7 Ways to Child Proof a Computer

7 Ways to Child Proof a Computer

I have a 2 year old daughter and I have realized the importance of child-proofing my computer! The second I turn around, she runs to my desk, jumps on the chair and starts banging away at the keys. If the computer is already on, she has figured out how to move the mouse and click on anything she can. It’s great fun for her, but a major headache for me.

I didn’t really think she could do anything, but apparently randomly pressing a bunch of keys on the keyboard can accomplish a lot more than you think! My daughter sent emails, deleted folders, opened programs, and even moved files with her keyboard slamming. In this article, I’ll talk about a few ways you can child-proof your computer and hopefully save yourself some grief. If your kids are older, I’ll also give you some tips for them too!

Method 1 – Lock Your Computer

This simple option solved most of my problems with my daughter. If the computer was off and she slammed the keys, it would turn on, but remain on the locked screen. Thankfully, she’s too small to enter a password just yet

Before my computer goes to sleep, the screen saver usually comes on. I also enabled the password on the screen saver in case she gets to it before the computer sleeps. I have my computer sleep after about an hour, so there are a lot of times when the screen saver is on.

Method 2 – Use a Limited Account or UAC

The first method only works for really young toddlers, not with kids that are older than 3. By that age, they will probably scream and yell until you let them on the computer. At this point, you need to give them access to the computer so they can play games or do whatever, but also make sure they can’t do anything else

One way to do this is to use a locked down user account. You can use the Guest account in Windows, which has limited user rights across the system. The Standard user account still has a lot of permissions and can do quite a bit. The guest account is disabled by default, but you can enable it and it prevents the user from installing software, changing settings, etc.

Another feature in Windows is UAC (User Account Control). You can set this to the highest setting and any standard user account will have to enter a password in order to complete the task. UAC pops up quite a bit if you  have it set to the highest setting, so those users will not be able to change most of the settings on the computer

Method 3 – Parental Controls

Windows 7 and Windows 8 have built-in parental controls that let you restrict the programs that can be run on the computer, the time the computer can be used and even filter web sites the user can visit

You can Google on how to enable Parental Controls and this may suit your needs. It’s not total protection, but it can help you control what can be done on the computer. If you are worried about data being deleted or getting a virus, this method won’t work very well.

There is also a feature in Windows 7 (not the Home version) called AppLocker that prevents programs from being run. You can basically choose which programs you want to allow to be run and the user will only be able to open those programs. You can learn about AppLocker here.

Method 4 – Group Policy

Parental Controls is nice, but if you want access to a ton more rules and restrictions, you’ll have to familiarize yourself with group policy. You can restrict access to drives, restrict access to the Control Panel, remove tabs from IE options dialog, restrict access to the registry, command prompt or task manager, prevent users from deleting browsing history, and all kinds of other stuff. Group policy can control every aspect of Windows, so you can really lock down a computer hardcore by using it. To get to the local group policy for a PC, just type gpedit.msc when you click on the Start button

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If you are running Windows 7 Home or Starter, you won’t be able to use local group policy settings. Unfortunately, it only works on Windows 7 Pro, Ultimate and Enterprise. If you have any of these versions, it’s super useful for locking down a PC. There are a ton of articles online that explain how to use local group policy, so have fun!

Method 5 – Encryption

If you’re looking for a way to keep your data safe, you may want to look into creating a secure encrypted container on your system. You can do this using a program called TrueCrypt. It’s a free program that has been around for a long time and does an amazing job.

If you have important files you don’t want anyone to access or accidentally delete, you can create a encrypted container that you can mount to the system only when you need to use it. Otherwise, it doesn’t even show up on the system. The HowToGeek has a great guide on getting started with TrueCrypt that explains how to do this.

Method 6 – Deep Freeze It

There is this amazing program for IT people called Deep Freeze, which is about $35, but is something that a lot of parents would love. Maybe you don’t care about setting up parental controls or learning group policy or encrypting your hard drives, etc, etc. What if you could let your kids do anything to the computer: delete files, change settings, install crapware, download viruses, etc and then magically get everything the way it was with a restart

Deep Freeze does exactly that. It’s absolutely awesome. A lot of companies and schools use this software because you can setup your system the way you want, let users wreak havoc, and then simply restart the computer to get it back to the original state. They can literally delete system files and it won’t matter. If you want need something like that, then buy this software. I’ve used it myself and it works amazing well. Read more about it on their site.

