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Saturday, September 25, 2010

Change windows system icons without any software.......



Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Icons]
Key between("0"-"40")Your icon file with full path in double quotes("value")


*[example:  (for changing icon of closed folder)
"3"="c:\my folder.ico"]

save above code with .reg extension and merge(open) it...


here are all keys and their description....

0= Unknown file type
1= MSN file types
2= Applications Generic
3= Closed Folder
4= Open Folder
5= 5.25" Drive
6= 3.25" Drive
7= Removable Drive
8= Hard Drive
9= NetWork Drive
10= Network Drive Offline
11= CD-ROM Drive
12= RAM Drive
13= Entire Network
14= Network Hub
15= My Computer
16= Printer
17= Network Neighborhood
18= Network Workgroup
19= Start Menu's Program Folders
20= Start Menu's Documents
21= Start Menu's Setting
22= Start Menu's Find
23= Start Menu's Help
24= Start Menu's Run
25= Start Menu's Suspend
26= Start Menu's PC Undock
27= Start Menu's Shutdown
28= Shared
29= Shortcut Arrow
30= (Unknown Overlay)
31= Recycle Bin Empty
32= Recycle Bin Full
33= Dial-up Network
34= DeskTop
35= Control Panel
36= Start Menu's Programs
37= Printer Folder
38= Fonts Folder
39= Taskbar Icon
40= Audio CD

Friday, September 24, 2010

Creating odbc link for MS Access database simply by windows registry......

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ODBC\ODBC.INI\ODBCL]
"Driver"="%SystemDirectory%\\odbcjt32.dll"
"DBQ"= Your MS Access database file name with full path in double quotes("")
"Description"= discription of your db in double quotes("")
"DriverId"=dword:00000019
"FIL"="MS Access;"
"SafeTransactions"=dword:00000000
"UID"=""

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ODBC\ODBC.INI\ODBCL\Engines]

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ODBC\ODBC.INI\ODBCL\Engines\Jet]
"ImplicitCommitSync"=""
"MaxBufferSize"=dword:00000800
"PageTimeout"=dword:00000005
"Threads"=dword:00000003
"UserCommitSync"="Yes"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ODBC\ODBC.INI\ODBC Data Sources]
"ODBCL"="Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb)"




*Note- copy above code in a file and save it by [.reg] extension....
replace every "ODBCL" by your "data source name" and change line 4 & 5 by instructions which are given with them....