Saturday, March 26, 2011

How to use Kaspersky Free after 30 days trial period ?

Kaspersky is one of the top security software providing best protection to your data from latest Viruses, worms, phishing attacks, malware, etc. I’ve now found a 100% working trick, using which one can use Kaspersky Antivirus 2010 and Kaspersky Internet Security 2010 after end of its 30 days trail for Free.
Follow the steps below carefully to do it:
1. Open Kaspersky settings > Options and uncheck Enable Self-Defense. Click Ok.
2. Exit Kaspersky.
3. Go to Start, open Run, then type regedit and press enter.
4. Under Registry Editor, open HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > SOFTWARE > Kaspersky Lab > protected > AVP9 > environment.
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5. Find the entry ProductStatus and change Release to Beta.
6. Press OK then open Kaspersky.
7. Under License, Activate beta license then press Next and Finish (Delete any trial keys first if any, as they wont work).
8. Re-enable Self-Defense from options.
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9. Now you have 30 days of beta license activated. After every 30 days, simply click Activate Beta (delete the expired beta key first) and enjoy another 30 days Free :D
Kaspersky will now show as Beta Version though it is your final version only. Enjoy!

Update – How to delete the expired key & activate beta license ?


To delete beta key, open Kaspersky > License Manager and click on the red X (cross) next to the code. Then click on Yes button as shown in below image.
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Now click ‘Activate New License’ option and then chose ‘Activate beta license’. Click Next to activate kaspersky.
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Update (28 Jan) – As pointed out by most readers, I also got the same error saying ‘key is blocked’. I guess, Kaspersky has finally figured out this loophole and fixed it via updates :(
Update (29 Jan) – Finally another way is out! Our smart readers ‘Stalin & Mr. Fix it’ have provided a quick and simple solution via comments to use Kaspersky for FREE :) Check the new procedure below:
1. Delete any license keys first.
2. Disable Self-Defense and Exit kaspersky.
3. Following above steps, change the ProductStatus back to Release in registry.
4. Double click PCID and change the last 3 digits to what ever you want and click Ok.
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5. Exit registry editor and restart kaspersky.
6. Select activate trial license and you should now have 30 or 31 days remaining. Repeat this method any time to reset to 30 days.
UPDATEKaspersky Trial Reset tool [Use Kaspersky for Free after 30 days]
Disclaimer: This article is for informational and educational purposes only. We advice you to purchase genuine license to run your software.

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Reliance Free GPRS Trick/Hack (Free Internet With Rs. 99 Plan!) (January, 2011)

Here’s a trick to use free GPRS on your reliance mobile number without changing any APN, PORT and other settings. All you need to do is follow the below mentioned steps and get 2.5 GB of usage free! By following the steps reliance Rs. 99 plan will be activated on your mobile number:
  1. Visit this link: http://bit.ly/idlPnA and enter the details asked for (Name and reliance mobile phone number).
  2. You will receive a text message with a pin code (password for the next step).
  3. Now visit this link: http://bit.ly/gYvjIU and use the Pin code acquired in the above step and enter it.
  4. That’s it! Rs. 99 GPRS plan will be activated on your reliance mobile number.
In case the link in Step 3 doesn’t work, visit this url instead: http://bit.ly/h4Wexj. You can try this url along with the url mentioned in Step 3 to get additional GPRS usage but be careful as it might also lead to deactivation of service. And do leave a comment in case you are able to get this trick (hack) working :)
Note: All the tricks/hacks shared are making use of the loop holes in Reliance’s network. None of these tricks/hacks have been discovered/made/influenced by me. Please use them at your own risk.

Monday, March 14, 2011

How to create a locked folder in Win XP

To create a locked folder we need to create two batch files. The first batchfile will “lock” the folder (actually it will turn the ordinary folder into a link to the Control Panel using an address code), and the other one  will “unlock” it. When someone tries to access that folder, he will be redirect to Control Panel(we can in fact type in any address code so that the user could be redirected to wherever we want). You should hide these batch files, especially the second one.
1. Create a folder, that you will use to store your protected data. For this example, I created a folder called “locked”, and put that folder in My Documents.
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2. Open Notepad and copy this code ren “FOLDERNAMEFOLDERNAME.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}
“FOLDERNAME” change in to name of your folder, in this example “FOLDERNAME” is locked.My code looks like this ren locked.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D} locked
Save notepad file like lock.bat in My Documents. In option Save as Type, select All Files
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3. Open another notepad file and copy this code ren FOLDERNAME.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D} “FOLDERNAME” , Save file as in Step 2, just choose a different filename , like unlock.bat
After this we can see in My Documents something like this:create a locked folder
If we open (double click) lock.bat our folder will turn into a link to Control Panel, and the files will not be visible. until we use unlock.bat
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Here is video guide

