All-In-One RapidShare Hacks
Several free RapidShare Hacks are combined into one and call it All-In-One RapidShare Hacks like the picture below.
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9.6.2006 Two Vista Registry Hacks
Thanks to rzalonis for this post in our forum. Here are two easy registry hacks for minor performance gains.
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17.4.2007 Top 10 Vista Hacks
You've run Windows Vista, you've played around with the Aero interface, and maybe you've even mucked around a little bit in Vista's innards to see what makes it tick.
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17.4.2007 Very Good Results in Updating Vista Against Hacks and Cracks
Microsoft claims that it has seen what the company referred to as very good results in fighting Windows piracy with Windows Vista, although it has failed to elaborate on the subject.
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29.7.2008 DVD Jon hacks Media Player file encryption
Norway's best known IT export, DVD Jon, has hacked encryption coding in Microsoft's Windows Media Player, opening up content broadcast for the multimedia player to alternative devices on multiple platforms.
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Vista SP1, and then Windows 7, Windows 8 and Non-Windows Midori
2008 saw the release of Windows Vista Service Pack 1, Windows XP Service Pack 3 and Windows Server 2008, but Microsoft's journey on the Windows path is far from over.
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5.8.2008 Windows 7 RC Brings Windows XP Mode Beta and Windows Virtual PC Beta
The Release Candidate of Windows 7 will bring with it the first Beta development milestones for Windows XP Mode and Windows Virtual PC.
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29.4.2009 Windows Reactivator 2.0 - Backup & Restore Activation Status of Windows XP with Windows Reactivator
Every time you reinstall your windows XP you need to reactivate it online using your product key & worst if you lost your Windows XP product key.
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3.6.2009 Windows Vista SP1 vs. Windows Vista RTM vs. Windows XP SP2
Feb 26th, 2008. Principled Technologies has released two Microsoft commissioned reports on Windows Vista SP1 performance. In these tests, Principled Technologies measured responsiveness of Windows Vista SP1 vs. Windows Vista RTM vs. Windows XP SP2 when performing a set of common business and home tasks.
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28.2.2008 Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 9 – 1 Billion and Counting
Is Windows dead? Or, at least, is this the beginning of the end for Microsoft's proprietary operating system?
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15.9.2008 Week in Microsoft: Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 9
This week in Microsoft, we covered 128-bit support possibly coming to Windows 8 and Windows 9, Windows 7, Windows Mobile 6.5, Bill Gates, Office 2010 Starter, Microsoft MVP status, Windows Live Hotmail, the EU, and Microsoft Security Essentials.
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10.10.2009 Windows Vista Build 5231 and Windows Media Player 11 Leaks!
Windows Vista Build 5231 has leaked to the web. The new build is said to include Windows Media Player 11 included. View the screenshots below! This is a Main branch build that was released on September 12th, 2005 at 8:20PM.
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Windows Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP3: Official Release Dates
A French website, PC Inpact, has posted the official Microsoft product change request forms for Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP3.
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6.2.2008 Download Free Windows Vista and Windows XP SP2 Straight from Microsoft
Via the Internet Explorer Application Compatibility VPC Image. That's right! Microsoft is offering access to free downloads of Windows Vista and Windows XP SP2.
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6.3.2008 Windows Vista SP1 outperforms Windows XP SP2 in file copy
"Its interesting that people seem to think that Vista under performs in every area of the system which is quite an incorrect perception.
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27.5.2008 Windows Fiji Has RTMd as Windows Media Center TV Pack 2008
Microsoft officially confirmed that Windows Fiji has been released to manufacturing.
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18.7.2008 Windows 7 Beta Doesn't Play Nice with Windows Azure Cloud OS Tools
The promise for Windows 7 is that it will deliver an evolution when it will come down to stretching into the Cloud compared to its precursor, Windows Vista.
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16.1.2009 Internet Explorer 8 MUI packs for Windows XP, Windows Server 03
As detailed in our previous blog post, the following Internet Explorer MUI packs shipped today.
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17.5.2009 Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 Beta adds Windows 7 support
Microsoft announced the release of Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 Beta, along with news that it will feature Windows 7 support.
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20.7.2009 Check for RAM Error or Defect in Windows 7 and Vista with Windows Memory Diagnostic
Memory or RAM is one of the most important electronic hardware component on a computer systems, not only in term of speed or clock frequency and size, but also the reliability of hardware ecosystem of the RAM sticks or memory modules and its subsystem.
