Windows Vista- the customization guide

Windows Vista
-the customization guide

The GUI interface of Windows Vista is one of the most popular interface in the Operating System market today.
But what if you wish to customize your Windows Vista according to your own wish?
In this tutorial you will learn how to edit the Vista Visual Style according to your wish…
Requirements:
Ø Resource Hacker
Ø Replacer
Ø TakeControl
Ø VistaGlazz
Ø LogonStudio Vista

Vista System files Editing:

Basics:
In Windows Vista (all versions), the files which hold the normal GUI data have been replaced from .dll to .dll.mui. If you try to open a specific .dll of any application, you will only be able to edit the BITMAP section only. So if you wish to edit the GUI of any application, you will have to search for a .dll.mui file mostly.

Opening explorer.exe file

Opening explorer.exe file

Ø Open Resource Hacker and navigate to “%windir%\System32\en-US\” or “%windir%\en-US\”.
Ø Change the Files of type: to All Files (*.*) .
Ø Now you will be able to see lots of *.dll.mui files. These are the files which you need to open and edit in your resource hacker.
Note:The important files which can be edited are:
Ø Sysdm.cpl.mui – “%windir%\System32\en-US\”
(System Properties dialog box)
Ø Shell32.dll.mui - “%windir%\System32\en-US\”
(Changing basic things like run dialog box, menu items etc.)
Ø Authui.dll.mui – “%windir%\System32\en-US\”
(Shutdown dialog box and more)
Ø Explorer.exe.mui – “%windir%\en-US\”
(Windows Explorer menu and style)
Ø Netshell.dll.mui – “%windir%\System32\en-US\”
(Internet connection icon and style appearing in system tray)
Ø Stobject.dll.mui – “%windir%\System32\en-US\”
(System tray icons and style)
Ø Comdlg32.dll.mui – “%windir%\System32\en-US\”
(Basic dialog box such as color change, open\save etc.)
Ø Winlogon.exe.mui – “%windir%\System32\en-US\”
(Text and style of basic logon screen)
But you can always try editing other files which are not mentioned here as they might be also useful for you.
→While trying to save your file you will be prompted with an error.

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Windows Seven: hiring

The software giant is looking to hire a technical evangelist for Windows Seven. That sounds like a really good idea to me. But Microsoft had better hire someone who can be more thought leader than mouthpiece—a straight talker who can generate genuine enthusiasm while setting realistic expectations. Longhorn really hurt Microsoft’s credibility. In early 2004, Microsoft started breaking feature promises made in late 2003—and the broken promises continued through 2005, as Microsoft dumped more and more Longhorn (aka Windows Vista) features.

The Windows Seven evangelist needs to sell benefits while not overstating them. In fact, Microsoft needs someone who can sell aspiration around limited benefits so that people can get excited about the product and the company can deliver more than promised later on. People buy things because they want to be happy, to believe their lives will be better from the purchase. Apple sells aspiration so well, and Microsoft needs to, too. The shoes are mighty big. Maybe Microsoft should call on the Friendly Giant. The job posting is dated Dec. 11, 2007, but Microsoft hasn’t yet filled the position. It’s a big, big job.
The full story @ MS-Watch

Find Ebooks on Google

As you know Google.com is the most popular search engine in the world.
Here are some tips to helps you find eBooks with Google:
Find Apache’s (default) Index page
Try this query:

Quote:

+(“index of”) +(“/ebooks”|”/book”) +(chm|pdf|zip|rar) +apache

To Find a particular eBook file
Try this query:

Quote:

allinurl: +(rar|chm|zip|pdf|tgz) TheTitle of the book

by:

Rakeshishere(thinkdigit)

Remove Funny UST Scandal.avi

Remove Funny UST Scandal.avi.exe (Vista and XP)

  

I came across many people (including me) who got infected by the Funny UST Scandal.avi virus. This tutorial guides you through the manual process of removing this Virus from Windows Vista and Windows XP systems.

Details:

1)      This will block your Task Manager, Registry Editor and Command Prompt.

2)      It hacks in your Yahoo Messenger and sends stupid and senseless messages to them and even a copy of itself. (ask gigacore if you don’t believe me!!!:P)

3)      It will log your all key strokes and send them to an unknown email address through IM.

4)      It slows down your system badly and reinstalling the OS will do no good.

5)      It will disable the search and viewing of hidden files.

 It’s built using AutoIt V3 virus programming software.–(source= some blog)Windows XP:

 This virus was made mainly to infect XP and Windows NT systems. In XP and NT systems, it makes the following files:

       a) Killer.exe (4084 kb) in c:\windows\
      b) lsass.exe (3920kb) in c:\documents and settings\all users\start             menu\programs\startup
      c) xmss.exe (4088kb) in all partitioned drives and in c:\windows
      d) autorun.inf (1kb) in all partitioned drives with a script.e) Funny UST Scandal.avi.exe in all partitions and Funny UST Scandal.exe in c:\Windows. 

