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