Showing posts with label computer tips and tricks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label computer tips and tricks. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Repair Unallocated Space from USB Flash Drive!!!

Ever Wonder How A Simple Pen drive Could Do Fancy Things Like A Boot up Device Or To Try a New Operating System !! Recently I Ran into A Trouble Using Pen drive which made me to Write this Post. After a week Release of Google's Chrome Os i thought of Giving a Shot !! I Used Win32 Image disk Writer to Write the Image onto Disk . Everything went Well But my Surprisingly My Pen drive "Size" Has Been reduced From 4 GB to 1.91 GB. I Was Freaked Out Gave A Quick Search On Internet And Found This Solution . This May be useful in Your Case to Repair Or Recover Unallocated Space From USB Flash Drive.
All You Need A Simple Tool called "Lexar tool".This Wonderful Wizard Makes USB Fresh As Before.


Follow This Steps 


1.Download the Lexar tool and extract to your PC  
Click here to download: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?
2. On Windows 7, remember to right click and “Run as Admin”.
2. Select your thumb drive letter, and click on the ‘Non-Active’ radio button at the bottom of the window
3. Now click on the ‘Format’ button
4. Remove and insert back of your Flash drive
5. Go back to disc management and reformat the flash drive again and you will get the whole space again.


Ps: Google Chrome Os is Cool & Amazing !! Grab A Copy of Chrome os At http://getchrome.eu/



Sunday, June 12, 2011

Improve internet speed by 20 %


This is how You can improve Your internet speed on ur computer by 20%
1)On ur computer,click on start button,select run (or press win key + R)....type
''gpedit.msc'' (without quotes) in run dialogue box and click ok,it will open Group Policy Edit window.
2)expand "computer
configuration"
3) then expand
"administrative templates"
4) then expand "network"
5) then open the "QoS Packet
Scheduler"
6) on right window double
click "limit reservable
bandwidth"
7) on setting tab check/mark the
"enabled"
8) change "Bandwidth limit %"
to 0 (by default it's 20),apply,and click ok.
This is how u can,increase ur Internet speed by 20%
You've better to reboot ur computer after all :) works on XP and 7 !!

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Split a large .pst file in Microsoft Outlook 2007

Here Is An Important Trick to Make You Comfortable While You Working With Microsoft Outlook 2007.

You Might Have faced some performance issues while working with Outlook 2007 which can cause Outlook to stop responding or it became very slow.
This non responsive behaviour of outlook can occur while sending, receiving, deleting or moving mails. The major Reason for this Malfunction is that the size of the .pst file has increased more than 2 GB.
This increased size of pst file can later cause the corruption and you may lose your Outlook data.

For proper functionality of Outlook it is required to reduce the size of the large .pst file to save it from corruption. One of the methods to reduce the size of a large pst file is to split the file. PST file which have exceeded the 2 GB limit can be split into multiple small .pst files

Ways to Split large .pst file into multiple smaller .pst files. In Outlook 2007 you can split a large .pst file into multiple smaller .pst files by following below mentioned steps.

A. Move items to a new .pst file by using “archive” feature

Select .pst file in navigation pane.
*Click File menu –> Archive –> Archive this folder and all sub folders and select a folder from the list
*Select a date from the Archive items older than
*Browse to specify a destination path and name for the new PST file

This new PST file is stored in Mail folder list as Archive folders but if you want to change the display name of .pst file then follow these steps.

Right click on Archive Folders, Select Properties –> Advanced
In the Personal Folder dialog box enter the new name for the file
B. Move items to a new .pst file by using “Move to Folder” feature

Select File menu –> New –> Outlook data file –> Office Outlook Personal Folders File
Enter a new file name and path for .pst file
In Create Microsoft Personal Folders, enter the .pst file that will be used in mail folder list
Select items in the folder to move in the new .pst file
Click Edit –> Move to folder –> Move items –> New –> Create new folder, enter a name for .pst file and in Select where to place the folder click new .pst file
Now in Move items select the new folder in the new pst file and click ok.
By following above steps you can split pst file into multiple small .pst files. But, if even after following these steps you are not able to split a pst file then a third-party tool can be used which can enhance the performance of outlook.


