Start all your programs with a single click using batch file

Everyone has some standard list of programs, which he starts when logs on to his computer. It’s a waste of time to start each program individually; today we are going to learn how to start all your favorite programs with a single click using batch files. Those of you who don’t know what batch files are may check this post to find out what they are.

Batch Programming Basics

I usually use Dreamweaver, Mozilla Firefox, and pidgin immediately after I login to my comp. So let us see how to create a batch file to start the above three programs with a single click.
First open note pad and type the following lines

CD “C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Dreamweaver CS3\”

start Dreamweaver.exe




cd “C:\Program Files\Pidgin\”

start Pidgin.exe

cd “C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\”

start firefox.exe

Here cd switches the control to the directory following it and start command is used to start the program in that directory. You can add any number of programs to this list.
Once you have added all your favorite programs to this list, save it a startup.bat or any other name of your choice and double click on that batch file you created just now to start all your favorite programs.
If you have any problems in creating the batch files feel free to drop in a comment here

How to unlock folders locked by the folder lock software without any password

Now, you don’t have to worry about the password of your locked folder. You can easily access or unlock your folder, without any password, or without knowing password of that locked folder.

Why should we lock a folder?

Just like any person needs security guard for his or her security, or any PC needs password for security, some important folders also need to be locked for security.And if we lock our folder we will have following benefits:-

• Unknown persons can’t be able to open that holder, and use the files inside it.


• Only you and the persons who know the password can use the files inside it.

How to lock a folder using folder lock software

Requirements:-

To lock a folder by using folder lock software you need:-

• A folder which will be locked.


• A, folder locking software should be installed on your PC, like Folder Access.

You can download Folder Access from below mentioned link.

http://www.topdownloads.net/software/view.php?id=156290

How to lock

When you start the folder access for the first time you will be asked the password to set. This password will be used to gain access to software and for locking and unlocking folders.

To lock a folder after installation, you just right-click on folder and select lock folder.

And to unlock folder, you just right-click on folder and select unlock folder.

While locking and unlocking folder, you will asked for the password. Please enter the password you had set when first time you started Folder Access.

How to unlock the locked folder, without password?

It happens that sometimes you may forget the password of your locked folder. Or you may want to open that folder and use the files and data inside it, but you don’t know the password. You can’t uninstall that software, because in this process also, it will ask for password.

But now you don’t have to worry much about this, because now you can open or unlock that folder without knowing any password. You have to follow simple steps.

Requirements:-

To unlock or open any locked folder you need:-

• A pen-drive or memory card (with card reader and mobile).


• A PC in which folder access (or the software by which the folder is locked) isnot installed.


• You can use a mobile phone instead of PC .

How to unlock

To unlock any folder, you have to follow these simple steps:-

1. Plug in the pen-drive or memory card (with card reader) into the PC (in which locked folder stored).


2. Copy the locked folder, and paste it into the pen-drive or memory card.


3. Unplug the pen-drive or memory card.


4. Plug in the pen-drive into another PC (in which folder lock software is not installed).
   OR (for memory card) plug-in the memory card into mobile phone.


5. Open the pen-drive or memory card.


6. Right click on folder and select Rename.                                                              OR (for memory card) select options of that folder and select Rename.


7. Change the coding name of the folder.


8. Unplug pen-drive from PC, OR unplug memory card from mobile.                And plug-in into 1st PC (in which folder lock software is installed).


9. Open the pen-drive OR memory card and see your locked folder will be unlocked.

Now your folder is successfully unlocked without using any password. You can open it and use the files inside it.

Create Ghost Bootable SD Card or USB Flash Drive

It's a good practice to create an image of your hard drive before you start using it. Especially when you had to build that computer from scratch and spent hours installing the operating system and all of your favorite apps...

As Symantec Ghost becomes more user friendly, people start to recognize this idea. The idea also works well when you need to clean your PC from viruses. In case anything goes wrong with the operating system, you just need to restore the image using the Symantec bootable CD.

However, the problem comes when we deal with the new version of those small laptops: The netbooks! which usually don't come with a built-in CD-ROM drive to bootup the PC.
The most simple solution would be buying an external CD-ROM drive, which costs you money. And in some cases, you just want to bootup the Symantec Ghost.... with whatever available!



The good news: Almost every recent laptop/netbook comes with a card reader, and even if you wasn't lucky enough, your laptop/netbook should have a USB port!

This guide will tell you how to create a bootable SD card or a USB flash drive with Symantec Norton Ghost.
This task can be done with several different versions of Symantec Ghost; however, the steps from this articles are based on Symantec Ghost 14.

What you need?

• Symantec Ghost 14 bootable CD. (Some other versions might also work)


• A PC with bootable CD/DVD drive.


• An SD card (either SD or SDHC), or a USB thumb drive. The size can be as minimum as 1 GB. You can also pick a large SD card if you want to store your hard drive image to the card as well.


• An SD slot or a card reader (for SD card) or a USB slot (for thumb drive)

 

 

Follow the steps in order. Use this guide at your own risks.

 

1. First, check to make sure your CD/DVD drive is bootable. (See your BIOS manual or PC user guide for details since this is out of the scope of this article).


