Welcome to another Hacking Truths Manual. This time I have a
collection of Tips and Tricks which no body normally knows, the
secrets which Microsoft is afraid to tell the people, the information
which you will seldom find all gathered up and arranged in a single
file. To fully reap this Manual you need to have a basic
understanding of the Windows Registry, as almost all the Tricks and
Tips involve this file.
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Important Note: Before you read on, you need to keep one thing in
mind. Whenever you make changes to the Windows Registry you
need to Refresh it before the changes take place. Simply press F5 to
refresh the registry and enable the changes. If this does not work
Restart your system
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Exiting Windows the Cool and Quick Way
Normally it takes a hell lot of time just Shutting down Windows, you
have to move your mouse to the Start Button, click on it, move it
again over Shut Down, click, then move it over the necessary option
and click, then move the cursor over the OK button and once again
(you guessed it) click.This whole process can be shortened by
creating shortcuts on the Desktop which will shut down Windows at
the click of a button. Start by creating a new shortcut( right click
and select New> Shortcut). Then in the command line box, type
(without the quotes.)
'C:\windows\rundll.exe user.exe,exitwindowsexec'
This Shortcut on clicking will restart Windows immediately without
any Warning. To create a Shortcut to Restarting Windows, type the
following in the Command Line box:
'c:\windows\rundll.exe user.exe,exitwindows'
This Shortcut on clicking will shut down Windows immediately
without any Warning.
Ban Shutdowns : A trick to Play on Lamers
This is a neat trick you can play on that lamer that has a huge ego,
in this section I teach you, how to disable the Shut Down option in
the Shut Down Dialog Box. This trick involves editing the registry,
so please make backups. Launch regedit.exe and go to :
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion
\Policies\Explorer
In the right pane look for the NoClose Key. If it is not already there
then create it by right clicking in the right pane and selecting New >
String Value.(Name it NoCloseKey ) Now once you see the
NoCloseKey in the right pane, right click on it and select Modify.
Then Type 1 in the Value Data Box.
Doing the above on a Win98 system disables the Shut Down option
in the Shut Down Dialog Box. But on a Win95 machine if the value
of NoCloseKey is set to 1 then click on the Start > Shut Down
button displays the following error message:
This operation has been cancelled due to restrictions in effect on
this computer. Please contact your system administrator.
You can enable the shut down option by changing the value of
NoCloseKey to 0 or simply deleting the particular entry i.e. deleting
NoCloseKey.
Instead of performing the above difficult to remember process,
simply save the following with an extension of .reg and add it's
contents to the registry by double clicking on it.
REGEDIT4
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersio
n\Policies\Explorer]
"NoClose"="1"
Disabling Display of Drives in My Computer
This is yet another trick you can play on your geek friend. To
disable the display of local or networked drives when you click My
Computer go to :
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion
\Policies\Explorer
Now in the right pane create a new DWORD item and name it
NoDrives. Now modify it's value and set it to 3FFFFFF (Hexadecimal)
Now press F5 to refresh. When you click on My Computer, no drives
will be shown. To enable display of drives in My Computer, simply
delete this DWORD item. It's .reg file is as follows:
REGEDIT4
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersio
n\Policies\Explorer]
"NoDrives"=dword:03ffffff
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