Fun Tips: Add “Speak” Option to the Context Menu

The incredible NirCmd utility has a new "talk" command that allows you to train your team to discuss the text you want. In order to use the NirCmd speech library (SAPI), which is the case with any Windows XP and Windows Vista. Here is a fun piece about how to add the word of command from the context menu of text documents (*. txt).

1. Download NirCmd.zip.
2. Unzip the file and extract the contents to a folder.
3. Move NirCmd.exe to the C:\Windows directory.
4. Download speak.zip, unzip and run the file speak.reg
5. Right-Click on a Text Document and click Speak.

The system reads out the entire contents of the text file for you!

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The REG file adds the following registry key:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ txtfile \ shell \ Speak \ Command

And sets the (default) value data to:

nircmd.exe speak file "%1"

To dictate the entire contents of a text file manually, use this command line:

nircmd.exe speak file "path:\filename"

How to Renaming the Start Button?

To rename the start button, you will need a hex editor. As a editor you can use Ultra Edit. Then follow the steps given billow.

1. Copy the \windows\explore.exe file to a new name (e.g. explorer_1.exe)
2. With the hex editor, open that file and go to offset 412b6
3. You will see the word start with blanks between each letter
4. Edit it be any 5 characters or less
5. Save the file
6. Boot to DOS
7. Copy the existing c:\windows\explorer.exe to explorer.org
8. Copy explorer_1.exe to explorer.exe
9. You will also need to replace the explorer.exe in the c:\windows\system32\dllcache file as well with the new one.

Note: If the partition is NTFS and you can't access the files from DOS:

1. Start Regedit
2. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows NT \ CurrentVersion \ Winlogon.
3. Change the value of Shell from Explorer.exe to explorer_1.exe

How to Reserving Resources from PnP Devices?

If you sure you Windows95 Plug and Play device (IRQ, I/O etc) does not provide some resources, Try it now.

1. Open up the Device Manager
2. Double click on Computer
3. Click on the Reserve Resources tab
4. Click on the Resource you want to reserve
5. Click on the Add button
6. Enter the value
7. Click on the OK button