[TIP] Craagle - Search the Cracks/Keygens/Patch over the internet, with ease

 

Craagle is standalone meta search engine that allows users to search every sort of cracks, serials, keys, keygen and covers, without falling into annoying toolbars, pop-ups, spyware, ad-ware and mal-ware that the crack sites or search sites abundant with. It works by doing the searching the cracks, serials or album covers directly from Craagle program without the need to visit the websites. Craagle has added advantage of able to search for cover images or graphics for CD, DVD, audio, games and etc.

Craagle also supports usage of proxy server to bypass some sites that have Day Limit or daily usage limit. Craagle source code has over 100,000 characters (engine only, excluded GUI). Craagle is detected by many antivirus and antispyware software as containing Adware, so use it at your own risk. When Craagle is installed, it creates the following files in the current folder: proxy.txt, Options.ini or Craagle.ini

Some antivirus may say it virus, but believe me its not a virus ...

Dl link: http://rapidshare.com/files/230188092/Craagle_3.0_Final.rar 

[TIP] Terminate full-screen games and appls when they stop responding

Actually it is pretty simple and doesn’t require any advance level of computer knowledge.

First you need to know what is the process name used by the game. Let’s take Counter Strike 1.6 as an example. You can check the process name for the game by right clicking the Counter-Strike 1.6 shortcut and select Properties.

Go to the Shortcut tab to view the Target. As you can see, Counter Strike 1.6 process is actually hl.exe.

Now you need to create a batch file that will kill the hl.exe process when you simultaneously hit a combination of shortcut keys. Open notepad, and type the command line shown below.
taskkill /IM hl.exe
Save the text file as anything.bat and not .txt
When you run the anything.bat file, it should be able to close the game.


Now we will assign a shortcut key to run the batch file.
Right click the anything.bat file and select “Create Shortcut”. A new file named “Shortcut to anything.bat” will appear. Right click at “Shortcut to anything.bat” file and select Properties. Click at the Shortcut Key blank area and type any key of your choice. 
If you type the letter “K”, it will automatically assign Ctrl + Alt + K as the shortcut key to run the killcss.bat file.

One very more important rule is that the shortcut must be placed at desktop for it to take effect.

When the game hangs in future, I just need to hit Ctrl + Alt + K key to kill the game so you can restart the game without having to restart your computer.

[TIP] "No To All" instead of clicking no a hundred times

When moving files, Windows XP will give four options: Yes, Yes to All, No and Cancel. Sometimes though, you want a No to All — to enable this, just hold down SHIFT while clicking No.

[TIP] Save HDD space, improve computer's efficiency

Do it yourself without using any 3rd party software.......
It will not only save your harddisk space but also increase the efficiency of the computer.........

Create a file named filename.bat on any of your partition and write the following code in that file and then save. After saving run and enjoy the increased efficiency of your PC.
Note: Add/remove the name of partition as per your partitions number/name like d: or E: or F: etc.
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cd\
del/s *.tmp, *.bak
cd C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Temp
del *.*
cd C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files
del *.*
cd c:\windows\temp
del *.*
d:
del/s *.tmp, *.bak
e:
del/s *.tmp, *.bak
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Also if you wish you can add this filename.bat file to the startup of the computer/windows........

[TRK] Restarting Windows Without Restarting Your PC

A modern PC with Vista Home Edition takes about one and a half minutes to boot. An older machine with XP is about the same. That’s 30 seconds for the PC itself (the BIOS) to boot up, plus a minute for the Windows operating system to boot.

Sometimes, you need to reboot Windows (e.g. when installing new software), but there is no need to restart BIOS, too. However, the default is to reboot both. (That’s called doing a “cold boot,” rather than a “warm boot.”) There’s a trick that works on both XP and Vista to get it to do a warm boot instead, thus saving you 30 seconds per cycle.

The trick is to hold down the SHIFT key when invoking the restart.

Windows Vista: Select Start, then hover over the right arrow that is to the right of the padlock icon until the pop-up menu appears that contains “restart” as one of it’s choices. Hold down the SHIFT key while clicking on the “restart” choice.

Windows XP: Select Start. Select “Shut Down…”.
Change the drop-down combo box under “What do you want the computer to do?” to “Restart”. Hold down the SHIFT key while clicking on the “OK” button.
Or ... the alternate
Click on Restart, while holding the SHIFT key

[TIP] Use of Function Keys

F1
1) It is used to open help menu in most of the windows application.
2) Windows Key + F1 will open Windows help and support center.

