Step by step procedure to Enable Remote Desktop

Step 1. Right-click Computer in the Start menu and then select Properties.
Step 2. Click Remote settings in the Tasks list on the left side of the System window.
Step 3. Select Allow connections from computers running any version of Remote Desktop if computers connecting to it will only be from within a local network or are running versions of Windows other than 7 or Vista.

Note: Here select Allow connections only from computers running Remote Desktop with Network Level Authentication if computers connecting to it will connect from the internet or all computers connecting will be Windows 7/Vista.

Step 4. Click OK to save your changes.

Note: If you’re using the Windows Vista firewall, Remote Desktop will automatically be allowed through it. If you’re using another firewall, you’ll need to open port 3389 to allow Remote Desktop connections.

Selecting Remote Desktop Users

If you have a user account(s) that do not have administrative credentials and you want to use to log in when connecting with Remote Desktop, follow these instructions.

Note: All user accounts with administrative rights are automatically allowed to log in using Remote Desktop.

1. Open the Remote tab in the System Properties window (see instructions above).

2. Click the Select Users button in the Remote tab of the System Properties window.

3. Click Add in the Remote Desktop Users window.

4. Click the Advanced button in the Select Users window.

5. Click the Find Now button.

6. Select the user you want to add to the list of users able to log in with Remote Desktop and then click OK.

7. Click OK in the Select Users window.

Note: Make sure the user you’ve just added is in the object names box.

8. Click OK in the Remote Desktop Users window.

9. Click OK in the System Properties window.

Description of Svchost.exe in Windows XP

Each instance of svchost.exe process seen in the Task Manager hosts a group of services. To see the list of services hosted by each instance of svchost.exe, you may use the Tasklist.exe console utility available in Windows XP Professional Edition.
Click Start, Run and type CMD.EXE
Type tasklist /svc >c:\taskList.txt
The taskList.txt will contain the list of Processes, their Process IDs and the Services running under each Process

Tips n Tricks

Windows Xp: Speed Up Your, Speed Up Your Network and Internet Access

I have a dial up connection and it improve my speeds about 25% in surfing the internet. give it a try. Im IT , only do it if you feel comfortable with changing registry.

Increasing network browsing speed

Does your computer slow down when you browse your local area network and connect to other computers that are sharing data? One of the most common causes of this slowdown is a feature of Windows Explorer that looks for scheduled tasks on remote computers. This effort can take some time on some computers and can really slow down your browsing. The window with which you are browsing the network may appear to freeze momentarily, as the system is waiting for a response from the remote computer.

Windows XP: Speeding Disk Access

Although this problem is a complex one, the solution is very simple. Instead of having to wait for the remote scheduled tasks, which is useless information to anyone who is not a system administrator remotely configuring scheduled tasks, you can disable this feature.

In order to do this, you will have to change the System Registry and delete a reference to a key so that this feature will not be loaded. To do this, follow these steps:

1. Open up the Registry Editor by clicking the Start Menu and selecting Run. Then type regedit in the text box and click the OK button.

2. Once the Registry Editor has loaded, expand the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE key.

3. Next, expand Software and then Microsoft.

4. Locate Windows and expand that as well.

5. You will want to be editing the main system files, so expand CurrentVersion.

6. Because this feature is a feature of the Windows component known as Explorer, expand the Explorer key.

7. Next, you will want to modify the remote computer settings, so expand the RemoteComputer key and then expand the NameSpace key to show all of the features that are enabled when you browse to a remote computer.

8. In the NameSpace folder you will find two entries. One is "{2227A280-3AEA-1069-A2DE-08002B30309D}" which tells Explorer to show printers shared on the remote machine. The other, "{D6277990-4C6A-11CF-8D87-00AA0060F5BF}," tells Explorer to show remote scheduled tasks. This is the one that you should delete. This can be done by right-clicking the name of the key and selecting Delete.

Tip:
If you have no use for viewing remote shared printers and are really only interested in shared files, consider deleting the printers key, "{2227A280-3AEA-1069-A2DE-08002B30309D}", as well. This will also boost your browsing speed.

