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Are you having boot up problems and would like to know what it going on behind that Windows Loading Logo? To find out, you can disable the splash screen by making a small change to the Boot.ini file.

Follow these steps (carefully!):

1. Open the "System Properties" dialog box ( Settings - Control Panel - System)

2. On the Advanced tab, click the Settings button in the "Startup And Recovery" section.

3. In the "Startup And Recovery" dialog box, select the Edit button in the "System Startup" section.

4. The Boot.ini file will open in Notepad; locate the line that ends with the /fastdetect switch.

5. Position your cursor to the right after the parameter, press the spacebar, and add the /SOS switch.

6. Save the Boot.ini file, and close Notepad.

7. Click Cancel to close both the "Startup And Recovery" dialog box and the "System Properties" dialog box.

8. Restart the computer to see the effect.

Once the computer restarts you will notice that the Windows Splash Screen is no longer present. Instead you can observe some of the boot up operations that Windows XP performs during the startup stage.

To renable the splash screen, follow the same procedure but remove the "/SOS".

By default Windows 2000, Windows XP and WinNT automatically setup hidden admin shares (admin$, c$ and d$), this registry key will disable these hidden shares.

System Key: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ System\ CurrentControlSet\ Services\ LanmanServer\ Parameters]

Value Name: AutoShareWks

Data Type: REG_DWORD (DWORD Value)

Value Data: (0 = disable shares, 1 = enable)

This registry key actually stops the recreation of the shares, therefore it may be necessary to delete the shares through the drive properties also or you can also remove the shares through the Computer Management Console.

1. In Control Panel, double-click Administrative Tools, and then double-click Computer Management.

2. Click to expand Shared Folders, and then click Shares.

3. In the Shared Folder column, right-click the share you want to delete, click Stop sharing, and then click OK.

Note : To remove the admin share for only the current session use the second method (Computer Management console), if you want a permanent removal, add the AutoShareWks registry.

How to Remove DRM Protection for Video Files 

This is how to unprotect the Video files from Mcft latest technology DRM.

So here is the procedure:

1. Install fresh Windows XP SP1 (English)

2. Download and install WMP9 from Mcft

3. Make sure you are now able to play the .wmv files from the DVD. That requires running dvdrun.exe, individualizing WMP and finding the right proxy if you are not in US to get the license.

4. Get the DRM2WMV files from the below links

5. Download Japanese version of WMP9 from Mcft

6. Doubleclick the downloaded file, it will unpack all installation files to temp directory in your Documents and Settings directory. Get the drmv2clt.dll file and copy it to c:\Program Files\Windows Media Player directory. Cancel the Japanese WMP9 installation.

7. Edit lines 9-12 of the drmdbg.ini downloaded from step 4 as written bellow

drmv2clt=1;

drmclien=0;

blackbox=0;

indivbox=0;

8. Doubleclick drmdbg.exe. It should open WMP. Navigate to your wmv file. After acquiring the license the drmdbg DOS window should display something like this:

drmdbg Ver 0.31 by taku

CreateProcess: c:\Program Files\Windows Media Player\wmplayer.exe

010010C5 âvââOâëâÇ âGâôâgâÕü[ â|âCâôâg

IsDebuggerPresent: memwriteret=1 callret=0

crc: 2850B98C c:\Program Files\windows media player\drmv2clt.dll

setbp 09252BCC 50

eax 00D6E1C8

[]

Copy the last 6 lines and paste them to T2_Part1.key text file to the drm2wmv1241\drm2 directory.

9. Copy the wmv files from the DVD to the drm2wmv1241 directory.

10. Change your date to 12/Feb/2005

11. Open DOS window, go to drm2wmv1241 directory. Type

md c:\windows\#dummy

X.wmv (where X indicates your file name)

The file should be decrypted. Here is what I see:

J:\drm2wmv1241>md c:\windows\#dummy

J:\drm2wmv1241>drm2wmv X.wmv (where X indicates your file name)

DRM(Ver1&2) Conversion tool Ver 1.241 by taku

J:\drm2wmv1241>drm2wmv X.wmv (where X indicates your file name)

DRM(Ver1&2) Conversion tool Ver 1.241 by taku

DRMv1 KID (17fG9KorUkm83BmyUnPv3w==)

DRMv2 KID (17fG9KorUkm83BmyUnPv3w==)

ÅSâpâPâbâgÉö: 110189ü@1âpâPâbâgâTâCâY: 9418

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You can download the file from here

Code:

http://www.savefile.com/files/7205691