F2
1) It is usually used to rename any file or folder.
2) Ctrl + F2 displays the print preview windows in Microsoft Word.

F3
1) Shift + F3 will change text in Microsoft word from upper case to lower case and vice versa.

F4
1) It opens Find Window in many applications.
2) Alt + F4 will close the programs in windows.
3) Repeats the last action performed in microsoft word.

F5
1) It is used to refresh desktop and refresh a page in internet browser.
2) It is used to open find, replace and go to window in Microsoft word.
3) It start slide show in power point.

F6
1) Moves the cursor to the Address bar in Internet Explorer and Firefox.

F7
1) It is used to spell check and grammar check a document in Microsoft Office applications.

F8
1) It is used to enter the Windows Safe mode.

F10
1) Shift + F10 is the same as right click on any selected item.
2) Activates the menu in any application of Microsoft Office.

F11
1)Opens the full screen mode in various explorer.

F12
1) Open the save as windows in various application of Microsoft office.
2) Shift + F12 saves the Word document.
3) Shift + Ctrl + F12 prints the Microsoft Word page.

....just posting it cuz i've seen the dust on function keys quite often 

[TIP] Lost your Motherboard Driver CD, here's something for ya'

Whenever I install Windows I have to search for my motherboard CD for installing drivers of sound, LAN, graphics, etc and majority of times it takes hell a lot of time to search for driver CD. At least I find it very difficult to keep my CD in a safe place so that I can use it when I need it.

But what will you do if motherboard driver CD gets lost, I know you will say that you'll go to Internet and download all the desired drivers from there but for that you should know the model number also. If you have lost your motherboard CD and do not know your motherboard model number and want to download or update your drivers, here is a very good application for you.

DriverMax

DriverMax is a tool that allows you to download the latest driver updates for your computer. No more searching for rare drivers on discs or on the web or inserting one installation CD after the other. Just create a free account, log in, and start downloading the updates that you need.

You can also export all your current drivers (or just the ones that work ok) to a folder or a compressed file. After reinstalling Windows you will have everything in one place!

Most of the situations when Windows is running slower are caused by faulty driver installations. Windows stores all versions of older drivers just in case you want to go back; sometimes it messes up older versions with more recent ones. The Export Wizard will only export the drivers you select by copying the needed files to a folder or a compressed ZIP file.

After reinstalling Windows all drivers will be back in place in less than 5 minutes - sparing you of searching, inserting disc after disk and losing precious time. The Import Drivers wizard allows you to install all the drivers that you exported earlier. The entire operation might take up to 5-10 minutes.

Just one single computer restart will be required after all drivers are reinstalled!

Download: http://small.drivermax.com/soft/dmx/drivermax.exe

[TIP] Re-enable Task Manager

There is a registry key that will disable Task Manager, although it’s not always clear how or why it was set to disable. In many cases the problem is related to spy ware, so you should also scan your computer.

Open up regedit.exe through the start menu search or run box, and then navigate down to the following key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System

On the right-hand side is a 32-bit REG_DWORD value named DisableTaskMgr with one of two values:

• 1 – Disable task manager
• 0 – Enable task manager

Just double-click and change the value to enable it, or even delete the key. The change should take place immediately.

Enjoyy!!!

[TIP] Installing Windows XP OS in 10-12 mins

I found that we can bypass the 40 minutes of time while we are installing Windows XP.

Hope you will like it...

We all know that after loading the file or copying the file from the boot disk to temporary space the system requires a first time reboot.

Now if we PRESS SHIFT+F10 then the task manager will open

Goto the processes tab and search the process "setup.exe"

Right click on it, set priority, and set it to "Realtime"
 

We are done!!!
Find ur XP getting installed in 10min with tolerance 2 min.

[TRK] Masquerading Your Browser

Here's a really cool trick to disguise your browser as another one......

I insist on using Mozilla Firefox, not bcoz m publicizing it, but bcoz its the best!!!

   alrigh, so here it goes,

When your browser requests a page from a Web server, the browser sends information about itself along with the request. Typically, this information includes the browser type (Internet Explorer, Opera, Mozilla, etc.), the browser version, and the underlying platform (Windows XP, Linux, Mac OS X, etc.). The server then uses this information to select an appropriate page format for the browser, since different browsers (and even different versions of the same browser) have varying incompatibilities in their support for HTML and JavaScript.

Sometimes the server misinterprets or fails to recognize this information and sends you an incorrectly formatted page. In rare cases, the server may even deny you access to its pages, whether it's for political reasons (you're using a browser that the site disapproves of) or because its pages have only been tested for use with specific browser versions. The solution is to fool the server by having your browser masquerade as another browser.

