See who is invisible in Yahoo:
See who is invisible in yahoo messenger.
Download this[100% working]
hxxp://rapidshare.com/files/61785563/BuddySpySetup.exe
Change hxxp to http
If you r scanning for a person be sure that he/she is in your friends list
If he/she is not in your friends list then you may not get right result
Use pc as an alarm
Now this is specially for the ones who are too lazy to get up even when the trust cellphone dies screeching its lungs out. Its pretty simple Creating the playlist create a playlist of your favourite songs in Winamp, WMP or any other player. Export the playlist as a M3U playlist. M3U is generally accepted by almost every player. Triggering the alarm point to start> programs >accessories > system tools >scheduled tasks Create a new task and choose program as windows media player or winamp (May work with others too but I haven't tried anything else) Choose "daily", Enter the time and choose "every day" at next screen. It would now ask for password (leave blank in case you don't have one) Right click on the newly created task and check the "run only if logged in" check box. In the properties. Append the path to the playlist you created in the "run" text box. It should now look like Code:
Code:
"D:\windows mediaplayer\wmplayer.exe"K:\Playlists\smoothies.m3uthe text inside quotes is my WMP's path. It may vary for you. The text after WMP's path is the one to the playlist. Click OK and you're done
If you want to change any settings without opening control panel, you can use following shortcuts :
=ACCESSIBILITY CONTROLS: (Keyboard, Sound, Display, Mouse, General)
Start --> Run --> Type 'access.cpl'
=ADD/REMOVE PROGRAMS:
Start --> Run --> Type 'appwiz.cpl'
=DISPLAY PROPERTIES: (Themes, Desktop, Screen Saver, Appearance, Settings)
Start --> Run --> Type 'desk.cpl'
=ADD NEW HARDWARE:
Start --> Run --> Type 'hdwwiz.cpl'
=CONFIGURE INTERNET EXPLORER & INTERNET PROPERTIES: (General, Security, Privacy, Content, Connections, Programs, Advanced)
Start --> Run --> Type 'inetcpl.cpl'
=REGIONAL SETTINGS: (Regional Options, Languages, Advanced)
Start --> Run --> Type 'intl.cpl'
=GAME CONTROLLERS:
Start --> Run --> Type 'joy.cpl'
=MOUSE PROPERTIES & SETTINGS: (Buttons, Pointers, Pointer Options, Wheel, Hardware)
Start --> Run --> Type 'main.cpl'
=SOUNDS & AUDIO: (Volume, Sounds, Audio, Voice, Hardware)
Start --> Run --> Type 'mmsys.cpl'
=NETWORK PROPERTIES:
Start --> Run --> Type 'ncpa.cpl'
=USERS ACCOUNTS:
Start --> Run --> Type 'nusrmgr.cpl'
=POWER CONFIGURATION: (Power Schemes, Advanced, Hibernate, UPS)
Start --> Run --> Type 'powercfg.cpl'
=SYSTEM PROPERTIES: (General, Computer Name, Hardware, Advanced, System Restore, Automatic Updates, Remote)
Start --> Run --> Type 'sysdm.cpl'
=PHONE & MODEM OPTIONS: (Dialing Rules, Modems, Advanced)
Start --> Run --> Type 'telephon.cpl'
=DATE & TIME PROPERTIES: (Date & Time, Time Zone, Internet Time)
Start --> Run --> Type 'timedate.cpl'
^^^
Start -- > Run --> Type 'control date/time'
Launches the Date and Time Properties window
Start -- > Run --> Type 'control desktop'
Launches the Display Properties window
Start -- > Run --> Type 'control color'
Launches the Display Properties window with the Appearance tab preselected 7:41 am (1½ hours ago) dilip ..life is
create user in command mode
In 2003 server,you can use the inbuilt dsadd for creating users.
Example:Say you want to create a user named ABC in OU say IT,domain:test.com,you can do this as :
dsadd user "CN=ABC,CN=IT,DC=domain,DC=com"
Hidden music..in Xp
you know, there is a hidden music in Windows XP that you have never heard..
To hear this sound, first of all go to Folder Options and under the "View" tab, check "Show hidden files and folder" and uncheck "Hide protected system files".
Now navigate to the drive where Windows XP is installed.So if C:\ is the drive where Windows XP is installed, goto
C:\WINDOWS\system32\oobe\images
There you will find a file Title.wma.Open in with media player and listen to it.
Play movie in Paint
Step 1:Open Ms Paint.
Step 2:Open your Video player.
Step 3:Click on the Print screen Button on your keyboard.
Step 4:In Ms Paint us the shortcut ctrl+v or got to the Edit Tab and choose Paste option.
Step 5:Bingo!!!!No step 5.The movie is playing.
Note: 1.This works only with Ms Paint.
2.For the movie to play in Paint the video player should not be closed and the movie should not be paused in the player.
