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Showing posts with label Windows. Show all posts

Customizing Desktop In Windows With Wallpaper Clock

Vladstudio Wallpaper Clocks 

Wallpaper clocks are like good old wallpapers, except they show time, too! A wall clock is  a specially designed .wcz file that refreshes your desktop every minute to keep your time precise.
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How To Enable Telnet Command In Windows

For security reasons, Windows 7  came without telnet as Windows vista. The Telnet commands allow you to communicate with a remote computer that is using the Telnet protocol.Telnet is a simple but extremely popular protocol for exchanging data between two computers. 


How To Enable Telnet Command In Windows :

After enabling Telnet command you can use Telnet from DOS prompt. Follow this simple steps to Enable telnet Command.
  1. Open Control panel. Navigate to Programs and Features. 
  2. Open Turn Windows features on or off.
  3. Check the Telnet Client. 
Now You have successfully enabled Telnet command. Type telnet in Command prompt. It works. 

Related:  Ubuntu Tweak: Ultimate Make Up Kit For Ubuntu

Stuck On Windows 8 : These Guys Can Help You

Windows 8 is in the market now. So you can find it's news on any tech blog. If you stuck on Windows you Can find it's Fix from any Well-known Tech blog or from anywhere on Internet because, I think Google is the big box of knowledge.

So I have a list of a blogs from them you can learn a lots about Windows 8.

  1. Eye On Windows : Run by Onuora Amobi, this web magazine has basically covered Windows 8 since it was (quite frankly) ridiculous to do so (December of 2009). 3 years of wall to wall coverage of Windows 8 has ensured that if it’s Windows 8 related news, it’ll be here. The handsome, dashing and enigmatic billionaire editor.
  2. The Verge : Verge is a Tech News Blog. Here you can not find only about Windows 8 , here you can find all things related Computer Technology. Tom Warren is the author who mostly posts about Windows and Microsoft. You have to take a look there.  
  3. ZDNet : Another great tech Blog, You can find section on Windows 8 there. Microsoft watcher Mary Jo Foley's blog covers the products, people and strategies that make Microsoft tick.
  4. Microsoft Blog : Microsoft's own Windows 8 blog. So undoubtedly any update on Windows 8 you'll get first here. I always keep my eyes on this blog. You can learn all about Windows from here.
  5. Paul Thurrott's Super Site For Windows : Paul Thurrott is a guy behind this site. You can know all about Paul here. You can find gadgets used by Paul under What I Use section.
Related: God Mode In Windows 7 & 8

God Mode In Windows 7 & 8

Windows gives a Control panel to Control Computer But, God mode gives you control of Computer on a single page with single click. 

Is it cool or not?

Let's find out How to enable God Mode on Windows OS? To enable God Mode in Windows make a New Folder on a desktop and rename it with below given name.




Technosyrup.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}

Once you have renamed this folder icon will change and looks like Control panel's icon.
Now When you open it you will see all Controls on a Single page.
So what is the magic behind the scene? 

It is all about Registry hacks. 

The Windows Registry is a central place to store pointers, parameters and preferences for hardware, Windows and other software.Playing with registry may be Dangerous. Some edits are more dangerous than others. Adding a key, even if you make a mistake is rarely fatal. Deleting or modifying the wrong one can be. Press Windows key+R and type
 regedit

And in regedit find for
 {ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}

You’ll see on the right-hand pane that it’s the “All Tasks” view of the Control Panel, which you can’t normally see from the UI. Now search for
 {645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}

It is the key fro recycle Bin. Mow create folder on desktop an rename it with.
 Technosyrup.{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}

What happened? It turned into fully functional recycle bin.
Here's a list for keys for different Programmes :
Recycle Bin: {645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}

My Computer: {20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}

Network Connections: {7007ACC7-3202-11D1-AAD2-00805FC1270E}

User Accounts: {60632754-c523-4b62-b45c-4172da012619}

Libraries:  {031E4825-7B94-4dc3-B131-E946B44C8DD5}

Make a new folder and rename it with Any_Name.{Related key}

Related : Linux vs. Windows

Linux Vs. Windows

Linux Vs. Windows is the most common question when you are thinking about migrating from Windows to Linux or Linux to Windows. OK Then, you are thinking what are the best features are available in Linux so I should prefer Linux over Windows or Windows over Linux.
Linux Vs. Windows
Windows is not equal to Linux
1. Price
Majority of Linux OS are available for free. Microsoft Windows can run between $50.00 - $150.00 US dollars per each license copy.

