Change is the only constant in the world of technology, and Microsoft’s Windows operating system is no exception. Over its decades-long history, Windows has seen bold reinventions, sweeping UI redesigns, and subtle quality-of-life improvements. Yet, with the arrival of Windows 11, the narrative...
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Windows has always exerted a peculiar fascination on tinkerers, hackers, and renegade software modders around the world—a sort of blank canvas upon which countless visions have been painted, both brilliant and bewildering. From early experiments in reskinning Windows 98 to the wild, legally gray...
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Windows 10 users who recently hit “Update” might be noticing a new trick in Microsoft’s playbook—but alas, it’s not a nifty productivity booster or a long-lost Clippy revival. Instead, with the release of update KB5055518, Microsoft has quietly managed to hobble one of the Start menu’s most...
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i found a way to edit the bootres.dll
AKA the Windows 7 boot flag
BUT
modifing the bootres creates a [data-1] partition in the dll
this contains info saying that the certificate is NOT VALID anymore
i hex edited out this data contained in the partition
but the partition remains there...
I want to know how to change my registry in order to do the following:
#1 Force all actions that would create/use/edit/modify/(any other verb) any file in the libraries folder to instead preform that action in the My Documents folder instead.
#2 Git rid of the Libraries icon.
In...
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