How to Add Any Application Shortcut to Windows Explorer’s Context Menu

With a quick registry tweak, you can add any application to any Windows Explorer context menu. You can even add application shortcuts to your desktop’s context menu and launch your favorite applications just by right-clicking on your desktop. Getting Started First, launch regedit.exe from the Start menu. Expand the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT key. Specific File Types As [...]

How to Create a Password Protected Folder without any Extra Software

There are a lot of methods that you can use to create a password protected folder, most of which require the use of some third party software. Using this neat method you can hide your folders with a quick batch script. It’s important to note that this will not actually conceal your data from somebody [...]

What’s the Difference between the Windows 7 Home Groups and XP-style Networking?

Windows 7 rocks a new method of file and print sharing that’s a departure from the frustrating file and print sharing found in earlier versions of Windows. What is it and how can you benefit from it? Read on as we explain. HomeGroups are a new edition to the Windows ecosystem as of Windows 7. [...]

How to Assign a Static IP Address in XP, Vista, or Windows 7

When organizing your home network it’s easier to assign each computer it’s own IP address than using DHCP. Here we will take a look at doing it in XP, Vista, and Windows 7. If you have a home network with several computes and devices, it’s a good idea to assign each of them a specific [...]

No software needed to make Windows XP become genuine!

1) Open Notepad 2) Paste the following coded info: Code: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion] “CurrentBuild”=”1.511.1 () (Obsolete data – do not use)” “ProductId”=”55274-640-7450093-23464″ “DigitalProductId”=hex:a4,00,00,00,03,00,00,00,35,35,32,37,34,2d,36,34,30,2d,\ 37,34,35,30,30,39,33,2d,32,33,34,36,34,00,2e,00,00,00,41,32,32,2d,30,30,30,\ 30,31,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,62,fc,61,4c,e0,26,33,16,05,d3,54,e7,a0,de,00,00,\ 00,00,00,00,49,36,c2,49,20,47,0c,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,\ 00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,33,33,35,30,30,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,65,10,\ 00,00,74,99,dd,b0,f7,07,00,00,98,10,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,\ 00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,c4,ae,d6,1c “LicenseInfo”=hex:e7,77,18,19,f8,08,fc,7d,e8,f0,df,12,6e,46,cb,3f,ad,b2,dd,b9,\ 15,18,16,c0,bc,c3,6a,7d,4a,80,8b,31,13,37,5a,78,a2,06,c8,6b,b9,d9,dd,cc,6a,\ 9c,c5,9b,77,aa,07,8d,56,6a,7c,e4 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\WPAEvents] “OOBETimer”=hex:ff,d5,71,d6,8b,6a,8d,6f,d5,33,93,fd 3) In notepad click then. 4) For file type in the save dialog box select “all [...]

Breaking In Windows XP Password

      Method 1: If you have an administrator account (Not Guest) then the XP users’ passwords can be reset using command prompt. Go to the task-bar and click on the Start button, then click on run and in the place given on dialog box type “command”, press enter. Now In the Command prompt [...]

Static IP Address Configuration Using Command Line

1. Click “Start” then Click “Run” then type “cmd” and hit Enter.2. (Please ignore this step if you already logged on as administrator or alike)within the cmd window type “Runas /User:Administrator cmd” where Adminitrator is a user with an administrative privileges(under the administrators group) then it will prompt you for a password. type it and [...]

Static IP Address Configuration Using Command Line

1. Click “Start” then Click “Run” then type “cmd” and hit Enter.2. (Please ignore this step if you already logged on as administrator or alike)within the cmd window type “Runas /User:Administrator cmd” where Adminitrator is a user with an administrative privileges(under the administrators group) then it will prompt you for a password. type it and [...]

Bypassing Windows XP Service Pack Installation

      Many Times, New Softwares, Games require you to have the Latest Service Packs to Install. There’s a way to bypass that. You can change your Service Pack 2 to display 3, or vice-versa. Step 1: Open the run option from the start menu and type in ‘regedit’ and press enter Step 2: [...]

Restricting a Website – very easy

    Suppose you wanna block www.orkut.com then or some other site like the below one 1] Browse C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc 2] Find the file named HOSTS and open it with notepad 3] Go to the last line – “127.0.0.1 localhost” – under that add 127.0.0.2 www.orkut.com, and then that site will no longer be accessible !!! [...]