Disable error reporting in Windows XP

One feature that we can do without is error reporting. Every time a program crashes I do not want to send a report to microsoft. Read below to find out how to disable this stupid feature.

1. Open Control Panel
2. Click on Preformance and Maintenance.
3. Click on System.
4. Then click on the Advanced tab
5. Click on the error reporting button on the bottom of the windows.
6. Select Disable error reporting.
7. Click OK
8. Click OK

AUTO DELETE TEMPORARY FOLDER.!!

First go into gpedit.msc
Next select -> Computer Configuration/Administrative Templates/Windows Components/Terminal Services/Temporary Folder
Then right click "Do Not Delete Temp Folder Upon Exit"
Go to properties and hit disable. Now next time Windows puts a temp file in that folder it will automatically delete it when its done! Note from Forum Admin: Remember, GPEDIT (Group Policy Editor) is only available in XP Pro.

How to make your Desktop Icons Transparent

Go to Control Panel > System, > Advanced > Performance area > Settings button Visual Effects tab "Use drop shadows for icon labels on the Desktop"

Notepad Tricks

Well quite old but here is the complete collection

Step 1: Open Notepad
Step 2: Write following line in the notepad.
this app can break
Step 3: Save this file as xxx.txt
Step 4: Close the notepad.
Step 5: Open the file again.

Voilla!!

or

1> Open Notepad
2> Enter four words separated by spaces, wherein the first word has 4 letters, the next two have three letters, and the last word has five letters
3> DON'T hit enter at the end of the line.
4> Save the file.
5> Close Notepad.
6> Reopen Notepad.
7> Open the file you just saved.

or

Open a note pad
type Bush hid the facts
save that file,
close it
again open and see...

WHY?

The reason this happens:

In notepad, any other 4-3-3-5 letter word combo will have the same results. It is all to do with a limitation in Windows. Text files containing Unicode UTF-16-encoded Unicode are supposed to start with a "Byte-Order Mark" (BOM), which is a two-byte flag that tells a reader how the following UTF-16 data is encoded.

1) You are saving to 8-bit Extended ASCII (Look at the Save As / Encoding format)
2) You are reading from 16-bit UNICODE (You guessed it, look at the Save As / Encoding format)
This is why the 18 8-bit characters are being displayed as 9 (obviously not supported by your codepage) 16-bit UNICODE characters

NOTEPAD "world trade centre trick"

Did you know that the flight number of the plane that had hit WTC ...on 9/11 was Q33N ....Open your Notepad in ur computer and type the flight number i.e Q33N... Increase the Font Size to 72, Change the Font to Wingdings. U will be amazed by the findings.

SPEED UP UR ACROBAT READER (ALMOST LIKE NOTEPAD)

Do u get irritated when acrobat reader takes 5/10 seconds to load when you want to open a pdf document. There is a way to speed up the loading.

1. Go to the installation folder of acrobat reader
(C:\program files\adobe\acrobat\reader\.. whatever)

2. Move all the files and folders from the "plugins" directory to the "Optional" directory. (I repeat.. cut and paste the files NOT copy & paste).

Also make sure that acrobat reader is not open else it will lock the files and not allow you to move the files).

Now your acrobat reader will load very fast
and almost as good as notepad..

Lock pc just by double clicking mouse

You can lock your XP workstation with two clicks of the mouse. Create a new shortcut on your desktop using a right mouse click, and enter 'rundll32.exe user32.dll,LockWorkStation' in the location field. Give the shortcut a name you like. That's it -- just double click on it and your computer will be locked. And if that's not easy enough, Windows key + L will do the same.

Hide ur folders.. never known trick !!!!!!!!!! Disguise them to "Recycle Bin"

Rename any folder with extension {645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}
eg,
if u've a folder games
press F2,
then type, "games.{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}"
c the magic....
then 2 get to original form,
remove the extension using
"ren games.{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E} games" in dos or as a bat file

n u are done..

Top Orkut Hacks

Please don’t misuse this code

Your account will get freezed for some time

Trick 1:

Make your Picture invisible in your profile!

