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How to restore show desktop icon in quick launch in windows xp

This post is reply to one of the reader vaibhav who has accidentally deleted the show desktop icon in the quick launch bar.( sorry for the delayed reply but i was somewhat engaged in some work)

So below is a step by step procedure to restore show desktop.

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Add Blog Feed & your Picasa or Flickr Albums with Your Orkut Profile

Today when i logged in my account at orkut i noticed a new option below in orkut profile menu called “edit feeds“.

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Remove the annoying Security Center pop up in windows vista.

Now a days i am getting lots of messages and emails asking me about the trick to disable the annoying pop up message in windows vista.So for all here is the solution…

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Use Windows Mail In Windows Vista for your gmail or any pop3 account.

Yes there is no need to download any mail client in case of windows vista as you can do the same using windows mail comes by default with a windows vista.

So, no thunderbird required in this case if you have windows vista installed.I have configured my gmail account in windows mail. As per the interface quite a sleek and fast interface with looks similar to thunderbird.

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Disable or Access denied on data writing on usb drives by your computer in windows vista or xp

So there is a simple way to stop writing of data on any machine having windows xp or windows vista.

Since Windows XP SP2, you can disable writing to USB devices altogether using a simple registry hack.This hack also works on windows vista.

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageDevicePolicies]
“WriteProtect”=dword:00000001

Go to the location and set the dword value as 1 or copy the registry settings given below in notepad and save it as .reg file and enter these settings in the registry by double clicking and confirming the entry by clicking ok button of the message window.

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Fix or Repair the corrupted Vista Bootloader in a dual-boot configuration

Windows Vista no longer starts after you install an earlier version of the Windows operating system in a dual-boot configuration.“If you install an earlier version of the Windows operating system on a Windows Vista-based computer, Windows Vista no longer starts. In this case, only the earlier version of the Windows operating system starts.“

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How to Stop Applications That Auto-start On Startup in windows vista

There are 2 ways to stop applications that auto-start when you login to Windows Vista. You can either use the System Configuration Utility or the new Software Explorer in Windows Defender:

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How to enable/disable the Built-in Administrator Account in Windows vista

To get back administrator rights on windows vista turn off UAC and do the following.

Here’s the simple solution:

Do you know that “Administrator” account you see when you login to safe mode?