Showing posts with label TIPS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label TIPS. Show all posts
Sunday, September 2, 2012
Voice Password To Lock Windows
Some of our readers asked us if there is any way they can unlock
windows using a voice, this idea itself is quite good as unlocking
windows without entering or typing a password on the keyboard will
require the least effort from the user, so many users would like to see
this feature in future versions of windows, as if now this feature is
not there in the latest upcoming version of windows 8, hopefully it will
get add up in windows as default feature one day.
How To Unlock Windows with Voice Command
In order unlock windows with voice, you will need to install some
third party software which can enable this feature on windows, but as it
seems like most of these software’s are paid and but come with a free
trail for some weeks or month.
The first software which can be direct need for this purpose is VoicePass PC Security Lock
[Paid] – this application is designed in a way that it can unlock
windows based on your voice, but thing to notice is that you need to a
have a unique word which should not no longer than 2 seconds. The first
time you run the software after installing it, it will ask you to enrol
and record the voice password which you will need to say 10 times and
then it will save for future.
You can select any word from any language between 3-12
letters. The software monitors who is trying to access your computer
while you are away. Protect your privacy and confidential data 24 hours a
day, 7 days a week.
We cant find more software’s to unlock windows with voice which could
work like this one, if you can suggest a free or paid software like
this which could allow to add windows user to add a voice password to
unlock windows please let us know through comments at the end of this
page.
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Thursday, August 16, 2012
[Solved] Cannot Remove USB Flash With Safely Remove Hardware Feature Not Working
There are times some of our users faced the problem when suddenly the
icon in task manager stopped working as nothing happening when users
click on the icon to remove the USB flash drive or any other removable drives and for some users the safely remove hardware icon in the windows taskbar disappeared.
After searching about this we came to know that this could happen
when the DLL files responsible for this feature are not working
correctly or gets damaged. Still there are many ways to fix this
problem, either you just need to run some commands in case you don’t see
the safely remove icon or just need to make sure that when you remove
the flash drive the you are not copying to or from the drive to computer
and also close the window showing the drive files when you unplug it
from USB port.
Method1: Safely Remove Hardware Icon Not Visible Or Missing ?
In such case the first thing you should try running the following command which brings back the safely remove hardware icon back in windows taskbar, even if you don’t see the icon back in system tray you will able to use the safely remove hardware feature using this command below in any versions of windows.
“C:\WINDOWS\system32\rundll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL hotplug.dll” [ run the command without quotes ]
If you need to run the above command every time you plug any USB
drive then you should better create a shortcut with the command above as
target path, so that you just need to double click the desktop shortcut when safely remove hardware does not respond when you click it or it does not appear in system tray.
Method 2: Do You Actually Need To Remove Every USB Removable Drive Safely Using Safe Remove Hardware Icon ?
No, unless you are doing some heavy copy of data to or from the USB
Drive, by default any USB drive you plug is optimised for quick removal,
so you can unplug the USB drive without using safely remove hardware. But don’t do it when some data transfer is going on to or from the USB drive to computer it is plugged in.
In order to enable a drive for better performance, you will need right click on the USB drive icon in My Computer and then -
- click the Hardware tab.
- click Properties.
- Now click on Policies tab.
If you want to do fast copy of data, you should enable this
feature but a power failure or sudden shutdown may result in loss of
data from the drive once you enable this feature. We suggest you not to
use this feature until you really need it.
Method 3: Alternative Way To Fix Safely Remove Hardware Not Working
This method is quite different as it may look like a possible
solution to many but it works perfectly for many windows users out there
who were facing this problem, as reported by users when they click the
icon of safely remove hardware list of USB devices does not pop up. You will not be able to access the devices and printers when this is happening at the following path Control Panel -> Hardware and Sound -> Devices and Printers.
Follow the procedure below to fix this, the simple solution to make
sure Bluetooth Support Service is running (even if you do not use
Bluetooth!)
1. Go to Start menu >> Run or press Window Key + R
2. Type services.msc and press ENTER
3. Scroll down to locate Bluetooth Support Service, right-click and select Start
4. Now, the safely remove hardware should be working again.
5. Restart your pc and Devices and Printers should load correctly as well.
2. Type services.msc and press ENTER
3. Scroll down to locate Bluetooth Support Service, right-click and select Start
4. Now, the safely remove hardware should be working again.
5. Restart your pc and Devices and Printers should load correctly as well.
If this problem appears again and again then go to the properties of
the Bluetooth Support Service and change its startup type to
Automatically (Delayed Start) as shown in the image below.
