Hold the trump card when the play was very enjoyable, especially when it trumps all As. CHIP has a trump card and will open it in front of you. we show how to play this trump card to manage multiple desktop display in Windows XP, became the administrator through the script, or take advantage of the management of rights such as access to the Windows XP Professional. CHIP security, trump this game will shake the opinion that Linux users, fanatical though they always assume that Windows can not rival Linux.
In the box on the next page, CHIP also reveal the various myths and facts that are still outstanding about Windows XP. In the box at the other end of any posts, CHIP insert some lighter tricks that are just for fun, depending on your perspective, can be useful also not the same sekail.
1. Install the virtual desktop
Tool: Deskman.exe
Many Windows users who feel envious view KDE Linux desktop where some can be managed simultaneously. With the help of one of the tools of PowerToys for XP, Virtual Desktop Manager (VDM), you can also manage up to four desktops in Windows. Good again, almost to the resource system is not needed.
4 at a time: With the tool Deskman from PowerToys, Windows XP can manage four display desktop at the same time.
Enter 'Deskman.exe' into the search field at www.microsoft.com, and you will be up to the PowerToys page. In the blue in the bottom right, click on the link 'Deskman.exe' under 'Virtual Desktop Manager' to download the tool. After the installation is finished, display the context menu by clicking on the right side taskbar. Select the 'Toolbars | Desktop Manager'.
In your taskbar icon will appear to a divided four-image box next to it and there are four numbered buttons indicate the number-four desktop. To save the desktop to the VDM, click one icon and click the icon benomor box. From now on you can display these by clicking on the desktop icon or by pressing the earlier key combination Ctrl + Tax. Perform the same procedure for the other three desktops.
Tip: To change the desktop background image, right-click the icon VDM and select 'Configure Desktop Images'. Replacement with a normal outcome even confusing.
2. Prevent access to the quiet
Tool: regedit
Through the hidden folder-sharing, a hard disk can read or access the printer through the administrator account you created Windows. Windows XP Pro PC that is not shared with other people and certainly did not want other people to access the data, it can be shut off to prevent the folder.
Ward detective: In the Computer Administration you can turn off sharing that is hidden.
Click 'Start | Control Panel | Administrative tools' and double click' Computer management '. Under the 'Shared Folders | Shares' You will find all the drives, the account is created adminstrator Windows, printer / fax-sharing, and the IPC which allows inter-program communication network through a remote connection (remote). $ Sign on the back of the folder indicates that the nature of sharing its hidden. Right-click 'C $' and select 'Disable Sharing' to turn off sharing to drive C:. When Windows asks for confirmation, click 'Yes'. Do the same thing for sharing the other.
Care! Other users in the network can no longer access the data is there in the drive C: drive and another that you turn off. End-sharing only if your PC is not a part of a network or if you at all do not allow others to access your hard disk.
The only sharing that you can not Remove the 'IPC $'. Exacerbate this, because it is through the Inter Process Communication (IPC) is a PC can contact the PC. With the tips above you can only prevent access to drives, but not to its PC itself.
After turning off the sharing out of the 'Computer Management'. So that Windows does not make a return that has been sharing power off before you start the next time, run the Registry Editor. Log in to the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ System \ CurrentControlSet \ Services \ LanmanServer \ Parameters' and give the value of'0 'for the entry' Auto ShareWks'.
Repeat the same procedure for the key 'lanmanworkstation' underneath. Close the registry and restart the PC. Now your hard disk can not be more spy.
3. Administrator via script
Tool: MakeMeAdmin
For security reasons, many users of Windows XP is more like using a regular user account is limited. When you need administrator rights temporarily, for example, to change the security settings for a particular user, a free script to help you further.
In http://blogs.msdn.com/aaron_ margosis/archive/2005/03/11/394244.aspx weblog you will find the property of Aaron Margosis, a senior consultant at Microsoft. There, click on the link 'MakeMeAdmin.zip' to download the script. Open the zip archive and copy the file 'MakeMeAdmin.cmd' into a folder.
Full access: MakeMeAdmin give administrator rights to user accounts is limited.
Make Admin.cmd click the file and enter the administrator password in the DOS window and the password for the user account. Background of a black DOS window change red to remind you that now have rights as an administrator. As a test to enter in the DOS command window.
secpol.msc
The command will open the window 'Local Security Settings' that can only be executed by the administrator. Do work that requires administrator rights situation in the DOS window open. To return to work with normal user accounts, close the DOS window before.
