Ever wished your glassware could be stronger? Less breakable? Even unbreakable?
At some point in time everybody hears the unmistakable 'cling-clang' of glass falling and breaking, sometimes shattering into thousands of little pieces, or simply splitting into two or more chunks. It happens.
However, the familiar sound of breaking glass may eventually become something of a less familiar sound in the near future. The reason for this: an Alfred University researcher...

Dr. William LacCourse, a professor of Glass Science at the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University has developed a process which produces the highest strength glassware available today. Now the question is: is it affordable? Apparently, yes.
Dr LacCourse has been researching glass strengthening processes for more than 30 years.
He was quoted as saying: “No glass is unbreakable, but our process produces the highest strength glassware available today, and at price that makes it affordable. It has the potential to save restaurants, catering services and families up to 80 percent, and perhaps more, on their glassware costs. We have dropped glass bottles from 10 feet high onto a concrete floor, and the glass simply bounces.”
The strengthened-glass products can be poduced at a cost that will be competitive with other non-strengthened glass products.
Despite advances in new technology and materials, glass seem to have an endearing quality. Glass seems to remain a popular choice for many applications, and now that strengthened glass is becoming more accessable due to more cost effective manufacturing processes, mankind's love-affair with glass products seems likely to continue.

Boot Faster

The 'starting Windows 95/98' message on startup can delay your booting for a couple of seconds. To get rid of these messages go to c:\ and find the file Msdos.sys. Remove the Read-Only option. Next, open it in Notepad or any other text editor. Finally, go to the text 'Options' within the file and make the following changes: Add BootDelay=0. To make your booting even faster, set add Logo=0 to remove the Windows logo at startup.

Automatic Screen Refresh Tips

When you are working on your local computer and want to refresh any changes in your system automatically. For example some times you are watching sports results, online Stock Exchange rates and any changes to your hard drive but these changes are not usually refreshed until you press the F5 key on your keyboard.

To refresh your screen automatically you should edit your system Registry.

• Follow the given steps to change the updates automatically.

1. First click on Start button then type Regedit in Run option.
   
2. In Registry Editor panel go to the path
3. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE / System / CurrentControlSet / Control / UpdateMode
4. Here in right hand side panel edit the DWORD value to be between 1 and 5
5. Now restart your computer after any changes to go into effect.

CREATE AN UNDELETEABLE FOLDER

There are many software's online by using you can protect your files and folders. I am writing a simple tutorial which will guide you to make an undeletable folders in Win Xp to protect your data.These folders can be deleted in Dos prompt only. So normal computer users will not be able to delete these folders.

Step 1 : Open Command Prompt (Start > Run > type 'cmd'). Then a command prompt will be appeared.



Step 2:Change to the directory in which you want to create your folder. Like c:\ d:\ etc. I changed to D:\ drive.

Step 3 : Now its time to crate an undeletable folder. Type md /aux/ and hit enter. It will create a folder named aux in drive D.

Step 4 : Go to D drive and try to delete folder named aux which we created just! It will give u following error.


Step 5: Try to delete in normal way, it will give you an error message whenever you try to delete it. There are many other names which you can use for creating folders.

• lpt1 to lpt9 ( Ex. md \lpt1\\ )
• CON
• AUX

How to delete this Folders ?

Go to Command Prompt. If you want to delete folder named aux then type rd \aux\ and press Enter. Thats it. This command will delete folder named aux.


Just give it a try and create an undeletable folders. Feel free to share your experience with your valuable comments!

Hack Admin Password from User Mode

Disclaimer: Use this article for educational purpose ONLY.

Follow these steps:
1. Open command prompt (Start->Run->cmd),
2. Enter the following command, and then press ENTER

3. Enter the following command, then press ENTER:
compmgmt.msc
This should open the computer management console.
4. Go to local users & groups->users. Right click on any user and select "set password".

If you get a "access denied" do the following:
start>run>cmd

Then use following commands

1) net user test /add (this command will make test named user)
2) net localgroup administrators test /add (this command will make test user as administrators rights)and use net user command to reset your admin. Password

SHUT DOWN UR PC IN 5 SEC..

Here is a trick involving tricking the PC do a “warm reboot,” rather than a “cold boot.” The trick involves holding down the SHIFT key when invoking the restart.

Windows Vista: Select Start, then click on the padlock button icon and from there, hold down the SHIFT key while clicking on the “Restart” choice.

Windows XP: Its pretty much the same. Select Start. Select “Shut Down…” Hold down the SHIFT key while clicking on the “Restart” button.

Thats it !!!

INCREASE YOUR INTERNET SPEED THREE TIMES..

Here is a trick which will increase your "Internet Speed" by 3 times.

Start --> Run type "Regedit" (without quotes)

Search to the following:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE-->SYSTEM-->CurrentControlSet-->Services-->Tcpip-->Parameters

Now on the right side search for the following:

“TcpWindowSize”
“Tcp1323Opts”

Click on both modify and change the value to "0" (Without quotes)

Restart your Pc to take effect.

How to undo it

Follow the same steps and change the value to "1" again (with quotes)

Also

Increase ur netspeed upto 20%

Increase ur netspeed upto 20%
Xp reserves 20% bandwith,
to unreserve it,follow following steps:
------------------------------------>>

1. Click Start

2. Run:"gpedit.msc"

3. Goto:>Local Computer Policy
-------–>Computer Configuration
-------–>Administrative Templates
-------–>Network–>QOS Packet Scheduler
-------–>Limit Reservable Bandwidth

4. Double click on Limit Reservable bandwidth

5. Select Enable

6. Change 20% to 0%

7. Click Apply

8. Close! n be happy!

How to block a website:

Follow to steps to block a website:

Click Start --> All Programs --> Accessories --> Command Prompt

Type "notepad C:/Windows/System32/drivers/etc/hosts" (without quotes)

Now notepad will be opened.

To block the website example google.com, Add the following text under 127.0.0.1 localhost:

127.0.0.1 yahoo.com
127.0.0.1 www.yahoo.com

Save the file. That's it !

Now how to unblock a website

Click Start --> All Programs --> Accessories --> Command Prompt

Type "notepad C:/Windows/System32/drivers/etc/hosts" (without quotes)

Now notepad will be opened search the lines: example

127.0.0.1 google.com
127.0.0.1 www.google.com

and deleted it. That's it !

You can add as many sites, However you will need to prefix it with "127.0.0.1"

Note: You can block a website from your browser also but this is an advanced method not many will be knowing it :)