Increase Your RAM and Enhance Your PC Speed

Lets began with this..
-Open a word file or say any file you want to open,, for our consideration we open a word file(some large document).

-Now go to task manager and in that under process tab see the memory usage by word file.In this case you will find it under name "WINWORD.EXE".

-Check out the memory usage.

-Now go back to word file and minimize it .

-Again open task manager and see the memory usage by the process under the name "WINWORD.EXE".The memory usage will be drastically reduced.

Hence from this very simple example we can conclude that we should minimize each application before moving to other, this will free up the ram and increase the speed of your pc..

20 Tips & Speed Up Your Pc

Follow these tips and you will definitely have a much faster and more reliable PC! The icon means that the tip will work best under Windows 98.

1. Wallpapers: They slow your whole system down, so if you're willing to compromise, have a basic plain one instead!

2. Drivers: Update your hardware drivers as frequently as possible. New drivers tend to increase system speed especially in the case of graphics cards, their drivers are updated by the manufacturer very frequently!

3. Minimizing: If you want to use several programs at the same time then minimize those you are not using. This helps reduce the overload on RAM.

4. Boot Faster: The 'starting Windows 95/98' message on startup can delay your booting for a couple of seconds. To get rid of this message go to c:\ and find the file Msdos.sys. Remove the Read-Only option. Next, open it in Notepad or any other text editor. Finally, go to the text 'Options' within the file and make the following changes: Add BootDelay=0. To make your booting even faster, set add Logo=0 to remove the Windows logo at startup.

5. Restart only Windows: When restarting your PC, hold down Shift to only restart Windows rather than the whole system which will only take a fraction of the time.

6. Turn Off Animations: Go to Display Settings from the Control Panel and switch to the Effects Tab. Now turn off Show Windows Content While Dragging and Smooth Edges on Screen Fonts. This tip is also helpful with Windows XP because of the various fade/scroll effects.

7. Faster Start-Menu Access: Go to the Start menu and select Run. Now type Regedit and hit Enter. The Registry Editor will appear on the screen. Now, open the folder HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop. You should see a MenuShowDelay value. If you don't then do the following: right click on a blank space in the right pane and select New\String. Change the name in the new value to MenuShowDelay. Now that we have the MenuShowDelay value, double click on it and enter 0 in the value data field. This sets the start menu delay to 0 milliseconds.

8. Resolutions: If you are willing to do anything for faster performance from your PC, then try lowering your display resolution. The lower it is, the faster your PC.

9. Turn off Active Desktop: Go to your Display Properties and switch to the Web tab. Uncheck View My Active Desktop As a Web Page. Since the Active Desktop option under Windows 98 uses a lot of system resources, this option can have a dramatic effect on the speed of the whole system.

10. Defragment Often: Windows 98's Defrag tool uses Application Acceleration from Intel which means that when you defragment your drive, data is physically arranged on the drive so that applications will load faster.

11. Take your PC to Bed: Using the Advanced Power Management feature under Windows 98 gives you the option to use the sleep command. That way, you can send your PC to sleep instead of shutting it down and then restarting it. It's as simple as pressing a button and then pressing the same button to wake it up. You can tell Windows after how many minutes/hours of inactivity to automatically sleep the machine in the Advanced Power Management section of the Control Panel.

12. Faster Internet Access: If you use the internet for reference and the sites you visit are rarely updated then try the following. In IE (the same can be done in Netscape) go to Tools, Internet Options. Next, click on Settings... in the Temporary Internet Files section. Finally, select Never for the first option and double the amount of storage space to use, click OK!

13. Benchmarking: Benchmarking can be very useful when run frequently. It can tell you how your PC's components are performing and then compare them to other machines like yours. For example, when you overclock your PC, you want to know how much more speed you have and whether it is stable. All this and more can be discovered using benchmarking. An excellent piece of software for doing this job is SiSoft Sandra which can be found in the Downloads File Archive!

