Draco Hacker

With this simple yet wonderful trick you can set your favorite images as background to the Icon area of any drive.

Step by Step process:

1. Open any of your disk drives and right click with your mouse to create a new text document.

2. Type the below code in the text document created.(Better copy and paste)

[ExtShellFolderViews]
{BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}={BE098410-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}
[{BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}]
IconArea_Image-=
IconArea_Image=path of jpg,jpeg,bmp,gif file

replace “path of jpg,jpeg,bmp,gif file” in the code with the path of the file where your image is located.

For example, if your jpg image is located in g:\wallpapers with the name Vista, set the path as g:\wallpapers\Vista.jpg

3. Now save it with the File name desktop.ini and hit Refresh

Note: Make sure to change the Save as type field from Text Document(*.txt) to All Files.

That’s it! Now your favorite image is set as the background.

Try it Yourself and post in your comments.

Using this wonderful registry hack you can make hidden files not shown even after you select the ‘Show the hidden files and folders’ option in folder options.

This sought of condition occurs to some PC’s when infected with virus as well, but what the virus code actually does is it changes the registry value and nothing else. After knowing how to do this you can also deactivate that virus code easily which is the best direct troubleshooting tip for this type of virus activity on your PC.

Follow the steps as given:
1) Goto Start -> Run…. Type regedit which give you registry editor window

2) From the left pane go to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINES -> SOFTWARE -> Microsoft -> windows -> CurrentVersion -> Explorer -> Advanced -> Folder -> hidden ->SHOWALL

3) From the right pane search for the entry “CheckedValue”

4) Double click on that which gives you ‘Edit DWORD value’ message box
Change the value data to 0 (select hexadecimal mode) and restart your PC

That’s it!! Now your hidden files cannot be accessed even after changing the folder options. If you want to get then back, follow the same path and change value data to 1 and restart your computer.

Note: Always be careful working with registry; don’t overdo anything you don’t know.

Hope this helps…