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Rename recycle Bin

How to Remane Recycle Bin? 1 . Start, Run, 'Regedit'. 2 . Press 'Ctrl'+'F' to open find box and type 'Recycle Bin' to search. 3 . Change any value data with 'Recycle Bin' to whatever name you want to give it ( ie, like 'Trash Can' or 'Dump' etc). 4 . Press F3 to continue searching for 'Recycle Bin' and change wherever you come across 'Recycle Bin' to new its new name. 5 . Repeat step 4 until you have finished with searching and changed all values to its new name. 6 . Close regedit and hit F5 on desktop to see the new name on screen. Note : As a good practice, always backup your registry before changing anything although changing 'Recycle Bin' name is a simple tweak and doesnt affect anything else.

Securing XP

1. NTFS Partition. 2. Disable Error Reporting 3. Disable Automatic Updates (only if your XP copy is pirated) 4. Disable "Recent Documents" Viewed 5. Setup XP Firewall 6. Setup screensaver password 7. Setup BIOS password 8. Setup "AfterBios" login password 9. Account Modifications -Rename Admin Account -Disable Guest Account -Disable Help_Assistant Account -Disable Support Account 10. Install a virus scanner. 11. Change Login Screen (default shows usernames) 12. Disable Remote Registry (and other services) 13. Disable/Change Auto-Search settings in IE. 1. NTFS Partition . Be sure to install XP onto an NTFS partition so that you (the admin) can take advantage of file permissions. You want this option so that "you" can decide who reads, writes, executes what files. If you didnt install XP onto an NTFS partition. Convert It. To convert to NTFS follow the instructions below. Open a command prompt and type "convert c: /FT:NTFS /v" This command will con...