Hide Any Drive Through Group Policy Editor at 4:37 PM

Till now we have learn how to hide any drive from explorer in two ways -
    1.   Hide your drives in explorer with command prompt
    2.   Hide your drives in explorer with regedit

Now its turn for moving on to another level, lets suppose a virus or your administrator has blocked both command prompt and regedit but you still want to hide your drive, in that case Group Policy Editor will come in play.
 

Here is how to do it:

Step 1. Open Group Policy Editor (Press Win+R and type Gpedit.msc and press Enter)

Step 2. Navigate to User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Component > Windows Explorer

Step 3. Now on the right Hand side i.e Settings Pane look for Hide these specified drives in My Computer.

Step 4. Double Click on it and Enable it, now choose from the drop down box which drive you want to hide (I choose All – Restrict All Drives)

Step 5. Now click on Apply and click OK, now you can see that Hide these specified drives in My Computer is Enabled.

Step 6. Now logoff and login back to see changes.
 

Step 7. In order to get them back go to Gpedit and set the Hide these specified drives in My Computer setting to Disable. That’s it.

Hide Folders using Command Prompt at 5:42 AM

This is a small trick which can be done by changing the attributes of folders

1. Open Command prompt.

2. Type the command given below to hide the folders
          Attrib +s +h drive:\folder name

3. To retrive your file use this command
          Attrib –s –h drive:\folder name


For example: Lets assume that there is a folder called ‘X’ in drive ‘D’

I will hide it by use the command
          Attrib +s +h D:\x

That’s it you done it. If you want it back, use this command
         Attrib –s –h D:\x
 

Hide any Drive Through Regedit at 5:35 AM

In the previous tutorial we showed you how you can hide your drives in explorer with command prompt, now its time to use some alternatives. Suppose that command prompt is locked, so what you will do? yes, that’s why we are using Registry Editor as an alternative.

You can hide any drive with a simple registry edit, by following the below steps -

1. Go to Start Menu > Run (WIN+R) > Type regedit and press enter, to launch Registry Editor.

2. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies

3. Right click on Policies > New > Key and rename it to Explorer (If Explorer Key is not there)

3. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer

4. Now Right click on the right side pane and click on New > DWORD value and rename it as NoDrives

 

5. Now suppose you want to hide C drive, so right click on NoDrives > Modify

6. Change the Base Type to Decimal and Value Data to 4 (for C drive)

Similarly, for hiding other drives use different Value data from the below table-

To hide drive A and drive D, you would add 1 (A) + 8 (D) which means the value should be set to “9″.

6. Log Off and Log In back to see changes.

Hide any Drive Through Command Prompt at 5:31 AM

Have you ever thought of hiding any drive from your system so that no one can knew about it. You may have heard or even used a lot of software’s that might be able to do that, but if you are GEEK and want to do things by your own without using any 3rd party software than this tutorial will show you how you can do it.

Well there are 3 ways of doing it, in this tutorial we are covering command prompt way of doing it.

Step 1. Open command Prompt, go to Start Menu > All Programs >Accessories > Command prompt

Step 2. In the Command Prompt, type Diskpart and hit enter key. If UAC (User Account Control), dialog-box prompts than click Yes.

Step 3. Then type List Volume and press enter, this will produce the list of all drives.

Step 4. Now select the drive which you want to hide, you can either do this by typing Select Volume 1 (i.e. Volume Number) or by typing Select Volume C(i.e. Drive letter)

Step 5. To hide a drive, type Remove Letter C. Here, C is the drive letter than you want to hide. You can use any drive letter you want.

Step 6. That’s it. You are done! C drive is now hidden

How to unhide hidden drive:

Step 1. Follow the procedure mentioned in step 1, 2, 3 and 4.

Step 2. To show the hidden drive type Assign Letter C and hit enter, now you can view C: drive in explorer.

 

Disable Auto Hide Windows Taskbar Forever at 8:45 PM

This tutorial might not be very useful but whoever needs it, here it is. Sometimes some user may keep setting the auto hide and personally you may find it annoying. So in that case, you would like to set it so that it permanently stays there.

Hopefully, there is one another method, that is, making separate user account for you. But still I am going to teach you how you can disable the auto hide feature of Windows Taskbar.

Though it is possible to disable autohide feature from Registry editor, we are not going to do this. Because tweaking registry may risk your current computer status. Instead, we’ll be using Local Group Policy editor.

Auto End Tasks to Enable a Proper Shutdown at 2:00 AM

Most of us have problem while turning off the computer. We just click on Shutdown and thinks that computer will shutdown properly. But generally a error message comes and says to end task manually. But now dont need to click on end task. Just click on shutdown and computer will shutdown properly without any error message. Just follow these simple instructions

USB Password Stealer at 1:47 AM

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Tweaked USB that steals every passwords including licences.

Instructions:

1.Decompress the archive and put all the files located in the folder "USBThief"into a USB.

