Each time after Windows XP boots up to Welcome Screen or Logon Screen for user to log on to Windows desktop, you’ll find a message under you user id that you have certain number of unread mail messages. This problem is only associated with users who starts to use Microsoft’s related email clients or services, such as Microsoft Outlook and Windows Live Hotmail.

It’s pretty useless and something annoying to display the number, besides its a little too un-private as it also display user’s email address together. Its quite easy way to fix it.

After Windows Vista came out, lot of programmers tried to port the visual styles to Windows XP and many have succeeded it that. One special add-in is the Vista-style breadcrumbs for Windows XP. Especially handy for those who wanna get some Vista looks without switching over to Windows Vista for the time being.

QT Address Bar is simple application, just unzip it to a location of your choice and then double click on the QTAddressBar.exe file.

Select the Install option, and then click the Next button to register the component with Windows.

 Its practically annoying after few times of having to close the pop-up windows asking what to do each time you insert a external drive or some kinda CD media. However, the pop-up window can he disabled. Here is how to disable the autoplay pop-up window for USB drives and CD’s:

Go to your Windows Start button and navigate to RUN…now type in

 Gpedit.msc and click OK

A Windows Group Policy window will pop up. This is where you configure the pop-up window setting.

Click the Administrative Templates folder, then click the System folder.

Today Raymond discovered a secret Kaspersky promotion campaign that will allow you Get Free 1 Year Kaspersky Anti Virus Genuine License.

Catch is that you’ll need to register as a member at the China Kaspersky forum. Only if you are a linguistic or a smart ass, their is no way to figure it out whats these blocks and hats mean :) .

You can use the Google Translate or AltaVista Babel Fish Translation to translate the page for us to easily register as a member. But if aren’t in the mood to use some robot to translate it, below I’ll show you how its done.!

If you are already using Google or Yahoo Toolbar you probably won’t want to use the built-in search box in Internet Explorer 7. There’s a quick registry fix that you can do to enable / disable this.

Open up Notepad and copy the following and save it to something “IE7_NoSearchBar.reg”. Then merge it into the registry by double clicking it.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Infodelivery\Restrictions]
“NoSearchBox”=dword:00000001

To disable copy this following code and save. After that merge it to the registry.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Infodelivery\Restrictions]
“NoSearchBox”=dword:00000000

To me restarting my PC is one of the most annoying thing that I come across daily. Besides Vista takes up around one to two minutes to boot up sometimes. Even Windows XP slowly crawls at around a minute to load. Most of the time this happens due to myself frequently installing things that i shouldn’t and end up trashing the PC which results in a restart. Ofcourse there is a trick involving tricking the PC do a “warm reboot,” rather than a “cold boot.” The trick involves holding down the SHIFT key when invoking the restart.

 Most of us are accustomed to using Internet Explorer and i’m sure you’d probably fed up of the download restrictions of only 2 files from the same website. The reason of-course is the lame HTTP 1.1 spec that says only two connections may be allowed at a time so your browser just have to wait for the previous downloads to complete.

With a simple registry hack you can supercharge IE to download more then 2 files.

Manual Registry Hack

Open regedit.exe through the start menu search or run box, and then browse down to the following key: