If you forgot your your Windows account password, it got hacked or some virus changed it so you’re not able to access your computer any more, you can use the following tutorial to restore and reset the password. This method will also work for Windows 95, 98, 2000, XP and Windows Vista!
WARNING: Please do not use this method for illegal activity such as hacking passwords without the other user’s consent!
Your Windows passwords are stored in the Windows registry. In order to reset them, you need access to this registry without running Windows. Luckily, there is a tool called “Offline NT Password & Registry Editor” which contains a small Linux kernel and drivers for your hard drives. Download the tool from this server or the official website.
Extract the RAR archive. Now you need to create a bootable device in order to run the tool: Using a CD: Just burn the ISO file to any empty CD and proceed. Using a USB memory stick:
Format the memory stick in FAT32 format (rightclick it and choose “Format”) and enable “Quick Format”. WARNING: When formatting, all data in the memory stick will be lost!
Open the ISO file with WinRAR (or any similar program) and extract all files onto the memory stick.
Start the console (Press WINDOWS + R and type cmd, press ENTER), enter the drive letter of your memory stick (e.g. L: ), then enter “SYSLINUX.EXE -ma L:” (replace L: with your drive letter). This will set the boot record for your memory stick, enabling your computer to use it as boot device.
Now plug in the USB memory stick or insert the CD into the drive of the password-locked computer and switch it on.
When the BIOS image is showing up, make sure you enter the “Boot Menu”, usually by pressing F12.
A window should pop up asking you to choose the device to boot from. Select CD or USB HDD.
After a few seconds, this screen will show up. Just press enter to boot normally.
Now a lot of text will appear on your screen while the system is loading drivers for your hardware. Just wait until it comes to a stop and waits for your input. Now the tool is asking on which partition your Windows registry files are located. Usually, this would be the first partition, but since there is a small (100MB) backup drive in Windows 7, you should take the next one, enter the number below and press enter.
Next, it asks for the path to your registry files on the drive. These are usually fine, just press enter to continue. When the files are located, you can choose what to do. Enter 1 and hit return for “Password reset”.
Then you have to select “Edit user data and passwords” by entering 1 again and pressing Enter
Enter your account name from the list and press Enter
On the next screen, enter 1 to “Clear (blank) user password”. You may also select 4 to “Unlock and enable user account” if you have entered the password too often and it is locked. If that’s all you wanted to do, enter ! and press return to quit.
Enter q again to leave the next menu and write the files by typing “y” in Step 4.
Now your password has been reset, just restart your computer normally and you should be able to log in to Windows again!
Currently, Google is testing a new search interface for their websearch somehow reminding of Bing. This new interface is supposed to make searching easier by putting all the useful filters and kinds of search in a bar on the left side while displaying the search results on the right side.
Although this interface hasn’t been released for the public yet, you can try it already by following these easy steps:
Open a new browser window or tab and go to this URL: http://www.google.com/ncr
By using the “ncr” statement, you make sure that you’re not redirected to a local version of Google (e.g. .de, .cn, .co.uk, …)
Paste this script into the address bar replacing the URL: javascript:void(document.cookie=”PREF=ID=20b6e4c2f44943bb:U=4bf292d46faad806:TM=1249677602:LM=1257919388:S=odm0Ys-53ZueXfZG;path=/; domain=.google.com”); This will set a cookie telling the search to use the new interface
Go back to google.com and start searching!
There is also a nice comment on the bottom of each page with customized search telling you that you’re awesome!
Have you got an iPod touch or iPhone and want to play cool games like FIFA10 or Assassin’s Creed, but don’t want to spend money on buying them? Then this tutorial will definitely help you.
Warning: Jailbreaking your iPod/iPhone will void your warranty. Downloading cracked applications is illegal and may have legal consequences. It is not my intention to motivate people to do illegal things, everything you do will be on your own risk!
Notice: This will only work with the latest generation of iPods/iPhones with Firmware 3.1.2 or higher! The blackra1n jailbreak will probably not work with the MC models (iPod touch 3G with 8GB).
1. Jailbreak your iPod/iPhone
Before you will be able to install applications other than the ones from iTunes Store, you must jailbreak your iPod. Please consider the warning above before jailbreaking your iPod.
The easiest jailbreak for the 3.1.2 firmware is blackra1n. This tutorial will only focus on blackra1n.
Warning: blackra1n is a so-called “tethered jailbreak”, meaning that everytime you reboot your iPod (e.g. due to empty battery or after switching it completely off) you will have to run blackra1n again. Running blackra1n again won’t install or uninstall any applications but just enable the iPod to start again.
