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Customizing Windows XP Start menu via registry keys

Customizing Windows XP Start menu is quite fun but if you are using 10 or more PCs as my job requires me under a workgroup environment then sometimes it becomes tedious. I heard that this can be done using policies but I can’t remember how to do this in a non-domain setup. Anyway, for my personal taste and requirements, I need to hide some items from the Start menu(non-classic mode). Since I am using more than 10 computers, sometimes even more, I was looking for a cheap solution to customize it really quick and easy. Below shows my .reg file that one can use or as a starting point for specific needs. <—– start copying starting from the line below and save the file as xpcustom.reg ;xpcustom.reg Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced] ;Show Control Panel as a submenu "Start_ShowControlPanel"=dword:00000002 ;Hide MyDocuments "Start_ShowMyDocs"=dword:00000000 ;Hide Recent Documents "S

Copy and Paste in rdesktop

I have installed Remotedesktop Client 0.23 (Gnome frontend for rdesktop) to connect to my Windows machine. Unfortunately, I am unable to perform copy and paste between my rdesktop sessions and/or rdesktop to a text editor running in Linux. The good thing is that there is a work-around for this. Connect to the Windows machine using RDP 5. Thus say: #: rdesktop -5 hostname -g 1024x768 -u user.name ~ts

Minimal Debian Install with X in Vmware

World wide mirror sites ( link ) After installing the base system, do the following. For main Debian repository hostname:/# nano -w /etc/apt/sources.list #more entries from here of course from /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian etch main contrib non-free deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian etch main contrib non-free Hongkong is best for my case too: #more entries from here of course from /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://ftp.hk.debian.org/debian etch main contrib non-free deb-src http://ftp.hk.debian.org/debian etch main contrib non-free Continue with installing the rest of the software: hostname:/# apt-get update hostname:/# apt-get install less Depending on your Debian version, do install xorg related packages. Debian Sarge 3.1 Debian Etch apt-get install x-window-system-core apt-get install xorg Note: Based from this url , the above package is for compatibility only from Debian 3.x. Etch should instead use xorg package. hostname:/# apt-

Http tunnels for Windows

Hopster -Bypass Firewall - Bypass Proxy - HTTP tunnel HTTP Tunnel Client - HTTP-Tunnel acts as a socks server, allowing you to use your Internet applications safely despite restrictive firewalls and/or you not be monitored at work, school, goverment and gives you a extra layer of protection against hackers, spyware, ID theft's with our encryption. ~ts

Midnight Commander not displaying properly in mrxvt

I think the problem here is not really directly related to Mrxvt not supporting unicode since MC does not fully support Unicode either. The problem I think is that Debian Etch (4.0) is shipped with Unicode support enabled by default. In fact locale shows that encoding is by default set to UTF-8. Now, to get a better display of MC, we need to make some minor adjustments. First, open terminal, like xterm or Eterm, then change to root user and do the following: #: dpkg-reconfigure --force locales Select locales you need to be installed/configured in your system. Then select, for example, en_US.ISO-8859-15. This will configure your system to use ISO-8859-15 encoding by default. Restart computer and off you go. ~ts