Command Prompt Hacks |How to hide partition

Here is an interesting command prompt hack .You can hide, assign, delete etc. disk partition in few steps.
1.Select Start , then Run , in Run option type cmd. (or  start->All Programs->Accessories->Command Prompt)
2.In Command Prompt (cmd) type DISKPART

3. Then type LIST VOLUME, after this you will get an partition  overview, as shown below
4. Type SELECT VOLUME (number) , press ENTER on keyboard, then type  REMOVE LETTER (letter )as shown below
5.After this disk partition will be hidden. How to return disk partition? Easy, just type ASSIGN LETTER (letter), as shown beloww
With Command Prompt (cmd) , you can manipulate  disk partition. Here is list of possibility:

How To Hide Any Drive Through Command Prompt

Have you ever thought of hiding any drive from your system so that no one can knew about it. You may have heard or even used a lot of software’s that might be able to do that, but if you are GEEK like me and want to do things by your own without using any 3rd party software than this tutorial will show you how you can do it.
Well there are 3 ways of doing it, in this tutorial we are covering command prompt way of doing it.



Here is how to do it:


Step 1. Open command Prompt, go to Start Menu > All Programs >Accessories > Command prompt
Step 2. In the Command Prompt, type Diskpart and hit enter key. If UAC (User Account Control), dialog-box prompts than click Yes.
Step 3. Then type List Volume and press enter, this will produce the list of all drives.

Step 4. Now select the drive which you want to hide, you can either do this by typing Select Volume 1 (i.e. Volume Number) or by typing Select Volume C(i.e. Drive letter)

Step 5. To hide a drive, type Remove Letter C. Here, C is the drive letter than you want to hide. You can use any drive letter you want.

Step 6. That’s it. You are done! C drive is now hidden



How to unhide hidden drive


Step 1. Follow the procedure mentioned in step 1, 2, 3 and 4.
Step 2. To show the hidden drive type Assign Letter C and hit enter, now you can view C: drive in explorer.


That’s it. This is one way of hiding and un-hiding drives from explorer, for rest two stay tuned.

How to Hack Into a Windows XP Computer Without Changing Password

Yesterday I talked about how to “Recover Windows Login password within minutes“. Another method to login to a password protected Windows even if you do not have the password is by making Windows accepting any passwords.
There is a far better way to get into Windows XP. It is easy and it does not reset the password. Hack into a computer running Windows XP without changing the password and find out all and any passwords on the machine (including admin accounts). You do not need access to any accounts to do this. Of course, do not do this on anyone elses computer without proper authorisation.
Bypass Windows Login screen 

Steps to Hack into a Windows XP Computer without changing password:
1. Get physical access to the machine. Remember that it must have a CD or DVD drive.
2. Download DreamPackPL HERE.
3. Unzip the downloaded dpl.zip and you’ll get dpl.ISO.
4. Use any burning program that can burn ISO images.
5. After you have the disk, boot from the CD or DVD drive. You will see Windows 2000 Setup and it will load some files.
6. Press “R” to install DreamPackPL.
7. Press “C” to install DreamPackPL by using the recovery console.
8. Select the Windows installation that is currently on the computer (Normally is “1″ if you only have one Windows installed)
9. Backup your original sfcfiles.dll by typing:
ren C:\Windows\System32\sfcfiles.dll sfcfiles.lld” (without quotes)
10. Copy the hacked file from CD to system32 folder. Type:
copy D:\i386\pinball.ex_ C:\Windows\System32\sfcfiles.dll” (without quotes and assuming your CD drive is D:)
11. Type “exit”, take out disk and reboot.
12. In the password field, type “dreamon” (without quotes) and DreamPack menu will appear.
13. Click the top graphic on the DreamPack menu and you will get a menu popup.
Hack Windows Login Dreamon
14. Go to commands and enable the options and enable the god command.
Bypass and hack user account passwords
15. Type “god” in the password field to get in Windows.
You can also go to Passwords and select “Logon with wrong password and hash”. This option allows you to login with ANY password.
Note: I was unable to bring up the DreamPackPL for the first time because I have Kaspersky Anti-Virus already running in background. I believe most antivirus already labelled this tool as a Hack-Tool. A Hack-Tool is NOT a virus. DreamPackPL helps you bypass the Windows Login screen and it is not destructive.

Automatic Shortcut Viewer For Removable Storage Media In Desktop

You might have seen in Linux based OS like Ubuntu, whenever you insert a removable storage media in to your computer a shortcut to the storage device automatically appears in the desktop. If you are one of those who are keenly interested to get such feature in your Windows 7 or Windows XP or Windows Vista than have a rest on reading this article.

