Computer Tips

10 Steps you should do when your Computer Hangs up

You are in the middle of doing your work, suddenly you realized your computer hanged up. But the problem is, you have not saved your work! Don’t panic! There is a solution for that! And you can surely save your file! Here’s how:

1. Click on “ctrl-alt-delete” keys.
                   The windows task manager will then open, click on all programs that you don’t need and end the task. You will see that all programs on your task bar will close one by one. If this will resolve the issue! – then save! (tip# 1: if you’re working on an MS Office application, it will automatically save your file in case the programs suddenly shut down — tip# 2: always save your file at least every 2 minutes by just simply clicking on the “diskette icon”— its just one click!)

2. If it did not resolve the issue,
                   Are there some users logged on that computer? If so, go to switch user (for XP) and log off that user, go back to your log on screen and log on again.

The reason the computer hang up is because if there are many open programs and applications, these retains in the memory, if it is too much for the memory to handle, it freezes! Another reason too the computer hang up is because if you are connected to the internet via dial up, and you are running too many applications and opening many websites. So I suggest, if you are multimedia user or a heavy internet user, then you are better off with a higher memory, at least 512Mb of memory.

There are simple ways to avoid computer to freeze or hang up:

3. Clean your history at least once a week
                 tools>internet options>clear history. I normally set my history to “0”, meaning, when I restart my computer, it doesn’t save history pages that I have visited

4. Delete all internet temporary files
                tools>internet options>delete files (do the “offline” content too!)

5. Delete cookies
               tools>internet options>delete cookies

6. Remove unnecessary programs that you no longer use
            They are just occupying space and memory! >control panel>add/remove programs

7. Do Defragmentation at least once a week
            Point the mouse to “start” button, then right click “explore”>right click the mouse pointing to drive C (which is usually the main system logical drive) >properties>tools>defragment now

8. You can also check the logical drive’s volume for errors
            Point the mouse to “start” button, then right click “explore”>right click the mouse pointing to drive C (I repeat, is usually the main system logical drive) >properties>tools>check now

9. It is better to have only one user being logged on.
           Even if there are many users, make sure the user logs off after using the computer, rather than keeping it logged on and you do the switching of users. Switching users is good as long as you don’t keep all users logged on—I think that is more logical

10. Always shut down properly the computer (do NOT use the power button when turning it off!


A small trick on Xp game(solitaire)


you must have seen the game "solitaire" in windows Xp.Now here is a small trick
              open the game and press "alt+shift+@" keys at a time and see the result.

Add a You tube Video to Your PowerPoint Presentation

Almost everybody has used Microsoft PowerPoint in some part of their life. Lot of people like to add videos to make their presentation much interesting and to keep the attention of the audience.

Most people like to insert videos from the famous You Tube video site, which is a immense pool of knowledge where you can get from cooking recipes to mechanical demonstrations.

So I would like to give you the steps to add a You Tube video to a PowerPoint Presentation.

1 . Select the specific YouTube video URL it usually looks like this  
     (Code: http://youtube.com/watch?v=XXXXXXXXXXX)

2. Convert the .flv video to windows friendly .avi format. For this purpose use the online utility called Vixy.net this will convert the video and give you a download link from which you can download it to your PC.

3. Goto the PowerPoint slide where you want to embed the video, and navigate to Insert -> Movies and Sounds -> Movie from File. Select the video from where you saved it and hit OK.

4. Finally, choose whether you want to start playing the video automatically, or only after you click on it.

5. Thats all now you can insert any YouTube video in your presentations to attract your audience.

Add Your Name or Application to right click

To write your name on right click application, please follow the steps.

1.Copy/Paste the following code in Notepad And then Save it as .reg

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D**\shell\Registry Editor
@="Your Name Or Name of the Application"
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D**\shell\Registry Editor\command
@="Location Of The Application"

2.Now edit it and then Type your name In

Eg:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D**\shell\Registry Editor]
@="Lakino Heat"

3. If u want to get any application, once you click Your name or name of application
Then , Type the location Of the application Which u want to open In:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D**\shell\Registry Editor\command
@="Location Of The Application"

For eg.C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Messenger\messenger.exe
That's It finally save it And then Run it .

