How Long Has Your System Been Running?

How Long Has Your System Been Running?

Here's how you verify system uptime:

Click Start | Run and type cmd to open a command prompt.
At the prompt, type systeminfo

Scroll down the list of information to the line that says System Up Time.

This will tell you in days, hours, minutes and seconds how long the system has been up.

Note that this command only works in XP Pro, not in XP Home. You can, however, type net statistics workstation at the prompt in Home. The first line will tell you the day and time that the system came online.Enjoy!!!

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Lock/Hide Your Folder in Windows XP without Any Software

Sometimes you have some data you want to save from your friends, you dont want to use any Folder lock software. Then in that case what will you do?
Well here is a simple solution. Suppose you have a folder “TEST”, and you want to lock it
Follow the instructions below.:
1. First try it out on an empty folder in case something goes wrong. So first create a folder in drive C , for example name it as “secret-files” without the quotes.
2. Next, open your command prompt ( Start > Run > type “cmd” in the Run box without the quotes )
3. Within the command prompt, type “attrib +s +h C:\secret-files” ( without the quotes )

4. This command will make your folder completely invisible and it can not be seen even in hidden files and folders. Try search for the folder, I am sure it returns no result. It’s cool right?
5. To make the folder visible again type “attrib -s -h C:\secret-files”
6. And of course you can lock other folder too, by changing the location C:\secret-files to address of your folder.

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Insert your name in Taskbar

Hey its a very cool trick u can amaze u r friends and relatives by inserting your name on the bottom right task-bar. Follow the instructions bellow:

Open Control Panel -> Regional and Language Options -> Customize ->Time
here you can see A.M. and P.M. change it with u r name. Thats it.

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Stop IE7 Prompt To Save Passwords

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

;Stop IE7 Prompt To Save Password
;
;From the Tools menu, select Internet Options.
;Click the Content tab.
;In the "AutoComplete..." section, click the Settings button.
;To prevent your password from being saved,
;deselect the "User names and passwords on forms" checkbox.
;
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main]
"FormSuggest Passwords"="no"

If you want undo, follow these steps

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

;UNDO Stop IE7 Prompt To Save Password
;
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main]
"FormSuggest Passwords"="yes"

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How to Change Name and Company Info after installing windows

Step 1: Start > Run > Regedit

Step 2: Find following Registry Key-

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion

Step 3: Double-Click RegisteredOrganization.

STEP 4: Under "Value data", type the name that you want...then click OK

STEP 5: To change the name of the registered owner, do the following:

STEP 6: Double-click RegisteredOwner

STEP 7: Under "Value data", type the name that you want...then click OK

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How to access blocked sites at school

1. Start>Run and type in cmd, if you don't have run on your start menu, read another school hacking tutorial to tell you how to access it.

2. Once your command prompt box opens, type "ping www.yoururlhere.com" (of course without the quotes.)

3.Press enter and you should see some numbers that looks like an IP address pop up, copy those numbers.

4. Open up your school internet browser, and type in those numbers that you copied in the command prompt. Now you can access your website!

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AdesDesign - Color Picker

Normally when you want to use a color on the web you have to take a screen shot, then open it with PhotoShop, and then use the color picker tool. This is just a time waster when you can buy the Color Picker software for just $9.99.

AdesClrPicker is very easy to use and a must have for Web Designers, and Web Developers. With a single click of the mouse you can capture any color on your screen then output this color in HTML, RGB, C++, VB and Delphi color codes. When you are working on a project, you have to be able to refer to this color code often, and this tool allows you to have it, right at your fingertips, by capturing the last 10 colors that you used.

And for an added bonus, Ades from AdesDesign has a blog located at AdesBlog.com. He’s got great articles on web products and new technologies.

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Lock your machine on Mouse Click

Feel hard to press CTRL+ALT+DEL to lock your machine ?????? Try this and create the icon to lock the machine.

1. Right click an empty spot on the desktop, point to New and click Shortcut.

2. In the Create Shortcut dialog box, type the following in the 'Type the location' of the item text box:

"rundll32 user32.dll,LockWorkStation" remove quotes while typing.

3. Click Next.

4. In "Type a name for this shortcut", type "" (any name as u wish) and Click Finish

5. Create a shortcut in your shortcut bar & use it

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How To Speed Up My Torrent Downloads

If you are a Bit Torrent downloader, you know what slow download speeds are like…frustrating and annoying, to say the least. Instead of getting your music or movie within a couple of hours, your software predicts it will take 2 to 4 days.

Now, while many of the speed factors involved are out of your control, there is at least one thing you can do at your receiving end to improve this speed. It is called “Port Forwarding”, or “opening your specific TCP ports”. This is how it works.