Method 7 – Install Another OS

One method I use to make sure guests coming over to my house don’t access my personal files or mess up my system is to install another copy of Windows on the same PC. You probably have some old computer running XP or something, so just install a dual boot system with your main OS and a secondary OS that you can boot up to for other users.

I have a Windows 7 machine that also has Windows XP installed along with Deep Freeze. Firstly, there are no perosnal files or programs on XP other than the basic stuff. Even if someone does something or installs a program, etc, I just restart it and I’m back to my clean install of Windows XP. Of course, you need to get another copy of Windows, but if you don’t have a copy, then just use Linux!

I also have Ubuntu installed and that’s totally free. You can even download a specific flavor of Ubuntu that matches the style of Windows, so users won’t be disoriented if they have never seen Linux before.

Those are seven quick tips that I’ve used in the past to secure my computers from children, nosy people and everyone else. How do you child-proof your computer? Let us know in the comments. Enjoy!

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Change the Start Button Text in Window XP

Change the Start Button Text in Window XP

Stage 1:

Create a system restore point just incase if something goes wrong you can roll back to the primary settings. Make a back up copy of explorer.exe in a safe place, maybe in a different folder. aa 

Stage 2:




You would need to download a small freeware utility called Resource Hacker. "Resource HackerTM is a freeware utility to view, modify, rename, add, delete and extract resources in 32bit Windows executables and resource files (*.res). It incorporates an internal resource script compiler and decompiler and works on Win95, Win98, WinME, WinNT, Win2000 and WinXP operating systems." excerpt from Resource Hacker's Website


Click here to download Resource Hacker


Step 3:

Open Resource Hacker utility. Click on File ---> Open. Type "explorer.exe" in the text box.


Step 4:

Expand String Table --->  37 from the tree view and click on 1033 as shown in the figure below



Step 5:

From the right window next to where start is written in front of 578 edit the text to what you want on your start button. For example I edited it to Wintipz as shown in the figure below:

Step 6:


Click on the "Compile Script" button on top of the right window. Now click on File ---> Save as ----> wintipz.exe as shown in Figure Below:

Step 7:
Open registry editor by clicking on Start ---> Run and typing "regedit" at the text box. Navigate to HKEY_Local_Machine -> Software -> Microsoft -> Windows NT -> CurrentVersion -> Winlogon

From the right pane double click on shell and replace "explorer.exe" with "GDDon.exe" as shown in figure below and then exit registry editor:

Step 8: Restart your computer to see the changes.

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New Real Metro UI Windows 8 Blogger Templete Download

