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+
July 29, 2008
Registry Hacking
Renaming The Recycle Bin icon
To change the name of the Recycle Bin desktop icon, click Start then goto Run, write Regedit and press Enter. It opens Registry Editor. Now in Registry Editor go to:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/CLSID/{645FF040-5081-1
01B-9F08-00AA002F954E}
and change the name "Recycle Bin" to whatever you want (don't type any quotes).
Change Drive Icon..!!!
Changing drives icon First of all copy a icon file to the root of the drive.example: c:\icon.ico Then create a file called: autorun.inf in c:\autorun.infthen open that file and type the following:[autorun]icon=icon.ico save and close the file. Now open my computer and refresh.. and woh! icon changed....you can apply to other drives too.be careful:"autorun.inf" and "ico.ico" must be in the root of the drive.example: c:\autorun.inf and c:\icon.ico.same on the root.
Get More Hard-Disk Space by Using NTFS Compression
If you need more hard-disk space, don't buy another hard disk right away. First, consider using NTFS (NT File System) compression, which can give significantly more hard-disk space by compressing all the files on your PC. NTFS's on-the-fly compression capabilities can shrink the size of individual files and folders, or entire drives. When you use it, the files or folders will be compressed when they're on your hard disk to save space, but they will be decompressed automatically when you use them, and then compressed again when stored on your hard disk. This means that, unlike with a compression program such as WinZip (http://www.winzip.com), you don't have to deal with decompressing as well as compressing files. You can also easily turn compression on and off.
Note that NTFS compression isn't available with a FAT32 filesystem, so if you have a FAT32 system you'll first have to convert to NTFS, as explained later in this hack. If you're not sure which filesystem your volume uses, right-click your volume in Explorer, choose Properties General, and look for the information next to File System.
How much disk space can you save by using NTFS compression? That depends largely on the kinds of files you have on your system. Bit-mapped graphics files are very compressible, so you'll save quite a bit of hard-disk space if you have many of them. Document files, such as Word files, are also reasonably compressible, while certain kinds of files, such as PDF (Adobe Acrobat) files, are barely compressible at all.
If you use NTFS compression on a file, the file can't be encrypted using XP's encrypting capabilities, so be careful not to compress any files that you want to encrypt.
In tests on my own PC, I found that bit-mapped .tif graphics files were compressed by more than 80 percenta folder full of them shrunk from 295MB to 57MB. Word files shrunk by 66 percenta folder full of them shrunk from 131KB to 44KB. PDF files, by way of contrast, hardly compressed at all: a group of them shrunk by just more than 6 percent, from 5.59MB to 5.27MB.
When you use compression, you might notice a slight drop in system performance. There might be a slight lag when opening or closing files, depending on the speed of your system, because the files have to be decompressed for you to open them and compressed when you save them. With newer systems, though, you probably won't notice a lag. On my now-aging 1.8GHz desktop, for example, I don't see a difference between working with files that have been compressed and working with files that haven't been compressed.
You can use NTFS compression on individual files, folders, and entire disks. To use NTFS compression on a file or folder, right-click the file or folder in Windows Explorer and choose Properties General Advanced. You'll see the screen shown in
Check the box next to "Compress contents to save disk space," click OK, and click OK again when the Properties dialog box appears.
If you want to compress an entire drive, right-click it in Windows Explorer and choose Properties General "Compress drive to save disk space." You'll be asked for confirmation, and then every folder and file on the drive will be compressed, one after another. Depending on the size of the drive, the procedure can take several hours. You can continue to use XP while the compression takes place. During that time, however, you might be prompted to close a file you're working on so that XP can compress it.
By default, XP visually differentiates between compressed files and decompressed files; compressed files are shown in blue. If for some reason your compressed files aren't blue, and you want them to be, from Windows Explorer choose Tools Folder Options View, scroll down, and select the checkbox next to "Show encrypted or compressed NTFS files in color."
Don't compress system files or .log files (files that contain logging information). If you do, your system can take a severe performance hit because these files are in frequent background use and compressing and decompressing them constantly takes up CPU power. If these files are in folders that are compressed, you can decompress just those individual files by unchecking the "Compress contents to save disk space" box next to them. You can also decompress the folder in which they are located in the same way.
How Internet Cookies Work
Internet cookies are incredibly simple, but they are one of those things that have taken on a life of their own. Cookies started receiving tremendous media attention starting in February 2000 because of Internet privacy concerns, and the debate still rages.
On the other hand, cookies provide capabilities that make the Web much easier to navigate. The designers of almost every major site use them because they provide a better user experience and make it much easier to gather accurate information about the site's visitors.
We will take a look at the basic technology behind cookies, as well as some of the features they enable. You will also have the opportunity to see a real-world example of what cookies can and cannot do using a sample page.
Cookie Basics
In April of 2000 I read an in-depth article on Internet privacy in a large, respected newspaper, and that article contained a definition of cookies. Paraphrasing, the definition went like this:
Cookies are programs that web sites put on your hard disk. They sit on your computer gathering information about you and everything you do on the Internet, and whenever the web site wants to it can download all of the information the cookie has collected.
Definitions like that are fairly common in the press. The problem is, none of that information is correct. Cookies are not programs, and they cannot run like a program does. Therefore they cannot gather any information on their own. Nor can they collect any personal information about you from your machine.
Here is a valid definition of a cookie:
A cookie is a piece of text that a web server can store on a user's hard disk. Cookies allow a web site to store information on a user's machine and later retrieve it. The pieces of information are stored as name-value pairs.
For example, a web site might generate a unique ID number for each visitor and store the ID number on each user's machine using a cookie file.
If you use Microsoft's Internet Explorer to browse the web, you can see all of the cookies that are stored on your machine. The most common place for them to reside is in a directory called c:\windows\cookies. When I look in that directory on my machine, I find 165 files. Each file is a text file that contains name-value pairs, and there is one file for each web site that has placed cookies on my machine.
You can see in the directory that each of these files is a simple, normal text file. You can see which web site placed the file on your machine by looking at the file name (the information is also stored inside the file). You can open each file up by clicking on it.
For example, I have visited goto.com, and the site has placed a cookie on my machine. The cookie file for goto.com contains the following information:
UserID A9A3BECE0563982D www.goto.com/
What goto.com has done is stored on my machine a single name-value pair. The name of the pair is UserID,and the value is A9A3BECE0563982D. The first time I visited goto.com, the site assigned me a unique ID value and stored it on my machine.
[Note that there probably are several other values stored in the file after the three shown above. That is housekeeping information for the browser.]
The vast majority of sites store just one piece of information -- a user ID -- on your machine. But there really is no limit -- a site can store as many name-value pairs as it likes.
A name-value pair is simply a named piece of data. It is not a program, and it cannot "do" anything. A web site can retrieve only the information that it has placed on your machine. It cannot retrieve information from other cookie files, nor any other information from your machine.
How Does Cookie Data Move?
