Make a Password Reset Disk or backup your User Password

If you want to backup your user password you have to create a password reset disk. If you are running window xp professional as a local user, you can create a password reset disk to log onto your computer when you forget your password.

Let’s go to come to know about it.

(1). Click on Start and select ‘Control Panel’ and select ‘User Accounts’.

(2). Click on your account name.

(3). Under Related Tasks, click on ‘Prevent a Forgotten Password’.

(4). Follow the directions in the ‘Forgotten Password Wizard’ to create a password reset disk.
Store the disk in a secure location, because anyone like me using it can access your local user account and imagine if….. I will be there…….. Next time you need to format your PC.

Configure the Power Button of your CPU

Many Computer users don’t know about the power management system of window xp that lets us configure the system power button. By default when we press the power button system get shut down.
If we are doing our job on computer and by mistake we or someone else (may be child) press the power button, will close all the application and computer itself. Now there is no chance to stop your PC from shutting down. So window xp power management system gives us a facility to get relief by accidental key press incident.

(1). Right click on the desktop and click on “Properties”.

(2). Click on the ‘screen saver’ tab and then select ‘power’ in the Monitor Power box.

(3). Now in the ‘power option properties’ select ‘advanced’.

(4). In the ‘power button’ box select option “when I press the power button on my computer”.

(5). Select your option and click on apply.

Next time when your power button is pressed your selected action will take place.

Disable low disk space warning in your system tray

The popping up of low disk space warning in the system occurs when window detects that a partition of your hard drive is running out of space. If you getting irritated with this message. Here’s a simple solution with registry fix that will solve your problem.

(1). Click on 'Start | Run'. Type regedit and press OK.

(2). Browse down to the following key:-

“HKEY_CURRENT _USER \ Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\ Explorer”

Create a ‘new binary value’ and set its value to ’00 00 00 01’ and exit the registry.

Restart your PC and breathe a sigh of relief.

Make a Bat file to shutdown your PC

(1). Open notepad and type.

@echo off
C:\WINDOWS\system32\shutdown.exe -s -f -t 60

(2). Save this notepad with name “shutdown.bat“.

(3). Now click on it to shutdown your PC.

Here we are using @echo off to don’t show anything in the command prompt when we click on it, and 60 is time in second that it will take to shutdown your PC you can change according to you.