On Windows Vista Home Premium edition, how to format a USB drive to NTFS?
Can probably be done by the command “format”. Need to study its options.
How to set a app so it runs only single process? (⁖ like Windows Mail, games, Second Life.)
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How to remove a menu item apps added to Explorer? For example, i want to remove the contextual menu “Add to Windows media player list”.
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How to add my own contextual menu item?
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How to make a app auto start when the machine starts?
Open the folder at 〔C:\Users\xah\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup〕. Then, create a link to the app in that folder.
How to stop some background process that starts Windows starts?
Press 【Win+r】 to start the run dialog, then type “msconfig” to launch System Configuration.
What are some standard log files? In particular, when Windows froze or crash, where can i check logs?
Start Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Computer Management tool, then System Tools, Event Viewer.
When in a browser, i drag a image to a folder to save it. However, when the folder already has the image of the same name, Windows pops up a dialogue asking you whether to over-write it. Is there a way to just have Windows save the file with a new name with number appended? (⁖ like OS X.)
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Is there a page that lists all control panel apps with their command line program names?
Todo. Here's a temp list to be added as i go:
How to disable the contextual menu for drives in SendTo in Explorer?
Type 【Win+r】 to launch the run dialog. Then, type 「regedit.exe」 to launch the registry edit. Then, go to this location 〔HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer〕. If it doesn't exist, create it under the menu 〖Edit ▸ New ▸ Key〗. Then, create a DWORD value by the menu 〖Edit ▸ New ▸ DWORD〗. Then, double click the value and enter the value of “1”. Now, exit the registry edit then relog into your account.
When pressing 【Ctrl+Alt+f】, it starts Microsoft File Transfer Manager. How to disable this key?
When opening a Windows help file (.chm) downloaded from the web, Vista will popup a dialog saying that this is a potential security risk. You can open it anyway by just clicking the Open button. I want to open the file, however, the source is not a trusted source. Is there a way to check if the file actually contains malware code before i open? Or, can i set somewher to turn off scripting when launching chm file?
The following info does not answer my question.
See: Viewing Downloaded CHM Files by Rob Caron http://blogs.msdn.com/robcaron/archive/2005/06/23/431976.aspx.
MS05-026: A vulnerability in HTML Help could allow remote code execution http://support.microsoft.com/kb/896358/
Security Update for HTML Help released today by Assistance Platform Team Blog. http://blogs.msdn.com/apblog/archive/2005/06/14/429122.aspx
Often, Vista has these strings:
S-1-5-21-1677906968-2349816792-3240826983-1000 S-1-5-21-1677906968-2349816792-3240826983-500 S-1-5-21-2052964817-3031232471-2881579612-1000 S-1-5-21-2916703103-2250467028-1779095260-500
the above are dir names showing up in 〔c:/$Recycle.Bin:〕. Sometimes i see similar string when viewing a file's property under security Tab as users, lasting for a second or 2. What are these?
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