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I have already published one post on How to fix slow opening of my computer and delayed contents display here.

There are still some issues like connected network drives when you use office at your work place.

Like in my office when I login at my system at my work place, according to the user policy every user is connected to the network drives at the server location.

These connection to the network drives make my computer more slow at the time of opening.

Let see how can you disconnect network drives.

With the help of simple vbscript you can simply disconnect to network drives and printers.

1. Download it and open this script in notepad.

2. Replace with your network drive letter no.9 strDriveLetter = “:” For example: strDriveLetter = “H:”

3. Save this script and place it in the startup programs

4. Open Start >> All Programs >> Startup , right click on it and select open.

5. paste the script here in this startup folder.

6. Now restart your windows, your network drives will be automatically disconnected and your my computer will open faster.

7. That’s it done.

If you are encountering the one of the most common problem of slow opening of my computer in windows xp and contents of my computer as a result display very lately then you will be surprised to know that your computer is not old or slow but there is simple fix to this problem.

Why Does My computer opens slowly ?

The main reason behind is the default option being checked in windows xp to search for network drives and printers every time you open my computer and there may be network drives which are being accessed when you open my computer.

How to Speed up My Computer Opening

1. Open My computer>>File Menu>>Tools>>Folder Options >>View

2. Uncheck the first checkbox which says "Automatically search for Network folders and printers"

3. You can also simply Disconnect the Map drives to solve this issue,

Go to Tools>>Disconnect the Map Drives(Network Drives) and select the network drive to disconnect.

Updated on 27 May 2008:

As suggested by one of the reader Zamora525 another reason behind slow opening of your my computer may be due to a windows service called ‘windows image acuisitions (WIA)’ - Provides image acquisition services for scanners and cameras.

You need to stop it by the commands given below.

1. Open Start >> Run or press window+r

2. type net stop "Windows Image Acquisition (WIA)"

You can also disable the service by following the procedure given below

1. Open Start >> Run or press window+r

2. type services.msc and press enter

3. Now locate the Windows Image Acquisition (WIA) among the services and right click on it to select properties.

Now Stop the service if it is already running by clicking the stop button and select the startup type for the service as disabled. (as shown in the image below)

It happens some time when you lost the password for a database microsoft access file.

As file is password protected so it will not open up without the correct password entered, in order to solve the problem you can simply use a free password revealing utility by nirsoft.net

It’s called Access PassView, the only limitation with this program is that it works for every password-protected mdb file that created with Microsoft Access 95/97/2000/XP.

Limitations Access Pass View:

1. It cannot recover user level password.

2. cannot recover password more than 18 characters.

How to use:

By Drag & Drop: You can get the password for any mdb file by dragging it from the explorer window on to the Access PassView window.

Download Access PassView

I was searching a way on how can we convert any screensaver of windows vista to make it work in win xp and I found some vista screensavers prorated for xp.

Windows vista offers some very cool screensavers like.. Aurora, Bubbles, Mystify, Ribbons.

Out of all these I like the bubble screensaver the most, all these screensavers looks awesome but the bubble screensaver is the best as it does not change the desktop background when it’s running. ( as shown in the image below )

( Click the image on the left to enlarge it )

How to Install these screensavers?

Unzip the downloaded .zip file and copy the .scr files of the corresponding screensavers in C:\Windows\System32 ( assuming C: is the directory where you have installed windows ).

After copying them you can easily locate them under the drop down of the existing screensavers in win xp.

[ Download Vista Screensavers for XP ]

I have been juggling around for so many days in order to find the correct settings in Windows XP , so as to make the icons appear smooth with each and every desktop wallpaper. ( as shown in the image below ).

Icons With Background Colour

Icons Without Background Colour

Out of the above two which one do you like, your choice is up to you but most people like the second one ( icons without background colour ).

The only problem with the icons with background colour is whenever you set a new desktop wallpaper you may need to select different background colour for your icons too so that they look better with your new wallpaper.

