Lots
of hidden application or programs exist in your Windows XP operating system.
These hidden applications are really very useful and can saves much time when
you really know these applications utility or application. I really amazed by
these application. Microsoft never tell you these applications / programs
description. All these hidden programs are really powerful for similar activities
like registry editing, group policy editing, communicating with others etc.
This page presents lots of hidden secret programs / application and you will be
glad knowing these hidden applications activities.
In the following paragraphs, you will find 20+ hidden secret applications or
programs of Microsoft Windows XP operating system:
Private Character Editor: Hidden Font Editor
Private Character Editor is used to create unique letters and logos for your
font library according to your own choice. This program is totally for designing
icons and Characters.
Instructions for Private Character Editor: Click
on Start menuand click select Run In the "Run" window, type EUDCEDIT and hit Enter key of your keyboard..
IExpress: Hidden Install Creator IExpress
program is for converting your files to EXECUTABLE files. This technology is
designed to simplify creation of a setup program. Using the step-by-step
IExpress Wizard, you can create self-extracting files that automatically run
the setup program contained inside. The setup program can be an .inf file or an
executable program. IExpress technology automatically removes the setup files after
installation, saving the user time and frustration.
Instructions for IExpress:
1. Click on Start menu and click select Run
2. In the "Run" window, type iexpress
and hit Enter key of your keyboard
Disk Cleanup: Cleaning Harddisk ,This
program is used for cleaning harddisk to offer more space to your hard-disk.
Instructions for Disk Cleanup:
1. Click on Start menu and click select Run
2. In the "Run" window, type cleanmgr and hit Enter key of your
keyboard
MS-DOS Editor: Hidden Text Editor Windows XP
comes with another text editor besides Notepad - it's called the MS-DOS Editor
is another text editor like Notepad and it's commonly referred to simply as
Edit. You can use it as like Notepad. Moreover, it offers many more features
such as the ability to work with multiple text files and change the background
and text colors.
Instructions for MS-DOS Editor:
1)Click on Start menu and click select Run .
2) In the "Run" window, type
edit and hit Enter key of your keyboard.
Netmeeting: Hidden Internet Conference
Application NetMeeting of Windows XP can deliver a complete Internet
conferencing solution for all Windows users with multi-point data conferencing,
text chat, whiteboard, and file transfer, as well as point-to-point audio and video.
Instructions for Netmeeting:
1. Click on Start menu and click select Run
2. In the "Run" window, type
conf and hit Enter key of your keyboard
Windows Chat: Hidden Windows ChatProgram Windows
Chat can be used to communicate with someone on another computer. But both computers
must be connected to the same network (for example, a local area network [LAN]
or the Internet) and each computer must be running a similar protocol, such as
TCP/IP. So, you can communicate with others easily.
Instructions for Windows Chat:
1. Click on Start menu and click select Run
2. In the "Run" window, type winchat
and hit Enter key of your keyboard
Windows Media Player 5.1: Hidden Windows
Media Player Do you know that there is is windows media player 5.1 in your
windows XP. You can use it to listen music.
Instructions for Windows Windows Media Player 5.1:
1. Click on Start menu and click select Run
2. In the "Run" window, type mplay32
and hit Enter key of your keyboard
Windows Media Player 6.4 : Hidden Windows
Media Player This is another secret of Windows XP. Here you can find Windows
Media Player 6.4 (classic) to play your media files.
Instructions for Windows Media Player 6.4:
1. Click on Start menu and click
select Run
2. In the "Run" window, type
mplayer2 and hit Enter key of your keyboard
Note:
Windows Media Player 6.4 (Classic) is
installed along with Windows Media Player 7. The only update is that it now
supports the latest codecs.
Dr Watson:Troubleshooting tool This program
Is for repairing problems in Windows
Instructions for Dr Watson:
1. Click on Start menu and click select Run
2. In the "Run" window, type drwtsn32
and hit Enter key of your keyboard
Clipboard Viewer: Windows ClipboardViewing This
program is for viewing contents of Windows clipboard
Instructions for Clipboard Viewer:
1. Click on Start menu and click select Run
2. In the "Run" window, type
clipbrd and hit Enter key of your keyboard
DirectX diagnosis: Diagnose DirectX, video
and sound This program is for viewing contents of Windows clipboard
Instructions for DirectX diagnosis:
1.Click on Start menu and click select Run
2. In the "Run" window, type
dxdiag and hit Enter key of your keyboard
Character Map: Find unusual characters This
program is used for finding unusual characters.
