Lock Your Computer with Easy Shortcut

Leaving your computer in a hurry but you don’t want to log off? You can double-click a shortcut on your desktop to quickly lock the keyboard and display without using CTRL+ALT+DEL or a screen saver.

Here the steps to create a shortcut on your desktop to lock your computer:

• Right-click the desktop. Point to New, and then click Shortcut.
• The Create Shortcut Wizard opens. In the text box, type the following: rundll32.exe user32.dll,LockWorkStation
• Click Next. Enter a name for the shortcut. You can call it “Lock Workstation” or choose any name you like.
• Click Finish.

SIMPLE WAY: The less complicated way to do is to hold windows key+L

Lock Your Computer with Easy Shortcut

Leaving your computer in a hurry but you don’t want to log off? You can double-click a shortcut on your desktop to quickly lock the keyboard and display without using CTRL+ALT+DEL or a screen saver.

Here the steps to create a shortcut on your desktop to lock your computer:

• Right-click the desktop. Point to New, and then click Shortcut.
• The Create Shortcut Wizard opens. In the text box, type the following: rundll32.exe user32.dll,LockWorkStation
• Click Next. Enter a name for the shortcut. You can call it “Lock Workstation” or choose any name you like.
• Click Finish.

SIMPLE WAY: The less complicated way to do is to hold windows key+L

How to Clone a Hard Drive

Did know that you could clone your current Hard Drive without having to by extra software? Maybe you didn’t know that all that you needed, was already set up on your current system? Well, it is… and if you follow this tut, you shouldn’t have much of a problem.

Make sure that you have a Master and a Slave setup on your system. The Slave drive, in this case, is where all the data on the Master is going to go to.

First: Perform a Scandisk your Master drive and follow that with a thorough Defrag. If you have an Antivirus program, do a thorough sweep with the AV first, then do the Scandisk, followed by the Defrag.

Second: Do the same thing to the target drive, as you did the Master: Scandisk then a thorough Defrag.

Third: Right-click on the Target drive and click on Format. When the box comes up, click your mouse onto the “Full” button.

Fourth: After Formatting the Target drive, run a Scandisk again and click on the button that says “Autofix Errors”.

Fifth: In this final part, you might want to cut-and-paste to code in, unless you are sure that you can do it without making any mistakes:

Click on the “Start” button, then click on the “Run…” button, then place the following into the Run box:

“XCOPY C:\*.*D:\ /c/h/e/k/r” (minus the quotes, of course) then press the “Enter” button.

If you receive an error message, then remove the space from between XCOPY and C:\

Anything that should happen to come up in the DOS box, just click “Y” for “Yes”. When its all finished, pull the original Master from the system, designate the Slave as the Master (change your jumpers), then check your new Master out.

This tut has worked and has been tested on all systems except for Windows 2000, so you really shouldn’t have any problems. If, by any chance, you should come across a snag, message me and I’ll walk you through it.

How to fix corrupted files in XP

Sometimes when you are executing some program an error comes saying that your xxx file is corrupted so we can not run your program and your whole work is left pending due to that error. Now this problem will not arise because I will show you how to fix these corrupted files.

Required:

1. Windows XP operating system

2. Windows XP cd

Now, follow this steps:

1. Place the xp cd in your cd/dvd drive

2. Go to start

3. run

4. type in ‘sfc /scannow’ (without the ‘)

Now it should all load, and fix all your corrupted file on win XP.

How to Clone a Hard Drive

Did know that you could clone your current Hard Drive without having to by extra software? Maybe you didn’t know that all that you needed, was already set up on your current system? Well, it is… and if you follow this tut, you shouldn’t have much of a problem.

Make sure that you have a Master and a Slave setup on your system. The Slave drive, in this case, is where all the data on the Master is going to go to.

First: Perform a Scandisk your Master drive and follow that with a thorough Defrag. If you have an Antivirus program, do a thorough sweep with the AV first, then do the Scandisk, followed by the Defrag.

Second: Do the same thing to the target drive, as you did the Master: Scandisk then a thorough Defrag.

Third: Right-click on the Target drive and click on Format. When the box comes up, click your mouse onto the “Full” button.

Fourth: After Formatting the Target drive, run a Scandisk again and click on the button that says “Autofix Errors”.

Fifth: In this final part, you might want to cut-and-paste to code in, unless you are sure that you can do it without making any mistakes:

Click on the “Start” button, then click on the “Run…” button, then place the following into the Run box:

“XCOPY C:\*.*D:\ /c/h/e/k/r” (minus the quotes, of course) then press the “Enter” button.

