unlock the hidden administrator account in vista

Many of us who are familiar with prior versions of Windows are curious what happened to the built-in Administrator account which was always created by default. Does this account still exist, and how can you access it?

The account is created in Windows Vista, but since it's not enabled you can't use it. If you are troubleshooting something that needs to run as administrator, you can enable it with a simple command.

Note: You really shouldn't use this account for anything other than troubleshooting. In fact, you probably shouldn't use it at all.

Enable Built-in Administrator Account

First you'll need to open a command prompt in administrator mode by right-clicking and choosing "Run as administrator" (or use the Ctrl+Shift+Enter shortcut from the search box)

Now type the following command:

net user administrator /active:yes

yes u r done now logout and u can see that account enabled

You'll note that there's no password for this account, so if you want to leave it enabled you should change the password.

steps to set password for administrator acc using command prompt

goto run---->cmd and press enter
now type c:\ net user administrator bond
here bond is the password and u can give password of ur choice

this account is like root acc or superuser in unix or linux enviroment using this acc is not recommended for users other than admins

Disable Built-in Administrator Account

Make sure you are logged on as your regular user account, and then open an administrator mode command prompt as above. Type the following command:

net user administrator /active:no

and u r done

caution:donot messup with that administrator account i repeat

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Windows Vista Command Line List

Run as administrator in Vista

The Windows Vista operating system has a security feature called "useraccountcontrol" or uac for short that limits the privileges of users by default. Since the command line is usually involved with administrative tasks, you'll often want to run as an administrator. This can be done each time by right-clicking the icon for the command prompt and choosing "Run as" from the context menu . A more convenient way is to set the command prompt to run with administrator privileges by default. Right-click the command prompt shortcut icon and choose "Properties" from the context menu. Click the "Advanced" button and put a check by "Run as administrator". Click "OK". Note that you will still get the UAC message when you open the command prompt.

Another way to run the command prompt as administrator is to enter "cmd" in Start Search and then use the keyboard combination Ctrl+Shift+ Enter.