Find And/Or Change Default Location Of Saved Files In Microsoft Office Word, Excel, PowerPoint etc.
Most of Windows users come across Microsoft Office applications at times at their work, school or home depending
on their needs of work. MS office is one of the most popular softwares
used for creating computer documents, spreadsheets, presentations etc.
One of the common troubles faced by many of the new users is that they
don’t know where they saved the file on the computer after working on them for long time!
Imagine you open MS Word on your work or school or home computer, create a word document with lots of text, data pictures and spend good amount of time in making that document. Then you save that document with some name. Then you close MS Word and you realize that you don’t remember in which folder you saved the word document.
This is a common problem with new or first time users as they are not
very familiar with the software and file saving locations. In this small
article, we will share will you some very easy tips to locate the saved
files, or even change the default location to a folder of your choice
so that you don’t end up searching for your documents after you save
them.
How To Locate A File Saved In Microsoft Word, Excel Or PowerPoint?
First of all, when you save a file in Microsoft Office, the default location is usually My Documents or Documents folder
for most Windows PCs. But in many cases, it maybe different, before you
start following detailed steps, just open the My Documents or Documents
folder on windows computer where you saved the file and it might just be lying there silently.
If you don’t find the file in the folder, first you can check in the Recent Files options. For the same, click on File > Recent File. Here all the recent files with their locations are listed.
Also you can look at the Recent Places where some files have been saved. For example, in MS word, when you go to File > Open option, you see an option folder window in which you get an option called the Recent Places.
In case you don’t see your file in the recent places, which is a
possibility when many other files have been saved after you saved your
file last time, in that case, follow the below steps.
Step 1: Go to File > Options
Step 2:
On word options window, click on the Save tab on the left side pane. On
the right hand size, you will see the Default File location. This is
most likely the location your file is saved at. Open the location and
scroll to find your previously saved MS Word file. You can also use
search feature in Windows to search the file at that location.
Step 3:
If you want to change the default save location of your MS Word files,
you can simply click on the Browse button and select the new folder.
Keep a convenient location like desktop or some root folder where you
would like all your new documents to be saved and press Ok.
This is it. Same way you can make changes to the MS Excel options and
PowerPoint options and check the default file location for the new
files saved using MS Excel or MS PowerPoint software.
NOTE : The interface may look slightly different in different version
of Windows and MS Office, but the functionality is almost the same as
this is a fundamental option in all the version of Microsoft Office for Windows.
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threats via USB drive, however, the majority of other products are
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antivirus software to permanently protect offline computer without the
need for signature updates, but other antivirus software should update
signature database regularly, and they cannot effectively protect
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Finding IP Address of the sender in Yahoo Mail!!
1. Log into your Yahoo! mail with your username and password.
2. Click on Inbox or whichever folder you have stored your mail.
3.Open the mail.
4. If you do not see the headers above the mail message, your headers are not displayed .
To display the headers,
* Click on Options on the top-right corner
* In the Mail Options page, click on General references
* Scroll down to Messages where you have the Headers option
* Make sure that Show all headers on incoming messages is selected
* Click on the Save button
* Go back to the mails and open that mail.
5.You should see similar headers like this:
* Yahoo! headers : Daniel.
6. Look for Received: from followed by the IP address between square brackets [ ].For example, [202.45.137.179]
7.That is be the IP address of the sender!
Free Up 10 GigaBytes of Disk Space in Windows
Areas to save disk space
- Turn off or decrease size of disk usage for system restore
If your not using the Windows System Restore feature, then why have it enabled?
If you are using it, perhaps you want to re-evaluate how much disk space its using up (which can be several GigaBytes) for saving checkpoints. If you only want to have 1 or 2 good saved checkpoints to restore from decrease the allocated space for system restore to a few hundred meg.
- Decrease the disk usage size of the recycle bin
The most common area on a users PC in which Windows allocates a chuck of space for itself is the recycle bin. If you rather have files be deleted instantly and not put in the recycle bin or you want to decrease the space it uses to hold deleted files
- Empty or Decrease your Web Browsers disk usage for Cached files
Every web browser has a preferences or options area to adjust the temporary internet files and cache usage. In this video tutorial we use Internet Explorer as an example on how to save space with an adjustment of the temporary internet files space it uses.
- Disable Hibernation in Windows.
If you don't know what Hibernation is , chances are you aren't using it. You might want to disable it to save a few Gigabytes of space that function requires as shown in the video tutorial.
For Vista users you can open command prompt and type powercfg -H off
-Run the Windows Clean Manager
Windows comes already with a built in cleaner that does simple basic tasks to free up disk space.