Decrease the starting time of ur pc
Right Click on the start button then press R it will take u to Run well go to run
n type Regedit
press enter
this will open Registery Editor
now look for the key
HKEY_LOACAL_MECHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\ContentIndex
now there find the Key Called
"Startup Delay"
Double Click On It
Now where its Base
Click Decimal
Now its Default Value Is 4800000 (75300:hexadecimal)
Change The Value To 40000
here u go u have done it
now close the Registery Editor and Restart Your Computer
After restarting ur pc u'll find it that ur pc is getting started much faster than the ealier longer period.
Insert your name in the bottom right taskbar!
Open Control Panel -> Regional and Language Options -> Customize ->Time
here u can see A.M. and P.M. change it with u r name
Find IP address in Yahoo Mail
1. Log into your Yahoo! mail with your username and password.
2. Click on Inbox or whichever folder you have stored your mail.
3. Open the mail.
4. If you do not see the headers above the mail message, your headers are not displayed.To display the headers,
* Click on Options on the top-right corner
* In the Mail Options page, click on General Preferences
* Scroll down to Messages where you have the Headers option
* Make sure that Show all headers on incoming messages is selected
* Click on the Save button
* Go back to the mails and open that mail
5. You should see similar headers like this:
Yahoo! headers : ******* (sender's name)
Look for Received: from followed by the IP address between square brackets [ ].
That is be the IP address of the sender!
6. Track the IP address of the sender.....
Not sure of website address
Not sure of website address and want to try out all possible options ?
Most of the computer users would choose to type less if they are given such an option. Problem is for many of us, to find that option itself is challenging enough! Anyway I am talking to those folks who don't have habit of typing complete domain names and want the computer/Internet to do the job. Here are some of the registry changes that can widen your search domain.. If in Internet options, Display result and go to most likely site or just go to most likely site is enabled, you can type only the domain root in the Address box and Internet Explorer attempts to locate the correct Web site by searching different domain types. For example, if you type "Microsoft" in the Address box, Internet Explorer searches the domain types in the Autoscan list until a domain name match is found (in this case, www.microsoft.com).
By default, Internet Explorer searches the following domain types when the Autoscan Common Root Domains option is enabled:.
.com, .org, .net, .edu
To add a domain type to the Autoscan search list, add the string value "" with a value of "%s." and a string value "" with a value of "www.%s." (without quotation marks), where is the next available number and is the domain type, under the following registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Internet Explorer/Main/Url Template For example, if you want to add the .gov domain type and there are already 7 domain types listed, add a string value "8" with a value of "%s.gov" and a string value "9" with a value of www.%s.gov. NOTE: The order in which Internet Explorer searches domains is based on the string value.For example, the domain type associated with string value 1 is searched before the domain type associated with string value 2.
Improve your pc's performance.
Go to run and type "services.msc". A list of background services will be displayed and clicking on each will display a brief description. Here is a list of services you can disable if you have a standalone computer:
1.Computer Browser.
2.Messenger.
3.Net Logon.
4.Net meeting remote desktop share.
5.Performance logs and alerts.
6.Network provisioning service.
7.Qos RSVP.
8.Remote desktop help.
9.Remote Registry.
10.TCP/IP netbios helper service.
11.Terminal Services.
12.Wireless Zero Configuration.
13.Smart Card.
Note:Some sevices may be already disabled.
This will free some space on your memory
Cleaning Recent Docs Menu and the RUN
The Recent Docs menu can be easily disabled by editing the Registry. To do this go to
the following Key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\ Windows\
CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer. Now in the right pane, create a new DWORD value
by the name: NoRecentDocsMenu and set it's value to 1. Restart Explorer to save the
changes. You can also clear the RUN MRU history. All the listings are stored in the
key:HKEY_USERS\.Default\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ Explorer
\ RunMRU. You can delete individual listings or the entire listing. To delete History
of Find listings go to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ Microsoft \ Windows
\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Doc Find Spec MRUand delete.
Find Every File
When you search for a file in Windows Windows searches only for file types it
recognizes. Files that aren't listed in the 'Registered file types' list are ignored.
Fortunately, a simple edit of the Registry will make Windows search for every file,
regardless of its extension. Open the Registry Editor as described above, and then
navigate to and select:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\ContentIndex.
Double-click the FilterFilesWithUnknownExtensions icon in the right pane, change
the 0 in the 'Value data' box to 1, and press Enter.
To ensure that Windows XP searches for every possible file, select All Files and
Folders under 'Type of file' in the Search Companion pane. (If you don't see this
option, click More Advanced Options.) Check Search system folders, Search hidden
files and folders, and Search subfolders (as desired). In Windows 2000, click Search
Options, check Type, and make sure that (All Files and Folders) is selected in the
resulting drop-down menu. Check Advanced Options, and make sure Search
Subfolders is checked. Finally, to ensure that Windows 2000 finds system and hidden
files, choose Tools, Folder Options and click the View tab. In the 'Advanced settings'
list, select Show hidden files and folders. Uncheck Hide protected operating system
files (Recommended), click Yes to acknowledge the warning, and finish by clicking
OK.