As you saw in the previous section, cookie data is simply name-value pairs stored on your hard disk by a web site. That is all that cookie data is. The web site can store the data, and later it receives it back. A web site can only receive the data it has stored on your machine. It cannot look at any other cookie, nor can it look at anything else on your machine.
The data moves in the following manner:
If you type the URL of a web site into your browser, your browser sends a request to the web site for the page. For example, if you type the URL http://www.netcrackers.blogspot.com into your browser, your browser will contact Blogger's server and request its home page.
When the browser does this, it will look on your machine for a cookie file that Blogger has set. If it finds a Blogger cookie file, your browser will send all of the name-value pairs in the file to Blogger's server along with the URL. If it finds no cookie file, it will send no cookie data.
Blogger's web server receives the cookie data and the request for a page. If name-value pairs are received, Blogger can use them.
If no name-value pairs are received, Blogger knows that you have not visited before. The server creates a new ID for you in Blogger's database and then sends name-value pairs to your machine in the header for the web page it sends. Your machine stores the name-value pairs on your hard disk.
The web server can change name-value pairs or add new pairs whenever you visit the site and request a page.
There are other pieces of information that the server can send with the name-value pair. One of these is an expiration date. Another is a path (so that the site can associate different cookie values with different parts of the site). You have control over this process. You can set an option in your browser so that the browser informs you every time a site sends name-value pairs to you. You can then accept or deny the values.
How Do Web Sites Use Cookies?
Cookies evolved because they solve a big problem for the people who implement web sites. In the broadest sense, a cookie allows a site to store state information on your machine. This information lets a web site remember what state your browser is in. An ID is one simple piece of state information -- if an ID exists on your machine, the site knows that you have visited before. The state is, "Your browser has visited the site at least one time", and the site knows your ID from that visit.
Web sites use cookies in many different ways. Here are some of the most common examples:
Sites can accurately determine how many readers actually visit the site. It turns out that because of proxy servers, caching, concentrators and so on, the only way for a site to accurately count visitors is to set a cookie with a unique ID for each visitor. Using cookies, sites can:
->Determine how many visitors arrive
->Determine how many are new vs. repeat visitors
->Determine how often a visitor has visited
The way the site does this is by using a database. The first time a visitor arrives, the site creates a new ID in the database and sends the ID as a cookie. The next time the user comes back, the site can increment a counter associated with that ID in the database and know how many times that visitor returns.
Sites can store user preferences so that the site can look different for each visitor (often referred to as customization). For example, some sites offer you the ability to change content/layout/color. It or allows you to enter your zip code and get customized weather information.
Most sites seem to store preferences like this in the site's database and store nothing but an ID as a cookie, but storing the actual values in name-value pairs is another way to do it.
Ecommerce sites can implement things like shopping carts and "quick checkout" options. The cookie contains an ID and lets the site keep track of you as you add different things to your cart. Each item you add to your shopping cart is stored in the site's database along with your ID value. When you check out, the site knows what is in your cart by retrieving all of your selections from the database. It would be impossible to implement a convenient shopping mechanism without cookies or something like it.
In all of these examples, note that what the database is able to store is things you have selected from the site, pages you have viewed from the site, information you give to the site in online forms, etc. All of the information is stored in the site's database, and a cookie containing your unique ID is all that is stored on your computer in most cases.
An Example
To give you a simple example of what cookies and a database can do, We can take the example of Verizon.com They have created a simple history and statistics system for there articles. There system runs on the Verizon servers and lets you view your activity on the Verizon site. Here's how it works:
When you visit Verizon for the first time, the server creates a unique ID number for you and stores a cookie on your machine containing that ID. For example, on the machine I am using now, this is what I see in the Verizon cookie file:
user 35005 www.verizon.com/
There is nothing magic about the number 35,005 -- it is simply an integer that they increment each time a new visitor arrives. I was user number 35,005 to come to the Verizon site since this cookie system was installed. We could make the ID value as elaborate as we desire -- many sites use IDs containing 20 digits or more.
Now, whenever you visit any page on Verizon, your browser sends your cookie containing the ID value back to the server. The server then saves a record in the database that contains the time that you downloaded the page and the URL, along with your ID.
To see the history of your activity on Verizon, you can go to this URL on the site:
http://www.verizon.com/history.php
Your browser sends your ID value from the cookie file to the server along with the URL. The history.php page runs a piece of code that queries the database and retrieves your history on the site. It also calculates a couple of interesting statistics. Then it creates a page and sends it to your browser.
Try the URL for the history page now:
http://www.verizon.com/history.php
Then go view a couple of other pages on Verizon and try it again. You will see that the statistics change and so does the list of files.
Problems with Cookies
Cookies are not a perfect state mechanism, but they certainly make a lot of things possible that would be impossible otherwise. Here are several of the things that make cookies imperfect.
People often share machines -- Any machine that is used in a public area, and many machines used in an office environment or at home, are shared by multiple people. Let's say that you use a public machine (in a library, for example) to purchase something from an on-line store. The store will leave a cookie on the machine, and someone could later try to purchase something from the store using your account. Stores usually post large warnings about this problem, and that is why. Even so, mistakes can happen.
On something like a Windows NT machine or a UNIX machine that uses accounts properly, this is not a problem. The accounts separate all of the users' cookies. Accounts are much more relaxed in other operating systems, and it is a problem.
If you try the example above on a public machine (in a library or school, for example), and if other people using the machine have visited Verizon, then the history URL may show a very long list of files.
Cookies get erased -- If you have a problem with your browser and call tech support, probably the first thing that tech support will ask you to do is to erase all of the temporary Internet files on your machine. When you do that you lose all of your cookie files. Now when you visit a site again, that site will think you are a new user and assign you a new cookie. This tends to skew the site's record of new versus return visitors, and it also can make it hard for you to recover previously stored preferences. This is why sites ask you to register in some cases -- if you register with a user name and a password, you can re-login even if you lose your cookie file and restore your preferences. If preference values are stored directly on the machine then recovery is impossible. That is why many sites now store all user information in a central database and store only an ID value on the user's machine.
If you erase your cookie file for Verizon and then revisit the history URL in the previous section, you will find that Verizon has no history for you. The site has to create a new ID and cookie file for you, and that new ID has no data stored against it in the database.
Multiple machines -- People often use more than one machine during the day. For example a machine in the office, a machine at home and a laptop for the road. Unless the site is specifically engineered to solve the problem, the result will be three unique cookie files on all three machines. Any site that I visit from all three machines will track me as three separate users. It can be annoying to set preferences three times. Again, a site that allows registration and stores preferences centrally may make it easy for me to have the same account on three machines, but the site developers must plan for this when designing the site.If you visit the history URL demonstrated in the previous section from one machine and then try it again from another, you will find that your history lists are different. This is because the server created two IDs for you on the two machines.
There are probably not any easy solutions to these problems, short of asking users to register and storing everything in a central database.
Why the Fury around Cookies?
