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This tip reduces the time XP waits before automatically closing any running programs when you give it the command to shutdown. 
Go to Start then select Run 
Type 'Regedit' and click ok 
Find 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\' 
Select 'WaitToKillAppTimeout' 
Right click and select 'Modify' 
Change the value to '1000' 
Click 'OK' 
Now select 'HungAppTimeout' 
Right click and select 'Modify' 
Change the value to '1000' 
Click 'OK' 

Now find 'HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop' 
Select 'WaitToKillAppTimeout' 
Right click and select 'Modify' 
Change the value to '1000' 
Click 'OK' 
Now find 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\' 
Select 'WaitToKillServiceTimeout' 
Right click and select 'Modify' 
Change the value to '1000' 
Click 'OK'

Follow the steps below to lock a folder:

1. Make a Folder in C drive rename it as "abc" without quotes.
2. Now open Command Prompt from Start Menu.
3. Type "attrib +s +h C:\abc" without quotes and press enter.
4. This command will Make your folder invisble and it can not be seen even in hidden files and folders
5. To make it visible again type "attrib -s -h C:\abc"
6. You can lock any other folder also by changing the location C:\abc to address of your folder

Unnecessary files, softwares, junk files gets trashed into your system drive, generally "C:/" drive. If you can clean up your trash, your computer will work faster and be more responsible.

So, to meet your needs there are software, all over the world. This kind of software will clean your trash.

Click here to download.

This is one of my favorite tweaks as it makes a huge difference to how fast your machine will 'feel'. What this tweak does is 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. I tend to go for anywhere between 50-150 depending on my mood.This is one of my favorite tweaks as it makes a huge difference to how fast your machine will 'feel'. What this tweak does is 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. I tend to go for anywhere between 50-150 depending on my mood.

Have a dirty computer monitor? Here’s something that will keep your screen looking clean…
These cute, free screen savers are from the movie “Must Love Dogs” and I must say they’re a great idea.
There are four of them to choose from (Click the image to download):




If you get an error with the “flash.ocx” file, you need to configure your system to allow 3rd party screensavers.
Enjoy!

This is a really fun how-to. Use it to prank your friends, colleagues or pretty much anyone!
All you need is a instant messenger like Windows Live Messenger (formerly MSN), Yahoo! or AOL and program called Fake Webcam. This will let you play any video as a webcam on your messenger.
1. Download Fake Webcam and install
2. Download a video you want to display as webcam onto your desktop. Here are some free samples you might like.
3. Add the video to Fake Webcam (Control Panel -> Add File) and press play.
4. Now when you show your webcam to someone or have a video conversation, the video will play instead of the your real webcam. 99 % of people don’t know you can do this, so you can convince pretty much anyone. The bad thing is that the Fake Webcam trial version will show its ad at the end of the video, so you’d better stop the conversation before it’s shown.

Have you’re favorite sites been blocked at your school or work network? I will show you a few easy methods how you can still access them.
1) Go to Xroxy proxy list (or http://www.samair.ru/proxy/) and get yourself one proxy (preferably in a country close to you) and copy the IP. (Note! This works for Mozilla Firefox only!)
Go to Tools -> Options -> Advanced -> Network -> Settings and set it to “manual proxy configuration”. Copy the IP in the first slot and after that copy the port number. (Note! Not all of them work perfectly so you might have to a few of them until you get a good one!)
2) The second method works like that that you just enter the url of the website you want to visit to this site, http://www.prxy.info/ . A bit easier but you have to surf trough the proxy site (for blocked sites).
Enjoy‼‼‼

These tips will show you how to surf the internet a lot faster.
1. When typing a web address into the address bar, just type the website and press Ctrl + Enter to add http://www. to the beginning and .com to the end. E.g. you want to go to google: type google and press Ctrl + Enter. It’s as easy as that!
(Note: this only works with .com addresses.)
2. Use tabs instead of separate windows. This is a lot faster and doesn’t mess up your taskbar.
3. Use Firefox. Firefox is a much safer than I.E. and is also a little faster. It has many useful plugins.
4. Press Ctrl and + to zoom in the text and Ctrl and – to zoom out.
5. If you can’t find what you’re looking for on google and yahoo, try a metasearch engine such as dogpile, which compiles results from most popular search engines.
Happy browsing!

