Registry Hacking
<b><u>Display legal notice on startup</u></b>:<br />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.<br />REGEDIT<br />[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\system]<br />"legalnoticecaption"="enter your notice caption"<br />"legalnoticetext"="enter your legal notice text"<br /> <u><b><br /></b></u><br /><u><b>Automatic Administrator Login:</b></u><br />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. <br />REGEDIT 4<br />[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon]<br />"AutoAdminLogon"="1"<br /> <u><b><br /></b></u><br /><u><b>No Shutdown:</b></u><br />Wanna play with your friends by removing the shutdown option from start menu in their computer.<br />Just hack it down !!!<br />Regedit<br />HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer<br />"NoClose"="DWORD:1"<br /> <u><b><br /></b></u><br /><u><b>Menu Delays:</b></u><br /> Another
minor and easy tweak to remove any delay from menus sliding out. For
this you will need to use regedit (open regedit by going to Start ->
Run..., then typing 'regedit' and pressing enter). The key you need to
change is located in HKEY_CURRENT_USERControl PanelDesktop. The actual
key is called MenuShowDelay - all you have to do is change the value to
0. Remember, you will have to re-boot your computer for this tweak to
take effect.<br /> <u><b><br /></b></u><br /><u><b>GPEDIT.MSC And Autoplay</b></u><br /> A great
tweaking file that comes with XP is gpedit.msc. Go to Start ->
Run... and then type in 'gpedit.msc' and press enter. This is
effectively the Policies Editor, and it comes in handy often. For
example, if you hate CD autoplay like I do and want to permanently
disable it, you can use this tool to do so. Just run gpedit.msc, then
go to Computer Configuration -> Administrative Templates ->
System. In here you can see the value 'Turn Off Autoplay'. Right-click
on it and then click 'Properties'.<br /> <u><b><br /></b></u><br /><u><b>Increasing options in add/remove programs: </b></u><br /> Not
a fan of MSN Messenger? don't want Windows Media Player on your system?
Fair enough, but if you go to Add/Remove Programs in the Control
Panel, by default none of Windows XP's 'built in' programs are visible.
it's fairly easy to change, though... just open the file
X:\Windows\inf\sysoc.inf (where X: is the drive letter where Windows XP
is installed) in Notepad. You should see a section of the file
something like this: <br /> [Components]<br />NtComponents=ntoc.dll,NtOcSetupProc,,4<br />WBEM=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,wbemoc.inf,hide,7<br />Display=desk.cpl,DisplayOcSetupProc,,7<br />Fax=fxsocm.dll,FaxOcmSetupProc,fxsocm.inf,,7<br />NetOC=netoc.dll,NetOcSetupProc,netoc.inf,,7<br />iis=iis.dll,OcEntry,iis.inf,,7<br />com=comsetup.dll,OcEntry,comnt5.inf,hide,7<br />dtc=msdtcstp.dll,OcEntry,dtcnt5.inf,hide,7<br />IndexSrv_System = setupqry.dll,IndexSrv,setupqry.inf,,7<br />TerminalServer=TsOc.dll, HydraOc, TsOc.inf,hide,2<br />msmq=msmqocm.dll,MsmqOcm,msmqocm.inf,,6<br />ims=imsinsnt.dll,OcEntry,ims.inf,,7<br />fp_extensions=fp40ext.dll,FrontPage4Extensions,fp40ext.inf,,7<br />AutoUpdate=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,au.inf,hide,7<br />msmsgs=msgrocm.dll,OcEntry,msmsgs.inf,hide,7<br />RootAutoUpdate=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,rootau.inf,,7<br />IEAccess=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,ieaccess.inf,,7<br /> This
is a list of all components installed at the moment. I've taken the
example of MSN Messenger - the program entry called 'msmsgs', third-last
line. You can see the word 'hide' highlighted - this is the string
which tells Windows not to display the component in the Add/Remove
Programs list. Fix this up by simply deleting the word 'hide' like so:<br /> msmsgs=msgrocm.dll,OcEntry,msmsgs.inf,hide,7<br /> To this:<br /> msmsgs=msgrocm.dll,OcEntry,msmsgs.inf,,7<br /> Now,
after restarting, you should be able to see MSN Messenger in the
Add/Remove Programs list. If you want to be able to quickly view and
remove all components, simply open the sysoc.inf file and do a global
find and replace for the word ",hide" and replace it with a single
comma ",". <br /> <u><b><br /></b></u><br /><u><b>Automatically Kill Programs At Shutdown:</b></u><br /> don't
you hate it when, while trying to shut down, you get message boxes
telling you that a program is still running? Making it so that Windows
automatically kills applications running is a snap. Simply navigate to
the HKEY_CURRENT_USERControl PanelDesktop directory in the Registry,
then alter the key AutoEndTasks to the value 1. <br /> <u><b><br /></b></u><br /><u><b>Speeding Up Share Viewing:</b></u><br /> This
is a great tweak. Before I found it, I was always smashing my head
against the table waiting to view shares on other computers. Basically,
when you connect to another computer with Windows XP, it checks for any
Scheduled tasks on that computer - a fairly useless task, but one that
can add up to 30 seconds of waiting on the other end - not good!
Fortunately, it's fairly easy to disable this process. First, navigate
to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Windows/Current Version/Explorer/RemoteComputer/NameSpace in the Registry. Below that, there should be a key called {D6277990-4C6A-11CF-8D87-00AA0060F5BF}.
Just delete this, and after a restart, Windows will no longer check
for scheduled tasks - mucho performance improvement!<br /> <b><u><br /></u></b><br /><b><u>Create a Shortcut to Lock Your Computer</u> </b><br /> Leaving
your computer in a hurry but you don't want to log off? You can
double-click a shortcut on your desktop to quickly lock the keyboard and
display without using CTRL+ALT+DEL or a screen saver. To create a
shortcut on your desktop to lock your computer: Right-click the
desktop. Point to New, and then click Shortcut. The Create Shortcut
Wizard opens. In the text box, type the following: rundll32.exe
user32.dll,LockWorkStation Click Next. Enter a name for the shortcut.
You can call it "Lock Workstation" or choose any name you like. Click
Finish. You can also change the shortcut's icon (my personal favorite is
the padlock icon in shell32.dll). To change the icon: Right click the
shortcut and then select Properties. Click the Shortcut tab, and then
click the Change Icon button. In the Look for icons in this file text
box, type: Shell32.dll. Click OK. Select one of the icons from the list
and then click OK You could also give it a shortcut keystroke such
CTRL+ALT+L. This would save you only one keystroke from the normal
command, but it could be more convenient.<br /><br /><span>Note: Before you can change any registry take backup.</span><br />
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