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ok, this is a little trick that i usually use to find cd keys with google. if your looking for a serial number for nero (for example) goto google.com and type nero 94FBR and it'll bring it up this works great in google HOW DOES THIS WORK? Quite simple really. 94FBR is part of a Office 2000 Pro cd key that is widely distributed as it bypasses the activation requirements of Office 2K Pro. By searching for the product name and 94fbr, you guarantee two things. 1)The pages that are returned are pages dealing specifically with the product you're wantinga serial for. 2)Because 94FBR is part of a serial number, and only part of a serial number, you guarantee that any page being returned is a serial number list page. I hope this trick help you finding your ccd keys easily Enjoy :)

Delete An "undeletable" File Open a Command Prompt window and leave it open. Close all open programs. Click Start, Run and enter TASKMGR.EXE Go to the Processes tab and End Process on Explorer.exe. Leave Task Manager open. Go back to the Command Prompt window and change to the directory the AVI (or other undeletable file) is located in. At the command prompt type DEL where is the file you wish to delete. Go back to Task Manager, click File, New Task and enter EXPLORER.EXE to restart the GUI shell. Close Task Manager. Or you can try this Open Notepad.exe Click File>Save As..> locate the folder where ur undeletable file is Choose 'All files' from the file type box click once on the file u wanna delete so its name appears in the 'filename' box put a " at the start and end of the filename (the filename should have the extension of the undeletable file so it will overwrite it) click save, It should ask u to overwrite the ...

Since defragging the disk won't do much to improve Windows XP performance, here are 23 suggestions that will. Each can enhance the performance and reliability of your customers' PCs. Best of all, most of them will cost you nothing. 1.) To decrease a system's boot time and increase system performance, use the money you save by not buying defragmentation software -- the built-in Windows defragmenter works just fine -- and instead equip the computer with an Ultra-133 or Serial ATA hard drive with 8-MB cache buffer. 2.) If a PC has less than 512 MB of RAM, add more memory. This is a relatively inexpensive and easy upgrade that can dramatically improve system performance. 3.) Ensure that Windows XP is utilizing the NTFS file system. If you're not sure, here's how to check: First, double-click the My Computer icon, right-click on the C: Drive, then select Properties. Next, examine the File System type; if it says FAT32, then back-up any important data. Next, click S...

20 Great Google Secrets http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1306756,00.asp excl.gif No Active Links, Read the Rules - Edit by Ninja excl.gif Google is clearly the best general-purpose search engine on the Web (see www.pcmag.com/searchengines But most people don't use it to its best advantage. Do you just plug in a keyword or two and hope for the best? That may be the quickest way to search, but with more than 3 billion pages in Google's index, it's still a struggle to pare results to a manageable number. But Google is an remarkably powerful tool that can ease and enhance your Internet exploration. Google's search options go beyond simple keywords, the Web, and even its own programmers. Let's look at some of Google's lesser-known options. Syntax Search Tricks Using a special syntax is a way to tell Google that you want to restrict your searches to certain elements or characteristics of Web pages. Google has a fairly complete list of its synt...

Before you spend a time on security, there are many precautions you can take that will protect you against the most common threats. 1. Check Windows Update and Office Update regularly (_http://office.microsoft.com/productupdates); have your Office CD ready. Windows Me, 2000, and XP users can configure automatic updates. Click on the Automatic Updates tab in the System control panel and choose the appropriate options. 2. Install a personal firewall. Both SyGate (_www.sygate.com) and ZoneAlarm (_www.zonelabs.com) offer free versions. 3. Install a free spyware blocker. Our Editors' Choice ("Spyware," April 22) was SpyBot Search & Destroy (_http://security.kolla.de). SpyBot is also paranoid and ruthless in hunting out tracking cookies. 4. Block pop-up spam messages in Windows NT, 2000, or XP by disabling the Windows Messenger service (this is unrelated to the instant messaging program). Open Control Panel | Administrative Tools | Services and you'll see Mess...