2. - For SD card: Make sure the SD slot or the card reader is available. if it's a card reader, connect it to the PC. Also insert the card.
   - For USB thumb drive: Make sure the drive is inserted into one of the USB slots.


3. Bootup the computer using the Symantec Ghost CD (Details vary on different computers). On Windows XP, during the startup, you should see the prompt "Press any key to boot from CD...".


4. Once the Symantec Recovery startup is complete, you should see the main screen of Symantec Ghost 14 Recovery similar to this image:
   
   


5. Select "Analyze" from the left menu.
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   


6. Then click on "Open Command Shell Window". A command prompt window will display.


7. At this command prompt window, type: "diskpart" (one word, without quotes) and hit enter. The prompt now changed to "DISKPART>"


8. Now type "list disk" and hit enter. You should now see a list of all available disks. Base on the size of each disk listed, find the one that matching your SD card (or thumb drive) and note its disk number under "Disk ###". If you don't see your SD card (or flash drive) listed, verify if it is inserted or plugged in (you might need to restart the computer and try again).


9. Type "select disk <n>" (replace <n> with the disk # noted from the previous step) then hit enter.
   Important!! Besure to select the correct disk (your SD card or thumb drive) as you will be erasing the drive.
   Sample image with a 4-GB SD selected:
   
   


10. Create a primary partition for the the disk by executing the following sequence of commands:
    clean
    create partition primary
    select partition 1


11. Set the primary partition active, type: "active" and hit enter


12. Perform a quick format with the following command:
    format fs=fat32 quick


13. Then type:
    assign
    exit


14. Your SD card (or the flash drive) is now bootable and will act similar to a local hard drive. In order to boot this card with Symantect Ghost Recovery, copy all contents from the Symantec Ghost disc to the SD card (or the flash drive). Besure to copy everything including any hidden files/folders.
    
    The SD card or flash drive is now bootable and will boot your laptop/netbook to Symantec Ghost Recovery utilities exactly the same way as of the CD (To boot with the card on your laptop/netbook, don't forget to set your bios to search for the SD card or USB external devices in the boot sequence).

Hide Files or Folders Using Command Prompt

Trick to hide files and folders using Command Prompt
The most important thing is that, once hidden with this method, the files/folders cannot be viewed by any search options even if you click "Show All Hidden Files and Folders".

Hiding the most wanted files and folders is very important nowadays and it's really a tedious job too. In order to make this tedious job an easy one, i'm going to deliver you a the trick now.

For Example: You have a folder named "collegephotos" and this folder is stored in (Disk Drive E). You think that it should not be seen by strangers who use your PC.

For that you need to follow the following instructions

1. Press windowkey+R: Run command dialog box appears.


2. Now type "cmd" and hit enter. A command prompt window displays.


3. Now type "attrib +s +h E:\collegephotos" and hit enter.


4. The folder "collegephotos" will be hidden (Note: It cannot be viewed by any search options)
   
   (To view this folder again, use the same command but replace '+' with '-' on both flags 's' and 'h')

Burn a CD on Windows XP without using software

Windows XP comes with a builtin CD-copy feature that not many people are aware of. Although almost everyone has his/her favorite CD-copy software to stick with, it is still good to know about this CDR feature from Windows XP. You will find it very useful when you come to another PC that doesn't have a CD-copy software, and you can't just install your favorite software to it. With this feature, you can write some data or MP3 files to a CD/DVD, or erase a re-writable CD/DVD.

If you're using a Re-Writable CD (CD-RW), make sure the disc is blank. You might need to erase (or "format") it before use. For information how to erase a CD-RW on Windows XP without using any other software, see this article.

Requirements: You need to enable the CD-R feature on Windows XP. If you haven't done so, see this article.

 

1. Insert a Formated-ReWritable CD or a Recordable (CD-R) disc into the CD drive.


2. From Desktop, double-click on "My Computer".


3. Navigate to the files/folders you want to copy to CD. Select them and press "Ctrl-c" to copy.


4. Browse back to the CD-ROM, and press "Ctrl-V" to paste. The files/folders will show up as temporary files/folders at this time.
   
   


5. On the left panel, select "Write these files to CD".
   
   


6. The window "CD Writing Wizard" appears with the default CD name. Change the CD name if you wish, then click "Next".
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   


7. The "CD Writing Wizard" starts to write files/folders to the CD:
   
   


8. Once the writing process is complete, the wizard will disappear and the CD-Rom will be ejected.

Convert Any Document or Web Page to PDF

Somebody just told you that you need to have Adobe Acrobat (Writer) to create a PDF file? Guess what, you can get away from that pricey piece of software if you just need to convert some documents to pdf, without a need of fancy editing the pdf document.

Here's how. Thanks to the BullZip, who provides a Free Pdf printer. With this free tool, you can simply "print out" your document or webpage to a pdf file, just about the same way as you print it out to a printer.

You can visit BullZip.com for more information about the software.

Here the direct link to BullZip downloads page: Downloads

1. To get started, first follow the link above and download Free Pdf Printer from BullZip, then install it to your computer.


