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Three-clock Configuration in System Time

noreply@blogger.com (LawrenceAlbert) — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 01:56:10 PST

Windows can display up to three additional clocks and time in other time zones. Viewing can be done by hovering or pointing to the taskbars clock.

Lets dig into the topic from Windows to registry.

To add, click ‘Change date and time settings…’ and configure those clocks located at additional Clocks Tab. For each clock, click to check ‘Show this clock’. Select a time zone from the drop-down list, type a name up to 15 characters, and then click OK.

Editing Additional Clocks using Windows Registry

Use the start search, type “regedit” and go to the path below:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\TimeDate\AdditionalClocks\1

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\TimeDate\AdditionalClocks\2

Data Value	Type
DisplayName	String Value	any name
Enable	DWORD Value	1 or 0
TzRegKeyName	String Value	Time Zone

Time Zone		Registry Value
UTC-12:00	International Dateline West	Dateline Standard Time
UTC-11:00	Coordinated Universal Time	UTC-11
UTC-10:00	Hawaii	Hawaiian Standard Time
UTC-9:00	Alaska	Alaska Standard Time
UTC-8:00	Baja California	Pacific Standard Time (Mexico)
UTC-7:00	Arizona	US Mountain Standard Time
UTC-7:00	Chihuahua, La Paz, Mazatlan	Mountain Standard Time (Mexico)
UTC-7:00	Mountain Time (US & Canada)	Mountain Standard Time
UTC-6:00	Central America	Central America Standard Time
UTC-6:00	Central America (US & Canada)	Central Standard Time
UTC-6:00	Guadalajara, Mexico City, Monterrey	Central Standard Time (Mexico)
UTC-6:00	Saskatchewan	Canada Central Standard Time
UTC-5:00	Bogota, Lima, Quito	SA Pacific Standard Time
UTC-5:00	Eastern Time (US & Canada)	Eastern Standard Time
UTC-5:00	Indiana (East)	US Eastern Standard Time
UTC-4:30	Caracas	Venezuela Standard Time
UTC-4:00	Asuncion	Paraguay Standard Time
UTC-4:00	Atlantic Time (Canada)	Atlantic Standard Time
UTC-4:00	Cuiaba	Central Brazilian Standard Time
UTC-4:00	Georgetown, La Paz, Manaus, San Juan	SA Western Standard Time
UTC-4:00	Santiago	Pacific SA Standard Time
UTC-3:30	Newfoundland	Newfoundland Standard Time
UTC-3:00	Brasilia	E. South America Standard Time
UTC-3:00	Buenos Aires	Argentina Standard Time
UTC-3:00	Cayenne, Fortaleza	SA Eastern Standard Time
UTC-3:00	Greenland	Greenland Standard Time
UTC-3:00	Montevideo	Montevideo Standard Time
UTC-3:00	Salvador	Bahia Standard Time
UTC-2:00	Coordinated Universal Time-02	UTC-02
UTC-2:00	Mid-Atlantic	Mid-Atlantic Standard Time
UTC-1:00	Azores	Azores Standard Time
UTC-1:00	Cape Verde Is.	Cape Verde Standard Time
UTC	Casablanca	Morocco Standard Time
UTC	Coordinated Universal Time	UTC
UTC	Dublin, Edinburgh, Lisbon, London	GMT Standard Time
UTC	Monrovia, Reykjavik	Greenwich Standard Time
UTC+1:00	Amsterdam, Berlin, Bern, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna	W. Europe Standard Time
UTC+1:00	Belgrade, Bratislava, Budapest, Ljubljana, Prague	Central Europe Standard Time
UTC+1:00	Brussels, Copenhagen, Madrid, Paris	Romance Standard Time
UTC+1:00	Sarajevo, Skopje, Warsaw, Zagreb	Central European Standard Time
UTC+1:00	West Central Africa	W. Central Africa Standard Time
UTC+1:00	Windhoek	Namibia Standard Time
UTC+2:00	Amman	Jordan Standard Time
UTC+2:00	Athens, Bucharest	GTB Standard Time
UTC+2:00	Beirut	Middle East Standard Time
UTC+2:00	Cairo	Egypt Standard Time
UTC+2:00	Damascus	Syria Standard Time
UTC+2:00	Harare, Pretoria	South Africa Standard Time
UTC+2:00	Helsinki, Kyiv, Riga, Sofia, Tallinn, Vilnius	FLE Standard Time
UTC+2:00	Istanbul	Turkey Standard Time
UTC+2:00	Jerusalem	Israel Standard Time
UTC+2:00	Nicosia	E. Europe Standard Time
UTC+3:00	Baghdad	Arabic Standard Time
UTC+3:00	Kaliningrad,Minsk	Kaliningrad Standard Time
UTC+3:00	Kuwait, Riyadh	Arab Standard Time
UTC+3:00	Nairobi	E. Africa Standard Time
UTC+3:30	Tehran	Iran Standard Time
UTC+4:00	Abu Dhabi, Muscat	Arabian Standard Time
UTC+4:00	Baku	Azerbaijan Standard Time
UTC+4:00	Moscow, St. Petersburg, Volgograd	Russian Standard Time
UTC+4:00	Port Luis	Mauritius Standard Time
UTC+4:00	Tbilisi	Georgian Standard Time
UTC+4:00	Yerevan	Caucasus Standard Time
UTC+4:30	Kabul	Afghanistan Standard Time
UTC+5:00	Islamabad, Karachi	Pakistan Standard Time
UTC+5:00	Tashkent	West Asia Standard Time
UTC+5:30	Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai, New Delhi	India Standard Time
UTC+5:30	Sri Jayewardenepura	Sri Lanka Standard Time
UTC+5:45	Kathmandu	Nepal Standard Time
UTC+6:00	Astana	Central Asia Standard Time
UTC+6:00	Dhaka	Bangladesh Standard Time
UTC+6:00	Ekaterinburg	Ekaterinburg Standard Time
UTC+6:30	Yangon (Rangoon)	Myanmar Standard Time
UTC+7:00	Bangkok, Hanoi, Jakarta	SE Asia Standard Time
UTC+8:00	Beijing, Chongqing, Hong Kong, Urumqi	China Standard Time
UTC+8:00	Krasnoyarsk	North Asia Standard Time
UTC+8:00	Kuala Lumpur, Singapore	Singapore Standard Time
UTC+8:00	Perth	W. Australia Standard Time
UTC+8:00	Taipei	Taipei Standard Time
UTC+8:00	Ulaanbaatar	Ulaanbaatar Standard Time
UTC+9:00	Irkutsk	North Asia East Standard Time
UTC+9:00	Osaka, Sapporo, Tokyo	Tokyo Standard Time
UTC+9:00	Seoul	Korea Standard Time
UTC+9:30	Adelaide	Cen. Australia Standard Time
UTC+9:30	Darwin	AUS Central Standard Time
UTC+10:00	Brisbane	E. Australia Standard Time
UTC+10:00	Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney	AUS Eastern Standard Time
UTC+10:00	Guam, Port Moresby	West Pacific Standard Time
UTC+10:00	Hobart	Tasmania Standard Time
UTC+10:00	Yakutsk	Yakutsk Standard Time
UTC+11:00	Solomon Is., New Caledonia	Central Pacific Standard Time
UTC+11:00	Vladivostok	Vladivostok Standard Time
UTC+12:00	Auckland, Wellington	New Zealand Standard Time
UTC+12:00	Coordinated Universal Time+12	UTC+12
UTC+12:00	Fiji	Fiji Standard Time
UTC+12:00	Magadan	Magadan Standard Time
UTC+13:00	Nuku’alofa	Tonga Standard Time
UTC+13:00	Samoa	Samoa Standard Time

