Create Global Hotkeys

This tip might be my favorite, but its also quite complicated. Let’s say that you are transcribing an audio recording. Every few seconds, you need to press pause, so you can type what you just heard. Then you need to type, go back, and press play. A lot of time can be wasted bringing your mouse back and forth from Windows Media Player (WMP) to Microsoft Word. There are a few well known suggestions. For example, simply download and use Winamp (see PC TIP, “Windows Media Player Alternatives”) instead of WMP. With that player, you can customize global hotkeys for play and pause. But if you prefer sticking with WMP, there is finally a solution that is relatively quick, albeit complex.

First, download and install AutoHotkey (http://www.autohotkey.com/download/). You will now be creating a script which will basically have the same function as a global hotkey. So, open a folder, like My Documents, where you want to keep the script. Right-click inside the folder, select New, and then select AutoHotkey Scipt. Rename the file to WMP.ahk (Don’t forget the “.ahk” because it will not create that automatically, unlike “.doc”). Then right-click WMP.ahk and select Edit Script. Erase the words that are currently in the file once it opens. Then paste the following text into the file:

^space::PostMessage, 0x111, 18808, 0, ,Windows Media Player ; Play/Pause Track

Close the file. Now, just double-click WMP.ahk and you should see a new icon in the System Tray. That means that the script is running. Open up WMP and minimize it, so it is visible on the Taskbar, but it is not in “mini-player mode.” Then, whenever you want to press pause and play without switching to WMP, just type Ctrl-Space (that is, hold down the Ctrl button and Space bar at the same time. Press them again, and WMP will resume playing, etc.). To exit the script, right click its tray icon, and select Exit.

Check out http://www.autohotkey.com/docs/Tutorial.htm to learn other ways for using this fine tool.

Receive and Send Faxes From Your PC without a fax machine:

For incoming faxes, you can use eFax (http://www.efax.com). The service will give you gives me a free fax number with an area code that's somewhere in Ohio. Faxes can be delivered to your inbox as an e-mail attachments. There's no charge; there's no limit on the number of incoming faxes; and you will only get occasional spam from eFax pitching upgrades.

To fax documents from your PC, you can use Fax1 (http://www.fax1.com). You pay a paltry 12 cents per page, and you get a dollar in credit to try the service. Fax1 can be used for incoming faxes, but it charges $9 per month for that service, while eFax receives faxes for free.

Open Multiple Bookmarks at Once in Firefox:

If you would like to open a number of bookmarks at once, without setting them as multiple home pages, try this: Take the group of bookmarks you want to open at once, and store them in one folder on the Bookmarks toolbar. Right-click the folder and select “Open In Tabs.”

Conversely, to save all of your open tabs at once, just click on the BOOKMARK menu and select BOOKMARK THIS PAGE. Though the window that pops up will prompt you for a name for the single bookmark, just pretend it’s asking you for a folder name. Type that in, select the Bookmarks folder for a location, and make sure you click “Bookmark all tabs in a folder.” A new folder will appear in your Bookmarks menu containing all the tabs currently open in your browser.

Some Great Firefox Keyboard Shortcuts

• Find Text: /
• Insert “www” and “.com” around entry: Ctrl-Enter
• Use entire screen for viewing page: F11
• Increase text size: Ctrl-Plus
• Decrease text size: Ctrl-Minus
• Restore text size to 100%: Ctrl-0
• Cycle to next tab: Ctrl-Tab (or, Ctrl-PageDown)
• Cycle to previous tab: Ctrl-Shift-Tab (or, Ctrl-PageUp)
• Set focus to address field: Ctrl-L
There are many more, but these are the more useful ones.

Why AREN’T you hibernating?!

Hibernation saves the current state of your system to disk, so the system can completely power down but be restored to the same state when restarted. Best of all, the battery doesn’t drain in this state. To enable hibernation, launch POWER OPTIONS from the CONTROL PANEL, click on the HIBERNATE tab, and check the box labeled ENABLE HIBERNATION. Then, when you have need to shut down, but want a bunch of open programs to still be open when you reboot, click START, TURN OFF COMPUTER, hold down the SHIFT key (so “Standby” will turn into “Hibernate”) and click HIBERNATE.

Create your own keyboard shortcuts:

For this tip, we will use MS PAINT to represent any program you wish to open with a keyboard shortcut. Right-click PAINT’s icon, and select PROPERTIES. Click the SHORTCUT tab and place the cursor in the SHORTCUT KEY box, that currently says “None.” While pressing down CTRL, type any letter, like “P” (for Paint), and you will see that in the SHORTCUT KEY box, it now says CTRL-ALT-P. Now, whenever you type CTRL-ALT-P, Paint will open automatically.

Another great tool that is buried in START, ALL PROGRAMS, ACCESSORIES is Calculator, which I have set up to open up with CTRL-ALT-C.

And if you don’t like the CTRL-ALT combo, try CTRL-SHIFT instead!

