Friday, February 15, 2008

Playing movie in mspaint - hacking your mspaint

  • Another MS Paint Trick goes here, I was not knowing that Painting area in MS paint utility works as Video screen!! lovely trick.* First start a movie in any player.
  • Then open Paint.
  • Now, in the player when the movie is being played, press "Print screen" button on your key board.
  • Now, Press ctrl+v in Paint
  • Leave the movie player open and don't minimize it.
  • Open Paint now and se the movie in the Paint!

playing with windows -change drive and harddisk drive letters

1. Click the start button
2. Go into Administrative tools (either in the start button or in "All Programs"
3. From Administrative Tools, go into "Computer Management"
4. In "Computer Management", click on "Disk Management" under "Storage" from the left menu
5. You should see a window from the lower right hand corner open (it shows all the hard disk drives and cd-rom drives)
6. To change......hard drive, click on the hard disk with a blue horizonal bar, the box should be shaded; next right click that box that you desire to change the letter then click on "Change Letter Drive and Path"...cd-rom drive, click on the box that you desire the drive letter; next right click that box that you desire to change the letter then click on "Change Letter Drive and Path"
7. click the "change..." button
8. from the "assign the following drive letter", select the letter you want to assign to the hard drive or the cd-rom drive
9. click ok
11. (optional) redo the whole step to reassign other hard drives or cd-rom drives

tips and tricks for windows vista -get more out the vista :)

1. If you’re annoyed by Internet Explorer’s incessant barking that you’ve lowered your security settings (like, if you’re a non-paranoid expert), launch “gpedit.msc” from either the Run command or Start Search field, navigate through Local Computer Policy / Computer Configuration / Administrative Templates / Windows Components / Internet Explorer. In the rightmost pane, double-click “Turn off the Security Settings Check feature” and set it to Enabled.


2. If Internet Explorer’s Information Bar also annoys you, you can turn it off (again) in the Group Policy Object Editor (gpedit.msc) through Local Computer Policy / Computer Configuration / Administrative Templates / Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Security Features. In the rightmost pane, double-click “Internet Explorer Processes” and set it to Disabled. Hallelujah!

3. I’ve just mentioned two tweaks that are buried inside the Group Policy Editor. Jim Allchin pointed out that there’s a Group Policy Settings Reference spreadsheet available. Makes for great weekend reading.

4. Read the Background on Backgrounds if you’re a performance junkie. Don’t set your wallpaper through Internet Explorer ever again! Now that Windows supports JPG wallpapers, there’s absolutely no need (or excuse) for using BMPs anymore.

5. If you insist on keeping UAC (User Account Control) turned on for yourself, you might care to make the elevation prompts a bit less visually jarring. Brandon told me about this one, even though I have UAC turned off. Launch the Local Security Policy manager (secpol.msc), and navigate through Security Settings / Local Policies / Security Options. In the rightmost pane, scroll to the bottom and double-click “User Account Control: Switch to the secure desktop when prompting for elevation.” Disable it, and you can keep UAC turned on without getting turned off by the embarrassingly craptacular Aero Basic theme.

6. Vista can send you emails! The Computer Management tool can still be accessed by right-clicking “Computer” and selecting “Manage” from the menu. However, now you can attach a task to any event. Try navigating through System Tools / Event Viewer / Windows Logs / Application. Now, go ahead and select an event - then look to the rightmost pane and click “Attach Task to This Event.” Name it whatever, describe it however, click through the next step, then in the Action step, you’ll see the “Send an e-mail” option.

7. The Windows Task Manager gives you a lot more troubleshooting information in Vista. Flip to the Processes tab, and in the View menu, click “Select Columns” and add Description, Command Line, and Image Path Name. Moreover, when you right-click a process, you can select either “Go to Service(s)” or “Open File Location.” These are all long overdue options.

8. This one’s interesting. Open up the Date and Time Control Panel applet. Flip to the “Additional Clocks” tab. There, you can configure two more clocks from different time zones. They’ll appear in the tooltip when you hover over the Taskbar clock. No additional software (or silly sidebar widgets) necessary.

