Disabling Dr. Watson

Dr. Watson can be a little annoying at times, but there's solution. You can turn it off. The behaviour of Dr Watson is controlled by:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AeDebug

The contents of the REG_SZ value, Auto, controls how Dr Watson operates:
0:
Displays a message box informing the user of an application error.
1:
(default) Causes the debugger to start automatically.

You can disable Dr Watson completely by deleting the AeDebug key. To re-enable it, type:

drwtsn32 -i

at the command prompt.

Type a message in ur desired language( Indian language) using Microsoft word

This is an eyecatching tweak for people who would like to have some Hindi text in their signatures or who would like to scrap wishes in hindi. If you wanna type a message in Telugu/Hindi or some other desired language.. Here is the way!! No third party software is needed. This is all stuff to do with Microsoft word.

Open Microsoft word and select Symbol in insert menu. Select font as Mangal and subset as Devanagiri. Here u find all the characters that are required to type any alphabet.

Suppose if you want to type "अपुन अच्छा लडका है" Insert the following symbols in the order. Neglect + and <> signs. I just placed it for seperation.

अ + प + ु+न <> अ + च + ्+ छ + ा + ल + ड + क + ा <> ह +

While typing the characters, you will observe the related characters merging themselves. After typing the required message, just copy and paste the characters wherever you want. Soon after u paste the message.. u may notice blank squares appearing instead of message (in Googletalk window for example).. Dont worry.. The tweak works after you save it/send it.

If u wanna have ur profile name of Orkut in Hindi... U can do the similar thing... Just type the text in microsoft word. Edit your profile and paste the text there... You can also send the messages in Google Talk or Yahoo IMs.

Similarly.. use Gautami font for Telugu and Tunga font for Kannada. You should download Unicode fonts for other languages to enable this feature...
There are editors available which will do the same work for you. But, for small messages, this is useful.

Remove RUN ....

Who wants to delete "RUN"

I really don't know why someone could wish to remove RUN from START MENU, but if you're one of them, you can do that, too.

REGEDIT

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer

Double click on "NoRun" and change "ValueData" from 0 to 1.

Close Regedit, and restart computer.

Edit images -Make it easy

Well these tips are for beginners..OK?? To those who doesn’t know anything about image editing


How to censor/pixelate


If there are part of an image or something which you dont want others to see, you can pixelate them. For best understanding, it is to censor the image. Select the part of the image with the Lasso Tool (Shortcut key = Shift +L). After selecting the area, go to Filter in the menu bar and then to Pixelate, select Mosaic. You will get a new dialogue box where you can specify your own cell size. Your changes are previewed automatically and you’ll know when to press OK. (Normally enter 8-12 for small sized images). Please make sure your preview window is checked


How to invert the colour of a pic


You will find various inverted pictures on the net, which do look good when inverted। To see the original colour or to invert the colour of the picture, the easiest way is to open the picture with MSPaint or Adobe Photoshop. Press Ctrl+i and you’ll see the magic.

Rotate and Flip

To rotate a picture, follow the steps. Click Image on the menu bar > Rotate Canvas > you can choose whatever you like. Arbitrary means you can specify your own degree for the image to rotate. You can also flip the picture vertically or horizontally. Check it out by selecting Flip Horizontally or Flip Vertically.

To change the size of a picture


Many pictures comes with large size, for eg. 3000×2500 pixels. This will take a long time to open/load esp on the net. To change the size of the image, open the big-sized image with Adobe Photoshop. On the menu bar select Image, then Image Size. You’ll get a dialogue box where you can enter your own specifications. Please make sure that Constrain Proportion is checked, otherwise you’ll get a horrible figure. For eg, enter 600 in the width box, you dont have to manually enter the height. And make sure your measurements are in terms of pixels, which is easiest to understand. After you enter the size, press OK. Your picture is small now!!

Danger of "CTRL+C" on web

We do copy various data by ctrl+c for pasting elsewhere. This copied data is stored in clipboard and is accessible from the net by a combination of Javascripts and ASP.
Just try this:
1) Copy any text by 'ctrl+c'

2) Do not keep sensitive data (like passwords, reditcard numbers, PIN etc.) in the clipboard while surfing the web. It is extremely easy to extract the text stored in the clipboard to steal your sensitive information.

To avoid Clipboard Hack Problem, do the following:
1) In Internet Explorer, Go to Tools -> Internet options -> Security
2) Press Custom level.
3) In the security settings, select disable under Allow paste operations via script and click on 'OK. (Now the contents of your clipboard are safe.)

