This Post is about the extra "features" Google implemented in Gtalk and has not said much about.
As this is Registry Trick do remember to backup the Registry.
You can edit most settings by opening regedit (start ---> regedit), and navigating to the key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\Google Talk. The "Google/Google Talk" key has several sub-keys that hold different option values:
Accounts: This one has subkeys for each different account that has logged in on the client. These keys have different values that store the username, password and connection options.
Autoupdate: Stores the current version information. When the client checks for updates it compares Google's response with these values. If an update is needed, it will download and update the new version.
Options: This is the most interesting part, where most of the current hacks should be used (keep reading).
Process: Stores the process ID. Probably used by Google Talk to detect if it's already running or not.
1.) HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\Google Talk\Options\show_pin
If 1, shows a "pin" next to the minimize button that keeps the windows on top of all the other open windows when clicked.
2.) HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\Google Talk\Options\view_show_taskbutton
If 0, hides the taskbar button, and leaves the tray icon only, when the window is shown
3.) HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\Google Talk\Options\away_inactive
If 1, status will be set as Away after the specified number of minutes.
4.) HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\Google Talk\Options\away_screensaver
If 1, status will be set as Away after the specified number of minutes.
5.) HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\Google Talk\Options\inactive_minutes
Number of inactive minutes to become away if auto-away is on.
Friday, June 26, 2009
Tweak Gtalk With Registry
Hide your Files With Notepad
Another Old but great Notepad trick, not exactly notepad one but the Windows one. I can't add a big intro of this method just try it out.
1. Open Command Prompt. Start --> Run --> CMD
2. Get to the directory Where you want to save the hidden file.
CD --> to Change Directory
MD --> to make Directory
once done. proceed further
3. Type down following command.
notepad:filename.txt:hidefilename.txt
yes we are creating two files.
4. error pops up Cannot find filename.txt:hidefilename.txt, Do you want to create ??
obviously yes
5. Type your message to hide and save and close.
You have done the hiding task. Lets check did it worked or not. Visit the folder with your windows explorer. Oh man theres only one file named filename.txt where the hell is hidefilename.txt is ??? its hidden. Lets open Filename.txt (to check your message ), This file is blank !! Party but where is the hidden text ?? its in Hidefilename.txt You can type any text in open notepad file. it will be saved in filename.txt. and using command prompt, notepad filename.txt:hidefilename.txt will give you hidden file.
Well thats simple and sweet from Windows.
Youtube Trick
You may notice just under the lower right coner of the video window, some videos have an option to “Watch In High Quality”. By default, these videos will play as a 320×240 FLV file at 320Kb/s. Check out this sample:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyyjgYcS8Fs
The user could click on this link to “Watch in High Quality” which will reload the video and play the MP4 version , which is 480×360 at 512Kb/s. By adding &fmt=18 to the end of the URL, you’ll make the URL you share with others bring them right to the high quality version. Here’s the same video in the High Quality view:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyyjgYcS8Fs&fmt=18
What else are you gaining besides increased video resolution? The video is compressed with H.264 compression, so you get better video even at the same data rate. You also go from a low fidelity mono audio feed to stereo @ 44.1Khz sample rate.
&fmt=6 increases the resolution from 320×240 to 448×336, Flash 7 video @ 900Kbps; audio @ 44.1KHz 96Kbps Mono CBR.
&fmt=18 increases the resolution to 480×360, H.264 video @ 512Kbps; audio @ 44.1KHz 128Kbps Stereo. Note, the bandwidth may be lower, but it’s utilizing a more efficient compression codec.
&fmt=22 increaes the resolution to 720p HD video if the source was uploaded at a high enough resolution.
Hide Drive in My Computer
This setting allows you to control which drives are visible in My Computer and Explorer. It is possible to hide all drives or just selected ones.
Open your registry (press win+r and type regedit , hit enter )
goto
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\
CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
and find or create the DWORD “NoDrives” there by right clicking on explorer -> NEW -> DWORD value .
