It sometimes gets to my head that you will be working the same computer day and day through. Maybe changes in the inside might give us temporary pleasure but what about changes outside? Well, Mr.H showed that it too can be dealth with. Introducing, the Wintendo (or the NintendoWindo XP)!

Mr.H has replaced the guts of the original Nitendo Wii with that of the usual in-CPU junk. The config is that of a normal mediocre computer: Celeron Core processor, 512 MB RAM and 40GB HDD. As Nintendo Wii console consists of less fat than a computer, the DVD drive simply had to be blown into oblivion. The ports include the DVI and the USB.

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.

After quite sometime your Windows Xp normally tend to become slow. Mostly due to miscellaneous services that get installed with time, making your PC slow. But there is a cool registry trick that makes shutting down a breeze.

Did you know that Windows XP keeps a couple of values in its registry which determines how long to wait before shutting down open applications and services once the shutdown command has been given . All you need to change those values, here how its done.

Step 1

1. Open regedit and goto ‘HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\’
2. Select the ‘WaitToKillAppTimeout’ value.

Actually this is a very simple tutorial to display background images for explorer toolbars. It might not a high profile trick, yet still you’d love the fun part. Scroll below to know how its done.

1. First navigate to ‘ HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar

2. Now create a new String Value by right-clicking in the right hand pane and selecting New > String

3. Name it “BackBitmapShell”.

4. Double-click on it and enter the path of the image you want to use as background image.

Note: Make sure the image that you gono insert is in .bmp format(bitmap).

You might have encounter Windows completely freezing not letting you even open the start menu to restart. Doing a hard reset isn’t good for your PC components especially the hard drive. Here’s how you could restart your PC without having to do severe damage to your PC.

You can bring up Task Manager using the following keys:

• Hit Ctrl+Alt+Del and click on Task Manager
• Hit Ctrl+Shift+Esc to bring up Task Manager

Once the Task Manager pops up, you could either restart or shutdown a hung process from the process list, or you could click on Shutdown> Restart to restart the computer.

Ever wondered if its possible to hide a particular disk drive (disk partition) that houses your important documents that you don’t want to expose. Hell…yeah! you can hide them. Windows Xp has a simple utility that does just that.

1. Go to Start > Run > Type “diskpart”
2. after a command prompt window comes type in “list volume“.
3. Now for example you wanna hide C, then type “select volume 2“
4. Now type “remove letter C” (most cases it works instantly, but sometimes restart may be required)

Do you know that a hidden option allows using “Command prompt” when you right click on a directory via the menu rather then running it from RUN.

Here’s is a cool registry trick that gets its going. But make sure you backup your registry before embarking on it. I’ll show you how it’s done step by step. But you can always use the ready made reg file at the bottom.

Step-By-Step Method:

Type regedit.exe into the Start\Run dialog, and then navigate to the following registry key:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell

Now right click on “shell” and choose the New Key option: