PC TIPS


Top Ten Tips To Improve System Speed


The below top ten tips are recommended for any system. It doesn’t matter if you have 256mb RAM or 2 GB RAM. Check the below tips to remove the memory junk and speedup windows os.
Top 1o tips to improve computer speed
1. Let your PC boot up completely before opening any applications.

2. Refresh the desktop after closing any application. This will remove any unused files from the RAM.
3. Do not set very large file size images as your wallpaper. Do not keep a wallpaper at all if your PC is low on RAM (less than 64 MB).
4. Do not clutter your Desktop with a lot of shortcuts. Each shortcut on the desktop uses up to 500 bytes of RAM
5. Empty the recycle bin regularly. The files are not really deleted from your hard drive until you empty the recycle bin.
6. Delete the temporary internet files regularly.
7. Defragment your hard drive once every two months. This will free up a lot of space on your hard drive and rearrange the files so that your applications run faster.
8. Always make two partitions in your hard drive. Install all large Softwares (like PSP, Photoshop, 3DS Max etc) in the second partition. Windows uses all the available empty space in C drive as virtual memory when your Computer RAM is full. Keep the C Drive as empty as possible.
9. When installing new Softwares disable the option of having a tray icon. The tray icons use up available RAM, and also slow down the booting of your PC. Also disable the option of starting the application automatically when the PC boots. You can disable these options later on also from the Tools or preferences menu in your application.
10. Protect your PC from dust. Dust causes the CPU cooling fan to jam and slow down thereby gradually heating your CPU and affecting the processing speed. Use compressed air to blow out any dust from the CPU. Never use vacuum.
RAM IS THE WORKING AREA (DESKTOP) OF THE CPU, KEEP IT AS EMPTY AND UNCLUTTERED AS POSSIBLE!




Shutdown Computer With Command Prompt or shortcut for shutdown



Tips to shutdown your computer automatically after specific time
Here is a trick to shutdown your computer  at a specific time. You might be thinking what great about it, well you can shutdown your computer without the use of any software. Just shutdown your computer at specific time from RUN Command. For example if you wish to shutdown at 09:45 am. Type this in

Start=>Run
Type Code:        at 11:35 shutdown -s
To cancel or Abort the shutdown:
Type Code:                   shutdown -a
Type  Code:  “shutdown –s –m\\computername –t60”. This command will shutdown the computer on network if you have administrative access.  Here computername needs to be replaced by the exact computer name of the computer on the network to work.
Auto shutdown computer using run command
Alternative method to create a shutdown timer or simply computer shutdown shortcut
Step 1: Right click on your desktop and choose “New=>shortcuts”.
Step 2: In the box that says “Type the location of the shortcut”,
type in “shutdown -s -t 3600” without the quotation marks and click next.
Note: 3600 are the amount of seconds before your computer shuts down. So , this means 3600 seconds = 60 mints (1 hour). You can change the value in the above code. You can even create multiple shutdown shortcuts. For example a computer shutdown shortcut for 30 minutes, 1 hour, 2 hours, 5 hours etc.,
Step 3: Make up a name for the shortcut and you’re done.
Optional Step 4 : You can change the icon by right clicking=>properities=>change icon=>browse
To abort or cancel the shutdown:
To make an abort key to stop the shutdown timer just create another shortcut and make
the “location of the shortcut” to ” shutdown -a” without the quotes


Recover Windows XP Administrator Password


Have you forgotten Windows xp Administrator login password or do you want to hack or change the Administrator password of the windows system at your School, College or office, then this Trick is just for you.
Follow the steps below
1.  Restart your computer

2.  Press F8 key continuously until you get a black screen where you have many options to start you operating system
3.  From the options  “Select the Safe mode with Command Prompt”
4.  When your computer starts in DOS mode, type the following commands
net user
This command displays the list of users on this OS in ROWS
5. Now type the following commands to reset the windows Administrator password
net user username password
Note: Enter your username above and space then password.
Then it asks the new password without the last password.
Now type your new password ******
Again retype your new password********
Note: When you type the password, it will not be displayed