9. Applicable in other versions of Windows, I’m going to throw it in here for good measure. Create a shortcut to RegSvr32.exe in your SendTo folder. To get there quickly, enter “shell:sendto” in the Run command dialog or Start Search field. Now, when you wanna register a DLL or OCX file with the system, you can select it/them and “Send To” the RegSvr32 shortcut.
10. I figured I’d round out my first set of Windows Vista tips and tricks with a tiny bit of eye candy. It doesn’t beat Picasa, but the Windows Photo Gallery is better than nothing. Once it’s indexed all your photos, click the icon next to the Search field and turn on the “Table of Contents.” That’s kinda nifty.

usign windows defragmat | system mechanic for speeding up your pc

Wizard. Run Defrag to defragment your hard drive so files are faster to access.
If you’ve added and removed programs over a period of time, clean up your PC’s Registry using a Registry clean up tool like Registry Mechanic 2.1 from www.winguides.com.
Remove any programs that load automatically at startup and which you don’t need or use. If things get too slow,
consider backing up all your data, settings and device drivers and perform a clean reinstall of Windows.

Best Download manager for windows -wget

wget for windows
Download it from here or
Homepage here.2nd step (once you have the .exe file):
Copy it to your system32 folder (usually c:\windows\system32\)
Just use it.

how to automatically log in to your windows system


Click on “Start”->“Run” - and type “control userpasswords2″

Select the Users tab, Clear the “Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer” check ,A dialog will appear that asks you what user name and password should be used to logon automatically,

Supply a Username, Password, and Confirm . Start”K.

Open the Control PanelL. Db Click User Accounts. Click “Change the way users log on or off”Clear Check box for “Use the Welcome Screen” .

Clear Check box for “Use Fast User Switching” (Automatically Disabled)

. Click Apply Options.

Running multiple yahoo messengers - hack your yahoo messenger

If you are using Yahoo! Messenger v8.0 or above,
YahooMulti.reg will let you run multiple copies of Yahoo Messenger at the same time
which will allow you to login multiple ID’s at the same time.
When you click on the reg file above,
just click “run” from current location.
Or do it manual,

Share Videos in yahoo messenger -sych with your friend

Zync plug-in allows you and a friend to watch the same video in sync in the IM window.
To play a video from YouTube, Yahoo! Video or Google Video, grab the URL (http://…) from the website and type
“watch [video URL]”
into your IM text box and send it (ex: watch http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?vid=329037). The best part about Zync is that when the video is playing, you and your friend see the exact same thing at the same time. This makes it much easier to talk about the video.

checking status of your friend on yahoo messenger

Visit http://vngrabber.com/ type in a Yahoo! ID
and their status will be revealed.
Even if the user has chosen to be invisible
~enjOY

Online ststus changer and manager for yahoo messenger

HyperIM is simply the only status changer & manager you’ll ever use from now on.
It has all functions rss automatic pm script plugins.
Media player ‘now playing’ support for
Winamp 2.x and 5.x, iTunes,
Windows Media Player 9 and newer,
BSplayer, 1by1 player, jetAudio, Yahoo! Music Jukebox ,
XMPlay, Musicmatch Jukebox, Media Player Classic,
RealPlayer, UltraPlayer and ZoomPlayer.

Removing advertisements from yahoo messenger

  1. Close the messenger,
  2. download the Self Extracting file noadsse.exe - 64KB
  3. run noads.exe. from it.
  4. Restart Messenger…simple !!
AlternativelyNice info also found here.
If you install new versions of Yahoo Messenger, you’ll have to repeat the steps above, as Yahoo setup rewrites the registry entries. New versions will most likely make removing the ads more difficult or even impossible.

Tracing your friend s IP on yahoo messenger - hacking ;)

It was initially possible to gain the IP of the person you are chatting with in
Yahoo Chat using the netstat command or a simple GUI tool like Process Explorer.
for Windows. However, Yahoo fixed that. Still, if you try to use a ‘packet sniffer’ program you should be able to do that.
You can try ethereal or winpcap [http://www.ethereal.com/ (for ethereal) ; http://winpcap.polito.it/ (for winpcap)].
However, network sniffing may be illegal in your area and you should check beforehand. Then you need to get a whois program. You can get one here: http://www.snapfiles.com/get/trout.html

