HyperHacker

You don't need an extension for doing this. Editing the registry is enough : REGEDIT4 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\New Window] @="Open in New &Window" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\New Window\Command] @="explorer.exe %1" Nice tweak, but it doesn't show up on desktop icons. Is there a way to do this? BTW I added a line that you seem to have missed (@="Open in New &Window").

My current desktop is not work safe! Normally I would have this program running, displaying some stuff at the top like this, but it's not working at the moment (I made it myself and am halfway through a rewrite; new version will look and work about 25x better ).

There's one neat little tweak I know of for both the taskbar and Start menu: translucency. You need the program NirCmd.exe (highly recommended for automating things or people who use the command line a lot) or my Advanced Window Menu. With nircmd, you set transparency for the taskbar using the command line: nircmd win trans class "Shell_TrayWnd" x Where x is a number from 0 to 255; 0 is invisible and 255 is solid. (Eg 178 is 30% translucent.) For the Start menu, you can do similar: nircmd cmdwait 5000 win trans title "Start Menu" x After running this, open the Start menu within 5 seconds and keep it open, it should turn translucent. The advantage to using NirCmd is you can put it in a startup script. Using AWM, you simply click on the taskbar, click the menu button, go to Translucency and select something. (If you have your taskbar on the right, make sure you click it first, as the button will appear in the same place if your desktop window has focus, and applying translucency to that can mess things up.) For the Start menu you have to pop up the menu, then click the button, but it can take a few tries as the Start menu will disappear. Unfortunately ever since I installed some update a while ago this no longer works; the menu stays solid. However, there are drawbacks to making the Start menu translucent. First off, it tends to revert to fully opaque every now and then. Second, the menu won't redraw when it appears if it's translucent; you'll notice the 'Recent Programs' list seems to stay the same, but once you move your mouse over it, it updates. Third, sub-menus stay opaque. Also, having any window at all translucent and the Start menu opaque can be a problem; if the menu pops up over a translucent window, an image of it will remain behind that window until it's minimized and restored or until you remove and re-apply translucency (which is especially a problem with the taskbar as the menu always covers it and you can't minimize it). BTW if you plan to use Nircmd in a batch script, be aware that the 5-second delay only applies to itself; the batch file will continue running during this delay.

I think the best method might be to use a filtering proxy. Proxomitron supports faking the user agent, though you have to go through the menus to change it.

This is the code that changes the title bar, as you can see there is nothing in it like that. I mean in iexplore.exe itself. Or one of the many DLLs used.

I once made clock.exe the shell on Win 3.1.

Your image seems to be broken.

My Windows XP SP2 install is acting up again, and I figure I should just reinstall it. Thing is, reinstalling is a pain; I have to set up all my programs and settings again, apply hacks and registry tweaks I've completely forgotten about, and I always tend to end up with Windows installed on some weird drive letter like G:. (I want C: dammit!) So I was thinking, once I've finished the installation and set everything up the way I like it, I could just make a ghost image of the partition and/or copy all the files to a DVD, and next time I need to reinstall, I could just wipe the partition and restore from the image/copy the files back, and only have to update anything I've changed since then. The problem is, I fear that there are probably some things that differ between installs; the installer probably sets everything up for the specific hardware, partition scheme etc that's present at the time, and if I were to make an image, change something (say add RAM, add/remove a PCI device, change the partition setup etc), then restore the image, it would be confused by all the changes. So the question is would this be a problem, or could I safely just copy everything back and let Windows figure it out? BTW, I keep all my files on a separate partition; the one with the Windows install on it is ONLY for Windows and the Program Files directory. So having to keep the image updated wouldn't be a big problem, just need to apply any major changes to it when I make them.

I tried running a program at the logon screen by replacing the screen saver, but there was one problem. When the program started, the logon prompt would disappear! Pressing Ctrl+Alt+Delete or closing the program would bring it back. The system doesn't seem to be fully initialized at this point either; a lot of programs won't run, throw errors about classes not existing, etc. Of course things might be a bit different running the app as a service instead of a screen saver.

