how to disable security center warnings

Does security center frequently alerts you a message "Your computer may be at risk. Your virus protection status is unknown" with useless repeating reminder. do you want to stop this warning messages ever appearing again. there are 2 ways to disable this reminders, take more suitable way to you.follow these steps.

Disable from control panel

• Go to the control panel
• Double click security center icon
• Now in the left pane under " Resources " click change the way security center alerts me
• In the opened " alert settings window " deselect the options that you don't want to remind (ex - firewall , virus protection)
• Click ok and close security center

Disable from registry

• Open registry editor
• Locate the key of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Security Center
• In the right pane double click to open the keys of " AntiVirusDisableNotify , firewalldisablenotify , updatesdisablenotify " and put DWORD value data as 1
• Now close the registry editor and restart your computer for changes to go into effect.
  

how to backup entire registry manually

This will show you how to backup windows registry, follow these steps

• Open registry editor (start > run > type regedit > press enter)
• Now click on file menu and click export
• In the " export range " (see the bottom of export registry file window) select all
• Give it a name for file and select the saving location
• Click save to backup the registry.
  

clear temporary files when exiting internet explorer

This will show you how to clear temporary internet files when you closing internet explorer, follow these steps.

• Open internet properties window (start > run> type inetcpl.cpl >press enter or right click internet explorer and click properties)
• Now click advanced tab
• In there find " Empty Temporary internet files folder when browser is closed " (should be located at security listing) and select it by checking the box.
• Click apply and click ok
• From now on temporary internet files were automatically deleted when closing internet explorer.
  

create shortcut to shutdown and restart

This post will show how to create shortcuts for shutdown & restart your system without taking long way to find your restart and shutdown buttons. the procedure as follows.

Shutdown

• Right click on desktop, point to new, click create shortcut
• In the location field (space near browse button) type shutdown -s -t 0 and click next
• Now type a name for shortcut and click finish
• Now double click shortcut to shutdown your pc
  

Note - if you want you can change the icon of newly created shortcut, just right click on shortcut and click properties, now in the "shortcut" tab click change icon button, pick icon as you like click ok, then apply and ok.

Restart

• Right click on desktop, point to new, click create shortcut
• In the location field (space near browse button) type shutdown -r -t 0 and click next
• Now type a name for shortcut and click finish
• Now double click shortcut to restart your pc

Tip - instead double clicking shortcut you can add them to quick launch at taskbar to perform single click operation. first you need to put quick launch to taskbar, right click on taskbar and click properties, in "taskbar" tab select show quick launch by checking the box. click apply and ok. now drag newly created shortcut to quick launch.

how to prevent appearing recent documents

Normally when you open or access a document or file it is added to the list called recent document (in the start menu) by editing some keys in your registry you can disable recent document ever appearing again. here is how we do it.

Step 1

1. Go to the registry editor (start>run>type regedit and press enter)
2. Now go to the key of HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
3. Right click on the key, point to new and click DWORD value
4. Now name the key as NoRecentDocsHistory
5. Double click to open the key and set the value '1' to enable the restriction

Step 2

1. Then go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
2. And repeat the steps from 3 to 5
   

From next reboot, there is no more recent document saved at the start menu.

delete emails in deleted folder when exiting outlook 2003

When are receiving and reading e-mails, you may delete the emails that is not important to you, but when you delete, it moves the emails to deleted items folder and not deleted from outlook. with a few changed of outlook settings you are prompt to delete them automatically when you exiting outlook 2003, the instruction as follows.

• Open outlook 2003
• In the menu click tools and click option
• Click on the other tab in the options window
• In there under "general" section select "empty the deleted items folder upon exiting"
• Click apply and ok

From now on when you exiting outlook, you are prompt to delete the emails in the deleted items folder, go ahead and click yes, then emails in deleted items will be automatically deleted.

If you don't want to prompt each time to delete the emails, do as follows

• In the option window, click on other tab
• Now under general click "advanced option"
• In advanced options window deselect "warn before permanently deleting items"
• Click ok
• Then click apply and ok
  

convert partition from FAT to NTFS with command prompt support

Do you need to convert your FAT partition to NTFS, this can be done with a simple command. and you can even convert your partiton straight away with data (no need to backup data) but keep in mind this process cant be reversed once you convert FAT to NTFS, here is how we do it

• Click start and run
• Type cmd and press enter to open command prompt
• In the command prompt type Convert C: /FS:NTFS and press enter
• Once you press enter it will ask you for confirmation and press Y. Then press Y again once more to reboot pc
• The conversion process will begin at the next reboot

Note - "C" is the drive you wish to convert (you can convert more drives, just put the correct drive letter, for example - Convert E: /FS:NTFS. Make sure there is a space between the C: and the foward slash (/).