. You can disable this welcome screen and choose to have classic logon dialog.

If you want to hide your secret documents in a folder, you can put them in a folder and set its attributes to hidden. This would hide the folder, including all the subfolders and files in it. However this is a very basic method of hiding files.

In windows explorer, when you choose to view a folder in the Thumbnail or Filmstrip mode, it creates a file Thumbs.db in that folder. This file stores all the thumbnails generated in the folder, so that next time when you open the same folder, Windows do not have to generate thumbnails all over again. This saves CPU power and as Windows do no have generate thumbnails again, opening the same folder would be faster the next time.

If you want to open a command prompt it always opens with path as current user’s documents folder. You can add a right-click shortcut to open the command prompt in any folder you want.

Windows XP Control Panel has a basic user management tool. But you can add an advanced user management tool too. This tool is usually accessible through command line userpasswords2.