Top 15 apps for Windows PC

Here is my collection of applications that i install every time when I  do a fresh Install of Windows.

All of us know that Windows PC has lots of pre-installed apps, but that isn’t enough. Most of these Free apps are even better than the paid versions. Most of these app are must have for new Windows PC which helps you to keep running your PC tiptop. So here is the list of best free app for your new Windows PC.

Top Computer Tips to Reduce Viruses Attacks

Computer with internet makes it possible to access some of our basic information such as for entertainment, financial services, products from the mean corner of the world, and a lot. Along with the increasing applications on computers, there is also an increase in the issues with computer security.

An unprotected computer is an open door for threats like viruses, malware, spyware, Trojan horses and hackers. When the security settings of your computer are very low, the chances of the computer to get infected will be high. There are some recommendations to increase the security of the computer.

How to Make Fake Pen/USB/Flash Drive Genuine/reset to Original Capacity ?

**I have changed some of the facts about USB Pen Drive, like from where I bought and related to its manufacturing company.

Few months ago I bought a supposedly 8GB USB drive pretty cheaply from a person. Luckily for me a user messaged me with their suspicions that the seller was selling hacked drives. For those that don’t know what hacked drives are they have basically had the firmware edited to report a higher capacity than the actual chip on board. Anything you try to write to the chip above the actual capacity will then show up as corrupted data.
I couldn’t find a guide that worked for me so I thought I’d make one here to help anyone else that finds themselves in the same position, so that you don’t have to spend ages signing up and trawling a forum in Chinese and other places !

Make invisible/secret icon in Windows 7 Taskbar

Its been a year or more while I started using Windows 7 and officially it was launched few months ago. Anyways, you might have seen the simplicity and usefulness of this dock type taskbar.

In order to make a secret icon in task bar, first of all it needs to be invisible and only the person who made it should know the location, in order to use it. Ok now lets begin with making invisible icons, so how to make a program’s icon invisible ?

Extreme trim Windows 7 Installer ISO

Windows 7 have a lot of applications, fitting according to users requirement and if you do not want some of the apps to install, which will significantly increases speed. To do so, there is an application called “RT Se7en“ to extremely customize and modify Windows 7 installer ISO. Not just removing elements but you can also customize the installation with its user friendly features.

From customization, components removal, tweaking, Unattended Installation to adding Icons, wallpapers, Icons, themes, integrate updates, drivers, and much more can be done with RT Se7en.

Make Windows 7 fast with small tweaks

Like the earlier versions of Windows, Windows 7 allow its users to make changes to registry entries to personalize their systems settings. Listed below are a few of these tweaks that you can use to customize your Windows 7 Operating System according to your wish.

Always remember to backup your Windows Registry before you make any changes. You can backup your Registry by using the Windows 7 Registry Editor Utility, or any registry tool that will work with Windows 7.

Reduce Start-up time of Windows by removing ghosted drivers

Are you aware that your computer could be full of Ghosted Devices? Much like humans fear real ghosts, your Personal Computer is also afraid of these virtual ghosts. These ghosts can cause your computer to start up and run at a speed slower than usual.

Ghosted Devices are also known as Hidden Devices, these devices were once connected to your computer but are not connected anymore. Yet Windows keeps a copy of these Devices in the Device Manager and upon startup tries to find these devices on your system. This can result in a slower startup speed.

10 Simple tips to protect PC from Viruses

Was little busy with my college works, so I was not able to write for few weeks. Now I am back.

Well, lets start of with the problem. If your computer is infected, it can suddenly turn off, found that certain files are missing or do not open, or programs work slow. Should I ignore it? Do not think! Moreover, it is easier to prevent than to cure. It is for this and are these simple tips that can help you. 

Here are few tips…

1. The first thing I would recommend – is to read about current viruses. It is difficult to protect your computer from viruses if you do not even know what they are. You can get it from here: http://www.securelist.com/en/

Which is better 32-bit or 64-bit?

Do you run a 64-bit or 32-bit operating system? or which version of Operating System better to have? If you do not know the answer to this question, you probably do not. 32 -bit and 64-bit versions of Windows is very similar to each other, so that each version of the OS can not be distinguished easily. The easiest way to view information about your computer, Right Click on “My Computer” icon from desktop and select “Properties” from menu. In the new window displays detailed information about the Windows version and type of system. In our case, this “32-bit operating System. But what is the difference between 32 – and 64-bit systems?

