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Well, Have you tried to create A folder named CON in Windows

Well, Try to create a folder in windows platform with the name CON, AUX, COM1, C
OM2, COM3, COM4, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, PRN, NUL....
You cant able to do it...
Its just because of some system calls of this services already been there for th
ose names. So If you try to create or delete those system calls, It will restric
t you in doing them... But I have a solution to this..
Try the following steps.. :

STEP1: goto command prompt

STEP2: type in prompt c:\> "md \\.\c:\con"
STEP3: verify by typing "dir \\.\c:\con"
STEP4: delete the file or folder "rd \\.\c:\con"
Now you can see a folder named con in your c drive... Give replies...
2.Changing the Boot Screen of Windows XP
Well, To change the boot screen, you first need to download appropriate boot scr
een from the personal website.
There are lots of bootscreen in different websites like themexp.org. First downl
oad those files from there.
The names of all the files will be like ntskrnl.exe. Just backup the original fi
le from your windows/system32 directory.
And just paste it there. Or you can rename the new file just downloaded to anoth
er name, say abc.exe. and
paste it to the windows/system32 directory. If the file name is changed, you nee
d to add an entry to the boot.ini file.
Just open my computer and type c:\boot.ini in the address bar. you will be give
n with a text editor. just in the last line paste like the following..
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional"
/fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn /KERNEL=abc.exe

3.Exiting windows In Cool Quick way

Normally it takes a hell lot of time just Shutting down Windows, you have to mov
e your mouse to the Start Button, click on it,
move it again over Shut Down, click, then move it
over the necessary option and click, then move the cursor over the OK button and
once again (you guessed it) click.
This whole process can be shortened by creating shortcuts on the Desktop which w
ill shut down Windows at the click of a button.
Start by creating a new shortcut( right click and select New> Shortcut). Then in
the command line box, type (without the quotes.)
'C:\windows\rundll.exe user.exe,exitwindowsexec'
This Shortcut on clicking will restart Windows immediately without any Warning.
To create a Shortcut to Restarting Windows,
type the following in the Command Line box:
'c:\windows\rundll.exe user.exe,exitwindows'
This Shortcut on clicking will shut down Windows immediately without any Warning
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4.To Lock a folder in windows XP without any software. Follow the steps Below.
Make a Folder in C drive rename it as "abc" without quotes.
Now open Command Prompt from Start Menu.
Type "attrib +s +h C:\abc" without quotes and press enter.
This command will Make your folder invisble and it can not be seen even in hidde
n files and folders
To make it visible again type "attrib -s -h C:\abc"
You can lock any other folder also by changing the location C:\abc to address of
your folder.
5.Startup Screen
Create a 320x400 bitmap in the root directory and name it LOGO.SYS
You can use LOGOW.SYS file in the Windows directory as a starter
Logoff Screens
There are many system file that constitutes Lofoff screen.
They are actually bitmaps 320x400 that just have a different extension
The hidden file in the root directory LOGO.SYS is the startup logo.
There are two files in the Windows directory.
LOGOW.SYS is the Wait while Shutting down ... screen.
LOGOS.SYS is the You may now shut-off or Reboot screen.
Make two new image files of your chice in Paint and name it as LOGOW.SYS and LOG
OS.SYS and replce the actual windows file by this two.
But make sure they should be of the same size

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