14. Refresh the Taskbar without restarting: If you in some way change the taskbar, either in Regedit or elsewhere, you can refresh the task bar without restarting. Hold down Ctrl Alt Del, and double click on Explorer. Say Yes to close Explorer, but no to closing Windows. This will refresh the Taskbar and system tray.

15. Quick CD Eject: Instead of pushing the button on your drive, right-click your CD drive letter in My Computer and click on Eject. This will also remove any icons that have become associated with the CD drive.

16. Start Up Programs: Windows can be slowed down when programs run on start up. To eliminate this, check your Start up folder. You can access it from the start menu: Start, Programs, Start Up. Another way to eliminate programs from loading even before Windows actually starts is by doing the following: Click on Start, then Run. Type msconfig. It will take quite a long time for this program to load, but when you finally see it on your screen, explore the different tabs. They all have to do with how quickly your PC boots, so select what you want, and uncheck what you don't want!

17. Fonts: When Windows starts, it loads every single font in the Fonts folder. Therefore, the more fonts you have, the slower the booting process. To get rid of unwanted fonts, simply go to the Fonts folder under c:\windows and remove whatever you don't want. Fonts that have a red letter 'A' as their icon are system fonts, so don't delete them.

18. Stretching Wallpapers: Don't "stretch" your wallpaper in Windows 98 since it actually slows Windows down when you drag icons around on the desktop.

19. RAM Matters: If you have less than 32MB then you should seriously think of upgrading it to at least 64MB. Windows runs much more smoothly with 64MB or higher and tends to use less hard disk space for virtual memory.

20. Partitioning: A very nice little thing you can do to boost system performance. By partitioning your hard drive, splitting one physical drive into several logical ones, you can gain several advantages. 1. If you get a virus or you accidentally format a drive, not all will be lost. 2. By placing the swap file (Win386.swp) on a separate drive, The swap file will be less fragmented and thus, faster. 3. Place Windows on a separate drive and whenever you need to reinstall it, you rest assured that your data is safe on a separate drive. Partitioning can be done using a few programs such as FDisk which comes with DOS. However, FDisk formats everything on the hard disk before partitioning. Alternatively, you can use Partition Magic from Power Quest to partition your hard disk without losing your data.

Facebook Alerts On Your Mobile..!!

For the first time in India Tata Indicom ties up with the world's largest online social networking site Facebook.

This service offers users to update their status, search/add friends, comment on their status, write on wall or post a message to them.

Users can also receive SMS alerts for pokes, friend requests, comments and more.All the Tata Indicom users gets access to this service completely free.

To Enable this service just register your mobile number on this Facebook link

Orkut Blocked..!! You Can still Read Your Scraps With No Interruption

Whenever someone scraps us on Orkut.com, orkut sends an email notification, but the email just contains the link to your scrapbook, and not the actually message so that u actually login to orkut and waste mb and time.

But this approach wastes your time and bandwidth and is a major reason why orkut.com is blocked in most offices, schools and colleges in India ( Infosys for sure)
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Now consider a irritating situation where either you have email access but no internet access or orkut is blocked and you get a email saying that XYZ has left u a scrap..

To save you from such a situation we have RE-launched scrap2mail.googlepages.com
the idea is not new but it is automated now for all

Scrap2Mail combines with free orkutfeeds.com RSS feeds (last time it was ngcoders) and RSS to email service sendmerss.com, and EMAILs you prefect scrap email notifications along with the scrap message and person's profile picture and profile link within 2 hours.

It doesn't EVEN need your orkut username and password
And if your scrapbook is private, All you need to do is add OrkutFeeds Bot to your friends list.

So just visit scrap2mail For All Scrap Solutions Of orkut..!!!

Speed Up Your Defragmentation Process

A very important new feature in Microsoft Windows XP is the ability to do a boot defragment.
This basically means that all boot files are placed next to each other on the disk drive to allow for faster booting. By default this option is enabled but some upgrade users have reported that it isn't on their setup.


1. Start Regedit.
2. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Dfrg\BootOptimizeFunction
3. Select Enable from the list on the right.
4. Right on it and select Modify.
5. Change the value to Y to enable and N to disable.
6. Reboot your computer.