To add Application Add/Remove

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D**\shell\Add/Remove\command
@="control appwiz.cpl"

To add Application Reboot

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D**\shell\[Reboot]\command
@="shutdown -r -f -t 5"
To add Application shutown
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D**\shell\[Shutdown]\command
@="shutdown -s -f -t 5"


An Interesting Notepad trick!!!!!!!!!!!

Step 1: Open Notepad
Step 2: Write following line in the notepad.
this app can break
Step 3: Save this file as xxx.txt
Step 4: Close the notepad.
Step 5: Open the file again.

Now see the contents of the file..Enjoy!!!!!!!!

The Best Computer Tips and Tricks: System Tweaks

Disable System Restore
            You can gain a lot of drive space by disabling System Restore. (You should already have a backup regimen in place before you do this.) In Vista, right-click My Computer, select Advanced system settings, click the System Protection tab, and uncheck any drives. In XP, right-click My Computer, then under System Tasks, click on "View system information." Click on the System Restore tab and click the box next to "Turn off System Restore on all drives" to disable it.
Configure Windows Update
             Windows Update is great, but if it's set on autopilot, it will download updates that require a reboot, then pester you forever to install them, and eventually reboot on its own. Change the Windows Update settings (in the Windows Security section of the Control Panel) to download updates but ask you whether to install them.
Disable Delete Confirmation
              You can disable the confirmation that pops up whenever you delete something by right-clicking the Recycle Bin and selecting Properties. Uncheck the delete confirmation box, click Apply and then OK, and you're done. Also, you can bypass the Recycle Bin entirely by holding down the Shift key while deleting files.
Disable Windows Animations
             Sliding Window animations look cool, but you can improve system performance by disabling them completely. Right-click My Computer and go to Properties. In Vista, select Advanced system settings, or click the Advanced tab in XP. Click Settings in the performance box and uncheck any box that says animate, slide, or fade.
Create a Custom Toolbar
             If you're constantly accessing a particular folder, you can add it to your taskbar for quick access. Right-click the taskbar and scroll to Toolbars, then select New Toolbar. It will open an Explorer window, so browse to your folder and select it. It's also handy to add My Computer as a toolbar.

Compress files 10% more than the normal method (winrar)

Right click on your file and select "Add to archive…" from the context menu. A dialog box will appear.

In the General Tab, click "Compression Method." A drop down menu will appear, select "Best".

Click on the Advanced Tab, then click the "Compression..." button. The "Advanced Compression Parameters" dialog box will appear.

In the Text Compression section, select Force and in Prediction Order type 63. For the Memory to use type 128. Then click OK twice.

This method will compress files 10% more than the normal method.

Convert Your Text into voice in PC

I've tried in Win XP..

Go to>Start>RUN>   Type "Control speech"

Cool Mouse Tricks !
Moving the pointer without a mouse! Ever thought that you could move your mouse pointer without your mouse? No, not really, isn’t it? But, it’s possible!
Here is how:

1.Press Left Alt + Left Shift + Num Lock Button and click OK in the dialogue box that appears.

2.In your Taskbar, a mouse-like icon will appear. Double click it and under “Mouse” tab, make sure that the “Use Mouse Keys” is checked.

3.Also ensure that the Num Lock is ON (ie. the light must glow).

2.Now with the help of Numeric Keypad e.g ( Press and Hold the following Keys )

7 8 9

4 6

1 2 3

For normal click, press 5

Interesting, isn’t it? You can also change settings under the “Mouse” tab in “Accessiblity Options”, by clicking on “Settings”


Can U Create A folder Without Name?????

If Not Then Learn It From This Post

1) Right Click
2) New
3) Folder
4) Then Holding "Alt" Key Press 0160 Then Press "Enter" Key
5) ..::: Enjoy:::..

