What Is Hacking

“Hacking” is a activity of intrusion and exploiting into computer system or network and an art of exploring security breaches . Hacking has both positive and negative aspects.Activities done for some good purpose along with permission is termed as “hacking” and the the activity done illegaly for the greed,shake of money or to destroy is term as “cracking”.Both the words means the same  but only the difference is in their thinking.Cracking is illegal activity but hacking is legal.According to indian IT act their is no difference between hacking and cracking,every act done towards breaking into computer system and network is known as hacking and is illegal.

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Who Are Hackers

Hackers are intillegents computer proffetionals who likes to explore and learn about the backend working of computer and networks.Hackers are experts in the field of computing.They find vulnerablities in system and share knowledege by seminars and every possible ways to make people aware.Hackers are usually misconcepted with the term that hackers are the one who break into computer security and network for his own use.

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Who Are Crackers

Crackers are those who breaks into computers and networks security for malcious intent , for personal gains for revenge and money .They usually hack banks accounts , credit cards,causes defacement and can cause finiancial losses.They are cyber criminals.

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Who Are Script Kiddes

Script kiddies are the persons without any technical skills of hacking and use tools developed by other hackers without having knowledge of whats happning behind the screen.They are learners and newbees in hacking and hack for learning and fun.

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White Hat Hacker

They are known as good guys and use their skills for good and constructive  manner.They found vulnerablities ,loop holes and their solutions.They usually share their knowledge for awaring people.

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Black Hat Hackers

They are known as bad guys and use their skills for illegal activities and destrucive manner to take revenge and to gain money.They find vulnerablities and later on exploit them.

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What Is CyberCrime ?

                                         Cyber Crime

The internet in India is growing rapidly. It has given rise to new opportunities in every field we can think  entertainment, business, sports or education. There are two sides to a coin. Internet also has its own advantages and disadvantages. One of the major disadvantages is Cybercrime – illegal activitiy committed on the internet these days. The internet, along with its advantages, has also exposed us to security risks that come with connecting to a large network. Computers today are being misused for illegal activities like e-mail espionage, credit card fraud, spams, hacking,pornography,software piracy and so on, which invade our privacy and offend our senses. 

"The modern thief can steal more with a computer than with a gun. Tomorrow's terrorist may be able to do more damage with a keyboard than with a bomb".As seen in past years in mumbai , ahemdabad blast cases.

Terrorists often used computers to send and recieve instructions to each others.In Ahemdabad blast cases terrorists use open public wifi connections to send emails to police.

What is this Cyber crime? We read about it in newspapers very often. Let's look at the dictionary definition of Cybercrime: "It is a criminal activity committed on the internet. This is a broad term that describes everything from electronic cracking to denial of service attacks that cause electronic commerce sites to lose money and data of public".

Cyber crimes can be basically divided into 3 major categories:

1. Cybercrimes against persons.

2. Cybercrimes against property.

3. Cybercrimes against government.

Cybercrimes committed against persons include various crimes like transmission of child-pornography, harassment of any one with the use of a computer such as e-mails and fake profiles. The trafficking, distribution, posting, and dissemination of obscene material including pornography , hacking emails,creating fake profiles and indecent exposure, constitutes one of the most important Cybercrimes known today. The potential harm of such a crime to humanity can hardly be amplified. This is one Cybercrime which threatens to undermine the growth of the younger generation as also leave irreparable scars and injury on the younger generation, if not controlled.

Another example wherein the damage was not done to a person but to the masses is the case of the Melissa virus. The Melissa virus first appeared on the internet in March of 1999. It spread rapidly throughout computer systems in the United States and Europe. It is estimated that the virus caused 80 million dollars in damages to computers worldwide.

In the United States alone, the virus made its way through 1.2 million computers in one-fifth of the country's largest businesses. David Smith pleaded guilty on Dec. 9, 1999 to state and federal charges associated with his creation of the Melissa virus. There are numerous examples of such computer viruses few of them being "Melissa" and "love bug".

Cyberharassment is a distinct Cybercrime. Various kinds of harassment can and do occur in cyberspace, or through the use of cyberspace. Harassment can be sexual, racial, religious, or other. Persons perpetuating such harassment are also guilty of cybercrimes.

