Hacking & Security

How to Fix Gadgets not Displaying Correctly in Windows 7

veenu — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 12:23:45 GMT

POSTED BY GAURAV BAPLAWAT ON NOV 21, 2011

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If you have gadgets that are displaying on your Windows 7 desktop improperly as black, white, blank, or just messed up, then this will show you how to fix them.

You must be logged in as an administrator to be able to do this tutorial.

Note

If you have a 3rd party firewall program installed, then also check to make sure that the gadgets are allowed in the firewall and are not being blocked in that program's exception settings.

EXAMPLE: Gadgets not displaying correctly

Manually in a Elevated Command Prompt

1. Open a elevated command prompt (right click - Run as administrator)

2. In the elevated command prompt, copy and paste each command below and press Enter one at a time. After each time your press Enter, you will need to click on OK before doing the next command.

Code:

taskkill /im sidebar.exe /f
regsvr32 /s msxml3.dll
regsvr32 /s scrrun.dll
regsvr32 /s jscript.dll
regsvr32 /s atl.dll
Regsvr32 /s "%ProgramFiles%\Windows Sidebar\sbdrop.dll"
Regsvr32 /s "%ProgramFiles%\Windows Sidebar\wlsrvc.dll"
reg delete "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\Zones" /f
"%ProgramFiles%\Windows Sidebar\sidebar.exe"

 and save anything.bat and run it.

3. Restart the computer to apply.

4. Check to see if the gadgets on your desktop are displaying correctly now. If not, then try uninstalling and reinstalling the still bad gadget, or do a System Restoreusing a restore point dated before the problem.
That's it

How to Upgrade or Get Windows 7 Ultimate free Manually

veenu — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 12:47:33 GMT

POSTED BY GAURAV BAPLAWAT ON Nov 5, 2011

Windows 7 anytime upgrade (WAU) is a feature provided by Microsoft which helps user to upgrade their windows 7 without formatting or installing the new windows version. Using this feature we can upgrade windows 7 from windows 7 home into windows 7 home premium or windows 7 professional or windows 7 ultimate for respective 32bit or 64bit versions.

Nowadays most of PC or laptops comes with Windows 7 Home or Windows 7 professional and we always want maximum features and performance from our operating system that we can only get in Windows 7 ultimate which is extremely fast and have all features that an Operating system can support. So friends today i will explain you how to upgrade windows 7 for free from windows 7 home to any higher version or any version to any higher version.

Requirements:

1. Windows 7 Operating system installed.

2. Windows 7 anytime Upgrade Key.

3. Procedure to use Windows 7 anytime upgrade key.

Windows 7 Ultimate is the maximum featured and fasted version of windows 7 with 35 languages support and bit lock encryption. Today i will show you how to upgrade your windows 7 using windows anytime upgrade. So friends read on...

Steps to Upgrade windows 7 to Ultimate:

1. First of the all you need windows 7 operating system installed (any version) and install all the available updates.

2. After updating your windows operating system, you will need windows upgrade key. get the windows anytime upgrade keys.

Windows 7 Home Premium

6RBBT-F8VPQ-QCVPQ-KHRB8-RMV82

Windows 7 Professional

VTDC3-WM7HP-XMPMX-K4YQ2-WYGJ8

6RQ9V-6GCG4-8WV2H-966GF-DQ4DW

32KD2-K9CTF-M3DJT-4J3WC-733WD

Windows 7 Ultimate

FJGCP-4DFJD-GJY49-VJBQ7-HYRR2

342DG-6YJR8-X92GV-V7DCV-P4K27

3. Total 6 keys, one for windows 7 home premium, three for windows 7 professional and 2 for windows 7 ultimate. Note: all the above keys will work for both 32 bit and 64 bit versions.

4. Now Go to start and in search type windows anytime upgrade. You will get something like below:

5. Now open it by clicking it, you will see something like this:

6. Click on Enter the Upgrade key to enter the key(key that i have given you in step 2).

7. After entering the key, it will verify the key and after verification it will ask you to accept the policies, accept it to go to next step:

8. Now it will upgrade you windows to windows 7 ultimate, just allow it to download the upgrade components and your system will restart after that, below is sample screen you will get:

9. If everything goes right, you will get the below screen saying windows has been successfully upgraded:

Windows successfully upgraded

Note: Sometimes your windows may show that Enter the different Upgrade key or Upgrade key is not correct. In this case what you have to do just restart your system and allow it to upgrade. After that your system will start and you will have windows ultimate version installed.

