Lists of Hidden Secret Applications /Programs of Windows XP

Lots of hidden application or programs exist in your Windows XP operating system. These hidden applications are really very useful and can saves much time when you really know these applications utility or application. I really amazed by these application. Microsoft never tell you these applications / programs description. All these hidden programs are really powerful for similar activities like registry editing, group policy editing, communicating with others etc. This page presents lots of hidden secret programs / application and you will be glad knowing these hidden applications activities.

Lists of Hidden Secret Applications / Programs of Windows XP:

In the following paragraphs, you will find 20+ hidden secret applications or programs of Microsoft Windows XP operating system:

Private Character Editor: Hidden Font Editor Private Character Editor is used to create unique letters and logos for your font library according to your own choice. This program is totally for designing icons and Characters.

Instructions for Private Character Editor: Click on Start menuand click select Run In the "Run" window, type EUDCEDIT and hit Enter key of your keyboard..

IExpress: Hidden Install Creator IExpress program is for converting your files to EXECUTABLE files. This technology is designed to simplify creation of a setup program. Using the step-by-step IExpress Wizard, you can create self-extracting files that automatically run the setup program contained inside. The setup program can be an .inf file or an executable program. IExpress technology automatically removes the setup files after installation, saving the user time and frustration.

Instructions for IExpress:
1. Click on Start menu and click select Run
2. In the "Run" window, type iexpress and hit Enter key of your keyboard

Disk Cleanup: Cleaning Harddisk ,This program is used for cleaning harddisk to offer more space to your hard-disk.

Instructions for Disk Cleanup:

1. Click on Start menu and click select Run
2. In the "Run" window, type cleanmgr and hit Enter key of your keyboard

MS-DOS Editor: Hidden Text Editor Windows XP comes with another text editor besides Notepad - it's called the MS-DOS Editor is another text editor like Notepad and it's commonly referred to simply as Edit. You can use it as like Notepad. Moreover, it offers many more features such as the ability to work with multiple text files and change the background and text colors.

Instructions for MS-DOS Editor:

1)Click on Start menu and click select Run .

2) In the "Run" window, type edit and hit Enter key of your keyboard.

Netmeeting: Hidden Internet Conference Application NetMeeting of Windows XP can deliver a complete Internet conferencing solution for all Windows users with multi-point data conferencing, text chat, whiteboard, and file transfer, as well as point-to-point audio and video.

Instructions for Netmeeting:

1. Click on Start menu and click select Run

2. In the "Run" window, type conf and hit Enter key of your keyboard

Windows Chat: Hidden Windows ChatProgram Windows Chat can be used to communicate with someone on another computer. But both computers must be connected to the same network (for example, a local area network [LAN] or the Internet) and each computer must be running a similar protocol, such as TCP/IP. So, you can communicate with others easily.

Instructions for Windows Chat:

1. Click on Start menu and click select Run
2. In the "Run" window, type winchat and hit Enter key of your keyboard

Windows Media Player 5.1: Hidden Windows Media Player Do you know that there is is windows media player 5.1 in your windows XP. You can use it to listen music.

Instructions for Windows Windows Media Player 5.1:

1. Click on Start menu and click select Run

2. In the "Run" window, type mplay32 and hit Enter key of your keyboard

Windows Media Player 6.4 : Hidden Windows Media Player This is another secret of Windows XP. Here you can find Windows Media Player 6.4 (classic) to play your media files.

Instructions for Windows Media Player 6.4:

 1. Click on Start menu and click select Run
 2. In the "Run" window, type mplayer2 and hit Enter key of your keyboard

Note:

 Windows Media Player 6.4 (Classic) is installed along with Windows Media Player 7. The only update is that it now supports the latest codecs.

Dr Watson:Troubleshooting tool This program Is for repairing problems in Windows

Instructions for Dr Watson:

1. Click on Start menu and click select Run
2. In the "Run" window, type drwtsn32 and hit Enter key of your keyboard

Clipboard Viewer: Windows ClipboardViewing This program is for viewing contents of Windows clipboard

Instructions for Clipboard Viewer:

1. Click on Start menu and click select Run
 2. In the "Run" window, type clipbrd and hit Enter key of your keyboard

DirectX diagnosis: Diagnose DirectX, video and sound This program is for viewing contents of Windows clipboard

Instructions for DirectX diagnosis:

1.Click on Start menu and click select Run
2. In the "Run" window, type dxdiag and hit Enter key of your keyboard

Character Map: Find unusual characters This program is used for finding unusual characters.

