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Today's Tips 07/20/2006
Change The Picture Displayed Next To The User
Name In XP Pro And Home!
In Windows XP, you can have a picture displayed next to the user name on
the Welcome screen and on the new Start menu. This article describes how
to change the picture for non-domain members.
Windows XP Home and Professional Edition!
Non-Domain Members
A picture is automatically assigned to each user account. To change this
picture:
1. In Control Panel, double-click User Accounts.
2. Click the account for which you want to change the picture.
3. Click Change the picture.
4. Click a picture in the window, or click Browse for More Pictures, and
then click the picture that you want to use.
5. When this picture is highlighted in the window, click Change Picture.
Domain Members:
Note: This feature is not available to computers that participate in a
domain.
Gary Chambers
Enable Or Disable The CTRL+ALT+DELETE Sequence
For Logging On In Windows XP!
Administrators you can require users to press CTRL+ALT+DELETE before
logging on to a Windows XP-based computer, or you can eliminate this
requirement for a faster logon process. Note that you must be logged on
with Administrator rights to perform this task.
To Enable or Disable the CTRL+ALT+DELETE Sequence:
1. Click Start, click Control Panel, and then click User Accounts.
2. Click the Advanced tab.
3. In the Secure logon section, select or clear the Require users to
press Ctrl+Alt+Delete check box.
Gary Chambers
This Weeks Freeware Program!
This is a full-featured freeware screen capture utility that I have used
for Several Years now! It is responsible for all of the images that I
have in the Many How To Tutorials that I have on my website.
I like the two Capture Features that the program gives you. With one
shortcut key you can capture the whole screen and with another you can
capture just the Active Window. Once the program is setup it will
capture your images in a numeric Sequence which is important when
creating a Tutorial.
The Author is having some website problems right now but you can still
download the file at the following address.
http://www.softpedia.com/progDownload/GrabClipSave-Download-2130.html
From The Author!
GrabClipSave Description
A no-nonsense, full-featured freeware screen capture utility. Sits in
the system tray (or not) and waits for your images.
Who needs circular, elliptical or star-shaped grabbing?
No nagging 'unregistered' messages on your images, no hotkeys that don't
work in your favorite game, just a plain screen capture program.
All screen caps can be resized to the same format and are saved in .jpg,
.bmp or .png format. Captures windows or fullscreen, works with most
OpenGL, Direct3D and Glide apps. Full control over the filename of the
image series you are grabbing. Multithreaded operation to minimize
stuttering when grabbing from games.
FEATURES :
- Full-featured screen capture
- Captures standard applications, Direct3D, OpenGL and Glide apps
- Saves Windows bitmap (.bmp), Portable Network graphics (.png) and JPEG
- Jpeg options include compression, progressive encoding, grayscale and
color depth
- Multithreaded operation to minimize stuttering while saving images
from games - full control over number of threads and thread priority
- Specify an image size to resize the image before they are saved to
disk -- with or without maintaining the original aspect ratio
- Does not interfere with graphics programs anymore - just leave GCS
enabled; it knows whether PrtSc was pressed or if it was a copy & paste
operation
- Full control over the directory and filename the images are saved --
generate series of images the way you like
- Custom audio feedback to confirm start saving and successful save
- Option to start GCS automatically at system boot, minimized as a tray
icon (or not)
- Statistics on the images saved, thumbnail of the last image
- Integrated help system
- Tested to run with over 30 apps and games
Gary Chambers
Add A Warning Message To Be Displayed When A
User Logs On To Your Windows XP Computer!
Some users might interpret the "Welcome" logon dialog box as an
invitation to breach system security. Although you cannot change the
"Welcome" caption in the box, you can display a warning message box.
To enable display of a warning message, make the following changes in
the registry:
I don't publish the actual hacks in my
newsletters! You can get this one at my
Customer Support Site!
This is a Free Site that I am combining several sites to. All that
you have to do is register if you haven't already!
For example, the "LegalNoticeCaption" can be "Important Notice:" and the
"LegalNoticeText" can be "No unauthorized access is allowed".
The user sees this dialog box after the user presses CTRL+ALT+DEL and
before the user sees the logon dialog box. The user can click OK in the
message box and log on normally.
Quit Registry Editor.
WARNING:
If you use Registry Editor incorrectly, you may cause serious problems
that may require you to reinstall your operating system. Use Registry
Editor at your own risk.
Gary Chambers
APPLIES TO:
- Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
- Microsoft Windows XP Professional |