Create shortcut for removing pen drive

Rather than clicking on the task bar and then safely removing the pendrive you can eaily do so creating a shortcut:
1)Create shortcut on your desktop
by right click and selecting new shortcut from the menu.
2)Type "RunDll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL hotplug.dll" click next and then finish.
shortcut is created and now you can assign a shortcut key to it.
just right click on it and select properties-> click on shortcut tab -> assign a shortcut key to it(it will take clrt + alt by default)eg: if you press 1 shortcut will be ctrl+alt+1

Different ways to shutdown ur PC

There are so many different ways to turn off your Windows XP computer, let’s look at some of them:

1. The standard approach – click the Start Button with your mouse, then select the Turn Off menu and finally click the Turn Off icon on the Turn Off computer dialog. blink.gif

2. Press Ctrl+Esc key or the Win key and press u two times – the fastest approach.

3. Get the Shutdown utility from Download.com – it add the shut down shortcuts for you. Else create them yourself using approach 4.

4. Create a shutdown shortcut on your desktop. Right click on the desktop, choose New Shortcut and type shutdown -s -t 00 in the area where you are asked to specify the location of the program file. Now you can just double click this icon to turn off the computer. The best location would be your quick launch bar.

5. Press the Win key + R key to open the run window. Type shutdown -s -t 00. [s means shutdown while t means the duration after which you want to initiate the shutdown process].

If some open processes or application won’t let you turn off, append a -f switch to force a shut down by closing all active processes.

6. Win+M to minimize all windows and then Alt+F4 to bring the Turn Off computer dialog.

7. Open Windows Task manager (by right clicking the Windows Task bar or Alt+Ctrl+Del) and choose Shut down from the menu. Useful when the Windows are not responding.

8. open task manager—>click on shutdown—>hold the ctrl key and click on Turn off::::::: pc will be turned off in 3 secs.. fastest method other than hard shutdown


 Double-clicking any drive opens search option [Solution]
Solution 1:

That's a virus named as ravmon.exe and autorun.inf
Scan first with a good antivirus [Nod32 Recommanded]
then try this trick.

First show the hidden files and folders options then try this method

1. Go to Start-->run and type cmd then click ok

2. If u want to remove the infected file from c drive then type C: in command prompt and press enter

3. Type autorun.inf and press enter
        autorun.inf file is opened

4. Now type "attrib autorun.inf -s -h -r" and press enter

5. Now delete the file by typing
     "del autorun.inf" and press enter

6.Now type autorun.inf and press enter now, u will find no infected autorun.inf file.

7. same way do for all other drives then restart ur pc


3. I accidentally deleted my "mspaint.exe"/"notepad.exe"/etc. file, how can I get it back?


Solution:2:

You can use any of following methods:

A. Goto "%windir%\System32\DLLCache" folder and look for the file, if its there then copy it to "%windir%\System32\" folder.

B. Insert your Windows Setup CD and goto "I386" folder. Now look for the same file, it'll present there but the last letter of extension will be "_". e.g., u'll get "mspaint.ex_"/"notepad.ex_"/etc. Now open Command Prompt and goto "I386" folder and give following command:

expand mspaint.ex_ mspaint.exe
expand notepad.ex_ notepad.exe
etc.

Now u can copy the file to "%windir%\System32" folder.

C. Give following command in Command Prompt:

sfc /SCANNOW

It'll automatically restore the files.

Hidden Star Wars Movie In Windows XP!!!!!

Only Windows XP guys.....

Microsoft has hidden a version of Star Wars done entirely with

ASCII characters in the Windows XP operating system.But you must be connected to internet to view it.When online,go to

start->run.Now type ' telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl ' without the single quotes.See it for yourself.

Hiding All Drives Magic

How to Hide the drives(c:,d:,e:,a:...etc)
This is a great trick you can play on your friends. To disable the display of local or networked drives when you click My Computer.

1.Go to start->run.Type regedit.Now go to:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\Explorer

Now in the right pane create a new DWORD item and name it NoDrives(it is case sensitive). Now modify it's value and set it to 3FFFFFF (Hexadecimal) .Now restart your computer. So, now when you click on My Computer, no drives will be shown(all gone...). To enable display of drives in My Computer, simply delete this DWORD item that you created.Again restart your computer.You can now see all the drives again. Magic........lol....

How To Change Thumbnail Size And Quality

If any of you out there like to use the thumbnail view, especially for browsing through photos and images, it can become a bit of a drain on your system. It is possible to lower the thumbnail size and quality by editing the following registry keys.

Open the registry and navigate to :-

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ Software\ Microsoft \ Windows\ CurrentVersion\ Explorer

Create a new DWORD value called ThumbnailSize, and set the value between 32 and 256.