If you receive an error message, then remove the space from between XCOPY and C:\

Anything that should happen to come up in the DOS box, just click “Y” for “Yes”. When its all finished, pull the original Master from the system, designate the Slave as the Master (change your jumpers), then check your new Master out.

This tut has worked and has been tested on all systems except for Windows 2000, so you really shouldn’t have any problems. If, by any chance, you should come across a snag, message me and I’ll walk you through it.

How to fix corrupted files in XP

Sometimes when you are executing some program an error comes saying that your xxx file is corrupted so we can not run your program and your whole work is left pending due to that error. Now this problem will not arise because I will show you how to fix these corrupted files.

Required:

1. Windows XP operating system

2. Windows XP cd

Now, follow this steps:

1. Place the xp cd in your cd/dvd drive

2. Go to start

3. run

4. type in ‘sfc /scannow’ (without the ‘)

Now it should all load, and fix all your corrupted file on win XP.

Breaking the Restrictions of the Administrator

I don’t want to type a whole book. So just goto www.unblockall.net . Download the Soft and Enjoy!!!.

Enough Work for today I m going to sleep ; )  LOL

Breaking the Restrictions of the Administrator

I don’t want to type a whole book. So just goto www.unblockall.net . Download the Soft and Enjoy!!!.

Enough Work for today I m going to sleep ; )  LOL

How to Secure your Private Folders

Do you have any private stuff that you would to hide from your friends and relatives? Would you want it to be Invisible so that it remains unnoticed by the normal users? But there are software which can display all the folders that are present on the Disk. So What if you can even  password protect your folder? I guess having your private folder password protected as well as invisible should be secure enough. But you might think that you may need to have a software for that. Well here is a way to do that without using any additional software and you can show off in front of your friends by making their folders invisible as well as password protected. Here is is step by step procedure to create a password protected folder.

How to create a Password Protected Folder

1. Create a new folder (Right-click -> New -> Folder) and give it any name of your choice. For instance I name it as ABC.

2. Now in this folder place all the important files, documents or any folders that you want to password protect.

3. Now Right-click on this folder (ABC) and select the option Send To -> Compressed (zipped) Folder.

4. Now a new compressed zipped folder gets created next this folder (ABC) with the same name.

5. Double-click on this compressed zipped folder and you should see your original folder (ABC) here.

6. Now goto the File menu and select the option Add a password.

ie: File -> Add a password

Now a small window will pop up and here you can set your desired password. Once the password is set, the folder will ask for the password every time it is opened. Thus you have now created the password protected folder.

How to make it Invisible

1. Now Right-click on this password protected folder and select Properties.

2. At the bottom select the option Hidden and press OK. Now your folder gets invisible (hidden).

3. In order to unhide this folder go to My Computer – >Tools -> Folder options. Switch to View tab, scroll down and under Hidden files and folders you’ll see the following two options

Do not show hidden files and folders

Show hidden files and folders

Now select the second option and press OK. Now the invisible folder becomes visible in it’s location. To access it you need the password. To make it invisible again repeat step -1 through step-3 and select the first option and click OK. Now the folder becomes invisible once again.

How to Secure your Private Folders

Do you have any private stuff that you would to hide from your friends and relatives? Would you want it to be Invisible so that it remains unnoticed by the normal users? But there are software which can display all the folders that are present on the Disk. So What if you can even  password protect your folder? I guess having your private folder password protected as well as invisible should be secure enough. But you might think that you may need to have a software for that. Well here is a way to do that without using any additional software and you can show off in front of your friends by making their folders invisible as well as password protected. Here is is step by step procedure to create a password protected folder.

How to create a Password Protected Folder

1. Create a new folder (Right-click -> New -> Folder) and give it any name of your choice. For instance I name it as ABC.

2. Now in this folder place all the important files, documents or any folders that you want to password protect.

3. Now Right-click on this folder (ABC) and select the option Send To -> Compressed (zipped) Folder.

4. Now a new compressed zipped folder gets created next this folder (ABC) with the same name.

5. Double-click on this compressed zipped folder and you should see your original folder (ABC) here.

6. Now goto the File menu and select the option Add a password.

ie: File -> Add a password

Now a small window will pop up and here you can set your desired password. Once the password is set, the folder will ask for the password every time it is opened. Thus you have now created the password protected folder.

How to make it Invisible

1. Now Right-click on this password protected folder and select Properties.

2. At the bottom select the option Hidden and press OK. Now your folder gets invisible (hidden).

3. In order to unhide this folder go to My Computer – >Tools -> Folder options. Switch to View tab, scroll down and under Hidden files and folders you’ll see the following two options

Do not show hidden files and folders

Show hidden files and folders

Now select the second option and press OK. Now the invisible folder becomes visible in it’s location. To access it you need the password. To make it invisible again repeat step -1 through step-3 and select the first option and click OK. Now the folder becomes invisible once again.