• ASSOC Displays or modifies file extension associations.
• ATTRIB Displays or changes file attributes.
• BREAK Sets or clears extended CTRL+C checking.
• *BCDEDIT Sets properties in boot database to control boot loading.
• CACLS Displays or modifies access control lists (ACLs) of files.
• CALL Calls one batch program from another.
• CD Displays the name of or changes the current directory.
• CHCP Displays or sets the active code page number.
• CHDIR Displays the name of or changes the current directory.
• CHKDSK Checks a disk and displays a status report.
• CHKNTFS Displays or modifies the checking of disk at boot time.
• *CHOICE Batch file command that allows users to select from a set of options.
• CIPHER Displays or alters the encryption of directories [files] on NTFS partitions.
• *CLIP Redirects output of another command to the Windows clipboard.
• CLS Clears the screen.
• CMD Starts a new instance of the Windows command interpreter.
• *CMDKEY Creates, lists and deletes stored user names and passwords or credentials.
• COLOR Sets the default console foreground and background colors.
• COMP Compares the contents of two files or sets of files.
• COMPACT Displays or alters the compression of files on NTFS partitions.
• CONVERT Converts FAT volumes to NTFS. You cannot convert the current drive.
• COPY Copies one or more files to another location.
• DATE Displays or sets the date.
• DEFRAG Disk defragmenter accessory.
• DEL Deletes one or more files.
• DIR Displays a list of files and subdirectories in a directory.
• DISKCOMP Compares the contents of two floppy disks.
• DISKCOPY Copies the contents of one floppy disk to another.
• DISKPART Displays or configures Disk Partition properties.
• DOSKEY Edits command lines, recalls Windows commands, and creates macros.
• DRIVERQUERY Displays current device driver status and properties.
• ECHO Displays messages, or turns command echoing on or off.
• ENDLOCAL Ends localization of environment changes in a batch file.
• ERASE Deletes one or more files.
• EXIT Quits and closes the command shell.
• EXPAND Expands one or more compressed files.
• FC Compares two files or sets of files, and displays the differences between them.
• FIND Searches for a text string in a file or files.
• FINDSTR Searches for strings in files.
• FOR Runs a specified command for each item in a set.
• *FORFILES Selects files in a folder for batch processing.
• FORMAT Formats a disk for use with Windows.
• FSUTIL Displays or configures the file system properties.
• FTYPE Displays or modifies file types used in file extension associations.
• GOTO Directs the Windows command interpreter to a labeled line in a batch program.
• GPRESULT Displays Group Policy information for machine or user.
• GRAFTABL Enables Windows to display an extended character set in graphics mode.
• HELP Provides Help information for Windows commands.
• *ICACLS Display, modify, backup, or restore ACLs for files and directories .
• IF Performs conditional processing in batch programs.
• LABEL Creates, changes, or deletes the volume label of a disk.
• MD Creates a directory.
• MKDIR Creates a directory.
• *MKLINK Creates Symbolic Links and Hard Links
• MODE Configures a system device.
• MORE Displays output one screen at a time.
• MOVE Moves one or more files from one directory to another directory.
• OPENFILES Queries, displays, or disconnects open files or files opened by network users.
• PATH Displays or sets a search path for executable files.
• PAUSE Suspends processing of a batch file and displays a message.
• POPD Restores the previous value of the current directory saved by PUSHD.
• PRINT Prints a text file.
• PROMPT Changes the Windows command prompt.
• PUSHD Saves the current directory then changes it.
• RD Removes a directory.
• RECOVER Recovers readable information from a bad or defective disk.
• REM Designates comments (remarks) in batch files
• REN Renames a file or files.
• RENAME Renames a file or files.
• REPLACE Replaces files.
• RMDIR Removes a directory.
• ROBOCOPY Advanced utility to copy files and directory trees
• SET Displays, sets, or removes environment variables for current session.
• SETLOCAL Begins localization of environment changes in a batch file.
• SETX Sets environment variables.
• SC Displays or configures services (background processes).
• SCHTASKS Schedules commands and programs to run on a computer.
• SHIFT Shifts the position of replaceable parameters in batch files.
• SHUTDOWN Allows proper local or remote shutdown of machine.
• SORT Sorts input.
• START Starts a separate window to run a specified program or command.
• SUBST Associates a path with a drive letter.
• SYSTEMINFO Displays machine specific properties and configuration.
• *TAKEOWN Allows an administrator to take ownership of a file .
• TASKLIST Displays all currently running tasks including services.
• TASKKILL Kill or stop a running process or application.
• TIME Displays or sets the system time.
• *TIMEOUT Pauses the command processor for the specified number of seconds.
• TITLE Sets the window title for a CMD.EXE session.
• TREE Graphically displays the directory structure of a drive or path.
• TYPE Displays the contents of a text file.
• VER Displays the Windows version.
• VERIFY Tells Windows whether to verify that your files are written correctly to a disk.
• VOL Displays a disk volume label and serial number.
• *VSSADMIN Volume Shadow Copy Service administration tool
• *WHERE Displays the location of files that match a search pattern.
• XCOPY Copies files and directory trees.
• WMIC Displays WMI information inside interactive command shell.

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How to fix a corrupt Windows XP O/S

Windows XP has the ability to repair itself from 3rd party software overwriting important system files. To fix this we will use a utility called System File Checker or sfc for short Parameters /scannow : Scans all protected system files immediately. /scanonce : Scans all protected system files once. /scanboot : Scans all protected system files every time the computer is restarted. /revert : Returns the scan to its default operation. /purgecache : Purges the Windows File Protection file cache and scans all protected system files immediately. /cachesize=x : Sets the size, in MB, of the Windows File Protection file cache. /? : Displays help at the command prompt.

Instructions

Things You’ll Need:

• Windows XP Home/Pro cd

Step1

Go to Start then run and then type sfc /scan now. It will Prompt you to insert a cd

Step2

Insert the cd and let the SFC utility run

Step3

Whats going on? the SFC will check your changes to the main system files.

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trick to shutdown our genious machine at desired time extremely useful while downloading

friends usually many of us have the habit of downloading s/w or movies in the night the system downloads the whole movie or software and after downloading it still runs thus increasing our electricity bills......
now let me tell you that we can shutdown our machine at desired time by using a function
to do this goto run...>cmd ..>shutdown

"shutdown"
Allows you to shut down . Used without parameters, shutdown will logoff the current user.
Syntax

shutdown [{-l|-s|-r|-a}]
Parameters

-l : Logs off the current user, this is also the defualt. -m ComputerName takes precedence.