10 reasons why PCs crash U must Know Fatal error: the system has become unstable or is busy," it says. "Enter to return to Windows or press Control-Alt-Delete to restart your computer. If you do this you will lose any unsaved information in all open applications." You have just been struck by the Blue Screen of Death. Anyone who uses Mcft Windows will be familiar with this. What can you do? More importantly, how can you prevent it happening? 1 Hardware conflict The number one reason why Windows crashes is hardware conflict. Each hardware device communicates to other devices through an interrupt request channel (IRQ). These are supposed to be unique for each device. For example, a printer usually connects internally on IRQ 7. The keyboard usually uses IRQ 1 and the floppy disk drive IRQ 6. Each device will try to hog a single IRQ for itself. If there are a lot of devices, or if they are not installed properly, two of them may end up sharing the same IRQ numbe...

Windows XP Shortcuts -------------------------------------------------------------- ALT+- (ALT+hyphen) Displays the Multiple Document Interface (MDI) child window's System menu ALT+ENTER View properties for the selected item ALT+ESC Cycle through items in the order they were opened ALT+F4 Close the active item, or quit the active program ALT+SPACEBAR Display the System menu for the active window ALT+TAB Switch between open items ALT+Underlined letter Display the corresponding menu BACKSPACE View the folder one level up in My Computer or Windows Explorer CTRL+A Select all CTRL+B Bold CTRL+C Copy CTRL+I Italics CTRL+O Open an item CTRL+U Underline CTRL+V Paste CTRL+X Cut CTRL+Z Undo CTRL+F4 Close the active document CTRL while dragging Copy selected item CTRL+SHIFT while dragging Create shortcut to selected iteM CTRL+RIGHT ARROW Move the insertion point to the beginning of the next word CTRL+LEFT ARROW Move the insertion point to the beginning of the previous word CTRL+DOWN ARROW Mov...

21 TipsnTricks For UR SYSTEM 1] Your Pc Must have 256MB RAM , 512 MB Cache , Intel Pentium 4 Processor, 40 GB HDD. These are the minimum requirements. 2] If you see a 'virtual memory low' message then increase its virtual memory. To increase virtual memory, Go to My Computer->Properties->Advanced->Performance Settings->Advanced->Virtual Memory->Change->Select the appropriate drive->Custom size->set appropriate level(our it is 600(min.) & 700(max.)->Ok. 3] Increase 'Visual Performance'. Go to My Computer->Properties->Advanced->Performance Settings->Visual Settings->Custom->Select only the following options. a)Slide taskbar buttons. b)Smooth edges of screen fonts. c)Smooth-scroll list boxes. d)Use a background image for each folder type. e)Use visual style on windows and buttons. 4] Don't keep unwanted/extra fonts. To remove extra fonts, Go to Start->Settings->Control Panel->Fonts. 5] Your De...

SOLUTION:-Orkut / youtubebanned or mozila not open If you find this message “I DNT HATE MOZILLA BUT USE IE OR ELSE…” when you launch Firefox or this” ORKUT IS BANNED, Orkut is banned you fool`, The administrators didn’t write this program guess who did?? ” when you try to launch Orkut Or “youtube IS BANNED,youtube is banned you fool`, The administrators didn’t write this program guess who did??`r`r MUHAHAHA!!,30″, Then you are system is infected with w32.USBworm. Don’t PANIC, this worm is a decent worm, which does not destroy your files or damage your computer. This virus spreads through USB drives. It will not let you install Firefox and if it’s already installed in your PC, it won’t let you use Firefox! The virus is known as heap41a W32.USBWorm. SOLUTION its quite easy just ctrl+alt+del then go to process tab look for svchost.exe under image name. end process for user name by which u logged in example svchost under administrator end process it then in start=...

~~Lost/Forgot your Windows Password Can’t Log On to Windows XP? Break Windows passwordIf that’s your only problem, then you probably have nothing to worry about. As long as you have your Windows XP CD, you can get back into your system using a simple but effective method made possible by a little known access hole in Windows XP.You can easily change or wipe out your Administrator password for free during a Windows XP Repair. Here’s how with a step-by-step description of the initial Repair process included for newbie’s. 1. Place your Windows XP CD in your cd-rom and start your computer (it’s assumed here that your XP CD is bootable as it should be - and that you have your bios set to boot from CD) 2. Keep your eye on the screen messages for booting to your cd Typically, it will be “Press any key to boot from cd” 3. Once you get in, the first screen will indicate that Setup is inspecting your system and loading files. When you get to the Welcome to Setup screen, press ENTER to Se...

