Keyboard Shortcuts for folders

You use some folder more than others and want to get to them as quickly as possible. You create shortcut on desktop for quick access. But the fastest way to these folders would be a keyboard shortcut assigned to them.

So here is how you do it

--- Go to the folder you want to create the keyboard shortcut for, then right click on it and go to the send to menu and send it to desktop (Create shortcut).

--- Now go to the desktop and right click on the shortcut just created and click properties.

--- Now you will see a shortcut key field in the properties dialog box.

--- Now hold Ctrl and Alt keys and press any letter key of your choice or Press and hold Ctrl and Shift key and press any letter key you want as the shortcut. Like Ctrl+Alt+X or Ctrl+Shift+X.

--- Click apply and OK.

Your keyboard shortcut for your folder is created. Just press the keyboard combination you entered in shortcut key to open that folder.

Disable CD Autorun in xp

As many of you may know a lot of viruses spread from CD's and DVD's and most of the times it happens without you knowing it and even when you don't open the CD/DVD to browse the files on it. It happens because of the Autorun feature in windows xp, which directly opens the contents of the CD/DVD to make your life easier, but it makes harder for you to keep your system safe.

Any virus can infect your system if the CD/DVD has it and Autorun in xp is enabled. Autorun will automatically execute the files for you in this case virus infected files which may then affect your system so much so that you have to re-format your system.

I always disable the autorun feature whenever I reinstall windows to make the chances of getting my system infected less from CD/DVD. I will advice you people also to do the same.

Here is how you do it.

--- Click on start and then press run and type this gpedit.msc

--- Then in the left pane go to computer configuration --> Administrative Templates --> System

--- In the right pane look for the entry turn autoplay off and then double click on it and enable it.

--- You can re-enable the autorun by disabling this option by doing the same thing as before and disbling the turn autoplay off function.

This should keep your system safer.

Folder Options Gone

Everyone at some point have lost their folder options from the tools menu in explorer for various reasons but mostly the reason is virus attack. Now here is a ways or should i say two ways to get it back.

Lets see the first method

--- Click on 'start' and then 'run'.

--- In the 'run' dialog box type gpedit.msc. The Group Policy window will open.

--- Navigate to the following location:
User Configuration> Administrative Templates> Window Components> Windows Explorer

--- In the right pane, find the 'Remove the folder options menu item'. Set its value to 'Not Configured' by double clicking and setting the correct option.

Now if you are familiar with the registry you can try the second one also.

---Open registry editor by typing regedit in the run dialog box.

--- Navigate to the following key:HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ Software\ Microsoft\Windows\CureentVersin\ Policies\ Explorer

--- Find the NoFolderOptions key in right pane. Change its value to 0.

--- If this key does not exist then create a Dword value there with the exact same name and give a value of 0.That should do the trick for you.If you have any questions or want help just post in the comments and i ll get back to you as soon as possible.