When we talk about 64-bit or 64-bit operating systems, we need to distinguish between 64-bit computing, which are important for high productivity, as well as 64-bit addressing to support large amounts of memory.

64-bit operating system used 64-bit wide registers, 64-bit data types, and the system within itself can address the data using 64-bit addressing (which gives support to the maximum size of 16 exabytes of memory instead of 4 gigabytes). However, external addressing and tires may vary. As an example, memory addressing, which is usually limited to 40 or 48 bits.

What Makes Windows 8 Wonderful

Here’s something that makes Windows 8 beautiful, delicious and the OS of future!

1. Innovative Design
Windows 8 is blessed with an intuitive and an innovative design. The design though basically made for touch screen netbooks or a few desktops, runs wonderfully on normal computers i.e. the computers without touch equipment as well.
If you have had a look at the Windows 8 interface, the user interface is totally tile based just like you see in Windows 7 powered mobile phones. The tile based interface is quite attractive, but if I am not wrong you will get a phony experience even in your desktop! Some might like it, while some might not. I somewhat like the interface as it’s something I haven’t ever seen in a desktop, but I am not sure if with time it will prove boring.

Browser based Operating Systems

Every day technology gets updated, from computer to laptop to PDA’s and now smartphone! Even our very own operating system are getting new features and platform to fulfill their custom needs.
For past few years I have been living on internet, doing a lot of stuff from the internet browser only. Sometimes, when internet goes down, I feel like my computer is almost useless and ofcourse it goes to sleep mode to get some rest!

After doing almost everything inside the internet browser, you will feel like why not have full operating system running inside it. And the answer is yes.
Yes, toady we have a number of virtual cloud OS that can be accessed from browser only. So, to use this operating system, one only need an internet browser irrespective of the devices. That means you can run this OS even on smartphone which has a native browser and keep all you file and documents in sync.

Here are few cloud operating systems that uses the power of cloud computing:

A-Z Index of the Windows CMD command line

An A-Z Index of the Windows CMD command line


a
ADDUSERS Add or list users to/from a CSV file
ARP Address Resolution Protocol
ASSOC Change file extension associations•
ASSOCIAT One step file association
ATTRIB Change file attributes

IP Address

Internet Protocol Address (or IP Address) is an unique address that computing devices use to identify itself and communicate with other devices in the Internet Protocol network. Any device connected to the IP network must have an unique IP address within its network. An IP address is analogous to a street address or telephone number in that it is used to uniquely identify a network device to deliver mail message, or call ("view") a website.


Dotted Decimals :-

The traditional IP Addresses (IPv4) uses a 32-bit number to represent an IP address, and it defines both network and host address. Due to IPv4 addresses running out, a new version of the IP protocol (IPv6) has been invented to offer virtually limitless number of unique addresses. An IP address is written in "dotted decimal" notation, which is 4 sets of numbers separated by period each set representing 8-bit number ranging from (0-255). An example of IPv4 address is 216.3.128.12, which is the IP address assigned to topwebhosts.org.

An IPv4 address is divided into two parts: network and host address. The network address determines how many of the 32 bits are used for the network address, and remaining bits for the host address. The host address can further divided into subnetwork and host number.

Command Reference for IPCONFIG MS-DOS

Ipconfig is a MS-DOS command-line tool used to display and manage the network settings of your computer. Ipconfig is available on Windows machines, and it displays the current network connection details and dhcp client settings.

Ipconfig is an external MS-DOS command, and is available on Windows 95, Windows 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP and Windows Vista Operating Systems. On Windows 9x machines, a graphical tools such as "winipconfig" or "winipcfg" may be used instead. On Linux machine, the if configcommand performs equivalent function.

Chat with Friends through MS-DOS

1) All you need is your friend's IP Address and your Command Prompt.

2) Open Notepad and write this code as it is.....!

@echo off
:A
Cls
echo MESSENGER
set /p n=User:
set /p m=Message:
net send %n% %m%
Pause
Goto A

3) Now save this as "Messenger.Bat".

4) Open Command Prompt.

How to Use Windows 7 Without Activation!!