Displaying the Run Option in Start Menu

noreply@blogger.com (LawrenceAlbert) — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 23:22:25 PST

Start Menu Run option is not included as default feature in newer version of Windows. Probably the designers is comfortable and want to popularize the Start Search feature. Anyway, how to re-enable the option is easy…

Right Click the Taskbar > Properties > Start Menu Tab and Click “Customize…” button

Then, Click to check “Run command” to enable the option…

Using the Registry to Enable “Run…” item in Start Menu

You can also enable the option using Windows Registry if everything seems goes wrong e.g. the Taskbar hangs

So, open your Windows Registry (Win logo key + R) and type “Regedit” and go to the registry folder below

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced

Once you reach the folder, right-click > New > DWORD (32-bit) Value and use the value name “Start_ShowRun” and data as 1 as shown above.

Finally, Restart your computer afterwards…

That’s it!

Quick Tip: HTML Printing using command prompt

noreply@blogger.com (LawrenceAlbert) — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 19:42:45 PST

If you have a long website information to print everyday. Here’s the command that you can execute.

HTML Printing via command line

rundll32.exe mshtml.dll,PrintHTML "filename"

Example

rundll32.exe mshtml.dll,PrintHTML "H:\study\formatparagraph3.html"

Enjoy!!!

Google Analytics Visitors Reports

noreply@blogger.com (LawrenceAlbert) — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 23:24:07 PST

Google Analytics is a service that generates visitors website statistics. The tool made it easy for non-specialist and experts to practice performance focused analysis.

New vs Returning

This visitor report gives you a quick view at the ratio of people who had never been to your site to returning visitors by number of visits and its percentage.