Instructions for Character Map:

1. Click on Start menu and click select Run
2. In the "Run" window, type charmap and hit Enter key of your keyboard

Mcft Synchronization Manager: File synchronization on the network This program is very helpful which allows synchronization of files on the network for when working offline. But this program is apparently undocumented.

Instructions for Mcft Synchronization Manager:

1.Click on Start menu and click select Run
2.In the "Run" window, type mobsync and hit Enter key of your keyboard

ODBC Data Source Administrator : If you like to do with databases, you can use this hidden program of Windows XP.

Instructions for ODBC Data Source Administrator:

   1. Click on Start menu and click select Run
   2. In the "Run" window, type odbcad32 and hit Enter key of your keyboard

Object Packager:-- With this secret Windows XP program, you can do with packaging objects for insertion in files, appears to have comprehensive help files

Instructions for Object Packager:

1.Click on Start menu and click select Run
2.In the "Run" window, type packager and hit Enter key of your keyboard.

Group Policy Editor:--- This program is used to manage group policies, and permissions

Instructions for Group Policy Editor:

1. Click on Start menu and click select Run
2. In the "Run" window, type gpedit.msc and hit Enter key of your keyboard

System configuration:--------- This program is used to control starup programs.

Instructions for System configuration:

1.Click on Start menu and click select Run
2.In the "Run" window, type msconfig and hit Enter key of your keyboard.

Driver Verifier Manager:---- It seems to be a utility for monitoring the actions of drivers, might be useful for people having driver problems. Undocumented.

Instructions for Driver Verifier Manager :

1.Click on Start menu and click select Run
2.In the "Run" window, type verifier and hit Enter key of your keyboard.

Microsoft Telnet Client:------ This program is used to remotely access to any device.

Instructions for Microsoft Telnet Client:

1.Click on Start menu and click select Run
2.In the "Run" window, type telnet and hit Enter key of your keyboard.

System Monitor:---- System Monitor is very useful, highly configurable tool, tells you everything you ever wanted to know about any aspect of PC performance

Instructions for System Monitor:

1.Click on Start menu and click select Run
2.In the "Run" window, type perfmon and hit Enter key of your keyboard.

Program Manager:----- Program Manager is a program that can be used as Legacy Windows 3.x desktop shell.

Instructions for Program Manager:

1.Click on Start menu and click select Run
2.In the "Run" window, type progman and hit Enter key of your keyboard.

Syskey : Secures XP Account database Syskey secures XP account database. Use Syskey with care, it's virtually undocumented but it appears to encrypt all passwords

Instructions for Syskey:

1.Click on Start menu and click select Run
2.In the "Run" window, type syskey and hit Enter key of your keyboard.

System Configuration Editor:------ System Configuration Editor can be used to modify System.ini & Win.ini just like in Win98!

Instructions for System Configuration Editor:

1.Click on Start menu and click select Run
2.In the "Run" window, type sysedit and hit Enter key of your keyboard.

Remote Access phone book:--- This program's documentation is virtually non-existant.

Instructions for Remote Access phone book :

1.Click on Start menu and click select Run
2.In the "Run" window, type rasphone and hit Enter key of your keyboard.

Registry Editor:------- Registry Eidtor is used for hacking the Windows Registry.

Instructions for Registry Editor:

1.Click on Start menu and click select Run
2.In the "Run" window, type regedt32 orregedit and hit Enter key of your keyboard.

Network shared folder wizard:----it is used to create shared folders on network.

Instructions for Network shared folder wizard:

1.Click on Start menu and click select Run
2.In the "Run" window, type shrpubw and hit Enter key of your keyboard.

File siganture verification tool:--- It's a simple file siganture verification
tool.

Instructions for File siganture verification tool:

1.Click on Start menu and click select Run
2.In the "Run" window, type sigverif and hit Enter key of your keyboard.

Volume Control:---- This program is helpful for those people that lose it from the System Notification area.

Instructions for Volume Control:----

1.Click on Start menu and click select Run
2.In the "Run" window, type sndvol32 and hit Enter key of your keyboard.

