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The internet is full of eye pleasing beautiful pictures. While surfing the amazing world of internet, if you hit upon a picture you particularly like, such as the following image of the Britney Spears, you can make it your desktop background, so that you can see it whenever you use your computer.

You can slipstream latest service pack for Windows XP x86 (32-bit), which is SP3, on the Windows CD itself. The benefit of slipstreaming is that you do not have to separately install it after installing Windows. When you install fresh copy of Windows XP, the SP3 would be installed by itself.

Sometimes you have to rename multiple files in such a away that they all follow same pattern in the file name. For example, files named like TRISH.JPG, TRISH(1).JPG, TRISH(2).JPG and so on. To do you have to follow the given procedure.

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.

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.

After Windows XP boots up to the Welcome Screen or the Logon Screen for a user to log on to the Windows desktop, there may be a message on the Logon Welcome page that the user has certain number of unread mail messages, together with the email address of the account. You can disable it if you want to.

Windows XP has a built in encryption feature so that you can encrypt any file or folder. This feature is only available if your hard disk is NTFS formatted. If you have installed XP on a FAT32 formatted hard disk then you will not be able to use this feature.

If your computer hardware supports hibernation feature of Windows XP (most modern computers support hibernation), then you can enable or disable hibernation support in Windows XP.

The indexing service is set to run automatically by default. It iterates through all the folders and makes an database of contents and properties of files continuously for using in the Windows search later. You may notice heavy hard disk activity and CPU might get heavy load because of this. This article tells you how you can disable it.