Thursday, 21 May 2009

Unlimited time at an internet cafe.

Where i live there are a few internet cafe's that charge either per minute or hour.
I don't normally need to use them as i have internet access at the Uni and at home, for some people
internet cafe use is common and costly, this is a neat trick that can save you money.

1. Create a New Text Document.
2. Then type CMD in it.
3. And then save it as anything.bat
(Make sure the file do NOT end on .txt, but on .bat)
4. Go to the location were you saved the .bat file and run it. If you've done this
correctly, you'll see that Command Prompt is open.
5. Now that Command Prompt is open, type in: cd\windows
(This will change the directory to Windows)
6. Then type in: regedit
(This will get you to the registry editor gui)
7. Now navigate to:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER>Appevents>software>classes>microsoft>windows>current
version>internet settings>policies>system
8. Then on the right pane where it says Disable Taskmanager, right click on it, and
scroll down to modify, and than change the value of it to "0".
9. And then open Windows Task Manager
(CTRL+ALT+DELETE)
10. And then disable the Internet Cafe's timer.

This could be classes as illegal in some cases so be warned i am not reliable for anything related!

How to use a trial program forever without activation

When you install software on a system the software writes the date of the installation into
a registry entry, if it is trial software then this will be saved in another folder as well to make sure it cant be simply changed.

There is a way however to bypass the check, as for example some trail software that expires in 10 days would check the registry entry and compare it with the current date.

To bypass this check you can download "Runasdate"!

RunAsDate is a small utility that allows you to run a program in the date and time
that you specify. This utility doesn’t change the current system date, but it only
injects the date/time that you specify into the desired application.

RunAsDate intercepts the kernel API calls that returns the current date and time
(GetSystemTime, GetLocalTime, GetSystemTimeAsFileTime), and replaces the
current date/time with the date/time that you specify.
It works with Windows 2000, XP, 2003 and Vista.

To get it go here.