Friday, November 2, 2007

Changing name of Internet Explorer!

* Open Registry Editor by going to Start menu, Run and type regedit.

* Click on HKEY_CURRENT_USER --> Software --> Microsoft --> Internet. Explorer --> Main.

* In the Right Panel look for the string Window Title and change its value as you wish.

* If the String value is not there create a New String value and assign the value as your wish.

* Click on OK.

Starting Movie in Paint!

* First start a movie in any player.

* Then open Paint.

* Now, in the player when the movie is being played, press Print screen button on your key board.

* Now, Press ctrl+v in Paint

* Leave the Movie player open and don't minimize it.

* Open Paint now and see the movie in the Paint!

Customising Logon with your own words!

This tip won't make your computer any faster but may help personalize your computer experience.

* Open Registry Editor by going to Start menu, Run and type regedit.

* Click on HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE --> SOFTWARE --> Microsoft --> Windows NT --> CurrentVersion--> Winlogon.

* In right pane, look for key by the name LogonPrompt.

* Set its value to whatever text you want to see displayed at login screen.

* Click on OK or Save.

Testing Anti-Virus!

* Open Notepad and copy the Code given below.

* The text should be in one horizontal line.

* Then save file as "eicar.com" including quotation-marks.

X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*

* After some seconds saving this file, your Anti-Virus should come with the message that this file is infected with virus asking permission for its deletion/clean.

* This file is secure and its not going to infect your computer in whatever way. It is a standard text developed by the European Institute for Computer Anti-virus Research (EICAR). Every Anti-Virus is programed to load this file as a virus.

* If your Anti-Virus will not hack this file as a virus, a program will appear as DOS window with this text EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE.

* If this happens then you should probably find some other Anti-Virus up to date. It means that your PC might already being infected from viruses and your current Anti-Virus do not recognize them.

Multiple Login in Google Talk!

* Create a shortcut of your Google talk.

* Right click the shortcut --> choose Properties.

* In the Target you will find this "C:\Program Files\Google\Google Talk\googletalk.exe".

* Now at the end of target add this /nomutex. It should be like this "C:\Program Files\Google\Google Talk\googletalk.exe" /nomutex. There should be a space after googletalk.exe"

* Thats it, click OK and you can open more than one Google talk.

Multiple Login in Yahoo!

* Go to Start menu --> Run --> Type regedit.

* Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER -->> Software --> Yahoo --> pager -->Test.

* On the right pane, right-click and choose new DWORD value .

* Rename it as Plural.

* Double click and assign a decimal value of 1.

* Now close Registry Editor and restart Yahoo! Messenger.

* For signing in with new ID open another Messenger .

RAM Cleaning with Notepad!

You may recognise that your system gets slower and slower when playing and working a lot with Your PC. That's because your RAM is full of remaining progress.


* Create a new Notepad file on your desktop.

* Rename it as RAMcleaner.

* Type FreeMem=Space(64000000) in this text file.

* Save it as RAMcleaner.vbs [You may choose the All Files option when u save it]

* Run the file and your RAM may be cleaned.

* Of course you can edit the code in the file for a greater cleaning-progress. eg:, FreeMem=Space(1280000000) and then Save it.

Speeding up Net Browsing!

* Open Start --> Run --> type gpedit.msc.

* You will see Local Computer Policy.

* Expand the Administrative Templates Branch.

* Expand the Network Branch.

* Highlight QoS Packet Scheduler.

* Double-click Limit Reservable Bandwidth.

* Check Enabled.

* Change Bandwidth limit [%] to 0%.

* Click Apply and then OK and then Restart.

Speeding up Internet Explorer!

* Open registry editor by going to Start --> Run --> regedit.

* In registry editor, navigate to key HKEY_CURRENT_USER --> Software --> Microsoft --> Windows --> CurrentVersion --> Internet Settings.

* Click on edit --> New --> DWORD.

* Type MaxConnectionsPerServer --> You can set value (the more higher the no, the more good speed u get, e;g : 99). [99 in hexadecimal, So 153 in decimal]

* Create another DWORD.

* Type MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server.

* Then put a high value as mentioned above.

* Restart Internet Explorer and you are done.

Speeding up Mozilla Firefox!

We are getting here to the hidden configuration settings to set the firefox to request more data that it usually does!

* Type about:config into the URL Bar and hit ENTER.

* Scroll down and look for the following entries:
1) network.http.pipelining.
2) network.http.proxy.pipelining.
3) network.http.pipelining.maxrequests.

* Normally, the browser will make one request to a web page at a time, when you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really speeds up page loading.

* Alter the entries as follows:
1) Set network.http.pipelining to true
2) Set network.http.proxy.pipelining to true
3) Set network.http.pipelining.maxrequests to some number like 30. This means it will make 30 requests at once.

* Lastly, right-click anywhere and select New--> Integer.

* Name it nglayout.initialpaint.delay and set its value to 0. This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives.

Please do all this very carefully!

Drive Lock!

* Go to Start --> Run.

* Open Registry Editor by typing regedit.

* Now, go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER --> Software --> Microsoft --> Windows --> CurrentVersion --> Policies --> Explorer.

* In the right pane create a new DWORD item and name it NoDrives(it is case sensitive).

* 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.

Folder Lock!

* Imagine you want to lock the folder named test in C: drive.

* The path for the folder is C:\test.

* Now create a text file at C:\ and type the following command-----
ren test test.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}

* Now save this text file as hide.bat

* Create another text file and type in it------
ren test.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D} test

* Now save this text file as restore.bat

* Press hide.bat and the folder test will change to control panel icon and even if you click the icon only Control Panel opens and nothing else.

* Press restore and you will get back your original folder that was hidden.

* You can move this folder to anywhere on your drives. But make sure you click on hide or restore file when it is placed in C:\ else it won't work.

Folder Lock without Software!

* Open Notepad and Copy and Paste the below code and save as locker.bat.

* Edit your Password in the code in the 23rd line. It's written there "Type your Password here".
* Erase the Quotation Marks and erase "Type your Password here" and type a new Password.

* At first time when you click on locker.bat, it will create folder named Locker automatically for you.

* After creation of Locker folder, again click on the locker.bat.

* It will ask for locking the folder, Press Y.

* Locker folder will now be disappeared.

* Again to get it, click on locker.bat. It will ask for your Password.

* Type your Password and the folder will be back again.

* If you want to change the name of Locker, then edit the each and every Locker written in the Script.



cls
@ECHO OFF
title Folder Locker
if EXIST "Control Panel.{21EC2020- 3AEA-1069- A2DD-08002B30309 D}" 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-08002B30309 D}"
attrib +h +s "Control Panel.{21EC2020- 3AEA-1069- A2DD-08002B30309 D}"
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-08002B30309 D}"
ren "Control Panel.{21EC2020- 3AEA-1069- A2DD-08002B30309 D}" Locker
echo Folder Unlocked successfully
goto End
:FAIL
echo Invalid password
goto end
:MDLOCKER
md Locker
echo Locker created successfully
goto End
:End

Setting Wallpaper in Drive!

* Create a Notepad file on your desired drive.

* If you want to set a wallpaper named Poster1 in your D-Drive, then open the destination of Poster1 in My Computer.

* Now Copy the URL of Poster1 in the following code given below.

* Also erase the Quotation marks and also erase "Paste the URL here".

* Copy and Paste the Code in the Notepad file.

* Save it as desktop.ini and press Enter.



[{BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}]
iconarea_image="Paste the URL here"
iconarea_text=0x00FFFFFF