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1.10.2009 The Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 98 Threat Mitigation Guide
Well, Microsoft still puts effort in old Windows versions...
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31.3.2006 Windows Vista comes with 19,500 drivers on DVD – more on Windows Update
Ever needed to find a driver for a product and wished Windows would either just have the driver in it, or that their Windows Update service could provide it? With Vista, it can – and new features and updates will be forthcoming too. It’s about time!
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20.11.2006 Windows XP Home No Longer Qualifies for Windows Vista Upgrades
Windows XP Home Edition no longer qualifies for Windows Vista Business Upgrade or Upgrade + SA through Volume Licensing.
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17.10.2007 Microsoft Offers a Complex Windows Vista vs. Windows XP Perspective
A new standard of security is an integer aspect of the evolution puzzle represented by the move from Windows XP to Windows Vista.
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3.11.2007 Windows XP SP3 to Drop Concomitantly with Windows Vista SP1?
Yes, it's time for every Windows user's favorite obsession: Windows XP Service Pack 3. The third and final service pack for Windows XP has been quite elusive for the past three years.
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25.11.2007 Windows Vista vs. Windows 9x/Me, NT Server, 2000 and XP
If at just a couple of weeks short of the first anniversary since Windows Vista hit the shelves you are still looking for reasons to upgrade to the latest Windows client, then Biplab Paul, Partner Technical Consultant with Microsoft India, has an impressive, and exhaustive list of features that are bound to tilt the balance in Vista's favor.
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14.1.2008 Free Windows Vista Business and Windows XP SP2 on Parade
Free Windows... Not a concept you would expect from Microsoft. With a business strategy focused on proprietary software, the Redmond company is by all means at the opposite technology spectrum from open source and free software.
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9.3.2008 Microsoft Presents the Lost Comparison: Windows Vista vs. Windows XP
With both Windows XP and Windows Vista being available concomitantly on the market, Microsoft is doing nothing more than inviting the consumers to compare the two operating systems.
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20.4.2008 Windows Server 2008 = Windows Vista SP1 Minus the Pain
Windows Server 2008, formerly codenamed Longhorn, is essentially intimately connected with Windows Vista Service Pack 1, to the level in which the RTM version of Microsoft's latest server operating system features the
SP1 label
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6.5.2008 Windows Embedded NavReady 2009 - Latest Windows Platform from Microsoft
The latest Windows operating system is available for download as of June 16, 2008. And no, it's not a new release of Windows 7, nor the first taste of Windows 7 Server.
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16.6.2008Microsoft slams the door on Vista pirates
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: With the launch of SP1 Microsoft promised to put an end to two popular hacks used by pirates to allow a non-genuine install of
Windows Vista to function in the same way as a genuine install. Testing that Ive carried out in the lab today suggests that Microsoft has been true to
its word.
The two most common hacks used were the OEM BIOS hack and the grace timer hack (of which there were two flavors which
were widespread).
Testing both these methods of circumventing Windows activation and Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) has shown me
that SP1 effectively ignores both these hacks. Systems that previously were shown to be genuine prior to the installation of SP1 then require
activation - and if the system isnt activated it is marked at non-genuine and enters the nag state.
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11.02.2008Microsoft Seals Cracks
With the impending release of Service Pack 1 for Vista, Microsoft looks to slow down the pirates by cutting off two popular hacks to circumvent the
Windows Genuine Advantage Program.
Testing both these methods of circumventing Windows activation and Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA)
has shown me that SP1 effectively ignores both these hacks. Systems that previously were shown to be genuine prior to the installation of SP1 then
require activation - and if the system isn’t activated it is marked at non-genuine and enters the nag state.
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11.02.2008Microsoft Responds to Reported OEM BIOS Hacks
The WGA team have finally
provided a written response to
the reported OEM BIOS Hacks
regarding Vista:
I
know many of you are aware of
reports of hacks that attempt
to exploit our OEM BIOS based
activation. We're aware of
this type of hack and I wanted
to take a minute to describe
how these work and how we plan
to respond.
First, what is OEM BIOS
based activation?
Here's a little more
information on how OEM BIOS
based activation works. This
form of product activation is
also known as OEM Activation
or just OA, which is how
Microsoft refers to it and how
I will refer to it in this
post. Back at the launch of
Windows XP when Microsoft
introduced Windows Product
Activation, we recognized that
as easy as end-user activation
is, it still represented an
extra step.
