Tips on Computer

How to Lock and Hide Folders in Windows Without Additional Software?

2010-11-01T22:10:00.002+05:45

So, How to Lock and Hide Folders in Windows Without Additional Software?

Follow these steps:

1) Open Notepad and copy the contents of the code below.

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%==type 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

2) Change the password by replacing ‘type your password here‘ in the code with your password.

3) Save it as XYZ.bat (Note: Try to be innovative and save it in such a way that it sounds like a system file so that nobody will try to bother clicking it)

Update: If you are not sure how to change the file extension from .txt to .bat, check How to Change File Extension in Windows.

4) Close the file if it is still opened and double click XYZ.bat
5) It will create a new folder called ‘Locker’ automatically. (If you want the file name to be different, find and replace Locker in the code with the name of your choice). This new locker folder will be created in the same hierarchy as the .bat file.

6) Place the contents inside and double click XYZ.bat, it will ask whether you want to lock. Say ‘Y’ and now your folder will disappear.

7) To view again, double click XYZ.bat again and enter your password.

Frequently asked questions:

1. What if I no longer want to hide the folder?

Just delete the XYZ.bat file when the locker folder is in visible mode. Or you can rename the Locker folder to something else and the next time if you double click, it will create an empty Locker folder.

2. What if I deleted the .bat file when the Locker folder is not hidden?

You can download the code again, change the password and create the XYZ.bat file. Now paste that file in the same hierarchy as the Locker folder. It will work as before with the new password.

3. What if I deleted the .bat file when the Locker folder is hidden?

The contents are still there hidden, so don’t panic! Just download the code again, change the password and create the XYZ.bat file. Now paste that file in the same hierarchy as the Locker folder is hidden. Double click the .bat file and you can unlock the Locker folder with the new password.

Note: This trick is only to provide Privacy, so that nobody accidentally opens your private folders. It does not provide any ultimate security. Anybody can open XYZ.bat in any text editor and view the code. As I had mentioned it before try to keep this file in not an obvious place with a name that looks like a system file, so that nobody will have a chance to touch or doubt at this file.

Steps to hide folders without using any software in windows 7

2010-11-01T21:57:00.000+05:45

Follow the following steps to hide folders without using any software:

Firstly, create a new folder.
Right-click on the newly created folder and from the the menu select Rename option.
Hold Alt key and press 9 key nine times and then press Enter key. You will see a blank folder name for that folder.
Again right-click on that folder and select Properties.
From the properties window, select Customize tab.
Select Change Icon form the Folder icons part.
Now, select a blank folder icon form the Change Icon for Folder window.
Click on OK button.
Again, click on OK button of the folder properties.

That's all. You will see that the folder is invisible or hidden. In this way, you can easily hide any folder from others in Windows 7 all versions including Ultimate, Ultimate, Premium, Professional, Basic, Starter and Enterprise edition.

If you face any difficulties or problem of the above instructions, then tell me in the comment section and I will try to help you.

Samsung CorbyPRO is the latest addition to Samsung Genio which was released last year.

2010-02-25T12:25:00.005+05:45

Samsung Corby PRO B5310 Features/Specifications

* Quad-band GSM/EDGE
* Dual-band UMTS support with HSDPA
* 2.8″ resistive TFT touchscreen of QVGA resolution
* Four-row side-slide QWERTY keyboard
* 150 MB onboard storage, microSD card slot (up to 16GB)
* 3.15 megapixel fixed-focus camera with smile detection, QVGA video @ 15fps
* FM radio with RDS
* Find Music recognition service
* TouchWiz and Cartoon UI
* Social networking integration with direct file uploads
* GPS with A-GPS support
* Wi-Fi and GPS
* 3.5mm audio jack
* Accelerometer sensor for screen auto rotation
* Office document viewer
* Excellent web browser
* Push email
* Smart unlock
* Replaceable rear covers (Fashion Jackets)

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How to detect and delete the duplicate files on your computer?

2010-02-24T12:52:00.004+05:45

This utility program is used to search and delete the duplicate files and folder on your hard disk, so that operating system can access data more quickly and easily. You can search any kind of duplicate files on your computer, for example music, text and picture. You can scan files with same contents, folder, drives and hard disk with powerful search engine. When the scanning process is completed, you will see a list of actual files, list of duplicate files with size, creating time, access and write time then create free disk space by deleting duplicates.

