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| 26). CREATING A FOLDER WITH CON, NULL, LPT1, LPT2 ETC * |
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| STEP1: goto command prompt STEP2: type in prompt mkdir \\.\d:\con OR md \\.\\d:con STEP3: verify by typing dir \\.\d:\con STEP4: delete the folder rmdir \\.\d:\con |
| 27). CREATING SHUTDOWN - REBOOT ICON ** |
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| WindowsXP has a program called SHUTDOWN.EXE which allows you to easily create icons to shutdown or restart your computer. To create a shutdown shortcut on the desktop: 1. Right click on an open area of the desktop 2. Select New / Shortcut 3. Enter in "shutdown -s -t 00" - (no quotes) 4. Press the Next button 5. For the name, enter in anything you like. I just use shutdown. Click the Finish button. 6. For a reboot, enter "shutdown -r -t 00" Shutdown [{-l|-s|-r|-a}] [-f] [-m [\ComputerName]] [-t xx] [-c "message"] [-d[u][p] x:yy] Parameters: 1. -l - Logs off the current user, this is also the defualt. -m ComputerName takes precedence. 2. -s - Shuts down the local computer. 3. -r - Reboots after shutdown. 4. -a - Aborts shutdown. Ignores other parameters, except -l and ComputerName. You can only use -a during the time-out period. 5. -f - Forces running applications to close. 6. -m [\ComputerName] - Specifies the computer that you want to shut down. 7. -t xx - Sets the timer for system shutdown in xx seconds. The default is 20 seconds. 8. -c "message" - Specifies a message to be displayed in the Message area of the System Shutdown window. You can use a maximum of 127 characters. You must enclose the message in quotation marks. |
| 28). DELETE THE FILES BEING USED BY ANY PROGRAM EVEN WINDOWS AND VIRUS ***** |
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| If you've ever been unable to delete a file in Windows, and can't figure out what program's using it, Unlocker is the solution. Have you ever seen these Windows error messages? * Cannot delete folder: It is being used by another person or program * Cannot delete file: Access is denied * There has been a sharing violation. * The source or destination file may be in use. * The file is in use by another program or user. * Make sure the disk is not full or write-protected and that the file is not currently in use. Unlocker can help! Simply right-click the folder or file and select Unlocker. If the folder or file is locked, a window listing of lockers will appear. Simply click Unlock All and you are done! |
| 29). DIFFERENT WAY TO SHUTDOWN YOU PC * |
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| There are so many different ways to turn off your Windows XP computer, let’s look at some of them: 1. The standard approach – click the Start Button with your mouse, then select the Turn Off menu and finally click the Turn Off icon on the Turn Off computer dialog. blink.gif 2. Press Ctrl+Esc key or the Win key and press u two times – the fastest approach. 3. Get the Shutdown utility from Download.com – it add the shut down shortcuts for you. Else create them yourself using approach 4. 4. Create a shutdown shortcut on your desktop. Right click on the desktop, choose New Shortcut and type shutdown -s -t 00 in the area where you are asked to specify the location of the program file. Now you can just double click this icon to turn off the computer. The best location would be your quick launch bar. 5. Press the Win key + R key to open the run window. Type shutdown -s -t 00. [s means shutdown while t means the duration after which you want to initiate the shutdown process]. If some open processes or application won’t let you turn off, append a -f switch to force a shut down by closing all active processes. 6. Win+M to minimize all windows and then Alt+F4 to bring the Turn Off computer dialog. 7. Open Windows Task manager (by right clicking the Windows Task bar or Alt+Ctrl+Del) and choose Shut down from the menu. Useful when the Windows are not responding. 8. open task manager—>click on shutdown—>hold the ctrl key and click on Turn off::::::: pc will be turned off in 3 secs.. fastest method other than hard shutdown 9.Press win logo key n den press 'u' 2 time.. ur system vil turn off in few secs.. i think its d easiest n fastest way to turn off.. 10.Press window+m you can just hold alt and push f4 until everything open closes and then the box opens |
| 30). ENABLE HIDEN BUILT IN ADMINISTRATOR ACCOUNT ** |
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| Select cmd prompt run as Administrator 2. Type: 'net user administrator /active:yes', press enter 3. To disable type: 'net user administrator /active:no' |
| 31). CLEAN YOUR RAM BY NOTEPAD |
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| Clean Your RAM & Make Your Comp Speed Better Clean Ur RAM U may recognize that ur system gets slower and slower when playing and working a lot with ur pc. :angry: That's cause ur RAM is full of remaining progress pieces u do not need any more. So create a new text file on ur desktop and call it "RAMcleaner" Type FreeMem=Space(64000000) in this file and save it as RAMcleaner.vbs [ You may choose the "All Files" option when u save it ] Run the file and ur RAM may be cleaned Of course u can edit the code in the file for a greater "cleaning-progress". For example: FreeMem=Space(1280000000) |
| 32). CONTROL PANEL ON YOUR DESKTOP |