New Real Metro UI Windows  8 Blogger Templete  Download

Screen Shots :-

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Demo

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How to Crack Windows

How to Crack Windows

Learn here how to crack or hack windows manually, debug: Learn how to crack windows, programs act manually.....
Debug is a program that comes with modern versions of DOS (I do not know when I started shipping out with DOS). Anyway, all Windows users should have it already.
It's a great tool for debuging programs, unassembling and cracking, and reading "hidden" memory areas like the boot sector, and much more.
The following was copied from an assembly tutorial who's author we cannot credit, because we have no idea who he is.
Get into DOS and type "debug", you will get a prompt like this:
-
now type "?", you should get the following response:
assemble A [address]
compare C range address
dump D [range]
enter E address [list]
fill F range list
go G [=address] [addresses]
hex H value1 value2
input I port
load L [address] [drive] [firstsector] [number]
move M range address
name N [pathname] [arglist]
output O port byte
proceed P [=address] [number]
quit Q
register R [register]
search S range list
trace T [=address] [value]
unassemble U [range]
write W [address] [drive] [firstsector] [number]
allocate expanded memory XA [#pages]
deallocate expanded memory XD [handle]
map expanded memory pages XM [Lpage] [Ppage] [handle]
display expanded memory status XS
Lets go through each of these commands:
Assemble:
-a
107A:0100
At this point you can start assembling some programs, just like using a assembler. However the debug assembler is very limited as you will probably notice. Lets try to enter a simple program:
-a
107A:0100 MOV AH,02
107A:0102 MOV DL,41
107A:0104 INT 21
107A:0106 INT 20
-g
A
Program terminated normally
That's the same program we did at the end of the previous chapter. Notice how you run the program you just entered with "g", and also notice how the set-up part is not there? That's because debug is just too limited to support that.
Another thing you can do with assemble is specify the address at which you want to start, by default this is 0100 since that's where all .COM files start.
Compare:
Compare takes 2 block of memory and displays them side by side, byte for byte. Lets do an example. Quite out of debug if you haven't already using "q". Now type "debug c:\command.com"
-c 0100 l 8 0200
10A3:0100 7A 06 10A3:0200
This command compared offset 0100 with 0200 for a length of 8 bytes. Debug responded with the location that was DIFFERENT. If 2 locations were the same, debug would just omit them, if all are the same debug would simply return to the prompt without any response.
Dump:
Dump will dump a specified memory segment. To test it, code that assembly program again:
C:\>debug
-a
107A:0100 MOV AH,02
107A:0102 MOV DL,41
107A:0104 INT 21
107A:0106 INT 20
-d 0100 l 8
107A:0100 B4 02 B2 41 CD 21 CD 20
...A.!.
The "B4 02 B2 41 CD 21 CD 20" is the program you just made in machine language.
B4 02 = MOV AH,02
B2 41 = MOV DL,41
CD 21 = INT 21
CD 20 = INT 20
The "...A.!." part is your program in ASCII. The "." represent non-printable characters. Notice the A in there.
Enter:
This is one of the hard commands. With it you can enter/change certain memory areas. Lets change our program so that it prints a B instead of an A.
-e 0103 <-- edit program at segment 0103 107A:0103 41.42 <-- change 41 to 42 -g B Program terminated normally - Wasn't that amazing? Fill: This command is fairly useless, but who knows.... It fills the specified amount of memory with the specified data. Lets for example clear out all memory from segment 0100 to 0108, which happens to be our program. -f 0100 l 8 0 <-- file offset 0100 for a length of 8 bytes with 0 -d 0100 l 8 <-- verify that it worked 107A:0100 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ....... Yep, it worked. Go: So far we used go (g) to start the program we just created. But Go can be used for much more. For example, lets say we want to execute a program at 107B:0100: -r CS <-- set the CS register to point to 107B CS 107A :107B -g =100 You can also set breakpoints. -a <-- enter our original program so we have something 107A:0100 MOV AH,02 to work with 107A:0102 MOV DL,41 107A:0104 INT 21 107A:0106 INT 20 -g 102 <-- set up a break point at 107A:0102 At this point the program will stop, display all registers and the current instruction. Hex: This can be very useful. It subtracts and adds two hexadecimal values: -h 2 1 0003 0001 <-- 2h + 1+ = 3h and 2h - 1h = 1h This is very useful for calculating a programs length, as you will see later. Input: This is one of the more advanced commands, and I decided not to talk about it too much for now. It will read a byte of data from any of your computers I/O ports (keyboard, mouse, printer, etc). -i 3FD 60 - Your data may be different. In case you want to know, 3FD is Com port 1, also known as First Asynchronous Adapter. Load: This command has 2 formats. It can be used to load the filename specified with the name command (n), or it can load a specific sector. -n c:\command.com -l This will load command.com into debug. When a valid program is loaded all registers will be set up and ready to execute the program. The other method is a bit more complicated, but potential also more usefull. The syntax is L
