Category: Windows XP

If you are an administrator and want to control access of various users to a file or folder then there is no better way other than doing it through the command line. In Windows XP, you can control access of users through the command line cacls.

When you delete files and folders in Windows, they are moved to the Recycle Bin. There you can choose to restore them or delete them permanently. But you can bypass the Recycle Bin and delete files permanently using this setting in Recycle Bin.

Sometimes when you try to delete a folder, you get an error : Access Denied. This may be because you do not have proper permissions on that folder or file. But you easily take ownership of a file or folder.

Windows XP and Vista provide a command line tools taskkill and tasklist to list and kill any running process. Using this, you can kill a process using image path or pid etc. This article shows you how you can use this tool.

There are times when a program freezes and hangs up. It wont respond to any mouse clicks or keyboard. Then you can terminate that program using Windows Task Manager.

System files in Windows XP may get corrupted because of many reasons like a virus attack, improper Windows shutdown etc. Windows XP has a System File Checker tool (known as SFC in short) which can check all the protected system files against the original versions stored on the Windows XP CD and replace them if it finds them altered or corrupted.

After installation of Windows XP, you need to activate it with Microsoft over the internet or the telephone. But you do not have to do so every time, you re-install Windows XP. You can backup Windows activation after you have activated Windows, and later use the backup to re-activate Windows after re-installation of Windows XP.

Most people know how to use Recovery Console after booting from a Windows XP CD. But few people know that you can install Recovery Console on your hard disk. When you do so, the option for booting into Recovery Console will appear when Windows XP starts.

Once you have installed Recovery Console, Windows gives you no option to uninstall it. There is no documentation on Microsoft’s web site either. The following procedure explains how to manually uninstall Recovery Console from the hard disk.