To check whether you have been back into a normal user or not, click 'Start | Run' and enter the same command, 'secpol.msc'. You should now get an error report because it does not have administrator rights. Applet 'Local Security Settings' will still run, but you can not change anything.
4. Changing the screen note
Tool: Resource Hacker
The Windows XP screen does not easily replaced because integrated in the core operating system. However, with the help of resource editor you can change the core components individually and change the screen opener.
Care! Manipulation on the core operating system can result in serious in Windows. Backup all important data before running these tips.
Download Resource Hacker tools are available free at www.users.on.net / johnson and install to your PC. Run Windows Explorer and locate the file 'ntoskrnl.exe' folder in 'Windows \ system32'. Make a copy of the file and give it the name 'nt_new.exe'.
Now you need a new display lines in 16 colors Bitmap format with size 640 x 480. If necessary, modify the image with the image processing program such as Paint Shop Pro. If your image processing program provides the option to save the image with the Windows palette, do. If the Windows palette is not saved, usually akan color image distortions occur.
Run Resource Hacker and open the file 'nt_baru.exe' through the menu 'File | Open'. Select 'Action | Replace Bitmap' screen and enter a new note via the button 'Open file with new bitmap'. Do not forget, first select the bitmap which will be replaced in Resource hacker. Click 'Replace' and save the file. Close Resource Hacker.
New boot logo: With Resource Hacker you can change the Windows XP screen opener.
To keep Windows XP running with a new screen and if necessary you can go back to the old Windows XP, start the Windows file manipulation. Right click 'My Computer' and open 'Properties'. In the tab 'Advanced' click 'Settings' under' Startup & Recovery '. Click the button 'Edit' to open the file 'boot.ini', select the line to start Windows XP and copied to the clipboard by pressing CTRL + C (below the text [operating systems]). Paste the command below it before. Add the following parameter on the command line copy.
/ Kernel = nt_baru.exe
Save the file and close Notepad. Then restart Windows and start a new select entry in boot menu. This time the new lines will be displayed. If you only want to operate a Windows partition, open again the file 'boot.ini' as above. Remove the old entry start. For more, your version of Windows that will run automatically, no need to manually selected in the boot menu.
CHIP has also found a program called Boot Editor allows you to create a logo in the startup. You can download it at the address http://www.belchfire.net/ ~ userxp / indexbe.htm. If you intend to use it, CHIP recommend to read the Readme file carefully, because its use is quite confusing if not.
5. Show 'My Network Places'
Tool: regedit
All entries that are in the top right of the Start menu can be opened. A general entry is' My Computer 'and' My Documents'. Other entries can be activated by clicking the right button and select Start Poperties. This way you can access the drive quickly and subfolders. Unfortunately, 'My Network Places' not in the list that can be added to the Start menu. Fortunately, you can through a few changes in the registry.
Manipulate the Start menu: After the registry, 'My Network Places' can be opened from the Start menu.
Run regedit and navigate to key HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Explorer \ Advanced '. Create an entry 'Start_ShowNetPlaces' through the menu' Edit | New | DWORD Value 'and give the value of'2'. After the restart, you can display the 'My Network Places' in the Start menu.
6. Change the MAC address
Tool: SMAC 1.2
Users who want to surf anonymously on the Internet are usually only disguise your IP address. However, experienced hackers with easy to identify the address Media Access Control (MAC) which is on every network-card. MAC address, so this is very unique in the world does not have any pair of the same. With the help of SMAC 1.2 shareware you can disguise the MAC address so it really time to surf anonymously. Registration costs about 10 Euro.
Misguided:: SMAC MAC address display of your PC pseudo-useful to other hackers ward.
SM MAC's http://www.klcconsulting.net/smac/ Download and install. Free demo version which can only manipulate a single MAC address. Your original MAC address listed under the 'Active MAC Address' and the fictitious address given in the' New Spoofed MAC Address'. Click 'Update MAC' and restart the PC to use it. You can check the MAC address with the new run command 'ipconfig / all' from the DOS-box.
Tips: MAC Address is given based on a particular system. The first bit contains the code producer, such as Realtek has a code 00-20-18. Code all the manufacturers listed in a table in http://map-ne.com/Ethernet/vendor. html.
