Wednesday 12 November 2014

Change your cd key

The Windows logo key, located in the bottom row of most computer keyboards is a little-used treasure. Don''t ignore it. It is the shortcut anchor for the following command

Remove the Shared Documents folders from My Computer

One of the most annoying things about the new Windows XP user interface is that Microsoft saw fit to provide links to all of the Shared Documents folders on your system, right at the top of the My Computer window. I can't imagine why this would be the default, even in a shared PC environment at home, but what's even more annoying is that you cannot change this behavior through the sh*ll
: Those icons are stuck there and you have to live with it.
Until now, that is.

Simply fire up the Registry Editor and navigate to the following key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Explorer \ My Computer \ NameSpace \ DelegateFolders

You'll see a sub-key named {59031a47-3f72-44a7-89c5-5595fe6b30ee}. If you delete this, all of the Shared Documents folders (which are normally under the group called "Other Files Stored on This Computer" will be gone.

You do not need to reboot your system to see the change.


Before: A cluttered mess with icons no one will ever use (especially that orpaned one). After: Simplicity itself, and the way it should be by default.

This tip For older XP builds

Edit or remove the "Comments" link in window title bars

During the Windows XP beta, Microsoft has added a "Comments?" hyperlink to the title bar of each window in the system so that beta testers can more easily send in a problem report about the user interface. But for most of us, this isn't an issue, and the Comments link is simply a visual distraction. And for many programs that alter the title bar, the Comments link renders the Minimize, Maximize, and Close window buttons unusable, so it's actually a problem.
Let's get rid of it. Or, if you're into this kind of thing, you can edit it too.

Open the Registry Editor and navigate to the following keys:
My Computer \ HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Control Panel \ Desktop \ LameButtonEnabled
My Computer \ HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Control Panel \ Desktop \ LameButtonText

The first key determines whether the link appears at all; change its value to 0 to turn it off. The second key lets you have a little fun with the hyperlink; you can change the text to anything you'd like, such as "Paul Thurrott" or whatever.

Editing either value requires a restart before the changes take effect.


Before: An unnecessary hyperlink. Have some fun with it! Or just remove it entirely. It's up to you.

Rip high-quality MP3s in Windows Media Player 8

The relationship between Windows Media Player 8 and the MP3 audio format is widely misunderstood. Basically, WMP8 will be able to playback MP3 files, but encoding (or "ripping" CD audio into MP3 format will require an MP3 plug-in. So during the Windows XP beta, Microsoft is supplying a sample MP3 plug-in for testing purposes, but it's limited to 56 Kbps rips, which is pretty useless. However, if you have an externally installed MP3 codec, you can use WMP8 to rip at higher bit rates. But you'll have to edit the Registry to make this work.
Fire up the Registry Editor and navigate to the following key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ MediaPlayer \ Settings \ MP3Encoding

Here, you'll see sub-keys for LowRate and LowRateSample, which of course equates to the single 56 Kbps sample rate you see in WMP8. To get better sampling rates, try adding the following keys (Using New then DWORD value):

"LowRate" = DWORD value of 0000dac0
"MediumRate" = DWORD value of 0000fa00
"MediumHighRate" = DWORD value of 0001f400
"HighRate" = DWORD value of 0002ee00

Now, when you launch WMP8 and go into Tools, then Options, then Copy Music, you will have four encoding choices for MP3: 56 Kbps, 64 Kbps, 128 Kbps, and 192 Kbps. Note that you will not get higher bit rate encoding unless you have installed an MP3 codec separately; the version in Windows Media Player 8 is limited to 56 Kbps only.


Find the appropriate location in the Registry... ...add a few DWORD values... ...And then you'll be ripping CDs in higher-quality MP3 format!

Speed up the Start Menu

The default speed of the Start Menu is pretty slow, but you can fix that by editing a Registry Key. Fire up the Registry Editor and navigate to the following key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Control Panel \ Desktop \ MenuShowDelay

By default, the value is 400. Change this to a smaller value, such as 0, to speed it up

Speed up the Start Menu (Part two)

If your confounded by the slow speed of the Start Menu, even after using the tip above, then you might try the following: Navigate to Display Properties then Appearance then Advanced and turn off the option titled Show menu shadow . You will get much better overall performance.

Speed up Internet Explorer 6 Favorites

For some reason, the Favorites menu in IE 6 seems to slow down dramatically sometimes--I've noticed this happens when you install Tweak UI 1.33, for example, and when you use the preview tip to speed up the Start menu. But here's a fix for the problem that does work, though it's unclear why:
Just open a command line window (Start button -> Run -> cmd) and type sfc, then hit ENTER. This command line runs the System File Checker, which performs a number of services, all of which are completely unrelated to IE 6. But there you go: It works.

