Sometimes some of your friends who appear offline in Yahoo Messenger may not be actually offline, they may in the 'Invisible' mode. This maybe if they are trying to ignore you or are too busy to talk to anyone.
There is a small trick that you can use to find out what the truth is
Firstly open your Yahoo Messenger main window and double click on the name of the person whom you want to check. The chat window will open obviously.
Click IMVironment button, select See all IMVironments, select Yahoo! Tools or Interactive Fun, and click on Doodle.
After loading the Doodle Imvironment there can be two possibilities :-
## 1. If the user is offline Doodle are will show this "waiting for your friend to load Doodle" continuously.
## 2. If the user is online (but in invisible mode), after few seconds (it can take up to one minute, depending on your connection speed), you should get a blank page. So you know that the user is online.
How To Make A Scary Pop-up
You can use this trick to scare your friends or to make something useful, like reminders you put in Windows Start-up.
Here are the steps on how to do a pop-up:
1. Open Notepad and type:
text1=msgbox("your text here",52,"your title here")
You can write as many text message boxes as you want. The many you write the many pop-ups will appear.
2. Save the text as popup.vbs. Be sure the change the 'Save as Type' to 'All Files' .
3. You can use scary messages to make a prank to your friends, like:
text1=msgbox("Virus Detected",52,"Warning: VIRUS")
text2=msgbox("Virus is installing on your system",52,"Installing...")
text3=msgbox("Virus is installing on your system",52,"Installing...")
Here are the steps on how to do a pop-up:
1. Open Notepad and type:
text1=msgbox("your text here",52,"your title here")
You can write as many text message boxes as you want. The many you write the many pop-ups will appear.
2. Save the text as popup.vbs. Be sure the change the 'Save as Type' to 'All Files' .
3. You can use scary messages to make a prank to your friends, like:
text1=msgbox("Virus Detected",52,"Warning: VIRUS")
text2=msgbox("Virus is installing on your system",52,"Installing...")
text3=msgbox("Virus is installing on your system",52,"Installing...")
How to remove Windows Vista and/or Windows 7 from dual boot system having XP.
I was having my P.C. with X.P. as well Windows Vista and Beta version of Windows 7 as a dual boot.
After some days if uses I stopped using Vista and Windows 7.
Now I wished to get rid of these Operating systems as they were using a lot of space on my Hard Disk and I did not needed them any more.
Then I searched for the solution of How to remove those Operating Systems without losing my Data and even without having to re-install my X.P.?
I think many of you people also have this problem of how to remove Vista and / or Windows 7 on a dual boot system with X.P.
Here is how to do it.
1> Boot your computer in to Windows XP.
2> Ensure you have the Vista DVD in the DVD drive.
3> Go to “Start” and “Run”. Type in “d:\boot\bootsect.exe /nt52 ALL /force” (without quotes, plus replace d: with the drive letter of your Vista DVD).
4> Remove two files (Boot.BAK & Bootsect.BAK) on your XP root folder (C: ).
5> Restart the computer, and you will notice the boot selection menu is gone.
6> Format the partition/drive where you had Vista installed.
And now you have returned your computer to its previous state, without Vista and without the new bootloader.
This is this much simple.
After some days if uses I stopped using Vista and Windows 7.
Now I wished to get rid of these Operating systems as they were using a lot of space on my Hard Disk and I did not needed them any more.
Then I searched for the solution of How to remove those Operating Systems without losing my Data and even without having to re-install my X.P.?
I think many of you people also have this problem of how to remove Vista and / or Windows 7 on a dual boot system with X.P.
Here is how to do it.
1> Boot your computer in to Windows XP.
2> Ensure you have the Vista DVD in the DVD drive.
3> Go to “Start” and “Run”. Type in “d:\boot\bootsect.exe /nt52 ALL /force” (without quotes, plus replace d: with the drive letter of your Vista DVD).
4> Remove two files (Boot.BAK & Bootsect.BAK) on your XP root folder (C: ).
5> Restart the computer, and you will notice the boot selection menu is gone.
6> Format the partition/drive where you had Vista installed.
And now you have returned your computer to its previous state, without Vista and without the new bootloader.