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| On The Desktop, Right Click Your Mouse Then Choose "New Folder". Name The Folder As ControlPanel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D} |
| 33). CONNECTIN TWO COMPUTERS USING USB |
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| USB, also known as Universal Serial Bus, is one of the most useful computer-related technologies ever developed. USB is used to connect printers, keyboards, digital cameras and even MP3 players to your computer. But you can also connect two computers using USB...Want to know how.. Then Here it is..... Quote: Step 1>Turn on both of the computers. Log in to Windows using an account with administrator privileges. Step 2>Insert one end of the USB bridge cable into a USB slot on one computer, and the other end of the bridge into the second computer. Step 3>Install the driver software for the USB bridge cable when the computers prompt you to do so. If you do not have driver software for the USB bridge cable, you may be able to download it from the cable manufacturer. Step 4>Choose to install the USB bridge cable either as a link adapter or a network adapter. If you install it as a link adapter, you will only be able to transfer files back and forth. If you install it as a network adapter, you will have full network functionality. Step 5>Complete the software installation. Your two computers should now be connected. |
| 34). DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ? http:// & https:// ***** |
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| http:// & https:// Very important... ........must know The main difference between http:// and https:// is It's all about keeping you secure HTTP stands for HyperText Transport Protocol, which is just a fancy way of saying it's a protocol (a language, in a manner of speaking) for information to be passed back and forth between web servers and clients. The important thing is the letter S which makes the difference between HTTP and HTTPS. The S (big surprise) stands for "Secure". If you visit a website or webpage, and look at the address in the web browser, it will likely begin with the following: http://. This means that the website is talking to your browser using the regular 'unsecure' language. In other words, it is possible for someone to "eavesdrop" on your computer's conversation with the website. If you fill out a form on the website, someone might see the information you send to that site. This is why you never ever ever enter your credit card number in an http website! But if the web address begins with https://, that basically means your computer is talking to the website in a secure code that no one can eavesdrop on. You understand why this is so important, right? If a website ever asks you to enter your credit card information, you should automatically look to see if the web address begins with https://. If it doesn't, there's no way you're going to enter sensitive information like a credit card number! http VS https |
| 35). HACKING BIOS & CMOS PASSWORDS *** |
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| BIOS Passwords are the basic settings on your computer, such as how many and what kind of disk drives you have, which ones are enabled and which are disabled and which ones are used for booting. These settings are held in the CMOS chip on the mother board. A tiny battery keeps this chip always running so that whenever you turn your computer off, it still remembers its instructions. A common method of entering the BIOS is pressing the Del key at boot up. Other common methods are pressing the keys Ctrl + Alt + Esc or only Ctrl + Esc. Most computers have BIOS which can be configured to ask for a password as soon as the computer is switched on. If the ask password option is enabled, then as soon as the PC is switched on, a dialog box welcomes you and asks for the password. You cannot override this and there is no way of disabling this because to enter the BIOS you need to know the BIOS password. So, what do you do? Disable it by hacking into the BIOS Setup. But there is a catch. To disable the BIOS password, you need to enter the BIOS. But as soon as you enter the BIOS, the BIOS ask for a password. The method of overriding this password prompt is by some serious hacking. Try to reset the BIOS to its default settings so that it asks for no password at all. Do the following: First, you have to open the computer and then look for a round lithium battery; it probably looks like a silver coin. So, remove the battery and after 30 seconds or so put it back. Some computers my also require you to reset the jumper, so look for a 3-pin jumper and reset it. For example, on most machines you will find a three-pin device with pins one and two jumpers. If you move the jumper to pins two and three and leave it there for over five seconds, it will reset the CMOS. When you boot the machine, some BIOS may give an error saying that the BIOS was reset or tampered with, but that is not such a big problem The BIOS can also be used to over-clock the speed of your computer. Messing with the CMOS chip and the jumper is more dangerous than editing the system files. So, do everything with utmost caution. Clearing the CMOS without opening your PC If you can bring the DOS prompt, you will be able to change the BIOS setting to the default. In DOS there is the debug command which allows us to do. To clear the CMOS do the following: Go to DOS and type: DEBUG (Hit Enter) -0 70 2e (Hit Enter) -0 71 f f (Hit Enter) -q (Hit Enter) exit (Hit Enter) Restart the computer It works on most versions of AWARD BIOS. |
