Here’s a quick how to on creating your own Windows Error messages.

  1. Open up notepad and copy/paste the following text:
    X = MsgBox(“Box Text”, 0+16,”Box Title”)
  2. Edit the words in “Box Text” with your error message.
  3. Edit the words in “Box Title” with the title of your error message.
  4. Optionally, you can also change the number/s (listed below) to display different buttons.
  5. Click on File > Save As…
  6. Name the file anything you want and add the .vbs extension to it.
    Ex: error.vbs
  7. Open your newly created file to see the error message.

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Have you ever wanted to make your Windows machine BSOD on demand? Well this registry hack does just that.

WARNING! Before you start modifying your registry you should make a backup or risk hosing your entire system.

First you need to disable the restart automatically on system failure setting.

  1. Right Click on My Computer
  2. Click on properties
  3. In the System Properties menu click on the Advanced Tab
  4. Under Startup and Recovery click on Settings
  5. Under System Failure uncheck the Automatically Restart box

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A hackers most powerful tool is usually his (or her) browser. Through the browser almost all things are possible. But what happens when you come across a Windows machine with IE (Internet Explorer) disabled and you are unable to install any 3rd party software (aka Firefox) onto the machine?

Assuming the machine is connected to the internet, you can fire up almost any Windows application that has a help menu to gain access to the web. Easy 5 step process below…
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Here’s how to be a SUP3R 1337 H4X0R and customize your Recycle Bin in Windows XP

1. Click Start
2. Click Run
3. Type regedit and hit ENTER
4. In the registry editor, navigate to the following key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsShellNoRoamMUICache

5. Double click on the following value:

@C:WINDOWSsystem32SHELL32.dll,-8964

6. Change the value to whatever you want your Recycle Bin to be named.
7. Click OK and close out regedit
8. Click on a blank area of the desktop and select refresh from the context menu.
9. After the screen refreshes, you recycle bin will be renamed to whatever you decided.

Here’s a quick 5 minute hack that **may** speed up your Windows XP operating system.

BTW, if you are running Windows XP you should have a minimum of 512MB of RAM.

Read on for the instructions…

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