Workaround For Rebooting To Safe Mode In XP:

Sometimes the common method for rebooting to Safe Mode are impossible, like if you have a USB keyboard. (The common method is restarting and pressing F8, or some other key, at the right moment.) To configure XP so its next restart will enter Safe Mode, launch the System Configuration Utility (START, RUN, msconfig), click the BOOT.INI tab and check the box titled /SAFEBOOT. Don’t touch the other settings. When you reboot, XP will restart in Safe Mode and will keep doing so until you uncheck that box.

Retrieve Data when Windows Won’t Even Boot Up In Safe Mode:

If your hard drive crashes and Windows won’t even boot up in Safe Mode, you are NOT out of luck. Remove the hard drive from your pc carefully and install it in an external drive enclosure, which should cost around $30. Then connect that enclosure to a USB 2.0 port on a working OC. It will appear as a removable drive in MY COMPUTER, allowing you to peruse the drive and copy any files that haven’t been damaged. If your drive isn’t readable at all, you can pay a few hundred dollars to a data recovery firm, like Ontrack (www.ontrack.com), which will use specialized hardware to find any readable data on your drive.

Transfer Files From One Notebook On Your Network To Another:

If you have two laptops on one network and want to transfer files between them, click START, CONTROL PANEL, NETWORK CONNECTIONS, right-click on the network icon, and select PROPERTIES. Check the box beside ‘File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft Networks.’ Open MY COMPUTER, right-click on the SHARED DOCUMENTS folder, select the SHARING AND SECURITY tab from the popup menu, and click the checkbox beside “Share this folder on the network.” On the other PC, open MU COMPUTER and select TOOLS/MAP NETWORK DRIVE. Enter a network drive letter and the network path of that shared folder (i.e. \\Tim\SharedDocs), click the “Reconnect at logon checkbox,” and press FINISH. A network drive icon will appear in MY COMPUTER.

Free Remote Access:

If you forgot a file at home, my best advice is to go home and get it. While you are there, download and install LogMeIn Free remote access service (www.logmein.com). With LogMeIn, anyone can access their home home or office PC from any other Internet-connected computer. This free service displays a full real-time image of your home or office PC’s screen on your notebook. You can open files, run applications, access your e-mail, and otherwise control your remote PC as if you were sitting right in front of it. The next time you forget a file, you’ll have access to it from anywhere.

Undelete!

If you have ever accidentally pressed shift-delete, or emptied the recycle bin, when you wished you had not, you know how upsetting that can be. Most people don’t realize, however, that when you delete a file, you’re not actually erasing it; you’re only erasing the pointer that Windows uses to assign it a spot on the hard drive. As long as a new file hasn’t already been saved over it, a utility like Recover Lost Data ($39.99, www.stompsoft.com) can get it back. Before spending your money, though, try this excellent and free utility: Restoration @ http://www.snapfiles.com/get/restoration.html.

Get rid of the annoying Acrobat:

Most PC users will agree that Acrobat is annoying. PDF files viewed over the internet usually lock up your browser, and PDF files on your desktop take forever to load and close. Try this free alternative: FOXIT READER: www.foxitsoftware.com

Disposable Email Addresses:

Need a temporary email address to give to some annoying web site that insists on you registering? Well, simply make up anything and then add the suffix “@mailinator.com”. For example, bob@mailinator.com. Then go to the Mailinator website and collect any email to that account. It's free and you don't even need a password to get your temporary mail. All mail is deleted after a few hours. Check it out at http://www.mailinator.com .

Easily Get Rid of Formatting or Style:

If you need to dump a bunch of formatting, say, bold or italics, highlight the bothersome text, press Ctrl-Space, and you're back to plain vanilla. It's just as easy to get rid of the underlying Style with Ctrl-Shift-N anywhere in the troublesome paragraph.

Send Free Text Messages to Cell Phones via Email:

Sending text messages via email is not new, but until now you needed to know the right domain, carrier, etc… Now, just enter the ten-digit phone number followed by @teleflip.com into the "To:" box of an email message. It should look like this "5161234567@teleflip.com

Save Space by Deleting Word’s Old Recovered Files:

Click START, SEARCH, choose ALL FILES AND FOLDERS, enter “~*.tmp” in the box labeled ALL OR PART OF A FILE NAME, select LOCAL HEARD (C) under LOOK IN, and click SEARCH. Then delete those old temp files.

Screenshots Made Easy:

There are plenty of programs out there that you can use to capture screen shots. To grab your entire screen with just Windows, tap the Print Screen key. Then use Ctrl-V to paste it into an e-mail message, Windows Paint, Word, or any other application. The Paint applet, however, is best if you want to save the image as a file. But what if you just need the active window? Hold down the Alt key when you hit Print Screen

Password-Protect a Document in Microsoft Word:

You can password-protect a document in Word so that only authorized users can open or modify its contents. Note that a skilled hacker may be able to break the encryption, but password protection may work in some cases. To enable this feature:

1. Open the document you want to protect.
2. Click Tools, then click Options, and select the Security tab.
3. Next to "Password to open" type in the password necessary to view the document.
4. Next to "Password to modify" type in the password necessary to make changes to the document.
5. The above two choices are mutually exclusive.
a. So, for example, if you only want to prevent users from editing your document, but don’t mind them reading it, ignore step 3 and follow step 4.
b. And, if you decide to create a password to modify your document only, realize that another user will still be able to edit and save your document under a different file name.
6. I can not stress this point enough: REMEMBER YOUR PASSWORD!
7. Click OK to save your changes