This is this much simple.
cool mouse ticks!
Moving the pointer without a mouse!
Ever thought that you could move your mouse pointer without your mouse? No, not really, isn’t it? But, it’s possible!
Here is how:
1.Press Left Alt + Left Shift + Num Lock Button and click OK in the dialogue box that appears.
2.In your Taskbar, a mouse-like icon will appear. Double click it and under “Mouse” tab, make sure that the “Use Mouse Keys” is checked.
3.Also ensure that the Num Lock is ON (ie. the light must glow).
2.Now with the help of Numeric Keypad e.g ( Press and Hold the following Keys )
7 8 9
4 6
1 2 3
For normal click, press 5
Interesting, isn’t it? You can also change settings under the “Mouse” tab in “Accessiblity Options”, by clicking on “Settings
Ever thought that you could move your mouse pointer without your mouse? No, not really, isn’t it? But, it’s possible!
Here is how:
1.Press Left Alt + Left Shift + Num Lock Button and click OK in the dialogue box that appears.
2.In your Taskbar, a mouse-like icon will appear. Double click it and under “Mouse” tab, make sure that the “Use Mouse Keys” is checked.
3.Also ensure that the Num Lock is ON (ie. the light must glow).
2.Now with the help of Numeric Keypad e.g ( Press and Hold the following Keys )
7 8 9
4 6
1 2 3
For normal click, press 5
Interesting, isn’t it? You can also change settings under the “Mouse” tab in “Accessiblity Options”, by clicking on “Settings
URL Shortening via Gmail
There are some URL shortening services such as TinyUrl and Bit
ALso there is a way to shorten your URL through Gmail from char Option...
Go to Your Gmail Account
Add
Quote:
urlataskme.im
replace at by @ to your gmail Contacts..
Just type the URL you need to shorten in chat section...
It gets Shortened automatically
ALso there is a way to shorten your URL through Gmail from char Option...
Go to Your Gmail Account
Add
Quote:
urlataskme.im
replace at by @ to your gmail Contacts..
Just type the URL you need to shorten in chat section...
It gets Shortened automatically
Make ur xp genuine in one line steps(no software needed works 100%)
1.Goto "start"
2.Run-type in "regedit"
3.Goto "local-machine-software-microsoft-window s nt-current version-wpaevents"
4.choose "oobe timer" in the rights panel
5.in the window,delete all the things.
6.close regedit
7.goto start-run-type in "%systemroot%\system32\oobe\msoobe.exe /a"
8.choose the second option "use phone to activate"
9.click "change product key"
10.type in the serial:thmpv-77d6f-94376-8hgkg-vrdrq
11.click "update"
12.click"remember later"
13.after that restart the computer
14.after restart goto start-run-type in "%systemroot%\system32\oobe\msoobe.exe /a"
15.it should come up with a message"windows activated"-finished!
It was tested & it works 100 % Only For Windows XP
2.Run-type in "regedit"
3.Goto "local-machine-software-microsoft-window s nt-current version-wpaevents"
4.choose "oobe timer" in the rights panel
5.in the window,delete all the things.
6.close regedit
7.goto start-run-type in "%systemroot%\system32\oobe\msoobe.exe /a"
8.choose the second option "use phone to activate"
9.click "change product key"
10.type in the serial:thmpv-77d6f-94376-8hgkg-vrdrq
11.click "update"
12.click"remember later"
13.after that restart the computer
14.after restart goto start-run-type in "%systemroot%\system32\oobe\msoobe.exe /a"
15.it should come up with a message"windows activated"-finished!
It was tested & it works 100 % Only For Windows XP
Disable Splash Screen From Your System
Through the following steps you can Disable your Splash Screen Really 100% working
1. Go in Start Menu
2. Click on Run
3.Type Msconfig
4. Check /NOGUIBOOT and then press ok
5.Restart your System.
1. Go in Start Menu
2. Click on Run
3.Type Msconfig
4. Check /NOGUIBOOT and then press ok
5.Restart your System.
Hacks To Make Firefox Ridiculously Fast
Firefox has been outperforming IE in every department for years, and version 3 is speedier than ever.
