Make a Funny Prank Virus

This is a totally harmless prank virus to pull on a friend or someone.

Steps

1. Open notepad
2. Type the following code in:
   
   @echo off
   echo VIRUS DETECTED
   pause
   echo DELETING VIRUS
   pause
   :1
   dir /s
   goto 1
   
   This will create a never ending stream of mindless code. This cannot be stopped easily.
3. Save the file as "virus.bat"
4. Have fun

For a Safer, faster XP Close Unwanted Services

To disable unneeded startup services for a safer, faster XP, use the "Services" Admin Tool (Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Services). If you are a single user of a non-networked machine, you can disable the following items, with no ill effect.

*Alerter
*Clipbook
*Computer Browser
*Fast User Switching
*Human Interface Access Devices
*Indexing Service (Slows the hard drive down)
*Messenger
*Net Logon (unnecessary unless networked on a Domain)
*Netmeeting Remote Desktop Sharing (disabled for extra security)
*Remote Desktop Help Session Manager (disabled for extra security)
*Remote Procedure Call Locator
*Remote Registry (disabled for extra security)
*Routing & Remote Access (disabled for extra security)
*Server
*SSDP Discovery Service (this is for the utterly pointless "Universal P'n'P", & leaves TCP Port 5000 wide open)
*TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper
*Telnet (disabled for extra security)
*Universal Plug and Play Device Host
*Upload Manager
*Windows Time
*Wireless Zero Configuration (for wireless networks)
*Workstation

Make Your Folders Private

STEPS

•Open My Computer
•Double-click the drive where Windows is installed (usually drive (C:), unless you have more than one drive on your computer).
•If the contents of the drive are hidden, under System Tasks, click Show the contents of this drive.
•Double-click the Documents and Settings folder.
•Double-click your user folder.
•Right-click any folder in your user profile, and then click Properties.
•On the Sharing tab, select the Make this folder private so that only I have access to it check box.

Note

•To open My Computer, click Start, and then click My Computer.
•This option is only available for folders included in your user profile. Folders in your user profile include My Documents and its subfolders, Desktop, Start Menu, Cookies, and Favorites. If you do not make these folders private, they are available to everyone who uses your computer.
•When you make a folder private, all of its subfolders are private as well. For example, when you make My Documents private, you also make My Music and My Pictures private. When you share a folder, you also share all of its subfolders unless you make them private.
•You cannot make your folders private if your drive is not formatted as NTFS For information about converting your drive to NTFS

Fun Tricks With Notepad

Wanna learn notepad tricks?Here are 3 fun notepad tricks you can play with.. .Try them … Just for fun and experimentation.

1)How To Make Matrix With NotePad

I’am going to show you how to make cool Matrix batch file using notepad.
Open notepad and type in
@echo off
color 2
:start
echo %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random%
goto start

Save it as matrix.bat

Double click on file and it will open the matrix

2)Log trick

This is simple, open notepad and type .LOG

Save it as .LOG.txt

Whenever you open the file with that text in the first line in the notepad, it will insert the current date and time at the end of the file. You can start entering your text after that.

3)Open console box

Open Notepad and type starts like seen in picture below, but you can make as many as you would like.

Save it as start.bat . Depending on how many times you wrote start console boxes open.

Lock Your Computer Fastly:Windows Trick

Leaving your computer in a hurry but you don’t want to log off?
You can double-click a shortcut on your desktop to quickly lock the keyboard and display without using CTRL+ALT+DEL or a screen saver.

To create a shortcut on your desktop to lock your computer:

*Right-click the desktop.
*Point to New, and then click Shortcut.
*The Create Shortcut Wizard opens.
*In the text box, type the following: rundll32.exe user32.dll,LockWorkStation
*Click Next. Enter a name for the shortcut.
*You can call it "Lock Workstation" or choose any name you like.
*Click Finish.

You can also change the shortcut's icon (ie: the padlock icon in shell32.dll).

To change the icon:

*Right click the shortcut and then select Properties.
*Click the Shortcut tab, and then click the Change Icon button.
*In the Look for icons in this file text box, type: Shell32.dll.
*Click OK.
*Select one of the icons from the list and then click OK
*You could also give it a shortcut keystroke such CTRL+ALT+L.

This would save you only one keystroke from the normal command, but it could be more convenient.