7. Ward foreign virus
Tool: Secure PC Project 2005
Normal virus scanner to identify virus signatures with the help of a database. In addition to the signature, freeware Secure PC can also identify the virus from perilakunya. Thus, you can also prevent the virus that can not be identified by regular scanner because there is no signature is. In addition, Secure PC also able to 'undo' the attack on the hijacker has happened.
More secure: Secure PC Project recognizes the virus is not based on signatures.
Download the tool from http://securepc. planet-source.de/project. Before the installation process, you need to do to the author registration (for free). Unfortunately, this great new tool available in the German version. However, no worry. You will not interact much with this tool because it works completely automatically. You do not need to change anything or do on a preset to scan your hard disk such as a virus-scanner is normal. One thing more, the installation of this tool requires. NET Framework v1.1 which you can download from Microsoft.
8. Reading Linux partitions
Tool: Ext2 Driver
Users who also operate a Linux partition in Windows are usually side by side with the need to create a third partition that both systems can exchange data. This needs to be done because Windows does not recognize the Linux partition formatted with Ext2 file system. By installing a driver for free, you can teach
Trade data: Through the Ext2 file system driver, Windows can read the Linux partition.
Download 'Ext2 Installable File System for Windows' from www.fs-driver.org. After the installation is complete, you can access the Linux partition with all Windows applications. You get a drive letter when you need to change the '-IFS Drives "in Control Panel.
Tip: If you run out at a place in the Windows partition, move the swap file to the Linux partition. Therefore, right-click 'My Computer' and open 'Properties'. In the tab 'Advanced' find the 'Settings' under' System Performance '. Then click 'Advanced' and 'Change'. Now you move the file to the swap partition Ext2.
9. Access the Windows XP Home
Tool: XV132, regedit
Windows XP Home Edition does not have the tab 'Security' as in Windows XP Professional to manage the access rights on the file. Actually there is also a tab in the Home version, but hidden by the file 'rshx32.dll'. With outsmart this tab file can be opened.
Download XV132 from the tool www.chm aas.handshake.de/delphi/freeware/xvi32/xvi32.htm. Through the 'File | Open' open file 'Windows \ System32 \ rshx.dll'. Select the 'Address | Go To' and enter'95D '(hexadecimal) or 2408''' (decimal). This change in the number'65 'to'61'. With this change, the DLL files are no longer looking for registry entry 'OptionValue' blockade and open the tab 'Security'.
Professional home so: By manipulating the file 'rshxp.dll' You can open the blockade tab 'Security'.
Save the file with another name, such as' rshx_new.dll 'in the System32 folder, because Windows still need the original file for other purposes. If this step is not done, you will always find a problem with the file system checks. Now you need to set some registry entries in the new DLL file.
Run regedit and click HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE. Through the menu 'Edit | Find', search the entry 'rshx32.dll'. He is in the directory 'InProcServer32' is in a key length that is difficult to remember. Change the value of a string rshx_new.dll and close regedit.
Now, if you right click a folder and choose 'Sharing & Security' tab will appear to 'Security' as in Windows XP Professional. Here you can provide or revoke access to each folder to the user.
10. Checking Active Directory
Tool: rundll32.exe
Service Active Directory stores information about users, groups, domains, and other network specific data. To find out which users have access to certain programs in the network-specific parameters required. Windows 2000 users can directly access the search window, but in Windows XP, this window is hidden. To remove, click 'Start | Run' and enter the command
rundll32 • dsquery, OpenQueryWindow
You must enable Active Directory services. If not, you will only get an error report.
11. Direct print screenshots
Tool: Purrint.exe
Before you can print, usually desktop screenshot must be taken from the clipboard with the help of graphic programs such as Adobe Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro. With Purrint.exe free tool that you can download from http:// dana.ucc.nau. edu / ~ tsr22/apps / # purrint, you do not need to fuss again.
Screenshot Direct: Tools Purrint.exe print without going through the screenshots clipboard.
Once you make a screenshot with the [PrintScreen], a menu will appear with the option to print, save, or just to copy to the clipboard. If nothing happens, you sebaiknay check if Purrint actually already running or not. Check the existence of its icon in the taskbar.
CARDS OFF - Myths and Facts about Windows XP
Not every published tips really bring increased speed or performance. Some even produce the effect. Here are some of the 'confusion' of outstanding importance.