But tweak the right settings and you could make it faster still, more than doubling your speed in some situations, all for about five minutes work and for the cost of precisely nothing at all. Here's what you need to do.
Enable pipelining
Browsers are normally very polite, sending a request to a server then waiting for a response before continuing. Pipelining is a more aggressive technique that lets them send multiple requests before any responses are received, often reducing page download times. To enable it, type about:config in the address bar, double-click network.http.pipelining and network.http.proxy.pipelining so their values are set to true, then double-click network.http.pipelining.maxrequests and set this to 8.
Keep in mind that some servers don't support pipelining, though, and if you regularly visit a lot of these then the tweak can actually reduce performance. Set network.http.pipelining and network.http.proxy.pipelining to false again if you have any problems.
2. Render quickly
Large, complex web pages can take a while to download. Firefox doesn't want to keep you waiting, so by default will display what it's received so far every 0.12 seconds (the "content notify interval"). While this helps the browser feel snappy, frequent redraws increase the total page load time, so a longer content notify interval will improve performance.
Type about:config and press [Enter], then right-click (Apple users ctrl-click) somewhere in the window and select New > Integer. Type content.notify.interval as your preference name, click OK, enter 500000 (that's five hundred thousand, not fifty thousand) and click OK again.
Right-click again in the window and select New > Boolean. This time create a value called content.notify.ontimer and set it to True to finish the job.
3. Faster loading
If you haven't moved your mouse or touched the keyboard for 0.75 seconds (the content switch threshold) then Firefox enters a low frequency interrupt mode, which means its interface becomes less responsive but your page loads more quickly. Reducing the content switch threshold can improve performance, then, and it only takes a moment.
Type about:config and press [Enter], right-click in the window and select New > Integer. Type content.switch.threshold, click OK, enter 250000 (a quarter of a second) and click OK to finish.
4. No interruptions
You can take the last step even further by telling Firefox to ignore user interface events altogether until the current page has been downloaded. This is a little drastic as Firefox could remain unresponsive for quite some time, but try this and see how it works for you.
Type about:config, press [Enter], right-click in the window and select New > Boolean. Type content.interrupt.parsing, click OK, set the value to False and click OK.
5. Block Flash
Intrusive Flash animations are everywhere, popping up over the content you actually want to read and slowing down your browsing. Fortunately there's a very easy solution. Install the Flashblock extension (flashblock.mozdev.org) and it'll block all Flash applets from loading, so web pages will display much more quickly. And if you discover some Flash content that isn't entirely useless, just click its placeholder to download and view the applet as normal.
6. Increase the cache size
As you browse the web so Firefox stores site images and scripts in a local memory cache, where they can be speedily retrieved if you revisit the same page. If you have plenty of RAM (2 GB of more), leave Firefox running all the time and regularly return to pages then you can improve performance by increasing this cache size. Type about:config and press [Enter], then right-click anywhere in the window and select New > Integer. Type browser.cache.memory.capacity, click OK, enter 65536 and click OK, then restart your browser to get the new, larger cache.
7. Enable TraceMonkey
TraceMonkey is a new Firefox feature that converts slow Javascript into super-speedy x86 code, and so lets it run some functions anything up to 20 times faster than the current version. It's still buggy so isn't available in the regular Firefox download yet, but if you're willing to risk the odd crash or two then there's an easy way to try it out.
Install the latest nightly build (
Quote:
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/
), launch it, type about:config in the address bar and press Enter. Type JIT in the filter box, then double-click javascript.options.jit.chrome and javascript.options.jit.content to change their values to true, and that's it - you're running the fastest Firefox Javascript engine ever.
8. Compress data
If you've a slow internet connection then it may feel like you'll never get Firefox to perform properly, but that's not necessarily true. Install toonel.net (toonel.net) and this clever Java applet will re-route your web traffic through its own server, compressing it at the same time, so there's much less to download. And it can even compress JPEGs by allowing you to reduce their quality. This all helps to cut your data transfer, useful if you're on a limited 1 GB-per-month account, and can at best double your browsing performance
But tweak the right settings and you could make it faster still, more than doubling your speed in some situations, all for about five minutes work and for the cost of precisely nothing at all. Here's what you need to do.