2. Ease Of Use
Most of Linux variants have dramatically changes to make Linux easy to use. But, people prefer Windows over Linux in term of ease of use because it's more likely they are using Windows Computer at home,office and school.

3. Software
Linux variants are Open-Source. Most of software of Linux are also Open-Source so they are available for free. However, Windows has a much larger selection of available software.Because of the large amount of Microsoft Windows users, there is a much larger selection of available software programs, utilities, and games for Windows. 

4. Cost Of Software
Linux Software are mostly available for free. Such complex software like Gimp, Open office, Wine,etc are also available for free. Although windows has some software which are available for free but most complex software like Adobe Photoshop , Microsoft Office, etc will cost between $50.00-$200.00 US dollars per each license copy.

5. Security
No one can beat Linux when we are talk about security. Sometimes Linux can be attacked but it is more secure than windows. over the years windows had made many changes in security but,  their operating system continues to be the most vulnerable to viruses and other attacks.

6. Ease of Getting Software
Linux has own Software center. You don't have to open Google to find Softwares. Now, Windows 8 comes with window store. But, windows store is new in the market as compared to Linux. Linux software center is rich with different free software as compared to windows store.

7. Community 
It is hard to find a people with rich knowledge of Linux OS. But there are lots of community from there you can get support. Microsoft has its own Q/A center. There are lots of documentation and eBooks are available for Windows support. 

8. Multiple Desktops
Linus gives you 4 Work panels. So it is easy to multitasking on Linux Platform. Windows 8 gives you switch window. It is also good. 

9. Rapid Evolution
There's no competitor of Linux in revolution. Linux variants are get updated every six months. Windows Vista took five years to appear, and was seen by many critics and users alike as a big step backwards, if not a complete flop. Since Windows 7 would take another three years to come along, that was virtually an eight-year wait for an operating system upgrade! 

10. No Prerequisites 
Linux is built to run on any Platform. You can run it on PC with 256 MB ram with so ease. Windows does not give you this like freedom. Linux gives you pre-installed Drivers.

11.  Customization 
Linux can be customized easily with Ubuntu tweak. There are many software available to customize Linux. There are many themes available for Linux. Windows can customized with its own themes. 

So what about you? Linux Or Windows !!!

OneFeed : Your Digital Life On One Page

Do you use Google Chrome? I think your answer will be yes. Then, when you open new tan in chrome you find updates of your Gmail , Facebook , Google+ , Instagram , Twitter and many more. It's really cool yes or no?

If yes, then you can try Onefeed. Onefeed currently works on Google Chrome only. OneFeed can transform it into something a bit more useful: a good-looking dashboard full of stories from your favorite websites, email notifications, updates from your Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram feeds, and more. Let's understand process of installing Onefeed.

Onefeed

First Go to Onefeed. They offers a Introductory video. Don't forget to watch it. When you feel that you have to use it click on Get Onefeed. 

You don't have to register and remember a password for this service. After clicking on Onefeed it gets installed. Now, when you open new tab you see Onefeed's page instead of recent websites. Onefeed asks to you to link your Gmail , Google+ , Facebook , Twitter , etc. You can link to Onefeed because it is really safe and it will not spam you. Now your Social life is on One page. Now when you get new mail ,Facebook notification or message , Twitter updates or many other things you will get on Onefeed. 

To unlink social networks previously linked with Onefeed, go to https://secure.onefeed.me/v2/logout/facebook (or any other social network you would like to remove).

To delete your information from Onefeed, go to https://secure.onefeed.me/v2/deleteme

If you don't link your social accounts to Onefeed then you can try News Reader. You can set different RSS feeds. So you can see all updates of that different websites on one page.Onefeed also gives you News related to Business, Sports, Entertainment, Food, etc.This service is some related to Google's i Google or My Yahoo.

OneFeed | Chrome Web Store via OneFeed

How To Switch Between Different Browsers

Browser Chooser
Browser Chooser Screen Shot In Windows
Browser are the element which give us access to World Wide Web. Every browser has its own taste. So we like to taste different things So, we installs different browser in our Computer like Mozilla , Chrome(My Favorite), Explorer , Safari , Opera ,etc. 

But, Sometimes we want to open specific link on specific browser that time its become difficult to switch between them.

So I am going to introduce one utility that gives comfort to open links on specific browser.

For Mac  Choose Wisely  -This is free for mac and it give you popup to choose browser when you click on link in browser,messengers,and etc.

For Windows Browser Chooser - It is also free and same as Choose Wisely. It act as virtual browser when you click on some hyperlinks and gives comfort to select specific browser.