Windows 7Most of you might be aware of the fact that it is possible to use Windows 7 and Vista for 120 days without activation. This is actually possible using the slmgr -rearm command which will extend the grace period from 30 days to 120 days. However in this post I will show you a small trick using which it is possible to use Windows 7 without activation for approximately an year! Here is a way to do that.

1. Goto “Start Menu -> All Programs -> Accessories” . Right click on “Command Prompt” and select “Run as Administrator“. If you are not the administrator then you are prompted to enter the password, or else you can proceed to step-2.

2. Now type the following command and hit enter slmgr -rearm

3. You will be prompted to restart the computer. Once restarted the trial period will be once again reset to 30 days. You can use the above command for up to 3 times by which you can extend the trial period to 120 days without activation.

4. Now comes the actual trick by which you can extend the trial period for another 240 days. Open Registry Editor (type regedit in “Run” and hit Enter) and navigate to the following location HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\SoftwareProtectionPlatform

5. In right-side pane, change value of SkipRearm to 1.

6. Now you will be able to use the slmgr -rearm command for another 8 times so that you can skip activation process for another 240 days. So you will get
120 + 240 = 360 days of free Windows 7 usage. 120 days using “slmgr -rearm” command before registry edit  +  240 days using “slmgr -rearm” command after registry edit  = 360 Day.

Windows 8 pre xtreme edition full

What is Windows 8 xTreme ™?

Windows 8 xTreme ™ its a System based on Windows 7 Final:It is originally a tweaked version of windows 7.
Windows 8 xTreme ™ doesn't have any components removed from Original Windows 7 Image so you wont lose any compatibly with software, hardware or miss any stuff at all.
Windows 8 xTreme ™ its a Clean Windows 7 Image with a compilation of the best tweaks and a new integrated look ... keeping all new features like superbar, etc ...
Windows 8 xTreme ™ has been tested in a real machine with a compilation of over 200 softwares ...
All default applications are silently installed before StartUp ...

Tweaks:

UAC Disabled
Take Ownership
Show File Extensions
Automatic Defragmentation with Diskeeper
New Cmd File to Right Click
Enabled Search System Folders in Search
ClearType
Windows Will Tell You Exactly What it is Doing When it is Shutting Down or is Booting
Increase Network Throughput
... many tweaks for IE8
... many more tweaks for W7 ...

How to use GOD mode in windows 7

Now a days Windows 7 is becoming popular among all the windows operating system users.

Windows 7 has cool features , experts call it GODMODE in windows 7. GODMODE is a folder that bring together along list of customization settings allowing you to change all your setting from one place.

God Mode in windows 7 :-

Follow the following steps to create god mode folder:
1.) create a new folder
2.) rename the folder to GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}


Now double click on that folder to show the godmode windows option.
if its not working, rename it from Command Prompt....
after that 101% sure its working...
you can rename that folder by your name or your friends name. 

Enable the (Hidden) Administrator Account on Windows Vista and Windows 7

Many people familiar with prior versions of Windows are curious what happened to the built-in
Administrator account that was always created by default. Does this account still exist, and how can you access it?

The account is created in Windows Vista ,Windows 7, but since it's not enabled you can't use it.
If you are troubleshooting something that needs to run as administrator, you can enable it with a simple command.

Note: You really shouldn't use this account for anything other than troubleshooting. In fact, you probably shouldn't use it at all.

Enable Built-in Administrator Account:

First you'll need to open a command prompt in administrator mode by right-clicking and choosing
"Run as administrator" (or use the Ctrl+Shift+Enter shortcut from the search box)


Now type the following command:

net user administrator /active:yes

You should see a message that the command completed successfully. Log out, and you'll now
see the Administrator account as a choice.You should see a message that the command completed successfully.

Log out, and you'll now see the Administrator account as a choice.You'll note that there's no password for this account, so if you want to leave it enabled you should change the password.You'll note that there's no password for this account, so if you want to leave it enabled you should change the password.

Disable Built-in Administrator Account:

Make sure you are logged on as your regular user account, and then open an administrator mode command prompt as above.

Type the following command:

net user administrator /active:no

The administrator account will now be disabled, and shouldn't show up on the login screen anymore.

How to Try Linux on your Windows Computer

Are you a Windows user who is curious to try Linux (Ubuntu in particular) because you have heard so many good things about the OS from your geek friends?

