Showing posts with label hidden tricks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hidden tricks. Show all posts

Saturday, August 21, 2010

Speed up your computer by cleaning RAM using notepad

If your computer become slow, when you are working with many programs. It may be due to RAM because at that time RAM is full of remaining progress pieces which you are working with and you do not need them any more. So, if you can erase or delete those unnecessary pieces of information, your computer RAM will be cleaned and your computer will be speed up.



Cleaning RAM is very easy task here are steps for it, just follow them:

1). Open notepad.

2). Type FreeMem=Space(64000000).

3). Save file with name "CleanRAM.vbs".

4). 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 instead of what given in step 2.

FreeMem= (256000000) for 256 mb
FreeMem= (128000000) for 128 mb
FreeMem= (72000000) for 72 mb
FreeMem= (64000000) for 64 mb
FreeMem= (32000000) for 32 mb
FreeMem= (24000000) for 24 mb

Make sure that you don't select the memory that is larger than your memory capacity.

Saturday, August 14, 2010

Add Run command to start menu in Vista

Window vista does not have run command in start menu. Run command is great feature of window xp. So those who upgrade from window xp to window vista may miss run command.
Here are steps to include run command in window vista's Start menu.



Follow given steps to add run command to start menu:

1). Right click on taskbar and go to properties.

2). Click on start menu tab.

3). In start menu properties, click on customize button.



4). Scroll down to run command and click on check box of run command.



5). Click ok.

Its done.
Check start menu, It should include run command as shown in figure.



Hide recently opened files and programs from Start Menu



Windows save list of recently opened files and show them in start menu. Its very convinient to find files. But if you wanna some privacy, if you don;t want others to see which files and programs you opened than you can hide recent files.



To remove recent items from start menu just follow these steps:

1). Right click on taskbar and click on Properties.

2). Click on start menu tab.

3). Uncheck the check boxes under privacy.



4). Click ok.

Its done.
Click on start menu and check recent items and recent programs, they must not be in start menu. Start menu will look like this figure.




Friday, August 6, 2010

Trick to track Email Id at Orkut -Cool Trick

Orkut has privacy settings, by using them you can hide your email ids from unknown persons.
Here are trick to get email id of a person who are not your friend and his/her email id is not visible on Orkut. Just follow these steps:

1). Go to any members profile whose email id you want to find and who is not your friend.

2). On his/her profile, select ignore user option which is on left side below picture.

3). Now log into chart Messenger (Google Talk or yahoo messenger).

4). Go to Settings and then Blocked.
It will display the list of all blocked or ignored person, so it will also include id of that person.

Its done..

Multiple Gmail Id for 1 account - Cool Computer trick





Wanna have multiple gmail id?? One way to get multiple ids is to create multiple account, But if you dont want to create multiple account as for this you have to login in each account seperately to view all mails.

Here is trick which gives you multiple id but only 1 account.



You can have multiple email address of your existing gmail account just add + symbol after your user name then add anything followed by @gmail.com.

Suppose xyz@gmail.com is a gmail id, now if anyone send mail to xyz+123@gmail.com or to xyz+pqr@gmail.com or any email address having username (in this case username is xyz) followed by + symbol then any word and then gmail.com.



When someone send email at this address it first goes to gmail server where it recognize it as xyz@gmail.com and avoids “+” sign and anything after it. So it sends all mails to xyz.gmail.com







Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Simple tips to select Text quickly in MS word

Below are some tips to slect text quicky in MS Word, this is really very useful and very handy. This is a great feature of microsoft word and most of the users are unknown of this selecting style. Here are instructions to selct text:



Select a word:
Double click on any part of the word.

Select a line:
Click the left margin next to the line.

Select a sentence:
Hold down the CTRL key, then click anywhere in the sentence.

Select a paragraph:
Triple click any word within the paragraph.

Select the whole document:
Triple click in the left margin, or hold down the CTRL key, then click anywhere in the left margin. Yet another method you can use is to hold down the CTRL key, then press the letter A.

Make a vertical text selection:
Hold down the ALT key, then drag the mouse up.

Thursday, July 29, 2010

Hide Hard drive's partition by using command Prompt - without any software

Do you have some confidential data and dont wanna share that data with your friends and other persons. so now you can hide any of partition of your hard drive, just store all your confidential and private data in that hard disk partition and hide that partition. Here is a very cool and simple trick , for this you need not to install any software. this can be done just by using command prompt.

Follow given steps to hide partitions without using any software.