Enable pipelining
Browsers are normally very polite, sending a request to a server then waiting for a response before continuing. Pipelining is a more aggressive technique that lets them send multiple requests before any responses are received, often reducing page download times. To enable it, type about:config in the address bar, double-click network.http.pipelining and network.http.proxy.pipelining so their values are set to true, then double-click network.http.pipelining.maxrequests and set this to 8.
Keep in mind that some servers don't support pipelining, though, and if you regularly visit a lot of these then the tweak can actually reduce performance. Set network.http.pipelining and network.http.proxy.pipelining to false again if you have any problems.
2. Render quickly
Large, complex web pages can take a while to download. Firefox doesn't want to keep you waiting, so by default will display what it's received so far every 0.12 seconds (the "content notify interval"). While this helps the browser feel snappy, frequent redraws increase the total page load time, so a longer content notify interval will improve performance.
Type about:config and press [Enter], then right-click (Apple users ctrl-click) somewhere in the window and select New > Integer. Type content.notify.interval as your preference name, click OK, enter 500000 (that's five hundred thousand, not fifty thousand) and click OK again.
Right-click again in the window and select New > Boolean. This time create a value called content.notify.ontimer and set it to True to finish the job.
3. Faster loading
If you haven't moved your mouse or touched the keyboard for 0.75 seconds (the content switch threshold) then Firefox enters a low frequency interrupt mode, which means its interface becomes less responsive but your page loads more quickly. Reducing the content switch threshold can improve performance, then, and it only takes a moment.
Type about:config and press [Enter], right-click in the window and select New > Integer. Type content.switch.threshold, click OK, enter 250000 (a quarter of a second) and click OK to finish.
4. No interruptions
You can take the last step even further by telling Firefox to ignore user interface events altogether until the current page has been downloaded. This is a little drastic as Firefox could remain unresponsive for quite some time, but try this and see how it works for you.
Type about:config, press [Enter], right-click in the window and select New > Boolean. Type content.interrupt.parsing, click OK, set the value to False and click OK.
5. Block Flash
Intrusive Flash animations are everywhere, popping up over the content you actually want to read and slowing down your browsing. Fortunately there's a very easy solution. Install the Flashblock extension (flashblock.mozdev.org) and it'll block all Flash applets from loading, so web pages will display much more quickly. And if you discover some Flash content that isn't entirely useless, just click its placeholder to download and view the applet as normal.
6. Increase the cache size
As you browse the web so Firefox stores site images and scripts in a local memory cache, where they can be speedily retrieved if you revisit the same page. If you have plenty of RAM (2 GB of more), leave Firefox running all the time and regularly return to pages then you can improve performance by increasing this cache size. Type about:config and press [Enter], then right-click anywhere in the window and select New > Integer. Type browser.cache.memory.capacity, click OK, enter 65536 and click OK, then restart your browser to get the new, larger cache.
7. Enable TraceMonkey
TraceMonkey is a new Firefox feature that converts slow Javascript into super-speedy x86 code, and so lets it run some functions anything up to 20 times faster than the current version. It's still buggy so isn't available in the regular Firefox download yet, but if you're willing to risk the odd crash or two then there's an easy way to try it out.
Install the latest nightly build (
Quote:
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/
), launch it, type about:config in the address bar and press Enter. Type JIT in the filter box, then double-click javascript.options.jit.chrome and javascript.options.jit.content to change their values to true, and that's it - you're running the fastest Firefox Javascript engine ever.
8. Compress data
If you've a slow internet connection then it may feel like you'll never get Firefox to perform properly, but that's not necessarily true. Install toonel.net (toonel.net) and this clever Java applet will re-route your web traffic through its own server, compressing it at the same time, so there's much less to download. And it can even compress JPEGs by allowing you to reduce their quality. This all helps to cut your data transfer, useful if you're on a limited 1 GB-per-month account, and can at best double your browsing performance
Create Hidden Admin Account in XP
Since we are going to do all the Editing in Window Registry it is Recommended to Back Up the Registry before going Further.