 This Virus makes the following registry entries:

a)      HKLM\Software\Microsoft\WindowNT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon      shell(killer.exe or xmss.exe)
b) HKCU\Software\Microsoft\windows\Currentversion\Run      Runonce(c:\windows\xmss.exe) 

If the virus has completely installed itself, then you can find all these files in your system.

To remove this virus:

a)      In order to removes the files, you’ll first have to stop the execution of this virus. To do so, download this file and run it.

b)      Now open cmd.exe and…

 

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Vista GUI interface on Vista Home Basic…

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This guide might help you out to transform your Vista Home Basic to Vista Ultimate (GUI)

3D Desktop cude for Windows XP

The Desktop Cube effect for Linux is extremely popular because people love eye candy, but the choices for Windows are much less interesting. The latest utility to give this effect for Windows is surprisingly fast, and works on both XP and Vista.

Of course, Keyboard Ninjas prefer keyboard shortcuts to snazzy desktops, but that’s not the point is it?

Here’s the screen in action, which is surprisingly fast on my Vista laptop.

The system icon in the tray conveniently gives you access to everything, and even tells you what the keyboard shortcuts are.

The options page gives you a lot of options, and I’d recommend enabling the misspelled “Blendding” option, because it makes the effect look a lot nicer on a faster machine.

Here’s the coolest part, the Screen Manager, where you can move windows around between screens by just dragging and dropping.

I’m sure this won’t be the last of these utilities, but at least this one is still free, unlike the Yod’m 3D one we wrote about before.

You’ll need to make sure that your system has drivers that support OpenGL.

Download Shock 4Way 3D Desktop Utility

Increase XP speed

1. Start > Right Click on My Computer and select properties. 2. Click on the “Advanced” tab 3. See the “Perfomance” section ? Click “Settings” 4. Disable the following: Fade or slide menus into view Fade or slide ToolTips into view Fade out menu items after clicking Show Shadows under menus Slide open combo boxes Slide taskbar buttons Use a background image for each folder type Use common tasks in folders Windows will still look nice and perform fast. — by Raghavendra S

Vista Flip 3D in Windows XP

Well this is da most loved feature of vista…The Flip 3d…now u can use it even on Windows XP…just Download this lil  software…..its g r8

Click here…

                                                                   

The HTA Applications

The HTA Applications

  

Introduction: HTA applications are one of the most dangerous (atleast I think so) part of Web Designing. HTA’s are basically a cross between the Web-Pages and Executable files. With the help of HTA, it is now possible to make a complex application to work on the web without making an .exe of it!

 

Security: HTA’s are no doubt useful but it also has a darker side. The HTA applications are big threat to system security as they provide full access to the system resources without any warning or checking any security settings of the browser. IN SHORT, IT WORKS AS A TRUSTED APPLICATION.

The Good part of HTA is that it does not open as a Webpage on the web but asks the user to either RUN or SAVE it.

 

Few Programs: (only ie4 and above support HTA)

 

Making folder:

<html><head><HTA:APPLICATION ID=”htapp”></head><body><object id=wsh classid=clsid:F935DC22-1CF0-11D0-ADB9-00C04FD58A0B></object><script language=vbscript>set wshshell=createobject (“wscript.shell”)a=wshshell.run(“cmd.exe /c md abhishek”,0)</script>Folder made!</body></html> 

When you save the above code as name.hta and execute it, a window will open with FOLDER MADE! written on it and a new folder will be created at the same location where the HTA file is kept.

 

Now remove <HTA:APPLICATION ID=”htapp”> from the above code and save it as name.html and now run it. Now you will be able to see the difference between HTA and HTML Applications.

 

Web Browser:

<html><head><title>Abhi Internet Browser</title><HTA:APPLICATION APPLICATIONNAME=”Abhi Internet Browser” Windowstate=”normal” sysmenu=”yes”></head><body><span id=abar style=”overflow none”><span id=AText><b>URL:</b></span><input type=text value=”" id=URL width=”60″ style=”width:expression(document.body.clientWidth-AText.offsetWidth – AGo.offsetWidth -85)”><input type=button value=”Go” id=AGo onclick=”navigate()”><br><span><br><iframe src=”techabhi.wordpress.com” id=data style=”width:100%;height:85%”></iframe><script language=jscript>function navigate() {document.all.data.src=URL.value;}function clickshortcut(){if (window.event.keycode==13){ navigate() }}URL.onkeypress=clickshortcut;</script></body></html> Now save this code as name.hta and run it. You can see a small web browser has been made and it can even access you HDD when you type x:\ and press GO button.Now save this file as name.html and run it. You can still see the address bar and the GO button but you will not be able to surf the web nor access your HDD until you allow the scripts and active-X to run through your browser. This means that you can very well view the non-scripted part of the HTA on web browsers but not the scripted part. Conclusion: I request everyone, who have read this article, not to misuse the above provided code as I have tried to explain my point with these code and they are meant only for educational purpose.

Study help for Indian’s…