Cyberharassment as a crime also brings us to another related area of violation of privacy of citizens. Violation of privacy of online citizens is a Cybercrime of a grave nature. No one likes any other person invading the invaluable and extremely touchy area of his or her own privacy which the medium of internet grants to the citizen.

The second category of Cyber-crimes is that of Cybercrimes against all forms of property. These crimes include computer vandalism (destruction of others' property), transmission of harmful programmes.

A Mumbai-based upstart engineering company lost a say and much money in the business when the rival company, an industry major, stole the technical database from their computers with the help of a corporate cyberspy.

The third category of Cyber-crimes relate to Cybercrimes against Government. Cyberterrorism is one distinct kind of crime in this category. The growth of internet has shown that the medium of Cyberspace is being used by individuals and groups to threaten the international governments as also to terrorise the citizens of a country. This crime manifests itself into terrorism when an individual "cracks" into a government or military maintained website.

In a report of expressindia. com, it was said that internet was becoming a boon for the terrorist organisations. According to Mr. A.K. Gupta, Deputy Director (Co-ordination), CBI, terrorist outfits are increasingly using internet to communicate and move funds using cryptography. "Lashker-e-Toiba is collecting contributions online from its sympathisers all over the world. During the investigation of the Red Fort shootout in Dec. 2000, the accused Ashfaq Ahmed of this terrorist group revealed that the militants are making extensive use of the internet to communicate with the operatives and the sympathisers and also using the medium for intra-bank transfer of funds".

Cracking is amongst the gravest Cyber-crimes known till date. It is a dreadful feeling to know that a stranger has broken into your computer systems without your knowledge and consent and has tampered with precious confidential data and information.Today cracked software can be found anywhere on internet.

Coupled with this the actuality is that no computer system in the world is cracking proof. It is unanimously agreed that any and every system in the world can be cracked. The recent denial of service attacks seen over the popular commercial sites like E-bay, Yahoo, Amazon and others are a new category of Cyber-crimes which are slowly emerging as being extremely dangerous.

Using one's own programming abilities as also various progra-mmes with malicious intent to gain unauthorised access to a computer or network are very serious crimes. Similarly, the creation and dissemination of harmful computer programmes which do irreparable damage to computer systems is another kind of Cybercrime. Software piracy is also another distinct kind of Cybercrime which is perpetuated by many people online who distribute illegal and unauthorised pirated copies of software.

Professionals who involve in these cybercrimes are called crackers and it is found that many of such professionals are still in their teens starting from age 13 to 24. A report written near the start of the Information Age warned that America's computers were at risk from crackers. It said that computers that "control (our) power delivery, communications, aviation and financial services (and) store vital information, from medical re-cords to business plans, to criminal records", were vulnerable from many sources, including deliberate attack.

Crackers do more than just spoiling websites. Novices, who are called "script-kiddies" in their circles, gain "root" access to a computer system, giving them the same power over a system as an administrator – such as the power to modify features. They cause damage by planting viruses.

The Parliament of India passed its first Cyberlaw, the Information Technology Act in 2000. It not only provides the legal infrastructure for E-commerce in India but also at the same time, gives draconian powers to the Police to enter and search, without any warrant, any public place for the purpose of nabbing cybercriminals and preventing cybercrime. Also, the Indian Cyberlaw talks of the arrest of any person who is about to commit a cybercrime.

The Act defines five cyber-crimes – damage to computer source code, hacking, publishing electronic information whi-ch is lascivious or prurient, br-each of confidentiality and pu-blishing false digital signatu-res. The Act also specifies that cybercrimes can only be investigated by an official holding no less a rank than that of Dy. Superintendent of Police (Dy.SP).

The Act simply says "Notwi-thstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being in force, any Police Officer not below the rank of Dy.SP may enter, search and arrest any person without search warrant in any public place who he thinks is committing or about to commit a cybercrime".

It is common that many systems operators do not share information when they are victimis-ed by crackers. They don't contact law enforcement officers when their computer systems are invaded, preferring instead to fix the damage and take action to keep crackers from gaining access again with as little public attention as possible.

