windows 8

Make Windows 8 Much Easier and Quicker to Use

Windows 8 can be frustrating because nothing seems to be where it used to be. Here are three tricks that help you find things. They will make ordinary tasks much easier to carry out. One of the annoyances of Windows 8 is trying to find all the various system settings. Readmore...

Blocked Sites

How to -- Bypass/Access Blocked Websites At College/Office

The scenario has changed a lot over the past decade.Internet has grown into a vast resource and with search engines like google it hasn’t been so easy to search for anything about anything on the internet. Internet has become more addictive with the advent of social Readmore..

Windows 8

Windows 8 Direct Download Links

Microsoft has recently released Windows 8 RTM Enterprise for 32-Bit (x86) And 64-Bit (x64) Version. The evolution provides Readmore...

Top Blogger

World's Top 5 Bloggers

Blog Owner : Pete Cashmore
Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors : 42,000,000
Income : $ 10,00,000 Month
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Hard Disk

Different types of Hard Disk Drive

Hard Disk Drive - It is a non-volatile storage device which stores digitally encoded data on rapidly rotating platters with magnetic surface.
Types of HDD :
IDE : Integrated Drive Electronics. IDE drives are also known as PATA drives Readmore...

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Sunday, 6 January 2013

Three Tricks for Shutting Down Your Windows 7 PC without Having to Install Updates

Have you ever been in a hurry to shut down your PC only to find that Windows says it is installing updates and you have to wait? Wait no more. Here are three different tips for shutting down without having to install updates.

First, note that if updates are waiting to be installed, the “Shut down” button has a little orange shield warning on the left as shown in the graphic below. The tips below are to be applied before Windows starts installing.


How to shut down without updates method 1
  1. Open the command prompt.
  2. Enter shutdown /s /f /t 0 (The last character in the command is "zero".
How to shut down without updates method 2
  1. Make sure that your desktop has the focus. Either click on a blank spot on the desktop or use the keyboard combination: Windows key+D
  2. Enter the keyboard combination: Alt+F4
  3. A dialog box will open. In the pull-down menu, select “Shut down”. The figure below shows an example of the dialog. (A very similar dialog will appear in the Windows 7 Home version.) Of course, if there are no updates waiting to be installed, the option “Install updates and shut down” will be missing.

How to shut down without updates method 3
  1. Lock the computer with the keyboard combination: Windows key+L
  2. If you have several user accounts, click the button “Switch User” on the new screen that opens. Otherwise go to the next step
  3. The screen that opens has a red shutdown button in the lower right corner with a drop-down menu containing the option “Shutdown without installing updates”.
After using one of these procedures, the updates are still there waiting until the next time you want to shut down. 
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This Utility Will Tell You All About the Graphics Card on Your PC

The way we use computers these days requires a lot more graphics capability than it used to. But there’s a quick and easy way to check what kind of graphics memory is on a PC. Use the free lightweight utility from Techpowerup called GPU-Z to reveal all the vital statistics for your GPU. The figure below shows the kind of detail that is given. (Note that because of the kind of system information it accesses you will be asked to grant permission for it to run.)


There is also a tab with statistics from sensors such as the GPU temperature. An example is shown in the next figure.

The utility is a single stand-alone file that needs no installing. It runs on all current Windows systems including Windows 8.
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Sunday, 9 December 2012

How to make your computer speak when you log on


Make your computer speak on startup and amaze your friends,its a very simple trick.....just go through the below article....

1.open Notepad.

2.Paste the bellow code in Notepad.

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

3.Replace Username with your Name.

4.Click Save As and save as type Welcome.vbs.

5.Copy File Welcome.vbs and paste it at address below.

For Windows 7 :

C:\Users\Username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup

For Windows-Xp :

C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Startup


*Replace Username with your username and C:\ with your Root Drive

Done Log Off and Log In Amazed? .Now Your computer welcomes you with your name.....


