Notepad Tips & Tricks and Pranks, Lock File(s) on Windows Without Using Any Software

How many times have you wished of a software using which you can hide or lock files, restricting its access to other unwanted users. Although there are various software available in market using which you can easily lock/hide files but, i personally dont trust them because most of them are bloatware or spyware.
In this post i am going to share a simple yet powerful way of locking and hiding important files using a the following method. Follow the instructions to make you own Locker ( Without any software !! ) :

• Open notepad.
• Copy the following code in notepad file :

cls
@ECHO OFF
title Folder Locker
if EXIST “Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}” goto UNLOCK
if NOT EXIST Locker goto MDLOCKER
:CONFIRM
echo Are you sure u want to Lock the folder(Y/N)
set/p “cho=>”
if %cho%==Y goto LOCK
if %cho%==y goto LOCK
if %cho%==n goto END
if %cho%==N goto END
echo Invalid choice.
goto CONFIRM
:LOCK
ren Locker “Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}”
attrib +h +s “Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}”
echo Folder locked
goto End
:UNLOCK
echo Enter password to Unlock folder
set/p “pass=>”
if NOT %pass%==YOUR PASSWORD HERE goto FAIL
attrib -h -s “Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}”
ren “Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}” Locker
echo Folder Unlocked successfully
goto End
:FAIL
echo Invalid password
goto end
:MDLOCKER
md Locker
echo Locker created successfully
goto End
:End

• Change the “YOUR PASSWORD HERE” with your password ( Marked as RED above ).
• Save it as batch file ( with extension .bat ) For eg. Locker.bat
• Now you will see a batch file. Double click it to create a folder locker ( A new folder named Locker would be formed at the same location )
• Thats it you have now created your own locker and that too without using any software !
• Brings all the files you want to hide in the locker folder.
• Double click the batch ( As created above ) file to lock the folder namely Locker.

If you want to unlock your files, simple double click the batch file again and you would be prompted for password ( In DOS window ). Enter the password and enjoy access to the folder.

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Internet Download Manager Registration Codes | IDM Registration Codes

Serial Numbers IDM6.12 / IDM6.14 / IDM6.14.1.0 / IDM6.15.6 / IDM6.17.3

Internet Download Manager 6.12

S/N: 7G7QY-NZWKQ-23KRA-RAMQ4

S/N: SPOZ9-2E9IO-AKDRY-LIKEU

Internet Download Manager 6.14

S/N: ZFX1T-5VOMY-ZIT4Y-FHFPD

Internet Download Manager 6.14.1.0

S/N: Y30OZ-DNQH7-FRWPW-YYZMA

Internet Download Manager 6.15.6

S/N: Y5LUM-NFE0Q-GJR2L-5B86I

S/N: 4BTJF-DYNIL-LD8CN-MM8X5

S/N: XAGZU-SJ0FO-BDLTK-B3C3V

Internet Download Manager 6.17.3

S/N: RLDGN-OV9WU-5W589-6VZH1

S/N: HUDWE-UO689-6D27B-YM28M

S/N: UK3DV-E0MNW-MLQYX-GENA1

S/N: 398ND-QNAGY-CMMZU-ZPI39

S/N: GZLJY-X50S3-0S20D-NFRF9

S/N: W3J5U-8U66N-D0B9M-54SLM

S/N: EC0Q6-QN7UH-5S3JB-YZMEK

S/N: UVQW0-X54FE-QW35Q-SNZF5

S/N: FJJTJ-J0FLF-QCVBK-A287M

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PC TV

This article describes the possibilities of PC TV, which simply means to watch tv on the pc. Have you encountered a situation like the following before? Great the next match of my favorite sports team will not be shown on free tv. Actually it will not be shown at all in my country, except for satellite of course. If you encounter situations like this one and always thought there would be no other solution than to watch boring live tickers on internet sites, then you have come to the right place that brings you the solution called PC TV.

I will describe three freeware programs

that let you connect to channels that stream tv and especially live sports events. This includes all major european football (soccer) leagues, champions league, uefa cup, espn, wrestling, national team matches, boxing matches aso.

You also find regular tv stations like mtv and custom stations like gamers tv there.

PC TV

All you need to watch pc tv is a computer with the latest windows media player and / or real player. A broadband connection is desired for best results. All three programs to watch pc tv have been produced in Asia making it hard to read the websites. Those websites offer tv program lists among other information.

First, let us take a look at some options in media player and real player:

Start the media player, make sure you use the latest version. Right-Click and select Options from the menu. Click on Performance and Change the Buffer Size of Content to 30 seconds.