Saturday, March 19, 2011

Download Facebook videos by just viewing the source code

Hello Friends Here is a Cool Trick To Download Facebook Videos in A simple way By Just Using Source code.
By this Cool Trick You Can Download Videos Without Using Any Third Party Softwares Like Orbit etc.
All You Just Need  a Firebox Browser
Step1: Open The Video In a New Tab

Step2: HighLight The Video Starting From The Text "Video Posted By.." To In this Video And Right Click To View Selection Source



Step3:Now In The Source Code look Up For "mp4".This is the format generally in which FB stores your videos. ".mp4" in the source window will be highlighted.
You Will See Something like This

video_src=http%3A%2F%2Fvideo.ak.fbcdn.net%2Fcfs-ak-snc6%2F83119%2F630%2F10150124197552103_7961.mp4

This Is Your Donwload Link Which Is Not In Well Formed Form ,It Has To Be Converted To Normal Form Which Would Be Understood by Browser From The Hexa Decimal Format
Step 4: Copy The Link From Http to .Mp4
Replace %3A With : And %2F With '/'
then Your Donwload Link Looks Something Like This
http://video.ak.fbcdn.net/cfs-ak-snc6/83119/2F630/10150124197552103_7961.mp4

Paste this URL in the browser address bar and start downloading that video.

GoodLuck

Friday, October 8, 2010

How to clean My Recent Documents Automatically on Log off?

Here is an exciting tip to remove My documents automatically when we log off computer, as we know it is a Virtual sub folder of the user's My Documents folder holds the details of lastly used items in computer.This portion of documents exposes your recent activity to all other users who access to your computer,which may have some private and personal data . we can delte the logs of Recent activity by manually deleting everytime logging off.But this trick lets you to customise automarically clearing of recent documents on log off .For this you need to do some Registry settings>
just follow this steps:
*Click Start --> Run --> Type in regedit
*Navigate to the following key.
HKEY_Current_User > Software > Microsoft > Windows > CurrentVersion > Policies
*Right click on the Right Pane --> New -->Dword Value & name it as ClearRecentDocsOnExit .
*Double Clcik on it & se the value to 1

This will clear the My Recent Documents Folder automatically on logoff.

To stop this activity just delete the Dword value or set the value to 0.

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Disable Dr.Watson

Dr. Watson is an debugger in Microsoft Windows operating system.It is named after Doctor Watson character of Sherlock Holmes Books who was known for his intelligence and error collecting and analysing the case Helping holmes.

It is usually named drwatson.exe, drwtsn32.exe or dwwin.exe depending on the version of Windows.

When a error occurs on windows it detects and diagnoses program errors and pops a window showing the error,It is very useful as it alerts about the bugs and Rectifies it.But this may sometime quite irritating when ever it pops up suddenly.


Here is a Tip to disable the Dr.watson service

*Start the registry editor
Goto Start --> Run --> type "regedit.exe" and Hit enter.
*Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows NT \ CurrentVersion \ AeDebug
*Click on AeDebug and click Del

or just set HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows NT \ CurrentVersion \ AeDebug \ AUTO to 0

To re-enable it, type: drwtsn32 -i at the run.


Sunday, October 3, 2010

How to install a software in ubuntu


Ubuntu is an open source operating system which is Linux based, and thus can be edited by many people. It is free to install and contains many free programs, so it is a great low-cost alternative to Windows.There is an increasing trend in the grwoth of ubuntu users in last couple of years ,As this is a freely available version to users are opting this than the windows which costs around some $200 or even more.Ubuntu is constantly updated by enthusiastic people all around the world.Ubuntu updated its recent version which have various applications,we have Office which supports all ms office formats and we got wine where a virtual envionment is created,it can help to run all our windows applications .
But what makes the users who recently migrated and who want to jump into this world is how to install a software ,Most of the users confuse at this where they download a certain software from third party websites and they wont find a graphical easy interface to install it.
For all those beginners this post will help them to install any kind of software in ubuntu.
Installing through Ubuntu software centre:

Ubuntu comes with a built in application manager which lessens your burden in searching the softwares .
Follow this steps to install a new software:
*Go to Applications
*select Ubuntu Software Center.
*click on  Free software.
*select the department or just go for search
*after searching ,select the one you want and double click it and install by giving authentication,permission.
Installing Manually:
Second way of insatlling is by manually ,when you did'nt find the software requried.
download from the webistes of the software product a .deb extension file
After downloading just double click and install it.
The another of installing software is getting packagae from ubuntu ,in linux distributions software  is often reffered as package
Go to terminal
*change to adminstrator by typing su and then root password
*type the command
sudo apt-get install "software"(software==package you want without quotes)
ex:
sudo apt-get install wine

Friday, September 17, 2010

MICROSOFT UNVIELS NEW BROWSER IE9:BETA

At last microsoft corporation released the latest version of the internet explorer.