Resize Your Wallpaper
If you just switched to a wide-screen monitor, your desktop wallpaper image may no
longer look right, or maybe you just want to make a small adjustment to it.
For more-granular control of your wallpaper's placement, highlight the following key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ControlPanel\desktop
Double-click the WallpaperOriginX icon in the right pane. (If you don't see this icon,
right-click in this pane, choose New, String Value, type WallpaperOriginX to name
the value, and press
position of your wallpaper's left edge, and press
WallpaperOriginY icon (create it if necessary as explained above) and enter a number
for the starting vertical position of the image's top edge. If your wallpaper image is
larger than the screen, type a negative number (for example, -200) to push the
picture's top or left edge off the screen.
To test the effect, first minimize the Registry Editor (and any other open window),
right-click the desktop, choose Properties, and click OK or Apply to refresh the
wallpaper placement. Repeat these steps as needed until the wallpaper is positioned
correctly.The settings work whether you've set your wallpaper to be centered, tiled, or
stretched.
Automatically Killing Tasks on Shutdown
You start to shut down the computer, you wait a few moments,
and then you see a dialog box asking if you want to kill an application or service that
is running. Instead of prompting you, you can make Windows XP take care of the kill
task automatically. Here's how:
1. Open the Registry Editor.
2. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop.
3. Highlight the value AutoEndTasks and change the value to 1.
4. Close the Registry Editor
Reducing the Wait Time
When you start to shut down Windows XP, it has to quit, or "kill," any live
applications or processes that are currently running. So close all applications first.
However, some applications and processes are always running in the background.
You can reduce the amount of time that Windows XP waits for those applications and
processes to close before Windows XP kills them.
1. Open registry editor
2. Navigate to HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop. Set the
WaitToKillAppTimeout and set the value to 1000. Select the HungAppTimeout
\newline value and set it to 1000 as well. {mine r set to 100.}
3. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control.
Select the WaitToKillServiceTimeout value and set it to 10000. {mine is set to 100.}
4. Close the Registry Editor.
Stop Error Messages from Displaying on Startup
If you constantly see an error message that you can't get rid offor example, from a piece of software that didn't uninstall properly and continues to give errors on startupyou can disable it from displaying on startup. Run the Registry Editor and go to HKEY_LOCAL MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Windows. (This key holds a variety of Windows system settings, such as the location of your system directory.) Create a new DWORD called NoPopupsOnBoot and give it a value of 1. Exit the Registry and reboot for the setting to take effect. To disable it, either delete the DWORD value or give it a value of 0.
Unable to Open Certain Web Sites?
Try These Steps
From the IE window, go to ToolsInternet OptionsAdvanced and uncheck the
option Enable third party browsing extensions. Now restart IE.
Go to StartRun and type regsvr32 actxprxy.dll (follow next bullet point too)
Go to StartRun and type regsvr32 shdocvw.dll and reboot.
Open ToolsInternet OptionsPrivacy tab and put one of these web sites in the list
which can be located by clicking the Sites button.
Try putting the web site in the "Trusted Zone" and if this fixes the problem, you can
begin to diagnose cookie/script problems with that site and your Internet zone
settings.
If you are a dial-up user and your ISP have more than one local number for dialup,
remove the primary number that is dialing up first and use the secondary dialup
number. Clear the checkbox for Negotiate multilink for single link connections
under the PPP settings.
A file in your Windows folder called 'hosts' (no extension) may have an incorrect IP
address for the page. To find out, open Windows Explorer, select your C:\Windows
folder, and look in the right pane for a hosts file. If you can't find it in your Windows
folder, this isn't your problem. If you do find a hosts file, open it in Notepad and look
for a line referring to the page that's giving you trouble. If it's there, enter # at the
beginning of the line. Save and exit the file.
Go to ToolsInternet OptionsConnectionsLan Settings. Uncheck Use a proxy
server. Now restart IE.
These steps will definitely solve the issues
Reply with quote
CD Writer is Not Fast Enough..?
Open My Computer, right-click the CD Drive icon, and then click Properties. Click the
Recording tab to display the settings. Under "Select a write Speed" Choose the "Fastest". If
still having a problem, then choose a speed like 18x or a medium speed. This will resolve
almost all the issues.
EnableDisable Registry Editing tools
Copy the following code,paste in any notepad and save as "regtools.vbs" file. Just double click it and you will get yor regedit enabled.(Be careful to copy the code exactly as presented here including everything.
Code goes here.......