If you get your IP blocked somewhere and you don’t like it, then this can be pretty useful.
One way is to just turn off your router for some time, but most people don’t have static IP routers and this won’t help.
If that didn’t help, then you have to renew your IP using windows’ command prompt.
1. Type cmd into the run box from the start menu.
2. Type ipconfig into the command prompt. This will show you basic info about your IP address.
3. Type ipconfig /release. This will remove your current IP.
4. Type ipconfig /renew, and you will be presented with a new IP address!
You can also make a .bat program to execute these commands when opened.
To do this, open notepad and write all the commands on a separate line and save it onto your desktop as ip_renewer.bat. Make sure you choose All files when saving it.
It should be like this:
ipconfig
ipconfig /release
ipconfig /renew
pause
(Tip: If you want to see your IP info and stop the renewer program from closing itself, type pause after the commands.)

If you want a totally customized Windows XP, then renaming the Recycle Bin can be quite useful. You could rename it to trash, garbage [or pretty much anything you can imagine ].
Follow these steps to rename the Recycle Bin:
1. Open up the Registry editor by typing regedit into the run box from the Start Menu.
2. Locate HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/CLSID/{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}
3. Change the registry value “Recycle Bin” To anything. (Remember to exclude the quotes!)
And you’re done!
You may have to restart your PC to see the changes…

Foxmarks
If you use more than one computer then Foxmarks might become handy as it keeps your bookmarks and passwords (optionally) synchronized.
Adblock Plus
This is a must-have add-on for Firefox. Many sites have annoying flash ads in them. Not anymore – Adblock plus blocks them all!
Sxipper
Tired of filling in various web forms and all the spam you get on your e-mail? This add-on automatically fills in registration forms and creates fake e-mails which forward to your e-mail. If you get too much spam from one of the fake e-mail you just cancel forwarding. Simple as that!
Greasemonkey
If you want to make your browsing more comfortable then this comes handy as you can use all the user made scripts. The largest script database is at Userscripts.
FireFTP
Don’t want to install an extra program for FTP? Download this add-on and you gain FTP access to servers from your browser.
ChatZilla
Another useful add-on with which you can chat on IRC networks and you don’t have to install a separate program!
URL Fixer
Ever mistyped the end of a address? This fixes all of your mistakes – if you type xptricks.ney it automatically corrects it to xptricks.net!

Tired of the boring old “start” button at the bottom left corner of your Windows XP’s monitor? Want something new to replace iit? Well here’s how to change it.
With a few modifications in the Windows Registry, you can replace the “start” text with anything you like. Great for achieving a new, custom look for your Windows XP. So let’s get started.

Warning: this tutorial is more for advanced users, and I'm not
responsible if your system gets messed up. Only attempt the following
at your own risk.

Step 1: Modify explorer.exe

If the warning didn’t scare you enough, then the title of this step probably did. Yes, we are going to change Explorer, the backbone of your Windows XP, but don’t worry. Everything should be safe as long as you follow the steps closely.
As explorer is a binary file, we need a special tool to modify it. One of the best ones for this purpose is Resource Hacker. There are of course others that will get the trick done, but we will be using RH this tutorial so I recommend installing it to avoid making mistakes. Install it and let’s continue.
As always before changing anything. you want to back up. So open My Computer and navigate to   and look for explorer. Copy paste it to a safe location on your hard drive.
Now that you’ve backed it up, fire up Resource Hacker and find the same explorer.exe.

When you’ve found and opened explorer in RH, navigate to String Table -> 37 -> 1033. The “start” value is on line 4, after the 578. Change the text “start” to anything you want, making sure you keep the quotes. In this example. I changed the text to xptricks.net.

