Remap your keyboard

Todays keyboards have many legacy keys that are of little or no use. Take for example the scroll-lock key or the caps lock key. It is possible to remap the keyboard keys with SharpKeys.

Sharpkeys is a very small utility that allows you to remap any key on your keyboard to another key. It does not stay resident in memory, instead it writes to the registry and then you can just exit it.

The only downside is that you have to reboot your system.

Disabling Autorun in Windows XP

Many of the common viruses, nowadays, transmit themselves using usb-drives. One thing required to protect from getting infected as soon as you plug in an infected usb-drive/CD is to disable the autorun feature.

You will need to run the following reg file to disable it:
http://ali.jan.googlepages.com/noautorun.reg