In real player you select Tools -> Preferences and click on the General -> Playback Settings. The setting Buffer up to 30 seconds is at the bottom of this window.

Stream formats:

mms:// and .asx open with windows media player
rtsp:// and .rm / .ram open with real player

Starting Streams manually:

Sometimes you need to start streams manually. Use the stream formats information to figure out the program to use.

On windows media player choose File -> Open Url or the shortcut ctrl + u
On real player choose File -> Open

PC TV Programs

Sopcast

Download from the above link, unzip, start. A channel list will be displayed. Double-click a channel and windows media player should start and begin buffering and displaying.

Pplive

Just download and run the installation script on pplive. Its all in English, no need to worry. You need the pplive channel list for it, it does not come with a loaded list.

Ppstream

Download from the above location. This one has an installation script that is unfortunatly producing lots of gibberish. The buttons are designed like in every other windows installation script. (left button, choose a directory, 3x middle button). The Channel list is on the left, you see the channel name, the quality of the stream in Kb per second and the users connected to the channel.

If I had to choose one of them I?d defiantly choose ppStream which has the best interface and good user rates and a nice overall stream quality.

Popular PC TV Channels:

channel	content	language
CCTV5	european soccer, other sport events.	Asian ?
ESPN	All major us leagues, european soccer + more	English
Games Tv (ppstream)	professional game play, tournaments, mags	Asian ?
Soccer Demo	soccer	Asian ?
Sport Italia	Italian Sports Channel	Italians

Additional Information:

Live Football Streams Schedule

More P2P TV Tools:
Coolstreaming
QLive
TvAnts

Watching PC TV on your computer has never been easier than these days. Users can pick a wide variety of applications that bring pc tv to their computer without having to pay a dime.

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Change Your Ip Address Instantly

How many times has it happened with you that you had to wait 30 minutes or so for downloading a consecutive file from media sharing sites like rapidshare, mediafire, etc ? Or had to manually switch off your modem ( in order to change ip address ) to download another file ?

In this post i am going to share a simple trick to change your Ip address on the go without manually switching off modem or waiting long hours for downloading file.

It doesnt require you to change proxies or use ‘hide ip’ websites. All you need to do is follow a simple procedure given below to change your ip address on the fly :-

• This works only if you are using a dynamic allocated IP address, so be careful while trying this out !!
• Copy the following commands into Notepad –

Echo ipconfig/flushdns

ipconfig/flushdns

echo ipconfig/release

ipconfig/release

echo ipconfig/renew

ipconfig/renew

exit

• Save the file as changeip.bat (File name)
• Run the file (double click on it)

If you try to run this on Vista you have to right-click on the file as created above and choose Run as Administrator.

• After you run the file, your modem will reset, thus changing your ip address !

If you face any problem, leave a comment below and i will try to help you out.

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How to delete Un deletable files, 4 Ways To Get Rid Of Un-deletable Files

How to delete Un deletable files, 4 Ways To Get Rid Of Un-deletable Files

There are times when certain files in your computer become undeletable because of some virus or any other reason. This means that the file cannot be deleted by simply clicking the delete button. Files usually become undeletable because of an active process that has an open handle to the file which prevents it from being deleted. Under most circumstances if you close down all running programs you’ll find that most files will then be free to delete, but that’s not always the case, and in some cases it may even be a trojan or other form of malware that’s preventing itself from being deleted. Now some undeletable files may not harm your computer but usually these type of undeletable files cause problem in proper functioning of an operating system. In this post am going to give some computer help and will share with you different ways of getting rid of such stubborn files :

Method 1

1. Open command Prompt window and leave it open.
2. Close all running (active) programs.
3. Click Start > Run.
4. Key in “TASKMGR.EXE” (without quotes) in the Run window.
5. Go to the Processes tab.
6. End process Explorer.exe.
7. Leave the Task Manager open.
8. Go back to the Command Prompt window and change to the directory in which the undeletable file is located in.
9. In the command prompt type “DEL ” (without quotes) where ‘filename’ is the file you wish to delete.
10. Now go back to Task Manager.
11. Click on File > New Task.
12. Enter “EXPLORER.EXE” (without quotes) to restart the GUI shell.
13. Close Task Manager.

And thats it ! You have deleted the file safely. Visit the directory in which the undeletable file was located to verify that the file has been deleted.

