How to change the title of Windows Media Player?

You can change the title bar for the Windows Media Player

• Start Regedit
• Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\WindowsMediaPlayer (create a new key named WindowsMediaPlayer if its not there)
• Create a string value of TitleBar
• Give it a value of whatever you want to appear in the title bar

Getting MP3 ripping to work in Windows Media Player 8 in XP

Enter the following in the registry :

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftMediaPlayerSettingsMP3Encoding]
"LowRate"=dword:0000dac0
"MediumRate"=dword:0000fa00
"MediumHighRate"=dword:0001f400
"HighRate"=dword:0002ee00

This corresponds to 56, 64, 128 and 192 Kbps.

You can change this to your liking using the following dword hex values :

320 Kbps = dword:0004e200
256 Kbps = dword:0003e800
224 Kbps = dword:00036b00
192 Kbps = dword:0002ee00
160 Kbps = dword:00027100
128 Kbps = dword:0001f400
112 Kbps = dword:0001b580
64 Kbps = dword:0000fa00
56 Kbps = dword:0000dac0

How to fix NTLDR or NTDETECT.COM not found error

In the old Windows 9x days, we have seen "NTLDR or NTDETECT.COM Not Found" error quite too often. Nowadays, modern Windows XP era, these errors become less frequent, but still there. For me, normally, I've no idea how to fix these and I used to format my computer.

If you have FAT32 partitions or Windows 9x, it is much simpler than with NTFS.
Just boot with a Win98 floppy and copy the NTLDR or NTDETECT.COM files
from the i386 directory to the root of the C:\ drive.

But for NTFS or Windows XP, here are the steps:

* Insert and boot from your WindowsXP CD.
* At the first R=Repair option, press the R key
* Press the number to choose the location for the installation of Windows you want to repair.
* Typically this will be #1 unless you have dual-boot.
* Type in the administrator password. (If no password, just press Enter)
* Enter in the following commands (X: is drive letter of CDROM drive)
* COPY X:\i386\NTLDR C\:
* COPY X:\i386\NTDETECT.COM C:\
* Take out the CD ROM and type exit

Windows Control Panel applets

Windows Control Panel is great way of accessing windows administrative features. Some of those features are not available in traditional interface. Those features are hidden from normal GUI. The only way to access is from command line only. For example, control userpasswords2 is the only way to access from Run command.

To access these lists, go to Start Menu -->> Run and type the commands you want.

Control Panel applets

Applet name	Type at the Run command
Add Hardware	control hdwwiz.cpl
Add or Remove Programs	control appwiz.cpl
Administrative Tools	control admintools
Appearance Settings	control color
Audio Devices and Sound Themes	control mmsys.cpl
Date and Time	control timedate.cpl or control date/time
Display Settings	control desk.cpl or control desktop
Firewall	control firewall.cpl
Folder Options	control folders
Fonts	Explorer "\windows\fonts" or control fonts
Game Controllers	control joy.cpl
Infocard	control infocardcpl.cpl
iSCSI Initiator	control iscsicpl.cpl
Internet Options	control inetcpl.cpl
Keyboard	control main.cpl Keyboard or control keyboard
Mouse	control main.cpl or control mouse
Network Connections	control ncpa.cpl or control netconnections
Pen and Input Devices	control tabletpc.pcl
People Near Me	control collab.pcl
Phone and Modem Options	control telephon.cpl or control telephony
Power Options	control powercfg.cpl
Printers and Faxes	control printers
Regional and Language Options	control intl.cpl or control international
Scanners and Cameras	control sticpl.cpl
Windows Security Center	control wscui.cpl
Task Scheduler	control schedtasks
Text to Speech	control speech
System	control sysdm.cpl
User Accounts	control nusrmgr.cpl or control userpasswords or control userpasswords2

These commands will not only make you access more efficiently but also save you a lot of time.

Show Start Menu Faster

This is just minor and very easy tweak. If you think your start menu don't show up fast enough when you click, you can remove any delay from menus sliding out.

To do this, you can simply edit registry value.

* First Go to Start menu -->> Run
* Then type regedit, press enter
* Browse to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop
* You will see the key, called MenuShowDelay, with the value 400.
* Double click and change the value to 0.

Just like any other registry change to take effect, you need to restart your computer.

How to keep NumLock on for every boot

Every time you boot your computer, you observe that NumLock is off. But from your office or another computer, it boot with always NumLock is on. So you may want to make your computer to boot up with NumLock on too. How to make it?

Go to Registry Editor by

* Click Start Menu-->> Run -->> Type regedit
* And then go to this registry key.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Keyboard
* -Double click on InitialKeyboardIndicators
* -Type 2

After that you restart your computer and you will see the NumLock as the way you want it.

Error C00D11B1 in WMP while playing MP3 files or Audio CDs.

Whne you receive the error code C00D11B1 in Windows Media Player while playing Mp3 files or Audio Cd's, please try the following steps to fix the issue.

1. Click on the Start Menu.
2. Type regedit into the Start Search box and hit enter.
3. If asked for permission, click on Continue to open the Registry Editor
4. On the left-pane, navigate to the following: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Audio.
5. In the right-pane, double click on the text, DisableProtectedAudioDG, and change the value from 1 to 0.
6. Close the Registry Editor.
7. Restart your computer.
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http://drmlicense.one.microsoft.com/Indivsite/en/indivit.asp