There are two ways to use Linux on a Windows computer. You can either install the full Linux OS alongside Windows, or if you are just starting with Linux for the first time, the other easy option is that you run Linux virtually with making any change to your existing Windows setup.

The former option will offer the best performance because all your system resources will be available to Linux but the latter option is absolutely risk-free and therefore recommended for novice users. You’ll be able to test drive Linux but without changing a single file on your Windows computer.

Running Ubuntu Linux with Windows

Let’s look at some of the easiest ways to use Linux on a Windows computer. Linux is available in multiple flavors (your friends may call them Linux distros) but here, let’s focus on the desktop edition of Ubuntu, perhaps the most popular and actively developed Linux distribution.

A: Test-Drive Linux Online as a Web App

Perhaps the easiest way to try Linux on your Windows Desktop is inside your web browser. Go to edubuntu.org, fill that simple form and within a minute, you’ll have the full version of Ubuntu Linux running on your desktop inside a Java applet.

There’s absolutely no need to download or install anything on your computer and a single session can last up to two hours. You get access to all the features that are available in the standard desktop edition of Ubuntu Linux including the ability to download and install new packages from the Linux repository.

B: Run Linux from a USB Stick or a CD

The most popular option to test-drive Linux on Windows is a LiveCD. Though it says “CD,” you can also use a USB Flash Drive as a LiveCD (without having to burn a CD).

To get started, download the latest version of Ubuntu to your desktop. This is an ISO file (also known as a CD image) that is around 650 MB in size. If you don’t have a great Internet connection, you can always borrow the Ubuntu CD from a friend (yes, its perfectly legal) or order a readymade live CD from OSDisc.com.

Once you have Ubuntu ISO image file, grab an empty USB disk and use UNetbootin to quickly turn that USB drive into a bootable Ubuntu disk for Ubuntu without having to burn a CD. Insert the bootable USB flash drive into your Windows computer and reboot. If this doesn’t work, go to the BIOS boot menu and change the boot sequence.

You should see an option at the boot menu that says "Try Ubuntu without any change to your computer” – choose that and you are good to go. Once inside Linux, you can install new programs, create files and everything else that you normally do at a computer though your changes won’t be written to the disk.
The Ubuntu portal has more details on creating and troubleshooting a LiveCD.

C: Run Linux in a Virtual Machine

The term virtualization may sound very geeky but in simple English, all it means is that you can another OS over an existing OS. For instance, you can run Windows on a Mac or you may install Linux on a Windows 7 machine using virtualization software.

To get started, download and install the free VMware Player on your Windows desktop. Then download the VMware image for Ubuntu and extract the zip file (I use PeaZip). Now double-click the Ubuntu.vmx file that you just extracted and the Linux virtual machine will load inside the VMWare Player. Simple!

Technically, Linux will be the “guest” operating system while “Windows” will be considered the host OS. And other than VMware, you may also VirtualBox to run Linux inside windows. The VirtualBox installer and the Ubuntu Linux images for VirtualBox for can be downloaded for free from oracle.com.

D: Install Linux like a Windows Software

Wouldn’t it be nice if you could install Linux like a native Windows app – something like Microsoft Office? For instance, if you have Office running on Windows, you can always uninstall the software later without affecting any other Windows programs or system settings.

Meet Wubi - short for Windows-based UBuntu Installer - a tiny utility that will help you install Ubuntu Linux alongside any other Windows application. Run the installer, choose a password for your Linux environment and the software does the rest.

It will download the necessary Linux ISO from the Internet and will install it on your machine. Alternatively, if you have previously download the ISO, you can just place the .iso file in the same folder as Wubi and it will pick it up.

Now the next time you restart / reboot your computer, it will offer you a choice of Linux (Ubuntu) and Windows. This is a real Linux installation and thus the overall performance should be good as well. If you ever want to uninstall Linux, simple boot into Windows, go to the Add-Remove problems and uninstall Wubi.

E: Run Linux inside the Web Browser

If you are just starting to learn Linux and are looking for an easy way to practice the various Linux commands, check out the very-impressive JSLinux project.

This is an emulator that lets you use Linux inside your web browser. You may write shells scripts using Sed and Awk, master regular expressions, play around with popular text editors like Vi and Emacs, look up man pages of various Linux command and much more – all inside your browser.