According to Sundari Nanda, SP, CBI, "most of the times the victims do not complain, may be because they are aware of the extent of the crime committed against them, or as in the case of business houses, they don't want to confess their system is not secure".

As the research shows, computer crime poses a real threat. Those who believe otherwise simply have not been awakened by the massive losses and setbacks experienced by companies worldwide. Money and intellectual property have been stolen, corporate operations impeded, and jobs lost as a result of computer crime.

Similarly, information systems in government and business alike have been compromised. The economic impact of computer crime is staggering.

As the cases of cybercrime grows, there is a growing need to prevent them. Cyberspace belongs to everyone. There should be electronic surveillance which means investigators tracking down hackers often want to monitor a cracker as he breaks into a victim's computer system. The two basic laws governing real-time electronic surveillance in other criminal investigations also apply in this context, search warrants which means that search warrants may be obtained to gain access to the premises where the cracker is believed to have evidence of the crime. Such evidence would include the computer used to commit the crime, as well as the software used to gain unauthorised access and other evidence of the crime.

There should also be analysing evidence from a cracker's computer by the officials investigating the crime. A seized computer may be examined by a forensic computer examiner to determine what evidence of the crime exists on the computer.

Researchers must explore the problems in greater detail to learn the origins, methods, and motivations of this growing criminal group. Decision-makers in business, government, and law enforcement must react to this emerging body of knowledge. They must develop policies, methods, and regulations to detect incursions, investigate and prosecute the perpetrators, and prevent future crimes. In addition, Police Departments should immediately take steps to protect their own information systems from intrusions.

Internet provides anonymity: This is one of the reasons why criminals try to get away easily when caught and also give them a chance to commit the crime again. Therefore, we users should be careful. We should not disclose any personal information on the internet or use credit cards and if we find anything suspicious in e-mails or if the system is hacked, it should be immediately reported to the Police officials who investigate cyber-crimes rather than trying to fix the problem by ourselves.

Computer crime is a multi-billion dollar problem. Law enforcement must seek ways to keep the drawbacks from overshadowing the great promise of the computer age. Cybercrime is a menace that has to be tackled effectively not only by the official but also by the users by co-operating with the law. The founding fathers of internet wanted it to be a boon to the whole world and it is upon us to keep this tool of modernisation as a boon and not make it a bane to the society.

Source:cyberlawsindia.net

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How to: Create a custom search engine with Google

Did you know that you can create your own search engine using Google CSE. Google custom search engine beta enables you to specify web sites that you want to search rather then searching the entire web. For instance, I’ve created a search engine that will search only popular social networking websites and embedded it into my iGoogle page. So here is how you can create your own search engine in just a few steps:

1. Click here to go to CSE start page.
2. Before you begin, you have to name your search engine, write a brief description of it, select preferred language and websites you want to include.
3. You can also specify whether or not to display google ads on your query.
4. Once created, you can try it out by typing a keyword in the search box.
That is all that has to be done! Easy huh? You can also customize the look and feel of your search box and you can embed it into your blog or a website.

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The new Apple TV

You’ve probably already heard about the Apple TV 2. It retails for $99 and packs a punch with HD video, optical audio, and WiFi in that tiny package. But as always, we like it for its hackability. Even though it’s just starting to ship, the hacks are already rolling in. The firmware is available from Apple’s servers and has already been unlocked with the yet-to-be-release SHAtter exploit. [Das_coach] even sent us a link to a video of the new Frontrow ported for the iPod touch (embedded after the break).
But the holy grail has to be XBMC. We’ve seen it on the first generation Apple TV and it was good. The second generation switches to the A4 processor which is an ARM Cortex-A8. Not quite as easy to port for as the Intel chip on the first generation was. But there is hope, one of the 2010 Google Summer of Code projects worked to port XBMC to another ARM device, it’s just a matter of inspiring some developers to take on the quest to make it happen. We can’t wait for the day that we can just velcro one of these to the back of our TV and be done with it, that first generation Xbox isn’t going to last forever.

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How To Hack a Blackberry 2

CAUTION THIS CAN DAMAGE YOUR BLACKBERRY BEYOND REPAIR!

