Windows Tips and Tricks
Lock/Unlock Computer With Pendrive
0First, what is “syskey”?
SYSKEY is a utility that encrypts the hashed password information in a SAM database in a Windows system using a 128-bit encryption key.
SYSKEY was an optional feature added in Windows NT 4.0 SP3. It was meant to protect against offline password cracking attacks so that the SAM database would still be secure even if someone had a copy of it. However, in December 1999, a security team from Bind View found a security hole in SYSKEY which indicates that a certain form of cryptanalytic attack is possible offline. A brute force attack then appeared to be More >
How to Hide Application Icon in Windows 7 Taskbar
2Microsoft Windows 7 comes with a taskbar that has never before been witnessed in its predecessors. The Windows 7 taskbar features a dock-type appearance and utility tools like launching a program or running an application. Undoubtedly, the Windows 7 taskbar helps the user to an extent more than what meets the eye. Here, we unveil a new utilization feature of the Windows 7 taskbar. Often, some programs and shortcuts to various applications are pinned to the taskbar for easy accessibility. However, sometimes for reasons concerning privacy and confidentiality, the user may want to hide these More >
Play with your Desktop Screen
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Play with your Desktop Screen
Here is cool trick to rotate your computer screen. you can rotate it by 90 or 180 or 360 angle. You can invert your window screen an d can impress your friends, This is one of the scariest tricks which turns Windows upside down. Here are steps:
Press Ctrl, Alt and then any of the four arrow keys .
Down arrow key rotate by 180 degree, invert screen.
Left arrow key rotate by 90 degree.
Right arrow key rotate by 270 degree
Up arrow key make it normal again.
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How to Make an Autorun CD?
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Have you ever noticed whenever you insert any game or software CD (consider Windows XP Operating system) it automatically runs the CD.
If you want to make the same type of autorun CD than you have to open notepad file and write the following code in it.
[autorun]
OPEN=INSTALL\Setup_filename.EXE
Here “Setup_filename.EXE” MUST be replaced with the name of the setup file. And also remember that it is not all of the setup files there are called “.exe” but some are called “.msi”
Now save it as a “.inf” file not as a “.txt” file. Burn your CD with the autorun.inf file More >
Change Start button name in Windows XP
3Hi Guys In this post i’ll be telling you how you can change start button name.
First of all you will have to download Resource hacker. Resource Hacker is a freeware utility to view, modify, rename, add, delete and extract resources in 32bit Windows executables and resource files (*.res). It incorporates an internal resource script compiler and decompiler and works on Win95, Win98, WinME, WinNT, Win2000 and WinXP operating systems.
1. Create a system restore point just incase if something goes wrong you can roll back to the original settings or make a backup copy of the file explorer.exe More >
Most Useful keyboard Shortcuts.
19When speed counts, the keyboard is still king. Almost all the actions and commands you can perform with a mouse you can perform faster using combinations of keys on your keyboard. These simple keyboard shortcuts can get you where you want to go faster than several clicks of a mouse. You’ll work faster on spreadsheets and similar documents, too, because you won’t lose your place switching back and forth between mouse and keys. Here are some of the most useful keyboard shortcuts: Copy. CTRL+C Cut. CTRL+X Paste. CTRL+V Undo. CTRL+Z Delete. DELETE
Delete selected item permanently without More >