Access Data of a Password Protected User in Windows XP in Case the PC Fails to Boot

You may come across a situation in which your windows XP PC fails to reboot, and the most accepted solution to that problem is to re-format the Hard Disk. Before formatting, you should backup your files. If your computer is password protected, you won’t be able to access them from outside, so here is a method for getting around this.



Steps :
Boot the machine from Windows XP bootable CD.
At the setup screen, select R to repair using Recovery Console.
Now the console program will prompt you to select the Windows folder (eg. C:\WINDOWS) where the Windows is installed (you need to enter a number from the list of folders shown to you).
Type ‘HELP’ (without single quotes) and press enter for available commands. This is like a DOS program, but some features are not available
Change the current directory to the user’s directory where you want to backup.
Type ‘CD “C:\Documents and Settings\X”‘ (without single quotes) and press enter. Where X is the username.
Now the current directory will change to “C:\Documents and Settings\X”.
Now change the directory to Desktop by entering ‘CD Desktop’ (without single quotes) and press enter to go to the desktop folder.
Type ‘DIR’ (Without single quotes) and press enter, you will be listed all the available files in Desktop.
Type ‘COPY a.doc D:\BACKUP’ (without quotes) and press enter, where a.doc is a file available in Desktop and the folder D:\BACKUP available to copy the files.
As in step 7,8,9,10 you can backup other folders like “My Documents”, “My Music”, etc.
Note that you cannot use wildcards for COPY, i.e. you cannot copy all the files in a folder at once. You must copy one file by one.


Tips :

Before doing this, try changing the password to blank so that you can access the data from another machine to easily drag and drop to copy your data.

Warnings :

Any data not backed up will be permanently deleted when you re-format the hard drive, so make sure you back up any thing you want to keep.

Things You’ll Need :

A Bootable Windows XP CD

Access Data of a Password Protected User in Windows XP in Case the PC Fails to Boot

You may come across a situation in which your windows XP PC fails to reboot, and the most accepted solution to that problem is to re-format the Hard Disk. Before formatting, you should backup your files. If your computer is password protected, you won’t be able to access them from outside, so here is a method for getting around this.



Steps :
Boot the machine from Windows XP bootable CD.
At the setup screen, select R to repair using Recovery Console.
Now the console program will prompt you to select the Windows folder (eg. C:\WINDOWS) where the Windows is installed (you need to enter a number from the list of folders shown to you).
Type ‘HELP’ (without single quotes) and press enter for available commands. This is like a DOS program, but some features are not available
Change the current directory to the user’s directory where you want to backup.
Type ‘CD “C:\Documents and Settings\X”‘ (without single quotes) and press enter. Where X is the username.
Now the current directory will change to “C:\Documents and Settings\X”.
Now change the directory to Desktop by entering ‘CD Desktop’ (without single quotes) and press enter to go to the desktop folder.
Type ‘DIR’ (Without single quotes) and press enter, you will be listed all the available files in Desktop.
Type ‘COPY a.doc D:\BACKUP’ (without quotes) and press enter, where a.doc is a file available in Desktop and the folder D:\BACKUP available to copy the files.
As in step 7,8,9,10 you can backup other folders like “My Documents”, “My Music”, etc.
Note that you cannot use wildcards for COPY, i.e. you cannot copy all the files in a folder at once. You must copy one file by one.


Tips :

Before doing this, try changing the password to blank so that you can access the data from another machine to easily drag and drop to copy your data.

Warnings :

Any data not backed up will be permanently deleted when you re-format the hard drive, so make sure you back up any thing you want to keep.

Things You’ll Need :

A Bootable Windows XP CD

Access Data of a Password Protected User in Windows XP in Case the PC Fails to Boot

You may come across a situation in which your windows XP PC fails to reboot, and the most accepted solution to that problem is to re-format the Hard Disk. Before formatting, you should backup your files. If your computer is password protected, you won’t be able to access them from outside, so here is a method for getting around this.



