Thursday, February 02, 2006

Useful Tricks

Add cool & useful icons to your desktop
(by Perris, aka «dealer»)
1) « Restart » button on your desktop
1. Create a shortcut (Right-click on desktop, select New > Shortcut).

2. For location, type the following:
shutdown -r -t 0

3. Click Next, enter a name for the shortcut ("Restart" is appropriate), and click Fini

2) « System restore » shortcut on desktop
the target is %SystemRoot%\System32\restore\rstrui.exe

3) « Device manager » on desktop
target %windir%\system32\mmc.exe c:\windows\system32\devmgmt.msc

4) « Registry » on desktop
target C:\WINDOWS\regedit.exe
5) « Task Manager » on desktop
target C:\WINDOWS\system32\taskmgr.exe