According to me Chrome is the best and You don't have to go with other one.

How To Use Any Web Browser As A Text Editor

I have noticed that while using Web-Browser sometimes you need Notepad. But it is very terrible opening Notepad while surfing Cool things. So, Here i am going to Introduce something cool trick. Let’s Start it.

Follow These Steps To Convert Your Browser Into Text Editor. 
Step 1 :- As Mentioned above that you can use any browser as tect editor , open any web browser , Say Google Chrome.!

Step 2 :- Type or Copy + Paste in the address bar of Your browser

data:text/html, <html contenteditable>


Step 3 :- Now hit On Enter button or click on go button of Internet Explorer .  Now Your browser will act Like text Browser. Keyboard Shortcuts :-
Ctrl  + B  This will make your selected Text bold!
Ctrl  + I    This will Italicize your selected text !
Ctrl  + U  This will make your selected Text Underlined!

How to run Android apps on PC?

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Now here i am going to discuss about how you can use android apps on your windows OS or Mac OS. If you are really fond of using android applications but unfortunately you don't have any android supported Phone. Then don't worry this article will helps you make your dreams come true. In these days Bluestacks is one of the famous and working Software Which convert any android apps in Windows or mac version. Every person who use internet on smartphone always use Android  Market to find number of different application based on their required and needs. Some People use android market for their business purpose or some peoples just for download funny and interesting applications including games. Android market have millions of different application based on number of different categories.
Steps To Use Android Apps On PC
  • Firstly download Bluestacks from here
  • Now Install Bluestacks on your operation System.
  • After the successful installation Open your Bluestacks.
  • Now Bluestacks is ready to use, Its helps to convert any android file with .apk extension in OS version.
  • If you don't have any apps saved in your PC then you can directly download it from Bluestacks.
  • Now open your Bluestacks and their is available search box in center or otherwise on the right corner.
  • Simply type the name of any android apps which you want to use on PC.
  • Now Download your apps by using Bluestacks and your apps is ready to use.

How To Make Your PC Welcome You

FOLLOW THESE SIMPLE STEPS TO MAKE YOUR COMPUTER WELCOME YOU:

Step 1. Open the “Notepad” program from the start menu. Step 2: Now Copy this Code and paste it in Notepad file.


 Dim speaks, speech
 speaks="Welcome to your PC, Username"
 Set speech=CreateObject("sapi.spvoice")
 speech.Speak speaks  

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Step 3. Now replace the “Username” with your name from Which You want to be welcomed. Step 4. Now Click on File Menu > Save As and Save the file with .vbs format such as “Welcome.vbs”.


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Step 5. Now Copy the saved file. Now Where to paste this file?



WINDOWS XP USERS :
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Startup 
WINDOWS 8, 7 OR VISTA USERS:
C:\Users\ {Your PC User-Name}\ AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup
In many Cases You can’t find “AppData” folder Because it is hidden from your C: drive, you have to show the unhide files first from the files and folders options. 

Now paste the file there. Now When your PC starts System loads Welcome.vbs first and plays Sound.


Comment if You Find this trick Cool.

SpeeedUP Firefox – Tweaks For Better Browsing Performance


Yes, firefox is already pretty damn fast but did you know that you can tweak it and improve the speed even more?
That's the beauty of this program being open source.

Note that these are what I’ve found to REALLY speed up my Firefox significantly - and these settings seem to be common among everybody else as well. But these settings are optimized for broadband connections - I mean with as much concurrent requests we’re going to open up with pipelining… lol… you’d better have a big connection.

1. Disable Animations:
Step 1: Type “about:config” in address bar and hit enter.
Step 2: In the Search bar, type “browser.tabs.animate” and press enter.
Step 3: Now, Double click on the it and make it “False”.

Double Click on the following settings and put in the numbers below - for the true / false Booleans - they’ll change when you double click.

2. Speed up Page Loading : 
Step 1: Type “about:config” in address bar and hit enter.
Step 2: In Search Bar type these commands one by one and replace the value one by one.

NETWORK.HTTP.PIPELINING => TRUE
NETWORK.HTTP.PROXY.PIPELINING => TRUE
NETWORK.HTTP.PIPELINING.MAXREQUESTS => 8
CONTENT.NOTIFY.BACKOFFCOUNT => 5
PLUGIN.EXPOSE_FULL_PATH => TRUE
UI.SUBMENUDELAY => 0
NETWORK.DNS.DISABLEIPV6 => TRUE
JAVASCRIPT.OPTIONS.JIT.CHROME => TRUE
JAVASCRIPT.OPTIONS.JIT.CONTENT => TRUE
4. Disable Antivirus Scanning:
Step 1: Type “about:config” in address bar and hit enter.
Step 2: Type “browser.download.manager.scanWhenDone” in filter and hit enter.
Step 3: Set the value from “True” to “False” by double click on it.