Hide the Office Clipboard: Hide the Office Clipboard:

In Microsoft Word, whenever you copy multiple items to the Clipboard, an Office Clipboard appears to the right of your current document. This Clipboard lets you copy and paste text using one of the last several items copied to the Clipboard. While many people find this feature useful in that they can copy several items to the Clipboard for later pasting use, others find this pane annoying in how it automatically pops up, potentially hiding part of the current Word document. To prevent the Office Clipboard from automatically popping up:

1. If the Clipboard is not already onscreen, click Edit, then click Office Clipboard, and then click on the Options button at the bottom of the pop-up window.
2. Uncheck “Show Office Clipboard Automatically,” uncheck “Show Office Clipboard Icon on Taskbar,” and uncheck “Show Status Near Taskbar When Copying”.
3. Click the "X" on the top-right of the Office Clipboard pane to close

Stop Requiring CTRL-Click to Visit a Hyperlink in Microsoft Word:

Whenever you want to visit a hyperlink using Microsoft Word, you cannot just click on the hyperlink. Instead, you must hold down the CTRL key while clicking the hyperlink.

This is for your protection. Microsoft Word keeps you from accidentally visiting web sites that you don't want to visit linked in documents, plus it keeps you from editing a document and accidentally jumping around to a different section.

However, you may want to disable this setting so just clicking on a hyperlink views its destination without requiring the CTRL key.

1. Click Tools, then Options, and then select the Edit tab.
2. Uncheck "Use CTRL + Click to follow hyperlink."
3. Click OK to save your changes.

Faster Website Address Typing:

Instead of typing “http://www.anysite.com” you can just type “anysite”, then press ctrl+Enter, and it automatically puts in the “http://www.” and the “.com”. Of course, in Firefox, many websites don’t need the “www” or “.com” – for example, simply typing “yahoo”, and then pressing enter, will immediately bring up www.yahoo.com.

Delete Stubborn Files:

Sometimes you may find that a certain file you are trying to delete will not delete and will cause a Windows error message. Try these suggestions:
1. First, restart the pc, and try again.
2. If that doesn’t work, try deleting the folder the file is in, after relocating any other important files in that folder.
3. If that doesn’t work, download and install WhoLockMe, a tool that shows which Windows process is locking the file, in order to see if it is a virus/spyware/etc. It then helps you delete it. WhoLockMe can be downloaded @ find.pcworld.com/47728

Make all menus in the Menu Bar in Microsoft Word XP expand by default:

1. Open Word, click Tools, click Customize, click Options, and under "Personalized Menus and Toolbars", check “Always Show Full Menus” and click Close.

Customize the default location for “Save As…” in Microsoft Word XP:

If you do not store your files in “My Documents,” you may want to change the default settings for “Save As…” which currently defaults to “My Documents.”

1. Open Word, click Tools, click Options, select the File Locations tab, highlight Documents, click Modify, select the new desired default location (such as Desktop) from the drop-down box, and click OK.

2. Click OK

Defining a Network Printer

I find it useful to define, on my office PC, a network printer for big print jobs and jobs that I want to be printed duplex. Here is an illustration of how to define a network printer.
Click Start, Printers and Faxes, Add Printer., Next.

Select “A network printer,” Next.

Select “Connect to this printer” and enter the name of the printer -- in this case, \\UNIPRINT\RW135, the printer in the Rawl 135 computer lab. Next.


No, Next


Finish

Manage Internet Explorer Add-Ons

Tools, Manage Add-ons and get a window like this:


Displayed will be all add-ons currently loaded in IE, sorted into those that are disabled and those that are enabled. To research what a particular add-on is, Google its name or the name of the file. I was suspicious of the “53707962-….” add-on from Safer Networking. I scrolled to the right and found the file name, “SDHelper.dll” and searched Google for that. I learned that it is part of Spybot Search and Destroy, probably the part that immunizes IE, so I left it enabled.
I was also suspicious of the add-on “Research” with no publisher name and no file name. Turns out that it is added to IE when you install MS Office. To see it in action, click View, Explorer Bar, Research. It allows you to search a variety of online reference books and research sites.
If you want to disable or enable an add-on, just click on its name and select the “Enable” or “Disable” Setting.
To see ALL of the Add-ons that have been used by IE, whether or not they are currently loaded, change the “Show” to “Add-ons that have been used by Internet Explorer”:


Those that I found suspicious include”
• acpController.dll – part of IBM’s “Access IBM”
• ICSScanner Class – part of Zone Alarm

Ten PC Ten PC Tips For Communicating With A Diverse Audience

by

Simma Lieberman

Word Count: 450

By learning to speak to a diverse audience, you can broaden your client base transfer the learning to more people. We need to be more "PC". Were not talking "political correctness", were talking "Positively Conscious", of who is in our audience and understanding how to make people feel included. The more people feel included, the more they will listen to you, use your information and come back for more. If you offend people they will shut down and you will lose them.