'Enable/Disable Registry Editing tools
'© Doug Knox - rev 12/06/99
Option Explicit
'Declare variables
Dim WSHShell, n, MyBox, p, t, mustboot, errnum, vers
Dim enab, disab, jobfunc, itemtype
Set WSHShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
p = "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\"
p = p & "DisableRegistryTools"
itemtype = "REG_DWORD"
mustboot = "Log off and back on, or restart your pc to" & vbCR & "effect the changes"
enab = "ENABLED"
disab = "DISABLED"
jobfunc = "Registry Editing Tools are now "
'This section tries to read the registry key value. If not present an
'error is generated. Normal error return should be 0 if value is
'present
t = "Confirmation"
Err.Clear
On Error Resume Next
n = WSHShell.RegRead (p)
On Error Goto 0
errnum = Err.Number
if errnum <> 0 then
'Create the registry key value for DisableRegistryTools with value 0
WSHShell.RegWrite p, 0, itemtype
End If
'If the key is present, or was created, it is toggled
'Confirmations can be disabled by commenting out
'the two MyBox lines below
If n = 0 Then
n = 1
WSHShell.RegWrite p, n, itemtype
Mybox = MsgBox(jobfunc & disab & vbCR & mustboot, 4096, t)
ElseIf n = 1 then
n = 0
WSHShell.RegWrite p, n, itemtype
Mybox = MsgBox(jobfunc & enab & vbCR & mustboot, 4096, t)
End If
Change the Name of Recycle bIN
start->run->regedit->press ENTER
than open registry editor
click on Find
write Recycle Bin n click ok
after find... right side u see name recycle bin click on it n just write what u want...
SURF ORKUT WHEN IT IS BLOCKED
www.mathtunnel.com
www.gravitywars.com
www.kproxy.com
www.calculatepie.com
http://www.anonymizer.com/
Open the above sites and just type in http://www.orkut.com in companies or colleges where its blocked n enjoy
Create a drive menu for My Computer
Windows XP makes it easy for you to configure My Computer so it works like a menu, with
each drive listed as a menu item. Here's how. Right-click the Start button, and select
Properties.Click Customize, which is adjacent to the Start Menu radio button, and select
Advanced. Scroll through the Start Menu Items list box until you see My Computer. Select
Display As A Menu, and click OK twice. Now, when you select My Computer from the Start
menu, you'll see a menu of individual drives. To access the contents of that drive, just select
the drive letter from the menu
How to Hide the drives(c,d....etc) in MY COMPUTER
This is a great trick you can play on your friends. To disable the display of local or networked drives when you click My Computer.
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........lol....
Speed up browsing of Windows 2000 & XP machines
Here's a great tip to speed up your browsing of Windows XP machines. Its actually a fix to a bug installed as default in Windows 2000 that scans shared files for Scheduled Tasks. And it turns out that you can experience a delay as long as 30 seconds when you try to view shared files across a network because Windows 2000 is using the extra time to search the remote computer for any Scheduled Tasks. Note that though the fix is originally intended for only those affected, Windows 2000 users will experience that the actual browsing speed of both the Internet & Windows Explorers improve significantly after applying it since it doesn't search for Scheduled Tasks anymore. Here's how :
Open up the Registry and go to :
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Windows/Current Version/Explorer/RemoteComputer/NameSpace
Under that branch, select the key :
{D6277990-4C6A-11CF-8D87-00AA0060F5BF}
and delete it.
This is key that instructs Windows to search for Scheduled Tasks. If you like you may want to export the exact branch so that you can restore the key if necessary.
This fix is so effective that it doesn't require a reboot and you can almost immediately determine yourself how much it speeds up your browsing processes.
Hack Admin Password From User Mode
Disclaimer: Use this article for eductational purpose ONLY.
Follow these steps:
1. Open command prompt (Start->Run->cmd),
2. Enter the following command, then press ENTER
3. Enter the followin command, then press ENTER:
compmgmt.msc
This should open the computer management console.
4. Go to local users & groups->users. Right click on any user and select "set password".
If you get a "access denied" do the following:
start>run>cmd
then use following commands
1) net user test /add (this command will make test named user)
2) net localgroup administrators test /add (this command will make test user as administrators rights)
and use net user command to reset your admin. password
Speed up your internet by 20%
Microsoft reserves 20% of your available bandwidth for their own purposes like Windows Updates and interrogating your PC etc
You can get it back:
Click Start then Run and type "gpedit.msc" without quotes.This opens the group policy editor. Then go to:
Local Computer Policy
then Computer Configuration
then Administrative Templates then Network then QOS Packet Scheduler and then to Limit Reservable Bandwidth.
Double click on Limit Reservable bandwidth. It will say it is not configured, but the truth is under the 'Explain' tab i.e."By default, the Packet Scheduler limits the system to 20 percent of the bandwidth of a connection, but you can use this setting to override the default."
So the trick is to ENABLE reservable bandwidth, then set it to ZERO. This will allow the system to reserve nothing, rather than the default 20%.It works on Win 2000 as well.
Increase Internet Download Connections
This trick increase Simultaneous Internet Download Connections
and increases the number of allowed simultaneous connections to a higher number. The
default value is only five connections.