After the leak from inside(see My Previous post)the expectations on this browser reached to peak .
with out giving much disappointment microsoft released the web browser in a better Way.
Ie9 comes in a beta version that will support evolving web technologies like HTML 5, a Latest standard for presenting content.

Microsoft promises its users that it would be faster than anyother existing browser ,better graphics,syphlike user interface and more security.
It is also integrated with bing search engine,arch rival of Google.Ie 9 comes in a public beta version available in 30 languages.


Microsoft made managing adons easy in this browser. You may see a notification bar alerting you about how an add-on may be affecting your browser's performance. You can also easily manage your add-ons by clicking the Tools menu and then Manage Add-ons.

Hope this new Browser provides High speed browsing and bring back the days of glory to internet explorer.

Get The Browser and try it by following this link:
Download IE9

Monday, September 13, 2010

Change or Resize Partition Size in Windows Vista/Windows 7

Image representing Windows as depicted in Crun...Image via CrunchBase
Here is an interesting tip,a tool infact to change the partition drive or disk space in Windows vista and also works on windows 7.
Disk management is a tool which does this work.Disk management tool can resize the partition drives without any loss of data.with this you can adjust them.
Unlike Windows xp you want have to require the assiastance of Third party Disk managers like Acronics.
This Tutorial describes how to resize them just follow them:
1.Goto start ,click Mycomputer and right click on that and select Manage.
2.Now in the manage window,expand Storage option by clicking on that ,select Disk management to use the wizard.
3.It will display all the available drives on your computer and size
4.select the one which you want to resize, Right click on  that to change size--either Expand (to increase the size) or Shrink (to reduce the size).
5.Enter amount of size to shrink or exapand (in mb,for ex for 2 gb type 2048).
6.then hit expand or shrink button .(this will allocate the space from unpartitoned one)

This tool can also completely delete the drive.
If you are using windows Xp then you must need a third party tool,Download Acronics Disk Director to do this.
Download Acronics
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Thursday, September 9, 2010

Speedup Your Folder Browsing

At one time or the other you might have noticed that when you open my computer to browse folders that there is a slight delay. This happens because Windows XP automatically searches for network files and printers everytime you open Windows Explorer. you can uncheck this search by following this step and increase your folder brwosing significally
follow this steps to speed up:
*Open My Computer
*Click on Tools menu
*Click on Folder Options
*Click on the View tab.
*Uncheck the Automatically search for network folders and printers check box
*Select Apply and  Click Ok
*Reboot your computer

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Hear PDF Files


Every one us might be familiar with adobe products like adobe photoshop,adobe reader etc..
Adobe Acrobat is a family of application software to view, create, manipulate, print and manage files in Portable Document Format .
Adobe reader is very important software in dealing with pdf files.
I know most of us feel annoying to read padf files ,text.it effects eye vision also,it is very difficult to old people too.
Now here i present you a beautiful tip to hear pdf files.
this is'nt a big issue,its a very simple tip but iam sure it will help u out. 

*Open any PDF document
*Select the tab "View" and go to "Read Out Loud"
*Click on "Activate Read Out Loud" to enable this feature
*Now you can hear the document by either visiting this menu. or use any of the shortcuts,
  *Ctrl + shift + B: To hear the entire Document
  *Ctrl + shift + V: To hear the currently selected page
        *Ctrl + shift + C: To resume/pause
*Ctrl + shift + E: To stop hearing
if you want to download  Adobe reader

Sunday, September 5, 2010

Speed up your computer by cleaning RAM

RAM ,the Random access memory ,the primary memory of system which is capable of receiving and holding a copy of the software instructions and data necessary for processing. It is the place where the computer holds current programs and data that are in use.
Ram is most important for Multi programming . Higher the Ram higher will be the processing speed and system speed.
When you are working with multiple Programs if your computer becomes slow though your Ram is More ,it may be due to the leftout pieces of program bits in Ram

If you can erase or delete those unnecessary pieces of information, your computer RAM will be cleaned and your computer will be speed up.
Here is a simple procedure for cleaning RAM
Follow these steps
*Open notepad.
*Type FreeMem=Space(64000000).
*Save file with name "CleanRAM.vbs".
*Close it and run the file.

It will free memory in RAM, if you want to free more memory than you can write following command in notepad in step 2.

