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 "Ill be back m8 ;)!"

Switch

What it does

-s

Shuts down the PC.

-l

Logs off the current user.

-t nn

Indicates the duration of delay, in seconds, before performing the action.

-c "messagetext"

Displays a message in the System Shutdown window. A maximum of 127 characters can be used. The message must be enclosed in quotation marks.

-f

Forces any running applications to shut down.

-r

Reboots the PC.

GET ON BLOCKED WEBSITES ANYWHERE!!!

Do you know how you can Unblock any kind of Blocked Website? Either Facebook, myspace, bebo, twitter etc once they block them at School or Office? Here we go..

First.. Open www.fluffmypillow.com

Secondly.. Select from the page the site you want (ie: facebook, myspace, bebo etc), or type it there in search area..

Then you are done!!

Google Search Tips and Tricks

• Search all Pages of a Site:-
  

site:"name of site"

for example.

site:http://www.greatdesign.co.tz/

Using site: operator we can search all pages of site.

• Search Title of Web Pages:-
  

intitle:"search string"

for example.

intitle:"search free ebooks"

using intitle: operator we can search title of web pages for a particular string.

• Search Free ebooks:-
  

intitle:index.of? (pdf|chm) "ebook name"

For example.

intitle:index.of? (pdf|chm) networking

above command search all Open directory for ebooks. NOTE: Check the first result and open the *.pdf files (I used to do that!)

• Search Free Music and Movies:-
  

intitle:index.of? (mp3|dat|mpg|mpeg|rm|rmvb|3gp|flv|mkv|avi) "Music or Movie name"

For example.

intitle:index.of? (mp3|dat|mpg|mpeg|rm|rmvb|3gp|flv|mkv|avi) songs

above command is used to search music and movies. if you want movie in a format other than listed above then add yourself using | after avi.

• Search Particular Type of File(filetype:):-
  

"file to search" filetype:"file type"

For example.

syllabus filetype:pdf

filetype: operator is used to search a particular type of file for example pdf(ebook), txt(text file) etc.

• Search words in url of web pages(inurl):-
  

inurl:"string to search"

For example.

inurl:hacking

inurl: operator is used to search some words in the url of web pages.

Create strong passwords

Strong passwords are important protections to help you have safer online transactions.

Keys to password strength: length and complexity

An ideal password is long and has letters, punctuation, symbols, and numbers.

• Whenever possible, use at least 14 characters or more.
• The greater the variety of characters in your password, the better.
• Use the entire keyboard, not just the letters and characters you use or see most often

Short and Weak passwords can be Hacked or Cracked very easily than you expect, for security purpose, I'm afraid to show many ways to Hack Windows password here, but what I can say is "Make your password strong, secret and change it frequently"

Turn ON/OFF Num Lock on Startup

Most of standard keyboards come with a small numeric keypad which identified by the numbers from 0 to 9. However, this numeric keypad is also served for some other functions such as "Page Up", "Page Down", "End", "Home", etc... depending on which mode of the "Num Lock" is being used. Many Windows users find this numeric keypad useful to type the numbers faster. But oopps... after hitting a several keys on the numeric keypad, you recognize the outcomes are not what you expected. Then you recognize the "Num Lock" mode is "OFF", so you just need to switch it on, and... start over your typing! The bad news is, by default, Windows turns the Num Lock off; however, the good news is, you can configure Windows to turn this Num Lock ON so that whenever you mean "number", you really get a number.

Read on, you'll get the details how to set Windows to keep the Num Lock status "ON" as default. In fact, you will need to make a small change on your Windows Registry to turn the Num Lock ON everytime Windows starts up.

IMPORTANT This article will guide to some steps to modify your Windows Registry. Stop if you're not familiar with the Windows Registry. Making a wrong change on the Windows Registry could cause critical problems to your computer.

Proceed at your own risks

This tip modifies the Windows Registry. So be aware and careful when following the steps. Damage the Windows Registry might damage your Windows.

1. Open the "Registry Editor" ("Start" >> "Run", then type "regedit" and Enter).
2. Expand to the following key:
   HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Keyboard\
3. Within the keyboard folder, you should have a string value named "InitialKeyboardIndicators" with a value of 0, 1, or 2.
4. Double-click on this string value "InitialKeyboardIndicators" and edit the value to what you want. Below is the explaination of the values:
   0: Num Lock is turned OFF on startup
   1: Disable Num Lock
   2: Num Lock is turned ON on startup
   

Find Product Key for Windows and Office

If you are looking for a way to retrieve the product keys of your MS Windows or MS Office, you are on the right page!

The following is a tool to detect the product keys of Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office installed on your machine. This tool is free to download at Magical Jelly Bean.

The tool also provides some nice features let you change your Windows product key, or detect the key remotely to another computer.

To download a copy of this tool. Click Here.

Hidden Programs In Windows XP !

Is it strange to hear , but true that some good programs are hidden in Windows XP !!!

Programs :

1. Private Character Editor :

Used for editing fonts,etc.
** start>>Run
** Now, type eudcedit

2. Dr. Watson :

This an inbuilt windows repairing software !
** start>>Run
** Now, type drwtsn32

3. Media Player 5.1 :

Even if you upgrade your Media Player, you can still access your old player in case the new one fails !!!
** start>>Run
** Now, type mplay32

4. iExpress :

Used to create Setups. You can create your own installers !
** start>>Run
** Now, type iexpress