In MS Paint, create the smallest image possible and den upload it I.E. 1X1 pic!!
Virtually unclickable ! N u are invisible now!!

Trick 2:

Try &#9733 in your scrap book editor box above your Scraps and Write Your Message
Voila!! A STAR comes up before ur Message. isnt it Cool.

Trick 3:

Here is trick which will allow you to write scraps in reverse order... more like mirror image llits quite common now but still write this code at the beginning of the scrap without quotes "&#8238"

Trick 4:

You can see where all of your Orkut friends are located by checking out the new "friends map" feature. This feature combines Google Maps and Orkut profiles to let you see where all of your friends live around the world. To see the "friends map," just follow these steps:
1. Click the "view friends" link in the "my friends" box on your Orkut homepage.
2. Click the "friends map" tab at the top of the page.
You can click on a friend’s profile picture to see their location on the map. Please know that if we don't have map data for a particular region or if your friend chose not to put their location in their Orkut profile, you'll see a message "(not on map)" below their profile name.
You can also click on the "tiny little blue men" to see your friends' locations. By clicking on one of these figures, a bubble will pop open to let you know which friend lives in that location.

Trust me an intelligent Feature of Orkut

While U are signed in at Orkut: click in The Link Below: its Gr8

or copy and Paste the following in Your Address Bar

http://www.orkut.com/Map.aspx

Trick 5:

Watch the Pictures of ur Friends in Action:

Copy and paste this code in your Scrapbook's Address Bar

javascript:R=0; x1=.1; y1=.05; x2=.25; y2=.24; x3=1.6; y3=.24; x4=300; y4=200; x5=300; y5=200; DI=document.images; DIL=DI.length; function A(){for(i=0; i

Trick 6:

Blank Scrap

How to write blank scrap / blank post?
If you like the service, please do refer your friends to use our free service by clicking HERE

For writing blank scrap, follow the steps:

1) Open any scrapbook.
2) Write [i] in the scrapbook.
3) Do NOT write anything else in the scrapbook, and submit the scrap.
That's all.
NOTE:
You can also use [b] tag instead of [i] tag
You can also use this method to post a blank entry in any community forum.

You can try these various combinations also if u want to send a big no of invisible scraps, as after your few submissions it will start displaying the message "message sent too recently". So try these combinations out:

[u]
[b]
[i][u]
[i][b]
[u][i]
[u][b]
[u][i][b]
[i][u][b]
[i][u][b][i]

Trick 7:

Speed up Logging to Orkut.

Bookmark the following link and use it to login into Orkut!
https://www.google.com/............www.orkut.com%2FGLogin.aspx

The above link directly opens Orkut login box! So it is faster than normal Orkut login.

Trick 8:

Crush List on Orkut!! Full Explanation

Have you ever wondered how the Orkut "Add to my crush-list" option works?

Most of us are scared to add someone to our crush-list because of the fear that he/she will get a notification from Orkut that you have added him/her on your crush-list.

YES, they will get such a notification. But that is only if they too add you on their crush list. In fact, you both will get a message from Orkut if you both have added each other on your respective crush lists.

This is a fantastic piece of innovation from Orkut wherein one-side crushes will not be notified and if mutual crush exists, then both sides will come to know of it.

Spreading this information is important. It will help the cause of many people and who knows, you may be the lucky one too!!!

So start adding people to your crush-lists now and spreading this vital information!!!

Trick 9:

ADD urself as a Friend

It is now· possible to add urself but U cant accept that . Although u will see a friendship request on homepage from u only.

Just Open· http://www.orkut.com/Friends.aspx and run this script .This will redirect u to ur profile, now just click on home and see the magic.

· Hit ENTER.