That's all for today friends. Enjoy the latest tricks with grvbaplawat.do.am

If you have any issues or queries ask me in form of comments. Please comment if it works for you as it takes lot of effort to write detailed articles.

Assembly Language Tutorial for Reverse Engineering part 2

veenu — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 12:53:58 GMT

POSTED BY GAURAV BAPLAWAT ON OCT 9, 2011

continuing...

Introduction to Memory and Stacks:

There are three main sections of memory:

1. Stack Section - Where the stack is located, stores local variables and function arguments.

2. Data Section - Where the heap is located, stores static and dynamic variables.
3. Code Section - Where the actual program instructions are located.

The stack section starts at the high memory addresses and grows downwards, towards the lower memory addresses; conversely, the data section (heap) starts at the lower memory addresses and grows upwards, towards the high memory addresses. Therefore, the stack and the heap grow towards each other as more variables are placed in each of those sections. I have shown that in below Figure..

High Memory Addresses (0xFFFFFFFF)
---------------------- <-----Bottom of the stack
|    |
|    | |
| Stack    | | Stack grows down
|        | v
|        |
|---------------------| <----Top of the stack (ESP points here)
|    |
|        |
|        |
|        |
|        |
|---------------------| <----Top of the heap
|        |
|        | ^
| Heap    |    |   Heap grows up
|    | |
|    |
|---------------------| <-----Bottom of the heap
|    |
|    Instructions    |
|    |
|    |
-----------------------
Low Memory Addresses (0x00000000)

Some Essential Assembly Instructions for Reverse Engineering:

Instruction	Example	Description
push	push eax	Pushes the value stored in EAX onto the stack
pop	pop eax	Pops a value off of the stack and stores it in EAX
call	call 0x08abcdef	Calls a function located at 0x08abcdef
mov	mov eax,0x5	Moves the value of 5 into the EAX register
sub	sub eax,0x4	Subtracts 4 from the value in the EAX register
add	add eax,0x1	Adds 1 to the value in the EAX register
inc	inc eax	Increases the value stored in EAX by one
dec	dec eax	Decreases the value stored in EAX by one
cmp	cmp eax,edx	Compare values in EAX and EDX; if equal set the zero flag* to 1
test	test eax,edx	Performs an AND operation on the values in EAX and EDX; if the result is zero, sets the zero flag to 1
jmp	jmp 0x08abcde	Jump to the instruction located at 0x08abcde
jnz	jnz 0x08ffff01	Jump if the zero flag is set to 1
jne	jne 0x08ffff01	Jump to 0x08ffff01 if a comparison is not equal
and	and eax,ebx	Performs a bit wise AND operation on the values stored in EAX and EBX; the result is saved in EAX
or	or eax,ebx	Performs a bit wise OR operation on the values stored in EAX and EBX; the result is saved in EAX
xor	xor eax,eax	Performs a bit wise XOR operation on the values stored in EAX and EBX; the result is saved in EAX
leave	leave	Remove data from the stack before returning
ret	ret	Return to a parent function
nop	nop	No operation (a 'do nothing' instruction)

*The zero flag (ZF) is a 1 bit indicator which records the result of a cmp or test instruction

Each instruction performs one specific task, and can deal directly with registers, memory addresses, and the contents thereof. It is easiest to understand exactly what these functions are used for when seen in the context of a simple hello world program and try to relate assembly language with high level language such as C language.

Here is simple C program that displays Hello World:

int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { printf("Hello World!\n"); return 0; }

Save this program as helloworld.c and compile it with 'gcc -o helloworld helloworld.c'; run the resulting binary and it should print "Hello World!" on the screen and exit. Ahhah... It looks quite simple. Now let's look how it will look in assembly language.

