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How To Create Windows Error Messages

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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Google Search Hacks

Here is a list of some quick and dirty Google Search Hacks. It will be updated as more hacks are found.

Last updated: 5-27-2008

General Hacks

  • Do a number/year search | Ex: GTO 1966…1967
  • Get the local movie listings | Ex: Pirates of the Caribbean 90064
  • Get the local time anywhere | Ex: what time is it seoul
  • Search within a site | Ex: site:yaarg.com hacks
  • Track FedEx, UPS, USPS packages | Ex: 1Z14662R0340419XXX
  • Track flight status | Ex: virgin america vx0420
  • Convert almost anything | Ex: 100 us dollars in euros

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Make XP BSOD On Demand

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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