How To Make Your Folders Private/Hide..

Follow this steps:

Open My Computer

•Double-click the drive where Windows is installed (usually drive (C:), unless you have more than one drive on your computer).

•If the contents of the drive are hidden, under System Tasks, click Show the contents of this drive.

•Double-click the Documents and Settings folder.

•Double-click your user folder.

•Right-click any folder in your user profile, and then click Properties.

•On the Sharing tab, select the Make this folder private so that only I have access to it check box.

If you still have any problem then please write it down...

How TO Enable Or Disable Hibernation

We all know that Hibernate Avoid Losing our Work.
Hibernate saves an image of your desktop with all open files and documents, and then it powers down your computer. When you turn on power, your files and documents are open on your desktop exactly as you left them.

How to put your Tablet PC into hibernation when your battery power reaches a critically low level

1.On the taskbar, tap the Start button, and then tap Control Panel.

2.Tap Performance and Maintenance, and then tap Power Options.

3.Tap the Hibernate tab, select the Enable hibernation check box, and tap Apply.

Solution: Task Manager Has Been Disabled By Your Administrator

When you try to run Task Manager in Windows Vista or in XP,sometimes you receive an error message that says;

Task Manager has been disabled by the Administrator.

This error happens due to some malware or spyware software putting some registry restrictions(DisableTaskMgr restriction) so that one can’t trace or remove them from the system startup.You can follow any of the resolution methods given below:

Method 1: Using the Group Policy Editor

• Click on Windows Vista/XP Start, Run, type gpedit.msc and click OK.
• Navigate to this branch:

User Configuration / Administrative Templates / System / Ctrl+Alt+Delete Options / Remove Task Manager

• Double-click the Remove Task Manager option.
• Set the policy to Not Configured.

Method 2: Using the Windows Registry Editor

• Click on Start, Run, and type regedit.exe and press Enter
• Navigate to the following branch

HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Policies\ System

• In the right pane, find and delete the value named DisableTaskMgr
• Close the Windows registry editor
• Reboot you computer for the changes

Method 3: Using the Command Prompt

Click “Start > Run” and type following command exactly as given below and click OK.

REG add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System /v DisableTaskMgr /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f

Easier Method:

Download, extract, and double-click on DisabledTaskManager.reg to merge the registry values into the Windows registry to fix the “Task Manager Has Been Disabled By Your Administrator” error in Windows Vista or in XP.

Task Manager has been disabled by your administrator(Download Fix)

Warning: Modifying the Windows registry can cause serious damage to your Windows Operating System.It is better to backup your Windows registry data before making any changes. Tomstricks.com is not responsible for any changes you may make to your system.

Gmail : Stop The Mail Sent in Just 5 Seconds..!!

Let me clear one thing this is not the hack.Its one more feature that’s been introduced by Gmail Team.

This Feature is best one out of all. It lets you undo the mail sent. This is something that every users like’s to have.So if at all you find that mail sent is not correct or it is missing the attached file to be send , then you can just click on the undo button and mail will move back to your compose tag.Well then, you will ask how long this undo feature works after the mail is send.The answer for that is 5 seconds.Yes you will have exactly 5 seconds left to undo it after the mail is send.

To enable this feature you just have to go to the setting--> labs-->Turn On Undo Sent mail
Official Announcement By Gmail

Yahoo InVisible Detector..!!

Yup..Now you can catch your freinds while they are in invisible mode on Y-messenger.

The trick is simple and this time you dont have to understand the trick as your task will be only limited to enter the userid of the person who's status you want to identify...rest will be Done by the dedicated website.

Here is the link just go to it and enter the user id..
http://ydetector.com/

N'joy..

Show your freinds that you are hacker by tracking them in invisble mode..

Dont Have a Genuine XP installed..Here is the Crack.

Well, it is very obvious that all the pc will not have a genuine XP installed.The reason is simple if there are copies available then who would try to buy the original CD's.