2. Once you're done, you might need to close the program (or the web browser) which you're currently viewing the document. This helps refreshing the list of available printers on your computer.


3. Once you get back to the document you want to convert, perform the same steps are you print out the document, i.e. File > Print ...


4. When you see the Print window pop-up, select "Bullzip PDF Printer" under "Printers", then click "OK".


5. BullZip PDF Printer will then start to analyze your document and display a new pop-up window, where you can direct it to the location you want to save the pdf file.


6. Follow the pop-up windows and.. hola! The PDF document is created!

Any Folder as a Photo Folder

This tricks shows you how to setup any folder to display its contents as a photo folder. In many cases, you save your images/photos in a folder different than "My Pictures" (under "My Documents"). Since this folder you choose is just like any other normal folders, its contents displayed as a listing of files. You can temporary change it by just right-click and select "View" >> "Thumbnails". But if you want to change the folder so that everytime you come back, the folder itself, as well as all its subfolders, display the contents as photo thumbnails.

Here's How

 

• Right-click on the folder you choose and select "Properties"
   
  
   


• Select "Customize" Tab. Then under "Use this folder type as a template", select "Pictures (best for many files)"
   
  
   


• Check on "Also apply this template to all subfolders" to apply the setting to subfoders as well
   
  
   


• Click OK to exit

Reset Windows Password

Forgot your administrator password? Don't panic, it happens to some other people too, and you have found the solution! The following instructions will show you step-by-step how to reset your local Windows password. This only works for local user accounts, however, not domain accounts.The password recovery tool from this page is written by Petter Nordahl-Hagen, and the original information, as well as the downloadable tool, can be found from his website. According to the author, this tool should work for Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista.

WARNING! Users who have EFS encrypted files on the Windows XP or Vista computers will loose access to the EFS encrypted files after recovery of your password!

Use this trick at your own risks

The tool to reset your password can be downloaded here.

 

I. Download the bootdisk:

1. Download the bootdisk, which includes the password recovery tool here. The file contains the ISO CD image.


2. Unzip (extract) the ISO file and burn it to a CD. Note that this is an ISO file, you must burn it to CD as an ISO image, not as a "data" file. If you're not sure how, see this article. Also, the image is bootable, you need to burn the image to a CD using the image burning feature; do not extract the contents of the ISO and burn them to the CD, you'll end up with a CD that can't boot!

 

II. Understanding the process: You'll use the bootdisk created from the above steps to bootup your computer, which you want to reset your administrator password. You'll be asked for things like: which drive is the boot drive, which path to the SAM file, etc.. but don't worry, details will be provided. Once you have selected an account to reset the password, you'll need to type in a new password; however, it is highly recommended to use a BLANK password at this point, then you can change your password later in Windows. Follow the prompts to the end. You'll need to save the changes at the end!

 

III. OK! Enough talking. Here are the steps:

1. Startup your computer with the bootdisk created above. You should see a welcome screen following with a prompt:
   

   	boot:

   
   


2. Just wait, the bootup process will continute automatically. Then you should see a screen similar to this:
   

   	=========================================================
   	. Step ONE: Select disk where the Windows installation is
   	=========================================================
   	....
   	NT partitions found:
   	 1 :   /dev/sda1    4001MB  Boot
   	 2 :   /dev/sda5    2148MB
   
   	Please select partition by number or
   	a = show all partitions, d = automatically load new disk drivers
   	m = manually load new disk drivers
   	l = relist NTFS/FAT partitions, q = quit
   	Select: [1]

   
   


3. Notice the last line "Select: [1]" which shows the [1] as default selection because the tool detected the bootup partition is [1]. This might be different on your own machine, so you should review the list shown under "NT partitions found:". The partition with the word "Boot" should be selected.


4. Hit Enter once you confirm the selection. You should see a similar screen as follows:
   

   	=========================================================
   	. Step TWO: Select PATH and registry files
   	=========================================================
   	....
   	What is the path to the registry directory? (relative to windows disk)
   	[windows/system32/config] :

   
   


5. Notice the last line "[windows/system32/config]" which shows the default path. This was also detected by the tool. If the path is correct, hit Enter, or if you wish to enter a different path, enter it now then hit Enter.
   Here are the paths for different versions of Windows:
   - Windows NT 3.51: winnt35/system32/config
   - Windows NT 4 and Windows 2000: winnt/system32/config
   - Windows XP/2003 (and often Windows 2000 upgraded from Windows 98 or earlier): windows/system32/config


6. Once you hit "Enter", you should see the next screen similar to the following:
   

   	-r--------    1 0        0          262144 Jan 12 18:01 SAM
   	-r--------    1 0        0          262144 Jan 12 18:01 SECURITY
   	-r--------    1 0        0          262144 Jan 12 18:01 default
   	-r--------    1 0        0         8912896 Jan 12 18:01 software
   	-r--------    1 0        0         2359296 Jan 12 18:01 system
   	dr-x------    1 0        0            4096 Sep  8 11:37 systemprofile
   	-r--------    1 0        0          262144 Sep  8 11:53 userdiff
   