To access it click start -> Run -> type cleanmgr -> press OK
Useful Windows XP DOS Commands & Tricks
- Windows Command Line prompt is a most efficient and faster way of doing things in Windows XP. Here's a run-down of the most useful DOS commands available in Windows XP. Some of these DOS commands even do not have an visual alternative.
- DOS Command-line tools must be run at the prompt of the Cmd.exe command interpreter. To open Command Prompt, click Start, click Run, type cmd, and then click OK.
- ipconfig - Windows IP configuration
Useful for troubleshooting your internet connection.Displays the current IP address of your computer and the DNS server address. If you call your ISP for reporting a bad internet connection, he will probably ask you to run ipconfig. - fc - Free BeyondCompare in XP
FC is an advanced DOS Command that compares two files and displays the differences between them. Though the file comparison results are not as interactive as BeyondCompare or Altova DiffDog, fc is still very useful. You can even set fc to resynchronize the files after finding a mismatch. - type - open text files sans Notepad
Similar to Unix cat command, Type is my favorite DOS command for displaying the contents of a text files without modifying them. When used in combination with more switch, type splits the contents of lengthy text files into multiple pages. Avoid using the type command with binary files or you'll hear alien PC beeps and see some greek characters on your PC. - ping - Say hello to another Computer
Ping network command followed by the web-address or IP address tells you about the health of the connection and whether the other party is responding to your handshake request. Ping tool can also be used to convert the web address to a physical IP address. - tree - visual directory structure
You often need to take prints of your physical directory structure but XP has no simple "visual" commands for printing directory contents. Here, try the Tree DOS command and redirect the output to a text file. - tree > mydirectory.txt
print mydirectory.txt - attrib - make hidden files visible
Attrib lets you change attributes of System files and even hidden files. This is great for troubleshooting Windows XP. Say your XP doesn't boot ever since you edited that startup boot.ini file (Hidden), use attrib to remove the Hidden attibute and edit the file using EDIT dos command. - assoc - which program will open that .xyz file
The assoc DOS command can be used to either isplay or even modify the file name extension associations. The command assoc .htm will quickly tell you the name of your default web browser (see picture) - move - more flexible than copy-paste
Say you got a lot of XLS and DOC files in you MyDocuments folder and want to move only those XLS files that have their name ending with 2006. In XP Explorer, you have to manually select each file and then cut-paste to another folder. However, the DOS move command make things much simpler. Just type the following at the command prompt:
move *2006.xls c:\2006Reports\ - find - advanced file search with filter
Find is the most powerful DOS command and even more useful than the Windows Desktop Search tool or the Windows Find Wizard. The find command searches for a specific string of text in a file or files. After searching the specified file or files, find displays any lines of text that contain the specified string. - To search your hard disk to
find and display the file names on drive C: that contain the string
"Google" use the pipe (|) to direct the results of a dir command to find
as follows:
dir c:\ /s /b | find "Google" - Quick tip - Drag to avoid typing: When your command acts on a file or folder, you must type the path to that folder after the command. You can save typing time by dragging the file or folder from Windows Explorer into the command window.
- To view help at the command-line, at the command prompt, type the following:
CommandName /?
Change Your Ip In Less Then 1 Minute
1. Click on "Start" in the bottom left hand corner of screen
2. Click on "Run"
3. Type in "command" and hit ok
2. Click on "Run"
3. Type in "command" and hit ok
You should now be at an MSDOS prompt screen.
4. Type "ipconfig /release" just like that, and hit "enter"
5. Type "exit" and leave the prompt
6. Right-click on "Network Places" or "My Network Places" on your desktop.
7. Click on "properties"
5. Type "exit" and leave the prompt
6. Right-click on "Network Places" or "My Network Places" on your desktop.
7. Click on "properties"
You
should now be on a screen with something titled "Local Area
Connection", or something close to that, and, if you have a network
hooked up, all of your other networks.
8. Right click on "Local Area Connection" and click "properties"
9. Double-click on the "Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)" from the list under the "General" tab
10. Click on "Use the following IP address" under the "General" tab
11. Create an IP address (It doesn't matter what it is. I just type 1 and 2 until i fill the area up).
12. Press "Tab" and it should automatically fill in the "Subnet Mask" section with default numbers.
13. Hit the "Ok" button here
14. Hit the "Ok" button again
9. Double-click on the "Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)" from the list under the "General" tab
10. Click on "Use the following IP address" under the "General" tab
11. Create an IP address (It doesn't matter what it is. I just type 1 and 2 until i fill the area up).
12. Press "Tab" and it should automatically fill in the "Subnet Mask" section with default numbers.
13. Hit the "Ok" button here
14. Hit the "Ok" button again
You should now be back to the "Local Area Connection" screen.