How to Protect your Email Address on Internet

 Lately, have you started to receive a lot of junk mails and couldn’t figure out the reason for it.Well, this could have happened because you have written your email on a website ,forum ,blog or might have subscribed to a spammy website. Email marketers use special bots that are programmed to automatically collect email ids from websites. If you don’t take precautionary measures you might become their victim and your mailbox will be filled with thousands of spam emails daily. If you have to share your email its better to encrypt it so that bots can’t identify it. You should also password protect and encrypt your emails before sending them for additional security. How to Protect your Email Address on Internet:

 In the Email field give your Email which you want to protect and then click on Protect my Email. Now in the window you will see the Scrimmed URL of your Email Address. Use this URL in future instead of revealing your original Email Address. Now whenever you have to share your email address ,simply paste the skimmed url.To get your email address the user has to click on the skimmed address and pass the failsafe captcha.

Microsoft(MS) Word Shorcut keysKeyboard Shortcut

 Keyboard Shortcut

1.CTRL and A----Selects all in the current document.
2.CTRL and B ----Bold text.
3.CTRL and C----Copies the item or text to the Clipboard and can be pasted using
4.CTRL and V.
5.CTRL and D----Displays the Font dialogue box.
6.CTRL and E----Centre Alignment.
7.CTRL and F----Displays the Find dialog box, to search the current document.
8.CTRL and G----Displays the Go to dialog box, to go to a specific location in the current document.
9.CTRL and H----Displays the Replace dialogue box.
10.CTRL and I----Italic text.
11.CTRL and J----Full Justification.
12.CTRL and K---Create Hyperlink
13.CTRL and L----Left Alignment
14.CTRL and M---Tab
15.CTRL and N----Creates a new document.
16.CTRL and O----Displays the Open File dialogue box.
17.CTRL and P----Displays the Print dialog box.
18.CTRL and R----Right Alignment.
19.CTRL and S----Displays the Save dialog box.
20.CTRL and U---Underline text
21.CTRL and V---Pastes the copied item or text from the Clipboard into the current position in the document.
22.CTRL and X---Cuts the item or text selected to the Clipboard.
23.CTRL and Y---Redo the last undone action.
24.CTRL and Z---Undoes the last action.
25.CTRL and ENTER---Insert Page Break.
26.CTRL and F2---Show Print preview.
27.CTRL and F4---Closes the active document window.
28.CTRL and F6---Opens the next document window.Keyboard Shortcut

Result in Microsoft Word
1.F1 key---Get help or use the Office assistant. SHIFT and F1 Key Context sensitive help.
2.F2 Key---Move text or image. SHIFT and F2 Key Copy Text.
3.F3 Key---Insert an auto text entry. SHIFT and F3 Key Change the case of the selected text.
4.F4 Key---Perform last action again. SHIFT and F4 Key Perform a Find or Go to action again.
5.F5 Key---Displays the Go to dialogue box, from here you can also Find and Replace. SHIFT and F5 Key Move to a previous revision.
6.F6 Key---Go to the next frame or pane. SHIFT and F6 Key ,Go to the previous frame or pane.
7.F7 Key---Launch the Spell checker.SHIFT and F7 Key,Launch the Thesaurus.
8.F8 Key---Extend the current selection. SHIFT and F8 Key,Shrink the current selection.
9.F9 Key---Update the selected fields. SHIFT and F9 Key,Switch between a field code and it's result.
10.F10 Key---Activate the menu bar.SHIFT and F10 Key,Display a Shortcut Menu. Same as right clicking.
11.F11 Key---Go to the next field. SHIFT and F11 Key,Go to the previous field.
12.F12 Key---Save file As, equivalent to tools menu. SHIFT and F12 Key.Save document, equivalent to tools menu.

Top Facebook Hacks

a)   Facebook Chat Hack 

 

To add pictures during chat session, just Type Unique id or Username between [[ ]] . [[unique id or Username ]] for example : [[1758955254]]

To find your facebook ID , go to profile page and look at url , you’ll see id=xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, for example my facebook id is 1758955254 .

 

B)     Facebook Chat Emotions:

 

c)          Who deleted me on Facebook?

 

 Ever wanted to know “Who deleted me on Facebook?” . Use http://who.deleted.me/ app to find out.

d)               Create A Video With YourFacebook Photos

 

 http://pixable.com is website that allows you to create video with your facebook photos.

e)         Facebook Hack To Publish EmptyStatus

 

 Just enter the following code and hit enter @[2:2: ]

 

F)               How To Activate Facebook Timeline

 

 1) https://www.facebook.com/about/timeline

 
2) Then click Get Timeline
3) Click on Publish Now button on the top , that is it !