In majority of the cases this ingenuine copy installed on our PC works quite succesfully, only sometimes we might face the problem while installing some softwares or other kinda of things.

So here i present the crack for validating your Xp copy at no Cost :)

All you have to do is to download the following crack from http://rapidshare.com/files/200472699/Windows.Genuine.Advantage.Validation.v1.9.9.1.CRACKED.7z

and Run the installer.bat file.

If still having any problems, Write it Down..

Adobe Reader May Be A Threat Right Now..!!

The news were confirmed by ADOBE itself on 19th Feb that there are certain holes in the structure of its software which can be used by the hackers ..!!.The news later were confirmed by the security giats Symantec and McAffe.

Adobe was found saying:

"A critical vulnerability has been identified in Adobe Reader 9 and Acrobat 9 and earlier versions. This vulnerability would cause the application to crash and could potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system. There are reports that this issue is being exploited"

Adobe is expected to release its patch on 11th march-09 for the Adobe Reader 9 and earlier versions.

The only way till then to protect your PC is to disable the javascript.It can be done in the following way:

Edit -> Preferences -> javascript.

Change Any User's Password..!!

Change any user password

To view all of the user accounts:
1)Logged onto the computer, click on Start>Run>and type in CMD.

2)From the command prompt window, type in net users. This will show you every account that is made onto the computer whether it is hidden or not.

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To change an account password:

1)Logged onto the computer to an account that has administrative rights, click on Start>Run>and type in CMD.

2) Type in net user then the name of the account then * and press enter. heres an example: net user administrator * or net user "Joe Smith" * . Put the name in quotes if it contains spaces.

3) From there it should ask for a new password. Type in your new password (type very carefully - the command window won't display what you type) and once more to confirm it. If you get the message that the command succeeded successfully you're all set!!







WAS THIS USEFULL???

Gmail Goes Offline.!!

Just Two days Before One More Feature was Added In Gmail i.e. You Can Access Your Mails While You Are Offline.!!!

Gmail implemented it successfully in its Gmail Labs and now its open to worldwide Gmail users. Gmail Offline Feature uses Gears which will download a local cache of your mail. Time for which user is connected to internet, cache is synchronized with Gmail Server's. Now if user gets disconnected from the internet, Gmail uses the data stored in the hard drive. While in the Offline mode we can even label the mails and also send a mail which gets sended when the user is connected to the internet next time.

With this Gmail targets mainly users who have less connection speed or the users who experiencing frequent connection Lost.

Check out its Video

Gmail's Official Announcement

SOLUTION: PROTECT YOUR PC FROM WORM "DOWNADUP" OR CONFICKER

Some days back Giant security companies Discovered a "WORM" which spreads rapidly across the network which has left 3.5 millions windows users affected.The worm is referred as win32/Conficker Worm. READ MORE FROM MY EARLY POST


The Malicious worm "DOWNADUP" also refer as "CONFICKER" Seems to be infecting Every PC Worldwide.On a recent Study it was found that Uptil now Every 16th PC on this world wide network is already infected..!!IT spreads throught networks and autorun features in USB memory sticks,drives CD's and DVD's.Microsoft Even with its latest updates is unable to prevent the autorun Feature.

With that prospect keeping in my mind here i will be showing the steps of how to disble the autorun Feature.Go to following link in which the US COMPUTER EMERGENCY TEAM READINESS has also shown the method of disabling auto-run feature.LINK

HOW TO DISABLE AUTO-RUN FEATURE??

STEP1: Create a note-pad file consisiting of following text

REGEDIT4
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\IniFileMapping\Autorun.inf]
@="@SYS:DoesNotExist"

just copy the above text and save the notepad file as autorun.reg.

STEP-2:
Now you have to import the notepad file by opening registry editor.
thats it.

But remember that if still Auto-Run feature is not disable, shows that you are infected.
Pass this piece of information to all of your friends so that they can prevent their computer from getting infected

wanna disable MS-DOS prompt..then here is d solution....

