Archive for the 'Hacks' Category

Faster Vista and Xp Shutdown !!

Sunday, September 7th, 2008

Need your Windows Vista or Xp to shut down faster and quicker , Try this registry trick to shutdown your Vista,Xp as fast as possible .
Caution: If you are a newbie ,You can read http://support.microsoft.com/kb/322756 for more help on how to take a registry backup.
If you are a Windows XP user, then read this else [...]

Collection of Easter Eggs and hacks in Windows Xp !!

Sunday, September 7th, 2008

Here are a Few Easter Eggs and Windows hidden tricks for you guys, added them to make one big collection .
System Protected Folders
Ever notice that in the Program Files folder there are two folders that you can’t delete? Xerox and Microsoft Frontpage?
Reserved files and folders
You can’t create a folder called CON, AUX, COM1, COM2, COM3, [...]

How to hide a Drive in Windows Xp

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

Sometimes for security/privacy reasons you need to hide a drive containing sensitive information then you can use the methods listed below ,
There are two ways of doing it, one from the group policy editor and the second from registry editor. I will explain both of them here:
1-Hiding drives using Group Policy Editor [...]

How to create your own Autorun for a CD/DVD

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

I am going to tell you how to create an autrorun CD with personalized icon. You will be needing an icon image. Icon image can be 48 by 48 pixels. Lets say we name it as myicon.ico. Alright. Open your favorite text editor and past this text there.

[autorun]OPEN=your-executable-file.exeICON=myicon.ico

Save this file as autorun.inf and save [...]

Rename the Recycle Bin

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

Here is a small registry hack to rename the recycle bin , follow it to rename the recycle bin Go to start Click Run write regedit
Hit EnterRegistry editor will be openedSee its menu; file, edit, view, favorites, helpClick at edit and then find or just press Ctrl+FFind box will be openedwrite Recycle Bin [...]