customize "send to" items in windows xp

You know you can customize "send to" menu and you can add more new destination in Send To lists. this can be done in a simple way, follow these steps.

• Click start, click run
• Type sendto and press enter
• This will open window with default Send To lists (Compressed (zipped) Folder, Desktop (create shortcut), Mail Recipient, My Documents)
• Now drag-and-drop any program, folders and drives, shortcuts to this folder
• For example - we take Microsoft word program, go to the program installation folder, find winword and drag-and-drop it to the send to folder
• Now to verify new location, right click on a text or a wordpad document, point to send to, click winword
• This will open the selected file with the Microsoft word
  

disable automatic update and service

If you want to disable automatic updates for windows you can do it by in control panel or system properties, but you know that even if you turn off updates in here automatic update service will continue to run in background. in order to disable this service follow these steps.

• Click start , click run
• Type services.msc and press enter
• Now find the automatic update service and double click to open it
• Now stop the service by pressing stop button under "service status"
• Then under "startup type" select disable
• Click apply and ok

From now on "windows update" and "windows update service" will be stop

restore missing tabs in "display properties"

In windows xp sometimes you notice that your "display properties" tabs were missing suddenly. (actually sometimes hides itself) such as "Themes , Desktop, Screen saver, Appearance, Settings" ,this can happen for many reasons, the exact cause for this is yet to be found, but we know how to restore the missing tabs in display properties, follow these steps.

• Click Start, click Run
• Type regsvr32 themeui and press enter
• Again Click Start, click Run
• Type regsvr32 /i shell32 and press enter

Learn more about how to unregister and re-register DLL files

add more columns to task manager

You can add more column to process page of task manager, this ensures to view more running processes. in this example we gonna show you how to add "virtual memory size" to task manager process page.

• Press alt + ctrl + del to open task manager
• Now click on process tab
• Click on the view menu and click select column
• In the "select column" window select virtual memory size by checking the box
• Click ok
• Now you can see the new column named VM Size , in here you can identify how processes used virtual memory size for each process
  

disable auto reboot when error occured (blue screen)

This will show you how to disable automatic restart option in registry, follow these steps.

• Open registry editor
• Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\CrashControl
• In the right side double click AutoReboot key
• Change the value to 0 to disable and 1 to enable
• Exit registry editor and restart pc