How To Make Special Character

Have you ever wanted to create your own font or maybe just a special character—for example, a character showing your initials for approving documents with your “signature”? You can easily create your own characters using a hidden Windows XP tool called the Private Character Editor. Here’s how:

1. Press Windows + R to open the Run dialog box.
2. Type eudcedit in the Open text box and click OK.
3. When the Private Character Editor launches, you’ll see the Select Code dialog box. Click OK.
4. A user interface that looks and works very much like Paint will appear. Here, you can use standard tools to create your characters.
5. When you finish, select the Save Character command on the Edit menu.

Once you save your new character, you can access it using the Character Map tool. Here’s how:

1. Press Windows + R to open the Run dialog box.
2. Type charmap in the Open text box and click OK.
3. When the Character Map appears, select the Font drop-down list and select All Fonts (Private Characters).
4. Select your character, click the Select button, and then click the Copy button.

You can now paste your font character into any document that you want.

Fix File Security Warning

If you are on a network (most likely at work) and you click on a file somewhere on the network, perhaps a file server, and you get a popup box that says: Open File – Security Warning and the file won’t open, you need to follow this procedure:

1. Click "Start", then in the "Run" box, type: inetcpl.cpl .
2. Click the "Security" tab at the top .
3. Click "Trusted Sites", then click "Sites".
4. In the top box, type: https://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (enter the IP address of your server or other computer where the file is located). NOTE : the "s" at the end of "https:".
5. Click "Add" .
6. Uncheck "Require server verification (https: ) for all sites in this zone".
7. Click "Close".
8. Click on "Local Intranet" .
9. Click "Sites" .
10. Uncheck"Automatically detect intranet network".
11. Make sure all 3 items below are now checked.
12. Click OK and then click OK again.

Solve Locate Link Browser Pop-Up

If you found a pop-up box with words like “LOCATE LINK BROWSER” when you click on a link in an email, you are probably using Firefox as your default browser and you have probably just had an update to Firefox. When the update is installed, it changes registry setting which you will need to manually change per the following. After making the following changes, you will no longer get the Locate Link Browser message until the next time that Firefox is updated. Then, you will have to repeat the following Registry Edit.

1. Go to Start then Run then type regedit and click OK.Use the directory tree hierarchy to navigate to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\HTTP\shell\open\ddeexec”.
2. Delete the “ddeexec” registry key in it’s entirety
3. Repeat for “HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\HTTPS\shell\open\ddeexec”.
4. Repeat for “HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Firefox\URL\shell\open\ddeexec”.
5. Repeat for “HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\FirefoxHTML\shell\open\ddeexec”.

Fix Wireless Connection

Sometimes, we want to surf web by wireless function on laptop or netbooks. All configure properly, but why can't find any networks. To fix that, try to use this tips:

1. Make sure your wireless device is turned on.
2. Try to disable your firewall.
3. Check the installed driver for your wireless device.
4. Make sure Wireless Zero Configuration Services is enable.

To check Wireless Zero Configuration Services, follow this steps:

1. Go to Run then type services.msc
2. Windows Services will show. In the Services Name find Wireless Zero Configuration.
3. Double Click on Wireless Zero Configuration.
4. On Startup Type choose Automatic option and click Start on Services Status.

Prevent a Shutdown Tips

With these tips, the computer will not shutdown by access start menu then select Turn Off Computer option. Sometimes it is necessary to avoid someone to turn off our computers. For that do the following:

1. Launch the Registry Editor (Run->Regedit).
2. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Policies \ Explorer.
3. Right-click the Explorer subkey and select New | DWORD Value.
4. NoClose the key name and press Enter twice.
5. Type 1 in the Value Data text box and click OK.
6. Restart Computer.

Now, to be able to turn off the computer, just access Task Manager by pressing Ctrl + Alt + Delete, then pull down the Shut Down menu and select the Turn Off option.

Changing Font Display in Windows Explorer

As we know, Windows Explorer and My Computer display the same font that Windows XP uses for icon titles on your desktop, that is Tahoma 8pt. If you want to change the font or font size used in Windows Explorer, follow these steps:

1. Right-click on the desktop and select Properties to enter the menu on the Display Properties settings.
2. Select the Appearance tab.
3. Click the Advanced button.
4. Select Icon from the drop-down menu item.
5. Select the font you like dar the drop-down menu and the font size font.
6. Click OK to close the Advanced Appearance window and the Display Properties.

Slow Motion Animation

With this tips, you can enable “Slow Motion” animation on windows Vista. This tips will work if Windows Aero glass theme activated. To use it, holding the “shift” key while minimizing , maximizing , closing a window.

First, open notepad then copy paste code below to notepad

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\DWM]
"Animations"=dword:00000001
"AnimationsShiftKey"=dword:00000001

Or you can download the .reg file here