15. Right-click back on "Local Area Connection" and go to properties again.
16. Go back to the "TCP/IP" settings
17. This time, select "Obtain an IP address automatically"
tongue.gif 18. Hit "Ok"
19. Hit "Ok" again
20. You now have a new IP address
16. Go back to the "TCP/IP" settings
17. This time, select "Obtain an IP address automatically"
tongue.gif 18. Hit "Ok"
19. Hit "Ok" again
20. You now have a new IP address
How to make Firefox browser run at maximum speed ?
1. first in the URL bar, Type “about:config”.
It will bring up a list of commands and variables you can edit.
2. The second step is to put “network.http.pipelining” in the filter and change the value to “true”.
3. After that you will want to put “network.http.proxy.pipelining” in the filter.
Like the last one, make that value set to “true” also.
Like the last one, make that value set to “true” also.
4.
Next, locate “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” and change the value
to some number higher, say 10,20 or even 30, it would make up to 10,20
or 30 requests at once.
5. The last step is to right click
anywhere and select “New” then “Integer”. Name it
“nglayout.initialpaint.delay” and make its value “0″. This will make the
browser respond faster on the information of the websites it receives.
6. Close out FireFox and restart it
loo.. enjoy the new mega speed
Windows Commands Line
An A to Z Index of the Windows command line
a ADDUSERS Add or list users to/from a CSV file ARP Address Resolution Protocol ASSOC Change file extension associations• ASSOCIAT One step file association ATTRIB Change file attributes b BOOTCFG Edit Windows boot settings BROWSTAT Get domain, browser and PDC info c CACLS Change file permissions CALL Call one batch program from another• CD Change Directory - move to a specific Folder• CHANGE Change Terminal Server Session properties CHKDSK Check Disk - check and repair disk problems CHKNTFS Check the NTFS file system CHOICE Accept keyboard input to a batch file CIPHER Encrypt or Decrypt files/folders CleanMgr Automated cleanup of Temp files, recycle bin CLEARMEM Clear memory leaks CLIP Copy STDIN to the Windows clipboard. CLS Clear the screen• CLUSTER Windows Clustering CMD Start a new CMD shell COLOR Change colors of the CMD window• COMP Compare the contents of two files or sets of files COMPACT Compress files or folders on an NTFS partition COMPRESS Compress individual files on an NTFS partition CON2PRT Connect or disconnect a Printer CONVERT Convert a FAT drive to NTFS. COPY Copy one or more files to another location• CSCcmd Client-side caching (Offline Files) CSVDE Import or Export Active Directory data d DATE Display or set the date• DEFRAG Defragment hard drive DEL Delete one or more files• DELPROF Delete NT user profiles DELTREE Delete a folder and all subfolders DevCon Device Manager Command Line Utility DIR Display a list of files and folders• DIRUSE Display disk usage DISKCOMP Compare the contents of two floppy disks DISKCOPY Copy the contents of one floppy disk to another DISKPART Disk Administration DNSSTAT DNS Statistics DOSKEY Edit command line, recall commands, and create macros DSACLs Active Directory ACLs DSAdd Add items to active directory (user group computer) DSGet View items in active directory (user group computer) DSQuery Search for items in active directory (user group computer) DSMod Modify items in active directory (user group computer) DSMove Move an Active directory Object DSRM Remove items from Active Directory e ECHO Display message on screen• ENDLOCAL End localisation of environment changes in a batch file• ERASE Delete one or more files• EVENTCREATE Add a message to the Windows event log EXIT Quit the current script/routine and set an errorlevel• EXPAND Uncompress files EXTRACT Uncompress CAB files f FC Compare two files FIND Search for a text string in a file FINDSTR Search for strings in files FOR /F Loop command: against a set of files• FOR /F Loop command: against the results of another command• FOR Loop command: all options Files, Directory, List• FORFILES Batch process multiple files FORMAT Format a disk FREEDISK Check free disk space (in bytes) FSUTIL File and Volume utilities FTP File Transfer Protocol FTYPE Display or modify file types used in file extension associations• g GLOBAL Display membership of global groups GOTO Direct a batch program to jump to a labelled line• GPUPDATE Update Group Policy settings h HELP Online Help i iCACLS Change file and folder permissions IF Conditionally perform a command• IFMEMBER Is the current user in an NT Workgroup IPCONFIG Configure IP k KILL Remove a program from memory l LABEL Edit a disk label LOCAL Display membership of local groups LOGEVENT Write text to the NT event viewer LOGOFF Log a user