[Guide] How to remove solid background of desktop icons

Desktop icons with blue background color looks so bad and annoying. It makes desktop look tacky with lot of irritating blue color splashed on beautiful desktop wallpaper. You can easily remove this background color from desktop icons and make the background transparent.

It really sucks if you have a cool looking wallpaper as a background, but all your icons have large dark blue borders. Instead, if the text looks like it’s written right onto the wallpaper, the effect is much nicer.

Therefore here is the guide shown you how to get rid of those blue color background from desktop icons.

Guide
Step 1: First, may right click My Computer -> Propesties, or open the Control Panel and click on System.

Step 2: Now click on the Advanced tab and click on the Settings button under the Performance section.

Step 3: Finally, scroll down and check the Use drop shadows for icons labels on the desktop box.

That’s it! Now all of your desktop icons will have the blue backgrounds removed and will appear transparent.

Now doesn’t that look much better! Sure does to me!
Desktop icon background is set to transparent by default in Windows Vista and Windows 7, so you don’t have that problem in those operating systems. Enjoy!

Reference:
http://elechub.com/how-to-remove-blue-background-behind-desktop-icons/
http://helpdeskgeek.com/windows-xp-tips/desktop-icons-transparent-background/
http://itview.wordpress.com/2008/05/08/how-to-remove-the-background-color-of-the-desktop-icons/
http://www.techf5.com/827/remove-solid-background-color-from-desktop-icons/

[How] Get back Desktop Wallpaper from Old Profile

Have you struggler about how to get back the desktop wallpaper from your old profile if you don't know where is your actual picture is?

Do your user / customer want you get back the wallpaper from their old profile when doing profile migration or setup new profile?

Friends,
Here is a clue for you all.

In Win7, you may get the wallpaper from below this path:
%profile_path%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Themes\

In Themes folder, you will see a picture file named TranscodedWallpaper.jpg. Copy and paste into same folder location in new profile, and must be the same filename as TranscodedWallpaper.jpg.

Then logoff and login again, you will see the wallpaper changed. =)

Note: 
1) The folder or file might be hidden, please changing file attributes or view file option solved the problem
2) If there is ACCESS_DENIED event, please do check user permission. Better do it by using administrator account

How to reset domain administrator password

I have tested with this hack, able to use in Window server 2008 and Window Server 2008 R2 domain controller.
It is really helpful what if you have forgot your domain administrator password.

Here is the steps:

1. Boot onto DVD of Windows Server 2008
2. Choose “Repair your computer”
3. Launch cmd
4. Go to c:\windows\system32
5. Rename Utilman.exe to Utilman.exe.bak
6. Copy cmd.exe to Utilman.exe
7. Reboot on Windows
8. Do the keyboard shortcut Windows + U when on the logon screen
9. net user administrator Newpass123 inside the cmd
10. log on with the domain admin account and this new pass
11. change the password to remember it if needed
12. Reboot on the DVD to put back the original Utilman.exe

May also watch this video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ar-VoO9ogHc

Resource:

http://lordoftheping.blogspot.com/2009/05/i-did-not-use-my-tests-virtual-machines.html

[FIX] NTLDR is compressed

If you have compressed the hard disk drive using the Compress drive to save disk space option under the Properties menu for your hard disk drive and have performed a non-destructive recovery or a system recovery, the following error message may appear:

To solve this issue by following steps:

1. Insert the CD into your drive. Make sure your BIOS is set to try to boot to a CD first if you know how. Most systems already do this.
2. Reboot your PC.
3. When the message "Press any key to boot to CD..." appears, do so before this prompt disappears or else it will boot normally. Wait for all of the drivers to load.
4. The 'Welcome to Setup.' screen will appear. Choose the option that says "To repair a Windows XP Installation using Recovery Console, press R." by pressing the 'R' key.
5. A list of Windows XP installations on your computer appears. Typically, XP is installed in C:\WINDOWS or C:\WINNT. In most cases it will be the first or only option in the list. To select this, press the '1' key and then press 'Enter'. Pressing 'Enter' without typing a number will cause the program to quit.
6. Where it says 'Type the Administrator password:', enter the password. If you have never set one, just press 'Enter'. The 'C:\WINDOWS>' prompt should now be showing. Type the following commands into the prompt one at a time and press 'Enter' after you type each one:
cd \ attrib -c ntldr exit

NOTE: Windows will now be started. Make sure not to boot to the CD this time.



Resource:
http://www.ehow.com/how_6306116_decompress-ntldr.html

[How] Open an image by using default window programs

What if we don't want open any image file by using another or alternate or third party software, How do we set to open a image by using default window setting, such as Window Photo Viewer in Window 7.
Just as window default programs.


Now, here is the step, to teach you how to configure in registry way... =)

1.       Run -> cmd -> regedit

2.       HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT -> Directory -> Shell

3.       Double click on “Default” or right click on it choose Modify

4.       Type in none in “Value data” field.

How to re-create the Show desktop icon on the Quick Launch toolbar

To re-create the Show desktop icon by yourself, you may follow these method:


Method 1: Manually re-create the Show Desktop Icon

1. Click Start, click Run, type notepad in the Open box, and then click OK.
2. Carefully copy and then paste the following text into the Notepad window: [Shell] Command=2 IconFile=explorer.exe,3 [Taskbar] Command=ToggleDesktop
3. On the File menu, click Save As, and then save the file to your desktop as "Show desktop.scf" (with quotes, in order to prevent Notepad from appending .txt extension) The Show desktop icon is created on your desktop.
4. Click and then drag the Show desktop icon to your Quick Launch toolbar.

Method 2: Using the Regsvr32 command

1. Click Start, Run and type the following command:
regsvr32 /n /i:U shell32.dll
2. The Show Desktop icon file should be available now.

Method 3: Copy the file from another user account

Every user account will have a copy of Show Desktop.scf file. Search for the file named Show Desktop.scf in your computer by logging in as administrator. Copy it to your user profile path here:

%Appdata%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch

(Type the above path in Start, Run dialog)

Reference:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/190355
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/showdesktop.htm

[How] Open folder in same window / separate window

1)      Configure in folder setting

1.       Click on folder options

2.       Select the option in “Browse folders” panel

3.       Done

2)      Change registry value

a.       Open folder in same window /separate window

1.       Run -> cmd -> regedit

2.       HKEY_CURRENT_USER -> Software -> Microsoft -> Windows -> Current Version -> Explorer -> CabinetState

3.       Double click “Settings” registry file or right click on in to choose Modify

4.       Change the 5^th  value data

Note: 0A – open folder in same window

          2A – open folder in separate window