3.Use the code generator and instructions.

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4.Once you have access to this menu, every time you press Alt+Shift+H you should go into the E-Screen without having to use the code generator.

5.Have fun, who knows what kind of trouble you can get into in there. Leave us a comment if you find out how to do something cool.

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How To Hack a Blackberry

This page gives details on how to hack a Blackberry by freeing up memory, by installing apps without a data plan, removing an I.T. policy, or tethering. These procedures work on most models. You will also find here a catalog of popular BlackBerry 3rd party apps to download.
All BlackBerry cell phones have preloaded themes, features, support, and samples. This makes it easy to start using your phone right out of the box, but it also fills up your phone's memory. Your BlackBerry comes with just enough free memory to operate. As you enter messages and items on your calendar, eventually your phone will start to delete old ones automatically, to make room for new ones. Most users get a memory card to help solve this memory problem. Eventually though even your memory card will get full. Two methods for hacking into your phone and uninstalling some of the preloaded stuff that you don't use are explained in the featured video and in Step 1 below.
The BlackBerry is superior to many other cell phones in that it already allows 3rd Party Applications to be installed on it. Unlike many other cell phones, there is no need to hack a blackBerry to be able to install 3rd party applications on it. Many cellular service providers charge BlackBerry users a data plan fee for the ability to download and install 3rd party applications. Step 2 below gives a workaround for this.
A variety of 3rd party downloadable applications are available. For those of you who bought your BlackBerry on eBay only to discover that you can't install anything on it because of the crippling I.T. policy the previous owner neglected to tell you about - step 3 below spells out how to remove a pesky I.T. policy. If you use this on a phone that is owned by your employer or anyone but you, then you may be fired or face charges.
Disclaimer: Doing any of the hacks described on this page could brick your phone (make it useless like a brick). Some 3rd party applications can harm your phone, use it to send spam, or steal your personal information. If you decide to procede, then use caution. You use any of this information at your own risk.

Step 1: How To Free Memory on a BlackBerry

First, get a memory card for your BlackBerry. These range in price from $9.95 to $89.99. They range in memory size from 2 gigabytes to 16 gigabytes and are available from a variety of retailers.
To delete applications that are loaded on your phone but that you won't use, on your phone, go to:

• Menu > Options > Advanced Options > Applications
• Select an application that you won't use.
• Menu > Delete
• Restart your phone.

Don't load your phone up with any applications or themes that you won't use.
It will save a lot of memory if you only have one theme on your phone. If the one theme you want to use is a third party theme, then you still have to keep one factory loaded theme on your phone, or the other one won't work. In order to delete the other factory loaded themes, you will need a utility called Javaloader, which is part of an official BlackBerry development tool called BlackBerry JDE. Once you have installed BlackBerry JDE on your computer, you will be able to edit the names of preloaded themes so that they appear to be old and can thus be deleted. On your computer go to:
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Research In Motion\Shared\Loader Files\(numbers that correspond to your BlackBerry's model)\Java

• Locate the files for the themes that you don't want.
• Rename these files by adding .old after the .cod in their filenames.
• You MUST keep one factory loaded theme on the phone, so do not rename all of the factory themes.
• Connect your phone to your computer.
• Run the app loader, which will delete the renamed themes from your phone.

Using a 3rd Party Hack to Free Up Blackberry Memory

If you need to quickly free up space on your memory card, don't waste time guessing which files you don't use. The Memory Card Cleaner maps your memory card usage so that you can gain a bird's-eye view of what's taking up most of your coveted card space. The Memory Card Cleaner displays your disk usage in a color-coded map that shows exactly what file types and folders are taking up the most space on your memory card. Select the files and then delete them or move them to another memory card. http://www.foryourblackberry.com/

Step 2: BlackBerry Hacking Apps

Be very careful when downloading files. Some 3rd party applications will harm your phone, use it to send spam, or steal your personal information. You use any of this page at your own risk. Doing any of these steps incorrectly could brick your phone (make it useless like a brick). If you decide to proceed, then use caution.
Some 3rd party applications can be downloaded and installed onto your BlackBerry with out your having to subscribe to your cellular phone provider's data plan. In order to do this, you will need to have a computer that you can plug your phone into, and your phone needs to have a MicroSD memory card in it. You will also need to download and extract a utility called OTA Downloader.