press windows+R >> type "regedit"(without quotes) & press enter >> then go to>> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced\Folder\Hidden\SHOWALL\ Now u can see two keys CheckedValue and DefaultValue Double Click on CheckedValue and set the value 1 from 0 Double Click on DefaultValue and set the value 2 from 1

1st step copy this code battrib/s -s -h -r Autorun.inf attrib/s -s -h -r Ravmon.exe del/s Autorun.inf del/s Ravmon.exe and paste in da nopade save as da .bat file 2nd step copy da file that u have made and paste in all drives and run da file one by one in drive and restart da computer it's work.100%

In Windows XP Professional, you have two remote networking features called Remote Assistance and Remote Desktop Sharing. These remote networking features are very helpful in a variety of situations but if you don't use them, it is good idea to disable them to save boot time. You can always enable them later if you want to use them. 1. Open the Start menu, right-click My Computer, and choose Properties. 2.Click the remote tab. 3. Clear both check boxes to disable Remote Assistance and Remote Desktop.

One trick that increases your boot time a bit is to lose any fonts in the Fonts folder in Control Panel that you never use. The more fonts you have, the more processing Windows XP has to do to prep all of those fonts for use. You must be a bit careful here to not remove fonts that you might want, but there is a good chance that you can live without many of them. To delete unneeded fonts, follow these steps: 1. Open the Fonts folder in Control Panel. 2. Select Edit/Select All and then Edit/Copy. 3. Create a new folder on your desktop, open it, and select Edit/Paste. 4. In this new folder, delete any of the fonts you do not want. 5. Return to the Fonts folder in Control Panel. Right-click the selected fonts and click Delete. 6. Go back to your new desktop folder and click Edit/Select All. 7. Return to your Fonts folder and click Edit/Paste. You now have only the desired fonts in the Fonts folder.

You can remove the boot logo that appears when you start Windows XP. This little tweak probably shaves only a few seconds off your boot time but seconds count if you are serious about trying to get Windows XP up and running as quickly as possible. The only negative is that if you remove the boot logo, you will also not see any boot messages, such as check disk. To remove the boot logo, follow these steps: 1. Select Start/Run, type msconfig, and click OK. 2. In the System Configuration Utility, click the BOOT.INI tab. 3. On the BOOT.INI tab, click the NOGUIBOOT check box option. Click OK.

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.

This lengthy session is dedicated to fully explain the various registry hacks associated with active desktop. To remove the ability to disable Active Desktop, navigate to the following registry key. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Micrsft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer Create or modify a dword key called ForceActiveDesktopOn. Give it a value of 1 to enable the key. To remove the Active Desktop options from Settings on the Start Menu follow this tweak. Go to the following key. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Micrsft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer Create or modify a dword value called NoSetActiveDesktop give it a value of 1 to enable the restriction. To restrict any changes to the already enabled active desktop settings navigate to the following key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Micrsft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer Create or modify a dword key called NoActiveDesktopChanges and give it a value of 1 to enable restriction. To disable it give it a valu...

Change the Default Search Engine from MSN to Any Search Engine of Your Choice .. Microsoft has set the default search engine in Internet explorer as MSN. But here is your chance to set the default according to your wish. The tip is from MS-KB. First close the Internet Explorer and open the registry editor (Start [1] Run [1] Regedit). Then navigate to the following registry key. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchUrl. Change the value of the string key named default to any one of the following values: • To specify Metacrawler as the default search page, change the default value to "http://www.metacrawler.com/crawler?general=%s" (without quotation marks). • To specify AltaVista as the default search page, change the default value to "http://www.altavista.com/cgi-bin/query?q=%s" (without quotation marks). • To specify HotBot as the default search page, change the default value to "http://hotbot.com/?MT=%s" (without quo...