FreeMem= (256000000) for 256 mb
FreeMem= (128000000) for 128 mb
FreeMem= (72000000) for 72 mb
This trick will significally increase your speed of ram,as of the day you bought .
Use this Trick at your own risk and make sure that you don't select the memory that is larger than your memory capacity(RAM)

Download Google Chrome 6

  Download Google Chrome 6


Google Chrome Celebrated its 2nd birthday and released google chrome v6 the latest stable release on this auspicious eve.
In its two years of life, Chrome has not only made its own place in the market capturing 7% of the market and also gathered millions fans around the world for its lightening speed and simplicity.


On this occasion of two years google introduced Chrome 6 taking a into next level,the new featires in google chrome include:
*Updated User interface 


*Built in adobe flash player.
*Greater speed and Stability,Crashes are overcomed ,which are a major drawback of Previous versions.
*There is no Http://
*Auto filling of data,Better synchronisation of Extensions.
*There is a special feature called google Alarm Extension,lets you know when google's collecting your information.
You can update to latest version by going to options menu, or can download from:
http://www.google.com/chrome



To update
*click the wrench icon
*click about google chrome,update automatically starts.

Saturday, September 4, 2010

Autorun.inf-How to remove Autorun.inf

Autorun.inf is the primary instruction file associated with autorun function. Autorun.inf is a simple text configuration file that tells the operating system which executable to start. 

For ex::
[autorun]
open=notepad.exe
icon=autorun.ico


when ever the user double clicks the drive which consists this file  notepad executes. In most cases this autorun.inf is used by viruses ,malware programs to produce a undesirable outcome.
When a drive is infected with a malware and an autorun file is dropped to execute the malware when the user opens (double clicks) the infected drive. This was used to steal the information by hackers through malware programs. 


Most antivirus and anti malware would'nt  detect . We can't even delete those manually which annoys us.
So here is an autorun remover tool which help you out.
Download "autorun Eater" and get rid of all problems 


                    AUTORUN EATER

Friday, September 3, 2010

How to Boot Kaspersky USB Rescue Disk

Kaspersky  is a world famous antivirus.Kaspersky brings a new and improved antivirus software to the table this year. As with previous versions, Kaspersky Antivirus 2010 is a powerful, dependable antivirus and antispyware application.


Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2011 includes a special utility which allows creating a Rescue Disk known as "kaspersky Rescue 2 USB.
kaspersky Rescue2USB is a windows utility software that allow you build bootable antivirus USB rescue disk to USB flash drive.
It is required when a computer is so damaged that the operating system or anti-virus solution fails to launch correctly.In such cases you can use the created Rescue Disk to detect and eliminate computer infections,all you got to need a internet access to download required files and usb drive.

Follow these steps to make your own Rescue Disk On USB Flash Drive:

*Download Kaspersky Rescue Disk 10 ISO image
*Download Utility Record Kaspersky Rescue Disk 10 to USB devices .
*Insert your USB flash drive to your computer.
*Run the Kaspersky Rescue2USB file
*when  Kaspersky USB Rescue Disk Maker window appear, click Browse and select iso image of Kaspersky Rescue Disk 10.
*select your USB flash drive letter.
*Click Start and wait until the process is complete.



Now you have created usb Rescue Disk by following above steps:

Now learn how to use that USB FLASH RESCUE DISK
*Insert the usb flash Drive to computer
*you will be encountered with a window saying "press any key to continue,if you press any key a new wizard opens like the one below(if you wont press then computer restarts and you were encountered with the same below window)

*it consists of two modes Graphic Mode(Recommended ) and text mode.
*now scan the computer for viruses and remove threats
*Restart the computer.

For More information visit Kaspersky labs

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Enabling Automatic Defragmentation

In the previous post of Defragmentation i presented you a detailed view of fragmentation,advantages and how to do fragmentation.
now here is a way of enabling automatic defragmentation,it makes your work simpler and saves your time while you been working on other tasks.

From the Control Panel

    *Start > Control Panel -> Performance and Maintenance.
    *Select Scheduled Tasks and double-click on ‘Add Scheduled Task'.
    *when this opens in a new window click on the Next button and then Browse to C:\WINDOWS\system32.
    *Click defrag.exe and then the Open button. 
    *Now give it a name and set the frequency with which the defrag must run. Follow it to Finish.
    *An icon with the name you have given appears in the right pane. Right click on the icon and select Properties. 
    *In the Run text box, you can add the drive you want to defragment like this: C:\WINDOWS\system32\defrag.exe d:
    *Click the OK button and the task will be executed at the scheduled date and time.


