With costumizing desktop.ini file, it is possible to change the background pictures of every folder in your system.

1. Open a notepad and copy the lines shown below then rename it as 'desktop.ini' and save into the folder which you want to change the background image.

[{BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}]
iconarea_image="C:\Folder Name\Image Name"
iconarea_text=0x00000000

for example:

[{BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}]
iconarea_image="C:\Mp3\album.jpg"
iconarea_text=0x00000000

after saving the folder, open MS-DOS and type these lines of code. (Start/Run write cmd and click OK button).

Attrib +s "Folder path and name"
(Attrib +s "C:\Mp3")

First of all, you should have at least Windows XP Professional. Windows XP Home don't have gpedit.msc. But, you'll find different solution for Home Edition at following.

Here's the steps:

1. Click Start and select Run. In the Run window enter gpedit.msc and click OK.

2. The Group Policy editor will appear.

3. In the left window select the + (plus sign) next to User Configuration to expand the list. Next select the plus sign next to Administrative Templates and then Windows Explorer. Finally, select the Common Open File Dialog entry.

4. Double-click the Items displayed in Places Bar entry in the main Group Policy window.

5. The Items displayed in Places Bar Properties window will open.

6. Select Enabled and then enter in the locations you’d like to have displayed in the Save As dialog box. You need to enter the full path to the location for the shortcuts to work. For example, if you want to have a shortcut to your My Documents folder, enter in:

C:\Documents and Settings\Your User Name\My Documents\

Once you’ve entered in all the locations you’d like to appear in the Save As window, click Apply and then OK.

7. Back in the Group Policy editor, you should see that the Items displayed in Places Bar is now Enabled. Close the Group Policy editor.

8. Test it out by saving a file - you should now have the new shortcuts displayed.

The same shortcuts will be used in the Open dialog box - not just the Save As box.

In Windows XP Home there’s no gpedit.msc. But you can configure the Places Bar with Tweak UI.

Download it on this MS-Site:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

Many PC users still format their PC inspite of analize & solve their problems.
But, if you don't have your driver files you may have a new problem after re-install your system.
Therefore, it's very good solution to back-up your drivers before your system corrupted.

Here is the solution to backup your drivers with a simple-small and totally free program.
You should visit and download this program by below given address.

http://www.innovative-sol.com/drivermax

As you can see, it's very easy to use.
Select "Export Drivers" from "Driver Operations" menu. By click Next button, it'll detect your system and reveal your hardware list.
You should choose which component's driver do you want to backup from this list. After click Next button again, choose your backup folder and execute to export.
We strongly recommended that don't export your driver backups to system partition.

If you are not an advanced user and working with WinXP or 2003 Server operating systems, you have probably get bored of formatting your PC because of a virus, trojan, or an adware which frequently chrashes your system. You can dig out that  to format your hard disks, is not the only way to save your PC. For example your system has been infected by a virus and your system files are corrupted.

The easiest thing you should do in this situation is to execute SFC (System File Checker) programme under XP. This will check your system files and replace corrupted ones with the original files.

How to use:

- place your XP/2003Server cd in your cd-rom

- type "sfc /scannow" in start/run box

A small box will appear in your monitor, and scan your system. You have to restart your computer after finishing the scan.

For further information please visit:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310747

We may create a batch file to facilitate our job. For example, cleaning temp files, shutdown computer with only one push, refresh&change ip/gateway ex... We must know MS-DOS commands to do them.

At first, this's short information before how to do that. Batch files are not applications, these're command series which exetuces more then one MS-DOS commands.

Now, this's instruction for how to create batch file;

1- Open Notepad by this way start/programs/accessories/notepad.exe
2- Write command series which you want execute.

Example:
@echo off
xcopy C:\data\*.*/s d:\backup

3- Go to File tab and push save as. Now you should define a name and extension. The most important step is, you should give an extension to this file as ".bat".

Exp.: backup.bat

4- You can see below there's several Save as types. Please choose All Files and save by save button.

That's all. When you execute this file, it'll start to copy C:\data content to D:\backup folder.

Thanks to XP's Forgotten Password Wizard, your conscience will be free and clear -- should your mind happen to accidentally misplace your user password. I highly suggest you create a password recovery disk the minute you create your user account. Why? In order to create a password recovery disk you're going to need your password. Write it down the minute you create your user account and then proceed to creating your very own password recovery disk.

Here's how to launch the Forgotten Password Wizard:

- Single-click Start menu, Control Panel, and User Accounts.

- Click your user account name.

- Under Related Tasks on the left, click "Prevent forgotten password" to launch the wizard.

Now that you've launched the wizard, let it walk you through creating the recovery disk. Make sure the disk you use is formatted and in the drive. After it's finished creating the disk, label it and stash it away for an emergency.

If you happen to forget your password, all you need to do is click your user icon at the logon screen. Even though you don't have your password, go ahead and click the green arrow just like you would to finish logging on to your computer. This will launch a little yellow dialog box directing you to use your password recovery disk.

Did you convert your Windows NT hard drive to NTFS (NT File System) and now looking for a way to access it from MS-DOS, Windows 3.x or Windows 95? There's a DOS program that will let you do just that. It will read files on NTFS partitions from a DOS compatible operating system. This could come in handy for recovering files, if you're having trouble booting to the NTFS partition.

NTFSDOS