I have been giving lectures on how to edit registry. But I never talked even a single word about backing up or restoring the registry. Well, it is my honest mistake. I admit it. One incident prompted me to write this section. I received an mail from “Ajith Kumar" who while editing his system registry , accidently changed the file associations. Well, thank God, it was not a major one! But what would have happened if he had done something else?? So this time I'm not taking any chances. You back it up or not, here is my tip to backup and restore your system reg settings. We use the XP Backup utility for backing up the registry . To get this utility go to: START [1] PROGRAMS [1] ACCESSORIES [1] SYSTEM TOOLS [1] BACKUP. The wizard will launch, Then click next. Choose BACKUP FILES AND SETTINGS. Click next. Choose LET ME CHOOSE WHAT TO BACKUP. Click next. Expand the section for MY COMPUTER (click the minus sign next to it) and place a check mark in the box next to S...

Multiple Columns for the Start Menu We started with the Start button, right? So, let us end this session with the same ☺ .To make Windows use multiple Start Menu Columns (like Windows 95), do the following registry hack. Open reg Editor (Start [1] Run [1] regedit). Go to the key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\WindowsCurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced. Right click on the right window pane and create a string value StartMenuScrollPrograms. Set the value to FALSE. To get the old setting simply change the value to True or delete the key . New wine in the old bottle, ehh??

Windows Explorer always opens My Documents folder by default. But it is now possible to change this default location by a small hack. Start [1] Programs [1] Accessories [1] Windows Explorer. Right click on this Windows Explorer and choose properties. Now you can see the Target text field. It reads like : %SystemRoot%explorer.exe. After this line, leave a space and type a comma(,) and type in the location of the folder you wish to open by default. For example you have a folder named MP3 in your C:\ and want this folder to be opened by default, then the change will be like this: %SystemRoot%explorer.exe ,C:\MP3 (leave space before you type comma

Increase MFT size If You have Lot of Installed Programs By default, NTFS would reserve 12.5% of your free diskspace for Master File Table(MFT) . This table stores the details of file stored like the memory details. MFT fragmentation could also cause a significant slow down. If you have installed tons of different programs on your hard disk , my advice is to increase the MFT usage percentage to say 25%. To do so navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem. In right pane, Add one more DWord key by the name "NtfsMftZoneReservation". DWORD value of 1 is interpreted as 12.5% ,2 as 25% and so on (multiples of 12.5).

Linux and certain UNIX shells has the ability to predict user keystroke. If You are typing a directory name or a filename and if it exists, using this feature would help you in avoiding those extra keystrokes. If you think that only these Operating Systems have these features, then you are wrong. Windows XP command environment has this feature. You have to use TAB key. Assume you are in C:\drive and want to type autoexec.bat and there is a file that exists by that name. In such cases you can simply type first few characters and press the TAB key. You would really be amazed at this finding. Now tell me honestly, do you think that Windows is not smart enough?

Remove Invalid Entries from Operating System Selection Menu A common complaint after reinstalling XP is the appearance of a boot screen asking the user to select the copy of XP that is to be loaded, even when there is only one copy of XP on the system. XP provides a method that eliminates the danger of manual editing of boot.ini by using the System Configuration Utility. Click Start > Run .Type msconfig and click OK to open System Configuration Utility. Select the tab labeled BOOT.INI. Click the button labeled. Check All Boot Paths. A dialog box will open detailing the location of any invalid operating system locations. Confirm you want to remove the entry and reboot the system

Create your own Sleep button by creating a shortcut on your desktop. In the previous PDf release, I discussed about Shutdown and re-start shortcuts. Now it’s time for a sleep. Rightclick on the desktop. Select New [1] Shortcut. Type rundll32.exe powrprof.dll,SetSuspendState in the text box as it is. Click Next. Type Sleep in the text box and click Finish. Now when you click the Sleep icon, Windows XP will put the computer into either Stand By or Hibernate mode depending on how the “When I Press The Sleep Button” On My Computer setting is configured on the Advanced tab of the Power Options Properties dialog box.

If you want to see what goes behind the Windows Startup Screen, you have to disable the Windows boot screen. Right click “My Computer”. Select “Properties”. Select the “Advanced” tab. In the “Startup and Recovery” section, click “Settings”. In the “System Startup” section, click Edit to open the boot.ini file in Notepad. You will see a line that looks similar to the one below: multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect To disable the Startup Screen, change the line as below: multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect /sos. Note that there is a space between 'fastdetect' and '/sos'. Close Notepad, click Yes when Notepad asks if you want to save your changes. Exit System Properties. Reboot computer and the Startup Screen will be gone.