| 36). KNOW WHO USED YOUR PC IN YOUR ABSENCE * |
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| first you should go "start > run >eventvwr.msc" Events are stored in three log files: Application, Security, and System. These logs can be reviewed and archived. For our purposes we want the System log. Click on "System" in the left-hand column for a list of events. Look for a date and time when you weren't home and your computer should have been off. double click on the eg: info n it will show u the detail. You can also use this log to see how long someone was on the computer. Just look at the time the computer was turned on and off for that day. |
| 37). LOCK YOUR COMPUTER ON MOUSE CLICK * |
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| Instead of pressing CTRL+ALT+DEL or windows + L to lock your machine you can create an icon to lock your machine. There are very simple steps by using it you can simply lock your computer using single mouse click. Just Follow the simple step >> 1. Right click an empty spot on the desktop, point to New and click Shortcut. 2. In the Create Shortcut dialog box, type the following in the 'Type the location' of the item text box: rundll32 user32.dll,LockWorkStatio n 3. Click Next 4. In "Type a name for this shortcut", type "" (any name as u wish) and Click Finish 5. This will Create a shortcut in your Desktop. 6.Now each time when you want to lock the computer , Just click on this shortcut. |
| 38). MAKE A DRIVE TO HIDE ** |
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| Here is a cool technique which hides entire hard disk drives by a simple procedure. This is the best security tip to be employ against unauthorised users. 1) Go to Start > Run > type "diskpart". A DOS window will appear with following description. DISKPART> 2) Then type "list volume" The result will look something like one as shown below- 3) Suppose you want to hide drive E then type "select volume 3" Then a message will appear in same window { Volume 3 is the selected volume} 4) Now type "remove letter E" Now a message will come { Diskpart Removed the Drive letter } sometime it requires to reboot the computer. Diskpart will remove the letter. Windows XP is not having capabilty to identify the unknown volume. Your Data is now safe from unauthorised users. To access the content of hidden Drive repeat the process mentioned above. But in 4th step replace " remove" by "assign". It means type "assign letter E". |
| 39). MAKE YOUR WINDOWS XP TALK AS YOU TYPE |
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| Open a text file in notepad and write: copy from here:- Dim msg, sapi msg=InputBox("Enter your text","Talk it") Set sapi=CreateObject("sapi.s pvoice") sapi.Speak msg Save the file with a (*.vbs) extension, it will create a VBScript File. Then after clicking the .vbs file, it will prompt you for a text, input the text and press ok. |
| 40). MERGING TWO DRIVE PARTITIONS, AS ONE ** |
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| If you have a partitioned hard drive and you are running out of space on one of them, you can choose to merge it with another partition. You must however note that the other partition should be completely empty to avoid some files bearing the same name to be overwritten. Merge two partitions with Windows Vista 1. Go to the Start menu and open “Control Panel” 2. Select the “System and Maintenance” option if you are using the Control Panel Home View and “Administrative Tools” if you are using the “Classic View” 3. In the “Administrative Tools” section, select “Create and format disk partitions”. 4. For “Classic View” users, select the “Computer Management” option and select “Storage”. When done, click “Disk Management” 5. When the list of your drive is displayed, choose the one with which you want to merge your partitioned drive with (e.g. disk “D” and select “Delete Volume”. 6. Hence, select your drive C: and the option “Extend Volume”. You computer will automatically select empty available spaces on your hard disk, and you can alter them if you wish to do so. Merge two partitions with a particular software You can use particular softwares that can easily handle this task for you. |
| 41). MERGING VIDEO FILES USING WITH SIMPLE DOS COMMAND * |
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| Click start > run type cmd and press enter. this will open the command prompt. In the command prompt, type copy /b "D:\video1.flv" + "D:\video2.flv" "D:\FullMovie.flv" where the video1.flv and video2.flv are the video files to join and fullmove.flv is the resultant combined file. You can specify any number of files to join. Also notice I have typed the entire file path in the above command. Press enter and the files will be joined. |
| 42). OPERATE MOUSE POINT WITH KEYBOARD *** |
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| If your mouse is not working, this tip will be useful. go to start>run>type access.rpl, this opens accessibility optation window and go to the mouse tab > and choose the use mouse keys optation click apply or ok now we operate the mouse point with right side numerical key 4 8 6 2 5 7 9 on your keyboard |
| 43). PUT YOUR PHOTO AS PENDRIVE BACKGROUND ****** |