0x8048384     push ebp            <--- Save the EBP value on the stack
0x8048385     mov ebp,esp <--- Create a new EBP value for this function
0x8048387 sub esp,0x8                 <---Allocate 8 bytes on the stack for local variables
0x804838a and esp,0xfffffff0          <---Clear the last byte of the ESP register
0x804838d mov eax,0x0                 <---Place a zero in the EAX register
0x8048392     sub esp,eax                  <---Subtract EAX (0) from the value in ESP
0x8048394     mov DWORD PTR [esp],0x80484c4     <---Place our argument for the printf() (at address 0x08048384) onto the stack
0x804839b     call 0x80482b0 <_init+56>                     <---Call printf()
0x80483a0 mov eax,0x0                 <---Put our return value (0) into EAX
0x80483a5     leave                              <---Clean up the local variables and restore the EBP value
0x80483a6 ret                                  <---Pop the saved EIP value back into the EIP register

As you can easily figure out these instructions are similar to that of C program. You can easily note that flow of program is same. Off course it will be same as its a assembly code of same binary (exe) obtained from executing above C program.

I hope you all like it. We will continue our discussion tomorrow where i will explain how to analyze assembly language codes for those binaries whose high level source code we don't have.

A quick tip for all users how to learn assembly language better... Pick a already made code and generate its binary or exe file and now obtains the assembly code of that binary and try to relate assembly code with high language code. I guarantee that will surely help you to understand better as I always used to do understand things like these ways only.

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Assembly Language Tutorial for Reverse Engineering part 1

veenu — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 12:49:22 GMT

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POSTED BY GAURAV BAPLAWAT ON OCT 9, 2011

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Hello friends, lets continue our tutorial on reverse engineering. Today i will teach you assembly language basic that are necessary for learning reverse engineering. As we all know assembly language is very important for reverse engineering and we must know, what are registers and which register serves for what. How the assembly language instruction work and how can we relate them with normal high language coding( C, JAVA, VB, etc.) to hack any software.
So friends, lets start our reverse engineering

What is Assembly language?

Assembly language is a low level or simply called machine language made up of machine instructions. Assembly language is specific to processor architecture example different for x86 architecture than for SPARC architecture. Assembly language consist of assembly instructions and CPU registers. I means I will explain my tutorial considering x86 architecture... Ahhha... From where i start explaining to you ... assembly language is too big topic... I think i have to tell only what you need for reverse engineering.. So i start from CPU registers.

CPU registers - Brief Introduction:

First of all what are registers? Most of Computer Engineering and Electronics Engineering guys knows about them but for others, Registers are small segments of memory inside CPU that are used for storing temporary data. Some registers have specific functions, others are just use for some general data storage. I am considering that you all are using x86 machines. There are two types of processors 32 bit and 64 bit processors. In a 32 bit processor, each register can hold 32 bits of data. On the other hand 64 bit register can hold 64 bit data. I am explaining this tutorial considering that we are using 32 bit processors. I will explain the same for 64 bits in later.

There are several registers but for Reverse engineering we grvbaplawat.do.am users are only interested in general purpose registers. We are interested in only 9 General purpose registers namely:

EAX
EBX
ECX
EDX
ESI
EDI
ESP
EBP
EIP

All these registers serves for different purposes. So I will start explaining all of them one by one for a more clear and accurate understanding of register concepts. I am putting more strain on these because these registers are called heart of reverse engineering.

EAX register is accumulator register which is used to store results of calculations. If any function returns a value its stored into EAX register. We can access EAX register using functions to retrieve the value of EAX register.

Note: EAX register can also be used for holding normal values regardless of calculations too.

The EDX is the data register. It’s basically an extension of EAX to assist it in storing extra data for complex operations. It can also be used for general purpose data storage.

The ECX, also called the count register, is used for looping operations. The repeated operations could be storing a string or counting numbers.

The ESI and EDI relied upon by loops that process data. The ESI register is the source index for data operation and holds the location of the input data stream. The EDI points to the location where the result of data operation is stored, or the destination index.

ESP is the stack pointer, and EBP is the base pointer. These registers are used for managing function calls and stack operations. When a function is called, the function’s arguments are pushed on the stack and are followed by a return address. The ESP register points to the very top of the stack, so it will point to the return address. EBP is used to point to the bottom of the call stack.

EBX is the only register that was not designed for anything specific. It can be used for extra storage.

EIP is the register that points to the current instruction being executed. As the CPU moves through the binary executing code, EIP is updated to reflect the location where the execution is occurring.

The 'E' at the beginning of each register name stands for Extended. When a register is referred to by its extended name, it indicates that all 32 bits of the register are being addressed. An interesting thing about registers is that they can be broken down into smaller subsets of themselves; the first sixteen bits of each register can be referenced by simply removing the 'E' from the name. For example, if you wanted to only manipulate the first sixteen bits of the EAX register, you would refer to it as the AX register. Additionally, registers AX through DX can be further broken down into two eight bit parts. So, if you wanted to manipulate only the first eight bits (bits 0-7) of the AX register, you would refer to the register as AL; if you wanted to manipulate the last eight bits (bits 8-15) of the AX register, you would refer to the register as AH ('L' standing for Low and 'H' standing for High).