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12.04.2007SP1 Unsuccessful in Preventing Vista Hacks
It seems that Microsoft has been unsuccessful with SP1 in preventing hackers from
turning a pirated, non-genuine copy of Vista into genuine copies that pass activation. The article initially looked at two of
the most popular hacks (OEM BIOS hack and the grace timer hack) but after a little digging ZDNet were able to transform a non-genuine install into a
genuine one. 'After a few minutes of searching the darker corners of the Internet and a few seconds in the Command Prompt I was able to fool Windows
into thinking that it was genuine.'
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11.02.2008Microsoft reacts to kernel hacks, updates Vista's defenses
Microsoft Corp. quietly beefed
up a key defensive feature of
64-bit Windows Vista yesterday
to better protect the
operating system against hacks
that have plagued it for
weeks.
The update to Vista's
Kernel Patch Protection,
a.k.a. PatchGuard, was issued
through Windows Update as a
high-priority download, but
not as a patch per se.
Microsoft, in fact, denied
that it was a security fix.
"While this updates adds
additional checks to the
Kernel Patch Protection
system, it does not involve a
security vulnerability," an
advisory posted yesterday by
the Microsoft Security
Response Center (MSRC) stated.
"The update does increase the
reliability, performance, and
resiliency provided by Kernel
Patch Protection."
Although the
update targets all 64-bit
editions of Windows, it's
Vista that stands out by
reason of recent events. Since
late July, a pair of utilities
have sidestepped a crucial
Vista security feature that
requires drivers to be signed
by a valid digital
certificate. Both utilities
piggybacked unsigned code onto
a legitimate driver to get the
former past Vista's defenses
and into the kernel.
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15.08.2007Five command line tools to detect Windows hacks
Ed Skoudis: Let's face it, Windows machines get hacked, and in some environments it happens a lot. Fortunately, Microsoft has built numerous tools
into Windows so administrators and power users can analyse a machine to determine whether it's been compromised. In this tip, which is the first of a
two-part series, I'll cover five useful command-line tools built into Windows for such analysis.
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10.03.2008Hacking Vista's Smart Cards
The recent wave of smart card hacks have been aimed mainly at the cards chip and bypassing physical security, but not this latest one: A former
Microsoft security team member has demonstrated an attack that compromises the smart cards middleware plug-in for Vista machines. (See
Black Hat Researcher Hacks Credit Cards and
'Gecko' Penetrates Building Access Systems.)
Researcher Dan Griffin, who previously worked for Microsoft on its smart card
program, has developed a custom fuzzing tool that hacks smart card and third-party vendors plug-in software that use Microsofts Smart Card Minidriver
Interface, which is built into Vista. "Im not focusing on the smart card chip," Griffin says. "If I just attack a few specific parts
, it will fall over."
Griffin says these smart cards being used for building and machine access come with Java code
that allows you to write malicious code into the card. "Writing a hacker applet on the card is not that hard or far-fetched," he says. And he
stresses that its "not Microsoft code I blow up," but the smart card or third-party plug-in vendors.
winbeta.org - 15.03.2008
Adobe Acknowledges Flaw in PDF for Windows, Urges Registry Hacks
Confirming a statement made by Petko D. Petkov on his GNUcitizen.org blog over two weeks ago, Adobe has released a security advisory warning of a
potential exploitable flaw in its Acrobat and Adobe Reader software. Adobe's suggested system registry fix suggests a maliciously crafted PDF can be
made to send e-mail undetected...
betanews.com - 09.10.2007
Jobs says Apple will fight iPhone unlock hacking
Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs said today that it's his company's job to stymie hackers who try to unlock the iPhone -- the first time the company has
officially said it would fight attempts to use the popular device on unauthorized networks.
At a London Apple retail store where
he announced the iPhone's Nov. 9 U.K. debut, Jobs responded to a question about whether Apple would put a stop to the unlock hacks that have
mushroomed recently. "It's a cat-and-mouse game," said Jobs. "We try to stay ahead. People will try to break in, and it's our job to stop them
breaking in."
Several unlock hacks have been unveiled in the last few weeks that let users swap the iPhone's included SIM card
with one from another cellular service provider so the phone can make calls on that carrier's network. With the iPhone limited to domestic sales
until November, unlocking is the only way consumers living outside the U.S. have been able to use their phones.
winbeta.org - 19.09.2007
Windows Home Server reviewed in depth
When Microsoft announced Windows Home Server earlier this year, it was greeted with a mixture of curious disdain and eagerness. Some questioned what
the product offered over existing solutions, while others welcomed it with open arms. It's at once hard to explain and easy to understand what
Windows Home Server is, but it's worth getting to know the newest addition to the Windows family.