Do an unattended installation

The Windows XP Setup routine is much nicer than that in Windows 2000 or Windows Me, but it's still an hour-long process that forces you to sit in front of your computer for an hour, answering dialog boxes and typing in product keys. But Windows XP picks up one of the more useful features from Windows 2000, the ability to do an unattended installation, so you can simply prepare a script that will answer all those dialogs for you and let you spend some quality time with your family.
I've written about Windows 2000 unattended installations and the process is pretty much identical on Windows XP, so please read that article carefully before proceeding. And you need to be aware that this feature is designed for a standalone Windows XP system: If you want to dual-boot Windows XP with another OS, you're going to have to go through the interactive Setup just like everyone else: An unattended install will wipe out your hard drive and install only Windows XP, usually.

To perform an unattended installation, you just need to work with the Setup Manager, which is located on the Windows XP CD-ROM in D:\SupportTools\DEPLOY.CAB by default: Extract the contents of this file and you'll find a number of useful tools and help files; the one we're interested in is named setupmgr.exe. This is a very simple wizard application that will walk you through the process of creating an answer file called winnt.sif that can be used to guide Windows XP Setup through the unattended installation.

One final tip: There's one thing that Setup Manager doesn't add: Your product key. However, you can add this to the unattend.txt file manually. Simply open the file in Notepad and add the following line under the [UserData] section:

ProductID=RK7J8-2PGYQ-P47VV-V6PMB-F6XPQ

(This is a 60 day cd key)

Then, just copy winnt.sif to a floppy, put your Windows XP CD-ROM in the CD drive, and reboot: When the CD auto-boots, it will look for the unattend.txt file in A: automatically, and use it to answer the Setup questions if it's there.

Finally, please remember that this will wipe out your system! Back up first, and spend some time with the help files in DEPLOY.CAB before proceeding.

For Older builds or not using setupreg.hiv file

Remove the Desktop version text

During the Windows XP beta, you will see text in the lower right corner of the screen that says Windows XP Professional, Evaluation Copy. Build 2462 or similar. A lot of people would like to remove this text for some reason, and while it's possible to do so, the cure is more damaging than the problem, in my opinion. So the following step will remove this text, but you'll lose a lot of the nice graphical effects that come in Windows XP, such as the see-through icon text.

To remove the desktop version text, open Display Properties (right-click the desktop, then choose Properties) and navigate to the Desktop page. Click Customize Desktop and then choose the Web page in the resulting dialog. On this page, check the option titled Lock desktop items. Click OK to close the dialog, and then OK to close Display Properties. The text disappears. But now the rest of your system is really ugly. You can reverse the process by unchecking Lock desktop items.

There's also a shortcut for this process: Just right-click the desktop and choose Arrange by then Lock Web Icons on the Desktop.

Enable ClearType on the Welcome Screen!

As laptop users and other LCD owners are quickly realizing, Microsoft's ClearType technology in Windows XP really makes a big difference for readability. But the this feature is enabled on a per-user basis in Windows XP, so you can't see the effect on the Welcome screen; it only appears after you logon.

But you can fix that. Fire up the Registry Editor and look for the following keys:

(default user) HKEY_USERS \ .Default \ Control Panel \ Desktop \ FontSmoothing (String Value)
HKEY_USERS \ .Default \ Control Panel \ Desktop \ FontSmoothingType (Hexadecimal DWORD Value)

Make sure both of these values are set to 2 and you'll have ClearType enabled on the Welcome screen and on each new user by default.

Stop Windows Messenger from Auto-Starting

If you're not a big fan of Windows Messenger simply delete the following Registry Key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\MSMSGS

Display Hibernate Option on the Shut Down dialog

For some reason, Hibernate may not be available from the default Shut Down dialog. But you can enable it simply enough, by holding down the SHIFT key while the dialog is visible. Now you see it, now you don't!

Make your computer talk like Iron man's Jarvis

You Must have Watched The Movie "IRON MAN","The Avengers" and Tony Stark's Talking Computer "jarvis". Despite being busy, i saw the movie "iron" few months ago and since then I was thinking to make something like "Jarvis"

The project development on "human computer interface" and "Gestural interface" has already been started by my side, which are capable of having feature like voice recognition,gestural interfaces. Some of those projects have been partially developed and working in desired manner, but few features and modules are yet to implement and on their way of completion in very short span of time.
So lets come to the body of this article.The reason of writing this post for my readers is to share what I've achieved till yet in this journey of Artificial Intelligence. Here is one gift GIFT for my readers in the form of a PROJECT with the topic "how make your computer talk like Jarvis".
Jarvis is totally based on Artificial intelligence aka Artificial Brain. Eventually, we can't such a huge artificial brain by using these following steps because of the simplicity and efficiency of this project. But I can make you assure that after this you make your computer talk, and this will be your first interestingly step in the world of Artificial intelligence. And later, you can go in more deeper as soon as you'll come to know its depth.So Lets start with your first step in this world with this example :
Example 1 :
Give a Name to your Computer  Like "Jarvis" and when you'll say "Jarvis" it will reply "Hello sir" or "Hello Mr. (Your Name)".
 or
You : Who are you ??
Computer : I'm chitti The robo Speed, 1 terahertz, memory, one  zettabyte
(Just Like Rajnikanth's Moive "robot", (Enthiran) in Tamil.)