There are some free software that helps you to make this thing really possible. Upon researching various tools like these, I found one of them very useful and worthy to use.

This freeware I am talking about provide the user with automatic shortcuts to their USB and other drives that appear and disappear from the desktop as the user plugs their media in and out. The hero’s name is Desktop Media.

The best thing about this utility is that it uses very small amount of your Randomly Accessed Memory.
Automatic shortcut created
When drive is removed
Besides usual removable media shortcuts you can also add network shortcuts and even shortcut to your fixed drive.
To enable the plug and play shortcut just download and install the 300 KB file from the link below

The system tray icon will always show up in the system tray or notification area.
If you don’t want to see Desktop Media in system tray you can hide it from the options menu. Right click on the Desktop Media icon and choose Options, uncheck Show Tray Icon.
Hope this tutorial was helpful and useful.

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Add Copy To / Move To to the Windows Explorer Right Click Menu

A hidden functionality in Windows allows you to right click on a file, select Copy To Folder or Move To Folder, and the move to box will pop up and let you choose a location to either copy or move the file or folder to.
Update: Downloadable version also available.
Here’s the quick registry hack to get this working. As usual, back up your registry just in case. You will want to browse down to this key:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AllFilesystemObjects\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers
Once you are at that key, right click and choose the New Key option:
Now you will double-click on the (Default) value and enter the following:
{C2FBB630-2971-11D1-A18C-00C04FD75D13}
Click OK and continue.
If you want to enable Move To, you will repeat the same steps, except creating a new key named Move To, and using this value:
{C2FBB631-2971-11D1-A18C-00C04FD75D13}
Now when you right click on a file or folder, you should see the following options:
Let’s click Copy To Folder just to see what happens….
And that’s it. Useful!

Disable Error Reporting in XP


To disable error reporting in XP right click on My computer and select Properties. In the System PropertiesAdvanced tab then the Error Reporting button. window click the
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The Error Reporting window comes up where you want to select Disable error reporting. Uncheck the box But notify me when critical error occur if you don’t want to see any errors at all then click Ok and Ok to close out of the System Properties window.
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Disable Error Reporting in Vista


To disable Error Reporting in Vista click on Start and open Control Panel.
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Make sure you’re in Classic View and double click on Problem Reports and Solutions.
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Under Tasks click on the Change Settings link.
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It’s worth noting here that if you choose Ask me to check if a problem occurs, error reporting is enabled but you get to choose whether or not to send the diagnostics to Microsoft. If you select Check for solutions automatically (recommended) then all data will be sent to Microsoft automatically. Since we want to disable it all together, click on the Advanced Settings link.
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In the next screen under For my programs, problem reporting is…select Off then click Ok to close out of the Problem Reports and Solutions window.
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Next you’ll see that everything under Choose how to check for solutions to computer problems is grayed out. Click Ok to close out of this screen.
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Click Close on the message telling you that Error Reporting is turned off.
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When you’re trying to fix a computer or are setting it up for certain functionality for a business, it can be quite annoying always getting error messages when you know what your doing. Today we take a look at disabling those messages in XP, Vista, and Windows 7.
Note: Error Reporting can be valuable if Windows isn’t working correctly and shouldn’t be disabled unless you’re a system admin or power user. This is not recommended for the average home user. 
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Error Reporting is enabled by default on XP, Vista, and Windows 7. If an error occurs, a detailed message regarding the error pops up and you’re prompted to send the information to Microsoft. This is so they can gather error info from millions of PC’s and helps them create patches and Service Packs. In some cases it will check the error and provide solutions to fix it. When you’re setting up a machine for specific functionality, the messages get very annoying. There are a number of reasons why an experienced user or tech would want to turn them off, so lets begin.
Disable Error Reporting in Windows 7
Open up the start menu and type in problem reporting settings into the search box, or head to Action Center –> Change Action Center Settings –> Problem Reporting Settings. If you used the search, use the “Choose how to report problems” item in the list:
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Then you can easily choose the option from the list:
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Again, you probably should leave it enabled, but this will let you disable it.
Disable Error Reporting in Windows 7 with Group Policy
Note: This method used Local Group Policy Editor which isn’t available in Home versions of Windows 7.
Click on Start and enter gpedit.msc into the search box and hit Enter.
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Local Group Policy Editor opens and you want to navigate to User Configuration \ Administrative Templates \ Windows Components \ Windows Error Reporting and under Setting double click on Disable Windows Error Reporting.
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Change it from Not Configured to Enabled, then click Apply and Ok and close out of Local Group Policy Editor.
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