Secure Yourself from Hackers & Hijackers

Hackers and Browser Hijacking is one area of the Net that affects everyone at some stage.

In addition to having third party utilities such as SpyBot, Anti Virus scanners and firewalls installed there are some changes that can be made to Windows 2000/XP. Below are some details to make your system safer from hackers and hijackers.

Some of these tips require editing of the Registry so it is wise to either backup the registry and/or create a Restore Point.


Hidden emotions in YAHOO


Yahoo messenger is one of the mostly used chatting application accross the globe. So, Yahoo has many built in hidden emotions like laughing yahoo emotions, sad yahoo emotions, oncall, busy yahoo emotions and many more..
Below images contains all the yahoo emotions


Improve Shutdown Speed



This tweak reduces the time XP waits before automatically closing any running programs when you give it the command to shutdown. 
Just follow these steps and increase your shutdown speed:-



Speed Up Acrobat



Adobe Acrobat reader always consumes more memory when it starts. The reason behind is, it loads all the plugins, even the plugins that you do not use. This trick is to remove all the plugins from the plugins directory to elsewhere. Hence, whenever you open Acrobat reader it directly opens the files without loading any plugins and the speed is just like Notepad.

Top 20 tips to Keep your Computer Faster



Follow these tips and you will definitely have a much faster and more reliable PC!

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 98/XP' 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.



Remove Thumb.db file


Thumb.db is a cache of the current picture in any directory that contains Picture files for example: .jpeg. To remove it ,navigate to:

1> open "WINDOWS EXPLORER".

2>go to "TOOLS".

3>open "FOLDER OPTIONS".

4>go to "VIEW".

5>see 1st section "FILES & FOLDERS".

6>click on the "DO NOT CACHE THUMBNAILS".

Now the thumbnail file will be removed from your computer once u do this the file will be never created.

Make a autorun file for your CD


 Did You Notice, whenever You Insert any game 0r software cd, or simply consider Windows Xp Operating system cd. As soon as You Insert the disk in CD-ROM, It automatically runs the cd.If you want to make a autorun file for that CD you are ready to burn just read this...

Convert FAT /Fat32 to NTFS


Convert File System, fat - fat32 to ntfs
Open a dos prompt and give the command



c:\convert d: /fs:ntfs

this command would convert your d: drive to ntfs.
if the system cannot lock the drive, you will be prompted to convert it during next reboot.
Normally you should select yes.
Conversion from fat/fat32 to ntfs is non-destructive, your data on the drive will NOT be lost.
Be aware that converting to ntfs will make that partition of your
drive unreadable under dos unless you have ntfs utilites to do so.




Hacker5 Magazine


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Google Translator Built for Windows


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WindowsTransmiti is a cool Google Translator Addon built for Windows. It can translate selected text or entire documents in no time with the Windows key! The normal functionality of windows key is preserved and translation will only be performed if the text is selected.


Merge TXT, CSV, XML into One


TXTcollector grabs all txt/csv/xml and other format files from the directory of your choice and combines them into a new (larger) file.
This can come in handy: I use TXTcollector myself to grab a CD full of readme’s to enable me to read them all in one go. At work I use it to combine daily and weekly reports and to merge server backup logs. Some users find this application perfect for combining their network log files.


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TXTcollector

Split or Merge PDF Files Online



PDF is one of the most used format for documents. There are many tools that allow you to merge, split and edit your PDF documents.
Merge Different PDF files or split one PDF into multiple 

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Scroll Anywhere



adds Click and drag support to scroll the page. It is a free Google Chrome Extension.

This extension makes it possible to to scroll pages as if the scrollbar was right under your pointer. Just press the right mouse button (or any other of your choice) and move the mouse.
The extension is based on the Wet Banana extension and inspired by Scrollbar Anywhere for Firefox.

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Chrome


If your mouse lacks for a scrollwheel or you simply want the ability to click anywhere in the Chrome browsing pane and begin scrolling, Scrollbar Anywhere adds in mouse-based scrolling that isn’t dependent on clicking the scrollbar or using a scrollwheel.

Use Window 7 without Activation


Windows 7Most of you might be aware of the fact that it is possible to use Windows 7 and Vista for 120 days without activation. This is actually possible using the slmgr -rearm command which will extend the grace period from 30 days to 120 days. However in this post I will show you a small trick using which it is possible to use Windows 7 without activation for approximately an year! Here is a way to do that.