• Find an application that you want on your phone.
• Open OTA Loader.
• Under URL to .jad file insert an OTA download link for the app and your current OS.
• Example:
• An OTA download link for an app called berryaddon with OS 4.6:
• http://www.all4berry.com/ota/BerryAddon_46.jad
• If you need help creating this link, then click on this number.
• Click download.
• Wait while it downloads; do not do anything on the phone or the computer.

• Look for the downloaded folder with three files in it.
• Copy these three files to your phone's MicroSD card.
• On your phone:
• Media Menu > BlackBerry Menu > Explore
• Find the files you just saved on your phone's MicroSD card.
• Click on the .Jad file.
• Choose download.
• Wait while it "downloads" (it will install); do not do anything on the phone.
• After the app installs you can delete the files from your MicroSD card.

Step 3: How To Remove an I.T. Policy from a Blackberry

On your home computer:
Install the Blackberry Desktop Manager with Blackberry Internet Service. If the Blackberry Desktop Manager had already been installed on your computer, then uninstall it and make sure to use Blackberry Internet Service to install it this time. The Blackberry Desktop Manager is on the CD that came with your BlackBerry. If you have misplaced this CD, then download the Blackberry Desktop Manager by clicking on this number.
Next, you will need to get a utility hack called policy.bin by clicking on this number. Save policy.bin to your Blackberry installation directory:

• C:\Program Files\Research In Motion\BlackBerry

• Back up anything on the phone that you want to keep.
• Wipe clean the phone's memory by selecting on the phone: *Options > Security > Wipe
• If this option is unavailable, go to the forums for help by clicking on this number.

• Close the Desktop Manager and disconnect the phone from the computer.
• On your computer:

Start > Run > regedit

• On the left, go to:
• HKEY_Current_Users\Software\Research In Motion\BlackBerry\PolicyManager
• Right click the Policy Manager folder.
• Select New/String Value.
• Name the value Path.
• Double click the Path Subkey.
• Set Value Data to:
• C:\Program Files\Research In Motion\BlackBerry\policy.bin

• Restart the computer.
• Open the Desktop Manager.
• Connect your BlackBerry to the computer.

Step 4 How to Tether a Blackberry

Tethering usually means using your mobile phone as a wireless modem for your computer - typically a laptop. For example, you are frequently on the road and there is no WiFi coverage for your laptop. Just tether your Blackberry to the lap top and you have a 3G modem. But beware - the data exchanged between your mobile phone and your computer counts against your telecommunications plan and web-browsing on computers are graphics intensive.

Applications TetherBerry was released on May 6th allowing easy tethering of your Blackberry to a computer by installing a small app on each.

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Smartcard Hack For IR

Hiii....Friends... a lots of thanks for visiting my site, keep visiting for updated contents. Today i have some interesting and a super unique article for you.

Let me tell you what it is. Ahhh one more thing, sorry that this article is only for Indian readers, hmmmmm don't worry if you are outside India and needed this kind of a trick, please let me know by a comment.

Okk.. now this article is based on Smartcard.

Yaa....the smartcard provided by Indian Railway to take tickets from the Automatic Ticket Vending Machine (ATVM) provided for easy tickets without standing in long Ques. Many of you may be having the Smartcard. Now if your balance money gets over, you will be depressed, rite. Well i have a hack for taking free tickets with it. Just follow the steps accordingly as i have said below.

Requirements:

* Two Indian Railway provided Samrtcards, One with minimum Rs.50 balance and the other one Empty, but it must have an existing validity.

Let the card with balance be A and other card be B.

Steps:

* While taking ticket, insert the card A

* As it has balance in it, you can select your Destination and other details through it.

* Now when you have chosen everything and the ticket is ready to be printed, i.e. you will see a screen with PRINT message on it, wait here.

* Its time to use the card B.

* Slowly remove the card A from the slot and quickly insert the card B in the place of card A and select the PRINT on screen as soon as possible.

