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Fantastic Easter Egg in Windows 7 and Vista

There's a great easter egg hidden in Windows 7 (32-bit and 64-bit), and Vista (32-bit):

Make a new folder, then rename it to:

GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}

The icon of the folder will change to a Control Panel Icon, and you’ll get a stunning list of all available system settings and control panel applets.

Now you are in charge!

Via: Ina Fried

Labels: easter egg, hack, secret, tip, trick, Windows, Windows 7, Windows Vista

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  Posted by oVan on Wednesday, January 06, 2010 | PermaLink | 0 comments

FIX: Remove and stop respawning of My Sharing Folders

In my previous post I quickly explained how to remove the "My Sharing Folders" shell extension via the command-line. All things work fine, until you restart your computer (or WLM) and notice that it has reinstalled itself.

In this post I will go a bit further, and explain how to stop automatic reinstallation of "My Sharing Folders", as apparently Microsoft has changed the latest Windows Live Messenger.

I assume you're familiar with Regedit and you have sufficient knowledge of Windows to play around with administrative rights. Obviously, I'm not responsible for any damage you might do to your machine - you're on your own there.

Let's get started:

1. Exit Windows Live Messenger (not just sign out)
2. In a command prompt, type: regsvr32 -u -s "C:\Program Files\Windows Live\Messenger\fsshext.8.5.1302.1018.dll"
   
   Note: you might need to change the numbers in the filename to match your version.
3. With Explorer, go to "C:\Program Files\Windows Live\Messenger\" and rename the fsshext.x.x.xxxx.xxxx.dll file to .old (replace X with the file version from your directory).
4. Next, open the registry editor (regedit), go to HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\UserData\(your userid)\Products\577EC8054AB4847428FDEF82ADF9300B\Features and rename the "MsgrFeat" string to "MsgrFeat-old". Don't change the contents of this string as you might need it someday to uninstall/change Windows Live Messenger.
   

Start WLM, all should be ok now. Let me know if it worked out ok for you... and Digg me!

Labels: fix, hack, Live, Messenger, Microsoft, registry, Vista, Windows, Windows Vista, WLM

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  Posted by oVan on Wednesday, March 26, 2008 | PermaLink | 3 comments

CSS compatibility changes in IE7

Another interesting list in MSDN to read and store in your favorites: CSS Compatibility in Internet Explorer 7

Labels: compatibility, CSS, hack, IE7, Internet Explorer 7, MSDN, patch

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  Posted by oVan on Friday, November 24, 2006 | PermaLink | 0 comments