-l 100 2 10 20
This will load starting at offset 0100 from drive C (0 = A, 1 = B, 2 = C, etc), sector 10h for 20h sectors. This can be useful for recovering files you deleted.
Move:
Move takes a byte from the starting address and moves it to the destination address. This is very good to temporary move data into a free area, than manipulate it without having to worry about affecting the original program. It is especially useful if used in conjunction with the r command to which I will get later. Lets try an example:
-a <-- enter our original program so we have something 107A:0100 MOV AH,02 to work with 107A:0102 MOV DL,41 107A:0104 INT 21 107A:0106 INT 20 -m 107A:0100 L 8 107B:0100 <-- more 8 bytes starting from 107A:0100 into 107B:0100 -e 107B:0103 <-- edit 107B:0103 107B:0103 41.42 <-- and change it 42 ( -d 107A:0100 L 8 <-- make sure it worked 107A:0100 B4 02 B2 41 CD 21 CD 20 ...A.!. -d 107B:0100 L 8 107A:0100 B4 02 B2 42 CD 21 CD 20 ...B.!. -m 107B:0100 L 8 107A:0100 <-- restore the original program since we like the changes. Name: This will set debug up with a filename to use for I/O commands. You have to include the file extension, and you may use addition commands: -n c:\command.com Output: Exactly what you think it is. Output sends stuff to an I/O port. If you have an external modem with those cool lights on it, you can test this out. Find out what port your modem is on and use the corresponding hex number below: Com 1 = 3F8 - 3FF (3DF for mine) Com 2 = 2F8 - 2FF Com 3 = ??? - ??? (if someone knows, please let me know) Now turn on the DTA (Data Terminal Ready) bit by sending 01h to it: -o XXX 1 <-- XXX is the com port in hex As soon as you hit enter, take a look at your modem, you should see a light light up. You can have even more fun with the output command. Say someone put one of those BIOS passwords on "your" computer. Usually you'd have to take out the battery to get rid of it, but not anymore: MI/AWARD BIOS -o 70 17 -o 71 17 QPHOENIX BIOS -o 70 FF -o 71 17 QGENERIC -o 70 2E -o 71 FF These commands will clear the BIOS memory, thus disabling the password. Proceed: Proceeds in the execution of a program, usually used together withy Trace, which I will cover later. Like the go command, you can specify an address from which to start using =address -p 2 Debug will respond with the registers and the current command to be executed. Quite: This has got to be the most advanced feature of debug, it exits debug! -q Register: This command can be used to display the current value of all registers, or to manually set them. This is very useful for writing files as you will see later on. -r AX AX: 011B :5 - Search: Another very useful command. It is used to find the occurrence of a specific byte, or series of bytes in a segment. The data to search for can by either characters, or a hex value. Hex values are entered with a space or comma in between them, and characters are enclosed with quotes (single or double). You can also search for hex and characters with the same string: -n c:\command.com <-- load command.com so we have some data to search in -l -s 0 l 0 "MS-DOS" <-- search entire memory block for "MS-DOS" 10A3:39E9 <-- found the string in 10A3:39E9 NOTE: the search is case sensitive! Trace: This is a truly great feature of debug. It will trace through a program one instruction at a time, displaying the instruction and registers after each. Like the go command you can specify where to start executing from, and for how long. -a <-- yes, this thing again 107A:0100 MOV AH,02 107A:0102 MOV DL,41 107A:0104 INT 21 107A:0106 INT 20 -t =0100 8 If you leave out the amount of instructions that you want to trace, you can use the proceed (p) to continue the execution as long as you want. Unassemble: Unassembles a block of code. Great for debugging (and cracking) -u 100 L 8 <-- unassembles 8 bytes starting at offset 100 107A:0100 MOV AH,02 <-- debut's response 107A:0102 MOV DL,41 107A:0104 INT 21 107A:0106 INT 20 Write: This command works very similar to Load. It also has 2 ways it can operate: using name, and by specifying an exact location. Refer to back to Load for more information. NOTE: The register CX must be set the file size in order to write! NOTE: Write will not write .EXE or .HEX files.[SIZE=7][SIZE=14]