If you choose to use a different CD burning program than the one supplied with Windows XP this edit will disable the default burner. In most cases this isn't necessary even if you choose an alternative burning program, but there are a few badly behaved burning programs out there that insist on this modification. Open the registry editor and navigate to the following registry key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer .Create a new Dword with the Name "NoCDBurning". To enable give a value 0. A value of 1 disables Burning.Exit registry and Reboot To Enable/Disable CD Burning for the Local Machine navigate to following registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\Ex plorer. Create a new Dword with the Name "NoCDBurning". To enable give a value 0. A value of 1 disables Burning. Exit registry and Reboot.

Useful Windows XP Tips,Tweaks, Walkthroughs and Shortcuts :) 1. Total Uptime: It boasts how long it can stay up. Go to the Command Prompt in the Accessories menu from the All Programs start button option, and then type ’systeminfo’. The computer will produce a lot of useful info, including the uptime. If you want to keep these, type ’systeminfo > info.txt’. This creates a file called info.txt you can look at later with Notepad. 2. Delete Files Immediately: You can delete files immediately, without having them move to the Recycle Bin first. Go to the Start menu, select Run… and type ‘gpedit.msc’; then select User Configuration, Administrative Templates, Windows Components, Windows Explorer and find the Do not move deleted files to the Recycle Bin setting. Set it. Poking around in gpedit will reveal a great many interface and system options, but take care — some may stop your computer behaving as you wish. 3. Lock XP: You can lock your XP workstation with two clicks of the mouse. Crea...

When the Intelligent Menu is activated in Internet Explorer, a message pops up that states it can be turned of using the Internet Options, but while using the Classic Windows mode, that option is unavailable. Create the following keys if necessary. Most probably the keys will be found in those locations. For Internet Explorer's Favorites folder: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main] change: "FavIntelliMenus"="yes" to "FavIntelliMenus"="no" For the Start Menu, and sub-menus: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanc ed] change: "IntelliMenus"=dword:00000001 to "IntelliMenus"=dword:0000000

With this tip, you can right-click any folder in your windows and open a command prompt at that folder. It is a very old hack and I am mentioning it here because of compulsion.Run the registry Editor and navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Classes/Folder/Shell. Create a new key called Command Prompt. For the default value, enter whatever text you want to appear when you right-click a folder.. Create a new key beneath the Command Prompt key called Command. Set the default value to Cmd.exe /k pushd %L. That value will launch Cmd.exe, which is the XP command prompt. The “/k” switch puts the prompt into interactive mode. That is, it lets you issue commands from the command prompt; the command prompt isn't being used to issue only a single command and then exit. The “pushd” command stores the name of the current directory, and “%L” uses that name to start the command prompt at it. Exit the registry

Remove Menu Items from Explorer Explorer's menus can get messy at times. But you can use a registry hack to clean it up a bit by removing some items from the Tools menu. Map Network Drive, Disconnect Network Drive etc can be stopped from displaying. Run the registry Editor and go to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer Create the following DWORD entry and set the values correspondingly. If the values are already there, then just check the values: NoNetConnectDisconnect. 1 NoAutoUpdate 1 NoNetHood 1 NoOnlinePrintsWizard 1 NoPublishingWizard 1 NoWebServices 1 NoWelcomeScreen 1 NoInternetOpenWith 1 NoWindowsUpdate 1 Restart your computer and see the explorer window with

Add rename to the menu: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}\ShellFolder "Attributes"=hex:50,01,00,20 Add delete to the menu: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}\ShellFolder "Attributes"=hex:60,01,00,20 Add rename and delete to the menu: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}\ShellFolder "Attributes"=hex:70,01,00,20 Restore the recycle bin to Windows defaults including un-deleting the icon after deletion: Restore the icon. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer \Desktop\NameSpace\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E} @="Recycle Bin" Reset Windows defaults. HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}\ShellFolder "Attributes"=hex:40,01,00,20 Other edits to the recycle bin icon: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}\ShellFolder "Attributes"=hex:40,01,01,20 ......

