How to remove the Fake Windows Activation screen

This seems to be going around a lot more these days then a Fake Anti-virus program, Due to the Authenticity of the look and how convincing it really  looks.

Just a reminder

1. Microsoft will not ask for your Credit Card Ever while installing windows Any version.
2. Once you have activated your Windows You will never be asked to do it again.
3. Never Put you Credit card number or personal Information into a Window  from a pop up unless you have requested it and or have a direct Phone Number to call or contact someone.
4. The Windows Fake Activation Looks pretty real, And it's a Trojan, Ransom malware.

Notice The highlighted area, They Will charge you.

To make sure this is a fake 
1. It will ask you for a Credit card period !
Microsoft will not do this on the actual Activation, They give you a choice of calling them over the phone or going to their website.

Now how to remove it.

1.Reboot your computer into Safe Mode with Networking. To do this, turn your computer off and then back on and immediately when you see anything on the screen, start tapping the F8 key on your keyboard. Eventually you will be brought to a menu similar to the one below:

2. Using the arrow keys on your keyboard, select Safe Mode with Networking and press Enter on your keyboard. See Video on how to get into Safe Mode if you need more Help Click  HERE

3. By selecting with networking This should let you get on the Internet, So now you will need to Download Malwarebytes  Click HERE 

4. Once downloaded, close all programs and Windows on your computer.

5. Double-click on the icon on your desktop named mbam-setup.exe. This will start the installation of MBAM onto your computer.

6. Once the Install is Finished Malwarebytes will open automatically.
(make sure you have clicked on update when doing install if not you can update it NOW)

7. Once open you will see the options, Do a Full system Scan.

Note: This can take 5 min, or two hours Depending on how bad your system is infected and how fast it is.

8. When Malwarebytes has finished the scan you will get a pop up window telling you that it is complete. Click OK

9. Now you should see the results from the scan, As seen below

10. Click on Remove selected.

11. It will open a scan log in NotePad, You can save this log or Just close it all together.

12. Once Notepad is closed scan is finished you can close Malwarebytes and Reboot your Computer in Normal Mode.

13. Now back in to Normal mode and if things seem to be running fine, Open Malwarebytes again and do a Quick scan. Should take 5-10 min. if nothing is found you should be ok and no need for another reboot.

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Seed up Internet Explorer 7 and below, Plus IE8.

Internet Explorer 7 and below are limited to two connections per server. This is why you can only download a maximum of two files from one website. Internet Explorer 8 raises this limit to 6.



Here is how to increase the number of HTTP simultaneous connections to 10. By having 10 connections, IE will be able to download 10 different files at one time. This will make web pages load faster.
If you are using Internet Explorer 7 and below


Go to Start > Run

Enter "regedit" and hit ENTER

On the left, navigate to the following HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings folder by:

Click HKEY_CURRENT_USER, then

Software, then

Microsoft, then

Windows, then

CurrentVersion, then

Internet Settings

Internet Settings should be selected on the left column

Go to Edit > New > DWORD Value

A box should appear. Put the name as "MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server", without double quotes. Press Enter.

Double click the entry you just created, select Base as "Decimal" and type 10 under Value data

Go to Edit > New > DWORD Value

A box should appear. Put the name as "MaxConnectionsPerServer", without double quotes. Press Enter.

Double click the entry you just created, select Base as "Decimal" and type 10 under Value data

Close Registry Editor

Restart your system

If you are using Internet Explorer 8



Go to Start > Run

Enter "regedit" and hit ENTER

On the left, navigate to the following HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\MAIN\FeatureControl\FEATURE_MAXCONNECTIONSPERSERVER folder by:

Click HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, then

SOFTWARE, then

Microsoft, then

Internet Explorer, then

MAIN, then

FeatureControl, then

FEATURE_MAXCONNECTIONSPERSERVER

FEATURE_MAXCONNECTIONSPERSERVER should be selected on the left column

Go to Edit > New > DWORD Value

A box should appear. Put the name as "iexplore.exe", without double quotes. Press Enter.

