Windows 7 godmodes and hidden settings.
Hi.
Today We’ll be discussing the hidden settings (and shortcuts) in windows 7.
Windows 7 has some developer oriented settings and control panels, for example shortcuts to directly access GPS setting (yes there are GPS settings), biometry settings, or just printer settings.
To unlock these modes all you need to do is to create a folder with any name (angrybyte of instance) then a single dot “.” and then a special code for the required panel
an example would be to create a folder named:
GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}
opening this folder will open the master control panel ( or the godmode as the guy that originally discovered it calls it).
There are also some other modes and hidden settings, I have came up with a method to create them all in one go. You can read more about it in the post : Unlocking all hidden settings & godemodes in windows 7 in the forums
have fun, and remember, it will break down eventually.
Use Opera unite to access thousands of shared music and video files
If you don’t know what is Opera Unite, then you can read some more about it here or visit the official website here
Today we will discuss how to use Google to access the media and data files that other Opera unite users are sharing after their permission to have their shared files indexable by Google.
To keep things simple I will set a few links that will give you direct access to Google search results.
1. Streaming music files
2.Streaming Video, Audio, and downloadable PDFs
3. Any shared files.
4. Shared Pictures
5. Acess to self hosted websites click repeat the search with the omitted results included. to show all results.
Clicking repeat the search with the omitted results included. will increase the number of results because Google tends to assume that multiple results are repeated.
Some of the results you will try to access will be offline, this means that the computer hosting the application is currently off, or Opera is not running.
Please carful while accessing self hosted website, there is no way to know the kind of material that can be hosted there. Also do not download suspesious or pirated apps from other’s computers, this can be very dangerous.
To have your opera services indexed by Google and publicly accessible, do the following.
1. register with opera unite and prepare all the application you want to share.
2. Right click each of the applications that you will be sharing and select properties.
3. click on the advanced settings arrow, then check “make application visible to search engines”.
4. If you wish for your files to be publicly viewable, please remove the password protection. to do so open the admin tab of the application that you sharing and click “Public” then save your settings.
that’s it!
It’s of course obvious that your internet bandwidth will be affected if you are sharing huge files that are publicly accessible, and let’s not neglect the risk of virus infection if you were smart enough to open a publicly accessible “File Inbox”
Please do not do illegal stuff with the info provided here. Opera gave us a good thing, let’s not ruin it!
Feel free to post your Opera unite applications links (and passes if any) here.
Opera Unite
Opera unite is a new service provided with the latest Opera browser 10.10. The idea is simple, you create an Opera account, and to that account, you can connect multiple computers (say: Home , Work, Notebook etc) and on each of these computers, you can install applications to do various things, like file sharing, or music streaming!
Other than that, you can connect to your friends computers, check the pictures they are sharing, leave them notes on the fridge (a note sending service is literally called fridge) , or listen to their music.
You can password protect your shared services to increase your security, but on the other hand you can go public and make the files you are sharing appear on search engines!
Another great feature of Opera Unite is the ability to provide a web server. You can host your own website on your computer without stressing over network related issues (static or dynamic IP, port forwarding etc). Opera will provide you with a URL that will give you direct access to your website from anywhere. I think I will write more on some applications of this very soon.
Many more applications are also available, like video streaming, group spreadsheet editor, file inbox and I expect much more to be available soon.
If anyone cares about testing the new Opera Unite as a group, please write your request here.
activate the Missing Hard disk partition in windows 7
after I installed windows 7 on my pc, I noticed that 1 of my 5 hard disk partitions was missing. the real cause of this is not yet clear to me, it is probably related to the ability of the windows 7 installation process to assign driver letters to a big number of partitions, but who knows.
Anyway to get back your partitions do not try extreme solutions such as BIOS settings and chipset INF files, just follow the following steps.
1. right click “Computer” and select “manage” . click “disk management” from the list on the left.
2. locate the missing partition, it is usually the partition without a driver letter.
3. right click it and assign a driver letter to it.
That’s it ! everything should work just fine now.
By the way what was you first impression after installing windows 7? I don’t know about you but I was a little disappointed
Play Guitar Hero World Tour vocals on PC with any microphone
Normally, Guitar hero: World Tour for PC will not allow you to play the vocals mode unless you have a compatible USB microphone. but thanks to the trick I discovered, you will enjoy playing guitar hero with any headset microphone you have. Just follow the steps carefully.
This method is provided as is with no guarantees that it will work and/or effect your computer in any way.
Resizing hard disk partitions in windows Vista
InWindows Vista, you will not be needing any third party application such as Partition Magic to resize/ split you hard disk partitions without losing any data.
To achieve the best results I recommend backing-up important data (you never know), moving any large files to an extra partition or flash disk, and finally run a defragmentation.
Restore overwritten or modified documents
There is a small life saving utility that comes with windows vista, you can use it if you have overwritten or modified an important document by mistake.
To restore the previous correct version of the document right click the modified document and select “Restore previous versions”. Allow windows a couple of minutes to lookup “shadow” copies of the file. select one of the discovered shadow copies then hit “copy” at the bottom of the window, save the original copy of the document somewhere else.
That’s it, you saved your job
Exporting Opera 9 wand passwords to Opera 10 BETA
The all new opera 10 BETA 2 does not detect previous versions of opera and does not offer upgrading from previous versions (on purpose maybe?). Anyway If you are like me and you can’t live without your wand passwords, there is an easy hack to export them to the new version of opera.
open “C:\Users\USERANAME\AppData\Roaming\Opera\Opera\profile” (change C: by your system drive and USERNAME with your username)
copy wand.dat
now open “C:\Users\USERANAME\AppData\Roaming\Opera\Opera 10 Beta” and paste the file (overwrite the existing one).
You are all set! open opera 10 BETA 2 and enjoy.
I don’t know about you but I enjoy facing a world of Firefox and IE with my opera, I just love it
play Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X on DirectX 10.1
Tom Clany’s H.A.W.X DX 10.1This game is the first game I know that has a DirectX 10.1 mode, anyway it is a little tricky to activate it.
First, I don’t know of any nVidia card that has DirectX 10.1 support, too bad for the new expansive nvidia 200 series owners. ATI 4800 series a fully compatible.
Second you must have Windows Vista Service pack 1 installed, not even the regular vista will do. Sorry.
Now you must have the game correctly installed and working, you maybe have noticed that there is a disabled DirectX 10 tab in the video options of the game, this trick will enable it as well.
Instead on running the game normally (double clicking the icon) right click it then select “Play Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X DX10″, (You can also browse to the game’s installation folder and open HAWX_dx10.exe instead of HAWX.exe )
You are good to go, now you can enable DirectX 10.1 from the new directX 10 menu in the game’s video settings.
This has been tested and found working on my ATI 4890.
Speed up your computer while using Kaspersky antivirus
If you have a multi-core processor, (with hyper-threading at least) you give your computer a little speed boost by limiting the antivirus and any other security firewalls to use only one core.
To do that simply identify the antivirus process from the task manager (avp.exe for kaspersky), then right click it and select set affinity.
deselect all but one core.
Thats it!
set affinity to antivirus
This method may work with other antiviruses, but I just tested it on Kaspersky 2009
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