Duplicate File Detector has a very simple control panel to help the all level of users. You can scan almost any media CD/DVD, USB, external storage device, zip drive and network drive also. You can download this tool for any windows version. Download it and run the easy setup.

After installation launch Duplicate File Detector, the first screen will appear with the title "Duplicate File Detector with project name".

In left side panel click on "Explorer" tab and you will see a list of all attached drives and My Network Places also. Here you can select any file, folder and drives for scanning.

Select a folder (in this case My Documents) and then press the button "Search file duplicates now" in the bottom area of right side panel. Here you can select the options (Process subfolders and Skip zero-length file) under "Start Search" section. You can also filter files here with date, size and attributes.

Now a small dialog box will appear with title "Search for duplicate files in folders", click on "Search now" button to start scanning process. If you have a large folder size, this process can take several minute.

After search process is completed, the results are displayed in two lists. The top list shows all files in the specified folders and lower list shows files which have duplicates.

Right click on any duplicates files and you will find many options to manage this duplicate files, for example copy, move to other location or delete it.

I recommend you doing this after one month if you want to improve the performance of your computer.

Cj.com Web services

2009-09-03T17:01:00.004+05:45

Today i registered in cj.com, it is a cool site. I'm developing a web services for this.

I started working on a new project

My requirement for this project:
1. Get product catalog lists
2. Get Daily Publisher Commission Service
3. Get Item-based Details service

I've started working on the SOAP based API, Because i could not find any information on the REST APIs

Any suggestion will be accepted. I'll post my work here once i finish this project

Hope this will be helpful for you guys interested in cj.com and its webservices.

How To Find Secret Sites And Articles

2009-03-25T10:55:00.000+05:45

On the internet there are a lot of site owners that hide some of the site's pages or even the entire site from the search engines. You can now find those sites with robots.txt.

Robots.txt is a text file present in the root directory of a site which is used to control which pages are indexed by a robot. If you use the 'disallow' word you can block parts of your sites to be found by search engines.

1. Open http://www.google.com and search after the keyword :

"robots.txt" "disallow:" filetype:txt

2. You will find the robots.txt file from sites that uses disallow command in it.

3. Let's open for example the first site: WhiteHouse. We can see that a lot of pages were made invisible.

4. To open 'forbidden' pages just copy the text from what disallow command you want, without the "text" at the end.

5. Now replace in the browser /robots.txt with your copied text and press Enter. The page will open.

This is the hidden page from WhiteHouse.

Of course you can find more interesting pages, this was just an example.

Now you can be like a modern online Sherlock Holmes. Find what others hide :)

Hiding Manage My Computer

2007-10-20T16:34:00.000+05:45

If you want to remove Manage My Computer from My Computer

1. Start Regedit

2. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER / Software / Microsoft / Windows / CurrentVersion / Policies / Explorer

3. Create a DWORD value called NoManageMyComputerVerb

4. Set the value to 1

5. Reboot

Task Manager is Menu Bar is Missing

2007-10-20T16:33:00.001+05:45

If you start the Task Manager and menu bar and tabs are missing,
the Task Manager is running in Tiny Footprint mode.

To fix this, simply double click on an empty space in the top border.

Taking Ownership Of a Folder

2007-10-20T16:30:00.000+05:45

Sometimes when you reinstall WindowsXP, you can receive an Access Denied error when trying to open a previous user's directory.
To take ownership of that folder again:

1. Log on with an account that has administrator rights
2. Right click on the folder
3. Select Properties
4. Click on the Security tab
5. Click on the Advanced button
6. Click on the Owner tab
7. In the list of Names, click on your name
8. To take ownership, click on Replace owner on subcontainers and objects
9. Click OK and Yes

Forgotten Admin or User's Password

2007-10-20T16:00:00.001+05:45

You donot need to reinstall if you forget the admin password.

There is a boot disk you can download at:

http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/

that will let you reset the password of any account on NT4, Windows2000 or XP.

