Change name of Start menu of Windows XP

To change name of START menu :

1. Copy EXPLORER.EXE in your Windows directory ( The direectory is found in the drive where you have installed youe XP ) to another directory
   Start a hex editor (use resource hacker)
   
2. Edit EXPLORER.EXE
   go to "string table" & to "37″ click on 1033
   you will see "start" written on the next table
   Now just replace the Start letters with any of your choice (up to 5 characters only IMPORTANT).
   
3. Compile the script & save it.
   
4. Rename this file as any name say explorer1.exe
   copy it in your windows directory.
   

Open registry editor navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon double click "shell" &
enter name of your new explorer(explorer1 )in this case.
restart to see changes.

Remember to make up a back up copy of your registery before making this hack as there is a chance of crashing of your system.

If the crash occurs you can recover your system. To do this

• Open the TASK-MANAGER and in new task enter "regedit"
  
• In the resultant window undo the changes which we have made before ( i.e., renaming explorer1 to explorer again)
  

So Go ahead and surprise all your friends with your name as the start menu button.

Good Luck

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Know Your usb driver into your Computers

How to know its your computers had benn installed usb driver ?

with this tool , you can solve your trouble

USBDeview is very useful USB device handler software for computer administrators. It is a which lists all the USB devices installed or previously connected to the system. With the help of this utility, one can know the description of all the USB devices connected to the system which includes name, type, serial number, data and time it was added to the system, vendor ID, product ID and more.

This utility can be utilized to block the access to the particular USB device to increase security on the system. You can also use the utility to access and manage USB devices on other computers over the network. With advanced options, the administrator can be alerted when a USB device is plugged in. Create HTML reports of the device list for future references.

There are plenty of command-line options to connect to multiple computers over the network. You can even translate this to other languages easily. USBDeview is a perfect USB device management tool for administrators. READMORE

Disable for download windows search by internet explorer 8

If we are using IE8 , its always bring to you for download windows search..Its to disturb for fun browsing.
This way to get it :

* Open ‘Run’ in the start menu, enter ‘regedit’ and click ‘OK’.
* Navigate to ‘HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\Windows Search’ in the Registry Editor.
* Click in the right part of the window and open ‘Edit > New > DWORD value’. Then type ‘Show-Prompt’ and press Enter.
* Leave the specified value as ‘0’ and close the registry.

From now on, whenever you start Internet Explorer, you will never come across this annoying prompt. Nevertheless, if you want to install Windows Search again later via this
path, simply re-delete the newly created registry value by selecting it in the Editor, pressing [Del] and answering the subsequent security prompt with ‘OK’. READMORE