* If you have done all this quickly, you will get a ticket at free of cost, no balance will be deducted From card A.

Thats it !

Note: I don't encourage in taking Free Tickets or traveling Ticket Free. This was just for Educational purpose and to show how vulnerable this Government Machines Are!

If you have troubles or Queries regarding to this, let me know by a comment below.....

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Move or Copy Files Faster With TeraCopy

Have You ever faced problems while copying or moving files around ?

Have you ever wished that you could have paused your copying or moving process and continue after some time ?

Well no matter whatever troubles you are suffered while copying or moving files.......here is something you must had ued......even its not late...!!!!

Am introducing you to A Handy Softy Teracopy......hope you must have Heard ....if not try it now.....

Common Features:

* 64-bit OS support. Shell integration works in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of XP

The Different versions are included below....select what you like....or try both.............

TeraCopy Pro 2.0 beta 4 (also Portable):

No need to install it.

Or, if you want to, setup and Key are included.

TeraCopy is a free utility designed to copy/move files faster and more secure. Can resume broken file transfers. TeraCopy skips bad files during copy and even shows the skipped files at the end of files transfer. Calculates files CRC checksum on the fly to speed up source and target files comparsion. Seamless integration with Windows Explorer allows you to keep working with files as usual.

What's New in version 2.0 Beta 4:

* Added: Register copy handler from TeraCopy Preferences window.

* Added: New Browse for folder dialog with ‘Make New Folder’ button.

* Added: Optionally delete incomplete files if transfer canceled by user.

* Fixed: Problems with duplicating Windows Explorer File menu items.

* Fixed: Moving files between remote UNC paths now faster.

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TeraCopy Pro 2.0 beta 4 Included License:

Copy your files faster and easier

TeraCopy is a compact program designed to copy and move files at the maximum possible speed, providing the user a lot of features:

Features:

* Copy files faster. TeraCopy uses dynamically adjusted buffers to reduce seek times. Asynchronous copy speeds up file transfer between two physical hard drives.

* Pause and resume file transfers. Pause copy process at any time to free up system resources and continue with a single click.

* Error recovery. In case of copy error, TeraCopy will try several times and in the worse case just skips the file, not terminating the entire transfer.

* Interactive file list. TeraCopy shows failed file transfers and lets you fix the problem and recopy only problem files.

* Shell integration. TeraCopy can completely replace Explorer copy and move functions, allowing you work with files as usual.

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How to Copy Locked Photos from Orkut

Recently Orkut updated it’s security feature and disabled Right-click on photos of friend’s album. So this makes it difficult to copy photos from Orkut. It’s a new security update made by Orkut to prevent people from copying photos from Orkut and misusing it. This may be annoying most of you! Then…

 

How To Copy Locked Photos From Orkut?

Yes it’s still possible to copy the photos from Orkut. Here’s a step-by-step procedure to copy the photo.

1. Login into your Orkut Account.

2. Goto your friend’s album and open the photo that you need to copy.

3. Once the photo is loaded to it’s full size just place the mouse cursor on the photo.

4. Press the left click button and drag and drop the photo onto the ADDRESS BAR. I think this trick is no longer working. So I have a new trick….

Just DRAG and DROP the PHOTO onto the current/new TAB (If you have IE 7). Alternatively you can also Drag and Drop the photo onto the Desktop. That’s it. This trick is working now!!
4. Now the photo gets displayed seperately on your browser.

5. You can Right-Click and select the Save As option to save the photo onto your PC.

The browser also displays the direct link to the photo. This link can be used to share the Orkut photos with your friends without the need to login to your Orkut account to access photos.

Please express your opinions through comments. Cheer Up..

Happy Orkut Hacking.

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How to Edit Start Menu ?

Windows has a nice new Start menu, which you can customize more thoroughly than you could with the Start menu in any earlier version of Windows. Open the Taskbar And Start Menu Properties dialog box by right-clicking the taskbar and clicking Properties. On the Start Menu tab, select either the Start Menu option or the Classic Start Menu option to choose which version of the Start menu to use, and then click Customize. The Customize Start Menu dialog box appears; you use this box to customize how Windows displays the Start menu.