One more thing… Right-click somewhere on that screen and add a NEW -> Integer. Name it “nglayout.initialpaint.delay” and set its value to “0”. This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives. Since you’re broadband - it shouldn’t have to wait.
 
Now you should notice you’re loading pages MUCH faster now! Enjoy it.

Best Windows 8 Apps for Reading

Windows 8 gives Clean Metro UI and along with that it also gives Windows Store.

Windows Store contains Millions apps in different category.
Today we will discuss about top Windows apps in Reading category.

1. Kindle

kindle

Read Kindle books on a beautiful, easy-to-use Windows 8 application. You’ll have access to over 1 million* books in the Kindle Store, including best sellers and new releases. Amazon’s Whisper sync technology automatically syncs your furthest page read, bookmarks, notes, and highlights across all your devices that have the Kindle app installed and across any Kindle device. That means you can start reading on one device and pick up where you left off on another device.

2. NOOK – Books, Magazines, Newspapers

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Get an incredible reading experience with NOOK® for Windows 8™. Choose from over 3 million NOOK books—including 1 million FREE books—as well as magazines, newspapers, and comics on your Windows 8 tablet and PC.
Sample any NOOK Book for FREE, and try any newspaper or magazine FREE for 14 days.

 
3. Wikipedia
 
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Official Wikipedia App for Windows 8. Wikipedia is the free encyclopedia containing more than 20 million articles in 280 languages, and is the most comprehensive and widely used reference work humans have ever compiled.

The code is 100% open source and community built. If you are a developer and good at JS/HTML5, then come fork us! https://github.com/wikimedia/WikipediaMobile

4. Pulse News

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Pulse brings all your favourite blogs, magazines, social networks and newspapers in one place for FREE. Exciting to use, quick to read, ready to share. Apple Design Award Winner 2011 with over 20M users! Download it today!

5. Comics

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Comics by comiXology offers over 30,000 comics and graphic novels from over 75 of today’s top publishers, including Marvel, DC, Image, IDW, Dynamite, and BOOM! Studios. Get access to the greatest library of new releases, best sellers, and noteworthy backlist issues of series like The Walking Dead, Batman, The Amazing Spider-Man, Avengers all on the same app! New to comiXology? Try it FREE with hundreds of free comics to choose from!

6. Adobe Reader Touch

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Adobe® Reader® is the free, trusted leader for reliably viewing and interacting with PDF documents across platforms and devices. Adobe Reader Touch has been specially designed for the new Windows 8 Touch user interface to give you a great experience working with PDF documents on your Windows 8 Tablet. Adobe Reader Touch works with a keyboard and mouse, but desktop users with keyboard and mouse may prefer to install and use Adobe Reader XI.

7. Manga Flow ($2.99)

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Manga Reader For Windows 8 / RT design for Surface Pro and Surface RT more than 50000 manga.Automatic save every manga have read.Also view manga in 3 mode: swipe, horizontal scroll and vertical scroll.Provide 12 manga sources including English, Italian, German,

How to Add Shutdown Button in Windows 8

If You are using Windows 8 then I’m sure that you are wandering for a problem which is How to Add Shutdown Button in Windows 8 ?

Windows 8 gives user friendly Metro User-Interface to users but, Operating Systems does not give a simple Shut down and Restart Option to users.



#Follow the steps to Add Shutdown and Restart Buttons:

(1) First Of all open Notepad.

