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Create One-Click Shutdown and Reboot Shortcuts

First, create a shortcut on your desktop by right-clicking on the desktop, choosing New, and then choosing Shortcut. The Create Shortcut Wizard appears. In the box asking for the location of the shortcut, type shutdown. After you create the shortcut, double-clicking on it will shut down your PC. But you can do much more with a shutdown shortcut than merely shut down your PC. You can add any combination of several switches to do extra duty, like this: shutdown -r -t 01 -c "Rebooting your PC" Double-clicking on that shortcut will reboot your PC after a one-second delay and display the message "Rebooting your PC." The shutdown command includes a variety of switches you can use to customize it. Table 1-3 lists all of them and describes their use. I use this technique to create two shutdown shortcuts on my desktop—one for turning off my PC, and one for rebooting. Here are the ones I use: shutdown -s -t 03 -c "Bye Bye m8!" shutdown -r -t 03 -c "...

Lots Of Windows Xp Tips, Take A Look - Flash Back

Lock XP Workstation (#1) You can lock your XP workstation with two clicks of the mouse. Create a new shortcut on your desktop using a right mouse click, and enter 'rundll32.exe user32.dll, LockWorkStation' in the location field. Give the shortcut a name you like. That's it -- just double click on it and your computer will be locked. And if that's not easy enough, Windows key + L will do the same. Remove Windows XP system software (#2) XP hides some system software you might want to remove, such as Windows Messenger, but you can tickle it and make it disgorge everything. Using Notepad or Edit, edit the text file /windows/inf/sysoc.inf, search for the word 'hide' and remove it. You can then go to the Add or Remove Programs in the Control Panel, select Add/Remove Windows Components and there will be your prey, exposed and vulnerable. New commands (#3) For those skilled in the art of DOS batch files, XP has a number of interesting new commands. These...

How to Rename File Extensions

A lot of people here may ask how to rename a file extension in windows; well it’s very simple and takes little of your time. There are two ways to rename a file extension ‘without’ a stupid program. Number 1, Folder Options: Go into your Control Panel, in my case I use Windows XP so I would press [Start then Control Panel]. Now that you figured out how to get in Control Panel open “Folder Options” and click the view tab and make sure ‘Hide file extensions for know files’ is not selected, then press Ok. Now go into a folder and notice you can see your files extensions, rename them to whatever you'd like, for instance: Code: Dildos.exe to Dildos.Anonymous / Etc,Etc,Etc Number 2, MS-DOS: The difference between renaming files in DOS is that you can rename multiple files rather then one at a time, therefore making time gracious. Here I’ll provide you a few examples. Go to your start menu and open run, then type “cmd” without parenthesis. Ok you’re in MS-DOS right? Gees...

Automatic Windows Installation, No keypress required

Have you ever wanted a Windows CD that would install Windows by automatically putting in your name, product key, timezone and regional settings? And have it merged with the latest Service Pack to save time? Followed by silently installing all your favorite applications along with DirectX 9.0c, .Net Framework 1.1 and then all the required hotfixes, updated drivers, tweaks, and a readily patched UXTheme without any user interaction whatsoever? Then this guide will show you how you can do just that!  Through the course of this guide, you will create a CD that does all the installing for you. The CD will be fully updated with the latest hotfixes, and install all your programs for you. This guide has been broken up into three parts:  Beginner ,  Intermediate ,  Advanced . It has been done so, to help you understand what you\'re doing and not to get over your head too fast. There are pages upon pages of information on this subject, and this guide only covers the tip of th...

10 Fast and Free Security Enhancements PC & Laptops

Before you spend a dime on security, there are many precautions you can take that will protect you against the most common threats. 1. Check Windows Update and Office Update regularly (_http://office.microsoft.com/productupdates); have your Office CD ready. Windows Me, 2000, and XP users can configure automatic updates. Click on the Automatic Updates tab in the System control panel and choose the appropriate options. 2. Install a personal firewall. Both SyGate (_www.sygate.com) and ZoneAlarm (_www.zonelabs.com) offer free versions. 3. Install a free spyware blocker. Our Editors' Choice ("Spyware," April 22) was SpyBot Search & Destroy (_http://security.kolla.de). SpyBot is also paranoid and ruthless in hunting out tracking cookies. 4. Block pop-up spam messages in Windows 8, 7,vista, NT, 2000, or XP by disabling the Windows Messenger service (this is unrelated to the instant messaging program). Open Control Panel | Administrative Tools | Services and you...