You can look at the relative economic impact of new vs returning visitors by viewing the Ecommerce statistics and adding advanced segments for New and Returning Visitors. When you segment the report this way, you get side-by-side statistics for things like overall revenue, the number of transactions, and the average value of each transaction for each population.

Frequency & Recency

This reports gives you a quick look at the user interest in your site from the view of how frequently visitors return to your site within a time frame. The data are calculated per unique visitor.

Location

The report lets you take at look at the visitors origin e.g. Continent, Sub Continent, Country and City.

Understanding each users location can also help you where to focus your advertising.

Audience Overview

The Audience reports views lets you to understand the demographics, behaviors, and technologies of your visitors. For example, where do your best customers live? Or, identify geographic areas that send you high-engagement traffic, see at engagement metrics such as Pages/Visit and Avg. Time on Site.

Is your visitors made up of new audiences or visitors who come back to the site regularly?

What paths do visitors take through your site? Look at the Flow report.

Overview

A view of visitor metrics.

You can see visits shown as line graph, new vs returning visitors as pie chart, and a list of values for each of the following metrics:

• Visits - total no. of visits
• Unique Visitors - total no. of unique visitors
• Pageviews - total no. of pages viewed
• Pages per Visit - average number of pages viewed
• Average Time on Site - average time on site for each visitor
• Bounce Rate - percent of single-page visits
• New Visitors - percent of total visitors who visited your site for the first time

In the table at the bottom of the report, you can see metrics for the following dimensions:

• Language
• Country/Territory
• City
• Browser
• Operating System
• Service Provider
• Mobile Operating System
• Mobile Service Provider
• Mobile Screen Resolution

Browser & OS

This report lets you see the different web browsers users are using to visit your site, along with other data about the systems such as operating system, screen resolution, screen colors, Flash version, and Java support.

This information is helpful when you are making design decisions about your site.

Theming Settings: Appearance and Desktop Wallpapers

noreply@blogger.com (LawrenceAlbert) — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 15:55:08 PST

Another way to access and enable themes in Windows 7 and above…

This tip is usually not being use everyday and usually for everyday geek computing only.

rundll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL desk.cpl desk,@Themes /Action:OpenTheme /file:Filename

You can create a shortcut for the syntax above for applying windows themes. There are many free themes available at microsoft and all you need to do is to visit the site and choose any theme that you want.

rundll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL desk.cpl desk,@Themes /Action:OpenTheme /file:"C:\Users\User\Downloads\Ice.themepack"

Cool?! Thanks for reading the article!

Quick Tip: Connect to Network Window

noreply@blogger.com (LawrenceAlbert) — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 12:56:14 PST

Connect or reconnect to available wireless networks, wired, dial-up and VPN connection that you can connect to.

What if you can’t find or click the Connect To Window?

All you need to do is to run the command below:

rundll32.exe van.dll,RunVAN

Happy New Year!

Adding Context Menu to Desktop – Control Panel, Softwares and System Tools

noreply@blogger.com (LawrenceAlbert) — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 02:54:40 PST

Context Menu are right click options or popup menus that offers choices of action needed by the user. Here’s how to get into tweaking and installation of those options through RegDevelop and Windows Registry.

Created program using Regdevelop (Complete)

Regdevelop let’s you create a graphical user interface for these tweaks, Click here to download the complete version of the tool for easy installation of Right-Click Menus.

Update(s): Newer Version with uninstall options

1/25/2012: Click here to download the latest version (with Switch to Integrated Development Environment)

For People who already knows Windows Registry

You can learn and see how it is being done through highlighted words and folder key location and registry values.

Open your notepad, copy and paste the text below, save it as [filename].reg, and make sure you select All Files (*.*)

Double-Click the file to install in Windows Registry.

Method #1 – Control Panel Menu (3 SubMenu only)

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\DesktopBackground\Shell\Control]
"MUIVerb"="Control Panel"
"icon"="control.exe,0"
"SubCommands"="EaseOfAccessCenter;SystemProperties;Calculator"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\CommandStore\shell\EaseOfAccessCenter]
@="Ease of Access Center"
"icon"="c:\\windows\\system32\\utilman.exe,0"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\CommandStore\shell\EaseOfAccessCenter\command]
@="control access.cpl"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\CommandStore\shell\SystemProperties]
@="System Properties"
"icon"="sysdm.cpl,0"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\CommandStore\shell\SystemProperties\command]
@="control sysdm.cpl"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\CommandStore\shell\Calculator]
@="Calculator"
"icon"="calc.exe"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\CommandStore\shell\Calculator\command]
@="calc.exe"

Method #2 – Softwares and System Tools Menu (3 Sub-Menu only)

