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How to increase the processor power of your computer?

July 21, 2008

Follow the given steps to end the idle tasks:

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To enable this feature, you will need to be logged into your computer with administrative rights.
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Click Start button and click on Run option.
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In the Run box, type the command Rundll32.exe advapi32.dll,ProcessIdleTasks command and press Ok button.

Here system will take some time to end the background idle tasks

How to prevent users from writing to USB drives?

July 21, 2008

A common security issue at organizations is how to prevent their workers to write data onto USB drives using their PCs, because a user can easily move confidential data for other location.

If you have windows XP with SP2, then you can disable the writing option to USB drives.

Follow the given steps to disable the USB writing option:

To edit the computer registry, first you should log onto your computer with administrative rights.

First click on Start button and type “Regedit” in Run option.

Here locate the location to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control

Here in right side panel, click right to create a key with the name “StorageDevicePolicies”.

Now in left side panel, select “StorageDevicePolicies” key, again right click to create new DWORD value then label it “WriteProtect”.

Set its value to “1″. But again enable this option set its values “0″.

Now close the registry editor and restart your computer after any changes to go into effect

TOP SECRET- How to Hide the drives

July 20, 2008
1.Go to start->run.Type regedit.Now go to:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
Now in the right pane create a new DWORD item and name it NoDrives(it is case sensitive). Now modify it’s value and set it to 3FFFFFF (Hexadecimal) .Now restart your computer. So, now when you click on My Computer, no drives will be shown(all gone…). To enable display of drives in My Computer, simply delete this DWORD item that you created.Again restart your computer.You can now see all the drives again.

Enable registery

July 20, 2008

Please open Notepad and copy and paste this to notepad EXACTLY as shown here:

REGEDIT4
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System]
“DisableRegistryTools”=dword:00000000
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System]
“DisableRegistryTools”=dword:00000000

Save it as “unlockreg.reg”

Once saved, double click “Unlockreg.reg” and merge the file to your Registry.

Your Registry Editing tools or regedit will be open

Enable Regedit

July 20, 2008

Copy the following code,paste in any notepad and save as “regtools.vbs” file. Just double click it and you will get
yor regedit enabled. [Be careful to copy the code exactly as presented here including everything]

This’s Code…

‘Enable/Disable Registry Editing tools
‘© Doug Knox – rev 12/06/99
Option Explicit
‘Declare variables
Dim WSHShell, n, MyBox, p, t, mustboot, errnum, vers
Dim enab, disab, jobfunc, itemtype
Set WSHShell = WScript.CreateObject(“WScript.Shell”)
p = “HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\”
p = p & “DisableRegistryTools”
itemtype = “REG_DWORD”
mustboot = “Log off and back on, or restart your pc to” & vbCR & “effect the changes”
enab = “ENABLED”
disab = “DISABLED”
jobfunc = “Registry Editing Tools are now “
‘This section tries to read the registry key value. If not present an
‘error is generated. Normal error return should be 0 if value is
‘present
t = “Confirmation”
Err.Clear
On Error Resume Next
n = WSHShell.RegRead (p)
On Error Goto 0
errnum = Err.Number
if errnum <> 0 then
‘Create the registry key value for DisableRegistryTools with value 0
WSHShell.RegWrite p, 0, itemtype
End If
‘If the key is present, or was created, it is toggled
‘Confirmations can be disabled by commenting out
‘the two MyBox lines below
If n = 0 Then
n = 1
WSHShell.RegWrite p, n, itemtype
Mybox = MsgBox(jobfunc & disab & vbCR & mustboot, 4096, t)
ElseIf n = 1 then
n = 0
WSHShell.RegWrite p, n, itemtype
Mybox = MsgBox(jobfunc & enab & vbCR & mustboot, 4096, t)
End If

Disable Appearance Tab

July 20, 2008

This option you are going to see In Display Contral Panel and it Key is

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System and Value Name is “NoDispAppearancePage” if its value is 0 you can see?this Option Enabled and if 1 you can’t see that option.

Disable Setting And Plus Tab:

July 20, 2008


This option you are going to see In Display Control Panel and it Key is

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System and Value Name is “NoDispSettingsPage” if its value is 0 you can see?this Option Enabled and if 1 you can’t see that option.

Disable ScreenSaver Tab:

July 20, 2008

This option you are going to see In Display Control Panel and it Key is

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System and Value Name is “NoDispScrSavPage” if its value is 0 you can see?this Option Enabled and if 1 you can’t see that option.

Disable Background Tab:

July 20, 2008


This option you are going to see in Display Control Panel and it Key is HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System and Value Name is “NoDispBackgroundPage” if its value is 0 you can see?this Option Enabled and if 1 you can’t see that option.

Disable Display Properties:

July 20, 2008


This option you are going to see is accessible by a Right click on DESKTOP and click on Properties menu item and it Key is

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System. The Value Name is “NoDispCPL” if its value is 0 you can see?this Option Enabled and if 1 you can’t see that option.