Double click the entry you just created, select Base as "Decimal" and type 10 under Value data

On the left, click on FEATURE_MAXCONNECTIONSPER1_0SERVER, which is just near to the one already selected

Go to Edit > New > DWORD Value

A box should appear. Put the name as "iexplore.exe", without double quotes. Press Enter.

Double click the entry you just created, select Base as "Decimal" and type 10 under Value data

Close Registry Editor

Restart your system and the changes should take effect

Disconnect unused network connections

Do you have alot of these on your Computer ?

Well you can shut these off as well if you do not use them.

Click Start, and then click My Computer.

On the Tools menu, click Disconnect Network Drive.

select the network drives that you no longer need, and then click OK

By Shutting these off this will speed up your system Due to when your Computer starts up it has to Connect to each one and load the drivers for each of these an in doing so it slows you PC down.

Defragment your hard disk drive

This Speeds your PC up after weeks or months of use Installing and or removing programs,

When The programs gets installed if places it all over the Hard Drive finding the first Empty place on it.

Sometimes, a newspaper article skips from the front page to somewhere in the middle of the paper. You have to stop reading the article and flip through the paper to find the page on which it continues. You could read the article much faster if it were printed on a single page.

Files on your computer can either be fragmented, like newspaper articles, or unfragmented, like a book. Over time, more and more files become fragmented. When a file is fragmented, it takes longer for the computer to read it because it has to skip to different sections of the hard disk drive—just like it takes you a few seconds to find a page in the middle of a newspaper.

 

So reading From a Fragmented file it would be going from page 1 to page 3 to page 2 and so on.

 
 

 
Reading from a Unfragmented File it goes in Assending order 1,2,3

 

To Defrag your Computer You can Go to Start>My Computer

Right Click then to Properties.

Click on the Tools Tab and in the Middle there should be  a DeFrag Button left Click it, and it will open a new windows and you can select the Hard Drive you want to Defrag if you have more then one.

Note: always Run Analyze Before Defrag.

Also See System Short Cuts  can use these Short cuts to find Internal programs that are hard to find.

Tired of chasing your mouse? Use keyboard shortcuts

Tired of chasing your mouse? Use keyboard shortcuts
You can use your keyboard instead of your mouse to do these three tasks:


• Start a program

• Navigate menus

• Minimize, maximize, and close windows


Start a program using a keyboard shortcut


The Start menu is great for finding programs, but its multiple levels of folders can be time consuming to navigate. If there is a program you start frequently, you should set a keyboard shortcut for it so that you can start the program without taking your hands off the keyboard.

To set a keyboard shortcut to start a program

1.Click the Start menu, and then click All Programs. Right-click the program that you want to start with a keyboard shortcut, and then click Properties.

2.Click in the Shortcut key box. Now press the letter on your keyboard that you want to use to start the program. Make it easy to remember—for example, press I for Microsoft Internet Explorer.

Note: You can use either uppercase or lowercase letters when creating your keyboard shortcuts—and when accessing them later. In the Shortcut key box, Microsoft Windows XP automatically adds Ctrl + Alt + before the key you pressed. When you want to start the program, hold down both the CTRL and ALT keys simultaneously, while also pressing the letter you chose. This way, your program won't start every time you type that letter.

3. Click OK.

4.Now test your shortcut. Hold down the CTRL and ALT keys, and then press the letter you chose. If you find it difficult to hold down two keys at once, read Turn on the Sticky Keys feature. Your program should start.

Here Is a fast Cheat Sheet
Control windows using your keyboard


If you like to keep four or five windows open while you work (or play) on your computer, you'll appreciate knowing these keyboard shortcuts. You can quickly switch between your Web browser, e-mail, instant message windows, and other programs without taking your hands off the keyboard.

Action Shortcut

Minimize a window to your taskbar

ALT, SPACEBAR, N

Maximize a window so it takes up your whole desktop

ALT, SPACEBAR, X

Restore a window so it's visible but doesn't take up your whole desktop

ALT, SPACEBAR, R

Close a window

ALT+F4

Switch to the last window you had open

ALT+TAB

Switch to any window

Hold down the ALT key, and press TAB until the window you want is active

Programs often start up in a "restored" state, where the window takes up only part of the screen. To maximize the window so that it takes up the entire screen, press the ALT key, press the SPACEBAR, and then press X. This will feel natural after you do it a few times, and you will feel much more efficient while using your computer.