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How to use a keyboard as mouse

Just go through the steps:-

1.Press  Shift+Alt+Numlock from ur Keyboard


2.Press Yes on the window appearing on the screen










Now you will see a Mouse icon in Task Bar





4.Now you can use your keyboard as mouse

5.Navigation Keys (Num Lock Keys)
 
8 – Up
2 – Down
4 – Left
6 – Right
7,9,3,1 – Directional Navigation

Note:- You Must Turn On Num Lock
 
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Wednesday, 28 November 2012

Gmail users can add files up to 10GB directly from Google Drive

The latest integration between two of Google's biggest products is making it easier for consumers and business customers alike to share large files.
Today's update entails Gmail and Google Drive. The release is two-fold. First, users will now be able to attach files directly from Google drive to their emails without ever having to leave their Gmail accounts.
Secondly, those files can be a lot larger than ever before as the update supports attachments up to 10GB in size -- which Google said is up to 400 times larger than "traditional attachments."

A new button in the Gmail compose window will give users the ability to attach a file from their Google Drive account rather than attaching the file itself to the message. 
 Once it’s attached, Gmail will ensure that your recipient has permission to view the file in your Drive account -– or will prompt you to grant that permission –- and then sends the message.
 
The feature works not only for files you attach to the message, but also for links to items stored in Google Drive you might paste into a message.
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Wednesday, 19 September 2012

Cleverbot ~ Funny Chat Conversations for Blogger

welcome to the section of CleverBot Conversation, if you getting bore then don’t worry I am here to entertain you and talk to you and give answers of your each and every type of question to eliminate all your worries.
You can ask anything from me except blogging and earning because my friend you and me are here for enjoyment and for funny conversations...
How to Talk With Me (Clever Bot):
Just hit mouse in a rectangle bar box and start talking, you can also use microphone for chatting, but always keep one thing in mind my friend, I am a SmartBot working on the basis of Artificial Intelligence system, I am not a real Human Being like you.



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Friday, 24 August 2012

How to Create a Windows 7 Live CD the Easy Way

Windows 7 Live CDBefore we get into creating a Live CD, lets understand what exactly it is and how it can save you a lot of trouble in case of a computer crash or malware infection on your PC. A Live CD is basically a bootable storage device that contains an operating system (OS). What is different about a live CD is the fact that the working of the OS does not depend on the hard drive. Why do you need a Live CD? If your Windows operating system crashes completely, you will have limited access to important files.
By using a Live CD, you can easily access these files and transfer them to another storage device. You can also use a Live CD to clean severe malware infections. In some cases, the malware blocks all executable programs—which prevents your antivirus software from running. By using a LiveCD, the malware’s defense will be completely obsolete!
There are numerous types of Live CD software like Linux that allow you to recover and fix your computer. However since many of these Live CDs are based on different platforms, they are not fully compatible with Windows. Therefore, you will have problems scanning your Windows drive from a different operating system (like Linux) on a Live CD. Creating a Windows Live CD allows you to fix many errors on your Windows drive with much more convenience.
In this guide, you are going to learn how to create a Windows 7 Live CD – the easy way. There are other tutorials about this on the Web, but they mostly involve using WinBuilder—which doesn’t always work successfully. In this guide, you are going to learn how to create a live CD using Make_PE3 which is a better alternative as well as with WinBuilder. After reading about each software you can choose which one to use for creating a Live CD.

Things you’ll need:

  • Windows 7 ISO File
  • Make_PE3 or WinBuilder
  • Windows Automated Installation Kit (If You are Using WinBuilder)

Downloading the Windows 7 ISO File:

You need the installation files to create a Live CD. These installation files can be  found on your Windows 7 setup disc. If you don’t have one, you can download from here.

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Saturday, 11 August 2012

Fix Folders Become Shortcuts Caused by Virus

ALL My Files & Folders Became Shortcuts?