Over the years, we've cobbled
together our own "home servers" using a variety of platforms and hacks to get the functionality we desired. Others have taken advantage of
consumer-level storage devices such as Infrant's ReadyNAS or Data Robotics' Drobo to back up files and serve up media. These were haphazard at best,
as it required piecing together both hardware and various software applications into a patchwork solution.
winbeta.org - 15.10.2007
8 top tips for IE 7
Don't like the way Internet Explorer 7 looks or works? Then change it. There are plenty of ways you can hack it, tweak it or just make it simpler to
use.
In this article, you'll find out how to speed up IE's display of Web sites, build your own Search Bar engine, get control
over how IE prints Web pages, navigate with several essential keyboard shortcuts and more. These tips work in both Windows XP and Windows Vista. Some
of the tips are quite simple to perform, while others are more advanced. Some even require Registry hacks.
winbeta.org - 17.12.2007
Microsoft Fighting Back Against Xbox 360 Firmware Hacks
According to reports from the
Xbox-Scene forums, Microsoft
has started shipping Xbox 360
consoles in the UK and
Australia regions with an
updated Hitachi DVD-ROM drive.
The new version of the drive
has implemented changes to the
hardware designed to make
hacking the firmware much
harder than before, including
changing the firmware chip
type, removing debug mode, and
encasing the chip with black
hard glue to make it harder to
access the chip and controller
pins. Consoles with a
manufacture date of August
2006 in the two affected
territories have been shown to
have the updated drive, but it
is certainly possible that
consoles manufactured on
earlier dates have the changes
as well. Microsoft has made
its first counter-move against
the hackers looking to open up
the Xbox 360, and this will
probably only be the first
salvo in an ongoing battle.
neowin.net - 03.10.2006
Microsoft Denies PatchGuard Update, Kernel Hacks Link
Tuesday's update to Windows
Vista's PatchGuard, a kernel
protection scheme designed to
keep malicious or unproven
code at arm's length, had
nothing to do with recent
hacks of another Vista
defense, Microsoft said
Thursday. The update to Kernel
Patch Protection (KPP), also
known as PatchGuard, was
issued Tuesday to Vista 64-bit
users, but the description of
the enhancement was
inscrutable. All Microsoft
said at the time was "this
update adds checks to this
protection for increased
resiliency in Windows."
Third-party
researchers filled the vacuum
with speculation about the
update's purpose, with much
of that speculation centered
on a possible connection
between the update and
multiple disclosures that
Vista's kernel code signing
defense -- another barrier
Microsoft set up to protect
the kernel, but separate from
PatchGuard -- could be easily
circumvented. Among the
end-arounds was a utility
written by Alex Ionescu, a
Canadian college student
interning this summer at Apple
Inc. Ionescu's "Purple
Pill" used a flawed, but
legitimate and signed ATI
Technologies video driver, to
slip unsigned code past
Vista's protection.
neowin.net - 17.08.2007
How to Build (or win) a Tiny Windows Home Server
Donavon from Home Server Hacks has put together instructions on how to build a tiny little Windows Home
Server using an ARTiGO Pico-ITX kit. It's an interesting read and an especially good pick if your main concern is low power consumption - the Pico
uses a staggering 13-watts of power at idle. While the board isn't the most plug and play compatible hardware out there for Home Server, this will
show you how to make it work.
winbeta.org - 07.01.2009
The ultimate tweaker's guide to Windows
But just because the operating system doesn't look and work the way you want doesn't mean that you're stuck with it as is. Windows is extremely
tweakable; if you dig a little, you'll find that you can customize it in almost any way you want.
To help you out, we've put
together this guide to tweaking Windows. It covers both XP and Vista and lets you do all kinds of things you might have thought were impossible --
replacing your boot screen, hacking the Control Panel, speeding up Windows Flip 3D and more. Look for the XP logo and Vista logo icons to see which
tips work in which OS.
The hacks vary in the expertise you'll need. In some cases you'll get down and dirty with the Registry,
so if you're not certain you know how to make a DWORD value, for example, read our story "The tweaker's guide to the
Windows Registry" first. (Be sure to read the instructions for backing up the
Registry before you attempt any Registry edits whatsoever.)