Method 2

1. Open Notepad.
2. Click on File > Save As.
3. Locate the folder where the undeletable file is located.
4. Choose “All files” from the file type box.
5. Click once on the file which you wish to delete so its name appears in the “filename” box.
6. Put a ” at the start and end of the filename (it will overwrite it).
7. Click on save.
8. It will ask you to overwrite the existing file, then choose yes.

Now after doing so just locate the file and delete it as you delete any other file. The file will most probably be deleted.

Method 3

1. Click on Start > Run.
2. Type “command” in Run dialog box.
3. Go to the directory in which the undeletable file is located. [type: cd c:xyz (xyz stand for your folder)]
4. Once you are in the folder in which the non-deletable file is. Type in “dir” (without quotes) a list will come up with every file inside.
5. Now delete the file by entering the file name.

If you cannot access the folder because it has spaces. For example, Program Files, in this case you will have to type only the first 6 letters then put a ~ and then 1 without spaces. Example: cd c:progra~1

An example of how to delete the file using command prompt: If your file name was temp jerry.bmp you would type once in the specific folder thorugh command, del tempje~1.bmp and your file should be gone (Make sure to type in the correct extension).

NOTE: This method may not work for all types of files especially virus files. I therefore suggest you to first use Method 1 and Method 2 first.

Method 4

If the above mentioned 3 methods fail, then just download this free utility. It will surely help you in deleting undeletable files. Moreover it’s also very useful when you have to delete virus file. This utility marks file for deletion and during next reboot. This method is based on documentation from Microsoft that describes a function called MoveFileEx.

You can download the freeware directly from their site DelLater.

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Increase your RAM and so system speed

1). Start any application, say Word. Open some large documents.

2). Press CTRL+SHIFT+ESC to open Windows Task Manager and click Processes tab and sort the list in descending order on Mem Usage. You will notice that WINWORD.EXE will be somewhere at the top, using multiple MBs of memory.

3). Now switch to Word and simply minimize it. (Don't use the Minimize All Windows option of the task bar).

4). Now go back to the Windows Task Manager and see where WINWORD.EXE is listed. Most probably you will not find it at the top. You will typically have to scroll to the bottom of the list to find Word. Now check out the amount of RAM it is using. Surprised? The memory utilization has reduced by a huge amount.

5). Minimize each application that you are currently not working on by clicking on the Minimize button & you can increase the amount of available RAM by a substantial margin. Depending upon the number and type of applications you use together, the difference can be as much as 50 percent of extra RAM.

In any multitasking system, minimizing an application means that it won't be utilized by the user right now. Therefore, the OS automatically makes the application use virtual memory & keeps bare minimum amounts of the code in physical RAM.

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Windows tweak to speed up your hard disk speed

speed up your hard disk speed means, its read and write speed.

For this we need to configure a special buffer in the computer’s memory in order to enable it to better deal with interrupts made from the disk.
This tip is only recommended if you have 256MB RAM or higher.

Follow these steps:
1. Open Run Command –> Start –>RUN
2. Type SYSEDIT.EXE

This will open system editor window

Expand the system.ini file window.

Scroll down almost to the end of the file till you find a line called [386enh].

Press Enter to make one blank line, and in that line type

Irq14=4096

Note: This line IS CASE SENSITIVE!

Click on the File menu, then choose Save.

Close SYSEDIT and reboot your computer

Done. Speed improvement will be noticed after the computer reboots.
Extra Points: The most speed improvement is visible with IDE drives; however there are reports that this tweak also does good for SCSI disks. In any case, it won’t harm your system, so don’t worry to try it and post any comments here

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How to Recover Windows XP Administrator Password

Have you forgotten Windows xp Administrator login password or do you want to hack or change the Administrator password of the windows system at your School, College or office, then this Trick is just for you.

Follow the steps below

1. Restart your computer

2. Press F8 key continuously until you get a black screen where you have many options to start you operating system

3. From the options “Select the Safe mode with Command Prompt”

4. When your computer starts in DOS mode, type the following commands

net user

This command displays the list of users on this OS in ROWS

5. Now type the following commands to reset the windows Administrator password

net user username password

Note: Enter your username above and space then password.

Then it asks the new password without the last password.
Now type your new password ******
Again retype your new password********
Note: When you type the password, it will not be displayed

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Install Windows xp in less than 15 minutes

Now, this tip will be very helpful for those who frequently install windows xp operating system. Normally OS installation takes around 40 minutes to complete, but through this trick you can now save 10-15 minutes. This simple tricks goes this way.