NoRealMode: Disable Single-Mode MS-DOS.

So you see if you have access to the Windows Registry, then you can easily create new DWORD values and set heir value to 1 for enabling the particular option and 0 for disabling the particular option. But Sometimes, access to the Windows Registry is blocked. So what do you do? Go to the Windows Directory and delete either user.dat or system.dat (These 2 files constitute the Windows Registry.) and reboot. As soon as Windows logs in, it will display a Warning Message informing you about an error in the Windows Registry. Simply ignore this Warning Message and Press CTRL+DEL+ALT to get out of this warning message.(Do not press OK) You will find that all restrictions have been removed.

The most kind of restriction found quite commonly is the Specific Folder Restriction, in which users are not allowed access to specific folders, the most common being the Windows folder, or sometimes even access to My Computer is blocked. In effect, you simply cannot seem to access the important kewl files which are needed by you to do remove restrictions. What do you? Well use the RUN

command. (START >RUN). But unfortunately a system administrator who is intelligent enough to block access to specific folder, would definitely have blocked access to the RUN command. Again we are stuck.

Windows is supposed to be the most User Friendly Operating System on earth. (At least Microsoft Says so.)

It gives the User an option to do the same thing in various ways. You see the RUN command is only the most convenient option of launching applications, but not the only way. In Windows you can create shortcuts to almost anything from a file, folder to a Web URL. So say your system administrator has blocked access to the c:\windows\system folder and you need to access it. What do you do? Simply create a Shortcut to it. To do this right click anywhere on the desktop and select New > Shortcut. A new window titled Create Shortcut pops up. Type in the path of the restricted folder you wish to access, in this case c:\windows\system. Click Next, Enter the friendly name of the Shortcut and then click Finish. Now you can access the restricted folder by simply double clicking on the shortcut icon. Well that shows how protected and secure *ahem Windows *ahem is.

jar file creation in java...not that tough believ me.....

go stepwise as follow in command prompt:-

-verbose

create-->

jar -cvf  jarfilename .jar folder/filelist

manifest -->meta-inf 

extract-->

jar -xvf jarfilename.jar

running-->

specify the main class in manifest file

Main-Class: packagename.filename

attach manifest again (create jar file again with manifest)

jar  -cvfm jarfilename.jar MANIFEST.MF folder/filelist 

java -jar jarfilename.jar arguments(if any)

if main class is not inside package , place your manifest inside the folder. go to the folder and then create your jar file

if it is in package,stay out of the package , place your manifest outside the package, create jar file staying outside the package

A New Worm Disabling Windows and Antivirus PAckages Affecting 3.5 millions users..!!

Some days back Giant security companies Discovered a "WORM" which spreads rapidly across the network which has left 3.5 millions windows users affected.The worm is referred as win32/Conficker Worm.

It also has some other vairants like win32.Downadup,Win32.Conficker .The Worm infects the computer by exploiting Windiows server service(SVC HOST) vulnerability and also spread through USB drivers, External Harddrives and MP3 Players.Moreover this worm gets constanly updated by downloading its newer version onto the infected machines making it difficult to remove.It was found that those computers which didnt had the latest version of anit-virus patch were infected by it.

Notice Published by Microsoft

To prevent your computer from getting infected download the following pathes released by the security companies

1. Symantec
2. Kaspersky
3. F-Secure
4. Bitdefender
5. Microsoft MSRT
6. Panda Security

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Tips To Prevent your Computer Being Hacked

Top 20 Security tools:
Nessus, Ethereal, Snort, Netcat, TCPdump, Hping, DNSiff, GFI LANguard, Ettercap, Nikto, John the Ripper, OpenSSH, TripWire, Kismet, NetFilter,
IP Filter, pf, fport, SAINT, OpenPGP.
These tools works on Linux and Xp.If your system is protected by these softwares then it is highly impossible for the hacker to hack your system.No virus can enter your system.
There are many steps to protect your system six steps are given below:

1.Install good Antivirus software.
2.Keep Operating system updates.
3.Get a Firewall system.
4.Conduct a vulnerability test.
5.Security policy.
6Avoid unnecessary network services.

