Skip the Recycle Bin Confirmation Message

When you delete items by moving them to the Recycle Bin, Windows displays a message confirming the deletion: "Are you sure you want to send FILENAME to the Recycle Bin?" If you’re tired of clicking an answer to that question, you can configure Windows XP to skip the confirmation message whether or not you’re using the Recycle Bin.

1.>Right-click the Recycle Bin, and then click Properties.
2.>In the Recycle Bin Properties dialog box, clear the Display delete confirmation dialog check box, and then click OK.
3.>If you don’t want to use the Recycle Bin at all, in the Recycle Bin Properties dialog box, select the Do not move files to the Recycle Bin. Remove files immediately when deleted check box.

Change Out Your Pointer Scheme

Tired of seeing your pointer as an arrow or an hourglass all the time? Windows XP offers a number of alternative pointer schemes, such as Dinosaur, Ocean and Sports.
Open the Control Panel, double-click Mouse, and select the Pointers tab. (If you start in Category view, select Appearance and Themes, then click Mouse Pointers under "See Also.") Next to Schemes, click the down arrow and select a scheme to preview its pointers. Click OK to apply the scheme to your desktop. Simple as that.

Creating a Password Recovery Disk

In case you forget your password, you can create a password recovery floppy disk beforehand to help you out of this problem.

1.Single-click Start menu
2.Go to the Control Panel / User Accounts
3.Click the User Account
4.On the left hand side, click on Prevent forgotten password
5.You will need to know your password to create the disk.
6.If you don't remember your password sometime in the future, click on the green arrow like normal at the login and you will be prompted to insert the password recover disk.

How to use ALT key codes in word,notepad or frontpage

Alt key codes are great if you like to code by hand and can save a lot of time once you memorize a few.

Hold down the alt key and use the number pad on the far right of your keyboard to type out the 4-character code. When you release the alt key, the character will appear.


Example: Alt-0169 = © or Alt-0174 = ® or Alt-0153 = ™

Alt-0128 € Alt-0252 ü Alt-0129  Alt-0130 ‚ Alt-0131 ƒ
Alt-0132 „ Alt-0253 ý Alt-0133 … Alt-0134 † Alt-0135 ‡
Alt-0136 ˆ Alt-0254 þ Alt-0137 ‰ Alt-0138 Š Alt-0139 ‹
Alt-0140 Œ Alt-0255 ÿ Alt-0141  Alt-0142 Ž Alt-0143 
Alt-0144  Alt-0248 ø Alt-0145 ‘ Alt-0146 ’ Alt-0147 "
Alt-0148 " Alt-0249 ù Alt-0149 • Alt-0150 – Alt-0151 —
Alt-0152 ˜ Alt-0250 ú Alt-0153 ™ Alt-0154 š Alt-0155 ›
Alt-0156 œ Alt-0251 û Alt-0157  Alt-0158 ž Alt-0159 Ÿ
Alt-0160 Alt-0244 ô Alt-0161 ¡ Alt-0162 ¢ Alt-0163 £
Alt-0164 ¤ Alt-0245 õ Alt-0165 ¥ Alt-0166 ¦ Alt-0167 §
Alt-0168 ¨ Alt-0246 ö Alt-0169 © Alt-0170 ª Alt-0171 «
Alt-0172 ¬ Alt-0247 ÷ Alt-0173 ­ Alt-0174 ® Alt-0175 ¯
Alt-0176 ° Alt-0240 ð Alt-0177 ± Alt-0178 ² Alt-0179 ³
Alt-0180 ´ Alt-0241 ñ Alt-0181 µ Alt-0182 ¶ Alt-0183 ·
Alt-0184 ¸ Alt-0242 ò Alt-0185 ¹ Alt-0186 º Alt-0187 »
Alt-0188 ¼ Alt-0243 ó Alt-0189 ½ Alt-0190 ¾ Alt-0191 ¿
Alt-0192 À Alt-0236 ì Alt-0193 Á Alt-0194 Â Alt-0195 Ã
Alt-0196 Ä Alt-0237 í Alt-0197 Å Alt-0198 Æ Alt-0199 Ç
Alt-0200 È Alt-0238 î Alt-0201 É Alt-0202 Ê Alt-0203 Ë
Alt-0204 Ì Alt-0239 ï Alt-0205 Í Alt-0206 Î Alt-0207 Ï
Alt-0208 Ð Alt-0232 è Alt-0209 Ñ Alt-0210 Ò Alt-0211 Ó
Alt-0212 Ô Alt-0233 é Alt-0213 Õ Alt-0214 Ö Alt-0215 ×
Alt-0216 Ø Alt-0234 ê Alt-0217 Ù Alt-0218 Ú Alt-0219 Û
Alt-0220 Ü Alt-0235 ë Alt-0221 Ý Alt-0222 Þ Alt-0223 ß
Alt-0224 à Alt-0231 ç Alt-0225 á Alt-0226 â Alt-0227 ã
Alt-0228 ä Alt-0230 æ Alt-0229 å

Services You Can Disable in XP to increase the speed of pc

There are quite a few services you can disable from starting automatically.
This would be to speed up your boot time and free resources.
They are only suggestions so I suggestion you read the description of each one when you run Servicesand that you turn them off one at a time.
Some application are:
Alerter
Application Management
Clipbook
Fast UserSwitching
Human Interface Devices
Indexing Service
Messenger
Net Logon
NetMeeting
QOS RSVP
Remote Desktop Help Session Manager
Remote Registry
Routing & Remote Access
SSDP Discovery Service
Universal Plug and Play Device Host
Web Client