This also helps if your mouse is wireless and getting weak on power.



1. To activate mouse keys all you do is press Alt+Left shift key (the one below the caps lock key) and the Num Lock key.

To deactivate just press the above combination again.

All you do is use your numeric keypad to move the mouse pointer.



Here are some tips that might improve the Mouse Keys experience:

- You might want to set your options to something like the following (to change the options just double click on the mouse icon in the systray and click on settings)

1) Select ‘Hold down Ctrl to speed up Shift to slow down’ (this might be helpful if you want to go to a point quickly with your cursor)

2) Change the option to ‘off‘ where it says ‘Use Mouse Keys when NumLock is:‘ (this way you can use your numeric keypad to key in numbers)



And here are the functions that you can do with the Numeric Keypad:

5 = a left click on your normal mouse

Press 0 and navigate the pointer= Selecting the text in a normal keyboard

Pressing * or - and then pressing 5 = right click on your normal mouse (to use 5 to perform the left click action press the / key).

To scroll up and down you can either use arrow keys or the Page Up and Page Down keys. You can also use the spacebar to get to the bottom of the page.

System Shortcuts,

There are thousands of programs out their that you can get for free and or pay for, But did you know on you PC there are programs all ready on it.

Windows XP ( Vista and windows 7 Just type it in the Search window on the start button

1. Click Start
2. Click Run
3. Type in cleanmgr.exe
This cleans the Hard Drive the same way as if you were to Go to My computer and right click your C:\ drive and then to properties. Just a faster way of doing it.
To make a shortCut on your Desktop Just

1. Right click the Wall paper ( Empty spot)
2. New ShortCut
3.Copy and Past
4. C:\Windows\System32\cleanmgr.exe

Simple.

Now lets get creative.
If you open the Folder ( Click Start> My Computer" Computer for Vista an 7" Then double Click the drive with your Operating System  ( C:\  normally) then scroll down to Windows then open it then scroll down to System32

C:\Windows\System32
you will see a few Applications, These are some of the applications you can use to make shortcuts, What ever you do , Don't Delete them

On any of them you can Double Click it and it will open the program related to it, If it does not open then it is a Command lind program, Meaning another program Needed to run it it short term

If it does open then if you like what it is you can Right click it and scroll down to Make a shortCut
it will make the shortCut in the same folder then you can drag and drop it to the desktop
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Here is a list of some of the ones that will Run Just copy and past these into the New shortCut
C:\Windows\System32\Netplwiz.exe ( all )

C:\Windows\System32\resmon.exe  (Vista and win 7)

C:\Windows\System32\msconfig.exe (all)

charmap ( shows you all the Characters )

lpksetup

chkdsk ( check the Hard Drive for errors )

calc ( Calculator )

cmd ( Command Line )

UAC ( User Account Control ) Vista win 7

C:\Windows\System32\CompMgmtLauncher.exe  ( Computer Management Launcher )

taskmgr ( Task Manager )

SoundRecorder ( record sound from a mic to your PC )

perfmon ( Performance Monitor ) Vista and 7

psr ( Problem Steps Recorder ) Windows 7 only

osk ( On screen KeyBoard )

Magnify ( Magnifys the Screen )

OptionalFeatures ( Lets you see other options you may have not installed on your PC)

MdSched ( Windows Memory Diagnostics )

Well Enjoy.

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How To Revert Back To XP Or Vista From Windows 7.

If the computer has the Windows.old folder - Reverting Windows 7 back to a previous Windows system:


http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/971760



Windows.old on your C: drive - Usually, but not always, after installing Windows 7 you will have a Windows.old folder on your C: drive that contains data from the previous Windows installation. Open Windows Explorer and under "Computer" click on the C: drive - if the Windows.old folder is there you should be able to revert back to XP/Vista.



