Increase the list of Recently Opened Documents History

Hi Friends,

In windows you can increase the list of recently used documents in start menu.

By default Windows XP displays the shortcuts of last fifteen programs on recent documents list in start menu but you can increase this value with your required input value.

Steps-

  (1)  Navigate to Start Menu then RUN dialog box

  (2) Type there

        regedit

  (3) Press Enter.

  (4) In the Registry Editor, at left hand side, navigate to the following  

       location:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE>>Software>>Microsoft>>Windows>>

CurrentVersion>>Policies

Now in left side panel, click right to create a new Key value with the name Explorer under "Policies" area.

Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE>>Software>>Microsoft>>Windows>>CurrentVersion>>

Policies>>Explorer

                              
Now in right side panel, click right to create a new DWORD value with the name MaxRecentDocs and then set values with your required input value.

                                         

In this, we are trying to set input value to 30.

After this step, press OK.

                                              

Note- if you want to disable this functionality then simply change the value of data box to 15 or delete the MaxRecentDocs DWORD item.

Now close the registry editor and restart your computer.

That’s all.

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 Source- http://adminkunal.blogspot.com

(MTJ)

Fix corrupted files in Windows Xp

Dear Friends,

Wish You All A Very Happy Christmas..................... 

Now on tutorial-

If you are having problems with corrupt files then this short tutorial is for you to fix them.

Requirement-

ü Windows XP CD

Steps-

    (1) Place the Win Xp CD in your CD drive
    (2) Navigate to Start then RUN dialog box
    (3) Type there

           sfc /scannow
    (4) Now it should fix all your corrupted files on Win XP.

That’s all.

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Source- http://adminkunal.blogspot.com

Make USB Storage Devices totally Useless

Dear Friends,

This is a tutorial to make USB storage devices totally useless without your permission.

Steps-

(1)  Navigate to Start then RUN dialog box

  (2) Type there

        regedit

  (3)Press Enter.

  (4) In the Registry Editor, at left hand side, navigate to the following location:

  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE >> SYSTEM >> CurrentControlSet >>
    Services >> USBSTOR

  (5) Now at the right side double click on START.

    (6) To block USB storage Media, change the value data to 4.

     (7) If you want to unblock USB storage Media just navigate to the same location
          and change the value data to 3.

   That’s all.

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    Source- http://adminkunal.blogspot.com                              

Reset Hosts File to Default

Dear Friends,

In Windows, hosts file is an important file which maps hostnames to IP addresses. It is a simple text file that contains text lines containing IP address followed by the hostname. It is usually found in %windir%\System32\drivers\etc\ folder.

It is sometimes hijacked by malware to redirect to website that contains malicious code.

Steps-

(1) Navigate to Start then RUN dialog box.

(2) Type following text and press enter.

   %windir%\System32\drivers\etc\

(3) In etc folder, you will find hosts file.

(4) Open the file with notepad and replace its contents with the following text

For Windows 7:

# Copyright (c) 1993-2006 Microsoft Corp.

#

# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.

#

# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each

# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should

# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.

# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one

# space.

#

# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual

# lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol.

#

# For example:

#

# 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server

# 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host

 # localhost name resolution is handle within DNS itself.

# 127.0.0.1 localhost

# ::1 localhost

For Windows XP and Server 2003:

# Copyright (c) 1993-1999 Microsoft Corp.

#

# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.

#

# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each

# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should

# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.

# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one

# space.

#

# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual

# lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol.

#

# For example:

#

# 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server

# 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host

 127.0.0.1 localhost

(5) Save the file to set it to default.

That’s all.

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Source- http://adminkunal.blogspot.com

Removing Multiple Boot Screens

Dear Friends,

If you are getting unnecessary multiple boot screens in your machine

then this trick is for you to get rid of this.

Steps-

(1)   Right Click on My Computer

(2) Select Properties
(3) Go to Advanced Tab
(4) Select Settings In the Startup & Recovery Section
(5) Select the Operating System
(6) Click OK.
(7) Again press the Settings and click on Edit.
(8) This will open boot.ini file.
(9) Now you can delete that Operating System which you don't want to be displayed.

 

That’s all.

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Source- http://adminkunal.blogspot.com

Use system restore when you can’t boot

Dear Friends,

If your computer machine has failed to the point where you cannot access the
Windows GUI, you still have the chance to use the System Restore feature if you have
enabled it by running it form the command prompt.

System Restore takes "snapshots" of critical system files and some program files and registry settings and stores this information as restore points. If your computer is not functioning correctly, you can use these restore points to return Windows to a previous state when your computer was functioning correctly.

Steps-
        (1)   Restart your computer and press F8 after the POST screen to bring up
                the Windows XP boot menu.

              (2)   Choose 'boot in safe mode with command prompt '

If your system gets to the command prompt successfully,

              (3)   Type '%systemroot%\system32\restore\rstrui.exe' and press enter.

Follow the onscreen instructions to restore your computer to a previous saved point.

