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- STKD, on 10/12/2007, -15/+136format c: is a pretty effective one for that...
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -7/+99XP Hidden Application Enabler(from that download link)= TROJAN VIRUS!!!
- cwiz7, on 10/12/2007, -6/+84Theres a program called "XP Hidden Application Enabler." It puts all the XP Programs on the start menu, inlcluding this one.
- Reziarfg, on 10/12/2007, -12/+87Oh you're so cool, you have a mac, I wish I were as cool as you, how do you do it? omg.
- mc7winkie, on 10/12/2007, -5/+60Another great one is create a new folder. Take a screenshot, make it their background. Then move all the desktop items into the new folder labeled as pr0n. It never, NEVER , gets old to see how stupid people are.
- Roger, on 10/12/2007, -1/+43Is the video really necessary?
- masamunecyrus, on 10/12/2007, -4/+42There's also a program called "iexpress.exe" which is a self-extraction/self-install making tool. It's come in handy several times for me.
To access it, just go to Start > Run... > iexpress.exe - jsdratm, on 10/12/2007, -4/+42I screwed around with it for a little while, but I'm too lazy to make a whole font.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+39It isnt a virus its a false positive.
Of course i wouldnt listen to a random person like me on digg but
I ran it sandboxed, it only made short cuts for the start menu.. it coppied no files anyware.
so i saved a back up of my system to a hidden partician..
installed it.. checked my system for any sign of virii.. nothing new in msconfig.. no new services.. nothing new in hijackthis.
to be safer, ran panda online.. after checking system drive it found nothing... ran rootkit revealer just to be sure..
I feel safe. - olddirtycr, on 10/12/2007, -8/+34I'd imagine it's old since windows came out in 2001, but I think the fact that it isn't a well advertised feature is why most people don't know about it.
- monkeychewtoy, on 10/12/2007, -5/+30Oh yeah? I have an iMac G3 running Ubuntu Linux. How hardcore am I, eh?
Answer: Not very. I actually still prefer my XP machine.
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Hardcore! - tidu, on 10/12/2007, -7/+31Reminds me of those "RPG Maker" days of drawing sprite characters.
- InMSWeAntitrust, on 10/12/2007, -4/+28Just for the sake of argument, I present this:
Microsoft was started by a couple of college dropouts.
Apple was started, too, by a couple of college dropouts (to be fair, Woz went back to college and received a BS in EECS.
Linux was started by a University of Helsinki graduate with a masters in CS.
But to be completely fair, yes, they are professionals, as their profession is coding. But it doesn't mean they're any good at it, it just means they get paid for it. - Pokez, on 10/12/2007, -4/+27@ryan
being able to type goes along with using a computer bud. - Roger, on 10/12/2007, -7/+30Damn zealots piss me off.
- herrshuster, on 10/12/2007, -5/+26and...thank you for the comment...look at the URL
/Hidden_Program_In_Windows_XP_3
THREE!! third time!!! we get the point! - catastrophee, on 10/12/2007, -8/+28*bows to macs greatness
I mean it has to be good right? Just look at the price tag. - Roger, on 10/12/2007, -2/+22@ryan4477:
Ryan I'm gonna guess you're about 14, right? - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+23I am pretty sure your comment is a dupe..
i have seen it in a good few dozen comment sections.
I dont know if you ever say it in the original stories comment section though
because i missed it when it was on the front page..
if you could do me a favor and email me stories that I like but have missed so that i dont have to digg stuff you have already seen. Thanks in advance. - minder49, on 10/12/2007, -3/+17@ryan4477
And by that reasoning, I guess Linux users have difficulty with typing and constructing rational sentences? - dylanrush, on 10/12/2007, -3/+16wow that is really cool... ive been using windows xp for 5 years and this is the first time i've seen that
- hbweb500, on 10/12/2007, -11/+23That dupe was posted 66 days ago. If it was within the last week, you wouldve had a point. But 66 days is quite a while in the life of a digg story.
