Computer Tricks and Tips

Transform your windows to Macintosh.

2012-02-20T03:23:00.000-08:00

Get Lion Transformation pack 1.0 which transforms your Windows OS to Apple's Macintosh OS.

It is a nice theme check out some of the screen shots here : -

Click download button to download the theme.

Keyboard basic shortcuts you should know

2012-02-08T04:56:00.000-08:00

Using Keyboard shortcuts save time by allowing you to never take your hands off the keyboard to use the mouse. So here is the list:-

Win Press windows key to open start menu

Win+R Opens Run dialog box

Win+M Minimize all opened windows

Win+S maximize all opened windows

Win+L locks keyboard in windows XP

Win+E opens My Computer

Win+F opens search options

Win+U opens Utility Manager

Win+D view desktop/minimize all windows

Win+F1 view the detail windows help page

Win+P Pause view the System Properties dialog box

Win+Tab Move through open windows

Win+F+Ctrl open search Window

Alt+Tab Move through opened windows programs

Alt+F4 close active window

Alt+Enter open properties of selected item

Alt+SPACEBAR Open the system menu of active window

Alt+SPACEBAR+N minimize the active program

Alt+SPACEBAR+R keys to restore the active program

Alt+SPACEBAR+C keys to close the active program

Alt+SPACEBAR+X keys to maximize the active program

Alt+SPACEBAR+M keys to move the active program

Ctrl+Alt+Delete options to shutdown or open task manager

Ctrl+Shift+Esc open windows task manager

Ctrl+Esc keys to open start menu

Shift+Delete delete items permanently

Ctrl+A Selects all items in Folder

Ctrl+C Copy function

Ctrl+v Paste Option

Ctrl+home Move to the top of the page

Ctrl+End Move to the bottom of the page

Dropbox - Simpify your life

2012-01-26T03:52:00.001-08:00

"Always have your stuff where ever you go" - Dropbox

What is Dropbox?

It is a website which provides online storage (free-2gb) and also makes file sharing easy.We can keep our files where ever we go or we can say we can have access to all your data from anywhere in the world.It can also be used for online backup.

Features of dropbox:-

1)One of the great feature of dropbox is automatic uploading . We just need to copy the file to the dropbox folder to upload it. There is no need to log on to the dropbox account whenever we need to upload the file.

2)One another feature is suppose we are have more than one computer. One in home and another in office and we want some files(which are in home or office's computer) on both of the computers. So we can directly copy the file to the dropbox folder. And on another computer it will be automatically downloaded.

If we want to download the file on computer on which dropbox is not installed. We can download it by logging to the dropbox account by visiting dropbox website.

3)Dropbox app also available for smartphones(blackberry, apple, android etc.). We can access files on the smartphone too.

4)Dropbox can be used for the online backup.

What we need for using drop box?

-A Dropbox account (Click here to create it)

-Dropbox application (Click here to download it)

-A Personal computer

How to use it?

First create an account on Dropbox's website.

And Install the Dropbox software.

Copy the file which we want to share or send to the Dropbox folder which is created automatically when we install Dropbox software.

Download the world's fastest download manager

2012-01-15T01:01:00.001-08:00

Internet Download Manager (idm) is the world's fastest download manager with many extra great features.

It helps to download multiple files in a single time. It also provides the resume capability if sometimes we shutdown our computer with incomplete download we can resume the download. With this new version we can also control the download speed. It is fully integrated with almost all browsers like google chrome, Firefox, internet explorer, opera etc. It also has the capability to download videos from youtube. To download full version of idm. Click the download button below.

Download free full version data recovery tool

2012-01-07T07:40:00.000-08:00

Easeus Data Recovery Wizard Professional is a tool used to recover data which is lost due to deletion,

virus attacks, format, partition loss, operating system crash etc. This tool is very easy to use and helps us to recover all type or format of data whether it is a video or a text document. Sometimes we delete the data by a mistake or we lost the data due to VIRUS attacks. So we can recover that data using this tool. It is the best tool used for recovering the data

Free version is also available but it only provides 1 GB of data to recover but i am making you available premium version free of cost. To download this tool click download button below.

How to change folder icons?

2012-01-07T02:21:00.001-08:00

Change icons of folders this new year.

Steps :-

-Right click on the folder.
-Then click on the properties.
-Then click on customize tab.

-Click on 'Change icon...'

-We can select any from the list or if we are having more icons then click on browse and locate them.

-After selecting icons click OK.

If you want to download more icons then click below.

How to set password to Microsoft Office 2007 files ?

2012-01-04T01:48:00.001-08:00

Keep your Microsoft files safe and secure. Set password to Microsoft Office files (.doc ,.ppt, etc) to make safe and secure.

-First open any Microsoft office's component such as Word, Powerpoint, Excel etc.

-Click on Office button

-Click on Prepare

-Then new window opens . There click on 'Encrypt document'

-Enter the desired password in the 'Encrypt document' window. and click Ok.

-New window appears asking for confirm the password . Then click OK.

Password is set on the file. And whenever we open the file it will ask for the password first.

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Google's Doodle wishes Happy New Year

2011-12-31T07:34:00.000-08:00

Google's last doodle of year 2011 wishes Happy New Year to everyone.

How to remove the drive letters?

2011-12-26T08:24:00.001-08:00

For windows 7
-Open My Computer.
-Click on Organize below the address bar and click on "Folder and search options".
Or
Press "Alt" key. Menu bar appears. Click on tools on Menu bar Then click on "Folder options"

-In Folder options Click on View.