The “NoDrives” value uses a 32-bit word to define local and network drive visibility for each logical drive in the computer. The lower 26 bits of the 32-bit word correspond to drive letters A through Z. Drives are visible when set to 0 and hidden when set to 1.
If your not happy working in Hex, add these decimal numbers to hide the drive(s):
A: 1, B: 2, C: 4, D: 8, E: 16, F: 32, G: 64, H: 128, I: 256, J: 512, K: 1024, L: 2048, M: 4096, N: 8192, O: 16384, P: 32768, Q: 65536, R: 131072, S: 262144, T: 524288, U: 1048576, V: 2097152, W: 4194304, X: 8388608, Y: 16777216, Z: 33554432, ALL: 67108863
For example to hide drive A and drive D, you would add 1 (A) + 8 (D) which means the value should be set to “9″.
To disable all the drives set the value to “67108863″.
Restart Windows for the change to take effect.
Note: These drives will still appear in File Manager, to remove File Manager, delete or rename winfile.exe.
Registry Settings
User Key: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\
Explorer]
System Key: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\
Explorer]
Value Name: NoDrives
Data Type: REG_DWORD (DWORD Value)
Install Windows XP from USB drive or memory card
If you are looking for a way to make your USB drive or memory card a Windows XP installer source you are at the right location. This is article is not about running the full version of Windows XP on flash drive or memory card as a destination. Also this should closely apply to any Netbook e.g. HP Mini 1000, Lenovo IdeaPad S10, Asus EEE PC, Acer Aspire One, MSI Wind, Dell Inspiron Mini 9, Samsung NC10 just to name the most common ones.
A good move from HP with their Mini 1000 was providing Windows XP CD installer to allow people to easily reinstall the OS. Unfortunately most netbooks do not have a CD drive! On the other hand, most have a memory card reader (SD/SDHC for the HP Mini 1000) or USB ports enabling to connect a USB flash drive or external drive.
Preparing you USB drive or memory card with Windows XP installer
I think WinSetupFromUSB that you can download from here is the simplest way to do the job. If you find anything simpler, please let me know.
0. To work with the provided CD, you need a computer with a CD drive. If you do not, get an iso file and mount it with MagicDisc for example.
1. Install WinSetupFromUSB, the program should be started automatically
2. Click the Browse button on the Windows 2000/XP/2003 Source, select your CD and click OK
3. Underneath select your USB Device (Hit the Refresh button if it is not in the list)
4. Optional but highly recommended. Click the HP format tool button and format with the NTFS File system. Amazingly this made file transferts over 4x faster with the exact same memory card!! More about this topic here
5. Just click GO and wait for the procedure to complete. This takes a while, it took me around 30 minutes on my NTFS formatted card and over 2 hours on the card FAT formatted.
That was easy wasn’t it?
Huge Kudos to Ilko, Jaclaz and all the other guys on the MSFN forums and Boot land they are super helpful and nice.
Booting from a USB drive or memory card
If like me you have a HP Mini 1000 booting from either of them is very easy, the steps should be very similar for your netbook.
1. Insert the USB device or SD memory card you want to boot from
2. Restart your machine. At the screen showing the HP logo and the two lines of text “< F9 > Change Device Boot Order” and “< F10 > BIOS Setup Options” shown below”
3. Hold the F9 key until a device selection screen shows up
4. Select with the arrow keys and validate with Enter your selection and you are done
5. Just follow the steps on screen to install/reinstall Windows XP on your hard drive
Too much information is real noise
Just as a side comment during my experiments I have tried countless tedious tutorials, advices and not friendly softwares without any success including but not limited to FlashBoot, mkboot, uinetbootin, usb_prep8, and others before finding and trying WinSetupFromUSB. I literally wasted days because of that. This is typically the case of the internet again having the right information but being surrounded by noise making it very time consuming to find the right information and right solution.
This happens all the time, so I have two small contributions. This article which will hopefully increase your chances to find WinSetupFromUSB and also not linking to the non succesful one which will not help increasing their page rank and hopefully increase people chances to fall on WinSetupFromUSB during their research 
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