And/or create another DWORD value called ThumbnailQuality, and set the value between 50 and 100.

Key Details :

USER Key: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ Software\ Microsoft \ Windows\ CurrentVersion\ Explorer]
Value Name: ThumbnailSize
Data Type: REG_DWORD (DWORD Value)
Data Value: 32 - 256

USER Key: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ Software\ Microsoft \ Windows\ CurrentVersion\ Explorer]
Value Name: ThumbnailQuality
Data Type: REG_DWORD (DWORD Value)
Data Value: 50 - 100

How to Choose The Sounds For Each Windows Event
First Click on Start button, Control Panel and then Click the Sounds and audio devices icon.

Click on sounds option , select it and then click Browse button.

After clicking browse option you will go c:\WINNT > Media or Sounds folder (windows default sounds folder), but you can add sounds here from any third source.

Simply locate here the sound file you want to associate with the selected event and double-click it.

Now you can play this sound file in preview to observe if your like the sound file or not.

Click OK, and then Click OK again to close the dialog box

How to Hack Minesweeper...........
While the Minesweeper game is included in almost every Windows computer, few know how to play it, and others have no idea how to win when playing it. This article will explain to play, and almost never lose.

Open Minesweeper and select the window.
Type xyzzy
Hold BOTH shift keys for 3 seconds.
Release shift, and hover your mouse over the mine field.
or type xyzzy,shift.enter,enter

Look closely to find a very tiny white square on the top left of your desktop, it should be about 1 pixel in size. Not in the minesweeper screen but your computer backround. A white dot means it's safe to click, and a black dot means that there is a mine.
For MineSweeper in previous versions of Windows, i.e. before XP, search for the file winmine.ini
Open this file (using notepad, wordpad, etc.)
You will see entries for best times. Edit those entries, modifying the names and the times to reflect your times!
You are a MineSweeper champion!

How to make Desktop icons text background transparent

JUST DO THE FOLLOWING IF U HAVE THE PROBLEM:

Sol: Type "sysdm.cpl" in RUN dialog box and press . Now goto "Advanced" tab, click on "Setting" button in "Performance" section and enable the option "Use drop shadows for icon labels on the desktop". 

How to make our own shortcut key

Follow these steps

1)Select file or folder of which u want to make a shortcut key

2)Right click on it & Select Send to option & then Select Desktop(Create Shortcut).

3)Right click on a shortcut(of desktop) & then go to properties.

4)Now u can see a shortcut key

5) Change the value of shortcut key to "Anything" from "none".

Such as I am creating a shortcut key of my games folder
so I change Shortcut key "Alt + Ctrl + G" from "none"

That's it u are done

Enjoy:-

Make ur computer speak as you wish

Copy the script in notepad and save it as .vbs and run the script and type Mahesh rocks and click ok it will say Mahesh rocks....
Code:
Dim msg, sapi
msg=InputBox("Enter your text","My text to speak")
Set sapi=CreateObject("sapi.spvoice")
sapi.Speak msg


Make ur keyboard a live disco.

This code when executed makes your Caps, Num, Scroll lock keys flash..
Instructions:
*paste the code in notepad
*Save as disco.vbs
*Run the file
This piece of code makes your keyboard a live disco...

Set wshShell =wscript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
do
wscript.sleep 100
wshshell.sendkeys "{NUMLOCk}"
wscript.sleep 100
wshshell.sendkeys "{CAPSLOCK}"
wscript.sleep 100
wshshell.sendkeys "{SCROLLLOCK}"
loop
HOW TO REMOVE LIVE DISCO ON KEYBOARD WITHOUT CHANGING CODE.
OPEN TASK MANAGER THEN IN PROCESSES DELETE WSCRIPT.EXE FILE  


Make Your Own Icons In Windows XP !

Now even personalize your ICONS with Windows XP !

To make your own ICON :

1. Start>>All Programs>>Accessories
2. Click Paint
3. In toolbar select Image
4. Click Attributes

Note : The size of a icon is 32 x 32 pixels !

5. Type 32 in both Height and Width and sure that Pixels is selected under Units
6. Click OK
7. Now add your photo or design .
8. File>>Save As
9. Type name.ico
10. Click Save