-Look for "Show Drive letters" in Advanced settings.
-Uncheck the box.
-Click Apply then click Ok.

For windows XP.
-Click on Tools in the menu bar.-Then Click on Folder options.
-Click on View.
-Look for the "Show Drive letters"
-Uncheck the box.
-Click Apply then click Ok.

How to pin the links in the taskbar?

2011-12-25T07:02:00.000-08:00

'Your favourite websites are just a click away with Internet explorer 9'

Now we can pin links to the taskbar with Internet explorer 9. Only we have to do is just drag and to leave on task bar.
Steps
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----This will be pinned automatically.

How to remove or modify the ugly arrows from the shortcut icons?

2011-12-09T06:27:00.001-08:00

"No one knows it is a shortcut on your desktop"

Arrows from the shortcut icons can be removed by two ways :
-Using an application (Vista Shortcut Manager).
-Another by creating some keys in registry editor(manually).

-----Using an application
-There are various applications using which we can remove and modify the shortcuts.
-Vista Shortcut Manager is one of the application using which we can remove or modify the shortcut arrows.

-This application is easy to use. Just open this application choose what you want to do.
-After selecting the desired option. Click on apply.
-Restart the computer settings will be applied.

It also works on Windows 7

-----Doing Manually
-Click on start button.
-Type regedit. or go to run and type regedit.
-Navigate HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE>Software>Microsoft>Windows>Current Version>Explorer>Shell icons.
-Create a new string value under this key by right clicking and name it as 29
-Set its value to C:\WINDOWS\system32\shell32.dll,52
-Close the Registry editor, and restart your computer for changes to take effect

What are Captchas?

2011-11-19T01:37:00.001-08:00

"Because we care, we're security aware"

Whenever we create an account on any website or comment on any blog we see scrambled words
which we have to type and continue these are CAPTCHAs .

What are CAPTCHAs and what they do?
It stands for Completely Automated Public Turing-test to tell Computers and Humans Apart.These tries to test that you are a person and not a auto filling software.

Why CAPTCHAs are necessary?

These are used to prevent hackers from avoiding misuse of online services.

There are some examples of activities which are undertaken by hackers are given below :-

-Opening someone's account by attempting different password again and again.

-Creating hundreds of free accounts

-Swaying an online poll by robotically submitting hundreds of false responses.

-Spamimng blogs by posting dozens of bogus comments.

These CAPTCHAs test prevent about 90% of hackers attacks.

What is a logic behind this CAPTCHAs?

Commonly, these CAPTCHA phrases are .gif pictures of scrambled words, but can also be .mp3 voice recordings. These pictures and recordings are very hard for conventional software programs to understand, and hence, robots are usually unable to type the phrase in response to the picture or recording.

How to create your own customized RUN commands

2011-11-11T07:35:00.001-08:00

"No need to mess up with your desktop"

Create your own customized RUN command in just 5 easy steps :-

By this you should be able to run your programs directly for eg. you want to open windown media player.You need to type only wmp in the Run dialog box. Its your wish what name you want to give the command.

----Right click on the desktop screen and click on "New" then click on "Shortcut".

----Browse for the program for which you want to create the command.(Navigate where the program is installed. In my case location is "C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player\wmplayer.exe") . Target to the main file of the program such as wmplayer, iexplore etc.

----Click "OK". Type a name for the shortcut. Then click "Finish" .

----Cut the shortcut and paste it to C:\Windows ..

-----You are done. Just open the Run dialog box, type wmp and hit Enter to open the Window media player.

Just like this you can create various othercommands for other programs such as "ff" for firefox, "idm" for internet download manager etc.

How to install Window 7 using USB drive ?

2011-11-10T03:53:00.000-08:00

"It's time to be smart with smart windows"

Installing windows 7 using USB drive

What are basic requirements ?
-----Windows 7 DVD
-----And a USB drive having minimum capacity of 4GB.

What are advantages if we install window 7 using flash drive ?

----First overall speed of the installation willl increase significantly.
----Carrying USB is more easy and convienient than DVD.
----It also become possible to install windows 7 on that systems which are not having DVD drives such as Net book..

Steps of installing windows 7 using USB drive.
---- Insert USB
---- Run the command prompt as administrator. (Type cmd in start and right click on cmd and click on "run as administrator".)
----In the command prompt type the following command

-DISKPART

A new window will appear and execute the following commands in that new window.

-LIST DISK

-SELECT DISK 1

-CLEAN

-CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY

-SELECT PARTITION 1

-ACTIVE

-FORMAT FS=NTFS

(This process may take few seconds)

-ASSIGN

-EXIT

Do not close the command prompt. Minimize it.

----Insert window 7 DVD .

----Maximize cmd and execute the following commands

- N: CD BOOT (hit enter Here "N" is my DVD drive letter write your one's here)

- CD BOOT

- BOOTSECT.EXE/NT60 O: (Here "O" is my USB drive letter)

After entering the command this messages appear

Your USB device is ready for the boot. Now copy the content of DVD to the USB.

The thing you left to do is to enabling the USB boot options in the BIOS from CD-ROM or HDD.

Enjoy installing windows from USB . If any problem leave it in the comment section.

Introducing to my blog

2011-11-09T22:37:00.000-08:00

"Computers can never replace human stupidity..."

The idea of my this blog is to share computer tricks and tips which are very much unknown to the common people who uses computer and internet daily .I will also aware people about hacking, viruses and many other traps which are caught by hackers...For any help or assistance in the computer field you can give your problem in the comment section and will be replied within a day