The process of creating a custom “Manufactured and Supported by” logo involves two parts.

1) First you have to create a logo with the size not bigger than 180×114 pixels. Save it as a bitmap file with the name oemlogo.bmp. Save the file inside C:\WINDOWS\system32 subfolder.

2) Create an configuration file with a text editor and save it as oeminfo.ini. Save this file also inside C:\WINDOWS\system32 subfolder. My configuration file looks like this:

[general]
Manufacturer=blah
Model=

[Support Information]
Line1= Windows 2003 is better Than Windows Vista
Line2= Osx is better than Windows 2003
Line3= Ubuntu is better Than OSX

Windows in it’s default setting doesn’t allow you to CMD from a specific folder by “Right-click”, or any other reasonably easy way. Even doing trivial tasks like moving from one folder to another is no easy task. The best way to do this would be go to Starts –> Run –> CMD –> Ok; than browse to your desired folder. Or you could put a cmd.exe in every single folder. None of the options are very convenient.

We could do a little registry hack to make “CMD Here” option appear in every folder by a simple right click, and it will prompt from the desired folder, like this.

For this hack we have to edit the registry. Go to Start –> Run –> Regedit.

The entry that we will edit is located under, HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ Directory\shell, we will navigate into that folder and add a new key called “command”, edit the entry and call it whatever you want. I named it “CMD Here”, which is what it will say when you right click a folder.

Now create another key right under the “command” key with the same name. But the value for this entry would be cmd.exe /k “cd %L, basically it is calling cmd from the given folder.

That’s it! Just close the Regedit window and any other explorer window open. Open a new explorer window and you will see this new option to open command prompt from that folder by right click. If you are a heavy command prompt user you will find this option very useful.

Power Defragmenter is based on the free contig defragmentation tool developed by the guys at sysinternals. “ Contig is a single-file defragmenter that attempts to make files contiguous on disk. Its perfect for quickly optimizing files that are continuously becoming fragmented, or that you want to ensure are in as few fragments as possible. “

For me this is much better than the windows built-in defragmentation tool. Power Defragmenter has a simple, straight-forward GUI with easy options. You can choose from four defragmentation options:

1) Defragment Files
2) Defragment Folders
3) Defragment Disks
4) Powermode Disk Fragmentation

The last option defragments the files and than tidy up the drive for optimum performance.

Power Defrag in action:

Download Power Defragmenter GUI 2.0.125:
http://www.majorgeeks.com/Power_Defragmenter_GUI_d4647.html

Download Contig by itself from sysinternals:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897428.aspx