Hideing windows drives from Windows Explorer

Step 1, Open the Registry Editor

Click on Start Button and click on “Run”. Now type “regedit” and press enter.

Step 2, Create Registry Key

Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer. Now right click on this key and select “New > DWORD”. This will create a new DWORD value in right pan. Name it to “NoDrive”.

Step 3, Show/Hide Drives

To sole all drives in Windows Explorer, set the value of “NoDrive” DWORD to 0 else use flowing corresponding decimal numbers to hide specific drive.

Drive	Decimal Value
A:	1
B:	2
C:	4
D:	8
E:	16
F:	32
G:	64
H:	128
I:	256
……	………
Z:	33554432
All Drives	67108863

Create a bootable Windows XP Service Pack2 CD from orignal Windows XP CD

Step 1, Copy all your Windows XP CD-ROM contents to hard drive

First, you need to find your Windows XP CD-ROM (any full version of Windows XP Home or Pro. Edition) and copy the contents of the CD to your hard drive’s partition on which you have enough space (may be 2 GB).

Suppose you have enough space on drive D, then create a folder on D drive and rename it to xp (d:\xp). Now copy all the files from CD-Rom to this folder.

Step 2, Get Windows XP Service Pack 2 and extract it

Download Windows XP Service Pack 2 from the Microsoft Web Site or copy it from Windows XP Service Pack 2 CD-ROM. The name of download version of Service Pack is WindowsXP-KB835935-SP2-ENU-.exe, while the CD-ROM version is xpsp2.exe. Now rename this as sp2.exe to make easy your task.

Now you need to extract this service pack. To do this, click on “Start” button on “Taskbar” and select “Run”. Type “cmd” and press “Enter”.

Now navigate to the directory, containing Service Pack using “Command Prompt”, type this sp2.exe –x:d:\sp2 and press “Enter”.

For example,
D:\
D:\sp2.exe –x:d:\sp2 [Enter]

Your computer will seem to pause for a bit, and then an Extracting Files dialog will come up and display the process. After completion a confirmation dialog will appear, press OK to continue.

Step 3, Combine XP with with Service Pack

Using “Command Prompt”, navigate to SP2 extraction directory (in this example d:\sp2) and give the following commands.

cd i386 [Enter]
cd update [Enter]
update –s:d:\xp [Enter]

After a short pause, XP SP2 Setup will combine, or slipstream, the SP2 files into the XP install. When it’s completed, you will see the confirmation dialog. Click on OK.

Step 4, Extracting boot image to make your new CD bootable

Before you simply burn the resulting file set to a CD, you need to make sure that you have a hidden file found on your Windows XP CD-ROM that will make your new CD bootable. You can’t garb this file with “My Computer”. You need a third party shareware tool called ISOBuster, which you can find in download session.

After you download and install ISOBuster, choose to use only the product’s fee functionality, unless you decide to purchase it, which wouldn’t be a bad idea.

Now, run the tool. On the left-side tree view, make sure you have selected the node named Bootable CD. You should see a file called Microsoft Corporation.img (or similar; it will be named something.img) in the right side of ISOBuster. Right-Click on it and choose Extract Microsoft Corporation.img. When ISOBuster pompts you, choose to download it to root of your D drive. Now close ISOBuster.

Step 5, Make a bootable XP SP2 CD

Start “My Computer” and make a note of the name of your Windows Xp CD(my CD happens to be named WXPVOL_EN because it’s a volume license version of XP Professional, but yours will likely be different). Then, eject the XP CD and place a burnable CD (CD-R or CD-RW) in your CD Burner, and dismiss any autorun dialog box XP might display.

Now, you’re ready to burn your new, bootable Windows XP SP2 CD. How you do this will depend on the CD writing software you use. Here we are making a bootable XP SP2 CD with Nero Burning Rom 6.

First, start Nero Burning ROM and chose CD-ROM (Boot) from the New Compilation’s Boot page. Then, under “Source of boot image data,” choose “Image file” and select D:\Microsoft Corporation.img by clicking the Browse button. Then, select the option titled “Enabled expert settings (for advanced users only)” and change “Kind of emulation” to No Emulation, and change “Number of loaded sectors” to 4. The “Load segment of sectors” option should remain at its default value of 07C0. When this step is completed, the Nero Burning ROM application should resemble all this.

Now, select the “Label” page in Nero Burning ROM. Under “Volume Label, ISO 9660” enter the name of your CD (e.g. WXPVOL_IN). Now click on “New” button. The New Compilation dialog disappears and the main window of Nero Burning ROM is available. On the right side of the application, in the File Browser area, navigate to D:\XP. Then, select all of the files inside of that directory and copy them over the new CD.

Now you’re ready to burn the CD. Click Burn icon in the toolbar, or choose Recorder and then Burn Compilation, and then click the Burn button.

Invention V/S Innovation

Computer technology have been done revolution many times. Kindly give regard to some human’s great innovative nature. I accept with sorry that I have knowledge about just few of them. But the finest way to give them honour that we must do a little bit innovative task, not only in computers but also in other fields.Many great invention change the universe a lot, but innovation made the inventions useful and upgrade technology according to our needs. As James Watt invented steam engine, but innovation give us bullet trains. Charles Babbage give us diffrence engine, innovation give us laptops and palmtops. Today’s cell phones technology have so much facilities but do you really think that a person who is not familer with these letest techs can use all the facilities. Even how many times you use your cell phone’s GPRS, BlueTooth, Infrared and Voice Chat etc. So friends inventions are must, but to make inventions useful and easy, there are need a lot of innovations.

Friends, I don’t want that you sitback and do a 24hrs research. For me innovations also could be a simple trick, just like MACRO in MS-Word. If you use a specific formatting on your text like a particuler size, font, align, line spacing, character specing etc. and each time you perform these sequantial steps again & again. But with a macro you can do these steps by run a specific macro, made by you. That type of simple innovations can provide you a lot more, which you have with your inventions.

Innovation is nothing more then applying ingenious ideas to inventions so that they become usable and more usefull for normal people like us and friends to innovate new things no body comes from out of the world. We need to develop this quality in our self, we are the people who innovate new things.

So friend I hope that in comming decade we innovate new things overcome invent new things.

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