If you have read the article to this point, you may be wondering why there has been such an uproar in the media about cookies and Internet privacy. You have seen in this article that cookies are benign text files, and you have also seen that they provide lots of useful capabilities on the web.
There are two things that have caused the strong reaction around cookies:
The first is something that has plagued consumers for decades but is now getting out of hand. Let's say that you purchase something from a traditional mail order catalog. The catalog company has your name, address and phone number from your order, and it also knows what items you have purchased. It can sell your information to others who might want to sell similar products to you. That is the fuel that makes telemarketing and junk mail possible.
On a web site, the site can track not only your purchases, but also the pages that you read, the ads that you click on, etc. If you then purchase something and enter your name and address, the site potentially knows much more about you than a traditional mail order company does. This makes targeting much more precise, and that makes a lot of people uncomfortable.
Different sites have different policies. Many companies have strict privacy policies and do not sell or share any personal information about customers with any third party except in cases where you specifically allow them to do so. Other companies aggregate information together and distribute it.
The second is new. There are certain infrastructure providers that can actually create cookies that are visible on multiple sites. Many firms use these companies to serve ad banners on their sites. These companies place small (1x1 pixels) GIF files on the site that allow them to load cookies on your machine. The companies can then track your movements across multiple sites. It can potentially see the search strings that you type into search engines (due more to the way some search engines implement their systems, not because anything sinister is intended). Because it can gather so much information about you from multiple sites, the companies can form very rich profiles. These are still anonymous, but they are rich.
One company then went one step further by acquiring another firm, it threatened to link these rich anonymous profiles back to name and address information -- it threatened to personalize them, and then sell the data. That began to look very much like spying to most people, and that is what caused the uproar. Some companies are in a unique position to do this sort of thing, because they serve ads on so many sites. Cross-site profiling is not a capability available to individual sites, because cookies are site specific
Resize your IE Cache size (XP)
By default IE reserves 10% of your drive space for the Temporary Internet Files. This was fine several years ago but since then the hard drive capacities have increased dramatically. If you happen to have one of these large disks the 10% is truly unnecessary and wasteful.
Close all instances of Internet Explorer and Outlook Express
Control Panel | Internet Options | General tab
Click Settings and move the slider to 50 mb, click Ok
Click Delete Files and also select: "Delete all offline files", click Ok
Click Clear History, click Ok, Apply\Ok [more info]
Note: While viewing Newsgroup messages Outlook Express dumps a series of zero-byte files into the TIF. When Outlook Express is closed it fails to cleanup these files. To delete these zero-byte files you must select the above option "Delete all offline files".
Protecting Your Internet Explorer
Lately there has been a rash of incidents where either a web site or email spam has contained a hidden javascript that changes your Home Page entry, then disables the users ability to change it back. To prevent this from happening ... be one step ahead of these characters. Set your Home Page then disable the ability to change it via a Registry restriction. It is also recommended you use a Startup Monitor. Be aware that in some cases this method does not work as some of these parasites will re-write the registry entries on each restart. However a "Startup Manager" will prompt you if your setting are being changed.
HKCU_Hide_HomePage.reg (Current User)
HKCU_Undo_HomePage.reg (Current User)
To download: Right-click the above link(s) and select: "Save Target As".
To use: right-click and select: Merge (to view: open in Notepad)
HKLM_Hide_HomePage.reg HKLM_Undo_HomePage.reg
Note: this restriction can apply in 2 locations, the Registry checks the HKLM location first, then the HKCU location. The HKLM takes precedence and applies to all users. The HKCU applies to just the "Current User".
If your HomePage gets hijacked, you may need to "undo" both locations.
For more info and a reg file to unlock the Home Page [click here]
Note: XP Pro already has the ability to make these changes via the Group Policy Editor. If the HomePage restriction has been applied by an Administrator, "Limited Users" can not make this change. Start | Run (type) gpedit.msc
Opening Internet Explorer Full Size
Ever notice sometimes you right-click on a link and open a new window and it's not full screen? This usually occurs because IE remembers the last window size when closed. Many times a background pop-up will do this too, if it is the last window closed. To resize the window and regain control:
Close all instances of Internet Explorer except for one.
Right-click on a link in the page and select: "Open in New Window"
Close the first browser window using the [ X ] (upper right corner)
Resize the window manually by dragging the sides to the desired size.
Note: Do NOT click the Maximize button, you must do it manually.
Hold down the Ctrl key and click the Close button (upper right)
[Exception]
In some cases the "Remember last window size" info becomes corrupted in the Registry.
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main]
"Window_Placement"=
To reset the "Window_Placement" entry to default. You can download a small reg file to reset (to default) and correct this behavior.
Download: ResetWindowPlacement.reg [right-click and select: "Save Target As"]
To use: right-click and select: Merge - Ok the prompt and reboot
Open Internet Explorer to a Blank Page
In the command line, (highlight and paste the below)
"C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\IEXPLORE.EXE" -nohome
Name the shortcut: (example) IE Blank
From now on you can paste a saved URL without loading your ISP software, etc.
You can also drag this shortcut into your Quick Launch area.
Note: this is the same as setting your Home Page to: "about:blank"
Ad-Aware users, setting your page to "About:Blank" causes a false CWS detection
Open Internet Explorer to a Blank Page
In the command line, (highlight and paste the below)
"C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\IEXPLORE.EXE" -nohome
Name the shortcut: (example) IE Blank
From now on you can paste a saved URL without loading your ISP software, etc.
You can also drag this shortcut into your Quick Launch area.
Note: this is the same as setting your Home Page to: "about:blank"
Ad-Aware users, setting your page to "About:Blank" causes a false CWS detection
Change the Text of Internet Explorer's Titlebar
Internet Explorer's titlebar displays the text "Microsoft Internet Explorer," along with the title of the page you're currently visiting. However, you can change the "Microsoft Internet Explorer" text to any text you want. Run the Registry Editor and go to:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main
Add a new string value named Window Title and give it a value of whatever text you want displayed in the titlebar. Exit the Registry and close Internet Explorer if it's open. The next time you open Internet Explorer, the titlebar will have your new text.
If you want your titlebar to have no text in it, aside from the title of the page you're currently visiting, create the Window Title string value but leave the Value field empty.
Change the Text of Internet Explorer's Titlebar
Internet Explorer's titlebar displays the text "Microsoft Internet Explorer," along with the title of the page you're currently visiting. However, you can change the "Microsoft Internet Explorer" text to any text you want. Run the Registry Editor and go to:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main
Add a new string value named Window Title and give it a value of whatever text you want displayed in the titlebar. Exit the Registry and close Internet Explorer if it's open. The next time you open Internet Explorer, the titlebar will have your new text.
If you want your titlebar to have no text in it, aside from the title of the page you're currently visiting, create the Window Title string value but leave the Value field empty.
Everything You wanted to know about FIREWALLS..!!
Everything You wanted to know about FIREWALLS..!!
