Remove the Internet Options tabs for Security, Connections and Advanced

If you don’t want others to access your Internet Options and change your settings, You can remove the Security, Connections and Advanced tabs from the Internet Options dialog box. It’s a commonly used trick in public libraries and some internet cafe’s to prevent people from exploiting the payment-systems and use the internet for free. To […]

How to Add Copy to / Move to To The Right-Click Context Menu

Here is an extremely useful registry hack for windows XP and Vista, which adds "Copy to folder" and "Move to folder" to the right-click context menu of every file and folder. When you select, say, "Copy to folder," you’ll get an Explorer-style menu where you can navigate and choose the destination folder where the contents […]

How to Turn Off Admin Shares of Your Drives

By default, Windows shares your all drives (C: shared as C$, D: as D$ and so on) so that you can access them over the network using your administrator password. However, if you’re the paranoid kind or need to share your admin password with your colleagues from time to time, you might want to turn […]

How to Suppress Error Messages when Booting

This hack will suppress all pop-ups informing you that a device is not working or is causing an error. You might want to temporarily apply this edit if you know that a certain device isn’t working, and you don’t want to keep getting reminded. Navigate to: HLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Windows Change the value of the DWORD called NoPopupsOnBoot […]

Add “Reboot Into Safe Mode” To Your Start Menu

Safe Mode is an excellent feature in Windows XP which is not used much. But it serves great to perform repairs and other operations which may crash the system. Generally the safe mode can be accessed through BIOS. Now. we can add “Boot into Safe Mode” in your start menu. To do this you require […]