   	Select which part of registry to load, use predefined choices
   	or list the files with space as delimiter
   	1 - Password reset [sam system security]
   	2 - RecoveryConsole parameters [software]
   	q - quit - return to previous
   	[1]

   
   


7. Hit "Enter" with the default option selected "[1]". Then ...:
   

   	=========================================================
   	. Step THREE: Password or registry edit
   	=========================================================
   	Loaded hives:   
   
   	  1 - Edit user data and passwords
   	  2 - Syskey status & change
   	  3 - RecoveryConsole settings
   		  - - -
   	  9 - Registry editor, now with full write support!
   	  q - Quit (you will be asked if there is something to save)
   
   	What to do? [1] -> 1

   
   


8. Hit "Enter" with the default option selected "[1]". Then ...:
   

   	===== chntpw Edit User Info & Passwords ====
   
   	RID: 01f4, Username: <Administrator>
   	RID: 01f5, Username: <Guest>, *disabled or locked*
   	RID: 03e8, Username: <HelpAssistant>, *disabled or locked*
   	RID: 03eb, Username: <pnh>, *disabled or locked*
   	RID: 03ea, Username: <SUPPORT_388945a0>, *disabled or locked*
   
   	Select: ! - quit, . - list users, 0x<RID> - User with RID (hex)
   	or simply enter the username to change: [Administrator]

   
   


9. Hit "Enter" with the default option selected "[Administrator]", or select another user account. Here you can enter the full user account surrounded by < and >, CASE-SENSITIVE, or enter the RID number (i.e. 0x1f4). Assuming you select the Administrator account, you should see the following screen:
   

   	RID     : 0500 [01f4]
   	Username: Administrator
   	fullname: 
   	comment : Built-in account for administering the computer/domain
   	homedir : 
   
   	Account bits: 0x0210 =
   	[ ] Disabled        | [ ] Homedir req.    | [ ] Passwd not req. | 
   	[ ] Temp. duplicate | [X] Normal account  | [ ] NMS account     | 
   	[ ] Domain trust ac | [ ] Wks trust act.  | [ ] Srv trust act   | 
   	[X] Pwd don't expir | [ ] Auto lockout    | [ ] (unknown 0x08)  | 
   	[ ] (unknown 0x10)  | [ ] (unknown 0x20)  | [ ] (unknown 0x40)  | 
   
   	Failed login count: 0, while max tries is: 0
   	Total  login count: 3
   
   	* = blank the password (This may work better than setting a new password!)
   	Enter nothing to leave it unchanged
   	Please enter new password: *

   
   


10. At the prompt "Please enter new password", Enter the * for a blank password (HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!) then press Enter
    

    	Please enter new password: *
    	Blanking password!
    
    	Do you really wish to change it? (y/n) [n] y

    
    


11. At the prompt, type in "y", then press Enter. Note that the default option is "n".
    

    	Do you really wish to change it? (y/n) [n] y
    	Changed!
    
    	Select: ! - quit, . - list users, 0x - User with RID (hex)
    	or simply enter the username to change: [Administrator] !

    
    


12. Enter the "!" to go back to the main menu. Then select "q" at the following menu to quit:
    

    	<>========<> chntpw Main Interactive Menu <>========<>
    
    	Loaded hives:   
    
    	  1 - Edit user data and passwords
    	  2 - Syskey status & change
    	  3 - RecoveryConsole settings
    		  - - -
    	  9 - Registry editor, now with full write support!
    	  q - Quit (you will be asked if there is something to save)
    
    	What to do? [1] -> q

    
    


13. A prompt to save changes displays, enter "y" to save:
    

    	=========================================================
    	. Step FOUR: Writing back changes
    	=========================================================
    	About to write file(s) back! Do it? [n] : y

    
    


14. The changes are saved! You should see the following screen, press Enter, and reboot your computer.
    

    	Writing  sam
    
    	***** EDIT COMPLETE *****	You can try again if it somehow failed, or you selected wrong
    	New run? [n] : n

    
    

Windows XP Secrets

Notepad Secrets

Create a log Open Notepad On the very first line, type in ".LOG" (without quotes) then press Enter for a new line Now you can type in some text if you want, then save the file. Next time when you open the file, notice its contents. Notepad automatically adds a time/date log everytime you open the file. Text becomes unreadable Open Notepad On the very first line, type in "dont eat the donut" (without quotes) then save and close the file. Note: the file should have only one line of the text above. Now, open the same file. You'll notice the text becomes unreadable squares. (try this with different text with the same format and length).

Paint Secrets

Create a trail image Open Paint, then open an image. Right-click on the image and select "Select All" Now hold the "Shift" key and move the image around. The image will be drawn with trail. 10x Zoom Open Paint, then open a small image. Select the zoom "Magnifier" tool. Windows Paint lists out the zoom options from 1x to 8x, but there is a 10x... After selecting the Magnifier tool, point the mouse right at the border line right under "8x" and left-click. There you go.. the hidden 10x.

