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Disable Error Reporting
You can get rid of the Windows XP error report messages if you don’t want to send
another one in.
· Click Start, and then click Run.
· Type msconfig to open the System Configuration Utility.
· Click the Services tab.
· Clear the Error Reporting Service check box, and then click OK.
· Hit Restart to reboot your system.
Your computer will now start without loading the error reporting service.
Windows 7 has several useful keyboard shortcuts.
Alt+P ->Display/ hide the Explorer preview pane
Windows Logo+G ->Display gadgets in front of other windows
Windows Logo++ (plus key) ->Zoom in, where appropriate
Windows Logo+- (minus key) ->Zoom out, where appropriate
Windows Logo+Up ->Maximise the current window
Windows Logo+Down ->Minimise the current window
Windows Logo+Left ->Snap to the left hand side of the screen
Windows Logo+Right ->Snap to the right hand side of the screen
Windows Logo+Home ->Minimise/ restore everything except the current window
Shift + Click on icon ->Open a new instance
Middle click on icon ->Open a new instance
Ctrl + Shift + Click on icon ->Open a new instance with Admin privileges
Shift + Right-click on icon ->Show window menu (Restore / Minimize / Move / etc) Note: Normally you can just right-click on the window thumbnail to get this menu
Shift + Right-click on grouped icon ->Menu with Restore All / Minimize All / Close All, etc.
Ctrl + Click on grouped icon ->Cycle between the windows (or tabs) in the group
Clipboard Hack Problem – Shocking news about CTRL+C
If you are a computer guy you might be a big fan of Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V as me was some times before. But Thanks to GOD, now I am very well aware of the serious drawbacks of this Cut, Copy, Paste. And I do take special precautions while doing this and you also follow the same please. Especially when you are connected to internet, don’t forget mine this article.
Ctrl+C may be the most important work we do everyday. But it’s not a very safe thing to do. What happens when we press Ctrl+C while we are online? We do copy various data by Ctrl+C for pasting elsewhere. This copied data is stored inclipboard and is accessible from the net by a combination of javascripts and php. This is calledclipboard hack problem.
Just try this:
Copy any text by Ctrl+C.
Click on the link Clipboard Hack
You will see the text you copied was accessed by this web page.
Surprised!!!!!
I know you are because at first glance, I was also surprised to see it.
Do not keep sensitive data (like passwords, credit card 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. Share this article with as many friends as u can, to save them from online frauds.
It is true; text you last copied for pasting (copy & paste) can be stolen when you visit websites using a combination of Javascript and asp (or php, or cgi, or any server-side scripting language) to write your possible sensitive data to a database on another server.
How to safeguard yourself from Clipboard HackProblem?
To avoid clipboard hack problem, do the following:
Go to Internet Options-> Security
Press Custom Level
In the Security settings, select disable under Allow paste operations via script.
Now the contents of your clipboard are safe.
Interestingly, this hack works only on Internet Explorer, and not on Mozilla Firefox browser.
Its true by following above procedure, you can avoid clipboard Hacking. But then also I would rather say ‘Prevention is better than cure’.
Please share this article with as many friends as you can to make them aware of this issue with CTRL+C.
No Shutdown
Want to play with your friends by removing the shutdown option from start menu in their computer.
Just hack it down.
Regedit
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer
“NoClose”=”DWORD:1”
Automatic Administrator Login:
Well here’s the trick which you can use to prove that Windows XP is not at all secure as multi-user operating system. Hacking the system registry from any account having access to system registry puts you in to the administrator account.
REGEDIT 4
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon]
“AutoAdminLogon”=”1”
Display legal notice on startup:
Wanna tell your friends about the do’s and dont’s in your computer when they login in your absence. Well you can do it pretty easily by displaying a legal notice at system start up.
REGEDIT
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\system]
“legalnoticecaption”=”enter your notice caption”
“legalnoticetext”=”enter your legal notice text”
Step no. 1
1. Go to Start -> Run -> Write regedit and press on Enter button.
2. Navigate to the following registry keys and verity that following settings set to default:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System]
“DisableTaskMgr”=dword:00000000
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Group Policy Objects\LocalUser\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System]
“DisableTaskMgr”=dword:00000000
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\system\]
“DisableTaskMgr”=dword:00000000
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon]
“DisableCAD”=dword:000000003. Reboot the computer.
Step no. 2
1. Go to Start – Run -> Write Gpedit.msc and press on Enter button.
2. Navigate to User Configuration – Administrative Templates -> System – Ctrl+Alt+Del Option
3. In the right side of the screen verity that Remove Task Manager option set to Disable or Not Configured.
4. Close Gpedit.msc
5. Go to Start – Run -> Write gpupdate /force and press on Enter button.
Systems by default will allow USB storage devices to connect without problems. This allows an easy pathway for a user to download or upload large files from the system. In some environments, this is helpful; other times it can be a security nightmare.
Here’s the registry key to turn it off.
(If you don’t know registry, don’t mess with this stuff.)
If you don’t have this key, you might need to create it.
Setting name:
WriteProtect
Dword values:
0 (is the default and allows USB devices to connect)
1 (prevents USB devices from connecting)
Setting up a Gmail account is very easy in Outlook. Incoming messages can still be archived and accessed via the Gmail web interface, and outgoing mail is automatically stored there as well.
If Outlook was not able to configure your Gmail account automatically, you can still do it manually:
This trick is for all those people who wants to hide tons of data into their box. So here it is, if you have very important data in your hard drive placed in some partition which you do not want anybody to see then this trick is only for you!!!
1. Just click on start>run type gpedit.msc
2. Now navigate through user configuration> administrative templates > windows components> windows explorer
3. Double click on “Hide these specified drives in My Computer” modify it accordingly.
4. Then just below you will find another option “Prevent access to drives from My Computer”, double click on this option and modify it accordingly.
5. To make it visible again select “disable” by double clicking on the “Hide these specified drives in My Computer” option.
WARNING:Don’t try to experiment with other options in gpedit.msc if you don’t know, what exactly your doing. Please dont take any risk in changing anything else in gpedit.msc unless you are familiar with it.
***anyways if you having any problem to apply this trick, comment me.
Ravindra Kulkarni
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