1) Use words that include rather than exclude. While some women don't mind being called ladies, in a professional setting the word women is more appropriate. Be "positively conscious" of pronouns when discussing hypothetical cases. I have been inn workshops where the facilitator spoke as though all managers were "he" and all administrative support were "she". Metaphors are very effective. Remember to mix them. Don't use only sports metaphors. Have a balance. In Europe when they think of football they think of soccer. Be aware that people have different abilities. Instead of telling everyone to stand, you might say everyone who is able please stand, and have a way for others to participate in the exercise.

2) Learn the demographics of the audience before your presentation, and prepare.

3) Do not assume everyone shares your religious beliefs.

4) Look at everyone in the audience and smile at them. Speakers can have a tendency to visually relate to people who look more like them. Assume everyone wants to be valued.

5) Do not use humor that puts down any particular group. If you are not sure, get feedback from others.

6) Examine your assumptions about people who are different than you. Be open to letting go of those assumptions.

7) Do not be afraid to ask for the correct pronunciation of someone's name.

8) If someone has an accent and you can't understand them, ask them to repeat what they said slowly, because what they are saying is important to you.

9) Use methodology in your presentations to accommodate different learning styles. Visual Auditory Kinesthetic

10) Be comfortable with silence. In some cultures that can mean respect and attention. Be comfortable with direct interaction. In some cultures that can mean respect and attention. Be comfortable with saying, "I don't know."

Simma Lieberman is a trainer, speaker, consultant and coach with over 20 years of experience helping organizations and businesses meet the demands of modern workplaces. She is known for her ability to help people break down assumptions, build dialogues, and create healthy working relationships. For additional information, contact FrogPond at 800.704.FROG(3764) or email Susie@FrogPond.com; http://www.FrogPond.com

Ten PC Ten PC Tips For Communicating With A Diverse Audience by Simma Lieberman Word Count: 450

Get The Stat Record Of Any Website

Get The Stat Report Of Any Website Which You Want. Statbrain.com Provides The Stat Report Of Any Website You Need And Plus Many Other Useful Information About The Site.
You can do it by logging on in this site:www.statbrain.com

Get The Stat Record Of Any Website

Get The Stat Report Of Any Website Which You Want. Statbrain.com Provides The Stat Report Of Any Website You Need And Plus Many Other Useful Information About The Site.
You can do it by logging on in this site:www.statbrain.com

Useful Print Setting For Excel

We are going to look at quite simple but really useful Excel Print Setting.

How to print the grid line?

How to print the column and row header?

How to repeat rows in top of every page? Specially if you like to print the header row.
How to repeat column in every page?

Answer for all these questions is...

1# Open up the Excel Document you want to print.
2# Go to 'File.
3# Go to 'Page Setup'.

4# Select the options, rows, columns you want to repeat as you want.

[Basic] Copy and Paste via Notepad

Copy and Paste is one of the simplest thing you can do in a computer. CTR+C or select the area, right click, copy and CTR+P or right click and paste. I wish I could have done it in real life as I can keep a copy of the things I love with me. Why note pad come in between copy and paste?

One of the thin I have notice is if you are directly copy and paste something from a rich text, HTML content it will copy lot of other stuff that you do not want.

For example, text decorations, font type, background colour, html tags, hyper links and there can be so many other stuff that you do not want. If you paste directly to a place that support rich text or html it will bring all these with it. If it is your email pasted part will look different to your original email content. If it is your blog copy and pasted part will have different font type, colour to you blog theme.

Notepad is the simplest solution to this. Notepad is not supporting rich text or HTML content. So it will drop all these background information that you copied and paste only the text. Then Copy the text again from the notepad and paste it on the place you want the content to be. In that way you will not copy any background information to your new location.

So next time when you do a copy and paste from rich text or HTML remember this simple hack to use the notepad in between to copy and paste only the text not the other information.

How to: Block URL (websites) you don’t want to visit

You can easily block list of URLs (websites) with out using any software. I have tried this in windows XP and it works fine.

Why you should block any websites?

1. Even it is your personal computer there is great chance of going to these nasty website that install adwares, spywares and all these unwated stuff in your computer. Some websites are using banner advertisements from different websites. These websites should be blocked.

2.You might be managing couple of uses or computers and you don’t want them to go to certain URLs.

Cool if any of these are your requirement then you can follow this. Secret is in the C:\Windows\system32\drivers\etc\.

Path might be different from windows version or the way you install your windows.

You will find couple of files there; protocol, service, network and host. File you will be required is host (there is no extension for that file). If you don’t find it you can create it (Right click > new > create a text document and remove the extension).

Sample host file will look like this.

# Copyright (c) 1993-1999 Microsoft Corp.
#
# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.
#
# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each
# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should
# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one
# space.
#
# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
# lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol.
#
# For example:
#
# 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server
# 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host

127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 www.myspace.com
127.0.0.1 www.youtube.com


Create exact file and add any number of URL in the same format (127.0.0.1) and save it. Sometimes you might have to restart the machine but it worked for me without restarting.

Cool all the URLs listed there will be blocked.