In other cases, you'll just have to dig into hidden corners of
menus and folders. But in all cases, you'll tell Windows exactly how you want it to behave ... and it will bow down to you, the master.
winbeta.org - 18.10.2007
Windows Vista Grace Period Extended to 120 Days
Every Vista DVD includes the
ability to install any edition
of Vista without a product
key. When you install without
a product key, you get an
automatic 30 day evaluation
period. This probably isn't
news to anyone.
What may be news
to you, however, is that you
can easily extend the 30-day
Windows Vista grace period to
120 days. No hacks required.
This is an official, supported
operation directly from
Microsoft.
To extend the grace period
another 30 days, simply start
a command prompt as
Administrator, and issue this
command:
slmgr -rearm
Reboot for the
change to take effect, and
voila, you have 30 more days.
You can only extend three
times, so the total grace
period for a Vista evaluation
is 120 days.
jcxp.net - 01.02.2007
DRM vs. Hackers: Time to Surrender?
Industry experts
question the future of digital
rights management in the face
of the latest assault on AACS
encryption.
The recent news that a
tool from SlySoft can bypass
the newest Advanced Access
Content System encryption
scheme is the latest assault
on digital rights
management—and some are
taking it as proof that the
technology needs to change or
wither away.
"I
don't think it has been easy,
but nevertheless is
being broken … due to
software implementations,
although there have been hacks
done on HD DVD drive firmware
as well," said Alec Main,
chief technology officer of
Cloakware, based in Vienna,
Va. "Clearly these software
implementations need to take
better precautions against
being hacked." ..
winbeta.org - 24.05.2007
Tridge confesses: I'm a Sony Reader fan
Linux.conf.au wouldn't be complete without Andrew 'Tridge' Tridgell giving a presentation on the latest developments in Samba, but attendees who
turned up early for his talk this year got an unexpected insight into another one of his passions: the Sony Reader.
With the
crowd steadily building 20 minutes before his talk on Clustered Samba kicked off, Tridge decided to amuse the crowd by demonstrating some recent hacks
he's performed on the Sony Reader, originally purchased as a matrimonial present.
winbeta.org - 31.01.2008
Microsoft tries to stop Vista piracy monster
Microsoft has issued an update
to Windows Vista that's
intended to stop a piracy
monster.
The
software maker said Thursday
that the update is aimed at
thwarting a technique that was
letting some people use
pirated versions of the
operating system without going
through the software's
built-in product activation.
Microsoft has dubbed the
approach "frankenbuild"
because it works by combining
test versions of Vista with
the final code to create a
hybrid version.
"Windows Vista will use the
new Windows Update client to
require only the
'frankenbuild' systems to go
through a genuine validation
check," Microsoft said on its
Windows
Genuine Advantage program
blog. "These systems will
fail that check because we
have blocked the (product)
keys for systems not
authorized to use them."
Although Vista was
only released to businesses
last month--and won't hit
retail shelves until late
January--it has been making
the rounds on the Internet,
and there have been several
reported hacks to bypass its
built-in security
mechanisms.
neowin.net - 15.12.2006
Zune 2 Hacks
Hack #1: Multi-Extension Support mod - This hack makes the Zune program support more
types of video, audio, and image extensions. This mod converts files
for use on the Zune. Files are automatically converted to the exact specifications used on the Zune device, so no guesswork is involved. It also adds
the songs and movies to your library. The hack current supports the following: Audio: .aac, .aif, .aifc, .aiff, .au, .cda, .mid, .midi, .rmi, .snd,
and .wav files are now automatically added to your library and later converted and synced with the Zune device. They will not play in your Zune
program, though. Video: .asf, .avi, .dvr-ms, .m1v, .m2v, .mod, .mp2, .mp2v, .mpa, .mpe, .mpeg, .mpg, .mpv2, and .wm videos are now automatically added
to your library and later converted and synced with the Zune device. They will not play in your Zune program, though. Images: .png, .bmp, .gif, and
many other image file types have been found as being supported by the Zune program, but as of yet they cannot be added to the library or synced to
your device.
Hack #2: Not really a hack, more of a break-it-open guide - Rapid
Repair, a personal music player parts and repair site, has opened up the new Zune 2 and has the pictures to prove it. With their step-by-step guides,
you, too, can bust into your Zune, old or new, and replace a part or two.
Hack #3: Use the Zune 2 as a flash drive - this hack makes your
computer recognize your Zune 2 just like it's any ordinary USB flash drive.
winbeta.org - 21.11.2007