But there is setting both in windows XP and vista to make the background colour of icons as transparent.

Let’s see how to do it.

For windows XP and Vista

1. Right click on the My Computer, select properties.

2. Click on the Advanced Tab ( as shown in the image below ).

3. Click the on the Settings button, you will see a new window showing numerous number of options related to the GUI of windows. ( as shown in the image below).

4. As highlighted in the image above make sure to check the box which says “Use drop shadows for icon labels on the desktop“. and click Ok 2 times.

5. That’s it ! Done.

We hope you like this small tweak useful in windows.

There are hell lot of process which keep on running in windows using system resources like RAM and CPU usage, some of these processes may or may not relevant to the user.

But a how does a windows user know? Which process are useful and which are not out of all the process running on your windows.

Process Explorer is another useful utility by sysinternals which shows you all the process running on your windows system.

Let’s see how can we use process explorer to get the information about a particular process running.

How to know about a process with process explorer?

1. Download Process Explorer from here and run it

2. Now, click on the process in process explorer and press ctrl + m

3. You can also right click on the process in process explorer and select Search Online

Note: Ctrl+m is the shortcut key to initiate your default browser to perform a search for the specific process on the web.

People love the vista always for the fancy looking GUI effects not for functionality, and quite opposite is the case for windows XP. :P

Today, we have come up with top 4 applications which enables flip 3d and aero effect XP just like vista.

Let’s discuss about all these applications which will implement flip 3d effect in XP

1. TopDesk (shareware) - It is a Alt-Tab task switcher from Otaku Software to provide flip 3d replacement for Windows XP which allows you to instantly view thumbnails of all open windows. It has almost quite the same Windows Vista Flip 3D feature which allows open windows to flip and tilt in a sliding sideway stack with transparent windows effect in 3D layout.

[ Download TopDesk ]

2. WindowFX (Shareware) - It not only allows to have flip 3d effect in windows XP, it adds special effects includes shadow under windows minimize/maximize/close/open animations.

[ Download WindowFX ]

3. Shock Aero (Freeware) - Another cool application to get flip 3d effect on XP just like vista, but you can’t customize as per the shortcut key to initiate flip 3d effect.It assigns Alt+Tab key to start Flip 3D. Portable version of this program is also available.

[ Download Shock Aero ]

4. WinFlip (Freeware) - This program will give you the same experience of Windows Aero and flip 3d experience.It runs minimized in taskbar and Aero effects like flip 3d. It does not require any installation. Download the zip file and double click winflip.exe to load and press Window + tab key to initiate flip 3d.

[ Download WinFlip ]

I found four software’s to implement flip 3d on windows XP, but if you know fifth one let us know.

There are hell lot of themes available these days in the form of custom mssstyles which lets you change the look and feel of windows xp easily.

But, the main hindrance for applying custom mss styles on windows xp is due to uxtheme.dll which is a Microsoft system file in windows xp which blocks from using any custom mss styles.

So, before you can apply any mss styles you need to patch Microsoft system file, you can easily patch uxtheme.dll file with a small freeware program called UXTheme MultiPatcher

Let’s see how to use UXTheme MultiPatcher

Uxtheme Multi-patcher allow you to use any 3rd party msstyle theme on Windows XP with SP1/SP2 or Windows Server 2003 just by patching the uxtheme.dll (dynamic link library).

This small software will patch your existing uxtheme.dll with a single click of a button, you just need to download the uxpatcher.zip file and extract the executable file UXTheme Multi-Patcher 6.0.exe

Launch UXTheme Multi-Patcher 6.0.exe press the patch button to patch existing original uxtheme.dll by Microsoft.

Download UXTheme MultiPatcher

There are lot of times when we start our computer and after sometime left it running with all the applications opened as we may have some other important work.

In that case when you leave your pc running and you want all applications to keep running, then this free hibernate Screensaver could be very useful to save a large amount of energy and power.