That’s all.
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If Task Manager is disabled

Dear Friends,

This is a very small tutorial to get your task manager back.

Navigate to

(1)   Start >> Run> > Gpedit.msc> >Enter>> User Configuration

>> Administrative Templates >> System >> Ctrl+Alt+Del Options

(2)   Right hand side of the window check "Remove Task Manager"

option set to "Disable" Or "Not Configured".

That’s all.

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Source- http://adminkunal.blogspot.com

Locating Countries from IP address

Dear Friends,
This is a tutorial on locating different countries from IP addresses.

1. Converting an IP address to an IP Number

IP address (IPv4 / IPv6) is divided into 4 sub-blocks. Each sub-block has a different weight number each powered by 256. IP number is being used in the database because it is efficient to search between ranges of number in database.
Beginning IP number and Ending IP Number are calculated based on following formula:
IP Number = 16777216*w + 65536*x + 256*y + z     (Formula 1)
where
IP Address = w.x.y.z
For example, if IP address is "202.186.13.4", then its IP Number "3401190660" is based on the Formula 1.
IP Address = 202.186.13.4
So, w = 202, x = 186, y = 13 and z = 4
IP Number = 16777216*202 + 65536*186 + 256*13 + 4
          = 3388997632 + 12189696 + 3328 + 4
          = 3401190660
To reverse IP number to IP address,
w = int ( IP Number / 16777216 ) % 256
x = int ( IP Number / 65536    ) % 256
y = int ( IP Number / 256      ) % 256
z = int ( IP Number            ) % 256
where % is the mod operator and int is return the integer part of the division.


2. Retrieving the Country Name and Country Code from the IP Number

Search the IP-COUNTRY TABLE to match a unique record that has the IP number fits between From IP Number and To IP Number.
For example, IP Address "202.186.13.4" is equivalent to IP Number "3401190660". It falls in the following range of IP number in the table because it is between the "From IP number" and the "To IP number".
"3401056256","3401400319","MY","MALAYSIA"
From the IP range, the Country Name is Malaysia and Country Code is MY.

IP-COUNTRY TABLE

From IP Number To IP Number Country Code Country Name
3400892416  3400925183 HK HONG KONG
3400925184  3400933375 TH THAILAND
3400941568  3400949759 AU AUSTRALIA
3400957952  3400966143 AU AUSTRALIA
3400982528  3400990719 HK HONG KONG
3400990720  3400998911 ID INDONESIA
3400998912  3401003007 PH PHILIPPINES
3401007104  3401011199 IN INDIA
3401023488  3401056255 TH THAILAND
3401056256  3401400319 MY MALAYSIA
3401408512  3401416703 HK HONG KONG
3401416704  3401420799 KR KOREA, REPU
3401441280  3401449471 PH PHILIPPINES
3401449472  3401515263 MY MALAYSIA
3401531392  3401539583 IN INDIA
3401547776  3401580543 MY MALAYSIA
3401580544  3402629119 CN CHINA
3402629120  3404464127 JP JAPAN
3405774848  3406434303 AU AUSTRALIA
3406436352  3409969151 AU AUSTRALIA
3409969152  3410755583 TW TAIWAN
3410755584  3410780159 AU AUSTRALIA
3410788352  3410796543 HK HONG KONG
3410796544  3410800639 LK SRI LANKA
3410812928  3410821119 AU AUSTRALIA
3410821120  3410853887 TW TAIWAN
3410853888  3410862079 HK HONG KONG
3410870272  3410874367 IN INDIA
3410878464  3410886655 ID INDONESIA
3410886656  3410887679 TW TAIWAN
3410894848  3410898943 HK HONG KONG
3410903040  3410911231 HK HONG KONG
3410919424  3410927615 IN INDIA
3410944000  3410952191 PH PHILIPPINES
3410952192  3410960383 TW TAIWAN
3410968576  3410984959 NZ NEW ZEALAND
3410984960  3411017727 TW TAIWAN
3411017728  3411018751 HK HONG KONG
3411034112  3411051519 HK HONG KONG
3411058688  3411062783 AU AUSTRALIA
3411066880  3411083775 HK HONG KONG
3411087360  3411091455 CN CHINA
3411091456  3411095551 SG SINGAPORE
3411099648  3411107839 MM MYANMAR
3411116032  3411124223 IN INDIA
3411132416  3411136511 PK PAKISTAN
3411147776  3411149311 HK HONG KONG
3411156992  3411161087 PH PHILIPPINES
3411165184  3411173375 MY MALAYSIA
3411181568  3411189759 JP JAPAN
3411197952  3411202047 BD BANGLADESH
3411213312  3411215359 HK HONG KONG
3411230720  3411247103 HK HONG KONG
3411247104  3411255295 AU AUSTRALIA
3411278848  3411296255 HK HONG KONG
3411312640  3411313151 HK HONG KONG
3411329024  3411337215 PH PHILIPPINES
3411337216  3411341311 AU AUSTRALIA
3411345408  3411411967 HK HONG KONG
3411435520  3411443711 IN INDIA
3411443712  3411460095 HK HONG KONG
3411475456  3411476479 HK HONG KONG
3411476480  3411509247 AU AUSTRALIA
3411509248  3411517439 PH PHILIPPINES
3411525632  3411529727 SG SINGAPORE
3411533824  3411543039 CN CHINA
3411558400  3411566591 AU AUSTRALIA
3411574784  3411582975 IN INDIA
3411591168  3411595263 HK HONG KONG
3411599360  3411607551 AU AUSTRALIA
3411607552  3411608575 CN CHINA
3411623936  3411632127 AU AUSTRALIA
3411640320  3411648511 PK PAKISTAN
3411656704  3411673087 AU AUSTRALIA
3411673088  3411674111 CN CHINA
3411689472  3411701759 IN INDIA
3411722240  3411726335 PH PHILIPPINES
3411730432  3411738623 HK HONG KONG
3411738624  3411739647 CN CHINA
3411755008  3411763199 AU AUSTRALIA
3411771392  3411779583 HK HONG KONG
3411795968  3411804159 AU AUSTRALIA
3411804160  3411805183 CN CHINA
3411820544  3411832831 SG SINGAPORE
3411836928  3411845119 MY MALAYSIA
3411853312  3411857407 IN INDIA
3411861504  3411869695 AU AUSTRALIA
3411869696  3411943423 CN CHINA
3411951616  3411967999 LK SRI LANKA
3411968000  3411984383 AU AUSTRALIA
3411984384  3412000767 IN INDIA
3412000768  3412002815 CN CHINA
3412017152  3412025343 SG SINGAPORE
3412033536  3412066303 TW TAIWAN
3412066304  3412213759 NZ NEW ZEALAND
3412213760  3412221951 AU AUSTRALIA
3412230144  3412246527 HK HONG KONG
3412254720  3412262911 NR NAURU
3412262912  3412273151 NZ NEW ZEALAND
3412279296  3412281343 NZ NEW ZEALAND
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Windows Xp Hidden Application List