A firewall is basically something that protects the network from the Internet. It is derived from the concept of firewalls used in vehicles which is a barrier made of fire resistant material protecting the vehicle in case of fire. Anyway a firewall is best described as a software or hardware or both Hardware and Software packet filter that allows only selected packets to pass through from the Internet to your private internal network. A firewall is a system or a group of systems which guard a trusted network( The Internal Private Network from the untrusted network (the Internet.) To understand how a firewall works, firstly we need to understand how exactly data is transferred on the Internet.
The TCP\IP suite is responsible for successful transfer of data across a network both the Internet and the Intranet. The TCP\IP suite is a collection of protocols which are inter-related and interdependent and act as a set of rules according to which data is transferred across the network. A protocol can be defined as a language or a standard which is followed while transfer of data takes place.
A firewall relies on the source and destination IP and also the ports to control the packet transfer between the untrusted network and the trusted network. Firewalls can be classified into 3 types:
1. Packet Filter Firewalls
2. Application proxy Firewalls
3. Packet Inspection Firewalls
Packet Filter Firewalls
They are the earliest and the most criticized firewalls, which nowadays are not easily found. They are usually Hardware based i.e. Router Based (a router is a piece of device which connects two
networks together.) Whenever a Packet Filter Firewall receives a packet for permission to pass through, it compares the header information i.e. the source and destination IP address, and port number with a table of predefined access control rules If the header information matches, then the packet is allowed to pass else the packet is direct contact between the untrusted system and the trusted private system.
Such Firewalls can be fooled by using techniques like IP Spoofing in which we can change the source IP such that the firewall thinks that the packet has come from a trusted system which is among the list of systems which have access through the firewall.
Application proxy Firewalls
The shortcomings of the packet filter firewalls are addressed by the new type of firewalls developed by the DARPA. It was widely believed that the earlier type of firewalls were not secure enough as they allowed the untrusted systems to have a direct connection with the trusted systems. This problem was solved with the use of Proxy servers as firewalls. A proxy server which is used as a firewall are called application proxy servers. This kind of a proxy firewall examines what application or service (running on ports) a packet is meant for and if that particular service is available only then is the packet allowed to pass through and if the service is unavailable then the packet is discarded or dropped by the firewall.
Packet Inspection Firewalls
It can be also known as an extension of the Packet Filter Firewall. It not only verifies the source and
destination IP's and ports, it also takes into consideration or verifies that content of the data before passing it through. There are two ways in which this kind of a firewall verifies the data to
be passed:
State and Session.
In case of state inspection, an incoming packet is allowed to pass through only if there is a matching outward bound request for this packet. This means that the incoming packet is allowed to pass through only if the trusted server had requested for it or had sent an invitation for it.
In case of session filtering, the data of the incoming is not verified, but instead the network activity is traced and once a trusted system ends the session, no further packets from that system pertaining to that session are allowed to pass through.
All along you will come across many Firewalls on various systems, basically a
firewall can be established
or setup in two ways:
1. Dual-homed gateway
2. Demilitarized zone (DMZ)
In a dual homed gateway firewall, there is a single firewall with 2 connections, one for the trusted network and the other for the untrusted network.
In the case of a Demilitarized Firewall or a DMZ there are two firewalls, each with two connections, but there is a slight difference in the case of a DMZ setup.
In the case of a DMZ setup, there are two firewalls, the first having two connections, one leading to the untrusted network and the other leading to the host systems like the email server or the FTP server etc.
In the case of a Dual Homed Gateway the untrusted network is connected to the host systems (email and FTP servers etc) through a firewall and these host systems are connected to the internal private network. There is no second firewall between the host systems and the internal
private trusted network.
The basic structure of the DMZ setup declares it to be a more secure system as even if an attacker gets through the first firewall, he just reaches the host systems, while the internal network is protected by another firewall.
Block Or Unblock Websites without software !
Many times in schools, colleges & offices surfing some sites like orkut,etc are banned !
To overcome this you can unblock these or block some other websites and play pranks !
Do The Following :
fFor eg you want to block www.xyz.com !
* Open the folder C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc
* There you will find a file named HOSTS
* Click on the file and press SHIFT and now right click on it .
* From the right click menu select Open with .
* Now, select Notepad to open the file from the list !
* Now, in the file under the line 127.0.0.1 localhost add another line as 127.0.0.2 www.xyz.com.
* Now, File>>Save !
Now, open your web browser and try openning www.xyz.com , it will not load !
To unblock sites just do the vice versa!
Fooling Rapidshare
Its very easy to fool RapidShare server if your IP address is assigned by your ISP Just follow these simple steps clean up IE or netscape cookie ( In this case the one that belong to rapidshare website) On Command prompt type ----->ipconfig /flushdns<---Enter
type ----->ipconfig /release<---Enter
type ----->ipconfig /renew<---Enter
type ----->exit<--------Enter
Or save these commands in a bat file and run it everytime you need to fool Rapidshare server.Remember to clean up rapidshare cookie in your temp Internet files folder. Now you should be ready to download as many files as you want from their server.
Hide Your Hardisk Partition
1. Go to Start > Run > gpedit.msc (to open group policy)
2. Click User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Windows Explorer.
3. Right click on "Hide these specified drivers in My Computer". Click on Properties.
4. Select Enable and then select the particular partition you want to hide. (e.g. C:
How to create a SIMPLE virus that turns off your computer
Right click on your desktop go to new and click shortcut and a a pop up it's going to appear ,, type Shutdown -s -t 1000 -c "anythinghere" and click next and name it something and if you want u can right click in it and click properties and change the icon.
Things you didn't know about Windows XP.....
You've read the reviews and digested the key feature enhancements and operational changes.
Now it's time to delve a bit deeper and uncover some of Windows XP's secrets.
1. It boasts how long it can stay up. Whereas previous versions of Windows were coy
about how long they went between boots, XP is positively proud of its stamina.
Go to the Command Prompt in the Accessories menu from the All Programs start button option,
and then type 'systeminfo'. The computer will produce a lot of useful info, including the
uptime. If you want to keep these, type 'systeminfo > info.txt'. This creates a file
called info.txt you can look at later with Notepad. (Professional Edition only).
2. You can delete files immediately, without having them move to the Recycle Bin first.
Go to the Start menu, select Run... and type 'gpedit.msc'; then select User Configuration,
Administrative Templates, Windows Components, Windows Explorer and find the Do not move
deleted files to the Recycle Bin setting. Set it. Poking around in gpedit will reveal
a great many interface and system options, but take care -- some may stop your computer
behaving as you wish. (Professional Edition only).
3. You can lock your XP workstation with two clicks of the mouse. Create a new shortcut
on your desktop using a right mouse click, and enter 'rundll32.exe user32.dll,
LockWorkStation' in the location field. Give the shortcut a name you like.
That's it -- just double click on it and your computer will be locked. And
if that's not easy enough, Windows key + L will do the same.
