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25 August 2013

3 Simple & Cool Windows XP Trick you will Love to Apply

Windows XP was the platinum kind of thing released by Microsoft in its early stages, people were just fond of using it and exploring it out, it was easily customizable and was full of productive features, its still being used by many IT companies to make their work little bit faster. Well I have 3 awesome tricks for Windows XP that are simple but really loved by everyone, you might wanna see 3 magical tricks for Microsoft.

#1. Making Invisible Folder in Windows XP

Well basically this trick works in Windows 7 too, but still people who might be using XP and don't know about this trick could get some insight. Now to make any folder invisible you just need to rename that folder by holding Alt key and typing 0160 so this will add nothing and when you click enter you will see no name, now just right click and choose customize the folder now choose the invisible icon for it and that sit.

#2. Making Prank Virus Alert in Windows XP

This one is really cool as it allows you to prank with all your friends, yes you can create this kind of prank virus and then execute it by using some social means, well this one is just a work of few inbuilt coding trick, so its absolutely fake. But this work as a alert based virus prank so your friend will get few alerts and then it will say Virus activated, so check below steps on get it working.

  1. Open Notepad & paste below code into it.

    @echo off
    echo YOU HAVE A VIRUS ON YOUR COMPUTER
    pause
    echo CONTATTING ANTIVIRUS
    pause
    echo DO YOU WANT TO DELETE ANTIVIRUS?
    pause
    echo ACCESS DENIED
    echo ACCESS DENIED
    echo ACCESS DENIED
    pause
    echo ACTIVATING VIRUS
    echo VIRUS ACTIVATED
    pause
    :1
    dir/s
    goto 1

  2. Now just save this file as xxxxx.bat yes make sure the extension is .bat but the file name can be anything but make it attractive to be clicked.
  3. So now just change the icon of this one and share it with your friend as soon as he clicks it he will get that awesome virus alert, so that will prank him out.

#3. Play Secret Song in Windows XP

Well you might not know this but Windows XP comes with a secret song that you can find and play. So navigate to My computer > Images Folder, now just make a search for title now open up the file and enjoy the song.