-s : Shuts down the local computer.

-r : Reboots after shutdown.

-a : Aborts shutdown. Ignores other parameters, except -l and ComputerName. You can only use -a during the time-out period.

-f : Forces running applications to close.

thats short info about shutdown and its parameters

when we start a d/w accoring to our net speed we can now approximate in how much time the file will be downloaded .let us the file will be downloaded in 20 minutes
then we have to type
shutdown -s -t 1200
here 1200 stands for 20 min bcoz the -t switch is to be followed by seconds and here 20 min so 20*60=1200
the same shutdown() function can be used to either shutdown or restart or logoff after a given interval of time .
everytime giving this command is tedious to some of us
inorder to simplify this we can create shortcuts to shutdown and restart which tells the computer to do so after specified time interval
Create a desktop shortcut.




To create desktop shortcut you need to right-Click on the desktop and choose shortcut.
In the type the location for the item paste this :

For shutdown
shutdown -s -t 00
As you can see above, this says to shutdown immediately.

For shutdown and restart
shutdown -r -t 00
As you can see above, this says to shutdown and restart immediately.
shutdown -l -t 00

The 00 can be replaced by time delay you want to give before working.. Its in seconds.

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tip to create a visiting card in windows

hai friends if we want to store our friends or customers details just as we store visiting cards in a wallet. windows has a default utility to do this task
goto--------->run------>type wab and press enter
voila u r done...
the remaining i.e how you fill the card is left to u

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nice trick to make a sticky notes without using any third party software

What is this all about:
Guys to keep small notes in comp we usually use software like Stick Note(http://www.sticky-notes.net/). But these usually eats up huge memory and sometime very complected.

Solution:
This trick will help you to maintain your notes as logs using simple windows inbuilt Notepad.

Its very easy. Create a new text file.Name it anything you like. Say Notes.txt
Now add the following text in your notepad. ".LOG"
Save your file.
Now close the file and open again.
Each time you open it the file will append current time stamp in the file

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tips to maximise ur laptop battery

you might have a very high end lappy with high end processor , gigas of ram , but without enough batterycharge in the crucial time it can be used like this --------------------------------->
dont worry frnz i hav some tips for u


Dim the Bright LCD Screen – Most laptops come with the ability to dim your laptop screen. Some even come with ways to modify CPU and cooling performance. Cut them down to the lowest level you can tolerate to squeeze out some extra battery juice.Possibly use a black color background and themes.

turnoff wifi-
If you are using the laptop for offline work, like composing emails or giving final touches to that PowerPoint presentation, there’s no point checking for Wi-Fi network in your area when you are not going to use it anyway. Most laptops have shortcut keys to instantly disable wireless networking.

"kill unnecessary programs running in the background"-
Itunes, winamp,etc etc. All these add to the CPU load and cut down battery life. Shut down everything that isn’t crucial when you’re on battery.


Defragment ur Hard Disk –
Defragmenting will try to put all the piece of a file in a sequence so it will take less effort to see a file. You may notice a marginal jump in computing speed after defragmentation plus it also helps in extending the very precious life of your battery.

use a hard drive rather than CD/DVD - As power consuming as hard drives are, CD and DVD drives are worse. Even having one in the drive can be power consuming. They spin, taking power, even when they?re not actively being used. Wherever possible, try to run on virtual drives using programs like Alcohol 120% rather than optical ones

brush ur battery contacts-
Clean your battery’s metal contacts every couple of months with a cloth moistened with rubbing alcohol. This keeps the transfer of power from your battery more efficient.

Take care of your battery -
Exercise the Battery. Do not leave a charged battery dormant for long periods of time. Once charged, you should at least use the battery at least once every two to three weeks. Also, do not let a Li-On battery completely discharge

Hibernate not standby -
placing a laptop in standby mode saves some power and you can instantly resume where you left off, it doesn’t save anywhere as much power as the hibernate function does. Hibernating a PC will actually save your PC’s state as it is, and completely shut itself down.

make ur lappy cool-
Your laptop operates more efficiently when it’s cooler. Clean out your air vents with a cloth

Set up and optimize your power options -
Go to ‘Power Options’ in your windows control panel and set it up so that power usage is optimized (Select the ‘max battery’ for maximum effect)

Don’t multitask -

Do one thing at a time when you’re on battery. Rather than working on a spreadsheet, letting your email client run in the background and listening to your latest set of MP3’s, set your mind to one thing only. If you don’t you’ll only drain out your batteries before anything gets completed!