Go to Control Panel -> Regional and Language Options, and click Languages. Make sure East Asian language files are installed. Click Details -> Add, and just hit J, both boxes should jump to Japanese, then you can hit OK. You should see a Japanese Keyboard entry. Click on Key Settings, and you can select a hotkey to switch languages. In my case I use Left Alt + Shift + 1 for English and Left Alt + Shift + 2 for Japanese. (The keys you can use are quite limited. ) When you're typing, press the key you've assigned to Japanese, and a bar should appear at the top of the screen. When you want to type in Japanese, click the second icon (should be an A), and select the alphabet to use. (Direct Input is English.) When actually typing, you simply type in Romaji, that is, if you wanted か (ka) you just type 'ka' and it will automatically convert it as you type. It can be a bit difficult, notably if you want to type ん　or ン (n); you must type the character, then press space, then Enter. It's really quite a pain to use, but it's the only way I've managed to get any sort of Japanese input working. You can also enable the language bar, which is similar but looks different. For some reason it's disabled on my system though. When you want to type Kanji, there's a few things you can do: 1) Type how it's pronounced. For example, type 'inu' and it'll automatically change to 犬 when you press Enter. If you press Space it lists other possibilities, including the other alphabet (Katakana if you're typing in Hiragana or vice-versa). They have a number beside them, you can just press that. If you actually want 'いぬ', type it, then press Space (it should show '犬'), Escape, and Enter. If you don't intend to use Kanji you can click the third icon from the left and select No Conversion. 2) Click the 4th icon from the left. This will show a menu with various tools you can use to find the specific character you're looking for. (Tip: The "hand writing" tool expects the strokes to be in a specific order.) Also, I'm not sure how, but there's some mode you can select that emulates a Japanese keyboard; each key is assigned to one Hiragana or Katakana letter. You'll probably have to like draw the letters on the keys to get used to using it. Unfortunately I'm not sure how to access it.

Well, this thread is over a year old.

If he speaks English, it'd be difficult not to, and I doubt any translator would produce all-capital results.

OK, well that's weird. I changed the text of the "Is this copy legal" option, not removing anything, and it still killed the Tools menu. >_< [edit] And now no amount of editing, even back to what it used to be, will restore it. Crap crap crap crap crap. Well except for restoring the original file. >_> [another edit] This happens if you change the menu at all, not even just the Help menu. You can see it show the description in the status bar for a second, but then it doesn't. There must be some sort of weird protection or bug here.

One thing you can try is disabling the device in the Device Manager, then enabling it again. This re-loads the driver and may reset the hardware. This should at least tell you what the problem is.

When I enter a password on a public computer, I enter the letters in random order. Like instead of entering "password" I might enter "ord", then click before the first character and type "asw", then click after the "a" and type another "s", and so on. By clicking rather than using the arrow keys, it comes out garbled in a key log.

Hm, could be. Ping and tracert tell me the destination is invalid. Firefox doesn't seem to care, though.

Just playing with my HOSTS file, and I noticed that if you go to http://0.0.0.0 it returns a blank page immediately instead of delaying a bit like it does with 127.0.0.1. Does this happen to anyone else? If it does, then this would make a better address to use than 127.0.0.1 when blocking domains in the hosts file and such.

This happened to me when mshtml.dll was missing; try finding a copy of that somewhere.

I'd like to get rid of these too. Maybe the menu getting messed up is caused by it expecting a certain number of items?

Screenshots: 1) The properties for the drive Windows is installed on (and the \Windows directory within it, to prove Windows is installed there), to show the small size. 2) Process Explorer listing the running processes and system info. Should be pretty impressive. 3) Some program that does a lot of heavy math and shows its speed (something like a prime number finder or whatever); run it on a computer with the same specs and stock XP to show the difference.

This actually doesn't work on my school computers, but I found something interesting. If, after doing this, you use some sort of window manipulation program *cough* to hide the desktop window, your selected image will be under it! You won't be able to click the icons this way, but you can usually just use the Start menu instead. (Or you could turn the window mostly translucent, so you can still see them up close. Or 100% translucent; you can't see them but you can click them. )

I accidentally killed an NTFS partition and R-Studio recovered almost everything. NTFS is more resilient to corruption, though.

I get similar problems myself. The instance running Windows Audio and many others seems to have a memory leak. I look at it and it's using up like 400MB. If I just terminate it, it respawns and all is well for a while.

How can I change the default size of this dialog? I want to add a button, but there's not enough room (and I only have 5).

Why does it store them like that? Eh, don't ask me. That's just how x86 CPUs generally handle things. You guys are talking about the part where you read the license, make partitions, etc? That appears to be some sort of text-based environment. It probably doesn't use any bitmaps; may even just be the 16 colours you get in older programs like QBasic.