Turn On or Off Monitor using keyboard


If you are using a Desktop computer then it’s easy to turn On or Off your monitor screen. But still if you are lazy enough to stretch your hand to the monitor screen you can use one cool small app to make your life easier.
PushMoitorOff is a tiny app which allows you to control your monitor screen from your keyboard. This tool comes handy for laptop users too. As most of the laptops don’t have the different On/Off button for the screen. So those who believe in saving energy can use this tool when needed.
The app is very easy to use. Whenever you feel like turning on/off your monitor you just have to press Shift+f1. You can change this shortcut key also using the options provided in the software.




Delete Autorun.inf Virus Manually using just Winrar




Once it happened to a friend of mine, when his newly bought laptop was infected with this autorun.inf virus. This virus corrupted almost all the  drives on the Hard disk, and when ever he tried to double click on the drive or opening  any drive it opened in a new window. In some cases, when your drive is infected with this Autorun.inf virus, you won’t be able to access the drive completely. You have to browse the drive by Exploring it i.e; Ctrl+E keys from the keyboard.
Remove autorun.inf virus from windows

Sometimes ever you will not be able to see hidden files even if you have Show hidden files Enabled under Folder Options. well, this are all the wonders of this Autorun.inf virus.
I am going to show you this rare method of removing Autorun.inf manually using just winrar application, not any antivirus or malware programs.
Solution to Remove Autorun.inf Virus
Step 1: First Disable CD/DVD or USB Autorun in windows
Step 2: Open Winrar.exe  (Start–>All Programs–>WinRar–>WinRar.exe)
Step 3: Now Browse to any drive that is infected with Autorun.inf virus using winrar explorer.
Step4: Here you will see all the hidden files under winrar for that particular drive.
Step 5: Look for the file Autorun.inf and open it using notepad.
Step 6: In that Autorun file, some .EXE file will be mentioned that will be executed along with the autorun file. This exe file is the main culprit.
Delete Autorun.exe virus file
Step 7: Note the exe file mentioned in the Autorun.inf file. Close this Autorun.inf file.
Step 8: Now look for that .Exe file in the drive (Ex: c:/), Delete that .exe file along with Autorun.inf
Step 9: Restart your Operating System. Now your system is free with Autorun.inf Virus.
Note: Repeat the same process if your Usb or Pendrives are infected with Autorun.inf virus.
If you know anyother method to remove autorun virus from windows operating system, them kindly let me know by posting your method using the Comments on this post.





Notepad Trick to Open notepad continuously


This simple computer prank consists of a code below that will drive your friend crazy as it opens notepad continuously.
Open multiple=When you type the below code and rename it as *.bat it take the above showed icon shape.
To Open Notepad continuously in your friend’s computer:

Type the code in notepad as :

@ECHO off
:top
START %SystemRoot%\system32\notepad.exe
GOTO top

Save it as “notepad.BAT” and send it.
Note: If you want to try it, then go ahead and when you built this file double click to open it. But beware it slows your system and you will be left with no other option than to restart, as this script opens 100’s of notepad window. So, If you want to try this than save all your work and then run this file.


Freeup or clean RAM using Notepad






RAM – Random Access Memory is one of the main component of computer that is responsible for the process of the operating system. Since all the Operating systems support Multiprocessing, hence require a good RAM speed.
Since all the current running processes are stored onto the RAM, it slows the system speed. Sometimes the process which have executed but are not required by the OS are stored on the RAM. So, we can remove or freeup the RAM with unused junk data to Speedup the System or processing speed.
We can clean the RAM just by using a Notepad application. This donot require any advanced software. The process to do so is as follows.