Just follow all the default settings which are for the admin account. Used it many times with great success.

They also have a bootable CD image you can download.

To convert from Fat to NTFS

2007-07-22T06:35:00.000+05:45

To convert from Fat to NTFS:

Step 1: Click Start

Step 2: Click Run

Step 3: In the available text Field type: CMD and click Ok.

Step 4: Now the Black DOS windows appears, you can see C:\Documents and Settings\<username>

Step 5: Now type=>convert <drive letter which is required to convert>: /FS:NTFS
and hit ENTER
for eg: convert c: /fs/ntfs

Step 6: press Y to confirm the conversion

Step 7: If it ask you to reboot the machine: press Y and hit enter, else it will start converting...

Step 8: While conversion complete... go and have a cup of coffee :)

Notice: But remember that once you do this, you cannot convert it back within the Windows OS... It is a one way street so to speak.. (unless you have a third party utility...)

Tips on Mobile Maintenance

2007-07-21T06:39:00.001+05:45

Looking after your mobile helps to ensure it has a long and productive life. There are 8 easy maintenance tips to help you get the best out of your mobile phone. All of the points below should also apply to your battery, charger and any other accessories.

KEEP YOUR MOBILE:

1. Charged: Ensure your battery is fully charged, and then completely run it down before recharging. Recharging too early causes your battery to run out of power more quickly.

2. Secure: For security reasons, enable the PIN on your SIM Card and Phone-lock on your phone to avoid unauthorized used. These security checks will also be activated when the phone is power cycled. You can check with your carrier or the phone manual for the features and also for information on blocking your SIM card and phone IMEI number if the phone is stolen. For more information please see the Security Tips located on the AMTA Lost and Stolen website.

3. Protected: Make sure you use a keypad lock to lock your phone. Unplanned calls can cost a fortune and even though your phone may be in a safe place, such as in a bag, your phone will still get knocked around to a surprising degree. Rough treatment can damage electronic circuit boards so avoid dropping or unnecessarily shaking your phone.

4. Battery: Be safe with your batteries. Use only genuine batteries from your phone manufacturer and only buy from authorized dealers. Going for the cheap option of a counterfeit battery can be dangerous.

5. Clean: Don't use harsh detergents, cleaning solvents or harsh chemicals to clean your phone. Wipe only with a soft cloth.

6. Covered: a protective cover will help repel dust and dirt, and prevent scratches. Make sure the cover you choose is of good quality. Low quality covers with no air pockets can damage you phone by creating humidity inside the cover.

7. Storing your phone: Always store your phone in a dry place. Avoid rain, high humidity and liquids. All of these may contain minerals that could corrode the electronic circuits.

8. At the right temperature: To ensure a long life, keep your phone in a stable temperature. Avoid exposing your phone to liquid and/or exposing your phone to extreme temperature change from hot to cold and vice versa. This might create condensation and damage the phone.

How you can Change The Recycle Bin's Name?

2007-07-20T08:38:00.000+05:45

You can change the name of Recycle Bin of your system if you wish. It is very easy and interesting but it require some changes in windows registry,

* First click on Start button > click on Run option.

* Type here regedit.exe and press enter then you will find there regedit editor.

* In regedit editor you will open HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT folder, In this folder open the CLSID folder then open the {645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E} folder >ShellFolder folder at last.

* Here simply change the data value from "40 01 00 20" to "70 01 00 20"

After performing all above steps restart your computer then you will find option to rename Recycle name after right clicking on Recycle Bin Icon. Now you can change new name as you wish.

Quick way to get to the FTP site associated with a WWW site

2007-07-18T08:54:00.000+05:45

Some WWW sites have FTP sites associated with them to make it easy for you to download and sometimes upload files. If you know the address of a WWW site, but don't know its associated FTP site address, here are some simple steps you can try:

1. Simply replace http:// with ftp://

Some sites use the same server address for their WWW and FTP services. This means, you can get to their FTP site simply by changing the protocol type to FTP.

For example, if the web site address is http://www.microsoft.com/, the FTP site could be at ftp://www.microsoft.com/

2. Replace http://www. with ftp://ftp.

Most sites use the same domain name for their WWW and FTP sites. Meaning, you could change the protocol to FTP and change the prefix form www to ftp to get to the FTP site.