After you have Backed up your registry follow the Steps to Create your Hidden Account:
* First Goto Start -> Run -> Type regedit -> Enter
* In the Left Menu goto,
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\Cu rrentVersion\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\UserList
* In the Right pane, Right click -> New -> String Value
* Right click on the new String Value and click Rename
* Type the Name of the Account you want to hide.
* Hit Enter then Right click on the String Value again and Change value to 0 which hides it. If you want it to be Visible to all Enter the Value 1.
* Now Save and Exit the Registry and Logoff.
* Goto welcome screen and Hit ctrl+alt+del twice to bring up Logon prompt
* Type hidden Accounts name and password
* Enjoy!!!
After you have Backed up your registry follow the Steps to Create your Hidden Account:
* First Goto Start -> Run -> Type regedit -> Enter
* In the Left Menu goto,
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\Cu rrentVersion\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\UserList
* In the Right pane, Right click -> New -> String Value
* Right click on the new String Value and click Rename
* Type the Name of the Account you want to hide.
* Hit Enter then Right click on the String Value again and Change value to 0 which hides it. If you want it to be Visible to all Enter the Value 1.
* Now Save and Exit the Registry and Logoff.
* Goto welcome screen and Hit ctrl+alt+del twice to bring up Logon prompt
* Type hidden Accounts name and password
* Enjoy!!!
How to change IPs
This is a tutorial about changing IP addresses. You can change your IP address for various reasons
1.) because you got banned in a game from some server.
2.) you got banned from some crappy forums and want to get a nub back
3.) if you are downloading from somewhere like Rapidshare, you might not have patience to wait for 3 hours to download another file again, if you change your ip, you can download another file instantly having to still wait for your "ticket" tho.
Ok there are many ways of changing your IP
First is to go to the Start Menu and goto the RUN command.
after that type this:
blah blah blah>ipconfig
now see what your ip address is right NOW.
now you need to:
blah blah blah> ipconfig [SPACE ONCE] /release
(Note:this releases the IP address you are using now, and your internet wont work till u renew another IP address or the same one)
then like after 10-20 seconds do:
blah blah blah>ipconfig [SPACE ONCE] /renew
this gives you an iP address,either another one, or the same one you had before
that is one way of changing your IP Wink, note that it won't work all the time.
Now if you don't like all that technical stuff, then here is an easier way.
If you have a ROUTER, this is gonna be ownage.
Unplug your router power, and after that your DSL pwoer cable, wait for 10 seconds until your internet icon at the taskbar has an X with it.
now plug back your router in, then after 1 second of plugging your router in, plug that dsl of yours in.
When you are connected to the internet, try getting a file from rapidshare, and see if you can download.
If u can download, then congratulations, you have just changed your IP address
(Note again: sooner or later, you will run out of IP addresses to change,but that will take a long time for it to happen)
1.) because you got banned in a game from some server.
2.) you got banned from some crappy forums and want to get a nub back
3.) if you are downloading from somewhere like Rapidshare, you might not have patience to wait for 3 hours to download another file again, if you change your ip, you can download another file instantly having to still wait for your "ticket" tho.
Ok there are many ways of changing your IP
First is to go to the Start Menu and goto the RUN command.
after that type this:
blah blah blah>ipconfig
now see what your ip address is right NOW.
now you need to:
blah blah blah> ipconfig [SPACE ONCE] /release
(Note:this releases the IP address you are using now, and your internet wont work till u renew another IP address or the same one)
then like after 10-20 seconds do:
blah blah blah>ipconfig [SPACE ONCE] /renew
this gives you an iP address,either another one, or the same one you had before
that is one way of changing your IP Wink, note that it won't work all the time.
Now if you don't like all that technical stuff, then here is an easier way.
If you have a ROUTER, this is gonna be ownage.
Unplug your router power, and after that your DSL pwoer cable, wait for 10 seconds until your internet icon at the taskbar has an X with it.
now plug back your router in, then after 1 second of plugging your router in, plug that dsl of yours in.
When you are connected to the internet, try getting a file from rapidshare, and see if you can download.
If u can download, then congratulations, you have just changed your IP address
(Note again: sooner or later, you will run out of IP addresses to change,but that will take a long time for it to happen)