Other Secrets

Where is the relaxing music that you've heard during Windows XP Installation? The file is in: C:\Windows\system32\oobe\images\title.wma

Game Secrets

Solitaire: Instant Win Press Alt + Shift + 2 to instantly win  Solitaire: Draw only 1 card (instead of 3) Hold down Ctrl + Alt + Shift then click on unopen cards to draw.  FreeCell: Instant Win Hold down Ctrl + Shift + F10 while playing, then click Abort. Now move one card.  FreeCell: Hidden Game Modes Go to "Game" menu choose "Select Game" Here you can choose from game mode 1 to 1,000,000. But -1 and -2 will also work (hidden modes)  Hearts: Show All Card Warning! this requires a modification on your registry. Be sure you follow the steps carefully. Damage your registry might damage your Windows. Open the "Registry Editor" by: "Start" >> "Run" then type "regedit" and press Enter Expand to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Applets\Hearts Right-click on the right panel and create a new String value with the name "ZB" Double-click to open this key "ZB" to edit its value. Then enter "42" and close the Registry Editor. Start Hearts and Press Ctrl + Alt + Shift + F12 to show all the cards  Minesweeper: Stop The Timer When you start to play a new game, the timer is ticking... Press Windows Key + D to show desktop. Now come back to the game by selecting it from the taskbar. The timer is stopped.  Pinball Unlimited Balls: Type bmax at a new game to get unlimited balls (no notification). Extra Balls: Type 1max at a new game to get extra balls. Gravity Well: Type gmax at a new game to activate Gravity Well. Promotion: Type rmax at a new game or while playing to get instant promotion and raising rank. Extra points with partial shots: Partially shot the ball just to pass the yellow light bars. There are 6 bars. With the first bar, you'll get 15,000 points, 2nd: 30,000,... Extra points with partial shots: Partially shot the ball just to pass the yellow light bars. There are 6 bars. With the first bar, you'll get 15,000 points, 2nd: 30,000,... Test Mode: Type hidden test with a new ball or new game. Now you can use your mouse to drag and move the ball where you want.

Must Follow PC Expert Tips To Prevent Computer Data Loss

We, as a computer user, must take the right steps to prevent computer data loss as data is of great importance to us.

A very good and real life quote that I find applicable in computer’s world is that Prevention Is Always Better than Cure. Rather than taking steps later to rectify a computer problem we should rather take steps that the need for rectification of fault doesn’t come. Makes more sense right? After all, we all can take some basic and not so difficult steps to ensure that the computer is used intelligently without causing harm to its data.

Data loss is the damage to data stored on a computer that results in the user not able to get access to it by normal means. Data can be stored by a user over a period of many years and may contain very critical and useful information. Loss of such critical and important data can mean loss of several thousand of user hours.

Thus computer data prevention is very important and critical to a personal home business user as well as a company. In order to not face a PC data loss situation or avoid such a scenario of computer data not available fully or accessible partially, you could take care to follow the following steps:

1. Use an Anti Virus Software And Regularly Update It

Antivirus software – better paid one than free, is designed to safeguard your PC from harm causing computer virus. Some virus infections can delete, modify your data secretly and lead to crash of your computer. So be sure to update your Antivirus software with the latest patch and signature files for maximum security.

Also, configure your antivirus to do regular scans of your computer drives at least once in a week when your computer is idle. Also, setup real time scanning so that virus are tracked via email and Internet etc.

2. Use A Good Quality UPS to Protect PC From Power Surges

An uninterruptible power supply protects your computer and data during a power surge or failure. A power surge (sudden high voltage) if allowed to enter a computer can cause storage devices and associated circuitry to malfunction leading to data loss.

The chargeable battery in the UPS gives you enough time to save your documents and shut down Windows properly so that you don’t lose any files or damage any hardware components of your computer due to sudden loss of electrical power.

3. Keep Your Computer in a Dry, Shaded And Dust-Free Area

Never operate your computer near places where it is directly exposed to rain, sun, humidity and dust. Such conditions can cause rusting and other problems to your PC hardware parts leading to loss of data.

4. Do Not Attempt To Repair or Open Up Your Computer Without Assistance If You Do Not Know Anything

If you try to attend to a computer fault by opening it without having computer hardware experience, you may damage the circuit boards, hardware components and worst of all, receive a damage causing electric shock! Kindly consult an appropriate computer expert rather than trying to do it yourself without having any experience and knowledge to do so.

I personally know of cases where untrained people have caused their PC motherboard to burn in trying to troubleshoot a simple problem of computer not booting up.

5. Do Not Over-Tweak Your Computer

Every Computer has a peak performance limit beyond which it cannot work whatever you may do as it cannot exceed it design limits of processor and other components.

So, avoid make changes to your system registry or over clocking your computer hardware to get performance boost unless you’re absolutely sure of what you’re doing. I am sure that you don’t wish to burn your computer by making its component heat up due to too much of processing load.

6. Have Your Data Backups Store at An Off-Site Location

This helps to protect your backup from damage in case of a fire or other natural disaster such as lightning, earthquakes and floods etc. Storing data and its backup at a single location is not a good idea for places where the probability of some natural disaster mentioned above is high.