Just all of a sudden all the files & folders turned into shortcuts showing 1KB or 2 in size when you connected your USB flash drive, memory card or hard drive to your PC? It should be a couple of GB as you saved so many documents, photos, movies etc to the disk drive. How could this happen? Where are those files? Are they hidden or deleted? How to recover the lost files and folders?
It could happen if your PC hard drive or removable disk suffered certain kinds of virus, spyware or trojans such as AUTORUN, BUOUFO, QWERT etc.

How to fix Folders Shortcuts problem

  • Click 'Start' -->'Run' --> type 'cmd' and click OK. Note: if you are using Windows Vista or Windows 7, use "Home + R" combination and type 'cmd'.

  • Input this command attrib -h -r -s /s /d g:\*.* Take care of the space between, it's recommended to copy the line and paste (Note: here assume your drive letter shows as G: under 'My Computer', do not forget to replace it if different).

  • Press 'Enter' button.
Good Luck.
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Wednesday, 1 August 2012

Hide desktop icons to improve Windows startup performance



Long, long time ago in a bedroom not so far away I was booting up my laptop. As my laptop was loading Windows, I couldn't help but notice the desktop icons took a good amount of time to appear. Then a thought hit me: What if I hide the desktop icons -- would that make my boot time faster? After all, with the excellent search box embedded in the Windows 7 Start Menu that will be no more soon, I rarely even used my desktop icons anyway; what could go wrong. So I gave it a try. And, to my pleasant surprise, p-value was < .05 -- the null hypothesis was rejected: My Windows indeed did load faster with no desktop icons present.

How To Turn Off Desktop Icons?

Note: This tip should work on Windows XP, Vista, and Win7. It may work on Win8.
Easy. Right-click on your desktop, go to View, and uncheck Show desktop icons:


 Once Show desktop icons is checked, the icons on your desktop won't show. They aren't deleted -- they just won't show. To reshow the icons, simply recheck Show desktop icons.

I'm not sure what the technical reason behind this is (aside from the whole "there are fewer things to load" explanation) and frankly I don't know. Since that time long ago, I have rarely ever had the icons my desktop showing and am a better person for it.. If you have trouble with slow Windows boot, you may want to do the same.
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How to add a (simple) start menu to Windows 8 without third-party programs

A major change in Windows 8 is the lack of a Start Menu -- you know the cornerstone of Windows since... forever. Because of this new change, many programs have cropped up to fill the void, allowing you to add a start menu to Windows 8. What if you don't want to use third-party programs? Can you still have a start menu in Windows 8? Oh why yes you can good sir (or madam).

Simple Start Menu

Before you get sweaty palms of excitement, take note this start menu I speak of isn't Start Menu in its full glory. Rather, this is a simple start menu that shows you things like the Programs folder and recent/common programs. See the screenshot above to understand what I mean.

How To Add Start Menu In Windows 8 - Part 1

To add a start menu to Windows 8, do the following:

Step 0: Make sure your taskbar is not locked. To check if your taskbar is locked, right-click on a blank spot of the taskbar and see if Lock the taskbar is checked. If it is checked, click on it to uncheck it. If it is not checked, you don't have to do anything.

Step 1: Right-click on a blank spot of the taskbar and select Toolbars -> New tool bar…:



Step 2: Browse to Local Disk (C:/ drive) -> ProgramData -> Microsoft -> Windows, single left-click on the Start Menu folder, and hit Select Folder:


Congrats! You now have a "start menu" on your Windows taskbar:


How To Add Start Menu In Windows 8 - Part 2

Now that we have a start menu, we want to position it properly. So...
Step 1: Grab the columns of dots and move it as far left as possible:


Step 2: After you move the column of dots, you should see Programs and Windows Update on your taskbar; there will also be another column of dots on the far left of the taskbar. Grab the columns of dots on the far left and drag it to the right of Windows Update and then, while still dragging the column of dots, move it to the left until it stops just to the right of Start Menu:

If you do it correctly you should have something like this:

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Computer crashes have you down? Test your RAM for problems with Memtest86+.