iphone tips and tricks -how to get familiar with your iphone

these are some tips for iphone users -chk them out
If you tap once at the very top of the screen when you are on the internet, it will take you back to the top of the window rather than having to scroll all the way back up. A nice time saving feature.
2. If you set the font to the smallest size, you can read more in the internet window. An advantage of this is that when you want to click a link, you can pinch (expand) that area and the link will come up very large, making it much easier to click.
3. Rather than posting the full address of internet sites in bookmarks, you can post the equivalent RSS address instead into Apple's RSS reader and save that as your bookmark. This way you can quickly see if there's anything interesting on your favorite site rather than downloading the whole homepage.
4. If you are writing something and the iPhone flags a word as misspelled that you know is not misspelled, cancel the correction 3 times and the word will be put into the dictionary. If you write a lot, this feature is quite useful!
5. The magnifying glass is a nice iPhone tool when you are typing an email or any other text. If you tap once and hold, a magnifying glass will pop up showing you a zoomed in view of your words and cursor. You can now easily place the cursor wherever you want. This makes editing your writing very easy.
6. You can move icons around, but not on the home screen. You have to go to the ipod section. Go to iPod > More > Edit. Now you can drag your icons all around. This can also be done in the phone section.
7. To reset your iphone, hold down the right button and the "home" front button for about 6 seconds. To power it back on, push the top button. This is different than a regular shutdown, which can be done easily by holding the sleep/wake button for 6 seconds.
8. If you get a lot of spam e-mail or other unwanted e-mail, pay attention to this time saving feature. Add a link to Yahoo mail in Safari bookmarks. From there you can check 'delete all' to remove all unwanted e-mails. This is much easier than deleting hundreds of spam e-mails one at a time.

Speed up windows by following these small tips

Disable remote services: If you never need to access the system over a network, nor have anyone else do so (for help troubleshooting a problem, for example), you can free up some Windows resources by turning these features off.

In Windows XP Pro, click
Start > Control Panel > System and Maintenance (in Category view) > System > Remote, uncheck the options under Remote Assistance and Desktop Sharing, and click OK (note that these settings aren't available in XP Home).
To disable these remote features in Vista, press the Windows key and type system, press the down arrow until System is highlighted, and press Enter. Click Remote settings in the left pane, and under the Remote tab in the System Properties dialog box, uncheck the option under Remote Assistance. In the Remote desktop section, click Don't allow connections to this computer, and click OK.
Disable remote-access features in the System Properties dialog box to improve Windows' performance.
Deactivate System Restore: If you prefer to use a backup method other than the one built into Windows, you can disable this feature. Just keep in mind that if you go completely backup-less, you'll lose data. Maybe not today, and maybe not next week, but someday. Eventually Windows and your applications will crash--guaranteed.
In Windows XP you can shut off System Restore by clicking Start > Control Panel > Performance and Maintenance (in Category view) > System > System Restore. Check Turn off System Restore, and click OK. Next, return to Control Panel and choose Administrative Tools > Services, click or double-click System Restore Service, select Stop, and close the window.
Disable System Restore in Windows XP by checking this option in the System Properties dialog box.
Do the same in Vista by pressing the Windows key, typing backup and restore center, and pressing Enter. Click Create a restore point or change settings in the left pane, uncheck your hard drive under Automatic restore points on the System Protection tab, click Turn Off System Restore at the scary warning, click OK, and close the Backup and Restore Center.

Basic Searching tips for windows users

If you want to search for multiple files at a time in the search window you can use the keywordfilename1;filename2;filename3For example if you wanted to search kaspersky and mundu type kaspersky;mundu
By the usage of wildcards you can improve the results of your search. Here are some details about it.
Use the asterisk (*) as a substitute for zero or more characters. If you are looking for a file that you know starts with “gloss” but you cannot remember the rest of the file name, type the following:gloss*This locates all files of any file type that begin with “gloss” including Glossary.txt, Glossary.doc, and Glossy.doc. To narrow the search to a specific type of file, type:gloss*.docThis locates all files that begin with “gloss” but have the file name extension .doc, such as Glossary.doc and Glossy.doc. Another Example To search for all file which include (letter) in their name, Use *letter.* as search keyword For example it can find Holiday letter.doc, Special letter.doc, and Special letter.txt with this keyword.
Use the question mark (?) as a substitute for a single character in a name. For example, if you type gloss?.doc, you will locate the file Glossy.doc or Gloss1.doc but not Glossary.doc.