hidden xp tricks

Windows Xp, the most successful operating system by Microsoft. Dear friends my intention here is to give you some cool nice tricks in xp, which you will really like.

1. Shutdown in just 5 seconds





Open task manager (ctrl+alt+del) and choose from the shutdown option above
click turn off by pressing Ctrl key.
The system will shutdown with in seconds !!!

2. Hidden starwars in Xp


When you are connected to the net start Run and type
' telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl ' without the quotes and click ok.
you can see a hidden version of starwars done
entirely with ASCII characters !!!


3. Browse the web using MS calculator.






Open calculator from accessories and 1. open help and click help topics 2. A help window for the calculator will appear 3. you can see on the left side of the title bar a yellow question mark
4. Right click there and click on the jump to url option 5. A small window will appear and type in there the url you want to browse.

4. Create a fake virus to test your Anti virus software

Open note pad, copy and paste the below code and save it as .exe
suddenly when you click save your antivirus will give you a virus message

X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*

5. Want to hear windows hidden music



Open C drive and navigate to the following folders
Windows > system32 > oobe > images.
in the images folder you can see a file called 'title'.
play it ; a wonderful hidden music of windows xp


6. Create an invisible folder



Right click the folder go to properties, then go to coustamize tab and then
click on change icon button and select any of the blank icon there.
(remember there will be many blank icon on the list select any)


7. A simple notepad trick

open notepad type .LOG in the first line, save the file and close it.
Open the file again, here you will see the current date and time on it.
Everytime you open this file the file will have the current
timestamp along with text on it.

8. Want to play video in Ms Paint !!!?

1.play any video with your video player. 2. press the print screen key
3. open paint and press Ctrl+V to paste it in to the paint
and you can see the video playing in the paint window
(Remember: the video player can be minimise, but it should not be close )

9. Even Bill Gates couldn't answer it !!!




Open Ms Word and type =rand(200,99) and hit enter and see it yourself.


10. An Unknown older media player in Xp



There is a lower version of windows mediaplayer in every windows xp. you can use and play it from C>programfiles> windows media player> mplayer2 play and enjoy these cool player..

11. Need a shortcut to open cd drive....


Set oWMP = CreateObject("WMPlayer.OCX.7" )
Set colCDROMs = oWMP.cdromCollection

if colCDROMs.Count >= 1 then
For i = 0 to colCDROMs.Count - 1
colCDROMs.Item(i).Eject
Next ' cdrom
End If


Copy and paste the above codes in notepad and save it as .VBS
(Example: test.vbs , drive.vbs ) and double click the file it will open your CD ROM.