4. XP hides some system software you might want to remove, such as Windows Messenger,
but you can tickle it and make it disgorge everything. Using Notepad or Edit, edit the
text file /windows/inf/sysoc.inf, search for the word 'hide' and remove it. You can
then go to the Add or Remove Programs in the Control Panel, select Add/Remove Windows
Components and there will be your prey, exposed and vulne
Reset WinXP Admin Pass with ONLY DOS
Reset WinXP Admin Pass with ONLY DOS
note : quotes (") are just for highlighting the word
1. click on start, enter "cmd" and press enter
2. enter "net user" or "net users"
you will see the list of users that are created on current running os
3. type "net user" "user name" "*"
you will see that windows will now ask you to enter new password for that particular account!
magic! no any type of super user privileges needed!
see the commands below:
If the administrator account user name is "admn" then command to change it's password will be...
net user admn *
OR see this video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTPxdG2j5FA
INTERNET EXPLORERLIGHTING-FAST STARTUP.
Isn't it annoying when you want to go to a new website, or any other site but your homepage, and you have to wait for your 'home' to load? This tweak tells Internet Explorer to simply 'run', without loading any webpages. (If you use a 'blank' page, that is still a page, and slows access. Notice the 'about:blank' in the address bar. The blank html page must still be loaded..). To load IE with 'nothing' [nothing is different than blank]:
1. Right-click on any shortcut you have to IE
[You should create a shortcut out of your desktop IE icon, and delete the original icon]
2. Click Properties
3. Add ' -nohome' [with a space before the dash] after the endquotes in the Target field.
4. Click OK
Fire up IE from your modified shortcut, and be amazed by how fast you are able to use IE!
Hibernate Your XP !
Trick Advantage :
You can leave your work in between and shutdown the PC and resume it next time as it is !
Even I switched off my PC while writing this article and when I reopened it I resumed my article from where i left !
When you want to stop your work and shutdown(Keeping your programs open)
Do The Following :
1. Click start>Turn Off Computer
2. As the Turn Off menu comes up press 'Shift' and 'Stand By' changes to 'Hibernate'
3. Click Hibernate (Shift Kept Pressed)
Your xp will save the work and shutdown !
Now, when you switch it on again it will resume it again !
No loading of windows will take place and you will be resumed to your work as if you had just switched your monitor off and now on again !
Its Amazing
Scare Your Friend With Auto Shutdown !
Scare Your Friend With Auto Shutdown !
-------------------OR-------------------Read the following :
1. Right click on desktop>select New>shortcut
2. In the shortcut window type : shutdown -s -t 60 -c "the message you want to display"
3. Select Next
4. Name it anything
Now, double click it !
Scared ???
Nothing happened !
Remedy :
1. Go to start>Run
2. Type : shutdown -a
3. Hit Enter
Oh! You are rescued
How To Make the Welcome Screen Available Tips
How to make the Welcome screen available:
A. Go to Start and click on it, now click on Control Panel , and then double-click User Accounts .
B. You need to click on Change the way users log on or off .
C. Click to select the Use the Welcome screen for fast and easy logon check box, now click OK. WinXpFix.com
Change STARTUP and SHUTDOWN sounds in XP
Have you ever felt bugged-up with the Start-up and Shutdown jingle of your Windows XP or Vista ? If yes, here is the solution, now you use any of your favorite voice or music or dialogue as your PC’s shutdown and start up.
It’s a simple 4 step process.
Step 1.
Choose the track which you want to play at start-up and shutdown jingles,
Limitations are
* It should be in .WAV format.
* The size of file should not be large, prefer keeping them within in 1 Mb, otherwise your startup will take a bit longer.
If the file you want to make your start-up or shutdown is not in .WAV format, you can easily convert them using Jet Audio 7, or any other converter.
Step 2.
Now rename these files as “Windows XP Startup.WAV” and “Windows XP Shutdown.WAV” respectively.
Step 3.
Now Go to “C:\WINDOWS\MEDIA”, here you will find files “Windows XP Startup.WAV” and “Windows XP Shutdown.WAV”, move them to some other locations, this step is required for, in case you need to revert back these sounds, else you can ignore this step.
Step 4.
Now the files you have chosen and renamed, just copy-paste or cut paste them in “C:\WINDOWS\MEDIA”, here you go, now you can enjoy the new Start-up and shutdown.
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AIRTEL AND VODAFONE TIPS
+919810051905 is the free sms centre number
dial *110# follow instructions and call 4 nos for 15paise
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Airtel Directory hack
http://202.71.128.187/content/
Airtel free mms setting
homepage: http://100.1.200.271:1021/mmsc
IP:
Access point: airtelfun.com
AirTel FREE SMS
Free SMS AirTel Send Only
+919810051905
Airtel Friends!
Want to get free live cricket scores?
Send sms ckt to 8558
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Free Cricket Score, jokes, news, etc on airtel
send 0 to 54321 from your airtel no. It’s totally free.
Free airtel missed call alert dail *62*+919894035100#.
Free job alert dail *321*66#
for free hello tune on airtel new customers just dail
543211888
For one month only
Free Dwnld
Unlmtd Hollywood Image video theme etc
http://202.46.200.191/ar3/unholly/static.jsp
These were taken frm various sources. I havent checked them so dont blame me if dosent works. Hope u like it.
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RECHARGE TRICK FOR AIRTEL USERS 100% WORKING
Making real free calls(not VOIP)using any network connection was not that easy till now until one of my friends told me that GREAT technique that i am going to share with you now.(keep this a secret).When he first told me I simply nodded off because I had previously published another post on how to recharge Hutch and Airtel phones without any cost(That was a joke).
When I succeeded with the trick ,we actually started calling more STD and ISD calls at no cost(U.S,
Technique:
First of all you need an Airtel connection (pre-paid preferred).The trick was to hack the Virtual Calling Card, that lets you make international calls from your mobile.
Dial 1802103 from your mobile and you will hear a welcome message from airtel and an instruction to dial your 10 digit access number.These access number will be changed randomly.I succeeded using the number 000710**** followed by # key(Last 4 digits will be given to only those who comment or signup with their personal mail id due to security reasons).
After this you will be asked to enter the 4 digit password number.I used the password **** (removed)followed by#(See the last 4 digits of both the numbers,they are same which made it easier to hack) You also have the option of hacking that 4 numbers by yourself and sharing with us.Start the online business here.
You will hear an acceptance tone and an instruction to dial the destination number.STD numbers should start with '0' and ISD numbers with '00'.
Many of my friends are now conferencing accross the whole countries in the world.And you can be a part of it until Airtel blocks it.
Easy method of using free Virtual Calling Card is given below.
Most phones support the “p” and “w” actions. On Nokia phones, if you press the “*” key repeatedly, you will see it change from “*” to “+”, then “p” and “w”.
