There are traditional games in windows that we would love to play over and over again like Free Cell, Solitaire, among others. From the developers, they added supplementary programs which they call PowerToys that adds different functionality to the Windows experience.

 These programs are not built in unlike the others. Therefore, you need assistance for setting it up. Though this can be found in the system32 directory of WindowsXP. To uninstall the program, open the control panel; launch the Add/Remove Programs panel applet; and find the PowerToys for Windows XP application; then choose Modify/Remove. From here you can remove specific toys.

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If you want the NumLock key to be enabled automatically for every user, click on the button Start, click on the word Run and then type the keyword Regedit. Go the following directory: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Keyboard\InitialKeyboardIndicators. Once you are there, the value should be changed from 0 to 2. Enable NumLock manually. After this, you have to log off the computer and then log in again. You should do this procedure for all users of your computer. For this change to take effect, there is no need to restart your computer, as you are logging off a user account each time.

You will know that Winsock2 is damaged while releasing and renewing the IP address through IPCONFIG when you get a message saying that an error occurred during the renewal of the interface ‘Internet’ and that the operation was forced on something which is not a socket. What you should do is run the Regedit command and the registry keys Winsock and Winsock2 should be deleted under the directory HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services. You need to download a specific reg file to do this. You are required to reboot your computer and after doing so, you should go to Network Connections. Right click on Properties and the click the button Install. Proceed to selecting Protocol and then clicking on the Add and Have Disk buttons. Go to the directory \Windows\inf and click on the Open and OK buttons. You should highlight Internet Protocol and click on OK. One last step is rebooting your computer and you are done.

You may sometimes find that when you reinstall Windows XP, you will receive an error message telling you that access is denied if you try to open a previous directory of a user. There is a way to reclaim ownership of that folder. Log in with the account that has admin rights. Right click on the specific folder and select Properties. Go to the Security tab and click the button Advanced. Go to the Owner tab and click your name in the Names list. Click on the Replace owner on subcontainers and objects. Last step would be to click OK and Yes, and then you are done.

The program that is available on professional versions of XP is called gpedit.msc (Group Policy Editor) that allows you to modify most of the settings in the OS. This way, you get down and serious with getting the things you need where you want them and things you don’t need to not bother loading at all making for a streamlined computer OS. You can access the program by using the Run Command and then edit your preferred changes.(Be sure to know what the hell you are doing for making a big mistake can result in the same situation mentioned above!!)

If you have been trying to connect to a computer running on a Windows XP operating system and are always getting an error message saying that access is denied although the user names and passwords are correct, you may have to do some slight registry edit. Click on the button Start and then click on the word Run. Type in the keyword Regedit. Open the following folders in chronological order: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, SYSTEM, CurrentControlSet, Control and then Lsa. The value of the restrictanonymous key should be changed from 0 to 1. Your computer should be rebooted for the change to take effect.

There are two types of blank CD available in the market, the recordable CD and the rewritable CD. The recordable CD is the less expensive of the two because it can only be used one time. On the other hand with the rewritable CD can be used over and over again. You can take out previously burned files, or add new ones, just like a regular storage file.With the use of the multi-session burning feature, even a recordable CD can be used several times. The only difference is with the recordable CD you can only add files and not delete them.