Slow Network Access Not Always Due to Scheduled Tasks Check

If you have very slow access to your network computers through "My Network Places" and have already deleted the Registry entry calling for a check of Scheduled Tasks on the other network computers (documented elsewhere on this site) AND you have multiple network adaptors (i.e. a cable or DSL connection through one NIC and an internal network using a second NIC) check the following:

• Right-click on "My Network Places", go to Properties.

• Right-click on the NIC that your cable/DSL connects to, and choose Properties.

• Select Internet Protocol (TCP/IP), and click on Properties.

• Click on "Advanced", go to "WINS" tab, and chose Disable NetBios over TCP/IP.

• When you are back at your Network Connections page, right-click on the Broadband selection.

• Choose "Properties", click on the Networking tab.
• Again, choose TCP/IP, Properties, Advanced, WINS, and select "disable NetBios over TCP/IP".

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Disable XP Boot Logo

It is possible to disable the XP splash screen, which will slightly speed up the overall boot process.
Be aware that removing the splash screen will also cause you not to see any boot-up messages that might come up (chkdsk, convert ... ), but if your system runs without any problems then it should not matter.

• Edit boot.ini.

• Add " /noguiboot" right after "/fastdetect".

Upon restarting, the splash screen will be gone. It can be re-enabled by removing the new switch.

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Easy Way to Adjust LargeSystemCache

In Windows XP, all you have to do is:

• Right-click My Computer.

• Select Properties.

• Click Advanced.

• Choose Performance.

• Click Advanced again.

• Select either Programs or System Cache under Memory Usage. Programs = 0 for the registry tweak equivalent System Cache = 1 for the registry tweak equivalent

• On NT Server (in this case XP), the Large System Cache option is enabled, but disabled on Workstation. The two different settings effect how the cache manager allocates free memory. If the Large Cache option is on, the manager marks all the free memory, which isn't being used by the system and/or applications, as freely available for disk caching.

• On the flip-side (with a small cache), the manager instead only sets aside 4MB of memory for disk caching in an attempt to accelerate the launch of applications. Or in a more technical approach, if enabled the system will favor system-cache working sets over process working sets (with a working set basically being the memory used by components of a process).

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Turn Off System Restore to Save Space

By default,
Windows XP keeps a backup of system files in the System Volume Information folder.
This can eat up valuable space on your hard drive.
If you don't want Windows to back up your system files:

• Open the Control Panel.
• Double-click on System.
• Click the System Restore tab.
• Check "Turn off System Restore on all drives".
• Hit Apply.

• You may now delete the System Volume Information folder.
Warning! If you turn this off you will not be able to use Windows System Restore to restore your system in case of failure.

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Easily Disable Messenger

Go into: C:/Program Files/Messenger.
Rename the Messenger folder to "MessengerOFF".
This does not slow down Outlook Express or hinder system performance.

Enjoy.

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Make your computer super fast | Hacking Tips and Trickz

Make your computer super fast | Hacking Tips and Trickz

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How to Change text on windows XP start up button

Step 1 - Modify Explorer.exe File

In order to make the changes, the file explorer.exe located at C:\Windows needs to be edited. Since explorer.exe is a binary file it requires a special editor. For purposes of this article I have used Resource Hacker. Resource HackerTM is a freeware utility to view, modify, rename, add, delete and extract resources in 32bit Windows executables and resource files (*.res). It incorporates an internal resource script compiler and decompiler and works on Microsoft Windows 95/98/ME, Windows NT, Windows 2000 and Windows XP operating systems.

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The first step is to make a backup copy of the file explorer.exe located at C:\Windows\explorer. Place it in a folder somewhere on your hard drive where it will be safe. Start Resource Hacker and open explorer.exe located at C:\Windows\explorer.exe.

The category we are going to be using is "String Table". Expand it by clicking the plus sign then navigate down to and expand string 37 followed by highlighting 1033. If you are using the Classic Layout rather than the XP Layout, use number 38. The right hand pane will display the stringtable. We’re going to modify item 578, currently showing the word “start” just as it displays on the current Start button.

