Creating a New E-Mail Shortcut
To create a shortcut that will open your default e-mail program starting a new e-mail,
1. Right click on an open area of the desktop
2. Select New / Shortcut
3. For the Command Line, enter mailto:
4. For the title enter something like New E-Mail
5. When you click on this your default e-mail program should start with a new e-mail form.

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We do copy various data by ctrl+c for pasting elsewhere. This copied data
is stored in clipboard and is accessible from the net by a combination of
Javascripts and ASP.

Just try this:
1) Copy any text by ctrl+c
2) Click the Link : Retrieve Clipboard Text To A Web Page With Javascript - Make Sure You Do Not Allow Someone To Gather This Information, It Is An Exploit In Many Eyes
3) You will see the text you copied on the Screen which was accessed by
this web page. (Check it out !! )

Do not keep sensitive data (like passwords, creditcard numbers, PIN etc.)
in the clipboard while surfing the web. It is extremely easy to extract the
text stored in the clipboard to steal your sensitive information.

Be cautious ... What to be done ???

To avoid Clipboard Hack Problem, do the following:

1. Go to internet options->security
2. Press custom level.
3. In the security settings, select disable under Allow paste operations
via script.( Now the contents of your clipboard are safe. )
Forward this information to as many friends as you can, to save them from
online frauds & hacking!

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Hi All,

This is small tips in Windows XP.

Can you tell me how to rename a group of files? Yes its possible in Windows XP.

You can rename groups of files.

you can rename them by doing this:

• Highlight the files you'd like to rename.
• Right-click the first file on the list and choose Rename.
• Rename the first file -- 'file', for instance -- press Enter.
• Windows XP renames the first file as 'file', then gives the name to the rest of the highlighted files, tacking on consecutive numbers:
• file(1), file(2), file(3), etc.

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Are you having problems uninstalling software? Even though you uninstall the software according to the manufacturer’s directions, it just won’t go away from the Add/Remove list. Try this registry key and its associated value to fix your problem. You can also just remove the key for the specific application and it will no longer appear on the Add/Remove programs list.

These entries are useful if you have deleted some applications from your hard drive without using the control panel applet.

Hive: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Key: Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstal l\ [appname]
Value Name: DisplayName
Data Type: REG_SZ
Value: <Name displayed in the uninstall application>

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Key: Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstal l\ [appname]
Value Name: UninstallString
Data Type: REG_SZ
Value: <Uninstall program and parameters to uninstall the application>

This information is very useful. Sometimes what the uninstall programs actually need to run and what is stored in the registry differ. If you need to, you can manually correct this value.

Restart the machine for the new values to take effect. Next time you need to install something from the installation disk, you can use your new settings.

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Overload, Thankx for all the great info. I read with much intest. This is all new to me.

few makes us feel, damn how did we miss this... Great post rajan... keep going!!

Hi

Thanks for your comments. Here is another interesting one ..

Just open a notepad and type the following content

bush hid the facts

save it to a new file in your desktop

close the notepad and open it again from the desktop.

try with this also "this app can break"


"Notepad makes a best guess of which encoding to use when confronted with certain short strings of characters that lack special prefixes. The encodings that do not have special prefixes and which are still supported by Notepad are the traditional ANSI encoding (i.e., "plain ASCII") and the Unicode (little-endian) encoding with no BOM. When faced with a file that lacks a special prefix, Notepad is forced to guess which of those two encodings the file actually uses. The function that does this work is IsTextUnicode, which studies a chunk of bytes and does some statistical analysis to come up with a guess. Sometimes it guesses wrong and displays random characters after you save and open the file. Any combination of characters in the same order will cause the same problem: "this app can break", "hhhh hhh hhh hhhhh", "this isa bug dummy" ect..."


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'CON' Folder

Windows will not allow you to name a file or folder 'CON' is a bug or a secret

Reason
Several special file names are reserved by the system and cannot be used for files or folders: CON, AUX, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, PRN, NUL. This goes back to DOS 1.0 which didn't support subdirectories, lowercase, or filenames longer than 8.3. 'CON' is a reserved word from the old DOS days, simply meaning 'console'. If you wanted to create a new text file in DOS you could type 'copy con newfile.txt' meaning copy from the console to newfile.txt. This would let you type some lines and when you ended the file you would have a file called newfile.txt containing whatever you wrote in the console. Since they are still relied on with things like batch files (redirect to >NUL) they are still reserved today.

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Hi,

Here I have given the tricks to how to change the My Computer icon

goto Start->run->type "regedit"

In that go to the following key

Hive: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Key: Software\Classes\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}
Value Name: DefaultIcon
Data Type: REG_EXPAND_SZ

change the following ico file.