7. Do Not Shift Your Computer when it is Powered On

Always power off and remove the power and data cables before shifting your computer even if you are doing it for a very small distance. A computer has ports, connectors and sockets to which various devices are attached and voltages are fed in them. Movement of computer with power being supplied to its parts can cause electric sparks leading to data loss.

8. Do Not Share Access To Your Networked PC with People Who You Do Not Know 

Your computer data can easily be lost and modified if anyone on the network (local or remote) can access your files freely due to you sharing it with everyone openly.

9. Practice Regular Hard Disk Maintenance

Clean up temporary files, junk files, and unused files and defragment your hard disk regularly from time to time. This helps to keep your hard disk on top form which decreases the chances of computer data loss. The most important secondary data storage device is computer hard disk and thus you need to take special care of it to avoid data loss due to its failure.

10. Hard Disk Read Failure Symptoms

You know it’s time to start taking backup of all your data files when your hard disk starts producing too much of noises and your system starts behaving strangely.

11. Do Not Drink Beverages While Working On Your Operational PC

Avoid drinking beverage on an operational PC as the spilled liquid can lead to a short circuit inside the computer causing data loss.

12. Make Sure That Electrical Wiring and Electrical Devices in Question Are Of Excellent Quality

Electrical wires, sockets, plugs, strips and switches etc. being used in any form to operate a computer must be of premium quality so that there are no short circuits or burning in any form of wires etc. leading to fire and thus damage to the PC and data stored on it.

Install MAC Os X on PC

Step 1: Requirements

Mac OS X Lion .dmg file
Two USB drives of 8Gb capacity.
A Mac or a Hackintosh PC (I used Snow Leopard insalled on my T61). After Step 2 step you would not be needing a Mac or an already hackintoshed PC we just need to make a USB drive have the LION instance.
iBoot EFI bootloader. Download it from google search.
Your PC Laptop – remember to have full battery juice, don’t take chances
Your laptop’s hard drive should either be partitioned (recommended) or you need to give up the existing Windows installation or you can insert a empty hard drive just before Step 4
Step 2: Setup

Now boot into the Mac (or hackintoshed PC) that you have and mount the Mac OS X Lion .dmg file
Bring up the ‘terminal’ and type in
open /Volumes/Mac\ OS\ X\ Install\ ESD/BaseSystem.dmg
Connect your 8Gb USB drive
Bring up ‘Disk utility’ and format the USB drive with GUID partition table and Mac OS Extended (Journaled) as the file system.
Now Restore Mac OS X Base System from BaseSystem.dmg to the USB drive.
Navigate to the Finder and locate the newly restored drive.
Delete ‘Packages’ from System -> Installation folder that is present inside the restored USB drive.
Now create a folder with the same name (‘Packages’) under System -> Installation of your restored USB drive.
Bring up the terminal again and enter:-
open /Volumes/Mac\ OS\ X\ Install\ ESD/Packages
Copy the contents into the newly created Packages folder.
Now within your Mac/ Hackintosh, navigate to Extra -> Extensions and location the kernel extension FakeSMC.kext.
Copy over ‘FakeSMC.kext’ to System -> Library -> Extensions folder inside the USB drive.
Fix permissions for this newly droped kext by pulling up the terminal and typing in
sudo su<br/>
[enter your password]<br/>
chown –R 0:0 FakeSMC.kext<br/>
chmod –R 755 FakeSMC.kext<br/>
Step 3: Installing iBoot
This is probably the easiest of all steps, won’t take more than a few minutes. We would be installing iBoot so that we can boot in with the Mac OS X Lion.dmg

Get the iBoot EFI bootloader zip file (you might have downloaded in during Step 1). Extract it and run \iBOOT\iBOOT Setup Tool (Windows)\iBOOT_SetupToolBeta.2.exe
Now plug in the other USB drive (that was not involded in step 2 and which is still empty) and click on Format USB Drive.
Pull it out and push it back in and now click on Setup iBoot. (See Image below)
The DSDT and EFI drivers can now be added to the respective folders within the file system inside the USB drive
Step 4: Installing Mac OS X Lion

Plug in both the USB drives
Restart your PC and go to BIOS, change boot preferences and make your USB drive (the one that contains the iBoot setup) to have preference of booting over other hardware devices
Restart and boot through the USB drive that has iBOOT setup.
An interface with drives will be visible. If it is not, then press U to increase the resolution or D to decrease the resolution so as to make the interface appear.
Refresh the loader by pressing V. All available drives should be visible now.
Now press M and set boot flag as -v.
Select the USB drive that reads Mac OS X Base System and hit enter to continue installation on it. This has to be the drive that was used in Step 2.
The user interface is now pretty intuitive, fill in the langugage, time zone etc details and move forward with the installation.
When asked to select the drive to install OS X LION on (follow Step 2 (substep 7 through 15) HERE ON POST STATED BEST TECHNOLOGY STEP), select the drive cautiously. If you are trying to install Windows and Mac OS X on the same drive, then be sure to select the partition when Windows is not installed. Else if you are using a brand new drive or are willing to let Mac OS X Lion take over your existing Windows setup then select the drive of your choice
Note down the name of the partition that you have installed OS X LION on. It would be required in Step 5. Here I have installed the OS on OSX99bits
Lo an Behold – take a look at the LION (it pretty much looks the same as Snow Leopard, but for the default wallpaper )
Step 5: Finalizing the package