1) That blue or green network cable coming out of your computer/modem/router is actually a busy highway comprised of 65,536 tiny electronic lanes (yes, over sixty-five thousand little lanes for your electrons). Each lane is called a “port”, and each port is designed to allow only specific types of information through.

Many ports are assigned in a semi-standardized way. Here are some example port assignments:

- HTML pages: port 80
- FTP file transferring: port 21
- World of Warcraft: port 3724
- POP3 email: port 110
- MSN Messenger: port 6901 and ports 6891-6900
- Everquest: port 1024
- Bit Torrents: port 6881

2) Bit torrents, by default, first look for port 6881 to enter/exit your computer. If port 6881 is closed for whatever reason, torrents then go to port 6882, then 6883, and so on, until it eventually tries port 6999 before giving up.

3) Every ISP, and every home router, can optionally block any of these ports with the intention of preventing hackers and controlling the network.

4) If you tell your own personal router and firewall at home to open (aka “forward”) port 6881 and port 6882, then your bit torrents will find their way into your computer that much faster. Sometimes up to 5x faster.

Yes, opening ports does increase the possibility of getting hacked by unwanted bad guys, but there are means to reduce that threat while still getting fast torrent download speeds.

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Boot Your PC in STYLE

Note : I recommend making a copy of you "Boot.ini" first, just in case you do something wrong and your window is not booting, restart and when your pc is in post(the black screen) press F8 and boot in safe mode, and replace the "Boot.ini" with your backup of "Boot.ini" and it should get back to its former state.


All of us are accustomed to seeing the Windows XP logo at system startup
but how about getting a custom message at first before the logo appears?

Heres how to do it. Its easy and simple. Please don't mess it up until n unless you're DUMB enough.

Click start,then run.

Type c:\boot.ini

Erase whatever is there and copy and paste this

[boot loader]
timeout=5
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOW S
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Write your message"/fastdetect
C:\="write your message"

Write whatever you want in between the quotes this will display for 5 seconds before windows starts

*if you have installed windows in any partition other than C: replace the number after the last brackets of

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)

Use
1 for c:\
2 for d:\ and so on

If you want to create more lines just write

d:\="......"
e:\="....."

After editing the file "Boot.ini" save it and restart the system to see how it goes.


Sample:

[boot loader]
timeout=10
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOW S
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="This PC will blow in"/fastdetect
C:\="10 seconds"
D:\="Shut it down"
E:\="Or run for your LIFE"

Try it and next time when friends comes to see your PC I bet they will be astonished.

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Get Vista Style Drive Icons in Windows XP

One of the nice little features in Windows Vista that you don't think about is the graph of drive space for your drive icons, so you can visually see at a glance how much space is used. There's no reason to upgrade for this feature, especially since some programmers created a small utility for XP that gives you the same functionality.

You'll notice the new icon looks very similar to the ones in Vista, but the more interesting addition is the new bar under the icon that gives you a tiny graph of the current drive space.



The graph will show up on most of the icon sizes other than the details view.



When your drive is running low on space the graph will turn red to indicate that you should probably stop downloading so much.



You can see in task manager that it really doesn't use all that much memory.



Download Drvicon from Sourceforge.net
http://drvicon.sourceforge.net/

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Increase your browsing speeds

You really don’t need to tweak your browser in case you are using Firefox because it is a browser which has been specially designed for optimized and fast browsing but if you can make it even a little more fast that would certainly be a treat for you. Likewise there is a trick to make Internet Explorer 6 fast too. Browsers are designed to work with fast connections but with this trick even dial-up users can experience fast and smooth browsing.
Optimize Firefox and IE Browsing Speed
I shall be teaching you two tricks which work separately on Firefox and Internet Explorer. It doesn’t require you to be some expert rather all you have to do is change some registry values and you are done. I have also included a video tutorial for those who want to see it step by step visually. This is perhaps one of the oldest tricks to optimize Firefox and IE but it still works great.
Trick to Increase Firefox Speed
1. Open firefox and in the address bar write about:config and press enter
2. Double click network.http.pipelining and set it to True
3. Double click network.http.pipelining.maxrequests and set value to 10 from 4
4. Right click and create a new string nglayout.initialpaint. delay and set its value to 0
You are done. Enjoy lightning fast Firefox browsing and now for IE.
Trick to Increase Internet Explorer Speed
1. Go to Start –> Run and type regedit
2. Select HKEY_CURRENT_USER –> Software –> Microsoft –> Windows –> Current Version –> Internet Settings
3. Increase the values (DECIMAL) from default to a higher value e.g. 10

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