There is no magic here. Just double click on the word “start” so that it’s highlighted, making sure the quotation marks are not part of the highlight. They need to remain in place, surrounding the new text that you’ll type. Go ahead and type your new entry. In my case I used Click Me!

You’ll notice that after the new text string has been entered the Compile Script button that was grayed out is now active. I won’t get into what’s involved in compiling a script, but suffice it to say it’s going to make this exercise worthwhile. Click Compile Script and then save the altered file using the Save As command on the File Menu. Do not use the Save command – Make sure to use the Save As command and choose a name for the file. Save the newly named file to C:\Windows.


Step 2 – Modify the Registry

!!!make a backup of your registry before making changes!!!

Now that the modified explorer.exe has been created it’s necessary to modify the registry so the file will be recognized when the user logs on to the system. If you don’t know how to access the registry I’m not sure this article is for you, but just in case it’s a temporary memory lapse, go to Start (soon to be something else) Run and type regedit in the Open field. Navigate to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ SOFTWARE\ Microsoft\ Windows NT\ CurrentVersion\ Winlogon

In the right pane, double click the "Shell" entry to open the Edit String dialog box. In Value data: line, enter the name that was used to save the modified explorer.exe file. Click OK.

Close Registry Editor and either log off the system and log back in, or reboot the entire system

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How to Hack Password Protected websites ?

There are many ways to defeat java-script protected websites.
Some are very simplistic, such as hitting ctl-alt-del when the password box is displayed, to simply turning off java capability, which will dump you into the default page.

You can try manually searching for other directories, by
typing the directory name into the url address box of your
browser, ie:if you want access to www.target.com .
Try typing
www.target.com/images.(almost ever y web site has an images directory)

This will put you into the images directory and give you a text list of all the images located there.

Often, the title of an image will give you a clue to the name of another directory. ie: in www.target.com/images,
there is a .gif named gamestitle.gif .
There is a good chance then, that there is a 'games' directory on the site,
so you would then type in www.target.com/games, and if it is a valid directory,
you again get a text listing of all thefiles available there.

For a more automated a pproach, use a program like WEB SNAKE
from anawave, or Web Wacker. These programs will create a mirror image of an entire web site, showing all directories, or even mirror a complete server. They are indispensable for locating hidden files and directories.

What do you do if you can't get past an opening "Password Required" box?
First do an WHOIS Lookup for the site.
In our example, www.target.com . We find it's hosted by www.host.com
at 100.100.100. 1. We then go to 100.100.100.1, and then launch \ Web Snake, and mirror the e ntire server. Set Web Snake to NOT download anything over about 20K. (not ma ny HTML pages are bigger than this) This speeds things up some, and keeps you from getting a lot of files and images you don't care about.

This can take a long time, so consider running it right before bed time.
Once you have an image of the entire server, you look through the directories listed, and find /target. When we open that directory, we find its contents, and all of i ts sub-directories listed.

Let's say we find /target/games/zip/zipindex.html . This would be the index
page that would be displayed had you gone through the password procedure, and allowed it to redirect you here.

By simply typing in the url :
www.target.com/games/zip/zipindex.html you will be on
the index page and ready to follow the links for downloading.

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How to hack mobile phones from bluetooth

You can hack any mobile if you use this software and connect to other phones.

Using this trick you can:

1) Call from his phone. It includes all call functions like hold etc.
2) Read his messages
3) Read his contacts
4) Change profile
5) Play his ringtones
6) Play his songs
7) Restart the phone
8) Switch off the phone
9) Restore factory settings
10) Change ringing volume

Notes:
1.) When connecting devices use a code 0000
2.) At start of programming on smartphones do not forget to turn on bluetooth before start of the application

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Serial keys of more then 1000 games - HACKED

Download the above file.
It has the serial keys of many games.

Click here to download the file

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