Open Notepad

Type
FreeMem=Space(64000000)
save it as “CleanRAM.vbs” on desktop
Note: Type the name of file along with inverted commas
Run the file and your RAM may be free.
Of course you can edit the code in the file for a greater “cleaning-progress”.
For example:
FreeMem=Space(1280000000)
FreeMem=Space(2560000000)
FreeMem=Space(5120000000)
FreeMem=Space(10240000000)





Handy and best computer tip to join Video Files using Command Prompt – Hack





Join videos using just windows command prompt
Yes, that’s right. In this post I am going to show you a simple tip to join video of various formats like Mpeg, dat, mpg.. If you have questions like

1. How to join various video files into one?
2. Join two video files?
3. How to Join videos taken from mobile phone?
Then, the best method to follow is shown below. You can join your video files using just the windows Command Prompt. No need of any video joining software’s.

Step 1: For example if you have 3 videos in your hardrive root drive: video1.mpg, video2.mpg and video3.mpg just rename them to a, b, and c (just the letter withoug the file extension).
Example:
ren video1.mpg a
ren video2.mpg b
ren video3.mpg c
Step 2: Open Command Prompt.  Start–>Run–>type “cmd”.
Step 3: Type the location of the drive like d: or C:
Step 4: Type: Copy /b a + b + c videoname.mpg
and click enter

Step 5:
Now wait till you see: 1 files<s> copied.
Join video files using command prompt
And type exit and press enter. Thats it.You are done!
Note: If you want to join two files then those files must have the same extension.
Alternative Method to Join multiple video files using freeware software:
What is Easy Video Joiner?
Join video using freeware video joiner software

Easy Video Joiner can help you join multiple AVI, MPEG (MPG), RM (Real Media) or WMV/ASF (Window Media) files into one large movie file. You can add an unlimited number of video files as you like to the list and easily rearrange their order if needed. With just a few mouse clicks, you can enjoy your movie clips without interruption.
Key Features
1. Can join AVI files(*.avi, *.wav), MPEG-4 and DivX are supported;
2. Can join MPEG files(*.mpeg, *.mpg, *.m2p, *.m1v, *.m2v, *.mp3, *.mpga), MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 are supported;
3. Can join Real Media files(*.rm, *.ram);
4. Can join Windows Media files(*.wmv, *.asf, *.wma);
5. Not only join video files, but also join most audio files with popular format(*.mp3, *.mpga, *.rm, *.wma, *.wav);
6. Very easy to use and very fast to work.
download link
You can even use HJSplit software to join video files or any other files like mp3 too.
Description of HJSplit




HJSplit is a popular set of freeware file-splitting programs created by Freebyte.com in collaboration with various programmers. HJSplit supports many platforms. All versions are compatible with each other and allow you to exchange files between these different platforms. E.g. a file split on the Amiga can be joined on Windows 2000 and vice versa.





For Safe Computing Disable CD/DVD or USB Autorun in window


When ever you plug a usb device to the system or insert a cd/dvd disk, The windows Autorun Run utility runs and displays certain options like Open files to view, Play, Do nothing etc.Disable Cd Usb autorun in windows xp for security purpose Although this a good utility provided by windows xp operating system, It is sometimes very dangerous too. When A virus infected Usb drive or Cd is plugged into the system, the virus gets a chance to attack you Operating system, by running automatically when you plug your device in. So, for this safety purpose, we need to Disable this Autorun feature in windows XP.
Follow the below steps and ensure your systems safety.

1) Click Start –> Run and type  GPEDIT.MSC  –  This opens Group Policy editor window.
2) On the left side –> expand  Computer Configuration–> Administrative Templates–> System.
3)  Locate the entry for Turn autoplay off on the right side.
4) Double click it and select “Enabled”
For any further assistance to Disable Cd Autorun view the sample screen shot below.
Disable turnoff windows cd Autorun




Windows registry tweaks to provide restrictions or Enable/disable


Editing windows Registry entries can sometimes boost your computer performance. Mostly the registry is edited inorder to restrict or enable some features in windows operating system.
windows Registry Editor editing for security
Before editing your windows registry hives, its always recommended to first create a backup of your windows registry.