Value: C:\Program Files\Plus!\Themes\Ancient Pathways Computer.ico,2


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The same way you can change the Internet Explorer icon also on the desktop.

Hive: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Key: Software\Classes\CLSID\{FBF23B42-E3F0-101B-8488-00AA003E56F8}
Value Name: DefaultIcon
Data Type: REG_EXPAND_SZ
Value: C:\Program Files\Plus!\Microsoft Internet\Iexplore.exe,0

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Have you ever heard about Windows Title music. Yes Windows has a Title music in the hidden link. You can play from the following path on your system.

C:\Windows\system32\oobe\images\title.wma

Just play it, nice one.

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MAKE USE OF WINDOWS KEY

Hi, We dont know all the functionality of the Window Key (last row with MS windows logo key) functionality. It is very nice to use the windows key with lot of operations. Here is the list of short cuts using windows key.

Winkey + Pause = display the Systems Properties page
Winkey + R = display the Run dialog box
Winkey + M = minimize all windows 0r Ctrl+Esc immediately followed by Alt+M
Winkey + D = minimize all windows. Press again and desktop apps reappear.
Winkey + Shift + M = undo minimize all windows
Winkey + F1 = starts Windows Help
(F1 by itself brings up Help in the current application)
Winkey + E = start Explorer
Winkey + F = start Find
Winkey + F + CNTL = start Find Computer
Winkey + B = Sets focus on the task bar
Winkey + TAB = cycle through taskbar buttons
Winkey + BREAK = display Systems Properties panel
Winkey + L = lock Desktop
Windows key + r = goes to run prompt

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In IE:

If you just type the name of a website into the address bar then press Ctrl and Enter windows automatically puts "http://www.DefaultwebPage.com". before it and .com afterwards.....it saves a lot of time.

e.g.
Type "yahoo" into the address bar
Press Ctrl and Enter
Yahoo! appears!

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Make Start menu faster.
go to run>regedit> HKEY current user>Control panal>desktop and look for menu Show Delay. At the right hand Side they will be a list, set to Number 0 then Restart computer then done, you have a faster start menu.

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Hide Recent Documents Menu from the Start Menu:
Open Regedit
Browse to:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\E xplorer
Create a new BINARY value called "NoRecentDocsHistory" and set it to "01 00 00 00"
Create a new BINARY value called "NoRecentDocsMenu" and set it to "01 00 00 00"


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i have read many tricks of win 98 and xp both.Now days these tricks are easily avalable.You can read these tricks from hacker black book.You can also learn hacking tricks from it

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Folder Lock without any S/W

Open Notepad and copy the below code and save as locker.bat. At first time start it will create folder with Locker automatically for u. Don't forget to change your password in the code its shown the place where to type your password.
After creation of Locker folder again click on the locker.bat.it will ask.press Y then Locker folder will be disappeared.again to get it click on locker.bat. and give ur password u will get the folder again.

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cls
@ECHO OFF
title Folder Locker
if EXIST "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}" goto UNLOCK
if NOT EXIST Locker goto MDLOCKER
:CONFIRM
echo Are you sure u want to Lock the folder(Y/N)
set/p "cho=>"
if %cho%==Y goto LOCK
if %cho%==y goto LOCK
if %cho%==n goto END
if %cho%==N goto END
echo Invalid choice.
goto CONFIRM
:LOCK
ren Locker "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}"
attrib +h +s "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}"
echo Folder locked
goto End
:UNLOCK
echo Enter password to Unlock folder
set/p "pass=>"
if NOT %pass%==type your password here goto FAIL
attrib -h -s "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}"
ren "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}" Locker
echo Folder Unlocked successfully
goto End
:FAIL
echo Invalid password
goto end
:MDLOCKER
md Locker
echo Locker created successfully
goto End
:End

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Hi,

In Outlook, you can jump to the section you want: Ctrl+1 switches to the Mail window, Ctrl+2 switches to the Calender, Ctrl+3 to Contacts, Ctrl+4 to Tasks, and Ctrl+5 to Notes.

Ctrl+Shift+M starts a new message in Outlook. (Use Ctrl+Shift+C for a new contact.)

In Outlook e-mail, hit Ctrl+N to compose a new message, Ctrl+R to reply to a message
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Not
Even Bill Gates can't explain this
one !!!
Open a blank Microsoft Word
document and type the
following:
=rand(200,99) and then Press 'Enter' and
wait 7 seconds...
Surprise.....


Can any 1 explain why is this .................................

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