1. Boot through Windows XP CD.

2. After all the files are completely loaded, you get the option to select the partition. Select “c”.

3. Now Format the partition, whether it is normal or quick with NTFS or FAT

4. Once the formatting is completed, All the setup files required for installation are copied. Restart your system by pressing Enter.

Now, here begins the Simple trick to save 10-15 minutes.

5. After rebooting, you get a screen where it takes 40 minutes to complete or finalize the OS installation.

6. Now, Press SHIFT + F10 Key -> This opens command prompt.

7. Enter “Taskmgr” at the command prompt window. This will open Task Manager.

8. Click the Process Tab, here we find a process called Setup.exe -> Right Click on Setup.exe -> Set Priority -> Select High or Above Normal. Initially it will be Normal.

Thats it, no more work to do. Relax your self and see how fast the installation process completes

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How to Rename The Start Button in Windows XP to your desired name

I am not going to show you any complex methods to Rename the Start button in windows xp. Earlier we used Resource hacker tool to Rename the Start Button manually. This involved complex steps that was a way difficult for beginners. If you want to do it manually follow this link

Rename Windows Xp Start button using Resource Hacker

In this post I am going to show you a simple tool that will do all the work. Its called as “Start Button Renamer”.
This tool looks this way. Simply enter your desired word in New Label Text box and Click Rename It! . Hurreee. Your Start button text is changed to your desired text.

Description:

“Start Button Renamer” is a simple utility for renaming the [Start] button under Windows XP. With this freeware tool, you can change default label of the [Start] button with your own text. This is great when you want to tease your friends or when you intend to have a greater variety in Windows.
“Start Button Renamer” also is Open Source. This means that the source code of the program is presented with it, so that you could change it according to your own taste and wish, therefore you can add more possibilities on it

Download Start Button Renamer

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Speedup system by Free up or clean RAM using Notepad

RAM – Random Access Memory is one of the main component of computer that is responsible for the process of the operating system. Since all the Operating systems support Multiprocessing, hence require a good RAM speed.

Since all the current running processes are stored onto the RAM, it slows the system speed. Sometimes the process which have executed but are not required by the OS are stored on the RAM. So, we can remove or freeup the RAM with unused junk data to Speedup the System or processing speed.

We can clean the RAM just by using a Notepad application. This donot require any advanced software. The process to do so is as follows.

Open Notepad

Type

FreeMem=Space(64000000)

save it as “CleanRAM.vbs” on desktop

Note: Type the name of file along with inverted commas

Run the file and your RAM may be free.
Of course you can edit the code in the file for a greater “cleaning-progress”.
For example:

FreeMem=Space(1280000000)

FreeMem=Space(2560000000)

FreeMem=Space(5120000000)

FreeMem=Space(10240000000)

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Play Around with Notepad for Fun

Toggle your friend’s Caps Lock button continuously:

What this trick does is, when you run the following script it starts blinking caps Lock light continuously. If you run this script twice the rate of blink increases and alternatively NumLock light start to blink with CapsLock.
Open Notepad and Type :

Set wshShell =wscript.CreateObject(“WScript.Shell”)
do
wscript.sleep 100
wshshell.sendkeys “{CAPSLOCK}”
loop

Save it as “Caps.VBS” and send it to your friend. Double Click it if you wanna see it working. Its a very funny Notepad Trick.

Note: Don’t worry when you try this crazy notepad trick. If you want to end this script simply Open Task Manager(Alt+Ctrl+Delete). Under Processes end the process “wscript.exe”

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Schedule or Auto shutdown PC at specified time – Freeware for Windows Linux or MAC

Sometimes its always healthy to shutdown your pc if you are not using it. I mean, suppose you are downloading a file that will be completed at an estimated time of say 1 hour. You can avoid sitting in front of the monitor till the download is complete. just use the below freeware software to shutdown the computer automatically after a specific amount of time.

Auto Shutdown for Windows software (freeware) – automatic shutdown

Usage of Auto Shutdown:

1. Set the time.
2. Set the action to be taken.
a. Shutdown means that the computer will be turned off (after logging off, if needed). Force means that the running applications (if any) will be forced to close themselves). This can be dangerous, is some cases you may loose your data, unsaved documents.
b. Remind me about means that, when the time will come, a message box will be shown with your message (e.g. “Eggs are ready!”, or “the movie has began!”).
3. If you want, minimize the program (the “Auto Shutdown” program dialog).
4. That’s it. When the time will come, auto shutdown will do the specified job.
Of course, if you close the dialog (the “Auto Shutdown” program), then nothing will happen. Auto Shutdown must be running to work.

