Registering Over and Over?

Being online about 9 hours a day, registering at miscellaneous website has been a routine task of mine when surfing among them. Over and over registration tires me when I’m asked to enter all the information about myself like name, gender, date of birth, email, timezone,Yahoo! ID, and etc. I wish all the websites were using Open ID in order to stop me doing such boring fill-in-the-form process.

Challenging this time-consuming task while on Internet, I’ve learned how to cope with this problem. Before I click on the Register button, I do fill in the Login form and make sure that I’m not registered here before. This saves much more time of mine when I’m not frustrated with the massage “Sorry, this username has already been taken“. Since I have a single username for all the services all round the Internet,  most of the time it works.

How to Remove the Background Color of the Desktop Icons

If you are using a computer which is not only yours, and others use it frequently and always put a finger in every PROHIBITED pies (settings) in Windows XP, you might have encountered the problem that I have just had.

I had Desktop Icons with annoying colored background which stopped me from enjoying the beauty of my desktop wallpaper. I tried some of the ways that I always use to fix the problem. None of them worked. I did some googling and some solutions found again. They were all the same as I already knew. I’ll put them all here; then I offer my own solution as the last resort.

1st suggestion:

- Right click on the desktop and hover on “Arrange Icons By”.
- From the appeared sub-menu, select “Lock Web Items on Desktop”.
- If it is checked, “uncheck” it.

2nd suggestion (alternative for the 1st suggestion):

- Right click on the desktop and select “Properties”.
- “Display Properties” window appears. Click on the “Desktop” tab.
- Click on the “Customize Desktop” button.
- On the “Desktop Items” you can add/remove or modify desktop items. Check “Lock desktop items” from the “Web” tab.

3rd suggestion (Achilles heel):

- Right click on “My Computer” and select “Properties”.
- Choose the “Advanced” tab, then click on the “Setting” button.
- You can check or uncheck the settings to the ones preferred.

If you are not sure of the appropriate settings, you may choose “Let Windows choose what’s best for my computer” or “Adjust for best appearance” as well.

I, myself, prefer the last solution because I did fixed mine using the last.