Archives: February 2009

Did anyone stole your Password?

Stealing password is a Frequent thing now. By Social Engineering, Phishing or some other way. Some of the people guess the password and get it.

Here is a Statistics on 28,000 passwords recently stolen from a popular US website.

16 percent took a first name as a password, often their own or one of their children.

14 percent relied on the easiest keyboard combinations to remember such as “1234″ or “12345678.” For those using English keyboards, “QWERTY”, was popular. Likewise, “AZERTY” scored with people with European keyboards.

5 percent of the stolen passwords were names of television shows or stars popular with young people like “hannah,” inspired by singer Hannah Montana. “Pokemon,” “Matrix,” and “Ironman” were others.

4 percent used word “password,” or easy to guess variations like “password1,”.

3 percent of the passwords expressed attitudes like “I don’t care,” “Whatever,” “Yes” or

There were sentimental choices — “Iloveyou” — and their opposite — “Ihateyou.”

Statistics Published by Robert Graham of the company Errata Security.

Hidden Files not Showing???

Few days back a Friend of mine was in Trouble. He said he hide some files and couldn’t find it back. When he change the folder option settings nothing happens.

You can simple fix the problem; all you need to do is – open start; run and open “regedit”.

Navigate to the following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advan ced\Folder\Hidden\SHOWALL

Now right click on,and delete the value “CheckedValue” in the right hand window.

Now create a new “DWORD Value” called exactly CheckedValue in the right hand window.
Double click on CheckedValue.
In the opening ‘Edit DWORD Value’ box,set the ‘Value data:’ to 1

Remember to restart your system. It will work. There is some more  problem. If you could not find foler option. Download the file below, run it & restart the system.

http://rapidshare.com/files/197670594/Fix_Folder_Options.reg.html

Windows 7 Keyboard Shortcuts

Released BETA of Windows 7 (Next Generation OS) have been Downloaded by Millions of people.

Here is some of the Keyboard shourtcuts for Windows 7  users.

Win+UP Arrow – Maximize the current window
Win+Down Arrow – If the current window is maximized, restore it; if the current window is restored, minimize it
Win+Up - Maximize Window
Win+Down - Minimize Window
Win+Left - Snap Window to left
Win+Right - Snap Window to right
Win+Shift+Left - Jump to left monitor
Win+Shift+Right - Jump to right monitor
Win+Home - Minimize / Restore all other windows
Win+T - Focus the first taskbar entry, similar to ALT +TAB
Win+Shift+T - Same as above in reverse order
Win+Space - Peek at the desktop
Win+G - Bring Gadgets to the top
Win+ [Num] - Launches the numbered app running in the Super bar
Win+P - Connecting displays to computers and switching from single monitor to dual-display
Win+X - Mobility Center
Win + + – Zoom in and out of Windows
Win + – - Zoom in and out of Windows
Alt+P - Show/hide Preview Pane in Explorer
Win + Tab - Windows Aero Task Switcher
Shift + Click on icon (Taskbar) - Open a new instance
Ctrl + Shift + Click on icon (Taskbar) - Open a new instance with Admin privileges
Shift + Right-click on icon (Taskbar) - Show window menu (Restore / Minimize / Move / etc)