Setting a Background Image for your Pen Drive in 2 Simple Steps

Create a desktop.ini file in your Pen Drive (folder) and ya copy the following into it.

[{BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}]
IconArea_Image=bg.jpg
IconArea_Text=0×00000000

2. Put your background picture into your drive (folder) and modify IconArea_Image suitably.
For example, if the name of your image is, say, wallpaper.jpg, then you need to replace

IconArea_Image=bg.jpg

by

IconArea_Image=wallpaper.jpg

It’s not necessary that your image should be a JPEG. You can apply this for most of the popular image formats. For example, if you want a gradient.png as your background, then

Replace

IconArea_Image=bg.jpg

with this

IconArea_Image=gradient.png

You can also modify the Icon’s font color by giving the hex code corresponding to the color you want.

To give a white color to the icon text, replace

IconArea_Text=0x00000000

with

IconArea_Text=0x00FFFFFF

You can also use any other color by replacing the last 6 zeroes by the corresponding color codes.

3. Change the attributes of desktop.ini and the image to hidden. You can do this by selecting the files (desktop.ini and the image file), Right-click -> Properties, and under the Attributes section, enable Hidden. This is not necessary, but it’ll help you impress your friends more

now u refresh n see result.

hey it oes  do cmnt.

Thnks

Reset cmos password

• Here's a DOS trick for Windows 9x, that will reset (delete) your motherboard's BIOS password (aka CMOS password) without any need to open up your computer to remove the battery or mess with jumpers.

This method can come in very handy in the event you ever lose and forget your BIOS password or if you acquire used computers where the unknown previous owners had BIOS passwords set. It's important to note here that the password we are talking about is only the one that prevents a user from entering the BIOS setup at bootup, not the one that stops you from getting past the boot.

Normally, at bootup you can press a key (usually the DEL key) to access your BIOS allowing you to view it or make changes. With a password set, there is no way to enter setup. Though a password can provide a basic and very effective level of PC security, losing it can be a real headache if you don't know how to fix the problem.

The MS-DOS command that will makes this trick possible is the DEBUG command (debug itself is a utility—debug.exe—which is located in your Windows Command folder). This is not a command to be taken lightly—in other words, it's not a command to play with! You can cause serious corruption with this command and can end up not being able to even boot your computer! Debug is used to work with binary and executable files and allows you to alter (hex edit) the contents of a file or CPU register right down to the binary and byte level.

To begin debug mode, type debug at a MS-DOS prompt or you can specify a file, i.e., DEBUG FILE.EXE. There is a difference in screen output between the two methods. When you type DEBUG alone, debug responds with a hyphen (-) prompt waiting for you to enter commands. The second method, with a file specified, loads the file into memory and you type all the commands on the line used to start debug. In this tip, we will be writing to the BIOS, so the first method is the one that would be used. All debug commands can be aborted at any time by pressing CTRL/C

Accessing BIOS with DEBUG
The basic trick will be to fool the BIOS into thinking there is a checksum error, in which case it resets itself, including the password. This is done by invalidating the CMOS and to do that we must know how to access the BIOS and where the checksum value of the CMOS is located so that we can change it. Access to the the BIOS content is via what are known as CMOS Ports and it's Port 70 and 71 that will give us the needed access. On almost all AT motherboards, the checksum is located at hexadecimal address 2e and 2f and filling the address 2e with ff is all you should have to do to invalidate the checksum.

Here's what to do if you ever need to reset the password and have no other method, and you don't want to open up your computer to remove the battery or jumpers.

Note! Do this at your own risk. I can only tell you that it has worked for me more than once and has worked for others as well. But I cannot make any guarantees. When I did this, I took a willing risk. The BIOS was Award Modular BIOS v4.51PG

Restart your computer in MS-DOS mode.


When you get to the C:\> or C:\WINDOWS> prompt, type DEBUG and press Enter.


A hyphen (-) prompt will appear waiting for you to enter commands.


Enter the following commands, pressing Enter after each one. Note: the o is the letter o and stands for OUTPUT.


o 70 2e


o 71 ff


q


After the q command (which stands for QUIT), enter Exit.


Then try to enter your BIOS at bootup. The password prompt should now be gone and you should now have full access to it again. However, you will now be at the default BIOS settings and may want to change them to your preference. You may also want to have your drives auto detected again.
In closing, I should state that in the case of a lost BIOS password, your first step should always be to contact your manufacturer to see if a back door password is available that will allow you to bypass the forgotten password bt dnt give those more than 3 times!