Instructions for Character Map:
1. Click on Start menu and click select Run
2. In the "Run" window, type charmap
and hit Enter key of your keyboard
Mcft Synchronization Manager: File
synchronization on the network This program is very helpful which allows synchronization
of files on the network for when working offline. But this program is
apparently undocumented.
Instructions for Mcft Synchronization Manager:
1.Click on Start menu and click select Run
2.In the "Run" window, type mobsync
and hit Enter key of your keyboard
ODBC Data Source Administrator : If you like
to do with databases, you can use this hidden program of Windows XP.
Instructions for ODBC Data Source Administrator:
1. Click on Start menu and
click select Run
2. In the "Run"
window, type odbcad32 and hit Enter key of your keyboard
Object Packager:-- With this secret Windows
XP program, you can do with packaging objects for insertion in files, appears
to have comprehensive help files
Instructions for Object Packager:
1.Click on Start menu and click select Run
2.In the "Run" window, type
packager and hit Enter key of your keyboard.
Group Policy Editor:--- This program is used
to manage group policies, and permissions
Instructions for Group Policy Editor:
1. Click on Start menu and click select Run
2. In the "Run" window, type gpedit.msc
and hit Enter key of your keyboard
System configuration:--------- This program
is used to control starup programs.
Instructions for System configuration:
1.Click on Start menu and click select Run
2.In the "Run" window, type
msconfig and hit Enter key of your keyboard.
Driver Verifier Manager:---- It seems to be
a utility for monitoring the actions of drivers, might be useful for people
having driver problems. Undocumented.
Instructions for Driver Verifier Manager :
1.Click on Start menu and click select Run
2.In the "Run" window, type
verifier and hit Enter key of your keyboard.
Microsoft Telnet Client:------ This program
is used to remotely access to any device.
Instructions for Microsoft Telnet Client:
1.Click on Start menu and click select Run
2.In the "Run" window, type telnet
and hit Enter key of your keyboard.
System Monitor:---- System Monitor is very
useful, highly configurable tool, tells you everything you ever wanted to know
about any aspect of PC performance
Instructions for System Monitor:
1.Click on Start menu and click select Run
2.In the "Run" window, type
perfmon and hit Enter key of your keyboard.
Program Manager:----- Program Manager is a
program that can be used as Legacy Windows 3.x desktop shell.
Instructions for Program Manager:
1.Click on Start menu and click select Run
2.In the "Run" window, type
progman and hit Enter key of your keyboard.
Syskey : Secures XP Account database Syskey
secures XP account database. Use Syskey with care, it's virtually undocumented
but it appears to encrypt all passwords
Instructions for Syskey:
1.Click on Start menu and click select Run
2.In the "Run" window, type syskey
and hit Enter key of your keyboard.
System Configuration Editor:------ System
Configuration Editor can be used to modify System.ini & Win.ini just like
in Win98!
Instructions for System Configuration Editor:
1.Click on Start menu and click select Run
2.In the "Run" window, type
sysedit and hit Enter key of your keyboard.
Remote Access phone book:--- This program's
documentation is virtually non-existant.
Instructions for Remote Access phone book :
1.Click on Start menu and click select Run
2.In the "Run" window, type
rasphone and hit Enter key of your keyboard.
Registry Editor:------- Registry Eidtor is
used for hacking the Windows Registry.
Instructions for Registry Editor:
1.Click on Start menu and click select Run
2.In the "Run" window, type
regedt32 orregedit and hit Enter key of your keyboard.
Network shared folder wizard:----it
is
used to create shared folders on network.
Instructions for Network shared folder wizard:
1.Click on Start menu and click select Run
2.In the "Run" window, type
shrpubw and hit Enter key of your keyboard.
File siganture verification tool:--- It's a
simple file siganture verification
tool.
Instructions for File siganture verification tool:
1.Click on Start menu and click select Run
2.In the "Run" window, type
sigverif and hit Enter key of your keyboard.
Volume Control:---- This program is helpful
for those people that lose it from the System Notification area.
Instructions for Volume Control:----
1.Click on Start menu and click select Run
2.In the "Run" window, type
sndvol32 and hit Enter key of your keyboard.