Navigate to the following registry key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings.
Right click on the window pane and create a DWord key with the name
“MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server” as it is without quotes. Set the value to a higher number
like 0000000a. Note that they are zeros and not alphabet ‘O’.
Right click on the window pane and create another DWord key with the name
“MaxConnectionsPerServer”. No quotes please. Set the value to a higher number like
0000000a. Note that they are zeros and not alphabet ‘O’.
Attention LAPTOP Users !
Attention LAPTOP Users ! Do your eyes a favor, use Clear Type Fonts.
Hi everyone! May be you have already realized the importance of clear type font by now. A new feature that must be a boon to all those people who are spending their life staring these monitor screens!. After years of research, it has been noticed that Clear Type Fonts are best way to prolong you Laptop computer experience. Windows XP comes equipped with it and you can change the setting to use Clear Type fonts. What is not so simple to do is to even change the Welcome (logon) screen to used Clear Type. I have got hand of a tip that might be of help to you installing clear type fonts at logon screen. Save following to a .reg file and import it in registry.
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop]
"FontSmoothing"="2"
"FontSmoothingType"=dword:00000002
[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop]
"FontSmoothing"="2"
"FontSmoothingType"=dword:00000002
For those of you who do not know how to use clear type fonts in normal session here are the instructions: Right click on at any free area of the desktop and go to appearance tab of Display Properties. Click on effects and check the box saying "use following methods to smooth edges of screen fonts" and select clear type.
Further fine tune Internet access speed:
Further fine tune Internet access speed: Tip on improving DNS resolution.
Internet browsing is such an exciting and easy experience now a days that we have almost forgotten the amount of work that goes behind the scene to make this all happen. We only feel bad if we can't find something easily or have to wait for a long time (I have heard many people saying WWW stands for world wide wait not too long ago!!!) Well with changes in technology and falling prices we have far better hardware and software to do this job but fruits of fine tuning have always been great and would continue to remain so. One of the things that should happen before Internet connection would go through is DNS resolution.DNS stands for Domain Name Service. Even though XP does a fine job of handling DNS resolution, you may still gain by increase the DNS Cache size. To do this you would have to add following entries in registry. Save what is written below in say "dnstuning.reg" file and import it in REGISTRY but opening registry editor and going to IMPORT option from top menu.
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Dnscache\Parameters]
"CacheHashTableBucketSize"=dword:00000001
"CacheHashTableSize"=dword:00000180
"MaxCacheEntryTtlLimit"=dword:0000fa00
"MaxSOACacheEntryTtlLimit"=dword:0000012d
Want to change font size of Internet Explorer cont
Want to change font size of Internet Explorer content on the fly ?
Do you know that font size of many of the web sites can be changed as per your view pleasure. Yea ! You know about it but do not want to take those additional steps. I hear you ! Here is a tip. If you have a mouse that has scrolling button then fond changing is as easy as pressing CTRL key and rotating scrolling button either towards you (to increase) or away from you (to decrease). Try it out. It works for me.
Start menu is slow in responding?
Start menu is slow in responding? Want to boost response time of start menu ?
Windows XP is touted as a new generation of OS Xperience. No doubt about that but this experience come at a cost. Resources. If your hardware configuration (read CPU,RAM) is not upto speed but still want to boost response time of start menu, here are a few tricks that might help. Open registry editor by going to START-RUN and entering regedit and navigate to key HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Control Panel \ Desktop \ MenuShowDelay . Change the value (default may be 400) to 5 or 50 or even 0. This should speed up. If you are not all that crazy for shadowy effects, you can further speed the things up by going to DISPLAY Properties Window and from there to appearance and over there clicking Advanced command button and check off Show menu shadow.
How to remove recycle bin from your desktop ?
Open Regedit by going to START - RUN and type Regedit and hit enter. Then you should navigate to following entry in registry
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\
Desktop\NameSpace\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E} and delete it. This action should remove recycle bin from your desktop.
Having problems with new install ?
Having problems with new install ? Like to restore your system quickly?
This can be achieved in couple of ways. Depending upon how you look at it, Quickest way may be to open command prompt and typing SFC /SCANNOW or you can go to START - ALL PROGRAMS - ACCESSORIES - SYSTEM TOOLS and click System Restore:
IMPORTANT NOTE: You would go back to previous fully functional operating system image and may loose all your changes that may have affected system files
the system has recovered from a serious error"
What to do with "the system has recovered from a serious error......" error ?
Whenever Windows XP encounters a problem (that it thinks is serious even if you did not do anything unusual) it creates a dump file. Next time you reboot, you most likely see this error message. Clicking on more information shows error signature and other clumsy details. Typically minidump would be stored in \WINDOWS\MINIDUMP directory. It is not so easy to decipher this information. Best thing to do is to go to Windows Online Crash Analysis site at http://oca.microsoft.com and submit report ( or check status if you have already submitted the report). You may need to signon with Microsoft .Net Passport and if you don't have you may need to create one by supply some basic information about yourself..