- Batiu-Drami, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Tordenflesk: So you're using a stripped-down version of windows designed specifically to remove unnecessary programs and you're complaining that it doesn't have 'hidden' programs?
Are you on crack? - aaronm67, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13On that "Bush Hid The Facts" thing. It's wrong.
Almost every phrase that has 4 letters, then 3 letters, then 3 letters, then 5 letters will show the same results. Try "hhhh hhh hhh hhhhh" that works too. So...unless you have some conspiracy as to why that works...you're what a lot of people call "Overly paranoid." - deweyhewson, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14This is also included in Vista, as well, for those interested.
- DyDx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8@dnthops: Although I think that doing what you did _multiple times_ is kind of dick, I would like to thank you for bringing these cpl files to attention... it may make my campus job far easier -- I knew there must be _files_ that launch Control Panel processes, and these are them!
Now I can use "Run As" to get admin rights on users workstations and change settings without forcing them to log off. - raindogmx, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9stick with it, just don't get stuck
- sirdaz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Its a windows article... do people really have to express there hatred for it in EVERY Microsoft article?
You love your mac, great. I like SkyOS, great. He likes Windows, great. - tagawa, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10No pastels, no gradients, no reflections.
I can't work with this! - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Try upgrading from version 1.0 to XP SP2.
- Sealab2021, on 10/12/2007, -11/+17@mc7winkie
Sorry to say this but...STFU!
I am so god damn tired of you dupe police! Like hbweb500 said, if the dupe was like a week old then you would have a valid argument...
BUT NO!
Even if the story was 790 days old, some ass hole like your self would have to call dupe. Here's a thought, maybe some new members joined digg who have never seen this story and thought it was cool.
How would you feel if you found a really cool story, and when you came back it was gone because some dicks felt that it was a dupe? - waahooo, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9That's odd... when I search "Hidden Program In Windows Xp" in the last year, I only find one other link with the same content, but it's a different link than the one mc7winkie posted. In fact, that one doesn't even come up in the result. Why?
- redxii, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5That's not backwards compatibility. An example of backwards compatibility is NTVDM. NTVDM is for running 16-bit DOS/Win executables in NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista, where there is otherwise no native support for 16-bit.
By your thinking they should completely throw out everything, start from scratch, and place the files in random locations each OS release. - h0dg3s, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6"format c: is a pretty effective one for that..."
I find it funny that people still don't realize that this won't work in Windows XP. - shadowland, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4this article would have been great about 4 years ago
- NTolerance, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I still get a kick out of the Win 3.1 Program Manager in XP:
Start ->Run->progman - adz999, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3legacy!
- grumpyrain, on 10/12/2007, -5/+8It is not exactly 'hidden'. You don't need any registry hacks to show it. You don't need to install any com objects to get it to work. Just er, double click it. The only thing hidden is that there is no shortcut under C:Documents and SettingsAll UsersStart MenuProgramsAccessories to this app. This is probably because a limited user can not run it by default unless they are granted write access to %WINDOWSFonts. The only reason it works by simply typing eudcedit in a run box is becaue %SYSTEM32 is probably in your environment path.
Nice little app though. - ellisgl, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6This is the first I've heard of it.. There are a lot of people trying to get you money for font creation software that looks like the same thing. Of course there are better programs to do this, I still digg this.
- TimTheGreat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3This has been around forever.
- simpleid, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4...and what ever font your designing i wouldn't want to use.
- Barnonski, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Great, right when everyone is about to switch to Windows Vista we find out about secret features in XP.
- Terc, on 10/12/2007, -7/+9it's new to me.
- slampaladino, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Memo - Digg does not exist for the betterment of Hamsterpotpies and Hamsterpotpies alone. That is all.
- drewskyjones, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Tolerance, I like that concept!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@hypercube33
It's also for system admins who want apps to load and such when someone logs on. - NTolerance, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Yeah, I'm using an nlite install and I don't have the program.
- lozaning, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5for those that care this also works in vista
- nonokiaboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2NOT IN VISTA
T_T
:( - HuwJanus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Just a F.Y.I - This is also in Windows 2000
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