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How To Edit Windows Registry Editor

How To Edit Windows Registry Editor

How to edit website's HTML ,Any of you that do websites and like to open .html and similar files in notepad to edit scrpits, this is THE coolest windows registry edit ever
you can download the zip file with the .reg in it (run it and it automatically adds itself to your registry) or do it manually click here to get your editor

Manually: regedit and navigate to

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\*\Shell
add the key "notepad"
it's default value should be "Open with Notepad"
now, under "notepad", add the key "Command"
it's default value should be (with the quotes) "C:\Windows\System32\Notepad.exe" "%1"

ok, exit regedit and go right click on ANY file...
your new option: Open with Notepad

HOW BADASS IS THAT?!?!?!?
I FOUND THIS ONE ON MY OWN!!!!!!

i know this one works on XP and 2000, you can PROBABLY enter it manually on windows 9x, but i have not tested that


okay okay, i know maybe not everyone cares...but this was fun for me because i love tweaking my computer AND it makes some web design stuff eaiser for me :D

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How to boot' Winxp Fast'...

How to boot' Win xp Fast'...

For speeding up booting Winxp just follow the below steps...

1. Open notepad.exe, type "del c:\windows\prefetch\ntosboot-*.* /q" (without the quotes) & save as "ntosboot.bat" in c:\
2. From the Start menu, select "Run..." & type "gpedit.msc".
3. Double click "Windows Settings" under "Computer Configuration" and double click again on "Shutdown" in the right window.
4. In the new window, click "add", "Browse", locate your "ntosboot.bat" file & click "Open".
5. Click "OK", "Apply" & "OK" once again to exit.
6. From the Start menu, select "Run..." & type "devmgmt.msc".
7. Double click on "IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers"
8. Right click on "Primary IDE Channel" and select "Properties".
9. Select the "Advanced Settings" tab then on the device or 1 that doesn't have 'device type' greyed out select 'none' instead of 'autodetect' & click "OK".
10. Right click on "Secondary IDE channel", select "Properties" and repeat step 9.
11. Reboot your computer.

 Thats it!!!!!

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How to Use Windows 7 Without Activation?

How to Use Windows 7 Without Activation?

Most 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.

1. Goto “Start Menu -> All Programs -> Accessories” . Right click on “Command Prompt” and select “Run as Administrator“. If you are not the administrator then you are prompted to enter the password, or else you can proceed to step-2.

2. Now type the following command and hit enter

slmgr -rearm

 

3. You will be prompted to restart the computer. Once restarted the trial period will be once again reset to 30 days. You can use the above command for up to 3 times by which you can extend the trial period to 120 days without activation.

4. Now comes the actual trick by which you can extend the trial period for another 240 days. Open Registry Editor (type regedit in “Run” and hit Enter) and navigate to the following location

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\SoftwareProtectionPlatform

5. In right-side pane, change value of SkipRearm to 1.

6. Now you will be able to use the slmgr -rearm command for another 8 times so that you can skip activation process for another 240 days. So you will get 120 + 240 = 360 days of free Windows 7 usage.

120 days using “slmgr -rearm” command before registry edit +                                                                                                                                                                
240 days using “slmgr -rearm” command after registry edit
 =      360 Days

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How to Change the Start Screen Background inWindows 8

How to Change the Start Screen Background in Windows 8

 

 

Windows 8’s new Start screen has been hotly debated since the operating system launched in preview mode earlier this year. Acknowledged by some as a bold step into the tablet market, and criticized by many others who prefer the familiar desktop experience, the new 'Modern UI Style' home is here to stay. But beyond not offering a way to bypass this screen (not without the help of third-party utilities), surprisingly Microsoft is also limiting your options when it comes to customizing the Start screen's appearance. You can choose from a couple color schemes and 10 stock background images, but that's about it.
We've seen some workarounds before but they require firing up the HEX editor to modify system files, and you are still limited to 256-color background images in a handful of specific sizes. That’s more work than most people are probably willing to bother with and as you can imagine the results are not quite optimal.
Enter Decor8. Stardock’s latest Windows 8 customization app removes this limitation by giving users the ability to pick any picture they want, regardless of size or color range, as the Start screen background. 

Sadly, Decor8 is not free. Stardock offers a free 30-day trial but otherwise asks a modest $4.99 for the app. It’s a little unnerving to pay for such basic functionality but if you wish to customize the Windows 8 Start screen beyond what Microsoft offers this is the easiest-to-use tool we’ve found. It does one thing and it does it well.