G)          How To Stop Receiving Facebook Notifications via Email

 

 To stop receiving facebook notifications via email , go to Account Settings ,Then click on Notifications You can see number of notifications under each category ,uncheck all according too you need ,you can uncheck all or you can keep checked what you want .

 

 

h)                  English Pirate Hack

 

 We’ll start with simple facebook hack. English pirate offers some pretty hilarious pirate variations. Go to Account Settings Language -> Edit Choose ENglish (pirate) and Save Changes

 

i)                       Write Upside Down FacebookStatus

 

 You’ve probably noticed a few people posting upside down status updates . If you want to write upside down status, you can use free online tool http://fliptext.org.

j)               How To Download All PicturesFrom A Facebook Profile

 

 There are a lot tools that allows you to download all photos from your profile. Here I’ll mention few
1)Picknzip (search on Google)
2)Photo Grabber (search on Google)
3) Album Copier (search on Google)

 K)                     How to Undo Facebook Changes

 

 You can download script that undoes some of the newer presentational layout changes for people who are afraid of change.

befor:-

After

download script http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/8482

L)               Profile Photo Hack

 

 With the Facebook’s new profile page you can divide your profile photo into 6 parts(1 profile pic and a photo strip of 5 recent photos in which you were tagged). There are some applications which allows you to write some funky text in the photo strip but dividing your own picture will be much cooler. Look at picture below to know what you can do with this trick.

How to do it

1) You need a photo of at least 692 pixels wide and 540 pixels high and a photo editor. I did it with Photoshop CS3.
2)To get your profile pic make a crop that’s 180 pixels wide and 540 pixels high.

Note:

 Start the crop from the left most corner.
3) Now to get the photo strip, crop a 492 X 68 pixels strip. Start the crop from 20 pixels below from right-top corner of the image.

Note:

Google’s top searches say it should be 20 pixels but I took around 30 pixels to get it right.
4) Now, you have to divide the strip into 5 parts. The photos in the strips of Facebook have a gap of 2 pixels. 492 – 8 (4 * 2 pixels) = 484 and 484 / 5 = 96.8. So, you have to cut 5 photos of 96.8 X 68 leaving a gap of 2 pixels. As, Photoshop didn’t allowed me to crop the image in points I took it as 97 X 68 and the widened the last image as it was 1(.2 px * 5) pixels short.
5) The difficult part has been completed till now. Just upload all the 6 images on Facebook. First, set your profile pic which we made in the 2nd step.
6) Now, to make the strip, you have to tag yourself in the reverse order. This means, the photo which will be in the right most corner of the strip should be tagged first and the left most photo should be tagged last.
7)  You’re done, just tell your friends to visit your profile.

M)               How To Create Fake FacebookConversations

 

 1) Go to http://fakeconvos.com
2) Click on create a new convo

3) Type name of commenter, select your upload picture, type what ever you want to say and click on add stream you can add as many people to the stream as you want, you can even login to the facebook and add your actual friends to the stream
4)Type descriptive title and save it
5)Now you can right click and save your picture and send it to your friend

N)           How To Hide Your Profile OnFacebook

 1)Login to your facebook account and click on Account-> Account Settings

2) Locate the sections Privacy under account settings and click Manage

3) Under Privacy Settings click on Search

4) If you don’t want your profile to appear in search engines , then uncheck Public Search Results

.
If you want that only your Facebook friends can see your profile and other information about you, ten choose option friends only

 o)          How To Be Safe on Facebook

 

 To secure your account and browsing within Facebook you should use “Secure browsing (https)” that will prevent your account from session hacking. Go to Account Settings -> Security and choose secure browsing.

 p)                 Tag People in Your Status Updates

 

 When you are writing a status update and want to add a friend’s name to something you are posting, just include the “@” symbol beforehand. As you type the name of what you would like to reference, a drop-down menu will appear that allows you to choose from your list of friends and other connections, including groups, events, applications and Pages.

q)            Hide Status Updates From Certain People

 

 Using this facebook hack , you can control who can read your status updates with Facebook’s privacy settings. Click on Public -> Custom ,  Under Hide this from , type people from which you want to hide your status update.

r)                  How To Search Facebook Like APro

 

 Facebook search has a lot of advanced options , for example , if you type name: Sachin Singh mehra  status:single , you’ll filter your results down to only people who are Single.