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| Step :1 Copy this code into notepad (copy and paste), then save it as "desktop.ini" Code: [.ShellClassInfo] IconFile=%SystemRoot%\sys tem32\SHELL32.dll IconIndex=127 ConfirmFileOp=0 [{BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}] Attributes=1 IconArea_Image="your_pict ure.jpg" IconArea_Text="0xFFFFFF" VeBRA sources - don't delete the tag above, it's there for XXXXX purposes - [ExtShellFolderViews] {BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}={BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC} {5984FFE0-28D4-11CF-AE66-08002B2E1262}={5984FFE0-28D4-11CF-AE66-08002B2E1262} [{5984FFE0-28D4-11CF-AE66-08002B2E1262}] PersistMoniker=Folder.htt PersistMonikerPreview=%We bDir%\folder.bmp 2. Put "desktop.ini" file onto your flash drive and replace "your_picture" with the name of the picture you want to use leaving the .jpg extention the same. 3. Now copy the picture that you want to use onto your flash drive. 4. Refresh (F5) ..and enjoy with new background... Note place the picture and desktop.ini file at same place in pen drive |
| 44). Hide ur folder with command prompt *** |
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| 1.start "run" 2.type "cmd" hit enter 3.after cd.. type ur path with "attrib" command like to hide c:\> attrib +s +h [folder name] to show c:\> attrib -s -h [folder name] you done!!! ;s |
| 45). HIDE YOUR HARD DRIVES IN XP THROW CONTROL PANEL *** |
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| 1. Go to Contro Panel 2. open Administrative tools 3. Open Computer Management 4 Then Select Storage > Disk Management 5. In the right window it'll show u all the drives in u r HDD 6. Right click drive u want to hide & choose "Change Drive Letter and Paths.. " from the list 7. A new window will open showing u current drive letter.. 8. Simply click "Remove" button & click "Yes" in d confirmatin message. Thats all!! To make visible any hidden drive... : follow steps 1 - 7 8. Simply click "Add" button & select d letter u want for drive! |
| 46). HOW TO BLOCK WEBSITE WITHOUT SOFTWARE ** |
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| 1) Browse C:\WINDOWS\system32\drive rs\etc 2) Find the file named "HOSTS" 3) Right click on it and click properties 4) Remove the check mark from "read Only" 5) Save it, and open it as notepad. 6) Add "127.0.0.1 www.xyz.com" 7) Save the file. 8) Right click on the HOSTS file again and put a check mark on the read only. |
| 47). How to change administrator password in xp even if u r logged as guest * |
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| 1. go to start and click run 2. type cmd 3. a black and white screen will pop up(similar to DOS) 4. type net users (u gonna see users accounts) 5. choose a username u wanna change password of 6. then type net users username * and click enter 7. it gonna ask u for password 8. type a password and confirm it |
| 48). How to Create an Invisible Folder *** |
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| 1.Right click where ever you want the invisible folder to be and select create a new folder. 2 Right Click on the folder and hit rename. Erase the name of the folder so there is nothing there. 3. If you try to stop here windows will tell you that you need to provide a name. So to get around this… with the name field still active hold down ALT and press 0160 on the number pad (make sure Num Lock is on), release alt You should now have a blank name with nothing but a folder next to it 4. Now click on the nameless folder and right click. Select Properties. 5. Go to the Customize tab. 6. Find and press the Change Icon button. Scroll through the icons until you find one that has no image. 7. Hit OK and you have an invisible folder! |
| 49). How To Make Invisible Folders 100% Working Trick **** |
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| First create a new folder somewhere on your hard drive when you name it hold down "Alt" and press "0160" this will create an invisible space so it will apper as if it has no name.Then right click and select "Properties". Select the tab "coustimize" and select "change icon". Scroll along and you should see a few blank spaces. Click on any one and click ok. works only with numpad keys.so wont work on laptops. |
| 50). Hide Your Files In A Picture *** |
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| Steps: 1. Save the picture of choice to your desktop. 2. Make a new .rar or .zip folder on your desktop. 3. Add the files you want to hide into the .zip or .rar 4. Click start menu, run, cmd. 5. In Command Prompt type cd "desktop" with the quotation marks. 6. Now type in copy /b picturename.jpg + foldername.rar outputfilename.jpg ( If you use .zip then: copy /b picturename.jpg + foldername.zip outputfilename.jpg) 7. Now there should be the outputed file name with a .jpg extension on the desktop. ( Do not close Command Prompt just yet ) 8. Double click it to open the picture and check it out. 9. When your done looking, and want to view the hidden files Type: ren outputfilename.jpg outputfilename.rar or zip Now you're done! A quick info-fact: With this technique of hiding files in a jpg you can send this to anyone and they just have to rename the file extension to .zip or .rar. With this technique the Al-Qaeda operatives were able to send info to others secretively. |
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