Make sure you have installed at least firmware version 3.1.2 in iTunes.
Close iTunes but keep the iPod connected to your computer via USB.
Open the downloaded blackra1n.exe file and click the “make it ra1n” button
Your iPod will go into recovery mode now and reboot. You should see this on your computer: And this image on your iPod:
Now wait for the iPod to reboot, shouldn’t take longer than a few seconds. Once done, launch the “blackra1n” application that appeared and install Cydia and Rock.
2. Enable the installation of cracked application
Open Rock, the application you just installed with blackra1n.
Go to Manage -> Manage Sources -> Edit -> Add and enter http://cydia.hackulo.us to enable downloads from hackulo.us, then click Add Source
Go to Search, search for AppSync and install “AppSync for OS 3.1″
That’s it, your iPod is now able to install cracked applications. For the case that cracked apps won’t work, try installing AppSync again with Cydia instead of Rock.
3. Download and install cracked applications
The biggest cracked application repository out there is Appulo.us, so you should try getting your desired application there first. The website is quite slow and sometimes offline, so be patient.
If Appulo.us doesn’t find the application you want or is offline, you may use downloadipa.info, apps.su or search torrents and rapidshare for “<app name> ipa” (ipa is the extension of cracked apps).
If the downloaded app came in a zip file (which is the case with most apps downloaded from Appulo.us), rename it to .ipa
Double-click your ipa files to add them to iTunes
Sync the iTunes applications with your iPod
Launch the application on your iPod!
I hope this tutorial was helpful. If you encounter any errors, please comment to tell me about it!
There are so many websites out there who can calculate Currency Exchange Rates for you, e.g. Google Search, Bing Search or Yahoo Currency Converter. But what if you just want to have the exchange rate to use in your Desktop or Web Application? It would be kinda troublesome to extract the rate from one of the websites above, especially when they decide to change the layout of their HTML code.
The API updates itself once an hour, so the values you’re getting may be up to 1h old. This should be good enough since these values are for information purposes only.
How can I use the API on my website?
This example shows how to use the API to display 100$ in € (please replace the & stuff in the URL with a normal &, can’t display it correctly here):
$amount = 100; // amount in your original currency, e.g USD
$oricurr = "USD"// iso code for your original currency
The calculator works almost the same way as the API itself. Call calculator.php with three parameters: original, target and value. original and target are ISO codes of the currency, and value is the amount of orignal currency to convert. The output is the corresponding amout of target currency.
How accurate are the values?
The acuracy of the exchange rates can’t be guaranteed. All values are for informational purposes only. See the footer of the index page for more information.
In the last week, I created WortopiaBot which is a hack or cheat for all kind of multiplayer boggle games like Wortopia or WEBoggle. You can just start the program and wait a few seconds, then it will have solved the game and submit all possible words to the respective game server. Using the right word database, the accuracy can be up to 100%.
There are 2 versions of this bot, one is called “Perfect Edition” because it always reaches 100% if the program can access the right database. Before I found out that the original Wortopia database is available under open-source license, I used other databases that reached only around 80%. Thus I also created a “Learning Edition” that checks the words from last round and adds them to the database, in addition to the removal of wrong words. If the Learning Edition plays enough games, it should optimize its database to the same accuracy of the Perfect Edition.
The Learning Edition will be available for download from SourceForge soon.
In the last tutorial, I explained how to find out your Warcraft 3 CD key. Now I show you how to change the CD key of an installed version of Warcraft 3.
PLEASE BACK UP YOUR WARCRAFT 3 REGISTRY BEFORE CONTINUING!!
Extract the files from the archive and launch “cdkey.exe” for Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos and “FTkey.exe” for Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne. In the Window, click “Change CD Key” and enter your new CD key. If you don’t see this button, please scroll down…
What can I do when the “Change CD-Key” button doesn’t show up?
The Warcraft 3 CD key is not stored in the Windows Registry as many other games do, it’s encrypted and saved somewhere in your “war3.mpq” file. In order to change the key, the application needs to know where your installation of Warcraft 3 actually is. When the button isn’t there, you don’t have the right registry entries.
In order to create the registry entries, please download Lescos Warcraft Toolkit. Open “LWT.exe”, go to the “Registry” tab and browse for your “Warcraft III.exe” file. Then click “Make entries”.
Restart the CD key changer tools, the link should be there now.
