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On some of our regression tests, we need to check that all shortcuts that our product created under Windows Start Menu is working. One of the challenge this one presents is that user can set it to either "Classic Start Menu" or the new XP style Start Menu. Since our organization likes to use Visual Tests, I was looking for a way to detect what is the current style of Start Menu, hence the script below was born: 'Refs 'http://www.themssforum.com/VisualBasic/SHGetSetSetting-SHELLFLAGSTATESHELLSTATE/ 'http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb762200(VS.85).aspx 'http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb759788(VS.85).aspx Option Explicit Private Declare Sub SHGetSetSettings Lib "shell32" _ ( ByRef lpSS As Byte , ByVal dwMask As Long , ByVal bSet As Long ) Const SSF_STARTPANELON = &H200000 Public Function IsXpMenuStyleOn () As Long

Debut is a simple, easy to use video recorder that lets you capture video files directly on your PC using a webcam (video camera), or capture device (from video). This software can also capture and record almost anything that can be played or displayed on the computer screen. The program saves the video on your hard drive as avi, wmv or many other file types. ~ts

Set the gateway to 192.168.1.10: d:\>netsh interface ip set address name="wireless" gateway=192.168.1.10 gwmetric=0 Set to the gateway provided by DHCP: d:\>netsh interface ip set address name="wireless" gateway=none ~ts

O'Reilly digital multimedia have a blog on how to create a USB bootable disk utilizing HP support tools. See the following link for details. Dell diagnostics utility can also be used to create a USB  bootable drive, see this link .  ~stepkas

When I tried to access http://mobile.google.com using my BB8320 in the Philippines, I am always presented with a non-English, non-Pilipino language. I was guessing that it must have been Chinese language which I can not read at all. To get around with this, use the following URL instead: http://www.google.com/m?hl=en ~ts

I believe some refers to this as usplash. Anyway just install Startup-Manager and use the application to change the boot up screen resolution. Tested on Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) ~ts

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