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\DesktopBackground\Shell\System]
"MUIVerb"="System Tools"
"icon"="C:\\Windows\\system32\\wucltux.dll"
"ExtendedSubCommandsKey"="DesktopBackground\\ContextMenus\\system"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\DesktopBackground\ContextMenus\system]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\DesktopBackground\ContextMenus\system\shell]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\DesktopBackground\ContextMenus\system\shell\cmd1]
"icon"="%windir%\\system32\\charmap.exe,0"
"MUIVerb"="Character Map"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\DesktopBackground\ContextMenus\system\shell\cmd1\command]
@="charmap.exe"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\DesktopBackground\ContextMenus\system\shell\cmd2]
"icon"="control.exe,0"
"MUIVerb"="Control Panel"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\DesktopBackground\ContextMenus\system\shell\cmd2\command]
@="control.exe"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\DesktopBackground\ContextMenus\system\shell\cmd3]
"icon"="%windir%\\system32\\cleanmgr.exe,0"
"MUIVerb"="Disk Cleanup"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\DesktopBackground\ContextMenus\system\shell\cmd3\command]
@="cleanmgr.exe"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\DesktopBackground\Shell\Softo]
"MUIVerb"="Softwares"
"ExtendedSubCommandsKey"="DesktopBackground\\ContextMenus\\tools"
"icon"="C:\\Windows\\system32\\wucltux.dll,7"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\DesktopBackground\ContextMenus\tools]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\DesktopBackground\ContextMenus\tools\Shell]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\DesktopBackground\ContextMenus\tools\Shell\cmd1]
"MUIVerb"="Bluetooth File Transfer"
"icon"="%SystemRoot%\\system32\\fsquirt.exe,0"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\DesktopBackground\ContextMenus\tools\Shell\cmd1\command]
@="fsquirt.exe"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\DesktopBackground\ContextMenus\tools\Shell\cmd2]
"MUIVerb"="Calculator"
"icon"="calc.exe,0"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\DesktopBackground\ContextMenus\tools\Shell\cmd2\command]
@="calc.exe"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\DesktopBackground\ContextMenus\tools\Shell\cmd3]
"MUIVerb"="Command Prompt"
"icon"="%windir%\\system32\\cmd.exe,0"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\DesktopBackground\ContextMenus\tools\Shell\cmd3\command]
@="cmd.exe"

For more advanced option… you can dig more by going to regdevelop folders and see the complete commands and registry values.

Works with Windows 7 and above…

Enjoy!

References

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb761870(v=VS.85).aspx
http://io-repo.blogspot.com/2011/05/cascading-context-menus-via-static.html
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/hh127431(v=vs.85).aspx
http://www.askvg.com/add-cascading-menus-for-your-favorite-programs-in-windows-7-desktop-context-menu/

Have Fun studying various information related to Computers

noreply@blogger.com (LawrenceAlbert) — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 18:41:05 PST

This is an update for the website http://windowsforus.com

Cool!? Its not an OS, just a menu for articles, sign up options and many other things.

Actually, the project started several months ago between April and May. It was exciting because I started from nothing, only studying few portions.

This is the initial work from April to May 2011

- cope up with detection features

Initial Ideas (many features)

Great! This project keeps me on going, this project for me, is the start of being a professional web developer and blogger since 2007.

During August, I updated youtube file hack because its already not working for several months or maybe almost a year. Try the tool!

Why I can’t post the latest work?

There are still many work to be done, and its very difficult to finish everything. I work faster and faster during May and I end up working too slow starting from June to October.

Try now! http://windowsforus.com

Using RegDevelop to Create your own Hardware and System Information Program

noreply@blogger.com (LawrenceAlbert) — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 13:16:26 PDT

Gathering of computer hardware and information about the central processing unit (CPU), Memory Card Information (RAM), BIOS, motherboard, and other hardware peripherals are needed.

Quick view are needed to get the system information, upgrade hardware and verification of system resources.

Here’s a guide to create your own program using Regdevelop. All you need are commands use to get the hardware information.

Open the program and drag the button control and start configuring the settings.

Sample Settings

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Caption

CPU Current Voltage and Caption

StartProcess

cmd /k wmic cpu get caption,currentvoltage

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Caption

System Information Tool

StartProcess

msinfo32

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Caption

Current Clock Speed

StartProcess

wmic cpu get CurrentClockSpeed,MaxClockSpeed /every:3

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Caption

Memory Card Information

StartProcess

cmd /k wmic memorychip get FormFactor,serialnumber,partnumber,speed,capacity,name

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Caption

BIOS Information

StartProcess

cmd /k wmic bios get name,version,serialnumber

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Caption

BaseBoard Information

StartProcess

cmd /k wmic baseboard get manufacturer,serialnumber

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Caption

Get Network Card MacAddress

StartProcess

cmd /k wmic nic get macaddress,description,speed

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Caption

CDROM Drive Information

StartProcess

cmd /k wmic cdrom get drive,id,volumeserialnumber,manufacturer

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Caption

Disk Drive Information

StartProcess

cmd /k wmic diskdrive get model,serialnumber,size

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Caption

DirectX Diagnostic Tool

StartProcess

dxdiag.exe

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Finally, Click the Build Now Button. Enjoy!

