Windows Tricks 01

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In this blog, I will cover with you things that may scare you. Some things may even make you paranoid about having a computer. Don’t be discouraged though, as I will also tell you how to protect yourself. The reasons for telling you the “dirt” if you will is that I feel it important for you to know what is at risk.

1. Disable Task Manager

This is a neat trick you can play on that lamer that has a huge ego, in this section I teach you, how to disable the Task Manager. This trick involves editing the registry, so please make backups. Launch regedit.exe and go to :


HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System


In the right pane look for the DisableTaskMgr. If it is not already there then create it by right clicking in the right pane and selecting New > String Value.(Name it DisableTaskMgr ) Now once you see the DisableTaskMgr in the right pane, right click on it and select Modify. Then Type 1 in the Value Data Box.


On Pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del displays the following error message:
"This operation has been cancelled due to restrictions in effect on this computer. Please contact your system administrator."

2. Disabling Display of Drives in My Computer

This is yet another trick you can play on your geek friend. To disable the display of local or networked drives when you click My Computer go to :


HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer

Now in the right pane create a new DWORD item and name it NoDrives. Now modify it's value and set it to 3FFFFFF (Hexadecimal) Now press F5 to refresh. When you click on My Computer, no drives will be shown. To enable display of drives in My Computer, simply delete this DWORD item.

3. Disabling Display Run Option in start menu:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
Now in the right pane right click on NoRun and modify its value to 1 and press f5. When you click on start button the Run option will not be shown.