Following are some of actions that you can take to avoid this error from cropping up.
Temporarily disabling error reporting:
Right-clock on my computer, select properties, advanced tab, error reporting button - turn on the "no error reporting" check box and turn off the "but notify me" option.
Disable Virtual Memory:
Right-click on my computer, select properties, advanced tab, performance settings, advanced tab, virtual memory "change" button. Note down the current VM settings (system managed or any customized size. Turn on the "no paging file" bullet, and press the set tab.
Delete the paging file:
Reboot. Verify that the option reads 0 kb for page file. Use folder options on control panel or explorer "tools" pulldown menu & go to "view" tab. Turn off check box to permit viewing of system files. Now explorer on the root of C drive (or what ever drive letter you page file was set to use), should show a pagefile.sys entry. Delete this. You will get a warning message about this being a system file. Since you have disabled virtual memory, this entry is not being used. Delete it. Go empty the trash bin to make sure this entry is cleared.
Speed up IE Start Up
This tweak tells Internet Explorer to simply 'run', without loading any webpages. If
you use a 'blank' page, that is still a page, and slows access. Notice the 'about:blank' in
the address bar. The blank html page must still be loaded. To load IE with 'nothing'
[nothing is different than blank]:
1. Right-click on any shortcut you have to IE
[You should create a shortcut out of your desktop IE icon, and delete the original
icon]
2. Click Properties
3. Add -nohome [with a space before the dash] after the endquotes in the Target field.
4. Click OK
Internet Explorer As Fast As FireFox:
Open registry editor by going to Start then Run and entering regedit. Once in registry,
navigateto key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\microsoft\Windows\ Current
Version \InternetSettings. Right click on the right windows > New > DWORD. Type
MaxConnectionsPerServer > You can set value (the more higher the no, the more
good speed eg:99). Create another DWORD >type MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server.
Then put a high value as mentioned above. Restart I.E and you are done
Change Internet Explorer's Caption
Open the registry editor and go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE
\Microsoft \Internet Explorer\Main. In the right pane create a new String Value names
Window Title (Note the space between Window and Title). Right click on this newly
created String Value and select Modify. Type in the new caption you want to be
displayed. Restart for the settings to take place.
Automatically Turn On Num, Scroll, and Caps Lock
When you start your PC, Num Lock, Scroll Lock, and Caps Lock don't automatically
toggle on. You can automatically turn each of them on or off whenever your PC
starts, for all accounts on the PC. As a practical matter, most people probably want to
have only Num Lock automatically turned on, but this Registry hack allows you to
force any combination of keys on or off. Run the Registry Editor [Hack #83] and go
to HKEY_USERS\.Default\Control Panel\Keyboard. Find the String value
InitialKeyboardIndicators. By default, it is set to 0, which means that Num Lock,
Scroll Lock, and Caps Lock are all turned off. Set it to any of the following values,
depending on the combination of keys you want turned on or off:
0-Turns off Num Lock, Caps Lock, and Scroll Lock
1-Turns on Caps Lock
2-Turns on Num Lock
3-Turns on Caps Lock and Num Lock
4-Turns on Scroll Lock
5-Turns on Caps Lock and Scroll Lock
6-Turns on Num Lock and Scroll Lock
7-Turns on Caps Lock, Num Lock, and Scroll Lock
Exit the Registry. When you restart, the new setting will take effect.
move your mouse pointer using keyboard
press right Alt + shift + numlock (make sure the numlock light is off)
after that it will show a message click 'settings' .then change the setting according to u....
press and hold 4(numpad)= to go left
press and hold 6(numpad)= to go right
press and hold 8(numpad)= to go up
press and hold 2(numpad)= to go down
press 5 = select, press 5 two time to open the application
/*- are for the left and right buttons of a mouse
Create a Startup Menu
Create a Startup Menu Even If You Have Only One OS
Even if you have only one operating system, you can create a boot menu that will let
you choose to load your operating system with different parameters.
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Trace Problems XP Home Edition"
/fastdetect /bootlog /sos
This entry creates a startup log and displays information about the drivers and other
operating system information as it loads.
For the version of the operating system that loads in Safe Mode but that still allows
networking, you could create this entry:
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Safe Start XP Home Edition" /
fastdetect /safeboot:network
The boot.ini file would look like this, assuming that you want the menu to display for
30 seconds and you want normal XP startup to be the default:
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home
Edition" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Trace Problems XP Home Edition"
/fastdetect /bootlog /sos
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Safe Start XP Home Edition" /
fastdetect /safeboot:network
Secrets Behind The Run Registry key
You can start or stop programs from executing at bootup by adding or deleting them
to/from the run Keys in the Registry. Windows loads programs to start in the
following order; Program listed in the Local Machine hive, then the Current User
hive, then theWin.ini Run= and Load = lines and then finally programs in your Start
Up folder.