Visit http://support.microsoft.com/kb/322756/en-us to learn on how to backup windows registry in windows xp, vista or windows 7 Operating System.
Now, lets get started with some registry tweaks in windows for providing some restrictions or disabling certain features in windows OS.
Restrict Folder Options using Registry Editor:
Enable or Disable Folder Options in windows using Registry editor
1.  Start–>Run–>regedit
2.  Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows/Curre ntVersion/Policies/Explorer
3.  At right side double click on NoFolderOptions and set its value to 1. This is known as DWORD value.
Thats it, you have now successfully disabled folder options in windows under Tools–>Folder Options.
Note: If due to some virus your folder option gets disabled, you can try the above steps to restore or enable  folder options. You only need to set the NoFolderOptions value as 0 in this case.
Restrict Taskbar Properties:
1.  Start–>Run–>regedit
2. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows/Curre ntVersion/Policies/Explorer
3.  At right side, Right Click–>New–>DWORD value. Name it “NoSetTaskbar” and set its value to 1.
Restrict Registry Editing Tools in windows:
Using this tweak you can enable or disable your windows registry Editing tool. All you need to do is some changes in the windows registry below
1.  Start–>Run–>regedit
2.  Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows/Curre ntVersion/Policies/System
3. At right side, Double Click on DisableRegistryTools and set its Value Data as 1.
In the similar way you can even enable registry editing tools if its disabled by some virus program.
Disable or Restrict Task Manager in Windows OS:
Enable or Disable task manager in windows using Registry editor
For your system security you can disable or Restrict other users from accessing Task Manger in windows. Follow the steps below to restrict task manager.
1.  Start–>Run–>regedit
2.  Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows/Curre ntVersion/Policies/System
3.    At right side, Double Click on DisableTaskMgr and set its Value Data as 1.
In the similar way you can even enable registry editing tools if its disabled by some virus program.
If you know any such trick or registry tweak to provide restrictions using Registry editor please use the comments box below to add to this list.



Block a website address from opening in windows



This trick will be helpful for those who want to block access to particular websites on their system.  Parents can block certain websites from their younger ones. It can also be used in schools and colleges etc….
Trick to block a website in windowsWell this trick is very simple and it goes this way.
1. Open MyComputer

2. Browse C:   (or your Operating system drive)
3. Browse Windows –>System32–>drivers–>etc
so the Location will be C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc
In the etc folder look for the file hosts
4. Open this file hosts with notepad.
5.  Locate the line 127.0.0.1 localhost
6. To block www.google.com for example, just add this text under
127.0.0.1  localhost:
127.0.0.1 www.google.com
127.0.0.1 www.yahoo.com
7. Save the file.
In this way add any number of sites you want,  however you will need to prefix it with “127.0.0.1″.
Note:  This blocks the website from opening in any browser whether it is Mozilla Firefox or Internet Explorer





How To Speed Up Your Internet

If you are looking to increase your internet speed without any expensive software then you came to right place. I will tell you how to increase your internet speed up to 50%-60 % with few clicks. I have applied this trick to my GPRS dial-up connection and my internet connection speed increased to almost double.

Here is a guide for getting more out of your internet connection without switching:

1. First you need to open "Start" then "Run", check the picture below:


2. Now in "Run" write gpedit.msc

3. Next navigate to "Administrative Templates" -> "Network" -> "QoS Packet Scheduler"

4. In "QoS Packet Scheduler" click on "Limit reservable bandwitdh", and select Properties


5. Now click on "Properties" then make it "Enabled" and set "Bandwidth limit: 0". Click OK and you are done.


Now you should have faster internet already. Hope this tutorial was useful for you. 

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