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Disabling USB drives/Storage: Prevent Users from Accessing your Flash Disk

This article will provide two topics in locking and unlocking your USB, while still allowing the use of USB peripherals such as keyboard, mouse, printer or scanner. This can be use in preventing users from copying data from the computer or preventing them in plugging usb storage devices such as flash disk and usb hardisk. Note: This article can be applied to Windows Vista and Windows Xp Service Pack 2. [Vista] If you don’t want to do it manually or again and again. Download and Use WinBubble : Open WinBubble > Security tab > Click any options and the Apply button > Restart your computer. That's it! Enjoy! Disable Writing to USB Drives in Windows Vista/Xp 1. Open the Notepad, copy and paste the settings below: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageDevicePolicies] "WriteProtect"=dword:0000000 1 2. Open the File menu-> Save As and Select "All Fil...

UnlockThis! How to Get the Windows Experience Index (WEI) score of a Network Computer

Windows System Assessment Tool (WINSAT), is a free benchmarking tool that measures various performance characteristics and capabilities of a computer running in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. The ratings are displayed as Windows Experience Index or WEI score. How to get the WEI score of a Network Computer running in Windows Vista? Use Vbscript to access the new WMI class, Win32_WinSAT, that can retrieve system assessment information from ANY Windows Vista computer. Sadly, for Windows Vista only. If you don't understand the above explanation, don't mind about it, just follow the steps below. 1. Open the notepad and paste the code below. strCompName = Inputbox("Get Hardware Performance Ratings" & vbcrlf & "of a Remote computer," & vbcrlf & "Input the Computer Name:") Set objWMIservices = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & strCompName & "\root\cimv2"...

Unlockthis: Speed Up! Use "Quick Explorer" to navigate your files easily

While you are using Microsoft Office Programs, Internet Explorer or Firefox for surfing the net,  or even Windows Live Writer when writing a blog. You use the Quick search in Windows Vista start menu, if you have a clue about the name of the file you want to open. If not, you open the Windows Explorer for navigating, copying, moving, opening and many more. There's an quick alternative for navigating your files. Using the Windows Vista Toolbar, I called " Quick Explorer ". You can navigate and open your files easily . You can also copy, delete and move files but it depends on the hierarchy of folders. It is cumbersome to do file copy, if the folder location is located at the topmost part of the folder hierarchy. One thing that I have noticed, at first, when you navigate a folder having a large hierarchy. It will caused an increased in the CPU usage but next time you open it again, it will not increase anymore. Maybe, it is now save in the memory. Same thing...

Windows XP, Web, Software Reviews and Hacks

UnlockForUs Ultimate collection of Hacks, Security, Tutorials, Windows XP Q&A, Web and Software Reviews. This is updated frequently, so check it out and Enjoy Learning Windows! "Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim" --Ralph Waldo Emerson Hacks "Hidden Windows XP Serial Key" Google Chrome Temporary Files location (Cache), Bookmarks/Favorites Database Hack!   Web and Software Reviews What is Google Chrome? Download Now! Quick Tip: Simplest way to Save Time in using Google Search Virtual Girl of the Future, A.I. (Artificial Intelligence)? How to Open/Load .ISO Files in Windows Vista/XP WinGuggle, Get your Windows Vista/XP Product Key easily   UnlockForUs "Useful", Product Key Recovery Tool CPU-Z, a useful System Profiler tool Windows DVD Maker, create your own Professional-looking video DVDs CDBurnerXP, burns Blu-Ray and HD-DVDs for FREE ...

Windows Vista Tips and Secrets, Tricks, Tweaks, Unlocks and Downloads

UnlockForUs Ultimate collection of (How-To) Windows Vista Tweaks, Tutorials, Tips and Tricks. This is being updated frequently, so check it out and Enjoy Learning Windows Vista! Using WinBubbles as TweakUI for Windows 7 (and Vista) New! Windows 7 Login Screen Wallpaper Changer Utility New! Add Disk Defrag, Check Disk and Disk Cleanup to Disk Context menu *** Improving Windows Experience Index Score for free Please Scroll-Down to Read more Windows Vista Tips & Tricks WinBubble version 2 was released   UnlockForUs "Useful", Easy to use Customization and Tweaking Utility for Windows Vista   Download WinBubbles for Windows 7 and Vista: Click Here Old version designed for Vista - WinBubble 1.76   *FreewareFiles.com Editor's Pick *Softpedia 100% Clean Award and 5/5-Rating *MajorGeeks.com Editor's Pick *Proudly listed and Reviewed by PCWorld.com *Proudly member of NotebookRevi...