10 reasons why PCs Hanging and Stopped temporary

Fatal error: the system has become unstable or is busy," it says. "Enter to return to Windows or press Control-Alt-Delete to restart your computer. If you do this you will lose any unsaved information in all open applications." You have just been struck by the Blue Screen of Death. Anyone who uses Mcft Windows will be familiar with this. What can you do? More importantly, how can you prevent it happening? 1 Hardware conflict The number one reason why Windows crashes is hardware conflict. Each hardware device communicates to other devices through an interrupt request channel (IRQ). These are supposed to be unique for each device. For example, a printer usually connects internally on IRQ 7. The keyboard usually uses IRQ 1 and the floppy disk drive IRQ 6. Each device will try to hog a single IRQ for itself. If there are a lot of devices, or if they are not installed properly, two of them may end up sharing the same IRQ number. When the user tries to use...

Eight People Can Use The Same Msn Dial Up Account

Its easy really. want to have an entire family on dial-up with just one bill? step one. purchase 20 dollar a month subscription to MSN unlimited access dial up. This will include an MSN 9 cd which you will need. With the software installed, fill up your secondary account slots with new users. Make sure you pick @msn if it gives you the choice, hotmail email addresses will not work.. say the secondary account is johnsmith@msn.com type in the Dial up connection USER : MSN/johnsmith PASS: ******* (whatever) connect to your local msn phone number and the other people you gave secondary accounts to will be able to do the same, while you are connected. Its a sweet deal considering everyone is paying about 2 bucks a month for internet access, especially if you cannot get broadband. if you wanted to sell off the access to people you could actually make money doing this.. but i do not suggest it. I used to be an msn tech and this was a little known secret even to most of the em...

Php Navigation Basic codes for Websites

Here, friends, I am sharing some most prevailing common codes used in php webpages navigation for calling /loading/including paths/query strings. <?php if($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'] == "SoD")  print "owns you!"; else  print "don't front!"; ?> Description: Instead of calling files like ( index.php?str=blah ) , you could do ( index.php?SoD ) and it would print out "owns you!". You can add more strings in there, this is just an example.    $vars = explode(",", urldecode(getenv('QUERY_STRING')));    $v1 = array_shift($vars);    $v2 = array_shift($vars);    $v3 = array_shift($vars);    switch ($v1) {        case 'first.1': {            print("This is v1, first string case 'file.php?first.1'.");            break;            }       case 'first.2': {       swit...

How to rip Dynamic Flash Template

What you need: Sample dynamic flash template from TM website Sothink SWF Decompiler Macromedia Flash Yourself 1. browse or search your favorite dynamic flash template in TM website. If you got one... click the "view" link and new window will open with dynamic flash.. loading... 2. If the movie fully loaded, click View -> Source in your browser to bring the source code of the current page and in the source code, search for "IFRAME" and you will see the iframe page. In this example were going to try the 7045 dynamic template. get the URL(ex. http://images.templatemonster.com/screenshots/7000/7045.html) then paste it to your browser... easy eh? wait! dont be to excited... erase the .html and change it to swf then press enter then you'll see the flash movie again icon_smile.gif. 3. copy the URL and download that SWF file.. use your favorite download manager.. mine I used flashget icon_smile.gif NOTE: dont close the browser we may need that ...

You need 35 quadrillion in this currency to buy $1

Zimbabwe's quadrillionaires are about to disappear. The southern African country is finally mopping up what remains of its worthless currency by offering to swap bank deposits or cash for as little as one U.S. dollar per 35 quadrillion Zimbabwean dollars. Here is what that looks like in digits:  $1 = Z$35,000,000,000,000,000 Zimbabwe abandoned its money in 2009 after hyperinflation destroyed its value. Most transactions since have been conducted in U.S. dollars or South African rand.

The Top 500 Worst Passwords of All Time

The Top 500 Worst Passwords of All Time Perfect Passwords: Selection, Protection, Authentication Top 1-100 Top 101–200 Top 201–300 Top 301–400 Top 401–500 123456 porsche firebird prince rosebud password guitar butter beach jaguar 12345678 chelsea united amateur great 1234 black turtle 7777777 cool pussy diamond steelers muffin cooper 12345 nascar tiffany redsox 1313 dragon jackson zxcvbn star scorpio qwerty cameron tomcat testing mountain 696969 654321 golf shannon madison mustang computer bond007 murphy 987654 letmein amanda bear frank brazi...

Regulator calls Maggi 'unsafe', Nestle CEO defends brand

India’s food regulator ordered the withdrawal of all nine Maggi instant noodle varieties from markets on Friday, tagging them “unsafe” for human consumption, dealing a fresh blow to manufacturer Nestle India that is struggling to contain a spiralling crisis that has knocked 10% off its share price. The move came hours after Nestle recalled the popular snack across the country and three more states banned the product. The Maggi mess also spread to other countries with Singapore following in Nepal’s footsteps and stopping import and sale of the noodles while the UK’s food safety agency decided to test a few samples. Nestle’s global chief executive Paul Bulcke flew down to India on a firefighting exercise, telling a news conference the Swiss company maintains the same standards for its products across the world and that the lead content in Maggi is well below the prescribed limit. “We decided to take the noodles off shelves as there was confusion about safety. The safet...