To view the amount of time that XP has been running with out rebooting or restarting the computer:

1) Open the Command Prompt (located under Accessories) or go to START - RUN

2) Type systeminfo Details / Download / Listen …

As you may or may not know, Windows XP provides an easy and fast way to synchronize your system time with an Internet time server (Control Panel/Date and Time/Internet Time). By default there are only two servers available (time.windows.com and time.nist.gov). To add more, just add them in the registry Details / Download / Listen …

Now now, calm down there you tweak freak you. A pretty cool, enhancement to XP was the changing of a folder icon. Now you can coordinate your program, to the folder it is located in! Heres how:

1.) Go into Windows Explorer Details / Download / Listen …

This is actually an addition to my previous post entitled “Get XP Pro file security with XP Home”. In the aforementioned post I outlined how to access *Advance file Permissions* on NTFS file systems for XP Home simply by booting into *Safe Mode*, rt-clicking any file or folder, and navigating to the *Security tab*. This gives the user the ability to allow or deny read, write, execute, read & write, display contents, full-control, iheritance, and take ownership permissions, with many more options available to apply to different users and groups stored on the computer. Details / Download / Listen …

If you are using the Win 2k style logon prompt (not the Welcome screen) and want to change its default “XP” style to the “Classic” style, do this:

(Backup your registry before doing this, just in case you end having a problem.)

Open regedit, then navigate to: Details / Download / Listen …