Create exucuyable file

• Many of u might be knowing this but still newbies can learn something from this

How to make an executable file?
when it is in .exe form no one will be able to change look or modify the code (note:it will make it to a self extraction thing but it will still act like a exe)

This is how you make it to a .exe

goto to start run and type iexpress


STEP BY STEP ON HOW TO USE IT
click create new self extraction then next

click extract files and run an installation command and click next


type what you want to name the files (ex. hello,virus,fake game hack) then click next

click no prompt then next

license agreement unless you want to put one click do not display license

package files(most important) click add then choose your .bat file(also does .vbs files) then click next

under install program choose your .bat or .vbs file and click next(don't worry about the other one)

show window pick one and click next

finished message pick one and click next

click browse and type the name of it and save to desktop or C: then next

configure restart just click no restart and then next

just click don't save then next

their click next and watchyour file change into something better

when its done click finish and check out your new file.

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Posted by I am nt a hacker rather an ethical hacker!!

PROTECT YOUR pc from hAcKErS

Follow These Simple Guidelines n chances of hacking uy pc less(for Windows OS)
1. Stop using Internet Explorer and make the switch to Opera, it's more secure, plain and simple. 
2. Get Spybot Search and Destroy or Spyware Doctor and immediately update it.
3. Get Adaware SE and immediately update it. 
(Use both as a 1-2 punch on infected client computers and between the two there's not much they won't kill) 
4. Update your anti virus 
5. Boot into safe mode and run all three scans 
6. While the scans are going check your registry (Click start --> Run and type regedit to get intot he registry) and look in HKEY_CurrentUser/software/microsoft/windows/currentversion/run & HKEY_Local_Machine/software/microsoft/windows/currentversion/run. Verify that all programs listed are legitimate and wanted. 
7. If or when your antivirus scan comes across anything, search for that file name in your registry and delete it

8. Use explorer to go to the windows/system32 folder and sort by date. If you haven't already done so, make sure you can see the entire file names. click Tools --> Folder Options and unclick the box labeled "Hide extensions for known file types" and under Hidden files and folders click "Show hidden files and folders." However, make sure you choose "Hide protected operating system files" so you don't accidentally remove anything that would cripple your computer.. You are looking for recent files with names ending with .exe and .dll that look suspicious. Major culprits will have gibberish names such as alkjdlkjfa.exe. 
9. Once you can get clean scans in safe mode, reboot in normal mode and scan all over again. If you can't get a clean scan in regular mode then you have something more persistant that could take more research. 
10. Make sure your firewall doesn't have strange exceptions. 
11. If you suspect anything that is going wrong with your computer is the action of a stalker, on a more secure system change all your passwords. 
12. If your system has been specifically targeted and hacked you can never be 100% sure that your system is no longer compromised so start with 11, make backups of personal files on the infected system and format and re-install Windows.

Open Source Softwares

Open source software (OSS) began as a marketing campaign for free software.OSS can be defined as computer software for which the human-readable source code is made available under a copyright license (or arrangement such as the public domain) that meets the Open Source Definition. This permits users to use, change, and improve the software, and to redistribute it in modified or unmodified form. It is very often developed in a public, collaborative manner. Open source software is the most prominent example of open source development and often compared to user generated content.

Open Source Softwares have following main advantages:

#Users should be treated as co-developers
#Early releases
The first version of the software should be released as early as possible so as to increase one’s chances of finding co-developers early.
#Frequent integration
New code should be integrated as often as possible so as to avoid the overhead of fixing a large number of bugs at the end of the project life cycle. Some open source projects have nightly builds where integration is done automatically on a daily basis.
#Several versions
There should be at least two versions of the software. There should be a buggier version with more features and a more stable version with fewer features. The buggy version (also called the development version) is for users who want the immediate use of the latest features, and are willing to accept the risk of using code that is not yet thoroughly tested. The users can then act as co-developers, reporting bugs and providing bug fixes.
#High modularization
The general structure of the software should be modular allowing for parallel development.
#Dynamic decision making structure
There is a need for a decision making structure, whether formal or informal, that makes strategic decisions depending on changing user requirements and other factors. Cf. Extreme programming.

Most well known OSS products include projects such as Linux, Firefox, Apache, the GNU Compiler Collection, and Perl to mention a few.

Linux kernel comes up with many distributions so we can download it through the distribution’s site such as http://www.fedoraproject.org

PHP: PHP hypertext pre-processor can be downloaded from www.php.net/downloads.php

Apache: One of the most famous HTTP server http://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi

Mozilla Firefox, The most commonly used and best Explorer http://www.getfirefox.com

Pidgin: A multi-protocol instant messenger formerly known as GAIM http://www.pidgin.im/download/

MySQL: one of the leading database management program http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/