2.Insert the USB in your victim's computer.

3.View folder "dump" to see the passwords.

DOWNLOAD                         Password: www.dl4all.com

Hide All Drives When You Open My Computer at 1:28 AM

This is a great trick you can play on your friends. To disable the display of local or networked drives when you click My Computer.

1. Go to start->run.Type regedit.Now go to:

       HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionPoliciesExplorer

2. Now in the right pane, create a new DWORD item and name it NoDrives (it is case sensitive).

3. Now modify it's value and set it to 3FFFFFF (Hexadecimal) .

4. 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

Pop A Banner Each Time Windows Starts at 1:40 AM

To pop a banner which can contain any message you want to display just before a user is going to log on.

Go to the key :- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WinLogon
Now create a new string Value in the right pane named 'LegalNoticeCaption' and enter the value that you want to see in the MenuBar.

Now create yet another new string value and name it:
'LegalNoticeText'.
Modify it and insert the message you want to display each time Windows boots.

It's '.reg' file would be:
REGEDIT4 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Winlogon] "LegalNoticeCaption"="Caption here."

Increase Broadband Speed at 1:36 AM

Most of us are using broadband and many have complaints that broadband speed is very slow. This is a very common problem and has simple solution. Just Follow these steps to increase your Broadband Speed:

1.  Click on Start Button.
2.  Select Run From Start Menu.
3.  Type gpedit.msc 
4.  Expand the Administrative Templates branch.
5.  Then expand the Network branch.
6.  Highlight QoS Packet Scheduler (Select by Single Click)
7.  Double-click Limit Reservable Bandwidth (Available in Right Side Panel)
8.  Check Enabled (Select By Single Click on it)
9.  Change Bandwidth limit % to 0 % 
10. Click OK Button.
11. Restart Your PC.
12. Now Check Your Broadband Speed.

Make sure you Log on as Administrator, not as a user with Administrator privileges.

Reveal Password Behind Asterisk at 1:28 AM

Want to Reveal the Passwords Hidden Behind Asterisk (****) ?

Just follow the steps given below-
1. Open the Login Page of any website. eg. www.gmail.com
2. Type your 'Username' and 'Password'.
3. Copy and paste the JavaScript code given below into your browser's address bar and press 'Enter'.

               javascript: alert(document.getElementById('Passwd').value); 

4. As soon as you press 'Enter', A window pops up showing Password typed by you..!

Note :- This trick may not be working with firefox and opera.

Rapidshare: Unlimited Downloads, No Waiting...! at 1:20 AM

There are two hacks to beat Rapidshare download limits and waiting time.

1) Rapidshare Hack (For Firefox Users) :-

The hot new Firefox plug-in takes browser customization to a whole new level by letting users filter site content or change page behaviors. The glory of open-source software is that it allows anyone with the inclination and the scripting knowledge to get under the hood and hot-rod their computing environment. But most of the time, that advantage is available only to people with the programming skills to make the changes they want. That's where Greasemonkey, a free plug-in for Firefox, comes in -it simplifies hacking the browser.

Repair Your Damaged CDs at 4:02 PM

learn an old technique to how to recover damaged or scratched disks with some lost of data. Here we cover some special technique of how to create a full working CD from the scratched one. First some tools will be needed:
1. Alcohol 120%
2. UltraISO
3. Windows XP/2000 (not tested on 95/98/me)
4. Small piece of cotton
5. Dry cleaner paper
6. Finally, oil for cooking.

Brand Windows With Your Name at 3:59 PM

Let's do some fun stuff today....
open notepad dump the following lines into it and save it with the name OEMINFO.INI in the c:\windows\system32 directory:

Top Tricks And Cheats at 3:53 PM

Set Processes Priority
Follow this tip to increase the priority of active processes, this will result in prioritisation of processes using the CPU.CTRL-SHIFT-ESC

Hide Drives In My Computer at 3:51 PM

This is a great trick you can play on your friends. To disable the display of local or networked drives when you click My Computer.

1.Go to start->run.Type regedit.Now go to:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Win

dows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer

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.

Automatically Close Non-Responsive Programs at 3:49 PM

With a small registry tweak, Windows XP can be set to automatically close any program that 'stops responding' (crashes), eliminating the need for you to use the task manager to close down the offending software manually.

To do this:

Open REGEDIT and navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\ Desktop

Modify the REG_SZ entry AutoEndTasks with a value of 1

Automate The installation Of Windows XP at 3:47 PM

You can create a CD that can install Windows XP automatically, putting in all the details and answering all the dialog boxes.

The secret behind this is the answer file, which tells Windows what to do while it's installing. The answer file can be created using Windows setup manager.

Fix Corupted Files In XP at 3:45 PM

Required:

1. Windows XP operating system
2. Windows XP cd

Remove Shutdown Option From Start Menu at 3:44 PM

Wanna play with your friends by removing the shutdown option from start menu in their computer.
Just hack it down !!!