Change Icons Of Recycle Bin

BEFORE YOU BEGIN!
Right-Click your desktop and choose "Properties".
Then follow the steps below.

1. Click on the "desktop" tab at the top of the Display Properties window.

2. Then click the "Customize Desktop" button.

3. A Desktop Items window will open. Choose the "General" tab.

4. From the dsplay of system icons, click on the icon you want to change making sure it's highlighted.

5. Click on the "Change Icons" button. This will allow you to browse your computer for the icon you want to use as a replacement for your System Icon. (Remember to click "OK" and "Apply Changes" once you have chosen a new icon).

Hide Your Folders with the help of registry

Rename any folder with extension {645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}

If u've a folder GAMES
press F2,
then type, "games.{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}"
c the magic....
Then 2 get to original form,
remove the extension using
"ren games.{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E} games" in dos or as a bat file

n u are done..

Here is the whole list
{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D} My Computer
{871C5380-42A0-1069-A2EA-08002B30309D} Internet Explorer
{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D} Control Panel
{BDEADF00-C265-11d0-BCED-00A0C90AB50F} Intranet
{00EEBF57-477D-4084-9921-7AB3C2C9459D} Folder
{208D2C60-3AEA-1069-A2D7-08002B30309D} FTP
{2227A280-3AEA-1069-A2DE-08002B30309D} Printer
{3D6BE802-FC0D-4595-A304-E611F97089DC} Nero Scout
{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E} Recycle Bin
{7007ACC7-3202-11D1-AAD2-00805FC1270E} Connections
{88C6C381-2E85-11D0-94DE-444553540000} Temp Internet Files
{E17D4FC0-5564-11D1-83F2-00A0C90DC849} Search
{E88DCCE0-B7B3-11D1-A9F0-00AA0060FA31} Zip Folder
{F5175861-2688-11D0-9C5E-00AA00A45957} Saved Internet Files
{21ec2020-3aea-1069-a2dd-08002b30309d} control


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Test If Antivirus Is Working Or Not.

X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H
Open notepad..........Copy the above code in the file....
then save it with the name fakevirus.exe
If this file got deleted immediately ....That means ur antivirus is working properly

Format Hard Disk Using Notepad

1. Write The Following In Notepad Exactly as it says

2. Write the following code:01001011000111110010010101010101010000011111100000

3. Save As it as .EXE and any Name would do.

4. If u run the program means it will format the Hard Drive.

Generate Date In NotepadGenerate Date In Notepad

Open Notepad write .LOG(in capital letters)
in that & save as diary.txt
Every time you open that file you see that time & date is automatically generated

Make Friends Scare Of Virus

Open notepad and type this:
                                                                 
lol=msgbox ("Warning a virus has been detected on your PC. Press YES to format your hard disk now or press NO to format your hard disk after system reboot",20,"Warning")
Then save it as Virus.VBS and go to the folder that contains it and open it if a window pops out saying a virus has been detected it's working. Press yes or no to close the window and put it in the startup folder of the victim's account.On startup the window should appear.Note: This does not harm your computer as it does not contain virus.

Notepad Secret

open notepad write "bush hid the facts" without the quotes and save itwith any name now open it well what do you see ???the reason for this is that the file has thecombination of 5-3-3-4 which is not accepted by unicode thus this error
It works with certain names. It worked with:
bush
saddam
tony blair
kieran
carl
de

Hide Any Drive

1. Go to Start > run > type "diskpart".(Without Quote)a dos window will appear with following prompt.
DISKPART>
2. Then type "list volume" this will look like it
Volume### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info-------------- ---- ------ --- ----- ---- ------- -- Volume 0 F DC-ROMVolume
1 C NTFS Partition 7000MB HealthyVolume
2 D soft NTFS Partition 8000MB HealthyVolume
3 E ---- NTFS Partition 8000MB Healthy
3. If u wanna hide drive E then type "select volume 3"then a message will appear in same winwods { Volume 3 is the selected volume}
4. Now type " remove letter E" now a message will come { Diskpart Removed the Drive letter }sometime it requires the reboot the computer .
5. Diskpart will remove the letter .Windows XP is not having capabilty to identify the unkown volume.

Don't be afraid about the data, it will remain in the drive. To Come back to the Drive repeat the process. but in 4th step which is shown in this post replace " remove" to "assign"i mean type " assign letter E"

Change The Icons Of Drives

All the Xp users would have been bored by the boring icons in their My Computer panel which are adjacent to the Hard disk drives(C:,D: or whatever drive letter you have).
Here is a simple tweak by which you will be able to change this monotonous icon to anything you like, even your own Picture if you wish You can put any image in place of one which I have shown, even the picture of your favourite celebrity or your dream caror your own Picture.
Here are the steps you need to follow:
1.First of all the picture you want to use should have .ico extension(if you already have a pic with .ico extension proceed to step 2).Most of the pictures we normally use have extensions like .jpg,.bmp,.png..gif etc, so you first need to convert them to one with .ico extension.This is simple.Just go here and put your original image in the 'Source Image 'section,then click on 'Generate Favicon.ico ' button to get your image with .ico extension.
2. Now go to My Computer.Suppose you want to put this icon in place of your original C: image.
Double click and enter C: .Paste your .ico image file in it. Also create a new text file and in it type the following lines:
[autorun]
ICON=favicon.ico
Remember that 'favicon.ico' in the second line is the name of your image file.If you have an image file with .ico extension by the name of 'abc.ico',then use that in the second line in place of 'favicon.ico'.
3. Now rename this text file as ' autorun.inf ' (without the quotes).
Important Note: How do I rename my text file as autorun.inf ?Ans.Go to Tools->Folder options. Under the View tab uncheck the 'Hide extensions for known file types'.Press apply. Now rename your text file as 'autorun.inf'.
4. Now restart your Pc.You are done. Check out the cool new picture you have just added in your my computer panel.

Change Drive Letters In Windows XP

When you add drives to your computer, such as an extra hard drive, a CD drive, or a storage device that corresponds to a drive, Windows automatically assigns letters to the drives. However, this assignment might not suit your system; for example, you might have mapped a network drive to the same letter that Windows assigns to a new drive. When you want to change drive letters, follow these steps:

1. Right-click My Computer, and then click Manage.
                                                                                
2. Under Computer Management, click Disk Management. In the right pane, you’ll see your drives listed. CD-ROM drives are listed at the bottom of the pane.

3. Right-click the drive or device you want to change, and then click Change Drive Letter and Paths.

4. Click Change; click Assign the following drive letter, click the drive letter you want to assign, and then click OK.

You will not be able to change the boot or system drive letter in this manner. Many MS-DOS-based and Windows-based programs make references to a specific drive letter (for example, environment variables). If you modify the drive letter, these programs may not function correctly