When I upload a folder image to my site via FTP, there is a file called Thumbs.db go along with it. What is that file? I wondered.

What is Thumbs.db?
Thumbs.db is a file generated by WindowsXP each time you view folder contents in “Thumbnail” or “Filmstrip” view. This file is a cache file which use by WindowsXP to load up faster the next time you browse that folder.

How to remove it permanently?
You can delete Thumb.db and send it into Recycle Bin but it will keep appearing because by default thumbnails cache is enable in WindowsXP.

To get rid of it, go to My Computer > Tool > Folder Options > View and check “Do not cache thumbnails”.

Be Warned
By enabling this option, it will take a long time to open folder that contains large image files or quantity because the thumbnail images not been cached in Thumbs.db before.

Windows tip: Rid your folders of Thumbs.db [LifeHacker]

Each time I start Firefox, Google is the first page that will open up. To visit other sites, I push Ctrl+T many times to open new tabs. But do you know how to start Firefox with multiple tabs so you don’t have to hold Ctrl+T or righ-click > New Tab to open new tabs when you start your Firefox?

Here I will show you how to do it. But don’t try this at IE because it will not work. I guarantee it. :p

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Windows will tries to send error report to Microsoft every time a porgram crashed. To disable this, follow these simple steps:

1. Right click My Computer and choose Properties
2. Click on Advanced tab
3. Click on Error Reporting
4. Check Disable error reporting
5. Ok

Hope this helps!

Cypher says: This error report is annoying. We don’t need them. Why it should exist? Hmm…

This TOOL will show you what products that will be shown if you put certain keywords. For an example, if you put “ATI Radeon”, Chitika eMiniMalls will show up “ATI RADEON X1900 XTX” product.
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Want to know how long has your Windows XP system been running is?

Click Start > Run and type “cmd” (without the quotes) to open the command prompt. At the prompt, you type:

systeminfo

There you’ll see your system information. Scroll down the list to the line where it says System Up Time. This line will tell you in days, hours, minutes and seconds how long your computer been running.

Note: This command works in Windows XP Professional. If in Home Edition you type:

net statistics workstation

Hope this helps!

Bored with the “start” text on XP Start button? Here I will show you step by step on how to change the text. Before continue reading, you first need to download a tool called Resource Hacker. We need this tool because we want to edit file explorer.exe located at C:\Windows. Since explorer.exe is a binary file, so we need that tool to view, modify and compile the file.

Step 1 – Editing explorer.exe
I assume you have downloaded the tool that we need. First, make a backup copy of your explorer.exe located at C:\Windows and place it in somewhere in your hard disk. Run Resource Hacker and open explorer.exe. Click on “String Table” and expand by clicking the plus sign. Then, click on folder 37 (38 for classic windows) and highlight 1033. Highlight “start” and change it with any words that you like, eg: Begin. (Note: Make sure you type the words between the quotes). Then compile the script by clicking on Compile Script button. From the File menu, click on Save As and save it with new file name. But make sure to put .exe after the filename, eg: newexplorer.exe. Save it in C:\Windows.

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