Restict PC Shutdown

Both Vista and Windows XP let you take control of preventing a user not to shutdown the machine by editing the group policy. For example if your friend is using your computer and you went somewhere ( and you have still some unsaved document left) and he shutdowns the pc without saving them…you loose a good amount of data. ( Trust me I have lost one whole blog post and project code at same time ). This is what you can do

Here are the steps to Restrict PC Shutdown...

* Type gpedit.msc in run dialog box [ WIN KEY + R ]

* This will open Group Policy Editor. Now there are two things in it, Computer Configuration and User Configuration

* Click on User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Start Menu and Task Bar

* Now look for “remove and prevent access to shutdown command”

* Double Click and Enable it.

* Exit the group policy editor.

This setting removes the Shut Down option from the Start menu and disables the Shut Down button on the Windows Security dialog box, which appears when you press CTRL+ALT+DEL. This setting prevents users from using the Windows user interface to shut down the system.

Now if you try to shutdown by clicking on start , the shutdown button must have disappeared. Moreover check the task manager and you will find all shutdown,restart and others disabled except switch user.

Change Startup / Shutdown in Windows XP

Have you ever felt bugged-up with the Start-up and Shutdown jingle of your Windows XP or Vista ? If yes, here is the solution, now you use any of your favorite voice or music or dialogue as your PC’s shutdown and start up.

It’s a simple 4 step process.

Step 1.

Choose the track which you want to play at start-up and shutdown jingles,

Limitations are...

Remove Arrow from Windows Xp/Vista,

here is a very simple registry trick to remove the arrow from the shortcuts in windows vista.

the steps are...

1. Type “regedit.exe” in the search box without double quotes. and  then,

Virtual memory using pendrive in xp/vista

> Insert Pen Drive (1GB atleast) in the USB port
(try to USE 4GB.)
> Let the PC detect it..

> After it finished his work, you HAVE TO DO THESE THINGS

Vista Gadgets

The new sidebar in Windows Vista provides many opportunities to present the user with information.

These are few gadgets which will be very useful to all you can place it in slidebar


1. Battery Meter Gadget




Monitor the battery level of your laptop with this gadget.


 (and much more...)

Increase Disk Space in Vista

One thing that Microsoft has improved upon over the other Windows releases are Vista's backup features
that are incorporated in to System Restore.
The backup features are turned on by default so with all of the automatic backing up Vista does, it won't take long to lose quite a bit of disk space.
It may not be a bad idea to go in and delete the old backup files and restore points to increase your available disk space.

this task is very simple one.

steps to do it:

> Go to Start
> In the Instant Search text box, type: disk cleanup then,