Did you loose your Warcraft III CD key but have still got an installed copy on your hard disc? Then IÂ gonna show you how to aquire your Warcraft 3 CD Key within a few seconds. It’s really easy!
Extract the file wc3_tft_CDKeyGrabber11800.exe from the RAR archieve and launch it. You will see a black and white window for around 5 seconds, then it will change to a black window that looks like this:
Now launch Warcraft 3 (Frozen Throne) and click on Local Area Network, as the program suggests. Now you can minimize Warcraft 3 by pressing either the Windows Key or ALT + TAB or just exit it. The CD key grabber will show your Reign of Chaos (and Frozen Throne) key in the fields that were blank before.
That’s it basically.
For the ones who are interested in the science behind that tool:
For Warcraft 3 it’s not as easy as for other games where you can just read out the Windows Registry. Warcraft 3 saves its key in the war3.mpg file which is kinda harder to access. You won’t be able to get the key from the file itself because it is encrypted in there. But in order to play online or LAN, Warcraft 3 sends a request either to the Battle.Net servers or to active LAN servers. This request also contains the CD key in order to get authorization from the server. The CD key Grabber tool launches a TCP listener that waits for the request from Warcraft 3. When going to the Local Area Network lobby, Warcraft 3 scans your LAN environment, detects the “server” hosted by the CD key Grabber and sends a request (usually done to get the game name and map). Now the application is able to get the key from that request and will display it.
Avira AntiVir Personal is probably the best free anti virus software. It is free of charge, updates daily, detects almost every virus, troyan, worm or whatever, and is not as annoying as other software as Kaspersky with lots of security warnings, extra firewalls, ect…
The only bad thing is that after every update a popup containing advertisement is shown. This banner is always the same and shown almost every day since AntiVir updates as often as once a day. Here I will show you how to disable the annoying ad banner without having to hack/crack/patch AntiVir.
This works only with Windows XP, perhaps I will find a way for Vista or Windows 7 some time!
Click on Start -> Run… -> type “secpol.msc†(without the quotes) and press enter to open the local security settings.
If you never created any security policies before, you have to set them up first. In order to do that, right-click the “Software Restriction Policies” entry on the left and choose “Create New Policies”. If you did anything in that section before, you can skip this step.
Now the folders “Security Levels” and “Additional Rules” should be there. Navigate to “Additional Rules”, right-click and choose “New Path Rule…”. In the window popping up click browse and navigate to your AntiVir folder (usually C:\Program Files\Avira\AntiVir PersonalEdition Classic) and select the “avnotify.exe” file. Set “Security level” to “Disallowed” if it isn’t already and hit OK.
This tweak forbids the execution of the “avnotify.exe” file which is responsible for the popups. Deleting the file is not possible, AntiVir will crash when trying to access it. This works as long as the filename of “avnotify.exe” is not changed through an update, and if it is, you can do the same thing for the new file.
This tutorial will show you how to shrink your copy of Windows 7 so that it will be as small as 3.8GB and will fit on the 4GB SDD of the Asus Eee PC 700 and 900!
Now follow the steps below to make your own customized version of Windows 7 for your Netbook. This is quite complicated compared to a normal installation of Windows 7, and perhaps there will be an easier way in the future, but until now, this is better than nothing, and you can have the other SDD for all the stuff you want to have on your netbook.
Thanks to Basti756 for this awesome tutorial! See the proof that it is working below:
Get Windows 7
You can download Windows 7 Beta 1 either from the official Microsoft Windows 7 download site or via Torrent, which should be 100% legal since the official version has been released for public testing. Download torrent file.
Required software:
WAIK 1.1 (download)
Mount the image and install WAIK before installing vLite
vLite (download)
At the first start, vLite will tell you how to enable the WAIK stuff installed before
vLite Settings file (download)
Extract the *.ini file and copy it to your vLite root directory/presets
Imaging Software: i.e. Acronis True Image Echo Server 9.5 (download)
Link to trial version which fits your needs, you may also download it from your favorite warez/torrent site if you need a full version
This tutorial will show you how to install Microsoft Windows 7 on the Asus Eee PC 900. Except for the last part (configuring boot devices), this tutorial works for every other netbook out there! Just follow the instructions to create your bootable Windows 7 USB thumbdrive, plug it into your netbook and start!
If the image doesn’t satisfy you, see this video proof:
(In this video, I am running Build 6956, although the startup animation is not the correct one. I guess that the graphics card is not good enough to display the 3D animation. This way of installing Windows 7 will work with any version of Windows 7)
