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H ello people... I'm back with a new trick. I'm going to tell how to create your own "Run Commands". So if we want to open an application, we do it by double clicking the shortcut on your desktop or choose it from start menu or directly open it from the installed folder. And now we can do it using run. You can create your own run command so that you can open the application using run. How to create: We all know how to use run. Mostly people use it to open MS Paint, Notepad and Command prompt.  To open other applications you need to create a shortcut for that application and paste it in your windows or system32 folder. Just follow these steps. 1 . Create a new shortcut   Right clicking -> New -> Shortcut 2 . Choose the application path. (I'm creating for Ccleaner) 3 . Cut and paste the created shortcut to C:\Windows\ or  C:\Windows\System32 4 . Open Run , type the name of  the shortcut and hit OK . The application will ope...

The Story: Hello friends..!! For the past few days I got quite addicted to programming. I planned to write a C program for controlling computer hardware. As I feel lazy to press the button for opening DVD drive, I thought of writing a program that will open/close DVD drive on execution. I browsed the internet for references and couldn't find what I needed exactly. But later I found a program 'nircmd' that can be used control the DVD drive. Nircmd is a small command line program that doesn't use any user interface. All is done by creating shortcut to it. It is also useful for various other purposes. How to use? Download the file, copy nircmd.exe  to  ' C:\Users\<USER-NAME>\bin' for Windows 7 users  ' C:\Documents and Settings\ <USER-NAME> \bin ' for Windows XP users If there is no 'bin' folder, create one.  Then create a shortcut for opening DVD drive, Enter the path  C:\Users\<USER-NAME>\bin\nircmd.exe ...

H ello guys… It’s been a long time since the last post. Today I’m here with a cool Windows 7 trick. So if you have used Windows XP, you would know that ALT-Tab switching looks like this,

H i friends :) I'm here with another topic to discuss on. This is quiet old one and almost most people know about it... But I'm posting this for those people who don't know :) I'm going to tell how to change the color of command prompt. From the beginning command prompt will appear in Black-White color. This can be changed by using the command ' COLOR ' . Syntax: color [background color][foreground color] Background color - Screen color Foreground color - Text color The color is given by Hexadecimal values  (From 0 to F) 0 = Black 1 = Blue 2 = Green 3 = Aqua 4 = Red 5 = Purple 6 = Yellow 7 = White 8 = Gray 9 = Light Blue A = Light Green B = Light Aqua C = Light Red D = Light Purple E = Light Yellow F = Bright White By default, the color is 07 [ 0 - Black, 7 - White] For example, giving the command   " color 47 " will turn the background color to red [color for value '4'], foreground color to white [c...

P reviously, I posted about device files. We cannot create a folder named with those device file names.  But there is a way to create such folders using command prompt…  Just follow the steps: 1. Open command prompt   Start -> Run -> cmd 2.   I planned to create the folder in K: location so I’m going to enter     md \\.\k:\con   in command      This will create a folder named ‘con’ successfully.  But, you cannot delete it by normal ways like hitting the delete key or shift + delete. If the folder contains anything, deleting by shift+delete or delete key will delete all the files in the folder alone. Leaves the folder as it is.. 3. To delete the folder, open command prompt and enter     rd \\.\k:\con This command removes ‘con’ folder. I hope this was interesting and helpful.. :)  Related posts,  Why cannot we create a folder nam...

H ello friends I'm back again with some information about device files. In windows, we cannot create folders with the following names: PRN, AUX, CLOCK$, NUL, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, COM5, COM6, COM7, COM8, COM9, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, LPT4, LPT5, LPT6, LPT7, LPT8, LPT9, etc.

W elcome back friends... Previously we discussed about working of a webcam  and I will be discussing the working of a CCD now...

W elcome back friends... I'm here with another cool topic about working of a webcam. A webcam is a compact camera which can be used with computer to capture, broadcast real time videos and images. Just like every camera it has a small lens at the front through which it captures light using light-detectors known as charge-coupled device (CCD) . This CCD will convert the picture into digital format (a binary string of 0s and 1s) which is handled by the computer.

