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Are you idle and want to kill your boring time? OK, then let me help you way out of it. Dive in the pool of Windows XP for these are tested on XP only, but may be on other OSs also.

1- My Recycle Bin

Change the default name of your bin as you want. Just go to Run in the Start menu, type regedit in the Open box, click OK. The Registry Editor will open up, click on the + sign next to the folder HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT, look for CLSID in the folder, click on the + sign next to CLSID, click on the + sign next to the 645FF040-5081… numbered folder, click to open the LocalizedString under  the Name column adjacent to the column of its parent folder. Inside the box under Value data, type the name you want for your Bin. Refresh your Desktop to see the changed name.

2- Music Hidden in XP’s Sleeve

Go to Run in the Start menu and type System32 in it, click OK. In the System32 folder, look for the folder oobe, look for the images folder in the oobe, there you will find the Windows Media Audio file named title. Enjoy the tune.

3- Hidden Folder

Create a new folder on your Desktop, hold the Alt key, type 0160 from the NUMPAD and leave the Alt key, press enter. Right click the folder icon, click properties, click Customize and Change Icon tabs, in the icon list there will be some empty spaces among other icons, click to select one of these empty spaces as an icon for your folder. Your folder is hidden now.

4- Create a Prank VIRUSSS

What? How can one have fun with a virus?  But one can have with a prank one. If you think its geeky to be able to make a virus, you can have some feeling of it at least after creating and running this virusss. Its behavior give you a display able enough to surprise your friends a little bit.

Open up your notepad. Type:

@ echo off

title BAD VIRUSSS

color 04

echo YOUR COMPUTER IS SEVERELY INFECTED BY A VIRUS

pause

echo LOOKING FOR ANTIVIRUS

pause

echo PRESS ENTER TO DELETE THE VIRUS

pause

echo ACCESS DENIED

echo ACCESS DENIED

echo ACCESS DENIED

pause

echo THE VIRUS IS ABOUT TO TAKE OVER YOUR COMPUTER

echo 3

pause

echo 2

pause

echo 1

pause

echo 0

pause

:1

dir

goto 1

Above I have chosen color 04 which is for red, meaning danger you know. You can choose other colors by typing in other codes in place of 04, for instance 03 is for green and 05 is for purple. Save the file with .bat extension added to its name for example: abc.bat

5- Crafting An Error Prompt

For this you will type in the notepad. Type x=msgbox(“This is the box message”,1,”This is the box title”).

In place of the number 1 you can type other digits to see different variations of the error box.