Once you have deleted the key, you just need to restart and the changes will be in effect. Now your network computer browsing will be without needless delays.

Amazing

Fix ie slowdown and hangs
1)open command prompt

2)exit ie and explorer from the task manager(i.e ctrl+alt+del/task manager/process/end process for each

3)use the following command exactly as to remove the hangs from ie explorer,type in cmd

c:\>del "%systemdrive%\document and settings\%username%\local settings\temporary internet files\content ie.5\index.dat"

4)restart the explorer or shutdown your system and restar again.

New Age Of OS(Operating System)-->WINDOWS 7

Ever since Microsoft announced its new windows called windows 7,it has made a life in the world of operating systems.The new operating system was not launched fully officially but was given by Microsoft to only few who downloaded form them they were given the license for some months.But the review made by those people got a good response to Microsoft.The official date for its release is to be at 7th January 2010.The beta version has been already released by them as i have stated earlier.You might be waiting for the this new windows which will be having more features than their pre-released windows vista OS.The new OS has many new features for your fast computing and speed up your performance and pc experience.Here I will list out the features of windows 7 to get you know about the new operating systems.I have got the mixed response from my friends as they used windows they liked the new concept,personally my view about it is also good,you must wait for it and make sure to have experiened the new windows.My newer Posts will be on the new wonders of operating system:windows Se7en.

Change XP Start Button

Change the Start text

1. First of all, make sure you download Resource Hacker. You'll need this puppy to edit resources inside your Windows shell.

2. Locate explorer.exe in your c:\Windows directory. Make a copy of the file in the same directory and rename it explorer.bak.

3. Now launch Resource Hacker. In the File menu, open explorer.exe. You'll now see a bunch of collapsed folders.

4. Expand the String Table folder and then find folder No. 37 (folder No. 38 if you're in Windows Classic mode).

5. Click on resource 1033 and locate the text that says "Start." This is your Start button, and now you've got control over what it says! Change the "Start" text to your text of choice. You don't have a character limit, but the text takes up valuable taskbar space, so don't make it too long.

6. Click on the button labeled Compile Script. This updates the settings for your Start button. But nothing will happen until you complete through step #20, so keep going!

Change your hover text

7. While you're here, why not also change the text that pops up when your mouse hovers over your Start button?

8. Right now it says "Click here to begin." Well, duh! We already know that's where to begin!

9. Open folder No. 34 and click on resource 1033.

10. Find the text that says "Click here to begin" and change it to something cooler. Might I suggest "Click here for a good time, baby."

11. Click on the Compile Script button to update this resource.

Customize your Start icon

12. For an added bonus, you can also change the Windows icon to the left of the text, too.

13. Collapse the String Table folder and expand the Bitmap folder at the top of your folder list.

14. Click on folder No. 143 and click on resource 1033. You should see that familiar Windows icon.

15. Go to the Action Menu and select "Replace bitmap." Select "Open file with new bitmap", and locate the replacement image on your machine. Note: The image must have a .bmp extension and a size of 25 pixels by 20 pixels. Then click the Replace button.

Here's the image I've been using instead of the Windows icon, in case you want to use it.

16. Now that you've made your changes, save the file in your Windows folder with another name, such as newstartbutton.exe. Don't name it Explorer.exe, because that file is already being used by your system. Close all open programs and restart your system.

17. Boot into Safe Mode With Command Prompt by pressing F8 on startup. Then choose Safe Mode in the command prompt.

18. Log on as administrator and enter your password.

19. When the command prompt comes up, make sure you're in the right directory by typing "cd c:\windows" (without the quotes).

20. Now type "copy c:\windows\newstartbutton.exe c:\windows\explorer.exe" (no quotes). Type "yes" (no quotes) to overwrite the existing file, then restart your system by typing "shutdown -r" (no quotes).

When Windows relaunches, you'll see your new Start button in all its glory!