Optimizing L2 cache
Myth: In the default setting, Windows XP is able to manage up to 256 KB of L2 cache that is integrated in the CPU. Through the registry tweak, you can increase the value of Windows and be faster.
Fact: During boot, the core operating system is referred to as the Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) will check the capacity of L2 cache on the CPU available to the Windows disclose ago. If the size of the cache can not be-any-reason Windows XP will set the value to 256 KB. This is why Windows become slow. All CPU since Pentium II supports L2 cache examination by HAL. Intel calls this function as the 'Associative Design L2 cache. In the old CPU, registry-tweak is not useful because the size of the L2 cache is smaller than 256 KB.
Zoom in IOPageLock registry
Myth: The core operating system get more RAM if the value IOPageLock enlarged. Access to speed up Windows registry because this command can be retrieved more quickly from RAM.
Fact: Tips are working on Windows NT4 and Windows 2000 early release. However, with the Service Pack 1 for Windows 2000, Microsoft deliberately delete functions. This is confirmed by Jamie E. Hanrahan, one of the developers in the kernel-www.cmkrnl.com website. In conclusion, these tips do not have effect on all Windows 2000 systems since SP1.
RAM speed is empty Windows
Myth: If the RAM cleared regularly with a batch file or tool-RAM, Windows will work far more quickly and smoothly.
Fact: Windows often store temporary files that are still in need of RAM. If the RAM continuously cleaned, Windows is forced to store them in the hard disk. Because access to the hard disk takes longer, rather than Windows to be faster, even more slowly.
Windows shutdown before turning off the PC
Myth: The bad will happen if you turn off your PC without a Windows-shutdown. Hard disks can be damaged, lost data, or the connection to the network no longer works after the restart.
Fact: If you turn off the PC when the hard disk is working, you do get a file that can not be read because it has not been thoroughly written to disk. New data that have not saved will be lost. CHIP do with the crash-test so just turn off a Windows XP Home PC many times. Many applications such as Word is left open, network and Internet connection also not be. It turns your PC to work without problems.
If the connection to the network no longer functions, the configuration file is damaged Windows which is open when the PC is not turned off its hardware. In conclusion, turning off the PC so it does not damage hardware such as hard disk or LAN-card. However, the process shut down properly will ensure that your data is not corrupted.
If the large RAM, the cache must also be enlarged
Myth: If you are more of RAM 512 MB, larger the value of registry entry 'DisablePaging Executive' and 'LargeSystemCache' to increase system performance.
Fact: That is not correct. Second entry is to define what often save changes to the Windows file system and the like automatically on your hard disk. When the number of access to the hard disk was reduced, the data will be stored in RAM longer. As a result, most of the RAM is no longer available to applications and services so that they become more slow because they must always wait until the available RAM is required. Server network with Windows 2000 Server is to be faster because the management system RAM is different, but on the other version of Windows will be the impact ..
European Scanner slower
Myth: The government in some European countries classify as fast scanner copier. Rather than charge a fee to copyright copier, producers prefer to give the scanner driver slowed. Installing the original drivers will make a faster scanner.
Fact: Not entirely correct. When this additional duty imposed on all drivers slow down so that the scanner does not have to use. The scanner for a long time, try the original driver may still have use.
JOKER IN WINDOWS XP - Special functions are not You Know
When help does not trump all, the card Joker be the only entertainment. Menangi every Solitaire game with a trick and find other functions in Windows XP, fun-for many people may not benefit at all.
Aroma victory: With a simple key combination you can end the game winner as Solitaire.
Always win
You always want to win game Solitaire? Just press the key [Alt] + [Shift] + [2] to end each game with you as the winner.
Opponent you lose
In Freecell you can also beat opponents with ease. Press the [Ctrl] + [Shift] + [F10] and select 'Stop'. Next, double click one of the card. Automatically lose your opponent.
No competitor
Of allergic reaction to what Bill Gates of the browser saingannya? You can know this by entering the following command into the Internet Explorer address bar.
About: Mozilla
You will get a blue-screen that is triggered by the file 'mshtml.dll'. No need worry, this blue-screen does not make Windows crash!
Find everything
Why only search for one particular file? Occasionally enter the words below to search function in Windows.
• catch me if • • • you can
This will trigger a search carefully to all the files on your hard disk. Care! On the hard disk large size, this search could take a whole day ..