Trick 10:

A Java Trick that Pops Message " Ur Account Is Hacked"

javascript:function reverse() { var inp = " ! luhaR yb dekcah si tnuocca tukrO ruoY "; var outp="";for (i = 0; i <= inp.length; i++) { outp =inp.charAt (i) + outp;}alert(outp) ;}; reverse();

copy and paste d Above link On Address Bar.. n replace "luhaR" by ur own Name.. n send it to ur friends

Or u can Manually create Any kind of Alert Box by

javascript:alert(" TYPE ANY MESSAGE HERE TO APPEAR IN ALERT BOX ")

copy and paste d above in the address Bar

Trick 11:

Increase Fans (Working Code) Really Amazing

Follow the steps:

1) Create a fake account or simply login with ur friends Id... And add yourself as a friend there.

2) Visit the FRIENDS page by logging into your just created fake account or the Friends account.

3) Point your cursor on the fan icon () beside your real profile. Note your status bar. It should be showing something like javascript:setKarma('FRUS*******/US*******'). Note the code FRUS******* and US******* somewhere. Now, click on the star so as to make your fake account a fan of your real account.

4) Copy the following code to your address bar (The location where you type http://www.orkut.com ). Replace FRUS******* and US******* in the following script with the one you noted in the above step.

Unlimited Photos at Orkut

Orkut is the most popular social networking website, next only to myspace. In the Orkut profile the user can only upload 12 photos. But now you can show unlimited number of photos using the Flickr RSS Feed option. However you can do so also with the feed of Picasa. Actually this method can be used for any image hosting service which supports RSS photo-feed.

The process if very simple:

• In your Orkut profile, on the left site, click on “edit feeds”.
• Now you will find a URL box, in which you have to enter the address of the RSS feed of your image hosting service like Flickr, Picasa etc.
• Make and find yours on your flickr home page.
• On Submitting and verifying the code, you will find your snaps on Orkut

************************************* NEW******************************
* Adding images
Copy and paste urls ending in .jpg, .gif, .png or .bmp and the image will appear in the scrap.
For example, http://example.com/example.jpg

* Adding videos from YouTube and Google Video
Copy and paste the URL and the video will appear in the scrap.
For example, http://youtube.com/watch?v=videoid
* Adding podcast/audio Copy and paste the URL of an audio file and an audio player will appear in the scrap. For example, http://example.com/example.mp3
* Adding html-embeddable objects Create or upload your content at sites such as photobucket.com, imageshack.com, rockyou.com or slide.com. Copy and paste the html embed code to share it with your friends

Here is something new, if you want to see how many gals are there in anybody's friends list than here is the simple way. Just open victim's friend lists, now look at the address bar. U can see his/her uid ....now just add this after it “&q=femaleNow” (without quotes) see what u got ....well U can also see how many male are there ....but am sure you'll write female.... he he he

Use Gmail to Generate Unlimited E-mail Addresses

Gmail has an interesting quirk where you can add a plus sign (+) after your Gmail address, and it'll still get to your inbox. It's called plus-addressing, and it essentially gives you an unlimited number of e-mail addresses to play with. Here's how it works: say your address is pirates@gmail.com, and you want to automatically label all work e-mails. Add a plus sign and a phrase to make it pirates+work@gmail.com and set up a filter to label it work (to access your filters go to Settings->Filters and create a filter for messages addressed to pirates+work@gmail.com. Then add the label work).

More real world examples:

Find out who is spamming you: Be sure to use plus-addressing for every form you fill out online and give each site a different plus address.

Example: You could use
pirates+nytimes@gmail.com for nytimes.com
pirates+freestuff@gmail.com for freestuff.com
Then you can tell which site has given your e-mail address to spammers, and automatically send them to the trash.

Automatically label your incoming mail: I've talked about that above.

Archive your mail: If you receive periodic updates about your bank account balance or are subscribed to a lot of mailing lists that you don't check often, then you can send that sort of mail to the archives and bypass your Inbox.

Example: For the mailing list, you could give pirates+mailinglist1@gmail.com as your address, and assign a filter that will archive mail to that address automatically. Then you can just check in once in a while on the archive if you want to catch up.

Update : Several commentors have indicated that this is not a Gmail specific trick. One of the commentors reports Fastmail has enabled this feature as well. Other says that a lot of sites reject addresses with a plus sign. You might use other services like Mailinator for disposable addresses instead. pbinder recommends using services like SpamGourmet, which redirects mail to your real address.