From Registry.

we can also shedule this by registry,but you should be a bit extra careful as you are dealing with registry.
    *click Start Menu -->Run. 
    *Type "regedit" and hit Enter.
    *In the registry editor select HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.
    *Navigate to Software\ Microsoft\ Dfrg\ BootOptimizeFunction.
    *In the right pane check ‘enable' is present or else create a new one by right clicking in the right pane and select New-> String value.
    Type in Enable.
    *Now double-click on Enable to bring up a box where you can change the values(set a value).
    *Type ‘N' to disable the automatic defrag program or ‘Y' to enable the disk fragmentation to happen automatically.
    *close the wizard and restart the windows.

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Disable Windows XP login prompt for password

It annoys when you are the only one using the pc and you have to login everytime ,It promts you everytime u start the windows.
Here is a trick by which you can by pass the login prompt in windows xp ,just follow these steps and logon to computer without any halt.


*Click on Start-->Run.
*type "control userpasswords2"(without quotes) and Hit Enter.
*Uncheck the box for "Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer."
*Click Apply and then Ok.
*restart the windows.


Hope you like this trick

Monday, August 16, 2010

How to clear your sensitive information on system shutdown(CLear virtual memory)

                   CLear virtual memory


what is swapping,virutual memory
During data processing operating systems use the hard disk as memory. It is called the virtual memory. During processing, operating system transfers some amount of data from RAM to hard disk and reloads again when required. The operating system exchanges the data and programs between RAM and hard disk. The data or programs are stored in hard disk in temporary file called the swap file. The word “swap” means exchange. This technique of swapping data between memory and hard disk is called paging.Os spends some amount of time in paging process by bringing the pages to ram.
But the problem is that while working you use different software programs on computer and page file may contain your confidential information.
To reduce this risk, you can set your computer to clear out page file automatically each time you shutdown your computer.
follow steps given below to set your system clear page file automatically
              *Logged into your computer with administrative rights
              *First click on start button to open control panel
              *Click here on “Administrative Tools“ option.Go to “Local Security Settings” ,on lift side of this panel click on “Local Policies“.
             *Click on “Security Options” then double click on “Shutdown: Clear virtual memory pagefile” option.
             *Now small dialog box will appear with options, “Enabled or Disabled” the page file.
             *Select the “Enabled”  to set clear page file each time you shutdown computer.
            *Press Apply button to save settings and then click on Ok to finish
take a look of this for more info on swapping and paging 
http://www.free-computer-tips.info/computer-software/operating-system-functions-part-3.html

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Removing a trojan file without using trojan remover software

Trojan is a malware that may appear to be legitimate but infact it does malicious activities .It access the users Remote information.Unlike viruses it doenst replicate causing the system to work slow(reducing the processing power,cpu utilization) but they can make a hell of job .
There are several different types of Trojans: 
*Remote Access Trojans (RAT)
*Backdoor Trojans (backdoors)
*IRC Trojans (IRCbots)
*Keyloggers.
A trojan may modify the behaviour of the system such as uncontrolable pop ups ,adwares etc
it may steal your personal information .
so you should be need careful in dealing these trojan horses by using antivirus and spywares by regularly updating them

Here is an interesting thing to deal with these trojans,we can delete trojans without any software.
follow the below steps to remove trojan

*start the computer in safe mode(by pressing F8 at boot time)
*start -->search:
search for the trojan by typing its name ,if you find any of such thing, just delete it.

or
*goto start-->run-->regedit
Now navigarte the bleow registry options:
*HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

*HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

*HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\MSConfig\startupreg 

look for the string Trojan in the right side column,if you find trojan delete it.

-->Next turn off System Restore ,Right click on My Computer-->Properties-->System Restore-->Turn off System Restore-->apply.

*restart the computer
*by following same procedure Turn on System restore
*now your computer is free from trojans

hope you like this ,plz do comment if you want to know anything more.

Restart your machine and turn on System Restore-just the reverse way by which you turned off System Restore.

After these steps restart the computer.





NTFS Data Recovery Software

 Disk Doctors NTFS Data Recovery tool to recover data from NTFS, NTFS5 file system.It also supports recovery from dynamic drives created on windows NT/2000/XP/2003 platforms.
Disk Doctor is a easy wizard which provides an effiecent data recovery unlike the other tools undisker and data recovery tool
With this tool you can recover data from
*usb drive
*sata
*IDE/AT