Increase Internet SPeed by 20%

Microsoft reserves 20% of your available bandwidth for their own purposes like Windows Updates and interrogating your PC etc. Don't you want to get it back for your self? Here is the trick how to get 100% of your available bandwidth.
Increase internet speed :ugeek:

To get it back:
Click Start then Run and type "gpedit.msc" without quotes.

This opens the "group policy editor" and go to: "Local Computer Policy"

Then "Computer Configuration" Then "Administrative Templates"

Then select "Network" then "QOS Packet Scheduler"

After that select "Limit Reservable Bandwidth".
Double click on Limit Reservable bandwidth. It will say it is not configured, but the truth is under the 'Explain' tab i.e." By default, the Packet Scheduler limits the system to 20 percent of the bandwidth of a connection, but you can use this setting to override the default."
So the trick is to ENABLE reservable bandwidth, then set it to ZERO. This will allow the system to reserve nothing, rather than the default 20

Move Around Your System Faster..

One question I get asked a lot in my field is how do I move around so fast on the PC. Without meaning to, I seem to make people feel like they are moving in slow motion when I am opening, closing, copying, pasting, etc.

To be honest, I can type very quickly. But in addition, I know a lot of shortcut keys for the common applications we use. This comes from my time as a bench tech many years ago. In the days of serial and bus mice, we didn’t always have users bring in their mice for their system when they dropped them off. Sometimes we had a spare mouse, but now always. So we went to plan B. Keyboard commands.

I have decided that not only are they helpful for IT staff that can be in a hurry and dragging the mouse around does slow us down sometimes. But it can make users that have to do a lot of these common functions over and over again more efficient. Isn’t that the point of computers? I am including an overall common Office products PDF also a seperate on for each: Excel, Outlook and Word. I have even put together some helpful key commands for Windows. These are not all inclusive, and if you know of anymore that you use, please let me know.

Free PDF Writer

By now, most everyone has noticed that PDF files have become the prevailing format for secure and reliable distribution of electronic documents.

So how do you, the normal person, create these handy files without paying an arm and a leg? I have found a great and easy answer. CutePDF writer. I admit, it’s not as full featured as the pay version by Adobe, but for the savings, I can do without those features anyways.

Like with the MS Office products, it appears that the more you pay for the program, the more “features” you will never use in your life. I know someone somewhere would have a use for them, but at least for me, they just slow me down and make the product cost more then it’s worth.

I personally like the way CutePDF works, no interface to deal with, no configuration. Install and go. I like plain and simple.

When you get the product installed, to create a PDF all you have to do is print. That’s all. You have a webpage (I know this one is at the top of your list) that you want to convert, go to file print and select the CutePDF Printer. You can use this converter for any application you can print from. For the price you can’t beat it.

How Hot Is ur laptop..

How many readers have a laptop? I would say alot, they are much cheaper and much more functional then the laptops of the old days. Some are almost as cheap as a desktop. That coupled with how easy a wireless network is to set up and how many public area offer free WiFi for on the road, makes a laptop a good investment now a days.

But have you tried to ever sit with one on your lap sometimes? Well imagine the temperature inside the case and imaging what it is doing to your CPU(s).

For those that may not be aware of what high temperatures can do, it cause cause hardware problems or even cause software to freeze up and crash.

To see the CPU temperature, there is a few free programs out there. The first is Real Temp. It is a small download that you install and bam you see the temp of your Intel processor(s). It does show a lot of information, but for most users you will need only the minimum and maximum temp, the current CPU load, and the thermal indicators. Another I have used in the past is SpeedFan. I personally like SpeedFan better, I find it gives better information as well as information concerning S.M.A.R.T. hard drives.

For Macs, though I can test it, there is a utility for Mac OSX – smcFanControl2. If you are a Mac user and try this, please let me know how it works.

For the heat to your legs, I recommend getting a laptop cushion you can find almost anywhere, or I have a belkin base that actually has a fan that runs cold air up at the bottom of your laptop to cool it down. My base usually drops the CPU temp about 5-6 degrees Celsius. I highly recommend looking for one.