1)Get a Firewall system:

The basic function of firewall is to regulate flow from computer networks to different trusted levels.Firewall without properconstruction can become useless.Firewall is the first and major thing to keep hackers,viruses away.Firewall acts as a wall between your system and hacker.Whenever hacker wants to enter your system without your permission firewalls block hacker.And it will not give permission until request is granted by you.Many hackers uses trick to get passwords and other valuable information.They create fake login page.For example let us take orkut fake login page and this page is similar to orkut main page.Hacker sends this page to person which he wants to hack.If the person enters his password then this password mails to users account.This is the way what the hackers use.If your system is protected with firewalls then it will not accept you to enter your password.It blocks all fake scripts.Similarly they use invisible keylogger to hack yahoo .If your system well protected by Firewalls then it is difficult to the hacker to hack your system.

2)Operating system update:

Upgrade operating system regularly and frequently to avoid hacking.If your operating system is Microsoft upgrade it regularly. Microsoft provides latest patches or versions of software,spywares and many anti hacking updates.So better to buy genuine Xp or Vista version and update it regularly to avoid hacking.If your operating system is genuine then they provide all free softwares for you. GFI events manager which provides wide login network that retrieves login from any operating system (i.e XP/WIN NT/VISTA) etc.It detect attacks and malicious network users from hacking.It catches hackers red handedly.

3)Install anti-virus software:

A virus is simply a program which infects files,drives and then router.Some virus are harmless .some may distroy files and some may steal your valuable data.If your system is connected to internet then you must use anti-virus software.When ever you switch on yourinternet huge amount of packets enters your system.Those packets contain viruses.As soon as they enter your system they hack cookies.Cookies contain valuable information.If your cookies got hacked then damm sure all your passwords got hacked.Few virus which are attached to emails and they request us to login our password.this is one type of hacking uses by the hacker.So in order to protect your passwords a good anti-virus software should be installed.

4)Conduct a vulnerability test:

This test is highly preferred by companies to protect valuable data from hacking.vulnerability test is little bit costly when compared to all other programs.But it provides high security than anti virus softwares.This tests mainly points to limitations and flaws in theprogram.The best method to conduct vulnerability is to contact system administrator or computer consultancy to provide access to your network or systems connected to your network for daily or twice a day.This provides high security to your files.Hacker cannot hack your valuable data.your system is totally protected.This is how to protect your system form hacker as well as from virus.

5)Avoid unnecessary network services:

While installing your system non essential softwares should be disabled or removed from system.If those softwares are not updated regularly it is better to uninstall that software.why because hacker always tries to find weakness in the softwares.After getting the weakness he uses those weakness for his advantages.This is what hacker do.After getting the weakness he may stole your passwordsand valuable data.So whenever you feel that this software is unnecessary better to remove those softwares.Or else it will create huge damage to you.

6)Security policy:

In this interconnected world every corporation needs high security policy.Threads exists not only from enterprises but also from
hackers.Companies,corporations must ensure confidentiality, integrity and availability of their data in their field.This data can be protected by high security policy. Symantec Enterprise security manager provides good security for confidential files.It is difficult to hack these files.As well as virus cannot enter in to user system.This is a good way to protect your system from hacking as well as from virus.

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Send Fake E-mails..!!

Yup..what you read is really true..!!  :)   Its been long I was searching for some technic to send fake emails,finally I found it.

Here it is..

SEND E-MAIL

But Before using this service following are the important think you must keep in mind..otherwise you will unknowingly break the cyberlaws bringing more troble to you.

1. USE ONLY AMONG YOUR FREINDS  FOR N'JOYMENT.

2.DO NOT USE IT TO TROUBLE OTHERS.

3.THE NAME THROUGH WHICH YOU WANT TO SEND EMAIL MUST BE A REGISTERED DOMAIN NAME.

---------------------------------THAT'S IT..!!!-------N'JOY------------------------------

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