UnlockThis! Cracking the 8-Character Windows Vista Password for three to five days

Using NVIDIA GPU, dual core CPU and " Brute force " technique, it is now possible to recover the logon password for Windows Vista.  Last October 22, 2007, ElcomSoft Co. Ltd. has filed a US patent on a breakthrough. A technology based on the combined power of Central Processing Unit and its video card's Graphics Processing Unit (GPU). The result will allow to build low cost PCs that will work like supercomputers when recovering lost passwords. It will decrease the time that it takes to perform password recovery by a factor of up to 25. ElcomSoft, a Russian computer software company specializing in computer security and data recovery applications provides state-of-the-art software cryptology and forensics, offers a wide range of password recovery solutions. They said that using their new technology, the process would take only three to five days for an 8-character string composed of uppercase and lowercase alphabetic characters to be cracked using the combination o...

UnlockThis! Monitor attempts to access and change settings in Windows Vista

Did you ever wonder if there's someone tried to use/access your computer when you're not around? Windows Vista will help you to monitor what's happening on your computer to make it more secure. 1. Open Local Security Policy by clicking the Start button, typing "Local secu" or just type "secpol.msc" into the Search box, and open it.‌  If you are prompted by UAC for confirmation, click "Continue". 2. Click Local Policies ->   Audit Policy . 3. Double-click the Policy that you want to monitor/audit. Audit account Logon events , To see when someone has logged on or off your computer (both local and over the network). Account management , To see when someone has changed settings on any account such as account name, changed a password, or changed a user group, enabled or disabled an account and created or deleted an account. Directory service access , To see when somebody accesses an Active Directory object that...

UnlockThis! CPU-Z, a useful System Profiler tool

CPU-Z is a portable freeware system profiler for Microsoft Windows that gathers information about the central processing unit (CPU), RAM, motherboard, and other hardware features. "Before I upgrade my laptop memory, I used this portable application to see and verify the memory type and frequency. " CPU-Z is needed to identify certain hardware components without opening the PC or laptop, especially the memory type and frequency, mainboard vendor, core revision and RAM clock rate. The ability to get clock speed makes it an important tool for motherboard overclockers. Hardware Information List: (SOURCE: http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php ) CPU - Name and number, Core stepping and process, Package, Core voltage, Internal and external clocks, clock multiplier, Supported instructions sets and Cache information. Mainboard - Vendor, model and revision, BIOS model and date, Chipset (northbridge and southbridge) and sensor, Graphic interface. Memory - Frequenc...

iUnlockThis! New Thread

This NEW thread presents a topic that cannot be seen in any Windows Vista/XP Tweaking guides, Tips and Tricks websites and other famous websites. Based on Google search that I have done. A. Microsoft Desktop Window Manager command list (Flip3d and Glass style effect) Microsoft Desktop Window Manager is responsible for the Aero effects in our Windows Vista machine. Recently, I read a Windows Vista Tip on how to create a Flip 3D shortcut, maybe almost all of the Vista forums, Windows Vista Tweaking guides and Windows Vista Tips and tricks websites has this tip. I was amazed about the tip...because you can create an application that if you click the middle part of your mouse (scroll wheel button), Flip3D will execute. WOW! One question pops-up in my head, how about the other commands? After experimenting with it, I found 3 functioning parameters. Activate Flip3D : Rundll32 dwmApi #105 Turn off the Glass style effect : Rundll32 dwmApi #104 Turn on the Glass style effe...

iUnlockThis! Windows Vista Tip, Create an Aero On Off and Flip3D Shortcut

Microsoft Desktop Window Manager is responsible for the Aero effects in our Windows Vista machine. Recently, I read a Windows Vista Tip on how to create a Flip 3D shortcut, maybe almost all the Vista forums, Windows Vista Tweaking guides and Windows Vista Tips and tricks has this tip. I was amazed about the tip...because you can create an application that if you click the middle part of your mouse (scroll wheel button), Flip3D will execute. WOW! One question pops-up in my head, how about the other commands? After experimenting with it, I found 3 functioning parameters. How to Create a Windows Vista Aero On Off shortcut 1. Right-Click on the desktop->New->Shortcut 2. Type the following commands: Rundll32 dwmApi #104 3. Click Next and input any name that you want, example: "AeroOff". 4. To change the icon, Right-click on the shortcut -> Properties --> Change icon 5. Shell32.dll has a big collection of icons,  so let's c...