Hibernate Screensaver

Hibernate Screensaver will hibernate your computer after 2 minutes from the time when computer becomes idle, all your applications will kept in running state and your computer will enter a suspended state and will get hibernated.

The hibernate Screensaver will display the reverse countdown displays number of seconds left to hibernation, which you can terminate the countdown by deactivating screensaver.

Note: You will need to have hibernation option enabled on your system, other wise hibernate screensaver will move the system into stand by mode.

How to enable Hibernation Feature

1. Open Start >> Control Panel, Locate power options and double click

2. Now, Click the hibernate tab and check the box which says Enable hibernation

3. Click OK

Shutdown Screensaver

Shutdown screensaver on the other hand powers down your computer after 2 minutes when it becomes idle, works like a charm on all the windows versions.

Just like Hibernate Screensaver, Shutdown Screensaver also displays the number of seconds left to shutdown your system, but again you easily terminate the countdown by deactivating the shutdown screensaver.

We hope you like these cool energy saving screensaver’s we recommend downloading these screensaver’s and save some energy by making efficient use of power for your computer.

You could had annoyed some times when you may want to change the text below the My Computer, My Documents, Recycle Bin and My Network Places icon on your desktop but windows default behaviour will never let you change these names.

Desktop Renamer is small cool free utility which lets you change the name of My Computer, Recycle Bin, My Documents and My Network Places

Desktop Renamer runs on windows XP to later versions also like windows 98, Me, NT etc.

It’s only 160Kb in size, does not require installation, you just need to download the .zip file, extract it and run it.

Desktop Renamer is a completely free tool and also free from any type of popup, spyware or adverts etc.

Download Desktop Renamer

So many people have asked that question,and honestly its a dumb one.But its our job,to help you,so i made this thread.
There are many ways to hack an email:

Phishing
Phishing is a way of saying keylogger but in an other meaning.Let’s say you want to create a hotmail phishing page.The page should look
exactly like the real one.
How does it work:
You can download/make a replica of the website you want to phish.And save is as HTML.When you’re done with that,you have to find a way
to upload the HTML.Best way is a Website.Like Piczo/Blogspot.When thats done the user types his/hers username and password.And automatically
it will be sent to you by mail.And there you have it,that’s Phishing.
Here Are Some Tutorials That Help:
http://www.hackforums.net/showthread.php?tid=15895
http://www.hackforums.net/showthread.php?tid=14154
http://www.hackforums.net/showthread.php?tid=12583
http://www.hackforums.net/showthread.php?tid=12468

Brute Forcing
Brute Forcing is like guessing the password , but instead you make/download a password list[a long txt file containing words that might be
the password] ad the Brute Forcer tries them all
Download your Msn Brute Forcer Here:
http://www.speedyshare.com/228815220.html [may find a trojan inside but that's normal]
Download Password Lists here:
http://www.hackforums.net/showthread.php?tid=15562

Keyloggers
Keyloggers is like phishing but is more simple.Its a simple .exe executable.When someone clicks it,the Keylogger auto downloads.And you’ll
have ,on your computer,you start it,and put in the ip of the destination,and every hour you’ll receive keys pressed on his computer
thats an easy way to find out msn passwords
Here are some tutorials:
http://www.hackforums.net/showthread.php?tid=15003
http://www.hackforums.net/showthread.php?tid=10365

Fake Msn
Fake msn is just a replica of Msn Messenger.Let some of your friends come over.And open up the fake msn.Let them type in ther
msn hotmail,and their password.Then they will get a troubleshoot , and their username/password will be saved in a .txt file in C:\
Download here:
http://www.savefile.com/files/1357897

Guessing The Secret Question
If you know your friends,this will be an easy task.Go to http://www.hotmail.com and click forgot password,then put in the email address
and then the CATCHA code,reply on the secret question,but beware because you have like 3 tries only.