Download EXE - Dash Board Update

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Setting Video As Desktop Wallpaper

Setting Video As Desktop Wallpaper

Ever wanted to set cool videos as your computers Desktop Wallpaper, then you came to right place. Today in this post i will teach you how to set videos as your Desktop Wallpaper with a simple nice little trick and small tool or software that mostly every one has installed on their computer or laptop. This trick works on  Windows Xp as well as it workson windows 7. Go through below post to learn this simple trick.

How to set video as desktop wallpaper ?

   1. Open VLC Media Player. If you don't have it download it frome Here.

   2. Then Go to Tools > Preference Or press CTRL + P and Selecet Video from left panel

   3. Then Choose DirectX video output from output dropdown list
      as shown in below image .

   4. Save the changes ans restart VLC Media Player.

   5. Play any video you would like to set as your desktop wallpaper.

   6. Then click on Video and select DirectX Wallpaper from the dropdown list as show in below image.

   7. Now Minimize vlc player and you will see your video running on your desktop as wallpaper.

   8. If you want your default wallpaper back then uncheck DirectX Wallpaper from video dropdown list.

   9. Hope you like this simple trick share your thought about this trick in comment section.

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40+ Pc Funny Virus To Hang Friends Pc

We will tell you a number of the humourous pc tricks with that you’ll be able to chafe your friend any time you would like regardless of any April fool day. of these area unit transportable in order that they don’t need any installation on the target pc and you’ll be able to take away them anytime simply by deleting the program exe.

Here is that the list of of these pc pranks with their descriptions concerning what they are doing.

1. Add / take away – Add/Remove could be a cool prank that creates it seem that each one of your software package on your pc is being removed victimisation the Windows Add/Remove Program feature. this can be therefore real, that it’ll shock the foremost of the older user.

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2. Avoid – It makes your Windows begin button avoid any mouse clicks. simply launch this program exe and watch as your begin button jumps removed from your mouse pointer whenever you are attempting to click thereon.

Download Avoid

3. Bomb – it’ll run the program you would like to run, then once a delay for five second, it’ll show the BOMB message. this may simulate that the program you simply ran is bombed.

Download Bomb

4. Click Pine Tree State – it’ll show a button on that you’ll be able to ne’er click along with your mouse.

Download Click Me

5. ClickStart – ClickStart is each of} the cool Windows prank program that hides itself within the background and once every forty five seconds it’ll click on the beginning button inflicting the beginning menu to open. Users are going to be stunned once their begin menu pops up, they’re going to don’t have any plan what’s occurring.

Download ClickStart

6. Clippy – it’s a simulated workplace assistant that, when ran, can hide within the background for one minute then popup within the lower hand corner of the screen and say one thing useless.

Download Clippy

7. Copy pointer – It replicates this Windows mouse pointer over-and-over once more on the screen. this can be terribly annoying that makes it an excellent prank!

Download Copy Cursor

8. Crazy Num Caps Scroll – it’ll toggle the Num Lock, Caps Lock, or Scroll Lock keys at user outlined intervals that makes the operating of any user terribly annoying expertise.

Download Crazy Num Caps Scroll

9. produce Message professional – It permits you to tack together and make stand alone .EXE files for distribution across your network or the net. It adds the flexibility to specify the message text, buttons to look on the message, and therefore the style of message icon that seems.

Download Create Message Pro

10. pointer Fun – it’ll modification this mouse pointer to a user such that pointer. It permits you to decide on that Windows pointer to alter, what style of pointer to alter it to.

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11. Dirty Mouse – it’s a windows prank that simulates the mouse ball is dirty. what percentage times have you ever tried to maneuver your mouse and it doesn’t move.

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12. DownHoax – this can be an excellent prank makes it seem as if AN “unwanted” file is being downloaded from the net. DownHoax willy-nilly chooses a web site from its internal info of “undesirables” ANd income to simulate downloading an equally distasteful file.

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13. Email Fun – once dead, Email Fun displays a pretend email screen complete with the To:, From:, Subject: and message contents. Then it straight off pretends to mechanically kind AN email to everybody that’s in your address book.