Youtubeget 4.9.6-Best Youtube Downloader

Youtube is the most popular video sharing network in the whole web.Everyone is eager to know that how to download from that server?The answer is not so easy you may found too many software,but no one is so powerful that can make you satisfied but Youtubeget is one of the best tool in the modern market which can not only can download from Youtube but also resume from last position ooad.More than 6,000,000+ videos are available for download from Youtube.More than that it supports all popular formats both audio and video.My personal thought and experience it is the best software downloading from Youtube.Please click below to read more..............


Youtubeget is an all-in-one software designed to make quick and easy work to download Youtube videos and convert them. Offering a multitude of methods to acquire the video, this application has all the power you need while still remaining small and easy to use. After downloading videos it will auto convert FLV files to MP4, 3GP, AVI, WMV, MOV etc. Soon, you can see Youtube videos on your MP4 or Cell phone

#Download Video off Youtube in 3 steps - Simple, Easy and Fast.

#YoutubegetYoutubeget will auto resume broken download. No matter your net speed is stable or not, Youtubeget will download the best quality videos.

# will auto convert Youtube Videos to 3GP Cell Phone Format, then you can see all Youtube videos on your Cell Phone!

#You can download Youtube videos and save them as iPod MOV or MP4 format, and play them anywhere!

#After playing games on your PSP, would you like to see some cool videos? Youtubeget will download Youtube videos and save them as PSP format!

#Download Youtube videos and save as AVI or WMV. It is much easier to burn these funny videos to a CD/DVD by this two formats

#Youtubeget monitors your Clipboard all the time. when you are copying a Youtube Video URL, immediately the Add New Download window will auto pop up.

#You can convert your local FLV files to AVI, WMV, MOV, 3GP, MP4 etc by Youtubeget FLV Converter

#Search Youtube Videos and Preview them before downloading. When you want to download them you just one-click on Download Now Button.

Internet Lock 5.1.0-Lock internet from ur child

Facing da problem that your son or daughter or younger brother or sister or anyone those who r not adult yet is using your internet connection for viewing any matter that is not suitable for them such as adult content,violence or something relatig that,dont worry just use Internet Lock and forgot everything.You can assign anything that is related to TCP/IP or any internet related program.Just click below to read more about Internet Lock from the developers............

An access control and password protection software for your Internet and intranet connections
Password protect Internet Explorer? Password Protect Firefox? Password Protect Netscape? Password Protect Outlook? Password protect any internet connection. You can use Internet Lock to password protect the internet access. You also can use Internet Lock to deny access to any TCP port, or prevent any program from accessing internet.

Folder Options Missing????

Open Run and then type "gpedit.msc".
Now goto User Configuration > Administrative templates > Windows Component > Windows Explorer.
Click on Windows Explorer you will find the 3rd option on the right side of screen "Removes the Folder Option menu item from the Tools menu"
Just check it, if it is not configured then change it to enable by double clicking on it and after applying again set it to not configured.

I hopes that you will find the option after restarting windows.

Key board doesn't work in windows

1.at first check ur keyboard so that u can ansure ur keyboard is in good condition.

2.Check ur ps2 port is working fine........

most of this type of case it makes problem only for the ps2 port......

or u can remove ur keyboard from ur pc and plug it anyone's pc to check that its really working or not.............

3.this is simply for happened for the trojan...........

to remove it follow the trojan remover link provided by me from the link below from my personal software blog........

link:http://crazyforblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/trojan-remover-v6803-professional.html

How to avoid chkdsk disk scan at every time booting windows

Recently I received a problem from one of the readers on system run a chkdsk disk scan again and again at every time on booting windows.

Let’s see how we can solve the problem of disk scan running every time of boot on windows.

Fix:

Disc scan is one of the protective feature of windows which runs to clean any cross-links or bad sectors that may be generated because of the improper shutdown of windows due to some reason. So, when ever you shutdown your system in some improper way ,the next time you boot your windows you will see scan disk running which you can stop by pressing an key on time.

But in some cases as experienced by some of the windows users, disk scan runs every time they reboot, this happens because of the following reasons:


1. Improper shutdown(most common).

2. External hard drive or portable drive attached which causes scan disk to scan them at every reboot.

3. chkdsk was not allowed to be completed at the time of boot.

Above reasons are normally the most common reasons behind this problem, but none of them matches with your case then, you probably have a dirty volume on your hard drive which has some bad sectors which does not get repaired at the time of reboot.

So, at every reboot chkdsk tries to repair those dirty bits on those bad sectors on your hard drive in those specific partitions.

But, don’t worry as you can simply fix this problem of disc scanning at every reboot.

Just follow the procedure given below:

You need to do a manual chkdsk on all the partitions or physical hard drives.

1. Open start>>run and type “cmd”(without double quotes)

2. Type “chkntfs /x ”(without double quotes) For example: chkntfs /x d:

3. Run this command for all the partitions of your hard drive.

4. Reboot your computer properly it will not do a disk scan again.

We hope this solves your problem…

For removing bad sector[software]:

There is no tools availabe in market for removing bad sectors.......
But dont be frastated there is some useful tools that can ix or lock bad sectors from a HDD..........just click through the given link from my blog read about the appz,download dat and run to repair bad sector...........