The following sections describe the most useful Start menu hacks. First you learn how to configure what does and does not appear on the Start menu. Then you learn how to prevent some programs from appearing on the frequently used programs list. You also learn how to restore the Start menu’s sort order when it’s not in alphabetical order.

 

Configuring the Start Menu’s Contents

 

Even though you can completely customize the Start menu in the user interface, power users and IT professionals will likely want to script Start menu customizations. Power users don’t want to reconfigure the Start menu every time they install Windows. IT professionals can use scripts to deploy these settings or configure them automatically when creating default user profiles.

If you want to script these settings, you need to know where to find them in the registry. All these settings are in the same place:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced

 

The first section, “Classic Start Menu,” contains values that affect the classic Start menu. The second section, “New Start Menu,” contains values that affect the new Start menu, also known as the Start panel. Most of these settings are REG_DWORD values, but some are REG_SZ values. If the possible data for any of the settings includes 0×01, 0×02, and so on, that setting is a REG_DWORD value. If the possible data includes NO or YES, it’s a REG_SZ value.

 

CLASSIC START MENU

 

StartMenuAdminTools
0×00–Hide Administrative Tools
0×01–Display Administrative Tools

CascadeControlPanel
NO–Display Control Panel as link
YES–Display Control Panel as menu

CascadeMyDocuments
NO–Display My Documents as link
YES–Display My Documents as menu

CascadeMyPictures
NO–Display My Pictures as link
YES–Display My Pictures as menu

CascadePrinters
NO–Display Printers as link
YES–Display Printers as menu

IntelliMenus
0×00–Don’t use personalized menus
0×01–Use Personalized Menus

CascadeNetworkConnections
NO–Display Network Connections as link
YES–Display Network Connections as menu

Start_LargeMFUIcons
0×00–Show small icons in Start menu
0×01–Show large icons in Start menu

StartMenuChange
0×00–Disable dragging and dropping
0×01–Enable dragging and dropping

StartMenuFavorites
0×00–Hide Favorites
0×01–Display Favorites

StartMenuLogoff
0×00–Hide Log Off
0×01–Display Log Off

StartMenuRun
0×00–Hide Run command
0×01–Display Run command

StartMenuScrollPrograms
NO–Don’t scroll Programs menu
YES–Scroll Programs menu

 

NEW START MENU

 

Start_ShowControlPanel
0×00–Hide Control Panel
0×01–Show Control Panel as link
0×02–Show Control Panel as menu

Start_EnableDragDrop
0×00–Disable dragging and dropping
0×01–Enable dragging and dropping

StartMenuFavorites
0×00–Hide Favorites menu
0×01–Show Favorites menu

Start_ShowMyComputer
0×00–Hide My Computer
0×01–Show My Computer as link
0×02–Show My Computer as menu

Start_ShowMyDocs
0×00–Hide My Documents
0×01–Show My Documents as link
0×02–Show My Documents as menu

Start_ShowMyMusic
0×00–Hide My Music
0×01–Show My Music as link
0×02–Show My Music as menu

Start_ShowMyPics
0×00–Hide My Pictures
0×01–Show My Pictures as link
0×02–Show My Pictures as menu

Start_ShowNetConn
0×00–Hide Network Connections
0×01–Show Network Connections as link
0×02–Show Network Connections as menu

Start_AdminToolsTemp
0×00–Hide Administrative Tools
0×01–Show on All Programs menu
0×02–Show on All Programs menu and Start menu

Start_ShowHelp
0×00–Hide Help and Support
0×01–Show Help and Support

Start_ShowNetPlaces
0×00–Hide My Network Places
0×01–Show My Network Places

Start_ShowOEMLink
0×00–Hide Manufacturer Link
0×01–Show Manufacturer Link

Start_ShowPrinters
0×00–Hide Printers and Faxes
0×01–Show Printers and Faxes

Start_ShowRun
0×00–Hide Run command
0×01–Show Run command

Start_ShowSearch
0×00–Hide Search command
0×01–Show Search command

Start_ScrollPrograms
0×00–Don’t scroll Programs menu
0×01–Scroll Programs menu

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