Put simply, the dialing sequence now becomes: Airtel’s toll-free number 1802103 followed by pause, then the VCC pin and “#”, then a tonewait (for the voice prompt asking you to dial the number), then the telephone number you are trying to call, or
1802103p12345678#w0123#0012345678 (demo)
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NOKIA ALL IN1 SECRET CODES
Check the IMEI*#06#
Check software version
*#8110#
Sim Clock Stop
*#746025625#
Warranty menu
*#92702689#
Press the following warranty code
6232 (OK) Displays the Month and Year of Manufacture
7332 (OK) Displays the date of the last repairment
7832 (OK) Displays the date where the phone was purchased
9268 (OK) Displays Serial Number
37832 (OK) Set the Purchasing Date MMYY
87267 (OK) Transfers ALL phone numbers, pictures, sounds from one phone to another
Hands Free
To
continue an existing call when placing the 8110i into the hands free
car kit without it dropping the call, press the Memory button just
before connecting the cable and placing it in the cradle.
Display extra text in call costs feature
If your network operator doesn't offer a call costs service, you can still make use of
that function to display some personalized text on the screen of your
8110i. Go to Menu, [5], [7], [1], enter PIN2-code and choose Set. Then
type in the limit of the currency units you're using (if the call cost
service worked, you would have to type the cost limit of the calls) and
choose OK. In this case I typed 8110. Then go to the next sub menu
(Menu, [5], [7], [2]), the Show costs in menu. Type in the PIN2 code
again and select Currency. Type in the unit price, in this case number
1. Then type the name of the currency - you can use any string of
letters and numbers 1-3 characters long. then type 2 letter then to
confirm type two names beginning with one of each of the letters. Then
press OK to confirm it.
Quick saving while in call
Saving numbers
to memory during a call If you type a number into your phone during a
call, you will lose it when the call ends. To prevent this happening
just hold down Memory button -- the number will be saved (with no name)
to the next available memory location.
Deleting SMS messages quickly
When reading an SMS message, instead of pressing Option, Erase to delete the message, simply press [C].
Turning lights on temporarily
If
you have display lights turned off, you can turn them on by quickly
pressing and releasing the power button. They will stay on as long as
you are pressing button.
Silent mode temporarily
You can put your phone into silent ringing mode temporarily by pressing Menu then [#].
Closing the cover without ending a call
If you press the menu key and then close the sliding cover during a call you will not end your call.
Nokia 6150 Secrets (also work on other models)
Check the IMEI
*#06#
Service menu
*#92702689#
Show software version
*#0000# or *#6110#
Sim Clock Stop
*#746025625#
Warranty menu
*#92702689#
Press the following warranty code
6232 (OK) Displays the Month and Year of Manufacture
7332 (OK) Displays the date of the last repair
7832 (OK) Displays the date where the phone was purchased
9268 (OK) Displays Serial Number
37832 (OK) Set the Purchasing Date MMYY
87267 (OK) Transfers ALL phone numbers, pictures, sounds from one phone to another
Power Button Tip
If
you press the button for a short moment, the menu with the profiles is
shown on the display. If you press one more time, the mobile turns
itself off. You can use the up and down cursor keys to scroll and enable a different alert setting.
The 54# Tip
Type 1#, 2#........54# on the keypad(when you're not in the menu) to get the phone number used for with this key when speed dialing.
Toggle Headset and Auto settings
#1:
Try Connect the pin-out 1-2 (in front from the right.) to toggle
headset settings (The phone will think that you ar using a headset -
"headset" is displayed in the LCD)
#2:Try Connect the pin-out 2-3
(in front from the right.) to toggle auto settings (The phone will
think that you are using it in the car - "auto" is displayed in the LCD)
Call Menu
(In a call) you can press and hold down the menu button for 3 sec. and a menu appears. (transfer, mute etc.)
Quick SMS Typing
When
typing SMS messages, you have to wait some seconds before you can type
the next letter if it is in the same button than the previous one. For
example try to write the word "letter", you have to wait before you can
enter the second "t". A much faster solution is to press the # button
twice and then the letter "t".
The Reboot Trick
1. Go to calendar ( menu - 8 )
2. Make note / reminder
3. Enter some text into the edit
4
5. Press 0. Main screen is shown but a space appears on the screen. You can't see it of course.
6. Enter 4 digits ( 1234 for example )
7. Use the down arrow to move the cursor to the left side of the numbers and the space (2 times down arrow)
8. Now enter 6 digits and press the green "Call button".
9. Wait some seconds..the phone will now flash the background light and finally reboot.
Philips Genie Secrets (also work on other models)
View the IMEI
*#06#
Status register
*#2254*#
Activate and deactivate the "DEBUG CALL"-Mode
*#2255*#
Time you are connected to the network
*#2558*#
Phone reconnects to the network
*#2562*#
Warm start
*#2565*#
(NO) BLOCKING - list (15 items)
*#3333*#
Init, Flags, SIM LOCK
*#3377*#
Reset the (NO) BLOCKING - list
*#3353*#
Name, Length, SIM phase
*#7378*#
security CODE
*#7489*#
Activate and deactivate the SLEEP MODE
*#7693*#
SPURIOUS INTERRUPT
*#7787*#
Activate the beep signal when the phone is reconnected to the network
*#2337*#
Samsung SGH-600 Secrets (also work on other models)
Show IMEI
*#06#
Show Software Version
*#9999#
Show Software Version (instructions)
*#0837#
Show Serial Parameters
*#0001#
Activates the smiley when charging
*#9125#
Battery status (capacity, voltage, temperature)
*#9998*228#
Program status
*#9998*246#
Change Alarm Buzzer Frequency
*#9998*289#
Debug screens
*#9998*324#
Watchdog
*#9998*364#
EEPROM Error Stack - Use side keys to select values. Cancel and ok.
*#9998*377#
Trace Watchdog
*#9998*427#
Change LCD contrast
*#9998*523#
Jig detect
*#9998*544#
Memory status
*#9998*636#
SIm file size
*#9998*746#
SIM Service Table
*#9998*778#
RTK (Run Time Kernel) errors
*#9998*785#
Run, Last UP, Last DOWN
*#9998*786#
Software Version
*#9998*837#
Test Vibrator - Flash the screenligth during 10 seconds and vibration activated
*#9998*842#
Vocoder Reg - Normal, Earphone or car kit can be selected
*#9998*862#
Diag
*#9998*872#
Reset On fatal error
*#9998*947#
Last/Chk
*#9998*999#
Yann debug screen
*#9998*9266#
software version
*#9998*9999#
Changes serial parameters (s=?, f=0,1, t=0,1)
*0001*s*f*t#
Sony CMDZ1 Secrets (also work on other models)
View IMEI
*#06#
Show Software version and manufacture date
# 8377466 #
Alcatel One Touch Secrets
View IMEI Number
*#06#
Enter Service Menu
*#000000#
View Secret Menu
000000 then press *
Sagem RC712 Secrets (also work on other models)
Enter Engineering menu
MENU - 5 - 1 - 1 - #
1) IMEI
2) Flash Eprom etc.
3) ?
4) SP unblock
5) ?
6) Contrast Settings.
When in menu type * and a new menu with new options will appear.