After the installation is complete and once you restart the system, you still won’t be able to boot into the Mac OS X LION. We’ll make it happen in the follow steps.
Now, when you restart the system, boot in with the USB drive with iBOOT setup.
Select Mac OS X Base System to boot into.
Now bring up the ‘Terminal’ and type in the following:-
cd /Volumes/OSX99bits/System/Library/CoreServices/
rm -rf PlatformSupport.plist
cd /Volumes/Mac\ OS\ X\ Base\ System/System/Library/Extensions/
cp -R FakeSMC.kext /Volumes/OSX99bits/System/Library/Extensions/
chown -R 0:0 /Volumes/OSX99bits/System/Library/Extensions/FakeSMC.kext
chmod -R 755 /Volumes/OSX99bits/System/Library/Extensions/FakeSMC.kext
exit
Now restart your PC and boot in using the USB Drive containing iBoot, this time into the volume where you installed OS X LION (here it is OSX99bits)
You would now be welcomed by OS X LION with a Video (hopefully with Sound working ). Create an account to login and enjoy riding the LION!
Step 6: MISC (Optional)
If your installation is working all fine and you are happy with it, then you can skip this step. If however, you feel there is a chance for improvement and you want additional stuff, then here’s how:-

Install the following kexts
NullCPUManagement.kext: overrides AppleIntelCPUManagement.kext, which might cause kernel panics in case of incompatible DSDT.
ElliotForceLegacyRTC.kext: Prevents the CMOS Reset
EvOreboot.kext: you can restart and shutdown your computer!! hooray!
To make NVidia drivers work, install NVDAResman.kext and NVDAFG100hal.kext into /System/Library/Extensions/ and delete GeForce.kext that’s present in the same directory
BESTTECHNOLOGY STEP FROM POST ABOVE
Step 1: Requirements and Pre-installation Setup

Download Empire EFI. You can get it from this link or you can search on google – it should be pretty easy to find multiple locations where you can download this file from.
Now the file would ideally be an ISO. Burn the ISO file on a CD.
You can buy Snow Leopard from Amazon, or buy/arrange it from elsewhere
An empty hard drive – even a 20Gb one would be enough. Installation at the bare minimum takes about 8.2Gb. A spare drive is recommended so that nothing goes wrong with your primary Windows operating system.
Make sure you have a dual layer DVD reader.
Important: Replace your hard drive with the empty hard drive that you’d want to have Snow Leopard on.
Step 2: Installation

Now since you do not have anything on your hard drive, your system won’t boot. Restart the system and go to BIOS setup
Arrange the boot order in such a way so that the DVD drive gets a higher boot priority than the hard drive.
Enable AHCI. Save and Exit BIOS
Push in your Empire EFI disk. The system should now pick up and will start booting from the disk. You might have to press enter once or twice.
After you get to the screen where it shows EMPIRE EFI disk and your hard drive, eject the Empire EFI CD and push in the Snow Leopard DVD.
After a few seconds, Press F5 and the screen should now be showing your hard drive and ‘Mac OS X Installation DVD’. From arrow keys, navigate to the installer DVD and press enter.
You might have to press enter once more until you see Snow Leopard’s purple wallpaper and a langugage selection dialog. Click Next, OK, Accept whenever required until you reach the screen that asks you to select the drive on which you’d want to install snow leopard.
At this moment, click on ‘Utilities -> Disk Utility’. Now select the hard drive’s first most icon. Then from the right hand side, select the Partitions tab.
From drop down, select 1 partition. Now the format type should be ‘Mac OS Journaled (Extended)’. Click on ‘Options’ button and select GUID partition table. Click OK.
Write down a name for the partition (change from Untitled to let’s say OS X). Click Apply.
Your new partition will be created in just a minute. Close Disk Utility by clicking on the red button at the top left of the window. The installation wizard would re-appear in a couple of seconds.
Select the newly created partition. Now click on customize and remove the checkbox from ‘Foreign Languages’, ‘Printers’, ‘XTerminal’ and whatever you think you don’t need – all this to save space and make installation a little faster
Now carry on with the installation by clicking OK, Next, Accept whenever required.
Skip registration and internet connectivity wizard – you can set these things up afterwards.
After entering your user account credentials, you’d see a ‘Installation Successful’ screen (see picture below) and the system would restart.
Now quickly eject the Snow Leopard DVD and slam in the Empire EFI CD. If you get a little late, then restart the computer so that it now boots form Empire EFI CD.
When you reach the selection screen, you’d see your Snow Leopard hard drive option – using arrow keys move to that one and press enter.
Snow leopard would now start booting and you’d be welcomed by the same purple sky screen with a dock menu and Empire EFI disk icon on the desktop.
Step 3: Post installation

