PC HACKS | TRICKS

You can change your service pack 2 or display service pack 3 or even 4 by just following these steps:
>>Go to start>Run>type regedit to open registry editor(Make a backup of your registry if needed)
>>Navigate to :HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Windows
>>Change the value of CSDVersion from 0x00000200 (SP2) to the Windows XP SP3 value of 0x00000300
>>Reboot and see the change.

If your task manager is not working ,then here is a process to view tasks and also delete those tasks.

>>Go to start>run>cmd
>>After opening command prompt you can find out all processes(tasks) by typing tasklist
>>Now to delete any of these processes type tskill pid ,where pid is process id which can be found in the tasklist

If you dont want any users to change desktop settings ,then follow these steps:

>>Open registry editor(Start>Run>regedit)
>>Navigate to the following key:HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\ProgramManager\Restrictions
>>Create or edit the DWORD NoSaveSettings. Now to disable saving desktop settings, set its
value to 1.
>>Reboot your PC for setting to take effect.

By following these steps you can automatically dial to your Internet Service Provide ISP to get connected to Internet.

>>Go to start>Run>Type regedit
>>In registry editor explore to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\InternetSettings
>>Create a new binary value named EnableAutodial, and set the new value to equal 01 00 00 00 to enable autodial or 00 00 00 00 to disable it.
>>This restriction can be used on a computer wide basis by adding it to keys corresponding to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Micrsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\InternetSettings.

>> From the IE window, go to Tools>Internet Options>Advanced and uncheck the
option Enable third party browsing extensions. Now restart IE.
>>Go to Start>Run and type regsvr32 actxprxy.dll and also type regsvr32 shdocvw.dll
>>Reboot.
>> Open Tools>Internet Options>Privacy tab and put one of these web sites in the list
which can be located by clicking the Sites button.
>>Try putting the web site in the "Trusted Zone" and if this fixes the problem, you can
begin to diagnose cookie/script problems with that site and your Internet zone
settings.
>>If you are a dial-up user and your ISP have more than one local number for dialup,
remove the primary number that is dialing up first and use the secondary dialup
number. Clear the checkbox for Negotiate multilink for single link connections
under the PPP settings.
>>A file in your Windows folder called 'hosts' (no extension) may have an incorrect IP
address for the page. To find out, open Windows Explorer, select your C:\Windows
folder, and look in the right pane for a hosts file. If you can't find it in your Windows
folder, this isn't your problem. If you do find a hosts file, open it in Notepad and look
for a line referring to the page that's giving you trouble. If it's there, enter # at the
beginning of the line. Save and exit the file.
>>Go to Tools>Internet Options>Connections>Lan Settings. Uncheck Use a proxy
server. Now restart IE.