Siemens S1 Secrets (also work on other models)
Show IMEI
*#06#
Tetris
Power
on phone and enter PIN. before phone has locked onto network, F9, send
own number, hit right button, hit 9. left is 2, right is 8, rotate is 5,
and drop is 4.
monitor Mode
Menu, 9 (Phone Options), 7 (Phone Status), Left Display Button (left MENU key), 5553756, HangUp Button (Red HandSet key)
Now "Monitor" should appear at the bottom of the Network Options menu.
Pressing the right Display Button when in monitor mode will show a list of the
six cells with the strongest signals.
Trium MTD30 Secrets (also work on other models)
Monitor mode
Hold C and press 379
Secret menu
Hold C and press 987
Version number
Hold C and press 597
Phase1 and 2
Hold C and press 499
Warm start
Hold C and press 179
Instant turn off
Hold C and press 999
Unlock menu
Hold C and press 787090
Bosch 718 (also work on other models)
Secret Engineering menu (menu 10) appear
*#3262255*8378#
Display the IMEI
*#06#
To set the language automatically (Reset to English)
*#0000#
Set the Enhaced Full Rate
*#3370#
Reset the phone
#3370#
Enter sim lock code
*#9000#
Enter the network code
*#9003#
Enter the subset code
*#9004#
Remove the sim lock permanently
*#9100#
Remove the corporate lock permanently
*#9101#
Remove the provider lock permanently
*#9102#
Remove the network lock permanently
*#9103#
Remove the subset lock permanently
*#9104#
Bosch 738 (also work on other models)
Secret Engineering menu (menu 10) appear
*#3262255*8378#
Display the IMEI
*#06#
To set the language automatically (Reset to English)
*#0000#
Set the Enhaced Full Rate
*#3370#
Reset the phone
#3370#
Enter sim lock code
*#9000#
Enter the network code
*#9003#
Enter the subset code
*#9004#
Remove the sim lock permanently
*#9100#
Remove the corporate lock permanently
*#9101#
Remove the provider lock permanently
*#9102#
Remove the network lock permanently
*#9103#
Remove the subset lock permanently
*#9104#
Bosch COM607 (also work on other models)
Secret Engineering menu (menu 10) appear
*#3262255*8378#
Display the IMEI
*#06#
To set the language automatically (Reset to English)
*#0000#
Set the Enhaced Full Rate
*#3370#
Reset the phone
#3370#
Enter sim lock code
*#9000#
Enter the network code
*#9003#
Enter the subset code
*#9004#
Remove the sim lock permanently
*#9100#
Remove the corporate lock permanently
*#9101#
Remove the provider lock permanently
*#9102#
Remove the network lock permanently
*#9103#
Remove the subset lock permanently
*#9104#
Bosch 908 (also work on other models)
Secret Engineering menu (menu 10) appear
*#3262255*8378#
Display the IMEI
*#06#
To set the language automatically (Reset to English)
*#0000#
Set the Enhaced Full Rate
*#3370#
Reset the phone
#3370#
Enter sim lock code
*#9000#
Enter the network code
*#9003#
Enter the subset code
*#9004#
Remove the sim lock permanently
*#9100#
Remove the corporate lock permanently
*#9101#
Remove the provider lock permanently
*#9102#
Remove the network lock permanently
*#9103#
Remove the subset lock permanently
*#9104#
Bosch 909/909s (also work on other models)
Display the IMEI
*#06#
Set the language automatically
*#0000#
Set the Enhanced Full Rate
*#3370#
Reset the phone
#3370#
Enter sim lock code
*#9000#
Enter the network code
*#9003#
Enter the subset code
*#9004#
Remove the sim lock permanently
*#9100#
Remove the corporate lock permanently
*#9101#
Remove the provider lock permanently
*#9102#
Remove the network lock permanently
*#9103#
Remove the subset lock permanently
*#9104#
Ericsson 688 Secrets (also work on other models)
Check the IMEI (International Mobile Equipment Identity)
*#06#
Reset the phones menu-language to English.
*#0000#
Check the software release information
>*<<*<*
Shortcut for Last Dialed call menu If you for some reason don't want to
enter the 'Last Dialed calls menu' by using the 'YES' key you can use
the following key stroke instead: First '0' then '#'. Bat. level
indicator when turned OFF... When the gh688 is turned off and the phone
is not changing - the bat. level can be seen for a short period of time
by pressing the 'NO' key quick once (it has to be quick!) and then wait
for about 2 sec. The bat. level will now be shown in the display at its
normal position. Access menu without Sim card To access to the menu in
your phone without having a card inside do the following: type
**04*0000*0000*0000# When display say "Wrong Pin" press NO and you have
access to the all menus: Info, Access, Settings, Calculator, Clock,
Keylock On?, Mail, Phone book. NOTE: If you try this on the GH688 your
phone may stop at Keylock On? menu and you´ll have to take your battery
out to turn the phone on again. Full Network Name You can see the Full
Network Name by doing the following: Go to the network menu, when the
phone displays the networks available (in 'Select net' and 'Edit list'
menu) you can press * and you will see the full name. Full Operator
List You can view the full operator list by doing the following: Go to
the 'Edit list' menu under 'networks'. The phone say 'please wait'(searching for other networks). When finished, Press the <> keys.
How to enable net monitor on Ericson 688
1. Remove SIM from phone
2. Dial 112, press YES, hear something,
3. Dial 112YESNO
4. Press <>Ericsson 628 Secrets (also work on other models)
Check the IMEI (International Mobile Equipment Identity)
*#06#
Reset the phones menu-language to English.
*#0000#
To see the time and date
*#103#
Check the software release information
>*<<*<*
Shortcut for Last Dialed call menu If for some reason you don't want to
enter the 'Last Dialed calls menu' by using the 'YES' key you can use
the following key stroke instead: First '0' then '#'.
indicator when turned OFF When the phone is turned off and the phone is
not changing - the battery level can be seen for a short period of time
by pressing the 'NO' key quick once (it has to be quick!) and then wait
for about 2 sec. The battery level will now be shown in the display at
its normal position. Access menu without Sim card To access to the menu
in your phone without having a card inside do the following: type
**04*0000*0000*0000# When display say "Wrong Pin" press NO and you have
access to the all menus: Info, Access, Settings, Calculator, Clock,
Keylock On?, Mail, Phone book. Alarm Clock Menu Go to MissedCall Empty
the list Press the -> key for a second or two
The option Menu size turns up
Choose 'yes' and go from there.
You can make free phone calls with GA628 (also work on other models)
NOTE: This trick has only been reported working on PREPAID GSM CARDS and in some countries and with some software versions.
The prepaid GSM SIM CARD is a kind of "SIM card" which only has a certain amount of credit on it.
Here's
the trick: Dial the number normally and press YES. While "connecting"
is shown on the screen, the following procedure should be carried out:
Press
CLR then 0 then # and then NO (twice) so as to switch OFF the phone.
You can then still speak on the phone while it is switched off but the
SIM card does not record your calls which will lead to FREE phone calls
in some countries.. I hope!!
