Login automatically in window XP

If your Windows XP installation forces you to login every time you reboot, Sometimes this seems very annoying especially when you are installing a bunch of software or testing out configurations. Now you can automate the login process easily so that you won't have to login again.

For security reasons, you would usually want to have a password, but for a home computer you may not care.

Here are steps to automate the login process in window XP :

1). Go to the Start menu, click Run, and type control userpasswords2.

2). Uncheck this box user must enter a user name and password to use this computer.

3 ). Click the OK button.

Its Done.

A password dialog will open for the currently logged in user. Now when you reboot your system, you will automatically be logged in.

Turn On/Off numlock on StartUp

Mostly keyboards have small numeric keypad which can also be used for some other functions like page up, page down. It also has 1 key known as numlock key when it is on, keypad used for numbers and when numlock is off, keypad used for other functions.
Windows turn off numlock key by default, so if you want to turn on numlock key by default on start up then now you can do it very easily. You have to do only some changes in registry. Just follow these steps:

1). Open run and Type Regedit and hit Enter.
2). Windows will ask for your permission to continue, click on continue.
3). Now in registry editor browse to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Keyboard\.
4). Now in the keyboard folder, you should have a string value named InitialKeyboardIndicators with a value of 0, 1, or 2.



5). Double-click on this string value InitialKeyboardIndicators and edit the value to what you want.
0: Num Lock is turned OFF on startup
1: Disable Num Lock
2: Num Lock is turned ON on startup
6). Click ok.
Its done.

Change Startup & Shutdown Sound - Cool Computer Tricks

Do you get tired of listening same windows startup and shutdown sound?? If yes, then this trick is for you. By using this you can change default windows startup and shutdown sound and can use any of your favorite voice or music as your system's shutdown and start up. Here are steps for this.

1). Choose the track or sound which you want to set as start-up and shutdown sound, But remember that file should be in .WAV format and size of file should not be large it should be smaller than 1 mb otherwise startup will take longer time.

If your file is not in .WAV format then you can easily convert it into .WAV by using jet audio or any other converter.

2). Rename these files as Windows Startup.WAV and Windows Shutdown.WAV respectively.

3). Now Go to C:\WINDOWS\MEDIA, here you will find file Windows Startup.WAV and Windows Shutdown.WAV, move them to some other locations, So tht you can set default sound again in future.

4). Now move files which you have choosen to C:\WINDOWS\MEDIA.

Its done.

Manage Your Startup Programs

Startup Programs are the Programs that runs automatically on windows logon. Microsoft leaves no way to clean up this list, but here is a way to manage them..

1. Open MSconfig and click on the startup items tab

2. Open Regedit and naviate to

HKLM/Software/Microsoft/Sharedtools/MSconfig/startupreg

3. Compare the list of registry keys under startup reg with their counterparts in

msconfig.

4. Delete the keys which are no longer valid.

5. You've cleaned up msconfig.