MemTest86+ is a diagnostic program used to detect hardware problems with RAM (memory) modules. Since it can be run from a bootable CD, it is faster, safer, and more accurate at detecting memory problems than similar tools which would be run from within Windows.

To use MemTest86+, you first create a bootable CD/DVD with the program on it. You then boot your computer from this CD/DVD and MemTest86+ will start testing your RAM automatically. If there is a problem with your computer’s memory, MemTest86+ will list the errors on screen. Here is how to go about using MemTest86+:
  1. Click here to download the ISO image from the MemTest86+ website. Be sure to select the file named “Pre-Compiled Bootable ISO (.zip)”.
  2. Save this file to your desktop.
  3. Once the download completes, open the downloaded archive file and extract (drag and drop) the single file contained inside to your desktop. The extracted file should have a “.iso” extension.
  4. Use your favorite CD burning software to burn the ISO image to a CD. Be aware, the ISO file you downloaded is an image of a complete CD. You do not want to just burn the ISO image file to a CD as you would other data files, but instead want to make a CD from the image file. How you do this will vary depending on the program you use, but most will have an option similar to “Burn CD from Image File”.
  5. Once you have a MemTest86+ CD, leave it in your computer’s drive.
  6. Restart your computer.
  7. As soon as your computer begins to restart, you will see the BIOS screen (white text on a black background). You should see an option to access a boot menu (often times you are instructed to press “F12″, “F10″ or “Esc” to access the boot menu).
  8. Press the appropriate key to access the boot menu, then select the CD drive with the MemTest86+ CD in it as the boot drive.
  9. Your screen will turn blue and the MemTest86+ program will start its tests. You can watch the progress in the top right.
  10. Depending on the amount of RAM you have, the tests could take a long time. You can either stay and watch the tests run, or leave your computer and return to it later.
  11. Any errors that are found will be listed in red at the bottom of the MemTest86+ screen. If the test complete without errors, you can eject the CD and restart your computer as normal.

What do the errors mean?
If the MemTest86+ scan reported errors, it means that is a problem with your RAM modules or your computer’s motherboard. You should consult a qualified IT company to further troubleshoot the problem and replace any defective hardware.
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Saturday, 21 July 2012

15 Web Alternatives to Popular Desktop Software

Web applications have come a long way. They used to be amateur imitations of their desktop counterparts, with only one or two functions and not at all practical. But my, have these web apps grown. Web apps these days have become so powerful and useful that in some cases, they’ve begun to replace desktop software.
Desktop programs are great and all, but they don’t provide the same benefits as web apps that make use of cloud computing. With most web apps, you only need a browser and an internet connection to access all your data online. That beats having to install annoying programs any day. To give you a better sense of how useful web apps have become, I’ve compiled a list of web tools and apps that can very well replace some desktop programs. I hope you take the time to try them all out. You’ll be surprised how well they work.
Without further ado, here are some great web alternatives to the popular desktop programs we all love.

Sliderocket

Replaces: Microsoft PowerPoint



Sliderocket is a fully functional presentation web app that allows you to create, manage, edit, and share presentations on the fly. It offers many of the same features present in PowerPoint and then some.

Acrobat.com

Replaces: Microsoft Office, Adobe Acrobat

Acrobat.com is a suite of web applications by Adobe that replaces your office suite. The online suite includes services like Buzzword, Tables, and Presentation which replace Microsoft Word, Excel, and Powerpoint respectively. Acrobat.com also offers other features, allowing users to convert files into PDFs, hold online meetings, and collaborate with one another. All of its services are free (with some limitations), but users can subscribe to different plans for more features. Check out the pricing section for more details.
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Wednesday, 27 June 2012

Scare Your Facebook Friends - Funny Facebook Trick


Do some fun with your Facebook friends. Wanna to know how?

