Disable Dr.Watson

Dr. Watson is an debugger in Microsoft Windows operating system.It is named after Doctor Watson character of Sherlock Holmes Books who was known for his intelligence and error collecting and analysing the case Helping holmes.

It is usually named drwatson.exe, drwtsn32.exe or dwwin.exe depending on the version of Windows.

When a error occurs on windows it detects and diagnoses program errors and pops a window showing the error,It is very useful as it alerts about the bugs and Rectifies it.But this may sometime quite irritating when ever it pops up suddenly.


Here is a Tip to disable the Dr.watson service

*Start the registry editor
Goto Start --> Run --> type "regedit.exe" and Hit enter.
*Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows NT \ CurrentVersion \ AeDebug
*Click on AeDebug and click Del

or just set HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows NT \ CurrentVersion \ AeDebug \ AUTO to 0

To re-enable it, type: drwtsn32 -i at the run.

Speedup Your Folder Browsing

At one time or the other you might have noticed that when you open my computer to browse folders that there is a slight delay. This happens because Windows XP automatically searches for network files and printers everytime you open Windows Explorer. you can uncheck this search by following this step and increase your folder brwosing significally
follow this steps to speed up:
*Open My Computer
*Click on Tools menu
*Click on Folder Options
*Click on the View tab.
*Uncheck the Automatically search for network folders and printers check box
*Select Apply and  Click Ok
*Reboot your computer

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Disable Windows XP login prompt for password

It annoys when you are the only one using the pc and you have to login everytime ,It promts you everytime u start the windows.
Here is a trick by which you can by pass the login prompt in windows xp ,just follow these steps and logon to computer without any halt.


*Click on Start-->Run.
*type "control userpasswords2"(without quotes) and Hit Enter.
*Uncheck the box for "Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer."
*Click Apply and then Ok.
*restart the windows.


Hope you like this trick

Keyboard Shortcuts for wordpad

In the previous post i presented you some of the general keyboard shortcuts ,Here are the some more keyboard shortcuts which helps to work easily and fastly with wordpad.

The following are the  keyboard shortcuts for working with WordPad.

Press this key To do this
Ctrl + N Create a new document
Ctrl + O Open an existing document
Ctrl + S Save changes to a document
F12        Save the document as a new file
Ctrl + P Print a document
Alt  + F4 Close WordPad
Ctrl + Z Undo a change
Ctrl + Y Redo a change
Ctrl + A Select the entire document
Ctrl + X Cut a selection
Ctrl + C Copy a selection to the Clipboard
Ctrl + V Paste a selection from the Clipboard
Ctrl + B Make selected text bold
Ctrl + I Italicize selected text
Ctrl + U Underline selected text
Ctrl + = Make selected text subscript
Ctrl + L Align text left
Ctrl + E Align text center
Ctrl +  R Align text right
Ctrl + J Justify text
Ctrl + H Replace text in a document
Ctrl + 1 Set single line spacing
Ctrl + 2 Set double line spacing
Ctrl + D Insert a Microsoft Paint drawing
Ctrl + 5 Set line spacing to 1.5
F3        Find the next instance of the text in the Find dialog box
Ctrl + H Replace text in a document
Ctrl + Left Arrow Move the cursor one word to the left
Ctrl + Right Arrow Move the cursor one word to the right
Ctrl + Up Arrow        Move the cursor to the line above
Ctrl + Down Arrow Move the cursor to the line below
Ctrl + Home Move to the beginning of the document
Ctrl + End Move to the end of the document
Ctrl + Page Up Move up one page
Ctrl + Page Down Move down one page
Ctrl + Delete Delete the next word
F10 Display keytips
Shift + F10 Show the current shortcut menu
F1 Open WordPad Help
Ctrl + Shift + = Make selected text superscript
Ctrl + Shift + > Increase the font size
Ctrl + Shift + < Decrease the font size
Ctrl + Shift + A Change characters to all capitals
Ctrl + Shift + L Change the bullet style

Create a Shutdown/Reboot/LogOff Icon

Create your own icon for shutting ,restarting windows.

Windows xp has a program called shutdown.exe which allows to create a icon for shutdown.
To create an icon just follow the following steps:

1)Right click on an open area of the desktop
2)Select New -> Shortcut
For shutdown:
* Enter in shutdown -s -t 00
For Restart 
*Enter shutdown -r -t 00 
For Logging off
*Enter shutdown -l -t 00
Here 00 indicates the time in sec. e.g. 10- will shutdown PC after 10 sec
3)Press the Next button
4) name the shortcut as u wish .
5) Click on the Finish button.

Here -s shutdowns the computer
-r restarts
-l log offs
-a it aborts the shutdown
-f forces to close all applications
-t xx sets the timer to shutdown in certain no of seconds...xx =seconds ,say 20