Press the Compile Script button to make Resource Hacker put together the code. Now click File and Save the script as explorer.exe. into C: \WINDOWS\inf or another C: \WINDOWS subfolder.
Note: make sure you choose Save AS, NOT just save!!
And that’s all for the first step! Now let’s move onto the second one -modifying the registry.

Step 2: changing the registry.

By now, you have a modified explorer sitting in the /inf/ subfolder, so we need to tell Windows to use that one, instead of the original one still resting untouched.
To do this, we need to make just one simple registry modification. To open up the registry, press start (something else soon ) -> run and type regedit.
In the registry editor window that opens, navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ SOFTWARE\Microsoft\ Windows NT\ CurrentVersion\ Winlogon and look for the registry entry “shell”. Click it.

Change the explorer.exe to inf/explorer.exe or whereever you saved the modified explorer.
And believe it or not, you’re done! All you have to do now is reboot or log out and bacö in to see the changes. Enjoy your new custom Windows XP start button!

There is a file named 'autorun.inf' which lives in almost every USB drives or pendrives. Which processes some types of viruses automatically which are stored in the pendrive. So, this could take your computer to a risky state.
But you can skip that process or terminate it by installing a software named Autorun Eater.
Click here to start downloading.

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This blog contains jumbos of learning-to-hack articles. You can try this blog-site if you are looking for any useful hacking information. Not those, which spams, fools you, eats your money. This site also advises you to not be fooled by the spammers or scammers. So, this could be very useful to you.
But, remember cyber-culture isn't good, cyber-crime can push yourself into risk. A cave where cyber-detectives, online FBIs live‼

The steps are discussed below:-

1. Go to any website
2. Paste the below code in the address bar of your browser
3. You can edit the website , but you cannot save it.

enter the following javascript code to your address bar, hit 'Enter':

javascript:document.body.contentEditable='true'; document.designMode='on'; void 0

What about people who use PCs in public places? Long Beach’s Boccia says a lot depends on what the PC will let you do which you might be able to determine only by trial and error. Boccia states, “Unfortunately, there is no visual cue to alert the user of what type of security the machine is using, unless the person is pretty tech-savvy and knows what to look for.”

Tips for using public PCs include:

- Check how the PC is set up. What operating system is it using? (XP is obviously better for the reasons given above.) It shouldn’t let you poke around in the system settings such as the control panel and user accounts. Ironically, the less you can do on the PC, the better it’s well-locked down.

You might even look behind the machine for any keylogger devices attached to the keyboard cable, where it plugs into the PC. For more on keyloggers, read the Bright Hub article, “Risky business, using kiosk computers.”

- Avoid tasks such as online banking and credit card purchases that might leave sensitive information behind. But if you must do so, uncheck any box offering to remember your information and change your passwords as soon as you are on a PC you know is secure.

- If you have access to browser options that let you clear the cache and wipe out cookies, you should use them. The best systems warn you that they will clear stored information such as cookies when you exit.

- If you need to save a document, it’s up to you to bring a flash drive to store it on or e-mail it to yourself and then delete it from the public PC. Be sure to empty Windows Trash.

Take similar precautions when using public Wi-Fi networks. For example, log into a user account without administrative rights when browsing on a public Wi-Fi network, Boccia says. “You don’t need admin rights just to browse the Web, create a document, and do e-mail, especially at a public wireless hotspot (or as I call it, surfing with sharks).”

Firefox is in my opinion the best browser ever made until now. It includes:
-improved tabbed browsing
-pop up blocking
-integrated Goggle search
-enhanced privacy controls
-built-in phishing protection
-online spell checking
-lots of themes, interfaces, and extensions/addons

Mozilla Firefox officially supports:
-Microsoft Windows
-Linux
-Mac OS X

Unofficial Support:
-Free BSD
-OS/2
-Solaris
-SkyOS
-BeOS
-XP Professional x64 Edition

Now here are some Tips&Tricks that can help you double the speed of Firefox.

1. Type about:config in the address bar and then press Enter.

2. In the filter search bar type network.http.pipelining. Be sure the value field is set true,if not double-click to set true.