How to get the Current CPU Clock Speed, Computer Service Tag Number, Bios Name and Version using WMI

noreply@blogger.com (LawrenceAlbert) — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 22:33:52 PDT

Computer stickers holds your computer service tag number or serial number information and if the technical support person needs to get the number as soon as possible. How will you solve the problem using only the command prompt?

Got an overheating problem and you need to check the current clock speed of your computer? Here’s a quick tip for windows built-in utility using Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) called wmic.

Open the command prompt (Start Search –> cmd) and type the following command for BIOS Name, Service Tag Number and Version

wmic bios get name,serialnumber,version

Computer System Product information Name, Identifying Number and UUID

wmic csproduct get name,identifyingnumber,uuid

CPU Name, Current Clock Speed and Maximum Clock Speed

wmic cpu get name,CurrentClockSpeed,MaxClockSpeed

You can monitor the changes in CPU clock speed every Seconds

e.g. 3 seconds

wmic cpu get name,CurrentClockSpeed,MaxClockSpeed /every:3

Thanks for reading the article!

Using Subst command to create virtual drives

noreply@blogger.com (LawrenceAlbert) — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 05:56:34 PDT

Subst is being use to associate or substitutes folders as virtual drives. The command lets you access data easily and By functionality, its almost the same as creating folders to computer window.

Lets try using the command by creating drive S: using the folder c:\files.

type “cmd” at Start search, and follow the command below

s: – virtual drive letter

files – folder that you want to associate (c:\files)

Afterwards, you’ll see the virtual drive instantly. Anyway, the problem with the command, when the computer restarts, all created virtual drives will be deleted automatically.

So, Let’s solve and try loading the commands before logging into windows.

Open your Notepad and write the command

subst s: c:\myfiles\videos
subst x: c:\backup

Use File > Save As and go to the following folder location

C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup

Make sure that you Click ALL Files (*.*) and write the filename

Great?!

To delete any virtual drive use the command SUBST Drive /d

e.g. Subst s: /d

Usage

C:\Users\mstouch>subst /?
Associates a path with a drive letter.

SUBST [drive1: [drive2:]path]

SUBST drive1: /D

drive1: Specifies a virtual drive to which you want to assign a path.

[drive2:]path

Specifies a physical drive and path you want to assign to a virtual drive.

/D Deletes a substituted (virtual) drive.

Type SUBST with no parameters to display a list of current virtual drives.

C:\Users\mstouch>

Thanks for reading the article!

How to Remove items at most recently used lists for Run Window

noreply@blogger.com (LawrenceAlbert) — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 23:20:46 PDT

If your computer are shared by your family, privacy sometimes are very important - editing history list from your run window is a very cool topic.

Here’s how…

Open your registry editor, press Win + R and type “regedit”

and go to the folder below

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\RunMRU

Look for the item that you want to remove from the list and delete

Most of the data in the registry are now secured for the newer version of windows, so, editing and adding data are safe as long as any changes came from the source you trust.

Thanks for reading the article!

Easy way to Download Webm Videos from Youtube

noreply@blogger.com (LawrenceAlbert) — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 06:02:02 PDT

WebM videos is an open source audio video and royalty free multimedia format. If you already read how to play those videos easily. Here’s a quick tip to save the new format using a script.

How? Simply copy and paste the script to the address box…

javascript:isIE=/*@cc_on!@*/false;isIE ? swfHTML=document.getElementById('movie_player').getElementsByTagName('param') [1].value:swfHTML=document.getElementById("movie_player").getAttribute("flashvars");w=swfHTML.split("&");for(i=0;i<=w.length-1;i++)if(w[i].split("=")[0] == "url_encoded_fmt_stream_map"){links=unescape(w[i].split("=")[1]);break;}abc = links.split(",url=");for(i=0;i<=abc.length-1;i++){fmt=abc[i].split("|")[0];if ((fmt.indexOf("webm") > 0) && (fmt.indexOf("720") <= 0) && (fmt.indexOf("1080") <= 0)){if (fmt.indexOf("rl=") > 0){url = fmt.substring(4,fmt.indexOf ("fallback_host")-1);url = unescape(unescape(url));break;}else{url = fmt.substring(0,fmt.indexOf("fallback_host")-1);url = unescape(unescape(url));break;}}} combineurl = url;combineurl = combineurl + '&title=' + ((((document.title.replace('#',' ')).replace('@',' ')).replace('*',' ')).replace('|',' ')).replace (':',' ');window.location.href = combineurl.substring(0, 2000);

Before you enter, Press Home to check if “javascript” is included, if not type “javascript:” at the beginning.