Motorola Flare Secrets (also work on other models)
View IMEI Number
*#06#
RBS
Activate RBS
(Note: pause means the * key held in until box appears)
To activate RBS type: [pause] [pause] [pause] 1 1 3 [pause] 1 [pause] [ok]
You now have to press the [MENU] and scroll to the 'Eng Field Options' function with the keys, and enable it.
De-activate RBS
To de-activate RBS type: [pause] [pause] [pause] 1 1 3 [pause] 0 [pause] [ok]
This only works with some versions of software.
What's the use of RBS
Get Distance From base station- Place a call, when it is answered, press [MENU] until 'Eng Field
Option' is displayed, press [OK], select 'Active Cell', press [OK],
press [MENU] until 'Time Adv xxx' appears, where xxx is a number.
Multiply this number by 550, and the result is the distance from the
RBS (Radio Base Station), in meters.
Get Signal Quality - press
[MENU] until 'Eng Field Option' is displayed, press [OK], select
'Active Cell', press [OK], press [MENU] until 'C1' appears. This is the
signal quality. If it becomes negative for longer than 5 seconds, a new
cell is selected.
NEC DB2000 Secrets (also work on other models)
See IMEI code
*#06#
Reset to defaults
*73738#
Show Software version
*#2820#
SP Lock info
The procedure will show if your phone is locked.
*#3210# for SIM lock info,
*#8140# for Net lock info.
SIM lock
*#4960 # - Inquiry * 4960 * password * password # (send?) to Lock
#4960* password # to Unlock
[password] is an 8 digits number
Net Lock
*#7320# - Inquiry * 7320 * password * password # to Lock.
#7320* password # to Unlock.
[password] is an 8 digits number
Net Lock 2
*#2220# - Inquiry * 2220 * password * password # to Lock
#2220* password # to Unlock
[password] is an 8 digits number
ü Subnet Lock
*#1110# - Inquiry * 1110 * password * password # to Lock
#1110* password # to Unlock [password] is an 8 digits number
NOW SEND TOTAL FREE MMS TO ALL NUMBERS IN THE WORLD from PC
even spending a penny too.. Just you need to register in a site and
then they will send you the activation number to your phone number..
After you receive it,just enter that code in order to activate your
service.. Now its done. You can senf any type of file directly to your
friends and enemies by just uploading that file and then sending it. ALOMMS.COM
NET THROUGH GPRS
free airtel gprs...TRULY WORKING>>>
FREE AIRTEL GPRS ON TEASHARK...
First of all let me tell you that this trick works 100%
Now
d trick is simple n 100% legal just download the teashark web browser and
start using internet via dis browser on airtel "the trick is by using dis
browser ur balance doesnt get deducted"
B4 u begin let me tel u dis browser is in alpha stage and doesnt support
download so only u can browse internet for free on this browser
U can download free from their official site or from link below TEASHARK.COM
TeaShark AIRTEL LIVE
The full Web on your phone, fast and free.
TeaShark gives you full web browsing on your mobile phone with superb usability and performance. It renders web pages the same way as desktop browsers. No more 'mobile web', your favourite sites are the same on your phone and the desktop.
By default all the airtel phones are blessed with automatic already activated of airtel live but with this kind of gprs plan activated ,you can’t reach any other sites on web as there is a firewall
that blocks any request to any other sites other than airtel live.But
there are other types of airtel gprs plans other than this which allows
much better connectivity to all the websites on web.
So today i am going to tell you how to activate any type of grps
plan on your phone simply by sending a sms or through web directly.
Airtel Live - (pre installed on all pre-paid & post paid) - In this plan a user is able to do GPRS but the only site that is browsable is Airtel WAP site.
Charges for airtel live- No browsing charges for airtel live but downloads are charged.
Airtel Online - (This gprs plan can be activated by sending two sms one by one. For activation send SMS
AO to 6333 & ALL to 2567) and ( For cancellation send SMS AO
CNCL to 222 ) - In this type of plan a user can access to any website
on web on his/her phone but with a limited bandwidth of 5o mb.
Charges for airtel online- Rs 15o p.m (per month) are charged.
Airtel Mobile or mobile office-(For activation send SMS MO to 6123) - In this type of plan user can access to website on web with a unlimited bandwidth.
Charges for airtel mobile- Rs 400 p.m (per month) are charged.
If you have any problems in activation call 121 or leave a comment
here and still if your problem is not solved i have written one more post about activating gprs on any network check out here.
YAHOO FREE ON CELL
As you all know airtel live is by default free to activate and use
on all the airtel connections and when it comes to yahoo services
airtel live contains a yahoo zone with which you can use various yahoo
services like yahoo chat with rs. 30/- per month.
But why pay , if you can access yahoo mobile web messenger for free.
FREE CALLS TO INDIA
After such a long time here's another great trick to make FREE CALLS to
Rebtel a VOIP service is offering 1 hour FREE CALLS to
To make FREE CALLS to
1) Click here to take a survey about Rebtel services.
2) You will now get a code saying that "Now you are granted an hour of free VOIP calls to
3) Now just copy your personal voucher code i.e. 02630459928759XXXX.
4) Then goto Rebtel
5) Click on Add Credit button
6) Now paste the voucher code and click redeem.
Now you should be able to make an hour of FREE CALLS to
Now just go and make FREE UNLIMITED CALLS TO INDIA!!!
http://2008tricks.blogspot.com/search/label/FREE%20CALLS%20USING%20REBTEL
http://www.rebtel.com/
TRANSFER SMS FROM PHONE MEMORY TO MEMORY CARD
Yes , you can easily transfer any of your messages already residing
in the phone memory causing your phone to process various operations at
a slow speed due to the memory usage by the sms messages.
I have illustrated the entire procedure to move your sms messages in single with a four step below.
How to do it:
- Make sure that Messaging memory is set to Phone Memory (Messages -> Settings -> Other -> Memory -> Phone memory).
- With FExplorer, go to E:\System\Mail and delete the whole dir. Not just the content, the whole dir.
- Go to Messages -> Settings -> Other -> Memory and select “MMC”
- Now you will be prompted if you would like to copy the messages to your “new” location.
If you found some problem in implementing the steps listed below leave a comment here i will be glad to help you.
Everybody knows orkut has become an addiction for lots of guys here
in india and other countries, as people are so much addicted that they
want to check for any new scrap after every minute in a hope they would
have received a scrap from their friends at orkut.
So i was just finding a way how you an simply read your orkut scrap book directly from your gprs enabled mobile phone.
How To Do it:
1.First Login to orkut.
2. Go to your profile and copy the uid in numeral in the address bar
3. Now to go to the “Enter url address option” in your mobile browser.
4. Now type “http://www.indian-tv.com/orkut.php?uid=yourorkutuid&img=true“(without quotes).
5. that’s it! Done.
For Example:
http://www.indian-tv.com/orkut.php?uid=3092816605259924892&img=true