For example, if the web site is at http://www.microsoft.com/, the FTP site maybe at ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/

3. If all of the above fail, you can try one more name change -- replace http://www. with ftp://

For example, if the web site address is http://www.microsoft.com/, try opening ftp://microsoft.com/

For one who have lost their Administrator password

2007-07-16T08:14:00.000+05:45

For one who have lost their Administrator password. Follow the procedure and you will surely get through!!

1. Place your Windows XP CD in your cd-rom and start your computer (it’s assumed here that your XP CD is bootable – as it should be - and that you have your bios set to boot from CD)

2. Keep your eye on the screen messages for booting to your cd Typically, it will be “Press any key to boot from cd”

3. Once you get in, the first screen will indicate that Setup is inspecting your system and loading files.

4. When you get to the Welcome to Setup screen, press ENTER to Setup Windows now

5. The Licensing Agreement comes next - Press F8 to accept it.

6. The next screen is the Setup screen which gives you the option to do a Repair. It should read something like “If one of the following Windows XP installations is damaged, Setup can try to repair it” Use the up and down arrow keys to select your XP installation (if you only have one, it should already be selected) and press R to begin the Repair process.

7. Let the Repair run. Setup will now check your disks and then start copying files which can take several minutes.

8. Shortly after the Copying Files stage, you will be required to reboot. (this will happen automatically – you will see a progress bar stating “Your computer will reboot in 15 seconds”

9. During the reboot, do not make the mistake of “pressing any key” to boot from the CD again! Setup will resume automatically with the standard billboard screens and you will notice Installing Windows is highlighted.

10. Keep your eye on the lower left hand side of the screen and when you see the Installing Devices progress bar, press SHIFT + F10. This is the security hole! A command console will now open up giving you the potential for wide access to your system.

11. At the prompt, type NUSRMGR.CPL and press Enter. Voila! You have just gained graphical access to your User Accounts in the Control Panel.

12. Now simply pick the account you need to change and remove or change your password as you prefer. If you want to log on without having to enter your new password, you can type control userpasswords2 at the prompt and choose to log on without being asked for password. After you’ve made your changes close the windows, exit the command box and continue on with the Repair (have your Product key handy).

13. Once the Repair is done, you will be able to log on with your new password (or without a password if you chose not to use one or if you chose not to be asked for a password). Your programs and personalized settings should remain intact.

Top 7 Ways to Secure Windows XP

2007-07-15T08:56:00.000+05:45

1. Turn on Automatic Updates in Windows XP

Automatic Updates is a Windows XP utility that allows your computer to download security updates from Microsoft automatically. Turning on Automatic Updates helps to secure your computer since you'll always have the latest critical security updates.

2. Turn on the Free Firewall in Windows XP

If you have Service Pack 2 installed, you have a free firewall that you can use to protect your computer from attacks. However, you must turn the free firewall on.

3. Use Internet Explorer Wisely

Internet Explorer 6 provides four zones for which you can establish seperate security settings. By using the four zones, you'll reduce your chances of being the victim of an attack when you inadvertently visit a malicious Web site.

4. Use Anti-Virus Software, Spyware and Adware Software

6. Be Careful What You Click On

Often, attackers must entice you to open an email attachment or visit their Web site in order to attack your computer. If you open the attachment or visit their site, malicious code is executed on your computer. To protect your computer, be careful what you click on.

7. Use Limited Accounts to Better Secure Your Windows XP Computer

It's harder for someone to attack your computer through the Internet if you're using a limited account. Learn why it's best to use limited accounts for daily use and how to create a limited account.

Top 7 Ways to Speed your Computer Performance

2007-07-15T08:46:00.000+05:45

1. Free Up Disk Space:

The Disk Cleanup tool helps you free up space on your hard disk. The utility identifies files that you can safely delete, and then enables you to choose whether you want to delete some or all of the identified files.

Use Disk Cleanup to:

Remove temporary Internet files.
Remove downloaded program files (such as Microsoft ActiveX controls and Java applets).
Empty the Recycle Bin.
Remove Windows temporary files.
Remove optional Windows components that you don't use.