To add or remove programs in the Registry.Open RegEdit. .Go to the desired Key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Micrsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices
Add a new String Value and name it anything you like. For the value data, enter the
path and executable for the program you want to run.
By adding the value to the KEY_CURRENT_USER hive instead allows the program
to start only when that user is logged on. If you add the value to the RunOnce key
the program will run once and be removed from the key by Windows.
Clear the Temporary Files Automatically
You can tell IE 6 to automatically delete temporary files. To do so Start the browser, select
Tools Internet Options Advanced. Go to the Security area and check the box to Empty
Temporary Internet Files folder when browser is closed.
Display Wallpaper Right from Log On
To display wallpaper during the logon itself, navigate to the following registry key :
HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop. In the right pane, change the path to
Wallpaper. It will be useful if you are looking for ways to display your company logo during
all user log in sessions
Make XP Remember the Folder Settings
Sometimes you'll customize a folder and upon restarting you will be shocked to see that the
changes haven't been saved. In some cases the settings work for few days and then XP forgets
it. Ever wondered why this happens? Well, This is due to that fact that Windows XP
remembers the settings for only 400 folders, by default. When you customize more folders
the old settings are lost. To prevent Windows XP forgetting the folder customization, we can
increase the limit till 8000 (which is the upper limit).
Set the BagMRU Size to 6000 (Decimal) in the following registry keys:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam
Let me remind you that the value that we set is in Decimal and not hex.
Shortcut to Lock Your PC
Create a new shortcut on your desktop
using a right mouse click, and enter rundll32.exe user32.dll,LockWorkStation in the location
field exactly as it is. Give the shortcut a name. Just double click on it and your computer will
be locked. Enter passport to log back in.
Stop Users Changing Desktop Settings
If you are running a cyber cafe (or a public machine) and do not want users to change desktop
settings,navigate to the following key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Program
Manager\Restrictions.
Create or edit the DWORD NoSaveSettings. Now to disable saving desktop settings, set its
value to 1. Reboot the machine for the settings to take effect.
A Tip for the Taskbar
Navigate to the following registry hive for this small but cute registry hack:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
Create or modify a DWORD key named NoToolbarsOnTaskbar and set its value to 1 (hex).
To restore the customize tab for the normal folders (non-system folders), follow these steps:
* Open Registry Editor and navigate to the following key:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT \ Directory \ shellex \ PropertySheetHandlers
* Create a sub-key named {ef43ecfe-2ab9-4632-bf21-58909dd177f0}
* Close Registry Editor and restart Windows. If the Customize tab is still missing, navigate to this key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Policies \ Explorer
-and-
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Policies \ Explorer
* In the right-pane, double-click the following values and set their Value-data to 0. If a value does not exist, ignore and proceed further.
o NoCustomizeThisFolder
o NoCustomizeWebView
o ClassicShell
* Restart Windows.
Restore the Windows XP native Zip file integration
To restore the Windows XP Zip file integration quickly;type this command from Start, Run dialog:
REGSVR32 ZIPFLDR.DLL
If that does not help, another command is required to change the .ZIP association. Type in Start, Run:
cmd /c assoc .zip=CompressedFolder
Equivalent registry edit for the 2nd command above (fyi)
* Open Registry Editor and navigate to the following key:
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.ZIP]
* Double-click (default) and set it's data to CompressedFolder
* Close Regedit and restart Windows.
Disable Alert Settings!
Disable Alert Settings for AutoMatic Updates, Firewall & Virus Protection:
You can disable all the above alerts by this trick.
* Click Start, then go to Control Panel.
* Look for Security Center & Click on it.
* Windows Security Center Page will be displayed. On Left side there is a RESOURCES tab.
* Click on the last one that is "Change the way Secuity Center Alerts me".
* At last, just uncheck AutoMatic Updates, Firewall & Virus Protection.
Amezing trick to lock folder
this 1 is amezing trick to lock u r folder
using this trick not only lock u r folder but also hide it
here it is
copy following program:-
cls
@ECHO OFF
title Folder Locker
if EXIST "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}" goto UNLOCK
if NOT EXIST Locker goto MDLOCKER
:CONFIRM
echo Are you sure u 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 Locker "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%==type your password here goto FAIL
attrib -h -s "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}"
ren "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}" Locker
echo Folder Unlocked successfully
goto End
:FAIL
echo Invalid password
goto end
:MDLOCKER
md Locker
echo Locker created successfully
goto End
:End
now go for following few steps
1>copy above folder into notepad.
2>the text which is written in bold letters delete it & type u r password there.
3>save that file by extension .bat ( name is u r choice)
4>now on ur screen there is a bat file appear.
5>double click on that file.
6>u will see the locker folder.
7>save the files in that folder.
8>double click on that folder & lock that folder
9>after lock that folder it will become hidden.
