Enable Aero In Windows Vista Home Basic

This little hack will enable Aero on Vista Home basic (if u’ve got 70MB Video RAM) and it might even not enable Aero but enable Vista Standard View, which is similar to Aero but not Glass effect and will disable other animation…

1. Click on the Vista Start button, type regedit and press ENTER. You can also press CTRL + ESC or Windows key follow by typing regedit in the Vista Search box and press ENTER.If you’ve not turn off or tweaking Windows Vista User Access Control, you’ll be prompted for permission to continue. Just press Continue to proceed. 
2. Locate the HKEY_CURRENT_USER > Software > Microsoft > Windows > DWM registry key on the left panel of Windows Registry box.
3. On the right panel, search and double-click the Composition key and change the value to 1. Also, change the CompositionPolicy key value to 2.
4. Click on the Vista Start button, type servives.msc, and press ENTER key to bring up Windows Services box. Locate the Desktop Windows Manager Session Manager and double-click it. Click the Stop button follow by Start button to stop/start or restart the Desktop Windows Manager Session Manager service.Alternatively, you can open a elevated-privilege Command Prompt and type net stop uxsms follow by net start uxsms, which do the same thing!

Restart the System and you’re done.

Windows XP : Security Holes

Moving inside the box:

There are 2 security holes I found in Windows XP sp-2:

 1)      REPAIRING: When repairing the Windows XP, if we press Ctrl+F10 then the DOS prompt is popped up and you have the access (not administrator privilege) to the box.

2)      RECOVERY CONSOLE: I’ve used a lot of third party software to protect my system but the best way I found was to physically block access to my PC…

I started googling around for getting administrator access to XP box without a third party program but it turned out to be either very time consuming or not working for sp-2 and so I started looking for the answer on my own, when I ended up with a Windows 2000 boot-able cd from a friend.

The game:

Most of you might have used the recovery console of Windows XP which asks the Administrators Password before letting you use itself, but what if we boot a XP sp-2 machine with Windows 2000 cd and start the recovery console present in it???

VOLA!!!! THE PASSWORD IS NOT REQUIRED

Google Search Snytax

Hello everybody in today's world most used search engine is GOOGLE approximately everybody had used it. But very few know the exact syntax to search on Google . This post will make your search more easy and refined.


SYNTAX :

• [ intitle:]
• [ inurl: ]
• [ site: ]
• [ filetype: ]
• [ link: ]
• [ related: ]
• [ cache: ]
• [ intext: ]
• [ phonebook: ]

Windows OS Installation Lifecycle.

Hey friends today Windows have gone too too far in every case but the roots remain the same. Today also most of the user's prefer to use Windows XP due to its simplicity. So I decided to give you all an overview of this product.Do leave a comment in any case if like or if you dont.
Windows XP comes in a number of versions, including a Home version and a Professional version.Windows XP Home is configured for home users. Windows XP Professional, which is configured to work as a workstation client, is a somewhat more powerful configuration for business users. Throughout this book, I’ll point out any differences in usage between the Home and Professional versions.

While not the focus of this book, Windows also comes in a number of server versions named Windows .NET. Microsoft has planned several server product offerings, including Windows .NET Server

and Windows .NET Advanced Server. We don’t expect that there will be major changes in .NET’s use of the registry.

In general everything remains same for Windows Vista (all Versions), Windows 7 (all Versions).The registry is a tree-based hierarchical system that offers quick access to data stored in almost any format. Actually, the registry is a rather flexible database. Registry information comes from a number of sources:

◆ From installing Windows

◆ From booting Windows

◆ From applications, systems, and user interaction

Editing Windows Registry !

You must have read my article on Windows Registry which provides beginners details on the Windows Registry. Now I am going to briefly describe how to edit the registry through the Registry files and DOS.
 
Editing and .reg files

 Windows Registry can be edited easily by the registry explorer provided by the Microsoft but the best way to edit registry is by making the registry files or .reg files as they are very helpful when you need to edit registry on some remote system.

 SYNTAX:

                          RegistryEditorVersion (version 6 in Vista and 5 in XP sp2)

                        

                          [Path of the registry root\key]

                         

                         “Name of the key (data holder)”=DATATYPE: VALUE

                         

The Header of the file is the Windows Registry Editor version. This is a very important part of a .reg files as it defines the executable limits related to the various Windows version. For example if you have written RegistryEditorVersion6 , then the registry file will not run on Windows XP and other earlier versions of Windows whereas if you write RegistryEditorVersion5 , then the registry file will run smoothly of all the versions of Windows except Windows 95 & 98.

The second line is to specify the path of the root\key. It’s very important to keep in mind that the registry path of different versions of Windows differ from each other and hence you should keep in mind the registry path structure while making the registry file.

The third line holds the name of the key or the data holder inside the “” and the DATAVALUE (binary, string, Dword etc.) followed by the value which is to be assigned to the key. When you are assigning a string value, then it’s not important to specify the data type and directly writing the value inside the “” will do the job. Put a “-“or hyphen after the = to delete the key.

Using the above syntax you can easily create a .reg file. I would suggest you to start playing with them as it would help you to understand editing of registry through registry files and you might learn something new!!!!

Windows Registry .

Windows Registry has been one of the most fascinating part of an Operating System. Each Operating system has its own way of storing important data related to User accounts, System Configuration and information related to the Software’s installed. In the earlier times when DOS was one of the main Operating system, it used to store its important data in file named CONFIG.SYS.

With the beginning of the Windows era, a stronger method was required to store the System related Data. Windows had a configuration file named SYSTEM.INI (initialization files) and WIN.INI and mostly every application had its own INI file.

The drawback of INI files was that they had a limited file size of 64KB only and each program could have only one INI file, making it a lot difficult to store settings for different users and hence Microsoft introduced Windows Registry in Windows 95 and since then Windows have always had its backbone, it Registry. Here I’ve described the basics of the Windows registry.

THE WINDOWS REGISTRY- Begins

Speed Up Your Dialup Connection

Hey friends the 3rd Generation have already been launched but there quiet many people who are still on Dial-Up connection .You can’t assume that just because you connected at a speed like 48.3KBps that you will stay there. Today’s modems automatically fall back to a lower speed if the line noise is too high to maintain a faster connection, but sometimes they fall back too soon or too far.

Programming A Batch File

Batch files are really important when it comes to execute a set of DOS commands every time. Basically batch file programming is nothing but the Windows version of Unix Shell Programming. In the article we’ll try to learn the basics of the batch file coding.
The Basic:
Batch file is basically a executable file which executes the definite set of commands in one go. It is important "not to name a batch file after the name of any DOS command" as if done so, the batch file will not execute.

Creating a Batch File:
To create a batch file you do not need any separate kind of editor, Batch file can be created by two methods :-
1)Notepad
2)DOS - Open command prompt and type EDIT(2k/XP) a blue window will open very similar to Notepad.