If it's not there, make sure you can see the Windows.old folder:

1. Click Start, type: hidden

2. Click "Show hidden files and folders"

3. Click to select "Show hidden files and folders"

4. Uncheck the next three items:

Hide empty drives

Hide extensions from known file types

Hide protected operating system files

5. Click OK and look for the folder

(Note: after you are done go back and recheck "Hide protected operating system files." If you want to change the other settings back do so.)





If there is no Windows.old folder:

If you have a restore partition (check your manual) you can use that, or if you have XP/Vista disks you can use those. If you don't have either and Windows came installed on your computer contact the OEM computer manufacturer and ask them to send you an install disk - they may or may not do it. If they agree to send you one they may charge a small fee.



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STEP 1 – Locate Windows folder

The first step is to open the Windows 7 drive and locate the Windows.old folder in the drive. This is essential to change from Windows 7 to Vista and without it, this process would not be possible. Now you need to ensure that ample free space is available in the Windows 7 drive as all contents of Windows 7 is moved to a folder and the Vista contents from the Windows.old folder is copied.



STEP 2 – Reboot your PC

Now it is time to insert the Windows 7 installation disk in the DVD drive. Once this is done, reboot your PC. When the first screen shows up select your language, time and currency format and keyboard input method and click the ‘Next’ button.



Step 3 – Launching Windows7

Now the Install Windows window appears. Simply click on the ‘Repair your computer’ option to launch System Recovery Options dialog-box. You now need to select your Window 7 OS and click the ‘Next’ button again. Now you click on ‘Command Prompt’ to launch it.



STEP 4 – Move Windows 7 folders

In the next step, you will type the following commands in a serial manner and hit ‘Enter’ after typing each one of them. This action moves all the contents of Windows 7 to a new folder.

C:

Md Win7

Move Windows Win7\Windows

Move “Program Files” “Win7\Program Files”

Move Users Win7\Users

Attrib –h –s –r ProgramData

Move ProgramData Win7\ProgramData

Rd “Documents and Settings”



Step 5 – Copy Windows Vista files

Again the same process is repeated with a different set of commands that are given below and this ensures that the contents from Windows.old folder are copied to the drive.



move /y c:\Windows.old\Windows c:\

move /y “c:\Windows.old\Program Files” c:\

move /y c:\Windows.old\ProgramData c:\

move /y c:\Windows.old\Users c:\

move /y “c:\Windows.old\Documents and Settings” c:\



STEP 6 – Restore the Boot Sector

You have to restore the boot sector of your Vista OS by giving the following command.

D:\boot\bootsect /nt60 c:



Finally type ‘Exit’ to reboot your PC

Services ! Speeding up your PC

There are system services that you can disable to free up the system's load. To access the interface that permits you to make changes to system's services, type services.msc and the command prompt.


This is a list of services that are *usually* useless and can be safely disabled.

Alerter

Application Layer Gateway Service,

Application Management

Automatic Updates

Background Intelligent Transfer

Clipbook

Distributed Link Tracking Client

Distributed Transaction Coordinater

Error Reporting Service

Fast User Switching Compatibility

IMAPI CD-Burning

Indexing Service

IPSEC Services

Messenger

Net Logon

Net Meeting

Remote Desktop Sharing

Network DDE

Network DDE DSDM

Portable Media Serial Number

Remote Desktop Help Session Manager

Remote Registry

Secondary Logon

Smartcard

SSDP Discovery Service

Uninterruptible Power Supply

Universal Plug and Play Device Host

Upload Manager

Webclient

Wireless Zero Configuration (If you have Wirelss Internet LEAVE this on)

WMI Performance Adaptor



Read all of the descriptions on each service to determine if you need it or not, Most things you will not if on

a desktop. Do one at a time and make sure your PC does not start acting funny or things not working properly before ending the Service's session.
 
 

1. Click Start

2. Click RUN

Once you click on Run the Above Box should open, TYPE in the Box

services.msc  then hit ENTER

Then the above Window will open, Then scroll down to the above list to any single one, And double click on it. It will open another small window, With a drop down window for Automatic, Disable, Stop, start, manual.

On most you can put to manual, The ones you know your not going to use you can select Disable or stop.

Remember to read what it is before stopping it.

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Windows 7 and Vista

1. click Start

2. in the seach window type in services.msc

3. Foloow the above directions.