Go to Start –> Control Panel

Open up Scheduled Tasks

Click on File –> New –> Scheduled Tasks

Name it whatever you like, I named it Auto Lock

Open up Auto Lock Under the Task Tab, add the following to the Run: Textbox

%windir%\system32\rundll32.exe user32.dll, LockWorkStation

Click on the Schedule Tab

Under Schedule Task: drop down menu, select When Idle

On the Schedule Task When Idle option, set an appropriate Idle time, I set it as 10 Minute(s)

Click Apply, and you will have a popup to add password. Type in the password and confirm it. (I use the same password as my XP login password)

That’s it, It should auto lock your PC after it reaches the set idle time.

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If you want to shutdown a computer running XP by a click of an icon, follow these rules…

Create a Shortcut by (Right Click -> New -> Shortcut ) and add the following to the location of the item…

shutdown -s -t 0

And Click Finish.

That’s it, when you double click the Icon, your machine will shutdown automatically!

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Search Companion Window (start ==> search) comes up empty after I uninstalled my McAfee Virus scanner. I guess McAfee did not restored to the original dlls when I uninstalled it, Here is how I fixed it…

Start ==> Run

Type in the following lines one by one and press enter.


regsvr32 vbscript.dll
regsvr32 jscript.dll
regsvr32 urlmon.dll


I did the above task and worked for me.

McAfee needs to sort their AV Scanner out!

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To speed up your XP machine, you can disable a number of unwanted services.

To disable unneeded startup services for a safer, use the “Services” Admin Tool (Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Services). If you are a single user of a non-networked machine, you can disable the following items, with no ill effect.

• Alerter
• Clipbook
• Computer Browser
• Fast User Switching
• Human Interface Access Devices
• Indexing Service (Slows the hard drive down)
• Messenger
• Net Logon (unnecessary unless networked on a Domain)
• Netmeeting Remote Desktop Sharing (disabled for extra security)
• Remote Desktop Help Session Manager (disabled for extra security)
• Remote Procedure Call Locator
• Remote Registry (disabled for extra security)
• Routing & Remote Access (disabled for extra security)
• Server
• SSDP Discovery Service (this is for the utterly pointless “Universal P’n'P”, & leaves TCP Port 5000 wide open)
• TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper
• Telnet (disabled for extra security)
• Universal Plug and Play Device Host
• Upload Manager
• Windows Time
• Wireless Zero Configuration (for wireless networks)
• Workstation

It shouldn’t give you any problems at all.

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