LINK:http://crazyforblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/hdd-regenerator-151-repair-bad-sector.html

Set User Logon Hours

You can restrict a certain user to only use the computer at a certain time interval. Let's say you have a username called Shekhor and you want Shekhor to access the computer only from 9AM - 9PM from Monday through Friday. You can do this by going to Start->Run and type in net user Shekhor /time:M-F,9am-9pm. For 24-hour time, you can replace the time with 09:00-21:00 instead. This will only allow the user to login during those hours on those days.

Remove Internet Explorer Completely - All version of Windows

Microsoft said that removing IE may make Windows unstable because it has key components that makes Windows function properly. Well, there is a way to remove it completely.just click the link below and download the software, install it
http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/System-Miscellaneous/IEradicator.shtml

Many people have used it before and removed IE with no problems afterwards.

Show Your Name In the System Clock at taskbar

tip is absolutely and completely useless.The way this trick works is by modifying the regional settings for the time format. Instead of using just AM or PM, you can put up to 12 characters of text in that field.

Start by opening Regional and Language Options from the start menu search box or the control panel.

On the Formats tab you'll see the "Customize this format" button, which you'll need to choose.
Select the Time tab, and then here's where we can make whatever settings we want.

I chose to set mine to "AM - abhishek " so I could still see AM or PM, but you can choose any 12 characters for either field. Keep in mind that the PM symbol is only going to display during the "PM" hours.

use you pen or flash drive as RAM

with some modified settings you can use your pen drive as a RAM

1) Connect your pen drive to your PC [pen drive should be at least 1 GB or if you having 4 GB then its better]

2) Allow PC what he is supposed to do,let system to detect pen drive.

3) After your PC finished with his detection work,you have to do some little

4) Right click on the My Computer and select the properties

5) Goto advanced and then performance setting then advanced then

6) Select pen drive and click on custom size " Check the value of space available "

7) Enter the same in the Initial and the Max columns

" You just used the memory of the PenDrive as a Virtual Memory "

8) Now restart your pc and enjoy your fast and super system

3 Ways to get someones IP From MSN And Email Displaying the only post. Post #1

Here are three very quick and easy methods that have been
Written about hundreds of times by now.


Obtaining an IP from MSN Messenger.
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Firstly we learn the method used by most people when they want to get
Someone elses IP Address.

Step 1 - Start MSN Messenger and login as yourself.

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Step 2 - Hit your "Start" button and click run. Type into the white box
"Command" (without the quotation marks)

Step 3 - Type in "Netstat -N" (without the quotation marks) into the
Black box and hit enter.

Step 4 - Start a conversation with your 'victim' and send them a file.
Once they accept the file Hit your "Start" button and click run. Type
Into the white box "Command" (without the quotation marks) and Type in "Netstat -N" (without the quotation marks) into the black box and hit
Enter.

Step 5 - Look in the middle column of both your MS Dos boxes and look
In the newer wndow for the IP address that has magically appeared in
The middle column. This is your victim's IP Address.[/HIDE]

Obtaiing an IP from an E-Mail.
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[HIDE="ww"]Ok, lets say the person does not use MSN Messenger (can't blame them)
We can get an IP address from most E-Mail address. In this example we
Shall use Outlook Express to view the E-Mails in.

Step 1 - Load Outlok express and left click on an E-Mail that was sent
From your 'victim'

Step 2 - Right click this E-Mail and click the "Properties" button.

Step 3 - Now Click on the tab displaying as it's text "Details" and
Look for the buttom saying "Message Source", once found (not hard) click it.

Step 4 - Look in all the jargon for something like "X-Originating-IP: "
With a number after the colon. This number is the sender's IP Address.

Step 5 - If you cannot find "X-Originating-IP: " then do not worry.
Look for instead "Received:", and go along this string untill you come
To a nuber in brackets, this however maybe an IP but it might not be
The IP address of the 'victim', infact if they sent the E-Mail from a
We E-Mail service (like hotmail.com) then chances are it is not their
IP address.[/HIDE]

Obtaiing an IP from Physical Access.
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If you have physical access to a computer then getting the IP address
Is simple.

Step 1 - Click the "Start" button and hit "Run". Type in "Command" and
Hit enter.

Step 2 - Type in "ipconfig" OR "winipcfg" and hit enter now look for
Where it says "IP Address:", next to this is the IP of the computer you
Are using.

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But lets say it is a school computer, what if they have removed the run
Button or removed the MS Dos prompt, well then you load the Internet
And navigate to either: http://www.whatismyip.com
http://www.ipchicken.com
Both of these websites will display the IP Address of the current

Multiple login in yahoo messenger !! Displaying the only post

You can login with multiple ID's on the same yahoo messenger.

Follow these steps : ==>>

[HIDE="PcMaster"]* Go to Start ==> Run ==>> Type regedit,hit enter

* Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER ==>> Software ==>> Yahoo ==>> pager ==>>Test

* On the right pane ==>> right-click and choose new Dword value .

* Rename it as Plural.

* Double click and assign a decimal value of 1.

* Now close registry and restart yahoo messenger.

* For signing in with new id open another messenger

SPEED UP UR ACROBAT READER (ALMOST LIKE NOTEPAD)

1. Go to the installation folder of acrobat reader
(C:\program files\adobe\acrobat\reader\.. whatever)

2. Move all the files and folders from the "plugins" directory to the "Optional" directory. (I repeat.. cut and paste the files NOT copy & paste).