A complete list of search tips for Facebook can be found here.

https://www.facebook.com/help/?page=205013096204652

s)               How To Increase The Size OfWall Post

 

 Using Greasemonkey script you can make the Facebook wallpost textbox more bearable by lengthening it and widening ot to the width of an actual post. To learn how to use Greasemonkey scripts ,

 visit ------

http://userscripts.org/about/installing

 t)                    How To Hide Your Profile On Facebook

 

 If you’re one of those who want to be found though Facebook Search or Google Search , then you came to the right place. Here is step by step tutorial that will show you how to hide your profile on facebook .

1)Login to your facebook account and click on Account-> Account Settings
2) Locate the sections Privacy under account settings and click Manage
3) Under Privacy Settings click on Search
4)If you don’t want your profile to appear in search engines , then uncheck Public Search Results If you want that only your Facebook friends can see your profile and other information about you, ten choose option friends only

 u)         Make Fake Facebook Virus

 

 In this tutorial I will show you how to make a Facebook virus using simple commands on notepad. .This will make the victim think they have got a virus when they click on an icon such as Internet Explorer

.
1) Open notepad
2) Type this in :
@echo off msg * WARNING VIRUS DETECTED!!!!!
AFTER 5 MINUTES YOUR FACEBOOK ACCOUNT WILL BE DELETED !!!!TO REMOVE THE VIRUS CLICK OK OR CLOSE THIS BOX! PAUSE shutdown -r -t 300 -c " SORRY!!! YOUR FACEBOOK ACCOUNT ARE NOW BEING DELETED !!! PLEASE WAIT ..........."

3)Save as Internet Explorer .bat

4)Right click on Internet Explorer .bat and click Create Shortcut

5)Right click on shorcut and click

Propeties.

6)Click Change Icon
7) Choose Internet Explorer icon or similar , click OK , then click Apply

8) Delete real shortcut and replace it with fake . When victim click on it , he will get warning messages that looks

like this:

 
After five minutes windows will restart , that is all. This is totally harmless and will give you a laugh.

  v)              How To Delete Someone Else Facebook Account—

This tutorial is education purpose only, once deleted profile can never be recovered. This is an extreme example of Social Engineering technique, we need following things to do so.

1. Victim’s profile link ( you can get it easily )
2. His/Her Email which he/she uses to sign in
3. His/Her birth date which he/she has used in the profile
4. Make an Email ID on gmail or yahoo with the first name and last name same as on victim’s facebook profile.

Check here https://www.facebook.com/login/identify

Now you will get this screen

 

Enter details. In the place of ‘ email address where you can be contacted ‘ enter the fake email u created. You will get a email on that ID in which facebook people will ask your problem. Reply to them that you are XYZ( victim’s name ) and you cant access your facebook account. Also you have lost access to your Email Address associated with the account. You dont know what to do now. The hacker is coming online regularly and using your account. If the victim is a girl also write ‘ I am a girl and it poses threat to my social life ‘ and write anything you want that could make them take action. After 2-3 days youu will get a reply. They will again ask you that you have access to your associated Email or not? Reply them that you still don’t have access to it. And repeat what all you wrote in first mail. Next Day or Same Day you will get an Email that your account is disabled.

w)          How To Login To Multiple Facebook Accounts

1. In this post I’m going to show you how to login to multiple facebook accounts . How To Login To Multiple Facebook Accounts With Google Chrome 1. Login to your First Facebook Account as always.
2. Click the Wrench to bring Google Chrome options, and Click New incognito window (or Press Ctrl+Shift +N).
3. It will bring you a new private window that stores all cookies apart (cookie don’t collapse with the first
account’s cookie) You’ll notice a secret agent in the top left corner of Google Chrome.
4.Go to Facebook.com in the new private window, and Login to your second account

Note:

This method works also for: Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo Mail, Twitter and many other accounting websites. How To Login To Multiple Facebook Accounts With Mozilla Firefox 1. Go to multifox and download multifox and install it to your firefox (search on Google)
2. Restart your firefox. Then login to your First Facebook Account as always . Go to File-> New Identity Profile (or press Ctrl+Shif+M) . Now a new window will open go to
facebook.com login in your second account How To Login To Multiple Facebook Accounts With Internet Explorer 8 1. Login to your First Facebook Account as always
2. Press Alt and go to File -> New session. Now a new window will open go to the website again and login with another facebook account .