 HOW TO DO IT:

Open Mozilla Firefox, and in URL bar type

about:config

now add a new value

right click anywhere > select new > select string

"general.useragent.override"  as preference name (without quotes)

Then it asks for a string value

Heres what you got to enter to masquerading your browser

For Internet Explorer 6

 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)

For Internet Explorer 7

 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)

For Internet Explorer 8

 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1)

For iPhone 3.0

 Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 3_0 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/528.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile/7A341 Safari/528.16

For Google Chrome v4.0.213.1 (For older version, replace the version in the value)

 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/532.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/4.0.213.1 Safari/532.1 

For Google BOT

 Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)

For MSN BOT 1.1

 msnbot/1.1 (+http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm)

For Yahoo slurp

 Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Yahoo! Slurp; http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/slurp) 

But this is a temporary method

Ones you close your browser, the settings goes off and your back to default 

Theres one more way around

There is a plug-in for Firefox which allows you to do is quickly

i.e. User Agent Switcher

It doesnt includes some latest browsers though like Google Chrome though

But they can be added up to it 

Heres a script to find out your browser's current UserAgent

javascript:document.writeln(navigator.userAgent) 

Some links

Mozilla Firefox (Browser) - http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/

User Agent Switcher (Plug-in) - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/59

[TIP] Shortcuts for Mozilla Firefox

 Here is the Mouse shortcuts for Mozilla Firefox

- Middle click on link (opens in new tab)
- Shift-scroll down (previous page)
- Shift-scroll up (next page)
- Ctrl-scroll up (zoom out page)
- Ctrl-scroll down (zoom in page)
- Middle click on a tab (closes tab)

Here is the Keyboard shortcuts for Mozilla Firefox

* Add Bookmarks - Ctrl + D
* Bookmarks - Ctrl + B
* Downloads - Ctrl + J
* Full Screen View - F11
* Help - F1
* History - Ctrl + H
* Page Source - Ctrl + U
* Print - Ctrl + P
* Refresh Page - F5
* Refresh Page & Cache - Ctrl + F5
* Save Page As - Ctrl + S
* Home Page - Alt + Home
* Jump to Address Bar - Ctrl + L
* Jump to Search Bar - Ctrl + K
* Page Bottom - End
* Page Top - Home
* Stop - Esc
* Tab Close - Ctrl + W
* Tab New - Ctrl + T
* Tab Next - Ctrl + Tab
* Tab Previous - Ctrl + Shift + Tab
* Tab Select - Ctrl + [1 - 9]

Happy browsing!

[TIP] Get any serial u want

Get the serial number you need ! (For Certain Things)

* Go to Google.

* In the search field type: "Product name" 94FBR

* Where, "Product Name" is the name of the item you want to find the serial number for.

* And voila - there you go - the serial number you needed.

HOW DOES THIS WORK?

Quite simple really. 94FBR is part of a Office 2000 Pro cd key that is widely distributed as it bypasses the activation requirements of Office 2K Pro. By searching for the product name and 94fbr, you guarantee two things. 1) The pages that are returned are pages dealing specifically with the product you're wanting a serial for. 2) Because 94FBR is part of a serial number, and only part of a serial number, you guarantee that any page being returned is a serial number list page.

See these example searches:

"Photoshop 7" 94FBR

"Age of Mythology" 94FBR

"Nero Burning Rom 5.5" 94FBR

[TIP] How to remove Virus from USB Drives,manually

One of the ways by which a virus can infect your PC is through USB/Pen drives. Common viruses such as 'Ravmon' , 'New Folder.exe', 'Orkut is banned' etc are spreading through USB drives. Most anti virus programs are unable to detect them and even if they do, in most cases they are unable to delete the file, only quarantine it. Here are the things which you can do if you want to remove such viruses from your USB drives

Whenever you plug a USB drive in your system, a window will appear similar to the one shown here.

Take a look at this screenshot:

Don’t click on Ok , just choose ‘Cancel’. Open the Command Prompt by typing ‘cmd‘ in the run box. In the command prompt type the drive letter and : and press enter.

eg  I:

Now type

dir /w/o/a/p

and press enter.

This will display a list of the files in the pen drive. Check whether the following files are there or not

* Autorun.inf

* Ravmon.exe

* New Folder.exe

* svchost.exe

* Heap41a

* or any other exe file which may be suspicious.