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14. pretend Delete – pretend Delete simulates the deletion of all files/folders within the Windows directory or whichever directory is passed via the program line. pretend Delete uses the quality Windows delete dialog therefore it seems terribly realistic, and it can not be disabled or stopped.

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15. pretend Format – pretend Format mirrors the Windows “Format” practicality. Once the program is started, despite that buttons area unit chosen, the program simulates data formatting the required drive.

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16. pretend closing – This prank program simulates what would occur once a user chooses to stop working Windows. every screen was cautiously created to mirror the design of the particular Windows closing sequence.

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17. pretend begin Menu – This program can replace the prevailing Windows ninety five begin Menu (task bar). it’ll answer nothing from the user.

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18. Flasher – Flasher could be a hidden prank program that enables you to flash any image to the pc screen, nearly sort of a imperceptible message.

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19. Flip It – it’ll show a pretend Windows message that seems to possess flipped turned. Clicking on the affirmative button can slowly create each bit of text rotate a hundred and eighty degrees till you’ll be able to browse it once more.

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20. Floppy Madness – Floppy Madness could be a tiny prank program that may attempt to access the floppy drive at user such that intervals. If this doesn’t appear fun, simply transfer it and see.

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21. Follow Pine Tree State – once you execute this program, it’ll mechanically hide in Windows and watch for your mouse pointer to maneuver. Once your pointer moves, it mechanically moves your begin Button to an equivalent position, horizontally, on the Windows Task Bar.

Download Follow Me

22. Gas Gripe – This program can lead you thru a series of value comparisons with different liquid product. With the assistance of a really clean interface, Gas Gripe can have you ever happy in your chair as you watch the worth per gallon go up with different product

Download Gas Gripe

23. HeadAche – A program that will instantly provide you with a headache, transfer and run to grasp however it turn out a headache.

Download HeadAche

24. Message Manager fat-free – Message Manager it’ll permit you to setup a message dialog to be displayed upon a network login. you’ll be able to specify the text to be displayed, the image, the buttons (up to 9), and once to show the message.

Download Massage Manager

25. Mouse BM – Watch as your mouse drops very little black turds everywhere your screen, randomly. this can be an excellent joke to play on AN unsuspecting associate, you’ll be able to even email this prank to a disciple.

Download Mouse Droppings

26. Mouse Move – Mouse Move could be a a program that may run hidden to maneuver the users mouse pointer to random positions on the screen.&nbsp;

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27. MouseClicks – MouseClicks could be a harmless gag program that enables you to disable the left, right or each mouse clicks each x seconds.

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28. watchword Prank – This program displays a pretend, however terribly realistic, watchword box to the user. despite what key the user presses, it starts typewriting in its own watchword. Once the watchword is entered a blunder message is presented the user telling them their watchword isn’t long enough.

Download Password Prank

29. Pirated software package – Pirated software package could be a prank that emulates the quality software package installation or setup. However, the installation walks you thru the steps of putting in illegal software package.

Download Pirated Software

30. Popup Prank – Popup Prank could be a gag software package program that enables you to simulate these on-line popup advertisements.

Download Popup Prank

31. Print Pine Tree State – once you launch Print Pine Tree State the quality Windows Print dialog seems, despite that button is ironed a pretend print dialog screen displays to the user.

Download Print Me

32. WAV Launcher – this can be a hidden program launcher. it’ll launch a such that program or .wav file at user outlined intervals.

Download WAV Launcher

33. Random Bumper – it’s a hidden software package program that may play gross burp sounds willy-nilly each minute till closed.

Download Random Bumper

33. ReplaceKeys – ReplaceKeys could be a fun very little prank that enables you to exchange several keyboard keystrokes with completely different keyboard keystrokes.

Download ReplaceKeys

34. Rotate – Rotate could be a desktop manipulator that may willy-nilly flip the desktop into all types of weird positions.

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35. Screen Screw – Screen Screw will simply that, it screws along with your screen. once you launch Screen Screw it’ll seem as if your screen has some style of downside painting its colours.

