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Personalizing System Properties Dialog Box in Windows XP

January 17th, 2008

NOTE: Here I’ll describe how to change the first tab “General” in System Properties dialog box. Following is a screenshot of the dialog box which will you get after following this trick: 1.) I’m uploading some images, which will be required to be added in dialog box. Just download them on your computer and Save them as BMP (Coz the site automatically converted them in JPG after uploading): Save it as 1.BMP 1.jpg Save it as 4.BMP 4.jpg Save it as 5.BMP. 5.jpg Save it as 6.BMP 6.jpg 2.) Open %windir%\System32\sysdm.cpl file in Resource hacker. 3.) Now we have to replace existing 1.BMP file with the downloaded one. To do this: a.) Goto Bitmap -> 1 -> 1033. b.) Click on Action -> Replace Bitmap …. c.) Click on Open file with new bitmap… button. d.) Select the new downloaded 1.BMP file and click on Open button. e.) finally click on Replace button. 4.) Now we have to add remaining downloaded BMPs in the file. To do this: a.) Click on Action -> Add a new Resource ….... Read More

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Registry Tweak: System Security (Windows OS)

November 21st, 2007

Add or Remove Programs Restrictions (Windows 2000/XP) These restrictions apply to the Add/Remove Programs feature of Control Panel. They allow you to entirely or individually disable components. Open your registry and find the key below. Create a new DWORD value for each restriction required according to the table below. Set the value to equal “1″ to enable the restriction or “0″ to disable it. * NoAddRemovePrograms – Disable Add/Remove Programs * NoRemovePage – Disable Change and Remove Programs * NoAddPage – Disable Add Programs * NoWindowsSetupPage – Disable Windows Components Wizard * NoAddFromCDorFloppy – Hide “Add a program from CD-ROM or disk” option * NoAddFromInternet – Hide “Add programs from Microsoft” option * NoAddFromNetwork – Hide “Add programs from your network” option * NoServices – Go directly to Windows Components Wizard * NoSupportInfo – Disable Support ... Read More

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How to remove .vbs Autorun Worms

October 17th, 2007

example of it is the pooh.vbs. It exploits the autorun feature in memorycards and copies itself to computers and connected memory cards thereafter Because it does not spread itself to the internet, it hasn’t gained enough notoreity to be included in virus defenses of various programs Be sure to also clean your infected memory cards… Here’s how you clean it: Download startup control Panel at mlin.net (You’re going to use this later) Go to your Task Manager (Ctrl+Alt+Del)Terminate the Wscipt.exe processTerminate the Explorer.exe process Click New Task and Type “cmd” (without the quotes) type the following in your command prompt del c:\pooh.vbs /f/s/q/adel d:\pooh.vbs /f/s/q/a(include your other drives and USB drives that have been infected) del c:\autorun.infdel d:\autorun.inf(include your other drives and USB drives that have been infected) del c:\windows\system32\kernell.dll.vbs del c:\aikelyu.html /f/s/q/a Use the start-up program from mlin.net to r... Read More

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Removing IMGKULOT (VBS/Capiz-A) from your system

September 25th, 2007

Yesterday I helped a friend check his computer running WindowsXP. It has been continually displaying the follwing error: Windows – No Disk Exception Processing Message c0000013 Parameters 75b6bf9c 4 75b6bf9c 75b6bf9c As it turns out, his computer had a virus, quite a new one, which is called IMGKULOT, or VBS/Capiz-A. We were able to remove the virus manually. In case your computer gets infected with the same virus, here are the steps to do: Open the Task Manager by presssing Ctrl-Alt-Del and clicking on the Task Manager button on the dialog box that appears. In the Processes tab, locate wscript.exe. If you can’t see it, try clicking on the “Show processes from all users” checkbox. Highlight wscript.exe, and click on the “End Process” button. Highlight explorer.exe and click on the “End process” button as well. In the Task Manager menu, select File->New Task (Run…), type “cmd” on the Create New Task dialog box, and click on the OK button. This will open a c... Read More

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