Hide any drive on your system in Xp

Hide any drive on your system

If u r having any material like important docs and u r afraid about it . Dont worry, windows XP provides (not officialy ) a utility by which u can hide urs one or more drives.
Here is the step by step procedure how to hide any partition/drive :

1. Go to Start > run > type “diskpart”.
A DOS window will appear with following description.
DISKPART>

2. Then type “list volume”
The result will look like : ——
Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info
————— — ——– —- —— —- —— —-

Volume 0 F CD-ROM
Volume 1 C Programmea NTFS Partition 15GB Healthy System
Volume 2 D Softwares NTFS Partition 20GB Healthy
Volume 3 E Documents NTFS Partition 30GB Healthy
Volume 4 F Abi NTFS Partition 10GB Healthy

3. Suppose u wanna hide drive E then type “select volume 3".(without quotes)
Then a message will appear in same winwods { Volume 3 is the selected volume}

4. Now type “remove letter E”
Now a message will come { Diskpart Removed the Drive letter }

Diskpart will remove the letter .Windows XP is not having capabilty to identify the
unkown volume.

Your Data is safe now from all unauthorised users.
To access the content of hidden Drive repeat the process mentioned above.
But in 4th step replace

” remove” to “assign”
i mean type “assign letter E”

Never hide C:/ drive… otherwise ur system will not work

Cheats of window games of XP

Cheats of window games


Freecell
Start the Game.
1. Hold down Ctrl + Shift + F10 together.
2. A dialog box shows up with 4 choices: Abort, Win, Retry or Cancel.
3. Click Abort and move (drag) any card to the top to win the game.

UPDATES:
1. Check this other FreeCell cheat, courtesy of Ari Lintula (ari.lintula@dlc.fi):
"Start a game. If you have moved a wrong card, quickly press F10 before clicking another card. It's the Undo button."
2. To sort all cards by color and in:
- ascending order: click Game -> click Select Game (hit F3) -> click Yes to cancel game in progress -> type -1 -> click OK.
- descending order: click Game -> click Select Game (hit F3) -> click Yes to cancel game in progress -> type -2 -> click OK.


Hearts

This Egg works ONLY with the Windows 95 and 98 releases of Microsoft Hearts. (Mshearts.exe).
1. Run Regedit.exe (the Win9x Registry editor, located in your Win9x folder) and go to:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Applets\Hearts
2. In the right hand pane add a new String and name it "zb" (no quotes).
3. Give it a value of 42.
4. Now run Mshearts.exe and during gameplay press Ctrl + Alt + Shift + F12 the same time.


Minesweeper

After starting the game, type xyzzy and press Shift and Enter at the same time. Move the mouse over the playing area and keep
your eye on the upper left corner of the Windows desktop. A white pixel will appear when the mouse pointer is over a safe
square, and turn dark when the mouse is over a mine.

Creating a desktop shortcut for locking your computer

If you use your computer in an area where others may have access to it, and there are things on your system you would rather have kept confidential, locking your desktop when you leave the computer is an essential task.

Here's a recipe for a desktop shortcut that will lock your computer in two easy clicks:

Right click on an empty area of the desktop and choose 'new' then 'shortcut.' The create shortcut wizard will open; in the first text box,
type '%windir%\System32\rundll32.exe user32.dll,LockWorkStation' and then give your shortcut an appropriate name on the next page, and hit 'finish.'

You will notice that the shortcut you created has a blank icon. To select a more appropriate one, right click on the shortcut and hit 'properties.' In the 'shortcut' tab, click the 'change icon' button.

In the 'look for icons in this file' box, type '%SystemRoot%\system32\SHELL32.dll' then click 'ok' to see a range of icons for your new shortcut. Choose an appropriate icon. Your desktop locking shortcut is now ready for use. Test it out. It is useful if u have an account as it will prompt 4 a password.

Deleting System Softwares in WINDOWS

XP hides some system software you might want to remove, such as Windows Messenger, but you can tickle it and make it disgorge everything.

Using Notepad or Edit, edit the text file /windows/inf/sysoc.inf, search for the word 'hide' and remove it.

You can then go to the Add or Remove Programs in the Control Panel, select Add/Remove Windows Components and there will be your prey, exposed and vulnerable.

Creating Shutdown Icon or One Click Shutdown

Creating Shutdown Icon or One Click Shutdown:

• Navigate to your desktop.
• On the desktop, right-click and go to New, then to Shortcut (in other words, create a new shortcut).
• You should now see a pop-up window instructing you to enter a command line path.
• Use this path in "Type Location of the Item"

SHUTDOWN -s -t 01

• If the C: drive is not your local hard drive, then replace "C" with the correct letter of the hard drive. Click the "Next" button.
• Name the shortcut and click the "Finish" button.
• Now whenever you want to shut down, just click on this shortcut and you're done.

Modify autoplay for different types of CD

Modify autoplay for different types of CD

Windows XP includes the ability to perform different actions depending on the type of CD you insert into the drive.
For example, you could set your system to always respond to CDs containing MP3 files by opening Windows Media Player.

To edit the Autoplay properties:

• Open 'my computer'.
• Right click on the drive you wish to set and select 'properties.'
• Choose the autoplay tab.
• Use the dropdown box to see the various recognized types of CD and choose appropriate actions for them.

Renaming The Recycle Bin icon in Windows

Renaming The Recycle Bin icon:

• To change the name of the Recycle Bin desktop icon, click Start then goto Run, write Regedit and press Enter.
• It opens Registry Editor.
• Now in Registry Editor go to:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/CLSID/{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}
and change the name "Recycle Bin" to whatever you want (don't type any quotes).