Display Your Own Error Messages When you try to delete Microsoft Outlook from the desktop, you get the warning message "The Outlook Desktop icon provides special functionality and we recommend that you do not remove it." If you like, you can edit that message to display whatever you want. In the CLSID's subkeyfor example, {00020D75-0000-0000-C000-000000000046} for Microsoft Outlook you'll find the value Removal Message. Edit this value to whatever text you want, and your warning message will appear whenever someone tries to delete the icon. This is just an example. Follow the suit for customizing the error messages for other icons too!

By default, XP caches negative entries for five minutes. Negative entries are those in which no match was found, and you end up getting a "Cannot find server or DNS" error in your browser.After five minutes, they're cleared from your cache. But if you'd like, you can force XP not to cache these negative entries so that you'll never run into this problem. Run the registry Editor and go to the following key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ SYSTEM \CurrentControlSet\Services\Dnscache\Parameters. Create a new DWORD value with the name NegativeCacheTime and give it a value of 0. The DWORD determines how much time, in seconds, to keep negative entries in the DNS cache. If you like, you can have the entries stay alive for one second by giving the DWORD a value of 1.After you're done editing, exit the registry . To make the change take effect, restart your computer, or flush your cache by issuing the command ipconfig /flushdns at a command prompt. You can also use the...

Un-install Wordpad, Automatic Update, Messenger, Pinball etc Use Notepad or another text editor to open the Setup Information file, sysoc.inf, which is generally found in the C:\WINDOWS\INF folder. For this folder to be visible, you will have to enable hidden folders by going into Windows Explorer and choosing Tools [1] Folder Options [1] View [1] Show Hidden Files and Folders. The lines in the file follow the format: program=program.dll,OcEntry,program.inf,,numeral The Pinball game entry, as an example, looks like this: Pinball=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,pinball.inf,HIDE,7. Remove the word HIDE from the entry that refers to the component you want to remove. Save the sysoc.inf file, and run the Windows Components Wizard under Add/Remove programs. The component will now show up in the wizard. Remove it as you would any other component.

Change Icons of your Desktop Objects Change Icons of your Desktop Objects (MyComputer, Recycle bin..) Go to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID, and look for the CLSID subkey from the table above for the object whose icon you want to change. Open the subkey and then the DefaultIcon subkey under that. To change the icon for My Computer, open the subkey HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\DefaultIcon. Change the Default value to the path of the icon that you want displayed. Follow the same for changing the icons of ther items as well. Exit the registry. You might have to reboot for the new settings to take effect. If you aren't able to change your icons still, then try editing the following: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft \Windows\CurrentVersion \ Explorer\ CLSID\, and you will be in.

Change Text and Baloon Tip Change Text and Baloon Tip Associated With All Desktop Icons You need to know the object's class ID (CLSID), which uniquely identifies each system object. The following table lists the CLSIDs for common desktop objects. CLSIDs for desktop objects Desktop object CLSID My Computer {20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D} Recycle Bin {645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E} Microsoft Outlook {00020D75-0000-0000-C000-000000000046} Internet Explorer {FBF23B42-E3F0-101B-8488-00AA003E56F8} The Internet {3DC7A020-0ACD-11CF-A9BB-00AA004AE837} My Network Places {208D2C60-3AEA-1069-A2D7-08002B30309D} Briefcase {85BBD920-42A0-1069-A2E4-08002B30309D} Dial-Up Networking {992CFFA0-F557-101A-88EC-00DD010CCC48} Run the registry Editor, go to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID, a key that lets you change characteristics of system objects, and highlight the CLSID whose name or balloon text you want to change. For example, to change My Computer, highlight the subkey HK...

Set the Search Screen to the Classic Look When I first saw the default search pane in Windows XP, my instinct was to return it to its classic look; that puppy had to go. Of course, I later discovered that a doggie door is built into the applet. Click "Change preferences" then "Without an animated screen character." If you'd rather give it a bare-bones "Windows 2000" look and feel, fire up your reg editor and navigate to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Explorer \ CabinetState. You may need to create a new string value labeled "Use Search Asst" and set it to "no".

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