How to remove the Recycle Bin Icon from your Desktop

veenu — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 11:39:36 GMT

POSTED BY GAURAV BAPLAWAT on Aug 12, 2011

Have you ever tried to delete all your icons present on desktop. If no, then just try it out. You'll be able to delete all the icons except the Recycle Bin icon. That's because it is a System Icon. But still your computer is a bag full of tricks, one has to just explore it. And same is the case here. You can remove the Recycle Bin icon from desktop by this Trick.

1. Open Regedit by going to START - RUN and type Regedit and hit enter.

2. Then you should navigate to following entry in registry HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\NameSpace\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}

3.Right click on it and Delete it.

This action should remove recycle bin from your desktop.

Enjoy !!!!!

Can you create a folder named “con”, “prn”, “nul” “com1? “com2? “lpt1? etc. in windows ?

veenu — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 11:34:52 GMT

POSTED BY GAURAV BAPLAWAT on Aug 12, 2011

Can you create a folder named "con”, "prn”, "nul” "com1? "com2? "lpt1? etc. in windows ?

The answer is NO and YES!

NO because create a new folder and try to rename it to any one of the above specified names, you know what happens! In Windows XP the folder name automatically changes back to "New Folder” no matter you try any number of times.Where as in Windows Vista when you try to rename the file you get an error message "The specified device name is invalid”.

What is the reason for this? Simple, these names represent the internal devices and hence we cannot create folders with the above names.

YES because it is still possible to create these folders using the command prompt.Heres the instructions to create it.

1. Go to command prompt

2. Type in prompt (For Ex:- TO CREATE CON FOLDER IN E: DRIVE)

C:\>md \\.\e:\con

NOTE:”con” can be replaced by any other names such as "prn”, "nul” "com1? "com2? "lpt1? etc.

3. To delete the folder use the following command

C:\>rd \\.\e:\con

!!!!!!ENJOY!!!!!!

Show your name after time in TaskBar

veenu — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 11:29:04 GMT

POSTED BY GAURAV BAPLAWAT on Aug 12, 2011

Bored of seeing the ordinary clock at your Windows Taskbar.
Want to Play with it too. Then here is some related stuff for it.
Get your name typed in place of AM and PM beside clock. Follow the below steps :-

1. Navigate to -> Start -> Control Panel -> Regional and Language Option ->
Click on Customize -> Go to TIME Tab -> Change AM symbol and PM symbol from AM and PM to your name -> Apply -> Ok.

Did It change? If not, follow step-2 below.

2. Now go to time in taskbar and Double Click it to open "Date and time property".
Look place where time changes in digital form i.e. 02:47:52 AM , click to arrow to change the AM or PM
by selecting and press arrow. It will show your name or name that was entered by you, Apply -> OK.

!!!!!! ENJOY !!!!!!

HOW TO RENAME GOOGLE SEARCH ENGINE

veenu — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 08:16:26 GMT

POSTED BY GAURAV BAPLAWAT on Aug 4, 2011

original

Click on the following link>> http://funnylogo.info/

Choose a name:Gaurav Baplawat
Choose a style:Google Style
Example

If any of the main styles don't suit your needs then click on more logo styles and colors
Now you can choose from a collections of styles and logo and create your very own search engine...
HAVE FUN :)

How to Hack or crack IDM manually

veenu — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 09:21:32 GMT

POSTED BY GAURAV BAPLAWAT on Aug 1, 2011

Hello Friends, today i am going to explain how to hack or crack Internet Download Manager (IDM) manually. IDM is the best Internet download manager available on internet but its not free and its cracked or patched versions contains viruses. Using this hack you can register the Internet Download Manager (IDM) for free using you own credentials i.e register on your Name and email ID. I am explaining the manual hacking method because most of my users said that patch and keygen contain viruses.
Now suppose you have updated your IDM (Internet Download Manager) and if you are using cracked or patched version, after updating IDM, it shows an error message that you have registered IDM using fake serial key. And after that IDM exits and hence it doesn't download anything.
This hack also works for trail IDM that means download a trail IDM from there site and register the professional i.e. full version of IDM with your credentials for free using my hack.

