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Usually we remove Hardware by Clicking "Safely Remove Hardware" Icon Present in System Tray.Instead of doing that we can do a small hack to Launch "Safely Remove Dialog Box" by Creating Shortcut or assigning Hotkey(Best Method).

Right-click on the desktop and choose New -->Shortcut
Then paste in the following into the location box:
RunDll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL hotplug.dll

Next Give a Shortcut name, here i have given it as Safely Remove

Right-click on the Created Shortcut icon.

Open the properties dialog, then go to the Shortcut tab.

Now Assign a Shortcut key (Here i have assigned CTRL+F2).
Close the dialog box.

This hotkey will make a Fast launch of Safely Remove Dialog Box

Seeing the same old blue screen each time you login to Windows XP can get quite boring for you with passing time. Probably the best way to get rid of this blue screen is to use the direct login feature and not see the welcome screen at all but for multi user computers the welcome screen acts as a login portal and you can not disable it whatsoever. However there is a simple trick to change the welcome screen .

There are 2 ways to Change Welcom Screen:
Top 10 ways to Tweak your Windows Xp(Simplest way using Tuneup utilities)
or
Follow the below method

Change Windows Welcome (Login) Screen

Just make sure that you have the “Use welcome screen” option activated in Control Panel –> Users Accounts –> Logon and Logoff Options before trying to apply this trick.

Basically there are two ways to change your login screen. one is to either replace your default login screen with your new one and the other method is to play with the registry such that it recognizes the new login screen as the default one ..

The following steps will guide you how to over write your existing login screen with your new one.

Here are the steps

1. Make a backup copy of C:\windows\system32\logonui.exe

2. Rename your new login screen to logonui.exe

3. Overwrite the existing login screen file with your new login screen and thats it you are done.

Second method that will help Windows identify your new login screen as the default one. The good thing about this trick it that you don’t have to delete or replace your original login screen file. Here it goes.

1. Copy your custom login screen file under another name, let’s say logonuiA.exe, to C:\Windows\system3\
2. Open Start menu –> Run –> and type Regedit
3. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE –> SOFTWARE –> Microsoft –> Windows NT –> CurrentVersion –> Winlogon and change the value for UIHost to logonuiA.exe.

Revert To your Old Login Screen

If you ever feel like restoring your original login screen then all you have to do is use the backup copy of logonui.exe and paste it in C:\windows\system32\ and select over write.

If you do not have a windows enabled keyboard you can disable its use.

Navigate to the key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\KeyboardLayout. Look

for value of "Scancode Map". Its binary data. Set its value to "00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 03 00 00 00 00 00 5B E0 00 00 5C E0 00 00 00 00" to disable the win key.

Please be cautious while entering this lengthy key.

1.Go to Start/Run, and type: GPEDIT.MSC

2.Open the path : User Config > Admin Templates > Control Panel

3.doubleclick "Hide specified Control Panel applets"

4.put a dot in 'enabled', then click 'Show"

5.click Add button,type "nusrmgt.cpl" into the add box

Whenever you make a change to your windows you have to press F5 or do a manual refresh.
With this tweak you can tell windows to increase the rate at which it does the refreshing.

Navigate to the key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Update. Create a new
DWORD value, or modify the existing value, named UpdateMode and set it to equal "0" for
faster updates. Restart Windows for the change to take effect.