1). Go to Start and type Run.

2). Type Diskpart in run and press Enter.
window will askes for our permission to continur. click on continue.
3). In the console type List volume to see all the drives available on your PC/Computer ad their volume.

4). Now select the drive which you want to hide.
Suppose you want ot delete D drive. '
It is volume 1 for drive D. you can found volume from command prompt itself as it list volume with each disk partition as shown in figure.


5). Now to hide D drive type Select volume 1 .



6). Type remove letter d , this will hide your drive.
Its done.

Now d drive is hidden.

Now to get your drive back type Select volume 1 and then type assign letter d.

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

View streets through Google Street View

Now you can view streets of US without going US, you can visit there while sitting in front of your computer.

This is possible now with the help of Google Street View, a new service by google by which you can view the streets of some areas. Till now this service is only available to few countries like us and not for India, most likely Google will soon add this feature for other countries. This feature is a very innovative but on the other hand, it could be also used for bad reasons.

Here are some instructions to use Stret View

Zoom To zoom closer into the earth press the + button in the navigation bar on the left of the screen. You can also zoom closer by double left clicking your mouse, or moving the scroll wheel forward.

Tilting Using your keyboard, simultaneously hold down the Shift key and the Up arrow to tilt down or the Down arrow to tilt up. To tilt, you can also select Shift and use the scroll wheel on your mouse. You will be able to see 3D buildings, structures and terrain as shown below.

Search, Customize and Send Your View Enter any place in the Search bar, and you will fly to your point of interest. Use the navigation controls to customize your view, zooming and tilting to experience your place in 3D.


Go to Google Maps, to view streets as this feature is merged with Google Maps and enjoy!!!




Rename several Files in sequence at once - Useful Trick

When we transfer photos from digital camera or from mobiles, they often have unrecognizable names. Renaming all files one by one is very annoying task also it can take forever if you have really large number of files. So here i am providing you an easy method to rename all image files at once. This works for renaming all types of files.

Just follow given steps:

1. Open the folder which contains files you want to rename.

2. Select the files you want to rename.

3. Now right click on any one of selected file and click on Rename.




4.Type the new name, and then press ENTER.


Its done.

All of the files in the series will be named in sequence using the new name you type.

For example, in this case I rename 1 file as Disney, so the first file is disney and others are disney (1), disney (2), and so on.

Monday, July 26, 2010

Additional clocks in taskbar using windows vista - Cool Vista Trick

A useful feature in Windows Vista, especially for those users who wants to communicate regularly with people in different time zones. If you want to communicate with your co-workers or your family members in different time zones or you are traveling between different time zones then this tip is very useful for you.



You can add clock of two different time zones in windows vista tasks bar. You can set three clocks (one default clock) in the tasks bar and each clock will show you time of different zones.

To edit this feature, you will need to be logged into your computer with administrative rights.To enable this feature, perform the steps listed below:

1). First right click on the clock in taskbar then click on Adjust Date/Time option.
2). A window dialog box will appear with the title Date and Time Properties, select the Additional Clocks tab.
3). Now check the box Show this clock for additional clock and using drop down menu, select your required time zone then enter display name.


4). Press Apply button to save these settings and then Ok button to finish .


Here you can view the time of three different zones when mousing over the clock in the taskbar.
If you want to see it in enlarge view, double click on clock area.

Enable or Disable Control Panel

If your friends, childrens or family members use your computer and you do not want them to change any system setting then best way for this is to disable Control Panel. To disable control panel you have to do some changes in Regisstry. Just follow these steps:



1). Go to Run and type regedit.

2). Now window will ask for your permission to continue Click on Continue

3). Now in registry editor window, Browse to given User Key: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer]

4). Here create a new DWORD value, or modify the existing value called NoControlPanel set the value to equal 1 to enable the restriction.


5). Now again browse to following System Key: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]

6). Follow step no 4 to create NoControlPanel dword key.

7). Exit registry editor.

Its done.

you may need to restart for the changes to take effect. This setting allows you to restrict user access to the Control Panel options and settings.

Sunday, July 25, 2010

Lock your PC with USB Drive - Cool Computer Tricks


Here is a cool trick to lock your PC with USB drive. It can be done with the help of a free program called USB PC Lock Pro. It works on Windows only and needs to be installed on the computer and not on the USB flash drive.


USB PC Lock Pro Turns any USB Flash Drive into a key that prevents unauthorized people from using your computer. USB pc Lock will automatically lock your computer and perform other actions when you step away from it.

