4 Tricks in XP

Make XP to speak what you type:

No need to install any software or no need to download anything.
here is the simplest trick to make xp to speak what you type.
open Notepad and type the following text:

Dim msg, sapi

msg=InputBox("Enter your text","Talk it")

Set sapi=CreateObject("sapi.spvoice")

sapi.Speak msg

save it as "filename.vbs"

Then open the file. it'll ask you enter text,within 1 second you can hear the sound.

Folder Without Name:

click Rename press

alt + 0160
or
alt + 1023

now there's name to folder

alt+ASCII will produce the character associated with the ASCII value.
for eg:
alt+97 will produce 'a' character.

Lock the Folder without any software:

You can hide the folder and it can't be find when we click show hidden files and show protected
files using commands in cmd.

1. open cmd
2. get to the folder path.
3. and type "attrib +s +h folder_name" (without quotes)
4. this will hide completely.
5. to unhide type "attrib -s -h folder_name" (without quotes)
   

Change Logon Wallpaper In Windows XP

Open Startmenu->Run type regedit and press ok to open registry editor.(shows a tree like structure of directories at left)

In that hierarchical structure in left, navigate to registry entry
HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop

In right side pane see a number of values placed in a table format. choose the value named Wallpaper from there and double click it. Now you see a box with value name as Wallpaper and value data as Path to the image file .There give the full path of the image(bmp file) which you want to set as logon wallpaper by deleting previous path and writing path to your bmp file e.g. C:\WINDOWS\lon.BMP (to set image lon.BMP file as log on wall paper).

Also double click on WallpaperStyle and change it’s value to 2 to get a stretched wallpaper at logon.

Put that bmp file in windows directory for better results.
If that is a jpeg file, convert to bmp file by opening in Windows Image Viewer and save as bmp.