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open cmd though it is blocked

ok basically any hacker should know how to do it but im just posting this for the people who dont know

go to start>all programs>accessories>notepad

and in there type CMD

after that save it to whatever you wish but in the end {importaint} you must type .bat

when saved under a .bat file just simply open the file wherever you saved it to and done you got CMD

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How to make firefox 30 times faster

1. Type "about:config" into the address bar and hit return. Scroll
down and look for the following entries:

network.http.pipelining
network.http.proxy.pipelining
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests

Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time.
When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really
speeds up page loading.

2. Alter the entries as follows:

Set "network.http.pipelining" to "true"

Set "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to "true"

Set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to some number like 30. This
means it will make 30 requests at once.

3. Lastly right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer.
Name it "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" and set its value to "0".
This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it recieves.

If you're using a broadband connection you'll load pages 2-30 times faster now.

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Guys & gals , I am gonna share with you the tricks in which many people failed to explain why these things happened....

TRICK #1
An Indian discovered that nobody can create a FOLDER
anywhere on the computer which can be named as “CON”.
This is something pretty cool…and unbelievable. ..

TRY IT NOW ,IT WILL NOT CREATE ” CON ” FOLDER
Not only CON, we cannot create any of these
CON, PRN, AUX, CLOCK$, NUL, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, COM5, COM6, COM7, COM8, COM9, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, LPT4, LPT5, LPT6, LPT7, LPT8, LPT9 and more

The reason is that con, prn, lpt1..lpt9, etc are underlying devices from the time dos was written. so if u r allowed to create such folders, there will be an ambiguity in where to write data when the data is supposed to go to the specified devices. In other words, if i want to print something, internally what windows does is -- it will write the data to the folder prn (virtually u can call it a folder, i mean prn, con, etc are virtual folders in device level). So if we are able to create con folder, windows will get confused where to write the data, to virtual con folder or real one.
So Now, Try this...

Open the Command prompt by Start -> Run and typing cmd
C:\> md \\.\c:\con
ok it will be created in c drive.but if u use a command like this md \\.\C:\Documents and Settings\admin\Desktop\con it will not work
you need to put " around documents and settings for the command to work, thus... md \\.\C:\"Documents and Settings"\admin\Desktop\con
Windows Command Prompt cannot interpret empty spaces, it treats it as a separate command, in other words the path you were specifying did not exist
ok howerver u hav managed to create it
Now, try to delete the folder
OOPS!!! You cant delete it..
Now, try this in command prompt console
C:\> rd \\.\c:\con
Yeah!! You did it..

TRICK #2

For those of you using Windows, do the following:

1.) Open an empty notepad file
2.) Type “Bush hid the facts” (without the quotes)
3.) Save it as whatever you want.
4.) Close it, and re-open it.

See What happened.....................



TRICK #3
Microsoft crazy facts

This is something pretty cool and neat…and
unbelievable. .. At Microsoft the whole Team,
including Bill Gates, couldn’t answer why this
happened!

It was discovered by a Brazilian. Try it out
yourself…

Open Microsoft Word and type

=rand (200, 99)

And then press ENTER

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quick shutdown trick

Immediate rapid shut down window
while shutting down window. open task manager(Ctr+Alt+Del),
Select shut down tab. and press ‘ Ctrl ‘ key while select Turn Off from dis tab.
Count 5 4 3 2 1 Voila!!! U r window will rapidly shut down.

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make folders invisible

Make your folders invisible..

1)Right Click on the desktop or any where .Make a new folder
2)Now rename the folder with a space(U have to hold ALT key and type 0160)use numbers on the numeric pad i.e numbers present on the right side of any keybrd .
3)Now u have a folder with out a name.
4)Right click on the folder > properties > customize. Click on change icon.
5)Scroll a bit, u should find some empty spaces, Click on any one of them.
click ok

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dos commands revealed

DOSKEY Edit command line, recall commands, and create macros

DISKCOPY Copy the contents of one floppy disk to another

ECHO Display message on screen

ERASE Delete one or more files

FC Compare two files

LABEL Edit a disk label

IPCONFIG Configure IP

MEM Display memory usage

MSG this command is used to Send a message across the network

PING Test a network connection

SHUTDOWN
Shutdown the computer

TITLE Set the window title for a CMD.EXE session

TREE Graphical display of folder structure

TO get system details type winmsd

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how to hide ur harddisk partition without using any software

This trick is for all those peoplewho want to hide tons of data into their box. So here it is, if you have very important data in your hard drive placed in some partition which you do not want anybody to access then this trick is only for you!

