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6Jan/100

Windows 7 Hidden Features and Fun.

Enable God (and more) Mode

Create a new folder. Lets just say on your desktop.

Right click on the new folder and past the following string:

GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}

    Default Location.{00C6D95F-329C-409a-81D7-C46C66EA7F33}
    Biometrics. {0142e4d0-fb7a-11dc-ba4a-000ffe7ab428}
    Power Settings .{025A5937-A6BE-4686-A844-36FE4BEC8B6D}
    Notification Area .{05d7b0f4-2121-4eff-bf6b-ed3f69b894d9}
    Manage Credentials.{1206F5F1-0569-412C-8FEC-3204630DFB70}
    Get New Programs.{15eae92e-f17a-4431-9f28-805e482dafd4}
    Default Programs.{17cd9488-1228-4b2f-88ce-4298e93e0966}
    NET Framework Assemblies .{1D2680C9-0E2A-469d-B787-065558BC7D43}
    Wireless Networks.{1FA9085F-25A2-489B-85D4-86326EEDCD87}
    Network Neighborhood .{208D2C60-3AEA-1069-A2D7-08002B30309D}
    My Computer.{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}
    Printers.{2227A280-3AEA-1069-A2DE-08002B30309D}
    RemoteApp and Desktop.{241D7C96-F8BF-4F85-B01F-E2B043341A4B}
    Windows Firewall.{4026492F-2F69-46B8-B9BF-5654FC07E423}
    Performance.{78F3955E-3B90-4184-BD14-5397C15F1EFC}

Unlocking Windows 7 Hidden Themes

Just copy and paste the steps  and unlock 4 new themes for  Windows 7.

1. Open Windows Explorer
2. Click Organize, and select Folder and Search Options.
3. Go to View tab.

4. Select Show hidden files, folders and drivers and uncheck Hide protected operating system files (Recommended). If prompted with confirmation, click Yes.
5. Click OK.
6. Browse to the following folder: \Windows\Globalization\MCT\
7. There are five folders in the name with format MCT-XX (where XX is AU, CA, GB, US, or ZA) which represents globalization settings for each region. Go into the folder that you want to activate its theme.
Note: AU, CA and ZA regions have the same themes.
8. Open the Theme folder inside the selected region folder.
9. Double click on the XX.theme file to apply the theme to the Windows 7 desktop system. Once a theme is ran and activated, the theme will be remembered and saved into Personalization options, so that user can change or select the theme again directly from Personalization settings screen.
10. Now to go to Folder Options to reverse the first 5 steps to hide the hidden and protected system files and folders again.

Make Windows Time say what you want

Start -> Control Panel -> Regional and Language Options .

Go to the Customize this format inside the Formats tab. Change the AM symbol to whatever you want. As well as the PM symbol.

Click "OK" and then check out your masterpiece.

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15Jun/090

Get Windows Experience Index Remotely

A little while ago I wrote about a little article concerning how to fake your Windows Experience Index.

Well I created a little script that will look at all the Windows Vista/Windows 7 Machines(PC’s) on your domain and give you the read out of what type of hardware is available on said domain/network.

 

strCompName = Inputbox("Get Hardware Performance Ratings" & vbcrlf & "of a Remote computer," & vbcrlf & "Input the Computer Name:")

Set objWMIservices = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & strCompName & "\root\cimv2")
Set colWSA = objWMIservices.ExecQuery("Select * From Win32_WinSAT")

For Each objItem in colWSA
    Wscript.Echo "Hardware Performance Ratings"
    Wscript.Echo "Processor : " & objItem.CPUScore
    Wscript.Echo "Memory: " & objItem.MemoryScore
    Wscript.Echo "Graphics: " & objItem.GraphicsScore
    Wscript.Echo "Gaming graphics: " & objItem.D3DScore
    Wscript.Echo "Primary hard disk: " & objItem.DiskScore
next

If you want you can download it from:

Windows Live SkyDrive

Enjoy!

 

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26Apr/090

Windows 2003 Using The Shadow command without Permission

In case you are wondering what is the “Shadow” command? Well in most server installs that have been built on the NT kernal there has been a version of the shadow command.

What is the “Shadow” command?  Lets for instance say you are using windows 2003 and want to gain screen(session) access to another users screen(session). Perhaps the person you are asking for shadow permission has an issue on his desktop and cannot figure it out.  Think Remote Desktop access without the Remote part.

