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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.