Just click on start>run type gpedit.msc, now navigate through user configuration> administrative templates > windows components> windows explorer,
now double click on “Hide these specified drives in My Computer” modify it accordingly then just below you will find another option “Prevent access to drives from My Computer”, double click on this option and modify it accordingly.
To make it visible again select "disable" by double clicking on the “Hide these specified drives in My Computer” option.

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tricks to speed up ur pc

indexing services is a small little program that uses large amounts of RAM and can often make a computer endlessly loud and noisy. This system process indexes and updates lists of all the files that are on your computer. It does this so that when you do a search for something on your computer, it will search faster by scanning the index lists. If you don’t search your computer often, or even if you do search often, this system service is completely unnecessary. To disable do the following:
1. Go to Start
2. Click Settings
3. Click Control Panel
4. Double-click Add/Remove Programs
5. Click the Add/Remove Window Components
6. Uncheck the Indexing services
7. Click Next

Remove Fonts

Fonts, especially TrueType fonts, use quite a bit of system resources. For optimal performance, trim your fonts down to just those that you need to use on a daily basis and fonts that applications may require.

1. Open Control Panel
2. Open Fonts folder
3. Move fonts you don’t need to a temporary directory (e.g. C:\FONTBKUP?) just in case you need or want to bring a few of them back. The more fonts you uninstall, the more system resources you will gain.

Optimise Display Settings
Windows XP can look gorgeous but displaying all the visual items can waste system resources. To optimise:

1.Go to Start
2. Click Settings
3. Click Control Panel
4. Click System
5. Click Advanced tab
6. In the Performance tab click Settings
7. Leave only the following ticked:
- Show shadows under menus
- Show shadows under mouse pointer
- Show translucent selection rectangle
- Use drop shadows for icons labels on the desktop
- Use visual styles on windows and buttons

Speedup Folder Browsing:

You may have noticed that everytime you open my computer to browse folders that there is a slight delay. This is because Windows XP automatically searches for network files and printers everytime you open Windows Explorer. To fix this and to increase browsing significantly:

1. Open My Computer
2. Click on Tools menu
3. Click on Folder Options
4. Click on the View tab.
5. Uncheck the Automatically search for network folders and printers check box
6. Click Apply
7. Click Ok
8. Reboot your computer

defgragment ur disks
yeah thats a nice idea to defragment your disks for every fifteen days or monthly. this improves perfomance because when we store a new file into our computer it will be automatically stored in contionous locations if continous mwmory is not available then some part will be stored in one are an the other part in some other clustor and they will be connected with a pointer similar to a linked list so going through these two locations consumes processors time .when we defragment the files wil b stored in continous locations on the availability of the disk space this is called defragmenting.thus the access time is greatly reduced.
to do this goto programs>accessories>system tools>disk defragmentor

Optimize Your Pagefile:


If you give your pagefile a fixed size it saves the operating system from needing to resize the page file.

1. Right click on My Computer and select Properties
2. Select the Advanced tab
3. Under Performance choose the Settings button
4. Select the Advanced tab again and under Virtual Memory select Change
5. Highlight the drive containing your page file and make the initial Size of the file the same as the Maximum Size of the file.

Windows XP sizes the page file to about 1.5X the amount of actual physical memory by default. While this is good for systems with smaller amounts of memory (under 512MB) it is unlikely that a typical XP desktop system will ever need 1.5 X 512MB or more of virtual memory. If you have less than 512MB of memory, leave the page file at its default size. If you have 512MB or more, change the ratio to 1:1 page file size to physical memory size.


Remove the Desktop Picture
Your desktop background consumes a fair amount of memory and can slow the loading time of your system. Removing it will improve performance.

1. Right click on Desktop and select Properties
2. Select the Desktop tab
3. In the Background window select None
4. Click Ok

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