If any of the above files are there, then probably the USB drive is infected. In command prompt type

attrib -r -a -s -h *.*

that is     attrib[space]-r[space]-a[space]-s[space]-h[space]*.*

and press enter. This will remove the Read Only, Archive, System and hidden file attribute from all the files. Now just delete the files using the command

del filename

eg del Ravmon.exe

Delete all the files that are suspicious. To be on a safer side, just scan the USB drive with an anti virus(if you have one) program to check whether it is free of virus or not. Now remove the drive and plug it again. In most of the cases, the real culprit turns out to be the “Autorun.inf” file which mostly gets executed when someone clicks Ok in the dialog window which appears above.

[TIP] Correcting System Hang at Startup

If your system hangs about 2 or 3 minutes at startup, where you can't access the Start button or the Taskbar, it may be due to one specific service (Background Intelligent Transfer) running in the background. Microsoft put out a patch for this but it didn't work for most. Here's what you need to do:

1. Click on Start -> Run, type 'msconfig', then click 'OK'.
2. Go to the 'Services' tab, find the 'Background Intelligent Transfer' service, disable it, apply the changes & reboot.

This problem with the Background Intelligent Transfer Service should have been corrected in Windows update Q 314862, part of Service Pack 1.

[TIP] Make Windows Geniune

Have you ever faced problems while installing certain softwares like Internet Explorer 7/+, or Windows Media Player 11/+, may be because your copy of windows is not genuine

OK, here is a small trick to make your copy of windows genuine

Just copy the following code in notepad n save that notepad file as "anything.reg"
Now run that file n restart your pc
You are done !!!


Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\WPAEvents]
"OOBETimer"=hex:ff,d5,71,d6,8b,6a,8d,6f,d5,33,93,fd
"LastWPAEventLogged"=hex:d5,07,05,00,06,00,07,00,0f,00,38,00,24,00,fd,02

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion]
"CurrentBuild"="1.511.1 () (Obsolete data - do not use)"
"InstallDate"=dword:427cdd95
"ProductId"="69831-640-1780577-45389"
"DigitalProductId"=hex:a4,00,00,00,03,00,00,00,36,39,38,33,31,2d,36,34,30,2d,\
31,37,38,30,35,37,37,2d,34,35,33,38,39,00,5a,00,00,00,41,32,32,2d,30,30,30,\
30,31,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,0d,04,89,b2,15,1b,c4,ee,62,4f,e6,64,6f,01,00,\
00,00,00,00,27,ed,85,43,a2,20,01,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,\
00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,31,34,35,30,34,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,ce,0e,\
00,00,12,42,15,a0,00,08,00,00,87,01,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,\
00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,94,a2,b3,ac
"LicenseInfo"=hex:9e,bf,09,d0,3a,76,a5,27,bb,f2,da,88,58,ce,58,e9,05,6b,0b,82,\
c3,74,ab,42,0d,fb,ee,c3,ea,57,d0,9d,67,a5,3d,6e,42,0d,60,c0,1a,70,24,46,16,\
0a,0a,ce,0d,b8,27,4a,46,53,f3,17

[TIP] Remove Windows Genuine Validation Notification

If your copy of windows is not genuine, and you happen to visit microsoft.com or install the automatic update - WGA Validation Tool (KB892130) and WGA Notifications (KB905474), then windows gives a nag screen on start up, and also gives random pop-up balloons. To make things worse, it removes your wallpapers, etc.
You have 30 days after this notification starts and after that you may have to re-install windows, if you do not fix it

OK, here are a few ways to fix that problem.

Method 1:
Step 1) Download RemoveWGA.exe tool and run it.
Step 2) It tell you if the WGA notification tool is active on your system
Step 3) Allows you to remove the WGA notification tool from your system
note-If the above download link doesnt work, you may also find the tool on softpedia.com click here

Method 2:
This ones a little tricky,but i like it, and prefer doing it this way
Step 1) Launch Windows Task Manager
Step 2) Go to Processes and look for wgatray.exe, select it and click on end process
Step 3) It will ask for confirmation, don't click on anything, wait
Here's the tricky part of it
Step 4) Now open C:\Windows\System32 and look for WgaTray.exe, select it, and then delete it.
Step 5) It will ask for confirmation to delete, wait
Step 6) Now align that end process confirmation box over the delete confirmation box.
Step 7) Click Yes on end process and then quickly press Yes on the deletion confirmation.
(You need to repeat this if you miss it)
Step 8) Lauch RegEdit(Start=>Run=>regedit)
Step 9) Browse to the following location: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Notify
Step 10) Delete the folder WgaLogon and all its contents
Step 11) Reboot Windows xp


That's it, you are done with it!