HTTP is the application-layer protocol that most web pages are transferred with. In HTTP 1.1, multiple requests can be sent before any responses are received. This is known as pipelining. Pipelining reduces page loading times, but not all servers support it.

3. Go back to the filter search bar and type network.http.pipelining.maxrequests. Double-click this option and set its value to 8.

4. In the filter search bar and type network.http.proxy.pipelining. Once opened double-click on it and set it to true.

5. In IPv6-capable DNS servers, an IPv4 address may be returned when an IPv6 address is requested. It is possible for Mozilla to recover from this misinformation, but a significant delay is introduced.
Type network.dns.disableIPv6 in the filter search bar and set this option to true by double clicking on it.

6. CONTENT INTERRUPT PARSING
This preference controls if the application will interrupt parsing a page to respond to UI events. It does not exist by default.
Right-click (Apple users ctrl-click) anywhere in the about:config window, select New and then Boolean from the pop-up menu. Then:

A. Enter content.interrupt.parsing in the New boolean value pop-up window and click OK

B. When prompted to choose the value for the new boolean, select true and click OK.

7. Rather than wait until a page has completely downloaded to display it to the user, Mozilla applications will regularly render what has been received to that point. This option controls the maximum amount of time the application will be unresponsive while rendering pages.

Right-click (Apple users ctrl-click) anywhere in the about:config window, select New and then Integer from the pop-up menu.

A. Enter content.max.tokenizing.time in the New integer value pop-up window and click OK

B. You will be prompted to enter a value. Enter 2250000 and click OK.

8. CONTENT NOTIFY INTERVAL

This option sets the minimum amount of time to wait between reflows. Right-click (Apple users ctrl-click) anywhere in the about:config window, select New and then Integer from the pop-up menu.

A. Type content.notify.interval in the New integer value pop-up window and click OK.

B. You will be prompted to enter a value. Enter 750000 and click OK.

9. CONTENT NOTIFY ONTIMER

A. This option sets if to reflow pages at an interval any higher than that specified by content.notify.interval. Right-click (Apple users ctrl-click) anywhere in the about:config window and select New and then Boolean from the pop-up menu.

B. Type content.notify.ontimer in the New boolean value pop-up window and click OK.

C. You will be prompted to choose the value for the new boolean. Select true and click OK.

10. Notify Backoffcount
This option controls the maximum number of times the content will do timer-based reflows. After this number has been reached, the page will only reflow once it is finished downloading. Right-click (Apple users ctrl-click) anywhere in the about:config window and select New and then Integer from the pop-up menu.

A. Enter content.notify.backoffcount in the New integer value pop-up window and click OK.

B. You will be prompted to enter a value. Enter 5 and click OK.

11. CONTENT SWITCH THRESHOLD
You can interact with a loading page when content.interrupt.parsing is set to true. When a page is loading, the application has two modes: a high frequency interrupt mode and a low frequency interrupt mode. The first one interrupts the parser more frequently to allow for greater UI responsiveness during page load.

The low frequency interrupt mode interrupts the parser less frequently to allow for quicker page load. The application enters high frequency interrupt mode when you move the mouse or type on the keyboard and switch back to low frequency mode when you had no activity for a certain amount of time. This preference controls that amount of time. Right-click (Apple users ctrl-click) anywhere in the about:config window and select New and then Integer from the pop-up menu.

A. Enter content.switch.threshold in the New integer value pop-up window and click OK.

B. You will be prompted to enter a value. Enter 750000 and click OK.

12. NGLAYOUT INITIALPAINT DELAY
Mozilla applications render web pages incrementally, they display what’s been received of a page before the entire page has been downloaded. Since the start of a web page normally doesn’t have much useful information to display, Mozilla applications will wait a short interval before first rendering a page. This preference controls that interval. Right-click (Apple users ctrl-click) anywhere in the about:config window and select New and then Integer from the pop-up menu.

A. Enter nglayout.initialpaint.delay in the New integer value pop-up window and click OK.

B. You will be prompted to enter a value. Enter 0 and click OK.

Thanks ubuntugeek.com