Miscelleneous windows tips

Windows XP Tips and tricks
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/tips_page.htm

Nice site having huge archive of windows tips and tricks

iexpress - to create installer package (built into the windows natively)

Wndows forgotten password recovery methods

http://www.google.co.in/notebook/public/06626596722439644610/BDQNsIgoQzrqk-Ioi

Setup FTP Server on home computer

http://www.google.co.in/notebook/public/13533147217413439515/BDR-pLAoQrv6MuL8h

To check if PAE is enabled on a system or not:-
reg query "\\\HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management" /v "PhysicalAddressExtension

To Query all the installed softwares on a system:-
reg query \\computer name>\hklm\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\uninstall /s /v "DisplayName" |findstr "DisplayName"

How to disable compress folders in windows

Are the ZIP folders too slow for you? Disable it by unregistering the file zipfldr.dll.
regsvr32 /u zipfldr.dll