You would have noticed that you had to take the help of Empire EFI disk to boot into Snow Leopard. Can’t do this every time.. right!
Now double-click on the Empire EFI disk icon that you see on the screen and navigate to ‘Post Installation’ folder inside it.
Double click on ‘My Hack….’ program to run it with default option selected.
This will prepare a boot-loader for your newly installed mac and you should now be able to boot into the system without the need of empire efi disk
Restart the computer and try to boot in. If all goes well then you are all set, else boot in using Empire EFI disk and go to the same ‘Post Installation’ folder.
There you’d find ‘chameleon boot…..’ file. Run that one and it should fix the problem.
You might notice that some of your hardware doesn’t seem to be working. You’d have to installed kexts (same as hardware drivers of Windows operating systems) to make them work.
kext utility is one great tool that lets you install kexts without any hassle – you just need to drag the kext to the kext utility and it does everything else by itself.
Best place to find kexts for your hardware is kexts.com. You have to sign-up to be able to download anything from this site, but signing up and downloading id free.

Registry Editing Has Been Disabled By Your Administrator

Whenever I open Run and type regedit and press enter a messageprompt appears saying “Registry editing has been disabled by your administrator“.



Let’s see how can we fix it.Here i got 3 Methods to fix this Problem which i have collected them from Net.


Method 1:

You can use a simple UnHookExec.inf to enable registry editing.

1. Download UnHookExec.inf
2. Right click on the downloaded file and select install.


Method 2:

For enabling you can also use the remove restrictions tool(RRT) by Sergiwa.com, if the method 1 doesn’t work for you.

1. First Download Remove Restrictions Tool
2. Run and check the registry tools and click apply.

Method 3:

If the above two methods does not work for you , you can also try executing a small vbscript which I found on major geeks.

1. First Download EnableRegEdit.vbs
2. Double click on the downloaded file to enable registry editing.

I hope at least one of the above will help to fix the trouble.

what is difference between JDK and JRE and JVM ???

JDK (Java Development Kit)

Java Developer Kit contains tools needed to develop the Java programs, and JRE to run the programs. The tools include compiler (javac.exe), Java application launcher (java.exe), Appletviewer, etc…

Compiler converts java code into byte code. Java application launcher opens a JRE, loads the class, and invokes its main method.

You need JDK, if at all you want to write your own programs, and to compile the m. For running java programs, JRE is sufficient.

JRE is targeted for execution of Java files

i.e. JRE = JVM + Java Packages Classes(like util, math, lang, awt,swing etc)+runtime libraries.

JDK is mainly targeted for java development. I.e. You can create a Java file (with the help of Java packages), compile a Java file and run a java file

JRE (Java Runtime Environment)

Java Runtime Environment contains JVM, class libraries, and other supporting files. It does not contain any development tools such as compiler, debugger, etc. Actually JVM runs the program, and it uses the class libraries, and other supporting files provided in JRE. If you want to run any java program, you need to have JRE installed in the system

The Java Virtual Machine provides a platform-independent way of executing code; programmers can concentrate on writing software, without having to be concerned with how or where it will run.

If u just want to run applets (ex: Online Yahoo games or puzzles), JRE needs to be installed on the machine.

JVM (Java Virtual Machine)

As we all aware when we compile a Java file, output is not an 'exe' but it's a '.class' file. '.class' file consists of Java byte codes which are understandable by JVM. Java Virtual Machine interprets the byte code into the machine code depending upon the underlying operating system and hardware combination. It is responsible for all the things like garbage collection, array bounds checking, etc… JVM is platform dependent.

The JVM is called "virtual" because it provides a machine interface that does not depend on the underlying operating system and machine hardware architecture. This independence from hardware and operating system is a cornerstone of the write-once run-anywhere value of Java programs.

There are different JVM implementations are there. These may differ in things like performance, reliability, speed, etc. These implementations will differ in those areas where Java specification doesn’t mention how to implement the features, like how the garbage collection process works is JVM dependent, Java spec doesn’t define any specific way to do this.

Listening, Speaking, and Pronunciation of English

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=zvu9SoCyDec

How To Clean Your RAM Using Notepad

Many friends of me ask where can I download a software which can keep my RAM free? And I found these software are nothing but using some lines of code which can be implemented by using notepad or any editor tool. So if any one does not have any software, you can use it by doing the following things which I am going to mention.

Steps to Clean Your RAM Using Notepad:

Step 1: Open Notepad
Step 2: Type FreeMem=Space(10240000000)
Step 3: Save it as “CLEANER.VBS” in any location you like.
Step 4: You can edit the code and write 512 instead of 1024 if you own a 512mb RAM or change to anything you like.
Step 5: Run it !

After this final step your RAM will be free.

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How To Clean Your RAM Using Notepad

Many friends of me ask where can I download a software which can keep my RAM free? And I found these software are nothing but using some lines of code which can be implemented by using notepad or any editor tool. So if any one does not have any software, you can use it by doing the following things which I am going to mention.

Steps to Clean Your RAM Using Notepad:

Step 1: Open Notepad
Step 2: Type FreeMem=Space(10240000000)
Step 3: Save it as “CLEANER.VBS” in any location you like.
Step 4: You can edit the code and write 512 instead of 1024 if you own a 512mb RAM or change to anything you like.
Step 5: Run it !

After this final step your RAM will be free.

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