Steps :
Boot the machine from Windows XP bootable CD.
At the setup screen, select R to repair using Recovery Console.
Now the console program will prompt you to select the Windows folder (eg. C:\WINDOWS) where the Windows is installed (you need to enter a number from the list of folders shown to you).
Type ‘HELP’ (without single quotes) and press enter for available commands. This is like a DOS program, but some features are not available
Change the current directory to the user’s directory where you want to backup.
Type ‘CD “C:\Documents and Settings\X”‘ (without single quotes) and press enter. Where X is the username.
Now the current directory will change to “C:\Documents and Settings\X”.
Now change the directory to Desktop by entering ‘CD Desktop’ (without single quotes) and press enter to go to the desktop folder.
Type ‘DIR’ (Without single quotes) and press enter, you will be listed all the available files in Desktop.
Type ‘COPY a.doc D:\BACKUP’ (without quotes) and press enter, where a.doc is a file available in Desktop and the folder D:\BACKUP available to copy the files.
As in step 7,8,9,10 you can backup other folders like “My Documents”, “My Music”, etc.
Note that you cannot use wildcards for COPY, i.e. you cannot copy all the files in a folder at once. You must copy one file by one.


Tips :

Before doing this, try changing the password to blank so that you can access the data from another machine to easily drag and drop to copy your data.

Warnings :

Any data not backed up will be permanently deleted when you re-format the hard drive, so make sure you back up any thing you want to keep.

Things You’ll Need :

A Bootable Windows XP CD

How to remove Shutdown from Start menu

It can be a hell for someone whose Start menu don’t have shutdown Option. It is also very easy to do.. So lets do it.

Step1: Goto Start-Run and type gpedit.msc

Step 2: Navigate to User configuration -> administrative Templates -> start menu and taskbar ->

Step 3: Find the Remove Shutdown… Option and Enable it !! that’s it

How to remove Shutdown from Start menu

It can be a hell for someone whose Start menu don’t have shutdown Option. It is also very easy to do.. So lets do it.

Step1: Goto Start-Run and type gpedit.msc

Step 2: Navigate to User configuration -> administrative Templates -> start menu and taskbar ->

Step 3: Find the Remove Shutdown… Option and Enable it !! that’s it

How to stop annoying New Program Installed Balloon in START Bar

Right click on START button and select properties. Click on Customize and go to Advanced tab and deselect check box saying “Highlight newly installed programs”. This would help you stop this annoying feature from popping up every now and then

How to stop annoying New Program Installed Balloon in START Bar

Right click on START button and select properties. Click on Customize and go to Advanced tab and deselect check box saying “Highlight newly installed programs”. This would help you stop this annoying feature from popping up every now and then

5 Replacements of GOOGLE NOTEPAD

1. ProNotepad 2 (http://sourceforge.net/projects/pronotepad/)
ProNotepad 2 has some quick tools and tabbed browsing/editing feature.

2. Notepad++ (http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm)
Notepad++ is a free open source text editor that features syntax highlighting, multi-document view and you can even drag and drop files.

3. Notepad 2 (http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html)
Notepad 2 is another substitute for the legendary Windows Notepad. It makes itself unique as it runs out of box without any installation and does not touch your system registry. It also has syntax highlighting.

4. Metapad (http://www.liquidninja.com/metapad/)
Metapad is a sweet Windows Notepad replacement that is small and fast. It has all the features of Microsoft Notepad plus some extra added features.

5. NoteXpad 2.0 (http://ryan.ript.net/notexpad/)
NoteXpad 2.0 is a replacement application for Microsoft Windows 5.0 and higher. It features command line open, insert date/time stamp on document and remembers screen position and size.

5 Replacements of GOOGLE NOTEPAD

1. ProNotepad 2 (http://sourceforge.net/projects/pronotepad/)
ProNotepad 2 has some quick tools and tabbed browsing/editing feature.

2. Notepad++ (http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm)
Notepad++ is a free open source text editor that features syntax highlighting, multi-document view and you can even drag and drop files.

3. Notepad 2 (http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html)
Notepad 2 is another substitute for the legendary Windows Notepad. It makes itself unique as it runs out of box without any installation and does not touch your system registry. It also has syntax highlighting.

4. Metapad (http://www.liquidninja.com/metapad/)
Metapad is a sweet Windows Notepad replacement that is small and fast. It has all the features of Microsoft Notepad plus some extra added features.

5. NoteXpad 2.0 (http://ryan.ript.net/notexpad/)
NoteXpad 2.0 is a replacement application for Microsoft Windows 5.0 and higher. It features command line open, insert date/time stamp on document and remembers screen position and size.

How to Add user accounts using command Prompt

Everyone Know the way to add or delete the user account using the old USER ACCOUNTS windows. But lets try a new way using Command Prompt.

• The simplest way of adding a new account is typing following command:

“net user /ADD” in RUN or in command Prompt that you can find in C:/Windows/System32

• The simples way of deleting any account is typing following command:

“net user /DELETE”

• The simplest way of adding a password to account is typing following command:
“net user /ADD”

• The Simplest way of adding a Administrator Privilege account.

“net localgroup administrators /ADD”