Internet Download manager Manual hack

Let's start the tutorial, How to hack or crack IDM manually.

Steps Involved:

Step 1: Download the IDM trial or If you already have IDM installed Update it by going to Help---}} then to check for Updates.
If you don't wanna update your version, Just click on Registration.

Step2: When you click on registration, Now a new dialog appears that is asking for Name, Last Name, Email Address and Serial Key.

Step3: Now Enter you name, last name, email address and in field of Serial Key enter any of the following Keys:

RLDGN-OV9WU-5W589-6VZH1
HUDWE-UO689-6D27B-YM28M
UK3DV-E0MNW-MLQYX-GENA1
398ND-QNAGY-CMMZU-ZPI39
GZLJY-X50S3-0S20D-NFRF9
W3J5U-8U66N-D0B9M-54SLM
EC0Q6-QN7UH-5S3JB-YZMEK
UVQW0-X54FE-QW35Q-SNZF5
FJJTJ-J0FLF-QCVBK-A287M

And click on ok to register.

Step4: Now after you click ok, it will show an error message that you have registered IDM using fake serial key and IDM will exit. Now here the hack starts.

Step5: Now Go to START --}} Then go to RUN and type the following text and click enter:

notepad %windir%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

Step6: Now a notepad file appears something like this as shown below:

How to hack IDM manually : Host file

Now copy the below lines of code and add to hosts file as shown above:

127.0.0.1    tonec.com
127.0.0.1    www.tonec.com
127.0.0.1    registeridm.com
127.0.0.1    www.registeridm.com
127.0.0.1    secure.registeridm.com
127.0.0.1    internetdownloadmanager.com
127.0.0.1    www.internetdownloadmanager.com
127.0.0.1    secure.internetdownloadmanager.com
127.0.0.1    mirror.internetdownloadmanager.com
127.0.0.1    mirror2.internetdownloadmanager.com

After adding these piece of code, save the notepad file. And exit from there.

Now start your Internet download manager, and now you IDM has been converted to full version and specially when you update next time, your registration will not expire. That means it will remain full version for life time and you can update it without any problem.

Here is my proof of Successfully Hacking IDM:

That's all for today, I hope you all have liked my post. If you have any queries ask me..

Enjoy and Have Happy Hacking!

Manual gprs settings of Top 5 networks on ur mobile and data cards

veenu — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 11:39:00 GMT

POSTED BY GAURAV BAPLAWAT on July 31, 2011

Manual Hutch Gprs Settings

Account Name – Hutch_GPRS
User Name – Blank
Password – Blank
Proxy – Enabled/yes
Access Point Name – portalnmms
Full Internet Access Point Name – www
Proxy and Server address – 10.10.1.100
Proxy and Server Port – 8080
Homepage – http://hutchworld.co.in
Authentication Type – Normal

Manual Airtel Gprs Settings

Homepage – any page you want to set.
User Name – Blank
Password – Blank
Proxy – Enabled/yes.
Proxy and Server Adress – 202.56.231.117
Proxy and Server Port – 8080
Data bearer – GPRS or Packet Data.
Access Point Name – airtelgprs.com
Authentication Type – Normal
Use preferred access point – No

Manual Airtel live settings

Account Name – Airtel_live
Homepage – http://live.airtelworld.com
Username – Blank
Password – Blank
Proxy – Enabled/yes
Proxy and Server Adress – 100.1.200.99
Accespoint Name – airtelfun.com
Proxy and Server Port – 8080
Data bearer – GPRS/ Packet Data
Authentication Type – Normal

Manual Idea Gprs Settings

Account Name – idea_GPRS
Username – Blank
Password – Blank
Homepage – http://wap.ideafresh.com
Proxy and Server Port – 8080
Proxy and Server adress – 10.4.42.45
Databearer – GPRS / Packetdata
Acces Point Name – imis
Proxy – Enabled/yes
Authentication Type – Normal

Manual Bsnl Gprs Settings

Account Name – BPL WAP
Username –
Password –
Proxy – Enabled/yes
Homepage – http://wap.mizone.bplmobile.com
Proxy and Server address – 10.0.0.10
Proxy and Server Port – 8080
Acces Point Name – mizone
Data bearer – GPRS/ Packetdata
Authentication Type – Normal