How To Change Default Location of Program Files Folder[Registry]

By default, the installation of any windows program is done in the [System Drive]/Program Files directory and in the case you want to change this setting, a simple registry hack is enough.

First open the registry editor by typing regedit in your run command. Then navigate to the following key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion

From there, change the value of "ProgramFiles", or "ProgramFilesDir" as per your need. I hope this helps. :)

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Etherchange : Command Line Tool To Change MAC Address

I've already discussed on how to change mac adress of your ethernet card under windows as well as linux. One more such tool which is command line tool, is etherchange.

EtherChange can change the Ethernet address of the network adapters in Windows.

Usage instructions

Download the exe file and run it from a Command Prompt. It will give you the instructions you need. EtherChange only works if your account is in the Administrators group.

Download link: EtherChange

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Download Books From Google Books Using A GreaseMonkey Script

Do you want to download the undownloadable books from google books? If yes, here's the solution for you.

Google Book Downloader is a greasemonkey script that works in firefox with greasemonkey addon. Greasemonkey is a very useful firefox addon used to manipulate the webpage with the javascript.

For more details on the script and how to use it, refer to the official site.

The script is available at userscripts.org collection.

I hope this is useful.

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Remove Warnings & Notices From Psychostats

I was testing the psychostats script today and while testing I found that it displayed lots of warnings and notices that make the script look so bad as the output is totally messed up. This post will help you to fix this problem.

At first, I tried to change the error_reporting and display_errors setting in php.ini file but I could not get rid of those errors. So I then put a line of code as below at the top of index.php file of psychostats. Still no luck. Finally, I navigated to ./includes relative to psychostats root folder where there was a file named class_PS.php. Open this file and type the following line below <php line.

error_reporting(0);

This will suppress all those errors and will make your psychostats look better. I hope this helps.

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Fix Counter Strike Sound Problem Under WINE [How To]

I've been playing counter strike for a while through wine and so far, most of it works well. With getting more and more better with the game, I've learnt the importance of sound in this game. Unfortunately, the sound was not working properly and with some experiments, I've found the solution for me. I hope it also works for you.

By default, my wine's audio is configured to use ALSA driver with the settings as below:

Now, you need to edit the settings to match as in the following image.

After changing the audio configuration, click on Apply and then restart Counter-strike. I guess this will work for you as well.

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Converting VMWare .vmdk to Virtualbox .vdi

I was downloading the metasploitable to play around with it and I found that it was the VMWare .vmdk file so I had to convert it into .vdi file to run under the virtualbox. This post will show you how to easily convert the .vmdk file into .vdi file.

Converting the vmware disk file to the virtualbox hdd file is not the difficult task but still many might not be knowing how to do that. In order to convert your .vmdk file to .vdi, you need to type the following command in the terminal by first changing the terminal to the proper directory.


VBoxManage clonehd --format VDI metasploitable.vmdk metasploitable.vdi


Note that you need to have virtualbox installed for this to work. I hope this helps. :)

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Get High Compression Ratio With KGBArchiver

So you are wondering how you could compress your 2gb game data into less than 100 MBs? Are you lacking hard disk space and want to store files in the compressed form? If yes, then this post will direct you towards the solution.

KGB Archiver is the compression tool with unbelievable high compression rate. It surpasses even such efficient compression tool like 7zip and UHARC in terms of the abilities. KGB Archiver uses AES-256 encryption to encrypt archives. While the compression ratio is very high, it requires relatively high PC specification and it also requires more time to compress and decompress the file. But still this compression program will come in use sometimes.

For more information and download, visit KGBAarchiver's sourceforge page.


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Physical Memory Acquisition With MDD

MDD is a physical memory acquisition tool for imaging Windows based computers created by the innovative minds at ManTech International Corporation. MDD is capable of acquiring memory images from Win2000, XP, Vista and Windows Server.

This tool can be pretty useful to analyze the data present in RAM. Whenever we are running programs, RAM stores various range of information being used by the program. For example, if we are running a web browser, the RAM may contain the URLs being visited, form data, etc. So you can just guess we can extract a lot of information from RAM. Thus, MDD can be very useful tool to dump the physical memory into the file from which we can extract the required information.

You can read more and download the tool from MDD SourceForge Page.

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