Download Screen Screw

36. Shakedown – Shakedown can take your current desktop and shake it violently, this may not solely chafe you to death, however conjointly offer your eyes an honest strain.

Download Shakedown

37. Show – Hide Desktop – Show – Hide Desktop is another fun Windows prank from RJL software package. This prank permits you to tack together however typically the desktop icons can hide then show once more.

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38. The Finger – The Finger on AN unsuspecting user and watch their reaction once the pointer changes to the center finger then back to traditional once more.

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39. Time individual – Time individual could be a devious very little prank that changes the Windows system clock to a random time. to create matters worse, Time individual runs invisible within the background performing arts this task each thirty seconds.

Download Time Traveler

40. Vista Upgrade – The visual image Upgrade starts by emulating the Windows Update service screen. Clicking the install or cancel button closes the update service window and seems to initiate the visual image Upgrade consultant.

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Hide your IP address While Surfing On Chrome

Hide your IP address While Surfing On Chrome

Anonymous surfing is sometimes best privacy option on the internet. We also use this to prevent our IP address being disclosed. Hackers hide their IP to prevent being caught for the crime. There many be so many reasons for anonymous surfing and so many tricks to stay anonymous.

Most of the people use web based proxy serices such as fsurf, hidemayass and others. But I have an easy solution for those who like to surf web on Google Chrome.
There is a nice Google Chrome Extension called HideMyAss Web Proxy which allows Google Chrome users to add a one click proxy service to their web browser.

How to Install Hide My Ass! Web Proxy to Google Chrome

Installation of this extension to Google Chrome is as easy as other extension. Just visit Hide My Ass! Web Proxy page on webstore and click on the Install. In few seconds, it will be added to your browsesr and opens a settings page. Select options and save settings. Now you will see a yellow h icon in the omni bar

How to Use this Extension

Use of this extension is simple. If you are on a web page and you want to open it with proxy, simply click on this h icon. You see that web page is now reloaded with the proxy URL.
If you want to open a new URL in the proxy, open the new tab page in chrome and click on this h icon. It will ask for the URL. Enter the URL and click on Proxy.

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Automatically Download New Music from the Web

These days, tons of directories, aggregators, filters, and
weblogs point to interesting types of media. You can use wget to create a text-file
list of your favorite sites that, say, link to MP3 music files, and schedule it to
automatically download any newly added MP3s from those sites each day to your
computer.2
Here’s how:

1. Create a text file called mp3_sites.txt and list URLs of your favorite
sources of music online (such ashttp://del.icio.us/tag/system:filetype:mp3 or http://stereogum.com), one per line.
2. Use the following wget command to go out and fetch those MP3s:

wget -r -l1 -H -t1 -nd -N -np -A.mp3 -erobots=off -i mp3_sites.txt

That wget
recipe recursively (-r) downloads only MP3 files
(-A.mp3) linked from the sites (-H) one level out (-l1) listed in mp3_sites.txt
(-i
mp3_sites.txt) that are newer (-N) than any you’ve already downloaded. There are a few other
specifications in there — such as to not create a new directory for every music file
(-nd), to ignore robots.txt (-erobots=off), and to not
crawl up to the parent directory of a link (-np).
When this command is scheduled with the list of sites you specify, you
get an ever-refreshed folder of new music files that wget fetches for you. With a
good set of trusted sources, you’ll never have to go looking for new music again —
wget can do all the work for you.

TIP Use this technique to download
all your favorite bookmarks for offline usage as well. If you keep your
bookmarks online in Delicious, use wget to
download the contents of your favorite pages to your hard drive. Then, using
Google Desktop Search, you can search the contents of your bookmarks even when
you’re offline.

Automate wget Downloads on Windows
To schedule a wget download
task to run at a certain time, open a new document in a plain-text editor such as
Notepad. Type the wget command you want to schedule,
and save the file with a .bat extension, such as
getnewmusic.bat.
In Windows Task Scheduler, browse to getnewmusic.bat in the Programs section, and set the schedule as
usual.

NOTE See Hack 64, “Automatically
Reboot and Launch Applications,” for more details on setting up a recurring job
in Windows Task Scheduler.

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