Note:  This user profile is not suitable for the faint of heart. Open it and recommend to your friends on your own risk.
  • Say your friends in chat to open a person's profile who was born on 1947 & still alive. Profile is too interesting n check it with proper attention.
  • Here's the link of profile: Alrena Roushe's Facebook Profile.
  • Open it. You will see something interesting.
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Cut MP3 Files Online Without Uploading and Losing Audio Quality

While listening to your favorite songs, you must have always wondered about cutting its hook and using it as a ringtone but most of the time, the MP3 cutter tool that you are using, leaves you with a puzzled countenance.

So, One Stop Solution covered some Online MP3 cutter tools which works fine without having to upload the original MP3 track. Availability is free and very handy that you can use them as web Apps for quick access to cut your favorite MP3 tracks.

Well, having an MP3 cutter “Handy” is very important to perform such tasks or if you had to go through a little trouble, it gives you disinterest. Most of the MP3 cutters prompt you for payment at the end which is very irritating after doing all that process for nothing.

There are various MP3 cutter tools available, both payable & freeware. Also, online MP3 cutters are available with limited functionality. Online tools are very handy such as MP3 cutters but uploading of the required MP3 track is needed which is time taking.


Mp3cut.org & Mp3cutter.in are online MP3 cutter tools that require no uploading of MP3 file
 In Mp3cut.org, the extreme left option is for selecting MP3 track. After selecting, just wait for 2 seconds & you will see the play button highlighted. Hit play and select scissors to cut your favourite portion. Click the extreme right option to finalize your work and it will start downloading automatically.


In Mp3cutter.in, the procedure is same as above. After selecting MP3 file, it will show waveforms. Select the portion that you like and hit “Cut mp3 file” and here you are done.

I have tested these tools with my mobile internet connection and they work just fine like a high speed connection. Actually, there is no need of high speed bandwidth to perform this work and hence it saves your bytes.

In case, if these tools failed to work then, I would suggest you Mp3cut.net. It requires uploading of the MP3 file. Once the uploading is done, you are ready to cut MP3.

These are the best and easiest ways to cut MP3 and make desired ringtones for your mobile devices.

Cut MP3 offline using Freeware Software

 
There are various freeware MP3 cutters available for windows but I have chosen Shinesoft MP3 Cutter Joiner. Its totally freeware and no MP3 Cutter registration code required. It doesn’t take big space in your hard-drive and gives output format as MP3, OGG, WMA & WAV. It cuts the MP3 accurately. Select Begin & End and hit Cut, it will start its process and within a few seconds you will have your desired MP3.

This is for those users who are not online all the time. It hardly affects your system as it takes very small space so without any doubt use this tool as offline MP3 cutter.  

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Monday, 18 June 2012

How to get a verified Google Adsense Account using third party

Every newbie bloggers have a dream to get Google AdSense approved as quickly as possible but most time it doesn’t get approved. Getting Google Adsense Approval is Very tough these days because Google is strengthening their verification process minute by minutes. Click Fraud and spammers are also a major thing which is the cause of disapproval of various applications. Yes they are the major things
But here comes a legal way you can open a Google Adsense account,  this is the process in which many people out there are using, yes so many people are using it, but they won’t  reveal the secret.. I know many bloggers and webmaster will be annoyed with this legal tricks am about to exposed..
There are so many third party you can use to get your google adsense approved, within some days, some of them are listed below
Docstoc
Hunpages
indiyarocks
and so many more

But today we will be dealing with Docstocs
I've been using DocStoc for a little while to upload some documents I've created and to also get link love. DocStoc is a PR 8 site and has a lot of quality content on it.