off LOGTIME Log the date and time in a file m MAPISEND Send email from the command line MBSAcli Baseline Security Analyzer. MEM Display memory usage MD Create new folders• MKLINK Create a symbolic link (linkd) MODE Configure a system device MORE Display output, one screen at a time MOUNTVOL Manage a volume mount point MOVE Move files from one folder to another• MOVEUSER Move a user from one domain to another MSG Send a message MSIEXEC Microsoft Windows Installer MSINFO Windows NT diagnostics MSTSC Terminal Server Connection (Remote Desktop Protocol) MUNGE Find and Replace text within file(s) MV Copy in-use files n NET Manage network resources NETDOM Domain Manager NETSH Configure Network Interfaces, Windows Firewall & Remote access NETSVC Command-line Service Controller NBTSTAT Display networking statistics (NetBIOS over TCP/IP) NETSTAT Display networking statistics (TCP/IP) NOW Display the current Date and Time NSLOOKUP Name server lookup NTBACKUP Backup folders to tape NTRIGHTS Edit user account rights o OPENFILES Query or display open files p PATH Display or set a search path for executable files• PATHPING Trace route plus network latency and packet loss PAUSE Suspend processing of a batch file and display a message• PERMS Show permissions for a user PERFMON Performance Monitor PING Test a network connection POPD Restore the previous value of the current directory saved by PUSHD• PORTQRY Display the status of ports and services POWERCFG Configure power settings PRINT Print a text file PRNCNFG Display, configure or rename a printer PRNMNGR Add, delete, list printers set the default printer PROMPT Change the command prompt• PsExec Execute process remotely PsFile Show files opened remotely PsGetSid Display the SID of a computer or a user PsInfo List information about a system PsKill Kill processes by name or process ID PsList List detailed information about processes PsLoggedOn Who's logged on (locally or via resource sharing) PsLogList Event log records PsPasswd Change account password PsService View and control services PsShutdown Shutdown or reboot a computer PsSuspend Suspend processes PUSHD Save and then change the current directory• q QGREP Search file(s) for lines that match a given pattern. r RASDIAL Manage RAS connections RASPHONE Manage RAS connections RECOVER Recover a damaged file from a defective disk. REG Registry: Read, Set, Export, Delete keys and values REGEDIT Import or export registry settings REGSVR32 Register or unregister a DLL REGINI Change Registry Permissions REM Record comments (remarks) in a batch file• REN Rename a file or files• REPLACE Replace or update one file with another RD Delete folder(s)• RMTSHARE Share a folder or a printer ROBOCOPY Robust File and Folder Copy ROUTE Manipulate network routing tables RUNAS Execute a program under a different user account RUNDLL32 Run a DLL command (add/remove print connections) s SC Service Control SCHTASKS Schedule a command to run at a specific time SCLIST Display NT Services SET Display, set, or remove environment variables• SETLOCAL Control the visibility of environment variables• SETX Set environment variables permanently SFC System File Checker SHARE List or edit a file share or print share SHIFT Shift the position of replaceable parameters in a batch file• SHORTCUT Create a windows shortcut (.LNK file) SHOWGRPS List the NT Workgroups a user has joined SHOWMBRS List the Users who are members of a Workgroup SHUTDOWN Shutdown the computer SLEEP Wait for x seconds SLMGR Software Licensing Management (Vista/2008) SOON Schedule a command to run in the near future SORT Sort input START Start a program or command in a separate window• SU Switch User SUBINACL Edit file and folder Permissions, Ownership and Domain SUBST Associate a path with a drive letter SYSTEMINFO List system configuration t TASKLIST List running applications and services TASKKILL Remove a running process from memory TIME Display or set the system time• TIMEOUT Delay processing of a batch file TITLE Set the window title for a CMD.EXE session• TLIST Task list with full path TOUCH Change file timestamps TRACERT Trace route to a remote host TREE Graphical display of folder structure TYPE Display the contents of a text file• u USRSTAT List domain usernames and last login v VER Display version information• VERIFY Verify that files have been saved• VOL Display a disk label• w WHERE Locate and display files in a directory tree WHOAMI Output the current UserName and domain WINDIFF Compare the contents of two files or sets of files WINMSD Windows system diagnostics WINMSDP Windows system diagnostics II WMIC WMI Commands x XCACLS Change file and folder permissions XCOPY Copy files and folders |
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