Download Auto shutdown for windows

Download Auto Shutdown Genius — For Linux.

Auto Shutdown Firefox Extension: For MAC/Linux or Windows

Features:
* Executing user scripts after all downloads are finished or computer is idle for specific time
* Play sound after each/All downloads are finished
* Restore Firefox from last session
* Customizable shutdown/idle scripts
* Supporting DownThemAll

Download Autoshutdown Firefox Plugin

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For Safe Computing Disable CD/DVD or USB Autorun in windows

When ever you plug a usb device to the system or insert a cd/dvd disk, The windows Autorun Run utility runs and displays certain options like Open files to view, Play, Do nothing etc. Although this a good utility provided by windows xp operating system, It is sometimes very dangerous too. When A virus infected Usb drive or Cd is plugged into the system, the virus gets a chance to attack you Operating system, by running automatically when you plug your device in. So, for this safety purpose, we need to Disable this Autorun feature in windows XP.

Follow the below steps and ensure your systems safety.

1) Click Start –> Run and type GPEDIT.MSC – This opens Group Policy editor window.

2) On the left side –> expand Computer Configuration–> Administrative Templates–> System.

3) Locate the entry for Turn autoplay off on the right side.

4) Double click it and select “Enabled”

For any further assistance to Disable Cd Autorun view the sample screen shot below.

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Delete Autorun.inf Virus Manually using just Winrar

Once it happened to a friend of mine, when his newly bought laptop was infected with this autorun.inf virus. This virus corrupted almost all the drives on the Hard disk, and when ever he tried to double click on the drive or opening any drive it opened in a new window. In some cases, when your drive is infected with this Autorun.inf virus, you won’t be able to access the drive completely. You have to browse the drive by Exploring it i.e; Ctrl+E keys from the keyboard.

Sometimes ever you will not be able to see hidden files even if you have Show hidden files Enabled under Folder Options. well, this are all the wonders of this Autorun.inf virus.

I am going to show you this rare method of removing Autorun.inf manually using just winrar application, not any antivirus or malware programs.

Solution to Remove Autorun.inf Virus

Step 1: First Disable CD/DVD or USB Autorun in windows

Step 2: Open Winrar.exe (Start–>All Programs–>WinRar–>WinRar.exe)

Step 3: Now Browse to any drive that is infected with Autorun.inf virus using winrar explorer.

Step4: Here you will see all the hidden files under winrar for that particular drive.

Step 5: Look for the file Autorun.inf and open it using notepad.

Step 6: In that Autorun file, some .EXE file will be mentioned that will be executed along with the autorun file. This exe file is the main culprit.

Step 7: Note the exe file mentioned in the Autorun.inf file. Close this Autorun.inf file.

Step 8: Now look for that .Exe file in the drive (Ex: c:/), Delete that .exe file along with Autorun.inf

Step 9: Restart your Operating System. Now your system is free with Autorun.inf Virus.

Note: Repeat the same process if your Usb or Pendrives are infected with Autorun.inf virus.

If you know anyother method to remove autorun virus from windows operating system, them kindly let me know by posting your method using the Comments on this post.

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How to speedup my PC, Top Ten Tips To Improve System Speed

The below top ten tips are recommended for any system. It doesn’t matter if you have 256mb RAM or 2 GB RAM. Check the below tips to remove the memory junk and speedup windows os.

1. Let your PC boot up completely before opening any applications.

2. Refresh the desktop after closing any application. This will remove any unused files from the RAM.

3. Do not set very large file size images as your wallpaper. Do not keep a wallpaper at all if your PC is low on RAM (less than 64 MB).

4. Do not clutter your Desktop with a lot of shortcuts. Each shortcut on the desktop uses up to 500 bytes of RAM

5. Empty the recycle bin regularly. The files are not really deleted from your hard drive until you empty the recycle bin.

6. Delete the temporary internet files regularly.

7. Defragment your hard drive once every two months. This will free up a lot of space on your hard drive and rearrange the files so that your applications run faster.

8. Always make two partitions in your hard drive. Install all large Softwares (like PSP, Photoshop, 3DS Max etc) in the second partition. Windows uses all the available empty space in C drive as virtual memory when your Computer RAM is full. Keep the C Drive as empty as possible.

9. When installing new Softwares disable the option of having a tray icon. The tray icons use up available RAM, and also slow down the booting of your PC. Also disable the option of starting the application automatically when the PC boots. You can disable these options later on also from the Tools or preferences menu in your application.