Also make sure that acrobat reader is not open else it will lock the files and not allow you to move the files).

Now your acrobat reader will load very fast and almost as good as notepad..

Turn off all system beeps

If you want to turn off all system beeps (like the ones that go through your computers' internal speaker):

Start Regedit

Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Sound

Edit the key Beep and give it a value of No

REGEDIT Keyboard Shortcuts

Searching
"Ctrl+F" -- Opens the Find dialog box.
"F3" -- Repeats the last search.

Browsing
"Keypad +" -- Expands the selected branch.
"Keypad -" -- Collapses the selected branch.
"Keypad *" -- Expands all the selected branch's sub keys.
"Up Arrow" -- Selects the previous key.
"Down Arrow" -- Selects the next key.
"Left Arrow" -- Collapses the selected branch if it's not collapsed; otherwise, selects the parent key.
"Right Arrow" -- Expands the selected branch if it's not already expanded; otherwise, selects the key's first sub key.
"Home" -- Selects My Computer.
"End" -- Selects the last key that's visible in the key pane.
"Page Up" -- Moves up one page in the key pane.
"Page Down" -- Moves down one page in the key pane.
"Tab" -- Moves between the key and value panes.
"F6" -- Moves between the key and value panes.

Others:
"Delete" -- Deletes the select branch or value.
"F1" -- Opens Regedit's Help.
"F2" -- Renames the selected key or value.
"F5" -- Refreshes the key and value panes.
"F10" -- Opens Regedit's menu bar.
"Shift+F10" -- Opens the shortcut menu for the selected key or value.
"Alt+F4" -- Closes Regedit.

REMOVE ANNOYING DELETE CONFIRMATION MESSAGES

Although not strictly a performance tweak I love this fix as it makes my machine 'feel' faster. I hate the annoying 'are you sure?' messages that XP displays, especially if I have to use a laptop touchpad to close them. To remove these messages:

1. Right-click on the 'Recycle Bin' on the desktop and then click 'Properties'

2. Clear the 'Display Delete Confirmation Dialog' check box and click 'Ok'

If you do accidently delete a file don't worry as all is not lost. Just go to your Recycle Bin and 'Restore' the file.

DISABLE UNNECESSARY SERVICES

Because Windows XP has to be all things to all people it has many services running that take up system resources that you will never need. Below is a list of services that can be disabled on most machines:

Alerter
Clipbook
Computer Browser
Distributed Link Tracking Client
Fast User Switching
Help and Support - (If you use Windows Help and Support leave this enabled)
Human Interface Access Devices
Indexing Service
IPSEC Services
Messenger
Netmeeting Remote Desktop Sharing (disabled for extra security)
Portable Media Serial Number
Remote Desktop Help Session Manager (disabled for extra security)
Remote Procedure Call Locator
Remote Registry (disabled for extra security)
Remote Registry Service
Secondary Logon
Routing & Remote Access (disabled for extra security)
Server
SSDP Discovery Service - (Unplug n' Pray will disable this)
Telnet
TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper
Upload Manager
Universal Plug and Play Device Host
Windows Time
Wireless Zero Configuration (Do not disable if you use a wireless network)
Workstation
To disable these services:

Go to Start and then Run and type "services.msc"
Doubleclick on the service you want to change
Change the startup type to 'Disable"

SPEEDUP FOLDER BROWSING

You may have noticed that everytime you open my computer to browse folders that there is a slight delay. This is because Windows XP automatically searches for network files and printers everytime you open Windows Explorer. To fix this and to increase browsing significantly:

1. Open My Computer
2. Click on Tools menu
3. Click on Folder Options
4. Click on the View tab.
5. Uncheck the Automatically search for network folders and printers check box
6. Click Apply
7. Click Ok
8. Reboot your computer

DISABLE INDEXING SERVICES

Indexing Services is a small little program that uses large amounts of RAM and can often make a computer endlessly loud and noisy. This system process indexes and updates lists of all the files that are on your computer. It does this so that when you do a search for something on your computer, it will search faster by scanning the index lists. If you don't search your computer often, or even if you do search often, this system service is completely unnecessary. To disable do the following:

1. Go to Start
2. Click Settings
3. Click Control Panel
4. Double-click Add/Remove Programs
5. Click the Add/Remove Window Components
6. Uncheck the Indexing services
7. Click Next

Speed Up Browsing

When you connect to a web site your computer sends information back and forth. Some of this information deals with resolving the site name to an IP address, the stuff that TCP/IP really deals with, not words. This is DNS information and is used so that you will not need to ask for the site location each and every time you visit the site. Although Windows XP and Windows XP have a pretty efficient DNS cache, you can increase its overall performance by increasing its size. You can do this with the registry entries below:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Dnscache\Parameters]
"CacheHashTableBucketSize"=dword:00000001
"CacheHashTableSize"=dword:00000180
"MaxCacheEntryTtlLimit"=dword:0000fa00
"MaxSOACacheEntryTtlLimit"=dword:0000012d

Make a new text file and rename it to dnscache.reg. Then copy and paste the above into it and save it. Merge it into the registry.