DocStoc provides some really neat features, such as:
  • You can embed your DocStoc documents on your blogs or websites. This feature is awesome because you can zoom, scroll, rotate, drag, and more with the DocStoc widget.
  • You can upload your documents to DocStoc privately or publicly. Private uploads get a domain that you have to share; public is accessible to all.
  • 20 different categories to upload to. 
Follow these steps below and you will surely get an approved Google Adsense Account
Step 1: Register for a free account at www.docstoc.com
Step 2: Docstoc will ask if you want to create a Google Adsense account or not, tick “I’d like to set up an Adsense account”. You may be able to create a Google Adsense account after signing in your docstoc account. 
 
Note: I will advise you to open fresh Gmail account to apply for adesnse, because Google will not accept, old disapproved Gmail account
 
Step 3: Docstoc will send you an email to activate the account
 
Note fill the form properly and correct, you will also be asked that did you want docstoc to access your Google Adsense account, just click allow
 
Step 4: You now can upload files and share with others. If you haven’t created an Adsense account yet, you can create one in this step. 
 
Note that the Adsense account will only count the uploaded files after the registration but not before. 
Docstoc shares the revenue on basis of 50/50. Like making money from Adsense though other methods, you are not allowed to upload copyright violated documents.

F.A.Q
 
For how long will the Adsense account be accepted? 
This question depends on your active upload, upload upto 10 document and you may be confirm , in the next  two to three business day

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Thursday, 14 June 2012

Liat of BIOS default Backdoor passwrods

Here the list of some BIOS backdoor password for many main board manufacture: 



Award BIOS backdoor passwords: 

ALFAROME--------BIOSTAR--------KDD
ZAAADA----------ALLy-----------CONCAT
Lkwpeter--------ZBAAACA--------aLLy
CONDO-----------LKWPETER-------ZJAAADC

aLLY------------Condo----------PINT
01322222--------ALLY-----------d8on
pint------------589589-------- aPAf
djonet----------SER------------589721
award-----------HLT------------SKY_FOX
595595----------AWARD_SW-------J64
SYXZ------------598598---------AWARD?SW
J256------------syxz-----------AWARD SW
J262------------shift + syxz---AWARD PW
j332------------TTPTHA-------- AWKWARD
j322------------awkward


AMI BIOS Backdoor Passwords:

AMI-------------BIOS-----------PASSWORD
HEWITT RAND-----AMI?SW---------AMI_SW
LKWPETER--------CONDO 


Phoenix BIOS Backdoor Passwords: 

phoenix---------PHOENIX--------CMOS--------BIOS


Misc. Common Passwords

ALFAROME--------BIOSTAR--------biostar
biosstar--------CMOS-----------cmos
LKWPETER--------lkwpeter-------setup
SETUP-----------Syxz-----------Wodj


Other BIOS Passwords by Manufacturer

Manufacturer----Password
VOBIS & IBM---- merlin
Dell------------Dell
Biostar-------- Biostar
Compaq----------Compaq
Enox------------xo11nE
Epox------------central
Freetech--------Posterie
IWill-----------iwill
Jetway----------spooml
Packard Bell----bell9
QDI-------------QDI
Siemens---------SKY_FOX
TMC------------BIGO
Toshiba--------Toshiba
Toshiba--------BIOS
Biostar--------Biostar-----Q54arwms
Compaq---------Compaq
Daewoo---------Daewuu
Daytek---------Daytec
Dell-----------Dell
Enox-----------xo11nE
Epox-----------central
Freetech-------Posterie
HP Vectra------hewlpack
IBM------------IBM---------MBIUO--------sertafu
Iwill----------iwill
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Thursday, 7 June 2012

Remove PDF Password using PDF Password Remover Tool

There are two types of password protections in PDF which is,
  1. User Password – Password to open the PDF file
  2. Owner Password – Password to print, copy, modify the PDF file
If your PDF file is protected with User Password, this trick will not work for you. This tool will not be able to recover and remove the password from the PDF.
However if the PDF file is using Owner Password, this tool will decrypt and remove the password so you can print, copy, and make changes to the document.

