Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Enable Hidden BootScreen in Windows Vista

The Windows Vista BootScreen is pointless, but Microsoft decided to hide a more visually appealing boot screen that can easily be enabled with very little trouble. I'm not sure why they didn't make the boot screen better.
If you really want a better boot screen, you can check out my article on creating a custom boot logo.
Here's the default boot screen:



And here's the hidden one, called "Aurora"



All you have to do is type msconfig into the start menu search box, and hit enter.



Click the Boot tab, and then check the "No GUI boot" checkbox.




Hit OK and reboot the computer. You should see the new boot screen immediately.
Note: You may get a Windows Defender error on the next startup. You can enable the system config utility using the tray icon and this error will go away.

ill post the create own boot logo in an moment

Enable or disable Windows Task Manager

Task manager is a powerful Windows tool for managing system services, processes, monitoring system activity and starting or closing applications. It is basically extended version of run box and it comes very handy to operate within Windows system. That’s way many system administrators prefer to disable task manager on public computers to restrict access to major critical system resources which could lead to system compromise.Here we will show you how to modify registry to disable and re-enable "Windows task manager".So guys,here we go:

Goto start and click on run(Win+r) and type in regedit and find this input:

"HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\System"

If you do not see “System” folder under Policies you can create it by right mouse click on Policies > Key > and name it System. Than point your mouse pointer to an empty area, right click it and choose create new DWORD (32 bit) value. Name it DisableTaskMgr and press enter. Than double click it and set Hexadecimal value to 1. Press enter and reboot computer. After than task manager will be disabled on your machine and inaccessible. If you later decide to enable task manager again, navigate once against to dword 32 value we just created and simply delete it or change value to 0. Now navigate to

"HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\System"

If there’s no key called “System” right click Policies navigate to “New > Key” in the right click menu and type “System” to create a new key.(skip this step if you have the key) To disable task manager right click the empty area in the right side pane and create a key with the following settings “New > DWORD (32-bit) Value” and type “DisableTaskMgr” and press Enter.(without the quotes) Right click on “DisableTaskMgr” and click “Modify”, type 1 and press ok.To enable task manager simply navigate to
"HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\System"

right click “DisableTaskMgr” click delete and click yes for confirmation.
Done!
Regards!!!
~snake~