(2) After that copy below text and paste to Notepad.
set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
strStartMenu = WshShell.SpecialFolders("StartMenu")
set oShellLink = WshShell.CreateShortcut(strStartMenu & "\Shutdown.lnk")
oShellLink.TargetPath = "%systemroot%\System32\shutdown.exe"
oShellLink.Arguments = "-s -t 0"
oShellLink.WindowStyle = 1
oShellLink.IconLocation = "%systemroot%\System32\shell32.dll,27"
oShellLink.Description = "Shutdown Computer (Power Off)"
oShellLink.WorkingDirectory = "%systemroot%\System32\"
oShellLink.Save
Set oShellLink = Nothing
set oShellLink = WshShell.CreateShortcut(strStartMenu & "\Log Off.lnk")
oShellLink.TargetPath = "%systemroot%\System32\shutdown.exe"
oShellLink.Arguments = "-l"
oShellLink.WindowStyle = 1
oShellLink.IconLocation = "%systemroot%\System32\shell32.dll,44"
oShellLink.Description = "Log Off (Switch User)"
oShellLink.WorkingDirectory = "%systemroot%\System32\"
oShellLink.Save
Set oShellLink = Nothing
set oShellLink = WshShell.CreateShortcut(strStartMenu & "\Restart.lnk")
oShellLink.TargetPath = "%systemroot%\System32\shutdown.exe"
oShellLink.Arguments = "-r -t 0"
oShellLink.WindowStyle = 1
oShellLink.IconLocation = "%systemroot%\System32\shell32.dll,176"
oShellLink.Description = "Restart Computer (Reboot)"
oShellLink.WorkingDirectory = "%systemroot%\System32\"
oShellLink.Save
Set oShellLink = Nothing
Wscript.Echo "Created Shutdown, Restart and Log Off buttons"

(3) After that You have to save this file as “Shutdown.vbs”.

(4) Please don't forget to click on All File in File Type Menu.

(5) Then move to that destination of file and open file and file will open and will be disappear after a second.

(6) Now you will see Shutdown and Restart tile pinned in Start Menu.

How To Delete An Undeletable File In Windows 7 and Windows 8

Sometimes we face some problems with files and folder in Windows which are Undeletable. If you try to delete it, a small pop up box will open saying “Access Denied” Or this File is used by Other Programme.

This actually means either the file is locked by the system or being hit by a Virus. In both cases deleting files is restricted. But there is a simple method by which you can delete those files which you may no longer want.
 
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  Then, How To Delete Undeletable File?
Follow Me With Just Simple Steps.
 
You can see the Undeletable file in this Folder.
 
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STEP-1.Open Command Prompt By Pressing Windows Key+R. In Command prompt type cmd
 
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STEP-2.Exit all other Programmes running.
 
STEP-3.Open Task Manger By Pressing CTRL+SHIFT+ESC. In Task Manager go to Processes Tab and End Process explorer.exe
 
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STEP-4.Leave Task Manager open and go back to the Command Prompt Window.
 
STEP-5.Now Change to the directory the undeletable file is located in. For Example My file is located at K:\Blogger\template-3318832990163994823.xml
 
STEP-6.Change Directory from C: to K: by typing K:
 
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  STEP-7.To see the folders in K drive type dir.
 
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STEP-8.To move into Blogger type cd blogger.
 
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Step-9. Now its time to type DEL followed by the filename in the command prompt. Now the specified file will be deleted.
 
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You can see file is deleted.
 
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Step-10. Now we need to restart the Explorer. So go back to Task Manager, click File, New Task and enter EXPLORER.EXE to restart the processes once again. Close Task manager and note that the file is deleted.
 
Now Enjoy !! Comment if This Trick Works.

How To Install Google Chrome Extensions Offline and Manually

Google Crome is One of the Top Browser in the World Today. When You Download Google Crome from It's Website, it comes in form of small (.exe installable file) executable file. When, You install it that file expands and get installed in Computer. So, if your friend who doesn't have Internet facility want Google Crome from you then, you can't give it like any other softwares like Notepad++, many others

Google Crome
Need of installing Google Chrome extensions offline and manually: Before we understand the process of Installing Google Crome extension manually and offline, We have to understand that why we need to do all of this.
There can be Two main reasons that anyone will look to install the extensions offline and manually:
1) To install it on PC which don’t have internet connectivity:
This is the biggest reason why we have to pass from all of this process. Because if we want to install Crome extension in the PC of without Internet connectivity Then what. So we have to install Crome offline first and then extensions.
2) “Extension Install Failure” error:
When you want to install Crome extension  having large size Then, this type of extension can give you "Extension Install Failure". So in this case you have to download Extension with help of Any Download manager and then you can install it manually.
How to install Chrome extensions offline and manually (Procedure):
Now the procedure:
Step 1:
First download the extension file by going Chrome extension gallery and click on ADD to chrome and it will start to download in the chrome so now you can copy that download address and put it into any download manger like IDM.
Step 2:
Then you have to extract this file by using software 7- zip– http://www.7-zip.org/download.html

Step 3:
Then Go to Settings-Options-Extensions and click on Developer mode. You will see button named load unpacked extension and select the folder in which you have extracted the extension file.
Hurray!! You have installed Google Chrome Extension manually and successfully.