It Stops streaming media traffic, Mute audio and Start/Stop event logger.

This program is freely available on internet. You can download it from anywhere and have to installed it on your computer.

Click Here To download USB PC Lock Pro

Friday, July 16, 2010

Window vista hidden Animation


Do you know that window vista has hidden animation? Most people do not about this, if u dont know then just follow these steps to see that animation.



1). Goto the Vista Start menu search box.


2). Type: winsat aurora.


3). Press Enter.


4). Now window will ask your permission to continue, so click on continue.


After this a cmd window will appear and after 2-3 seconds you can see animation.


To exit, simply hit the Esc key.

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Change Google logo text


You can Change google logo text and can place your name in place of google. You can also set that page as home page of your browser, so that whenever you open browser it opens a google's search engines webpage withyour name.
Here are steps:

1). There are lots of websites which provides you to change Google logo text. One of them is http://www.blingmysearch.com/ .
2). Open above link, copy and paste above address in adress bar of browser or click here.
3). Here enter your name or any text which you want to set in place of google.

4). Select style of text by selecting one of the give designs
5). Click on create.
6). Set this webpage as your home page.

You can also select theme for your homepage by using this site.


Monday, March 22, 2010

Show OR Hide profile visits in Orkut - Cool Computer Tricks


Do you want to visit profile of other users anonymously, dont want to show yourself in their recent visitors?? If yes then this trick is for you. Now you can prevent other users from knowing you have looked at their profile. Bur choosing this setting will prevent you from seeing who has viewed your own profile, You cant see your own profile's recent visitors.
To show or hide profile visits, just follow these steps:

1). Click settings on the top right corner of your profile.
2). Click the privacy tab.
3). Choose to show profile visits or hide profile visits.

4). Click save changes.

The option show profile visits will allow you to see recent visitors to your profile, but will also allow other members to see that you've looked at their profile.

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Invert window screen - Cool keyboard trick


Here is cool trick to rotate your computer screen. you can rotate it by 90 or 180 or 360 angle. You can invert your window screen an d can impress your friends, This is one of the scariest tricks which turns Windows upside down. Here are steps:



Press Ctrl, Alt and then any of the four arrow keys .
Down arrow key rotate by 180 degree, invert screen.
Left arrow key rotate by 90 degree.
Right arrow key rotate by 270 degree
Up arrow key make it normal again.


Thursday, March 11, 2010

Make folder or file without a name - Cool Computer Tricks

Do you know how to make a folder without a name? is it possible? Yes it is possible you can make a folder or a file without any name. Just try this

1). Click the folder or file which you want to have no name.
2). Right click on it and then click rename and delete the old name.
3). Press ALT button from your keyboard and type 0160(holding alt) after that press enter. Note that while you will type 0160 it will not appear, but continue typing and press enter.. thats it.

Its Done.

Make sure that you are using the number pad, using just the row of numbers above the qwerty doesn’t work. For a laptop, if you dnt have number pad then check and see if there’s a pseudo-numpad that uses the fn key. then you can just hold down the fn and alt at the same time while typing in 0160.

For deleting this folder you have to rename it by using command prompt. rememver dont use space use alt+0160 as current file name.

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Protect MSOffice document with Password

You can protect your document by applying password so that unauthorized person can not display as well as modify your document.
Here are the steps:

1). Open any Office Documents.
2). Click File and Select Save As.
3). Now click Tools in that dialouge box.


4). Here click on General Option.
5). Now give the passwords to open and to modify.



6). click OK.
7). After that re-enter those passwords to confirm them.
8). Click Save button of Save As dialog box.Its done.

Now your document is password protected, noone can read or modify it without that password. You can use this trick to maintain and to protect your personal dairy from others..

Saturday, February 20, 2010

Google Hidden Emoticons - Express ur emotions while chating

Here is list of some cool google Emoticons(Smileys), so guys use them to express your emotions while chatting, some of them are really amazing..


Emoticons TYPE


cowbell +/'\
Crab V.v.V
Devil }:-)
Equal sad =(
Equal slant =/
wince >.<
Pig :(:)
Heart <3
Kiss :*
Mustache :{
Monkey :(|)
Rock out \m/
Shocked :-o
Grin :D
Angry x-(
Cool B-)
Wink ;)
Straight face :-|
Nose wink ;-)
Slant :-/




But keeep in mind that these emoticons works only for googl talk gadgets, Gmail integration chat application and in google talk edition.