Using different address with gmail

Most of you guys have forwarded your emails from other email services to gmail for convenience purpose, but did you know that you can reply from the gmail account with the email address you forwarded your email. You can display anther email address in the “From:” field instead of your gmail address.

- First Log in to your Gmail account on which you wish to add another address.
- Click “Settings” on the top of the page.
- Then select the “Account” tab and then click “Add another email address” in the “Send mail as:” section.
- Now add your Name and the email address you wish to add to gmail. You can specify a different email address for “reply-to” address if you’d like email replies to be delivered to other email account, such as Gmail.

- When done with the above step, click next and then click Send Verification to complete the process. Then Gmail will send a verification message to email address you typed in to verify that the account is yours and you would like to add it to gmail.
- Then open the email inbox of the email address you wished to add and click the link in the verification email sent by gmail or copy paste the verification code to gmail to confirm your request.
- When done with all the steps you are can customize your email address in the “From:” field whenever you want to compose an email.

This has really helped me cause i had to use 2 accounts and now i can use 2 account of my gmail. Hope it helps you guys too….

Morph photos online with this amazing tool

Tony blair and bush


This is simply another cool tool to morph images online. Morphing is basically combining the features of two different images to create one resultant image. This mostly works best with human faces and Morph Thing provides with you with the tools to morph images to your liking.

Morphed photo


Morph Thing just does not offer celebrity morphs alone. You are able to morph your own photos as well. And what’s more, you can morph your photo with your favorite celebrity and find out how you look. Also, you can try morphing photos of your friends and see how it turns out. The only restriction for this being that you need to register. But that is a simple and quick process here as well

Google fake logos

Searching the net i came across an interesting site LOGOOGLE.COM

Logoogle.com is the most comprehensive resource on the web for: Fake Google Logos, Google Logo images and Google Logo Pictures, Image Search, Google Search, Gogle Logos, Goolge Logos, Logs, Gooogle, Genuine Google Logos, Google Holiday Logos, Fabricated Google Logos, Photoshop, Photoshopped Google Logos, Rotating Google Logos, Google Logo Art, Google Fan Logos, Google IPO Logos, Global Google Logos, Google Fun, Spoof Google Logos, Google Merchandise...

The above logo is one them.........i think u will enjoy

Remove the Windows XP splash screen

Disabling the Windows XP splash screen will reduce boot time.

1 To remove it first do a search fo a file called "boot.ini" located in \Windows\ .

2. Open the file with Notepad and add "/noguiboot" after "/fastdetect".

Get more disk space - Convert FAT32 to NTFS Filesystem

First this trick need an ntfs disk, if u have fat or fat32, the convert it here is hw:open ms-dos and write

convert X:/fs:ntfs

Replace X by the drive name (c or d or e)

For example... for drive C:\

convert c:/fs:ntfs

now select a drive (c or d or e.......) right-click and propreties, then click on general and select "compress drive to save disk space" and press ok...no data will be damaged or removed.

Hide a 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-ROM
Volume 1 C NTFS Partition 7000MB Healthy
Volume 2 D soft NTFS Partition 8000MB Healthy
Volume 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"

Put ur name in window's start menu

First of all Download a resource hacker form the net. it is actually a free software. just click on the link to download resource hacker http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/11/23/409541/ResHacker.rar

now the main thing u have to do is :
1) go to "C:\WINDOWS" and there copy the "explorer.exe" and paste it on the desktop and rename it as ur name. for example: "sagar.exe"

2)now open the resource hacker that u have downloaded earlier.
click on file menu select open.
from the open menu select renamed file for example : "sagar.exe"
now from left side of resource hacker select "String Table" and then folder "37" then select select "1033" on clicking this some text will appear on right side of the resource hacker.
on the right side u will see some thing written as "start" now what u have to do just put ur name in place of start.
now compile it and save it.

3)Now cut the renamed file i.e "sagar.exe" from ur desktop and paste it in its original path. ie "C:\WINDOWS".

4) Now select "start menu" and then open run on that type "regedit".

5) On regeditor select "My Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\microsoft\Windows NT\Currentversion\Winlogon"
now on the right side of the regeditor doubleclick "shell" then chane the "value data" as the modified file {for example:"sagar.exe"} and press ok.

6) Now restart ur system. u will feel gr8 to see ur hand work.

How to find your IP Address?

To find your IP Address,

1. Go to Start —> Run
2. Type cmd
3. Command Prompt will open.
4. In that, type ipconfig /all
5. You will see your IP Address