Thanks!

How to increase USB storage performance

noreply@blogger.com (LawrenceAlbert) — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 23:31:37 PDT

This is a new update for Windows 7 and Windows Server to boost the speed of USB storage devices by increasing the maximum transfer size. After installing the update, you can change the maximum transfer size from 64 kilobytes (KB) up to 2 megabytes (MB) using your windows registry editor.

The hotfix is only available to the following operating systems:

Windows 7 and above
Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) and above
Windows Server 2008 R2
Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (SP1) and above

After installing the update here’s the Registry Hack to increase the maximum transfer length:

1. Click the Start Menu > type “regedit” in the Start Search

2. Once the registry editor is open, go to the following registry folder

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\usbstor\VVVVPPPP

3. Right-click any vacant space > New > DWORD (32-bit) Value

4. Type MaximumTransferLength and double-click to modify the value data

5. Select Decimal and type a value between 65535 and 2097120 (64k to 2M) e.g. 2000000

Using Regdevelop to create registry application to increase the maximum transfer size of USB devices

Drag the Checkbox control and start configuring the program using the settings below

Caption

Maximize the USB Transfer size

RegKeyPath1

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\usbstor\VVVVPPPP

Value_Name1

MaximumTransferLength

ValueData1

2000000

ValueType1

DWORD

Thanks for reading the tip!

Save more space by Removing Windows Service Pack Folders

noreply@blogger.com (LawrenceAlbert) — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 16:13:15 PDT

After installing service pack, Windows automatically creates a backup of the files and settings that service pack installer changes, some are very important if system files is corrupted or damaged, you can use the contents of the folder to return your computer to its previous state.

C:\windows\$NtServicePackUninstall$ Folder – This folder is safe to delete unless you want to restore windows without service pack in the future.

C:\windows\SevicePackfiles Folder – This folder contains files that are required to replace damaged or changed protected system files, this is not recommended to delete unless you installed softwares that automatically restore to original state after reboot e.g. DeepFreeze

Windows Vista SP1 and SP2 File Cleanup Tool

compcln.exe helps to recover permanent hard disk space by removing previous version of RTM and SP1 files.

For Vista SP1 Files, use vsp1cln.exe to save more space.

Windows 7 Disk Cleanup Tool

Installing Windows 7 SP1 will require a bit more hard drive space, simply by using Windows 7’s built-in Disk Cleanup Tool will do the job easily or use the Deployment Image Servicing and Management (DISM) Tool.

DISM.exe /online /cleanup-image /spsuperseded

Quick Tip: Easily Play .Webm formats

noreply@blogger.com (LawrenceAlbert) — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 15:06:26 PDT

Webm is an audio video format use in Youtube design to provide royalty free and open video compression design for HTML5. Youtube offers WebM videos in 480p and 720p format so, if you encountered some files with .webm extension, here’s a quick tip.

Simply drag and drop the file to your Google Chrome browser

Easy?!

If your using http://windowsforus.com/youtube to browse and save videos at youtube, parsing those links many times, for sure, you’ll encoutered this type of video.

How to Add “Register File” to your Right-Click Menu

noreply@blogger.com (LawrenceAlbert) — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 23:43:08 PDT

Your old computer doesn’t work anymore, you re-installed the OS but most of the setup to run your important programs is already gone so, you’ve just copied the files and when you run the software you get this message: “Component ‘----------‘ or one of its dependencies are not correctly registered: a file is missing or invalid

The only thing that you can do with this is to use your search engine for this files and after downloading them, move them to the folder location of the software or c:\windows\system32 and register the files needed one by one.

Adding “Register File” would be great!

Using the universal script template that WinBubbles have, you’ll be able launch any application with UAC enabled. Same with its examples e.g. How to Add “Hide This File” or “Unhide this File” Context Menu and Hide my Computer to your Network Icon

Download the tool, go to its folder location and Copy “lawrence.vbs'”

Rename the file to any e.g. regsvr32.vbs

open the file with notepad and replace the string

For Each strArg in objArg

‘Replace the string here

To this code (register files):

objApp.shellExecute "cmd.exe", " /c regsvr32 " & chr(34) & strArg & chr(34), , "runas", 1

Save the file, copy the Path, open WinBubble and go to Tools Menu

Click “Windows Explorer (All Files)” Button and add this values

Name Any e.g. Register this File

Command wscript "[Path]" "%1" for example

wscript "C:\Program Files\WinBubble\WinBubble 2\Tools\regsvr32.vbs" “%1”

Click Add afterwards… and start registering DLLs and ActiveX Controls..

To Unregister file (you need to repeat all steps and use this code) Context Menu:

objApp.shellExecute "cmd.exe", " /c regsvr32 /u " & chr(34) & strArg & chr(34), , "runas", 1

That’s it!