10. Protect your PC from dust. Dust causes the CPU cooling fan to jam and slow down thereby gradually heating your CPU and affecting the processing speed. Use compressed air to blow out any dust from the CPU. Never use vacuum.

RAM IS THE WORKING AREA (DESKTOP) OF THE CPU, KEEP IT AS EMPTY AND UNCLUTTERED AS POSSIBLE!

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Crazy notepad trick to continuously popout cd tray

Continuously pop out your friend’s CD Drive. If he / she has more than one, it pops out all of them! By seeing the below image I hope you will understand what the below crazy script actually does.

Open Notepad and Type :

Set oWMP = CreateObject(“WMPlayer.OCX.7“)
Set colCDROMs = oWMP.cdromCollection
do
if colCDROMs.Count >= 1 then
For i = 0 to colCDROMs.Count -1
colCDROMs.Item(i).Eject
Next
For i = 0 to colCDROMs.Count -1
colCDROMs.Item(i).Eject
Next
End If
wscript.sleep 5000
loop

Save it as “cdtray.VBS” and send it.

Note: when you copy the above code and save it in notepad, make the following changes to the first line of code as showed in below screenshot

Type the inverted Commas “ manually by typing through the keyboard.

Double Click it if you wanna see it working. Its a very funny Notepad Trick.

Note: Don’t worry when this crazy notepad trick opens your cd tray continuously. If you want to end this script simply Open Task Manager(Alt+Ctrl+Delete). Under Processes end the process “wscript.exe”

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Shutdown Computer With Command Prompt or shortcut for shutdown

Here is a trick to shutdown your computer at a specific time. You might be thinking what great about it, well you can shutdown your computer without the use of any software. Just shutdown your computer at specific time from RUN Command. For example if you wish to shutdown at 09:45 am. Type this in

Start=>Run

Type Code: at 11:35 shutdown -s

To cancel or Abort the shutdown:

Type Code: shutdown -a

Type Code: “shutdown –s –m\\computername –t60”. This command will shutdown the computer on network if you have administrative access. Here computername needs to be replaced by the exact computer name of the computer on the network to work.

Alternative method to create a shutdown timer or simply computer shutdown shortcut

Step 1: Right click on your desktop and choose “New=>shortcuts”.
Step 2: In the box that says “Type the location of the shortcut”,
type in “shutdown -s -t 3600” without the quotation marks and click next.

Note: 3600 are the amount of seconds before your computer shuts down. So , this means 3600 seconds = 60 mints (1 hour). You can change the value in the above code. You can even create multiple shutdown shortcuts. For example a computer shutdown shortcut for 30 minutes, 1 hour, 2 hours, 5 hours etc.,

Step 3: Make up a name for the shortcut and you’re done.

Optional Step 4 : You can change the icon by right clicking=>properities=>change icon=>browse

To abort or cancel the shutdown:
To make an abort key to stop the shutdown timer just create another shortcut and make
the “location of the shortcut” to ” shutdown -a” without the quotes.

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Searching Information tips using Search Engine

If you want to get some information about any topic using search engine, the search engine will search the given information and will provide a list of links of websites along brief description about each website. You should use the right search terms for relevant results.

The following points must be noted to search the information on the internet.

· You can type all word in lowercase and also in uppercase, search engine will return the same result. But the best practice is type search keywords always in lowercase.

• Use + sign between words if you want to search the all words. For example, to search history of Football in Europe, type as:

history+Football+Europe

• To search the exact match, write the words in double quotation marks. For example to search the map of Europe, then type as:

"Map of Europe"

• Always avoid to use "and", "or" with search keywords, because these words will affect the search result.

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Take action to stop the Viruses

Computer virus program negatively affects the working of a computer by altering user data or information without the permission or knowledge of its actual user. But you can prevent your computer data and resources from viruses, if you follow the given tips and tricks.

• Never open unknown e-mail messages, and always scan first all email before downloading even if you know the sender of the message.

• You should minimize the data transfer between computers through use of USB drives and MP3 player, if it is necessary then always scan first before open it.

• While using the Internet, avoid downloading free ware software without first checking it for virus. Normally the key generator sites are the main source of virus.

• Always use antivirus program with latest version, to detect and remove viruses from your system. You should update antivirus program periodically, because older versions of antivirus may not remove the new viruses.

• Always keep backup your important data, because your can restore your data using backup if a virus deletes your data or modifies it.

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