To “Shadow” you have to know the session id of the user’s session that you want to view and or take over. This is done very easily. Right click on your taskbar and select task manager. Go to Users and pick the users name and the session number should be located to the left of the name.

Open up a command prompt(start->run in the open prompt type “cmd”) type:

Shadow 0(or the number of the session) and on the users session it will pop up a dialog box asking the other user for permission for you to access the screen(session).

Of course this can be denied from the other user. Frustrating? Yes.

Try this technique to gain that access you want without the permission of the other user or users.

To shadow any other session, without a prompt, you would use the RDP-TCP Properties dialog, on the Remote Control tab, and clear the require users permission box.

To remote control the console (session 0) without a prompt for approval:

1. On the Terminal Services server, Start / Run / Gpedit.msc / OK.

2. Navigate through Computer Configuration / Administrative templates / Windows Components / Terminal Services.

3. Right-click Remote Control Settings and press Properties.

4. Select the Enabled option.

5. Select Full Control without user's permission, under Options.

6. Press OK.

7. Exit the Group Policy Editor.

8. To force this local policy to update now, open a CMD prompt, type gpupdate /force, and press Enter.

When you establish a Remote Desktop session, you can connect to the console and remote control it:

1. Open a CMD prompt.

2. Type Shadow 0 and press Enter.

The user will NOT be prompted for permission.

Sweet eh? Well this can be exploited and used in many wrong ways. So just be careful and use it wisely.

 

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20Apr/090

Tricks to embed your YouTube Videos

Youtube - You know that site with videos and all. Yeah! It turns out that its quite popular and you happen to visit and use it quite often. Instead of just searching and playing here are some top Youtube URL tricks that you should know about:

1. View high quality videos

Youtube gives you the option to switch to high quality videos for some of the videos, however you can check if a video is available in high quality format by appending ‘&fmt=18′(stereo, 480 x 270 resolution) or ‘&fmt=22′(stereo, 1280 x 720 resolution) for even higher quality.

2. Embed Higher Quality Videos

While the above trick works for playback, if however you want to embed hig quality videos you need to append “&ap=%2526fmt%3D18″ and “&ap=%2526fmt%3D22″ to the embed url.

3. Cut the chase and link to the interesting part

Linking to a video where the real action starts at 3 minutes 22 seconds, wondered if you could make it start at 03:22? You are in luck. All you have to do is add #t=03m22s (#t=XXmYYs for XX mins and YY seconds) to the end of the URL.

4. Hide the search box

The search box appears when you hover over an embedded video. To hide the search box add ‘&showsearch=0′ to the embed url.

5. Embed only a part of Video

Just append ‘&start=30′ to skip first 30s of the video. In general you can modify the value after start= to the number of seconds you want to skip the video for.

6. Autoplay an embedded video

Normally when you embed a Youtube video and load the page, the player is loaded and it sits there waiting for you to hit the play button. You can make the video play automatically by adding ‘&autoplay=1′ to the url part of the embed code.

7. Loop an embedded video

Append ‘&loop=1′ to make the video start again without user intervention after it reaches the end.

8. Disable Related Videos

Publishing your content in the form of Youtube video? Don’t want people to see other people’s content that may be related but may as well be in competition to you? Just add ‘&rel=0′ to the end of the url part of the embed code and you just turned off the related video suggestions!

9. Bypass Youtube Regional Filtering

Some videos are only available in certain parts of the world. Your IP Address is used to determine your location and then allow or deny access to the video. Change the url from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=<somecode> to http://www.youtube.com/v/<somecode>

 

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18Feb/091

Need to monitor your Windows Vista or Windows 7 Ready Boost memory usage?

You all know me I love little apps to manage my networks and manage well everything I want to know how the processor and Hard Drive and well networks.

I was lucky to stumble upon this little treat.

if you have vista and use readyboost you need this. http://area-71.net/rbmon/ ready boost monitor.

What was great was I posted this link on twitter as well the quoted text above.2009-02-16_2143

A good twitter friend (@jkneen) made me aware this app didn’t work at all on windows 7. However he went ahead and improved and updated it to work for windows 7 so much thanks @jkneen. Please visit his site: BouncingFish.com

The link has been added to DropIO from jkneen ReadyBoostMonitor for Win7 download.

Enjoy!

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