Save Youtube Video using View Source links

noreply@blogger.com (LawrenceAlbert) — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 00:32:54 PDT

This is an update to the old youtube hack!

Watch any youtube video that you like to save into your hard drive for offline viewing and use Right-Click View Source.

Once you see all the page code press CTRL + F and type “,url”

it will find all the available links in different file formats.

Let’s get the initial result by highlighting the link starting from “http….” up to “\u0026”… Right-Click and Copy the string..

and go to http://windowsforus.com/getlinks

Paste the copied url to the Decoder Utility

and start saving the video…

Enjoy!

How to change Windows Library Icons

noreply@blogger.com (LawrenceAlbert) — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 12:24:38 PDT

Changing all library icons is easy! All you need to do is to follow these steps to start changing the icons.

Guide

Make sure the all hidden files and folders are shown – Press Alt + t + o + View tab and click to choose the option “Show hidden files, folders, and drives”

and go to the path

"C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Libraries"

Make sure that what you see is the same as the picture above

Now open the folders by dragging the folders to notepad or just use the Open with Notepad feature of Winbubbles located at the general tab.

and click the Apply Button

Its easy! Just right-click and use the feature to locate the XML data

<iconReference>imageres.dll,-1003</iconReference>

Simply change imageres.dll,-1003 to the path of the icon e.g. C:\Windows\System32\SensorsCpl.dll,14 or [filename] only

If it is difficult to find icons, it is recommended to use all the built-in icons that you can find in windows using winbubbles to prevent mistakes. just go to Icon Tab and click browse to launch the icon browser window.

and use the right side portion to get the path and file by pressing down arrow ↓

Sample

Library Icon	Original Icon	Change to
Documents	imageres.dll,-1002	C:\Windows\branding\shellbrd\shellbrd.dll,2
Music	imageres.dll,-1004	C:\Windows\system32\NetworkMap.dll,7
Pictures	imageres.dll,-1003	C:\Windows\System32\SensorsCpl.dll,14
Video	imageres.dll,-1005	same

Results

Cool Right?! Enjoy!

Adding Quick Navigation Explorer feature to your Taskbar

noreply@blogger.com (LawrenceAlbert) — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 13:35:19 PDT

Some people are always in a hurry, easily annoyed, and always want all things as simple as possible e.g. navigating through folders and files.

Probably, that’s why Start Search was invented.

Look at the picture above.

Here I’m going to show the feature that I called “Quick Navigation Explorer” where it is possible to browse your files and folders located at the right side portion of the taskbar.

How to the Add Quick Navigation Feature to your Taskbar

Right-Click any portion of the taskbar and choose “new toolbar…”

Choose any folder such as Computer, Libraries and Favorites, and click the Select Folder Button.

Easy and nice tip?! Thanks for reading the article!

Quick tip: Launching the Hidden Command Prompt while installing Windows

noreply@blogger.com (LawrenceAlbert) — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 12:55:51 PDT

During the installation of Windows, it is possible to launch the command prompt after entering the username and password.

Just press Shift + F10 and the command prompt will appear.

By this you can enable the hidden administrator (inactive) account and others, tweak anything while installing, and verify the settings through command prompt.

Cool right?!

Tested the installation using Virtual PC running 512mb, enabled virtualization and 2 Ghz Core2duo processor while using the classic theme of windows... Its fast.. Thanks for reading the article!

Windows 8 integrates new design concepts

noreply@blogger.com (LawrenceAlbert) — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 03:09:15 PDT

Windows 8 shall became one of the most important changes that Microsoft done into its operating system for more than a decade since Windows 95…

Let’s take a look first at the aging Start Menu from Windows 95 to Windows 7…

looks the same and feels older now - right?

A new Beginning Design UI for Windows 8

Seeing the new version having a new platform that supports ARM and several technologies at CES 2011, we've been excited for the upcoming Windows 8 for a long long time, downloading those fake leaks, and thankfully, Windows 8 was shown to the public for the first time with new UI that looks like Windows Phone and was designed to be really fast and fluid for Windows Tablets and PCs.

Platform support for new design

News designs by Intel, ARM Snapdragon processor, AMD, Texas Instruments Omap and Nvidia.

User Interface Features

Start Screen Tiles

Swipe Apps feature

- Sliding from left to right

Snap to dock feature

you can drag to resize the width

HTML 5 and Javascript Programming

The new platform is based on new web technologies so, it will maximize the touch features using HTML 5 and Javascript that will allow million of developers to create a new kind of app with Windows 8 – really cool… right?

Apps are fullscreen and beautiful designed for touch technologies…

Internet Explorer 10 – Touch First UI and Switching Tabs

Touch Keyboard

with thumbs layout for easy typing

Windows 8 Apps

Anyway, you can always go back to the good old look of windows afterwards…

Let’s also wait for the “business and techie” features in the coming weeks.