Hello friends... Previously I discussed   Empty/blank post in Facebook ,  Smileys and emoticons for Facebook   and   Symbols that you can use in Facebook ... These topics and the topic which I'm going to discuss now have a relationship.. Most of the symbols that I have used in those topics are ALT codes…

Virus Definitions What are Virus Definitions? A virus definition (also known as a virus signature) is a unique string of bits, or the binary pattern, of the machine code of a virus. The term "virus definitions" typically refers to the database of all current virus signature files used by particular antivirus software for virus detection. Virus definitions are the primary method of detection for most antivirus software programs. Each virus has a virus signature written in it. In simple, virus signatures are ID number for a virus.

Antivirus From the very first virus created as an experiment to the latest virus created one of the biggest worries for all computer users is how to prevent them from attacking our computers. Antivirus software was created to protect virus attacks it detects harmful Software's or programs  like Computer Virus, Computer Worms, Trojan Horses, Spyware, Ad-ware. Antivirus is one of the most important parts of a computer and saves us from many dangers every day.

Computer Virus What is a computer virus? A computer virus is a small software program developed the bad guys. It spreads from one computer to another leaving infection as it travels, interferes with computer operations, corrupts or deletes data on a computer and may use an e-mail program to email itself to other computers, or even delete everything on the hard disk...

These are the three basic ways to find whether your computer is hacked or not. 1. You will feel like your computer is haunted.    If you start noticing that your computer starts to act strangely, almost paranormal.    For example,  The cursor starts to move on its own Emails that you know were untouched in your inbox before suddenly vanish Passwords changed by itself Numbers and other characters appear on your screen automatically even when you did not touch your keyboard    As soon as you notice any kind of the unusual activity listed above, follow these steps: Immediately disconnect your wireless or unplug your Ethernet cable so that the hacker cannot access your computer anymore.  Scan your computer with your antivirus software to remove any cookies or installed malicious software that the hacker administered to your computer. 2. Your internet connection becomes very slow.   Hackers have to operate...

Windows Keyboard Shortcuts Getting used to using your keyboard exclusively and leaving your mouse behind will make you much more efficient at performing any task on any Windows system. I use the following keyboard shortcuts every day:

Beep codes error details Standard Original IBM POST Error Codes 1 short beep System is OK 2 short beeps POST Error – error code shown on screen No beep Power supply or system board problem Continuous beep Power supply, system board, or keyboard problem Repeating short beeps Power supply or system board problem 1 long, 1 short beep System board problem 1 long, 2 short beeps Display adapter problem (MDA, CGA) 1 long, 3 short beeps Display adapter problem (EGA) 3 long beeps 3270 keyboard card

Do calculations with Command Prompt The command processor 'cmd.exe' comes with a mini-calculator that can perform simple arithmetic on 32-bit signed integers:

Enable or disable USB port or device USB Devices are portable enough to carry the data from one computer to another , It is always risky to enable USB ports of computers in large organizations , data center and cyber cafes since it can be the gateway for virus and malwares. 

Move To Folder for all Files and Folders from right click This setting allows you to assign any file on your computer a new right-click menu (context menu) entry. This entry is named “ Move To Folder… ” which is copy current selected files to any folder directly from Right click menu..

Copy To Folder for all Files and Folders  from right click This setting allows you to create a new right-click menu (context menu) entry called “ Copy To Folder” which is copy current selected file/files to any folder directly from Right click menu..

How to assign your desired folder on Right click -> Send to? Whenever you attach a removable disk and want to copy files to it, you have option either 1.        You select the required files and do a CTRL+C, open the removable disk and do a CTRL+V (Or) 2.        You select the required files right click on it and choose “ Send To ” option. There you find the name of removable disk and you simply send the items to it.  How will it be if we can find our own desired folder in which we keep most of our files in “ Send To ” option?