Tip: Typically, temporary Internet files take the most amount of space because the browser caches each page you visit for faster access later.

2. Speed Up Access to Data

Disk Defragmentation.

3. Detect and Repair Disk Errors

Right-click the hard disk you want to search for bad sectors, and then click Properties.
Click the Tools tab.
Click the Check Now button.
In the Check Disk dialog box, select the Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors check box, and then click Start.

4. Protect Your Computer Against Spyware, Virus, Adware
5. Uninstall Unneeded Programs
6. Stop Programs from starting on Windows boot

One way you can speed up your computer is to prevent programs from launching themselves at start-up. Not only do the unwanted programs delay the start of Windows, they also continue to slow down your computer since they use system resources.
7. Adjust Visual Effects for Better Performance

Windows XP provides a number of interesting visual effects like animated windows and fading menus. These effects, however, can slow down your computer. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to customize the visual effects to match your preferences and performance needs.

Setting Video as Wallpaper

2007-06-30T07:59:00.000+05:45

Wanna impress your buddies? Well, I personally don't find running videos in the background as a wallpaper of any good use. Anyway its rather 'cool' stuff.

There are some good options available to do exactly this. Lets check them out.

VLC media player

VLC media player is a highly portable cross platform media player that plays almost any type of media format including DVDs, VCDs etc.
And its extremely easy to set a video as wallpaper using VLC media player.

Play the video in VLC player. Right click on VLC player and select Wallpaper.
That's it! The video will now play in your desktop background as a wallpaper.

VLC is available for Windows, Mac OS X and various other distributions of Linux.
Download VLC media player and give your desktop a new look.

Windows DreamScene

Microsoft has released Windows DreamScene which, offcourse, enables you to set a video file as your wallpaper.
As far as I know, Windows DreamScene is a Vista feature and hence available for Windows Vista only. Windows Vista Ultimate users can download it for free.

Obviously, VLC media player is a much better choice as it can handle a wide range of video formats, plus you don't have to get Windows Vista to use this nice feature.

Do you use any other tools for this? Feel free to share your views (Sweta Pradhan)

Facts about some of the Internet Ruler

2007-06-11T05:52:00.001+05:45

Myspace Facts
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FactsMySpace was founded by former Friendster members Chris Dewolfe and Tom Anderson in 2003. They saw opportunity to beat Friendster with more options and less restrictions for social network users. MySpace was purchased in 2005 for $580 million by Rupert Murdoch creator of a media empire that includes 20th Century Fox and the Fox television stations. MySpace has more than 40 billion page views a month. Google paid $900 million to be MySpace's search provider. MySpace runs on Microsoft .NET Framework, operating under Windows 2003 server and applications written in C# for ASP.NET.

History of Amazon.com
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Facts Jeff Bezon coined the term Amazon.com from the earlier name Cadabra.com. It was the excellent way to present large volume online bookstore. But did he have hidden intentions? It is hard to believe but in the early Internet days, when Yahoo was dominant search engine, results on one page were listed alphabetically. Amazon would always appear above its competition for a specific keywords. This could be a breaking point for Jeff to expand and became what it is today.

What Is Google?
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FactsGoogle, the Internet search company founded in September 1998. By Larry Page & Sergey Brin, got it's name from the word Googol, which represents number 1 followed with hundred zeros after it.

What Is Yahoo!?
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FactsYahoo the complex Internet organism has complicated name. Word "Yahoo" is shortcut for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle". It was coined by PhD candidates at Stanford University: David Filo and Jerry Yang.

First words for you

2007-06-11T05:31:00.000+05:45

About me:
I am a fresh graduate in Computer Engineering. Now I am engaged in computer Programming & Networking.

This is my first post in this website. I have planned to post only the handpicked best ever articles on the computer. I will research on many website and provide you with the best articles on the net. Post the known Tips on computer, Problems on computer with their solutions. Especially I am interested in Computer Programming, Networking, Database, Web and Internet so I am going to cover the following things in this site. I will not forget to put special computer (PC) tips.

Finally comment me about anythings that will help to improve this site (swetaprdhn@yahoo.com).