Dear Friends,

Today I am going to provide you the list of Windows Xp hidden apps which are very useful.

Some of these apps also work in Windows7.

To run these apps you should navigate to Start->>Run and type there the shortcuts given below.

(For example to run Disk Cleanup type cleanmgr.exe at run command)

(1) Character Map = charmap.exe

(2) Disk Cleanup = cleanmgr.exe

(3) Clipboard Viewer = clipbrd.exe (view Windows clipboard)

(4) Dr Watson = drwtsn32.exe (Troubleshooting Tool)

(5) DirectX Diagnosis = dxdiag.exe (Diagnose & test DirectX)

(6) Private Character Editor = eudcedit.exe (allows creation or modification of characters)

(7) IExpress Wizard = iexpress.exe (Create self-extracting / self-installing package)

(8- Microsoft Synchronization Manager = mobsync.exe

(9) Windows Media Player 5.1 = mplay32.exe (Basic Media Player)

(10) ODBC Data Source Administrator = odbcad32.exe

(11) Object Packager = packager.exe

(12) Syskey = syskey.exe (Secures XP Account Details )

(13) Program Manager = progman.exe (Windows 3.x desktop shell).

(14) Remote Access Phone Book = rasphone.exe

(15) Registry Editor = regedt32.exe  (Also regedit.exe to hack Registries)

(16) Network Shared Folder Wizard = shrpubw.exe

(17) File Siganture Verification = sigverif.exe

(18) Volume Contro = sndvol32.exe

(19) System Configuration Editor = sysedit.exe

(20) System Monitor = perfmon.exe (Very Useful Tool)

That’s all.

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Source- http://adminkunal.blogspot.com

Make Folder Without any Name

Dear Friends,

This is a very short tutorial to make a folder without giving it any name.
(1.) Right click on your desired folder.
(2.) Click Rename.

(3.) Hold down the Alt key and type 0160
(Note: For this you need to use the number pad on the right hand side of your keyboard only.)
(4.) Click outside the folder.

That’s all.

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Source- http://adminkunal.blogspot.com

Enable Write Protection of USB Devices

Dear Friends,

If you want to safeguard your private computer data from copying on USB drives by your friends and/or relatives then this hack will please you a lot.

With this hack, you can set write protection for USB devices in your Computer so that nobody can steal your personal data in your absence.

Steps-

(1.) Navigate to Start->>RUN command prompt.

(2.) Type regedit and press enter.

(3.) Navigate to the following registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageDevicePolicies

(4.) If not present, create the key StorageDevicePolicies.

(5.) Select the key afterwards and right-click into the right window.

(6.) Create a new DWORD value and name it WriteProtect.

(7.) Double-click the new entry afterwards and change the value from 0 to 1.

    A value of 1 enables Write protection and 0 disables it.

(8.) Done.

Now whenever anyone tries to copy your personal data to USB, he will see this message:

"The Disk is write protected".

That’s all.

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Source- http://adminkunal.blogspot.com