Can’t wait!!!

Thanks for reading the quick view of “a more and beautiful” Windows 8…

Save Energy by Adding “Turn Off Monitor/LCD” to Folders and Orb Ball in Windows 7 and Vista

noreply@blogger.com (LawrenceAlbert) — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 00:25:34 PDT

Are you the type of person who always do-the-right thing? Monitor corresponds to 42-43% usage in power consumption everyday. If you have plenty of computers in your house, this tip will save you a lot of electricity bills from your pocket.

Laptops and bulky CRT monitors are one of the useful application of this tip. When you buy laptops, there are only few manufacturers that adds turn off monitor key from your keyboard, you can only lessen the brightness level but you can’t totally turn it off instantly..

Windows 7 Folders and Desktop - Adding them to all folders is really useful

Right Click any Folder name that you want, and click “Turn off Monitor” using the LEFT SIDE BUTTON of your Mouse. wow!!!

For Windows Vista – adding the option to Orb Ball (Start Menu) is available

Right Click the Orb Ball, and click “Turn off Monitor” using the Left side Button of your Mouse.

Quick and Easy!

How to add the “Turn Off Monitor” option using Windows 7 and Vista

Download the software Winbubble, extract the zip file and install the tool. Once the tool is already been installed, launch the tool until it finishes setting up some bitmap conversions from Windows 7 Wallpapers.

Once, it has been open, go to the Tools Tab and click the Folder/Start Menu option and use the settings below.

Name: Any name that you want

Command: "C:\Program Files\WinBubble\WinBubble 2\Tools\htool.exe" /m

Tip: you can try if the tool works by pressing Win+R and by copying the path above and press enter.. If the Monitor turns Off, great!!!

Available only in Windows 7

Icon: just use the browse […] button to select any icon that is available from windows

Desktop Icon

c:\windows\system32\shell32.dll,34

Start Menu Icon

c:\windows\system32\shell32.dll,39

Run Icon

c:\windows\system32\shell32.dll,24

Afterwards, Click the Add Button. That’s it!

Try also adding the option to your desktop…

Cool right? Enjoy!!!

Command-line Utilities to check the Network Connectivity

noreply@blogger.com (LawrenceAlbert) — Tue, 24 May 2011 00:12:07 PDT

Microsoft Windows 7 and Vista includes several diagnostic tools to monitor and repair network connections. Here are some of the most commonly used tools…

PING is one of the most useful IP-level utilities because it tests and verifies the connectivity to other computer. It replies with reports on the general speed (response time) of the network connection.

To use PING, click the Orb Ball (Start), search by typing “cmd” and then press Enter.

In the command interpreter window, type ping <ip address> or ping <domain name> e.g. ping 192.168.0.3 or ping yahoo.com

IPCONFIG - If you get a request timeout response to a ping command, usually, this means that there's a problem with the connectivity or configuration of the computer's networking information.

To check whether the settings is correct - use ipconfig/all command to view the configuration information.

TRACERT - This utility determines the path to an internet address, which is measured in hops. This is useful in
finding the reason why you can't connect to another network or website(s) on the internet.

To use Tracert, type tracert <ip address> or tracert <domain name> in a command interpreter window e.g. tracert yahoo.com

Please navigate the site for more tips and informations…

Thank you for reading the article!!!

Using Regdevelop to create Windows Update Registry Program

noreply@blogger.com (LawrenceAlbert) — Wed, 11 May 2011 00:39:11 PDT

This tip will save you a lot of time removing some annoyances to your computer problems

One day, your computer automatically updates your windows installation, taking some few control out of it is good in our daily maintenance of our computer e.g. Turning off Autorun feature in Windows 7 and Windows update registry hacks.

Instead of going to the process again and again for maintenance and using the registry editor, just create a simple software for that.

If you have some experiences editing your windows registry, using Regdevelop is quite easy.

Drag the CheckBox control to the form and start configuring the program

Caption

Stop Windows update from changing the sleep/shutdown to “Install Updates and Shutdown"

RegKeyPath1

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU

Value_Name1

NoAUAsDefaultShutdownOption

ValueData1

ValueType1

DWORD

In the UNCHEKED function of CheckBox Control simply changing the option to false will automatically set the ValueData2 to 0

After that, you can proceed with other checkbox options like getting rid of Windows update option

No Auto Reboot While Users are Logged On and Turning Off Windows from searching for Updates

Read here for the configuration details

Also, There’s an “Automatic installation of certain updates that neither interrupt Windows services nor restart Windows” feature in windows using AutoInstallMinorUpdates value

For creativity, Adding a picturebox control creates a border for good User Interface.

Thanks for reading the article!