If you set a computer for auto logon, anyone who can physically obtain access to the computer can gain access to all of the computer contents, including any network or networks it is connected to. In addition, if you enable autologon, the password is stored in the registry in plaintext. The specific registry key that stores this value is remotely readable by the Authenticated Users group.

As a result, this setting is only appropriate for cases where the computer is physically secured, and steps have been taken to ensure that untrusted users cannot remotely access the registry.

1. Start/Run/Regedit, and then locate the following registry subkey:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
2. Using your account name and password, double-click the DefaultUserName entry, type your user name, and then click
OK.
3. Double-click the DefaultPassword entry, type your password, and then click OK.

NOTE: The DefaultPassword value may not exist. If it does not:

a. Click Add Value on the Edit menu.
b. In the Value Name box, type DefaultPassword, and then click REG_SZ for the Data Type
c. Type your password in the String box, and then save your changes.

Also, if no DefaultPassword string is specified, Windows automatically changes the value of the AutoAdminLogon key
from 1 (true) to 0 (false), thus disabling the AutoAdminLogon feature.

4. Click Add Value on the Edit menu, enter AutoAdminLogon in the Value Name box, and then click REG_SZ for the Data
Type.
5. Type "1" (without the quotation marks) in the String box, and then save your changes.
6. Quit Regedit.
7. Click Start, click Shutdown, and then click OK to turn off your computer.
8. Restart your computer and Windows. You are now able to log on automatically.

NOTE: To bypass the AutoAdminLogon process, and to log on as a different user, hold down the SHIFT key after you log off or after Windows restarts.

Note that this procedure only applies to the first logon. To enforce this setting for subsequent logoffs, the administrator must set the following registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon

Value: ForceAutoLogon
Type: REG_SZ
Data: 1

First things first. type 'about:robots' and 'about:mozilla' in FireFox address bar to get some strange pages. Firefox 3 have these two hidden pages and may be more but yet to be discovered.

Try typing 'about:robots' and you will discover this funny page.

This page has got title - Gort! klaatu barada nikto! The title is some old science-fiction movie (view more information). This hidden page has some robotics commandments :

• Robots may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
• Robots have seen things you people wouldn’t believe
• Robots are Your Plastic Pal Who’s Fun To Be With.
• Robots have shiny metal posteriors which should not be bitten.

Interestingly, when you press 'try again' button you get another button saying, "Please do not press this button again."I bet even after this warning message, most of you have clicked that button.

Type "about:mozilla" in FireFox address bar and you get to see some writings from Mozilla book.

Mammon slept. And the beast reborn spread over the earth and its numbers grew legion. And they proclaimed the times and sacrificed crops unto the fire, with the cunning of foxes. And they built a new world in their own image as promised by the sacred words, and spoke of the beast with their children. Mammon awoke, and lo! it was caught but a follower.

from The Book of Mozilla, 11:9
(10th Edition)

Since Firefox is open source browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation, its contributors must have created these pages for fun. Easter eggs are made intentionally to surprise often containing bonus or hidden feature.

9009L3 1|\| |-|4><0r3r> - Can you depict this? The title is written in hacker's tongue often called Leetspeak or Leetzorz. Leet (l33t,1337) is mainly used over the internet, which replaces most English characters by numerals or symbols. This language phenomenon is used by hackers primarily to distinguish themselves from noobs and also to encrypt their tricks. But nowadays it's used for uniqueness over social networks.

The leet speak and their English translations are as follows:

• normal search - n0rM4L s34rCh
• Images - Im4635
• Groups - 6r00pZ
• directory - d1r3c70rY
• Google search - Google s3|2ch
• I am feeling lucky - EyE Am ph33|1n6 |u(ky
• Advanced search - 4DV4NC3D 534RC|-|
• Preferences -PR3F3REN(3Z
• Language tools - L4|\|9U493 700L$
• Its written hackor (H4x0r) below google logo.
  

Interestingly, there are other leet mirrors of google at:

• http://600673.com/
• http://g00g13.com/
• http://www.google.com/intl/xx-hacker/
  

Note :
1) You can convert normal text to leet speak or reverse from here.
2) Your Google home page depends on the country you live and may not be same as shown in this post.
3)You can get more official information from here.

I found out this funny list to annoy telemarketers. I wonder what if someone actually uses them :

1. After the telemarketer finishes speaking, ask him/her to marry you.
2. Tell the telemarketer you are busy at the moment, and ask him/her if he/she will give you his/her home phone number so you can call him/her back.
3. Ask them to repeat everything they say, several times.
4. Tell them it is dinner time, BUT ask if they would please hold. Put them on your speaker phone while you continue to eat at your leisure. Smack your food loudly and continue with your dinner conversation.
5. Tell them that all business goes through your agent, and hand the phone to your five year old child.
6.Tell them you are hard of hearing and that they need to speak up...louder. ..louder. ..louder!
7. Tell them to speak very slowly because you want to write every word down.
8. If they start out with, "How are you today?", say "I'm so glad you asked, because no one these days seems to care, and I have all these problems.... ........"
9. Cry out in surprise, "Helen, is that you? I've been hoping you'd call! How is the family?" When they insist they are not Helen, tell them to stop joking. This works especially well if the telemarketer is really MALE.
10. Tell the HSBC call center guy to call on your office number. - and give him the ICICI call center number.

Microsoft has been working on a new product known as “StartKey” — that will allow users to carry their Windows and Windows settings with them. StartKey isn’t just for USB sticks; it also will work on other flash-storage devices, like SD memory cards.

StartKey has its roots in an agreement Microsoft made with SanDisk in May 2007. Microsoft announced it would be providing software to replace the U3 Smart Technology that was included on SanDisk flash devices.

Microsoft's plan is to provide a complete suite of tools for consumers and developers to help push the portable computing paradigm into the mainstream. In addition to USB flash drives, StartKey technology could work on other flash memory types like SD cards, or any other new storage format of the week. An SDK will be provided to developers so they can enable their own applications to plug into the platform and go portable.

A Microsoft research presentation from a couple years ago titled Your Desktop on Your Keychain offers a glimpse into Microsoft's ideas behind StartKey. Advantages such as saving and resuming from standby are touted, and the technology behind an early VirtualPC-over-network concept is explained. Pitfalls are also mentioned, such as the loss of the network while using StartKey and the obvious security concerns of placing both sensitive data and other settings on something as steal-able as a flash drive.