PDF Password Remover Tool

PDF Password Remover Tool is a freeware PDF password recovery that will decrypt the Owner Password and remove it from the PDF file. I’ve tested this software and it works perfectly.
If you want to remove the User Password, this tool will popup an alert saying ‘Cannot decrypt pdf file. Incorrect password.’ as shown in the image below.

PDF Password Remover Tool unable to decrypt and remove the User Password.
 But if the PDF file is using Owner Password, it will able to remove it, and save a new copy which allows you to print, copy and modify the document content.

PDF Password Remover Tool successfully removed the Owner Password.
PDF Password Remover Tool is free for personal use. As mentioned by the developer, please use this tool to remove passwords from PDF files that belong to you. It was developed to help you recover PDF files in cases where you forget the owner passwords you once set and can no longer remember. Hope this helps!
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Cannot delete files? How to delete them?

Sometimes, you can’t delete certain files because they are currently in used by another software or process. Each time you try to delete the in-use file, Windows will give a warning like this:


" Cannot delete Folder: It is being used by another person or program.
      Close any programs that might be using the file and try again.

So how to delete it? There are three ways that you can use to delete the in-use file.


1. Command Prompt
You can force delete the in-use file in command prompt. In Windows XP, go to Start > Run > type “cmd” > Ok. In the command prompt, go to the file directory and type this:

" del filename.extension

Yea, replace the filename and extension with the filename and it’s extension. Eg: notepad.exe.

2. Safe Mode
If you find it is difficult to delete from command prompt, you can delete in Windows Safe Mode. When the computer boot up, press F8. An options screen will appear and choose Safe Mode from the list.
When boot up in Safe Mode, Windows will run only small amount of processes and you can delete the file without any problem.
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Wednesday, 6 June 2012

How to remove applications from the Right-click Menu?

I have installed many soft-wares lately and was shocked when found out that my right-click context menu has many applications. Most of them are not even use. Some soft-wares allow you to disable the context menu from its options settings. But some of them don’t have the options and not allow you to remove the applications from the context menu.
I thought to remove the applications from the context menu requires special software. Unfortunately, I was wrong. You can do that directly from registry.
When we are talking about registry, many of us are scared because registry is the core of our system. If we messing up the registry, we are actually messing up our operating system. Therefore, please make a backup of your registry before you continue.


To edit the right-click menu, go to Start > Run and type “regedit” (without the quotes). Then click Ok. There are two parts that I will discuss here. The first part is about to remove the applications from files context menu and the second part is to remove the applications from the folder context menu.

Part 1: Files context menu

While you are in the Registry Editor, go to

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\

You will see something like this


These are the applications that you see when you right click a file. You can either delete the application folder or you can just disable them. But I prefer to disable just in case I want it back in the future.


To disable the application, click on the application folder and in the key panel, right click the key name and choose Modify. Let say that the Value Data is like this
 
{D25B2CAB-8A9A-4517-A9B2-CB5F68A5A802}

What you need to do is just add a minus (-) in front of the value like this

-{D25B2CAB-8A9A-4517-A9B2-CB5F68A5A802}

Click Ok, refresh and try right clicking on any file. Now you will see the unwanted application has been removed from the context menu.

Part 2: Folders context menu

How about for the folder? The steps are the same but the directory to the shell extension is different. You need to go to this tree,
 
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\

Here, you will see the applications that attached on the context menu. You can either delete the application folder or just disable like you did for the files.


In the key panel, right click the key name, choose Modify and add the minus in front of the value. Click Ok and refresh. Now right click on any folder and there application has gone from the right click menu.
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How to convert images into ASCII?

If you are looking on how to convert images into ASCII characters, you have came to the right place. I will show you where you can convert any image like this:

 to become like this :

Cool isn’t it? What I know is, the script will first scan the image and then it replaces the pixels in the image into ASCII characters. If you want to convert your image to ASCII characters like above, you can go make it yourself at Make ASCII . There are two methods that you can use, whether you upload the image from your computer or direct from URL.
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