Example 2 :
YOU:  Good Morning Jarvis !
COMPUTER : Good Morning Mr. Stark ! how are you Today !

So, Little wondering how these things going to work out ? Here you can transform your wondering into reality. Follow these codes :

Example 1 :
<listenFor>Jarvis</listenFor>
<speak>Hello Mr. STark</speak>
</command>
</speechMacros>

Example 2 :
<listenFor>Good Morning Jarvis</listenFor>
<speak>Good Morning Sir. how are you today</speak>
</command>
</speechMacros>

Further, more you can use these lines of codes for Shutting down Computer :
<speechMacros>
<command>
<listenFor>Nuke it</listenFor>
<speak>Restarting Windows</speak>
<run command="C:\Windows\System32\shutdown.exe"/>
</command>
</speechMacros>

To make it more intresting and realastic you need a bit knwoledge of VB.NET
here is one example

<speechMacros>
<command>
<listenFor>Time</listenFor>
<listenFor>Give me the Time</listenFor>
<listenFor>What is the time</listenFor>
<listenFor>Tell me the time</listenFor>
<listenFor>What time is it</listenFor>
<script language="vbscript">
<![CDATA[
dim currentTime
currentTime = FormatDateTime(Time(), 1)
Application.Speak Time
Application.SetTextFeedback Time
]]>
</script>
</command>

now i have ms exel work then..

<command priority="100">
  <listenFor>insert row above</listenFor>
  <sendKeys>{ALT}jla</sendKeys>
</command>
<command priority="100">
  <listenFor>insert row below</listenFor>
  <sendKeys>{ALT}jle</sendKeys>
</command>
<command priority="100">
  <listenFor>insert column before</listenFor>
  <sendKeys>{ALT}jll</sendKeys>
</command>
<command priority="100">
  <listenFor>insert column after</listenFor>
  <sendKeys>{ALT}jlr</sendKeys>
</command>
<command priority="100">
  <listenFor>merge cells</listenFor>
  <sendKeys>{ALT}jlm</sendKeys>
</command>
<command priority="100">
  <listenFor>split table</listenFor>
  <sendKeys>{ALT}jlq</sendKeys>
</command>
<command priority="100">
  <listenFor>delte row</listenFor>
  <listenFor>delte rows</listenFor>
  <sendKeys>{ALT}jdr</sendKeys>
</command>
<command priority="100">
  <listenFor>delete column</listenFor>
  <listenFor>delete columns</listenFor>
  <sendKeys>{ALT}jdc</sendKeys>
</command>
<command priority="100">
  <listenFor>?show table properties</listenFor>
  <sendKeys>{ALT}jdo</sendKeys>
</command>
<command priority="100">
  <listenFor>?show ?hide table gridlines</listenFor>
  <sendKeys>{ALT}jltg</sendKeys>
</command>

Track chnages in Music
<command priority="100">
  <listenFor>next change</listenFor>
  <sendKeys>{ALT}rh</sendKeys>
</command>
<command priority="100">
  <listenFor>accept change</listenFor>
  <sendKeys>{ALT}rac</sendKeys>
</command>

To click
<command priority="100">
 <listenFor>?mouse click</listenFor>   <mouse button="left" command="click" />
</command>
if you need codes of any command leave comment below, and i will try to give you source codes.

How to Get Started  ??
Things you need -
A microphone or internal Microphone
windows 7 and windows speech macros, download it from here
install it then make Macros to start work
Now open notepad and paste code in notepad
for example
<listenFor>Jarvis</listenFor>
<speak>Hello Mr. STark</speak>
</command>
</speechMacros>
paste it and save as filename.WSRMac
.WSRMac extention is must for it,
then Goto your WSRMac file and click on
Now click on "import signing Cerificate" and automaticly it will save a digital signature for it.


Now open Speech recognition

Now Give Your Instructions, you can minizmise to hide this window



Enjoy Talking to your Computer ! :D

Turn Your Desktop in 3D (windows xp, and 7)

If you are not keen on the cookie-cutter appearance of your Oprating system or windows, i have covered some great tools for tweaking every last pixel of your desktop
so it looks and acts just how you want. These are all small things that can be changed to make the desktop experience more desirable, cutom and geared to our own interests.


SphereXP-  ShphereXP is  world's number one 3-dimensional desktop for windows xp =)

YODM 3D- Virtual Desktop Manager featuring the Cube 3D effect, really awesone effect

Matodate- convert your desktop in a 3D and make it very impressive !

Shock 4Way3D  : Multiwindows and mirror effects

Enjoy :D