Disable CD Autorun

( WinXP PRO Only)
1) Click Start, Run and enter GPEDIT.MSC
2) Go to Computer Configuration, Administrative Templates, System.
3) Locate the entry for Turn autoplay off and modify it as you desire

You tube and Google video Tricks

As we all know that none of the video sharing sites provide a link to download their videos. So we will have to do some tweaking and play around to download the videos. Here are some ways to download any video from the internet , they are based on the common hack (Right-click -> "Save Target As" OR copy the link into your download manager, but change the file extension to .flv)
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Method 1: For Firefox Users - Install the VideoDownloader Extension from Mozilla Add-ons website - It downloads all embedded objects on a webpage including the video clips. This is very easy for beginners.
Method 2: One of the easiest ways is to copy your video URL and paste it on KeepVid Lite. When you click submit, you will be provided with a link to save the video as an FLV file.

Using these tricks you can easily download videos from Youtube or Google Videos or Metacafe.
Now some more questions that arise are:
How do I play FLV files on my computer - They dont open with windows media player or winamp or itunes or real player ?
You can download free FLV players to watch FLV files locally. A good FLV player has a simple and easy-to-remember name - FLV Player. Another nice alternative is the Riva FLV player.Try them out.
.How do I split a large FLV file into smaller playable video clips?
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This is the most common question among video enthusiasts - they want to split a large FLV video file into smaller chunks for editing or resharing only the interesting tidbits on the internet. To break an FLV file, get the free FLV Parser - a tiny command-line tool to split FLVs into pieces. Its intended use is to convert a large FLV into a series of shorter FLVs based on a series of millisecond-based timecodes. Using the -s switch will split the audio and video of the outputted files; the audio track will be extracted as a series of MP3 files, and the short FLVs produced will have no audio track at all.
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How to convert FLV videos to Windows AVI or Quicktime MOV or 3GP formats ?
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The free Simplified Universal Player Encoder & Renderer software from Super can convert FLV files to practically any other video format including MP4, MOV H.264, AVI, ASF or Flash SWF animations. Super video convertor
How do I convert my AVI, MPEG, MOV, 3GP movie clips back to FLV format ?
Say you complete editing your movie in Windows Movie Maker or Avid and now left with an MOV file that you want to convert to FLV. Just get the free Riva FLV encoder and relax. The Riva encoder even lets you select parts of the video that you want to convert to FLV and crop the rest.

I have three small video clips that I download from Google Videos and now want to join them into one single video -How do I merge FLV files ?

There is no free software that lets you join FLV files other than the expensive Macromedia Flash Professional. However, here's a simple trick to join several flv video files - convert individual flv files to avi using Super [as mentioned above], then join the multiple Avi files into a single avi file using free VirtualDub and finally convert this avi back to FLV using Riva FLV encoder.Its done.
How do I watch Youtube Video on my iPod, PSP or Television ?

Again we'll make use of the Super Video Encoder mentioned above. Just convert the FLV file into a corresponding format (like Apple iPod or Sony PSP or MPG) and transfer it to your gadget

Install Net Meeting

Wondering how to install Netmeeting on Windows XP? Well you don't have to install it! Why? It is already pre-installed with Windows XP, but (by design they say) it isn't linked to anywhere on your programs menu. Here is how to load it:

1: Click START then RUN
2: Enter "conf" without the quotes

That's it - now you can Netmeet to your hearts content.

SYSTEM TIPS

Enable/Disable Registry Editing tools

Copy the following code,paste in any notepad and save as "regtools.vbs" file. Just double click it and you will get yor regedit enabled.(Be careful to copy the code exactly as presented here including everything. Code goes here....... 'Enable/Disable Registry Editing tools '© Doug Knox - rev 12/06/99 Option Explicit 'Declare variables Dim WSHShell, n, MyBox, p, t, mustboot, errnum, vers Dim enab, disab, jobfunc, itemtype Set WSHShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell") p = "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\" p = p & "DisableRegistryTools" itemtype = "REG_DWORD" mustboot = "Log off and back on, or restart your pc to" & vbCR & "effect the changes" enab = "ENABLED" disab = "DISABLED" jobfunc = "Registry Editing Tools are now " 'This section tries to read the registry key value. If not present an 'error is generated. Normal error return should be 0 if value is 'present t = "Confirmation" Err.Clear On Error Resume Next n = WSHShell.RegRead (p) On Error Goto 0 errnum = Err.Number if errnum <> 0 then 'Create the registry key value for DisableRegistryTools with value 0 WSHShell.RegWrite p, 0, itemtype End If 'If the key is present, or was created, it is toggled 'Confirmations can be disabled by commenting out 'the two MyBox lines below If n = 0 Then n = 1 WSHShell.RegWrite p, n, itemtype Mybox = MsgBox(jobfunc & disab & vbCR & mustboot, 4096, t) ElseIf n = 1 then n = 0 WSHShell.RegWrite p, n, itemtype Mybox = MsgBox(jobfunc & enab & vbCR & mustboot, 4096, t) End If _________________________________________________________________________________