10>to open that folder double click on that bat file
11>type ur password & open that folder.
change start menu name
To change the name of the Start button:
Copy EXPLORER.EXE in your Windows directory to another directory
Start a hex editor (use resource hacker)
Edit EXPLORER.EXE
go to "string table" & to "37" click on 1033
you will see "start" written on the next table
Now just replace the Start letters with any of your choice (up to 5 characters only IMPORTANT).
compile the script & save it
rename this file as any name say explorer1.exe
copy it in your windows directory.
open registry editor navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon double click "shell" &
enter name of your new explorer(explorer1 )in this case.
restart to see changes.
IF THIS HAPPENS OPEN TASKMANAGER IN NEW TASK TYPE REGEDIT
& UNDO THE CHANGES U MADE BEFORE (RENAME EXPLORER1 TO EXPLORER AGAIN)
Disable ZIP files Being Shown as Folders
In Windows Experience (XP) the Zip files are shown as a folder. If you are using a third
party zip utility like WinRAR, and you do not want them to be handled by XP, do the
following registry tweaking. Click Start and go to Run. Now enter the string given below in
the run box , and click OK:
regsvr32 /u zipfldr.dll
You should receive a dialog that says "DllUnregisterServer in zipfldr.dll succeeded."
To restore the default behavior, simply do the same with another string:
regsvr32 zipfldr.dll
Find the Details of a Web Update
If you use Microsoft Internet Explorer, you can easily determine when a page was updated
last. Navigate to the page you want to check and type into the Address Bar:
javascript:alert(document.lastModified) and press Enter. Please make sure that you have
entered the line exactly as above. A dialog box will open display the date and time of the last update.
Turn Off Descriptions
When you place the cursor on explorer objects, a description of the object pops up. To disable
the pop up description, you can use the following registy hack . Navigate to the registry key :
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Micrsft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced
Look for the data key ShowInfoTip and set its value to 0 to disable it.
Killing Tasks from Command Line
First get the command prompt by following StartRuncmd. Find out the tasks and its
process id by typing tasklist in the black window.You can now get rid of tasks on the
computer by using taskkill /pid followed by the process number, or just tskill and the process number.
Increase the Maximum Recording Time
In the Sound Recorder utility the maximum time of recording is 1 minute. You can increase it
to any number of minutes of your choice by applying this trick. First make sure that your
microphone is muted so it will not pick up sound. Click Record, and then let Sound Recorder
run for 60 seconds. This will create a blank wave file of length 1 minute. After 60 seconds,
click Save As on the File menu, and name the file loops.wav
Click Insert File on the Edit menu, and then insert the loops.wav file. This increases the
maximum recording time by 60 seconds. You can repeat this step once for each additional
minute of recording time that you want to add. For example, for a 10-minute recording time,
insert the loops.wav file 10 times.
Add/Remove Windows Components" causes an error
When you click "Add/Remove Windows Components" in the Add/Remove Programs applet, the following error may occur:
The program cannot start, probably because your user account does not have permission to modify the system registry.
For more information, view the Application Event Log.
and
The application could not be initialized.
This happens if your user account does not have Write access to the following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Setup \ Oc Manager \ TemporaryData
* Type regedit.exe in Start, Run dialog
* Navigate to the above registry key
* Choose Permissions from Edit menu
* Click Advanced, and click Add.
* Type your username in the Select User or Group Box
* Allow Set Value permissions to your user account
* Click OK and close the dialog
Find IP address in Yahoo Mail
1. Log into your Yahoo! mail with your username and password.
2. Click on Inbox or whichever folder you have stored your mail.
3. Open the mail.
4. If you do not see the headers above the mail message, your headers are not displayed.To display the headers,
* Click on Options on the top-right corner
* In the Mail Options page, click on General Preferences
* Scroll down to Messages where you have the Headers option
* Make sure that Show all headers on incoming messages is selected
* Click on the Save button
* Go back to the mails and open that mail
5. You should see similar headers like this:
Yahoo! headers : ******* (sender's name)
Look for Received: from followed by the IP address between square brackets [ ].
That is be the IP address of the sender!
6. Track the IP address of the sender.....
Insert your name in the bottom right taskbar!
Open Control Panel -> Regional and Language Options -> Customize ->Time
here u can see A.M. and P.M. change it with u r name
Decrease the starting time of ur pc
Right Click on the start button then press R it will take u to Run well go to run
n type Regedit
press enter
this will open Registery Editor
now look for the key
HKEY_LOACAL_MECHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\ContentIndex
now there find the Key Called
"Startup Delay"
Double Click On It
Now where its Base
Click Decimal
Now its Default Value Is 4800000 (75300:hexadecimal)
Change The Value To 40000
here u go u have done it
now close the Registery Editor and Restart Your Computer
After restarting ur pc u'll find it that ur pc is getting started much faster than the ealier longer period.
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