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Recover a Corrupted System File

If your PC have been infected by viruses and some of your files in the Windows directory become affected or corrupt, is there something we could do to recover it without reformatting the PC?..
If a critical or essential file gets whacked by a virus, we can restore it from the Windows CD.

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Active programs on the welcome screen

One of you might face this problem, when the Windows Welcome Screen appears it also reveals how many programs are still active and have been opened by the user the last working session before. How could we get rid the display of active programs?

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Icons without labels…

Remove the labels if the icons seem indicative enough for you
Follow this tricks:
Right click on the icon, select the ‘Rename’ or press F2

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Setting up a transparent background

How to get the operating system to display a transparent background for the icon labels?
First of all, click Start > Control Panel and ‘Performance and Maintenance’

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Personalized icon

Simple steps to create your own icons in Windows XP.
Use Microsoft Paint.  Start > All Programs > Accessories > Paint
Click Attributes on the Image menu. Type ‘32′ for both the width and height, under Units select Pixels. Click OK.
Do whatever you like with your image such as add type or color. ‘Save As’ (On the [...]

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Administrator

Logging in as the administrator when the computer does not show up any listing.
Press ‘Del’ key while holding down the ‘Ctrl’ + ‘Alt’ keys. This would bring up the normal login dialog box and you could log on as administrator.
To unhidden the  administrator account so it would show up every time you start your computer:

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turn off the vista

Different way to turn off the pc in Vista.
Add the ‘Shut Down’ function to the turn off button.

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‘Safe Mode’ state…

Users who may not be able to boot into normal mode or are not able to troubleshoot their computer properly may need to boot into safe mode bypassing normal [...]

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