Change the icon on any Drive on your Computer

You can easily change the icon on your internal hard drives and portable drives with the free Drive Icon Changer application.  Simply download and unzip the file (link below), and then run the application as administrator by right-clicking on the icon and selecting “Run as administrator”.

Now, select the drive that you want to change the icon of, and select your desired icon file.

Click Save, and Drive Icon Changer will let you know that the icon has been changed successfully.

You will then need to reboot your computer to complete the changes.  Simply click Yes to reboot.

Now, our Drive icon is changed from this default image:

to a Laptop icon we chose!

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Create a Shortcut to Lock Your Computer

1. Right click the desktop.

2. Point to New, and then click Shortcut.

3. The Create Shortcut Wizard opens. In the text box, type the following:

     rundll32.exe user32.dll,LockWorkStation  Click Next.

 4. Enter a name for the shortcut. You can call it "Lock Workstation" or choose any name you like. Click Finish.

You can also change the shortcut's icon (my personal favorite is the padlock icon in shell32.dll).

To change the icon:

1. Right click the shortcut and then select Properties.

2. Click the Shortcut tab, and then click the Change Icon button.

Lock a Folder in Windows 7 &XP

To Lock a folder in windows XP without any software. Follow the steps Below.

1. Make a Folder in C drive rename it as "abc" without quotes.
2. Now open Command Prompt from Start Menu.
3. Type "attrib +s +h C:\abc" without quotes and press enter.
4. This command will Make your folder invisble and it can not be seen even in hidden files and folders
5. To make it visible again type "attrib -s -h C:\abc"
6. You can lock any other folder also by changing the location C:\abc to address of your folder.

WINDOWS 7:Create Keyboard Shortcuts for Programs

You can create keyboard shortcuts for any program in Windows 7. Right-click the program icon and select Properties. Select the Shortcut tab, click in Shortcut key, to set the keyboard shortcut for that program.

WINDOWS 7:Pin a drive to the taskbar

The taskbar isn't just for apps and documents. With just a few seconds work you can pin drive icons there, too.
Right-click an empty part of the desktop, select New > Text File, and rename the file to drive.exe. Drag and drop this onto your taskbar, then delete the original file.
Right-click your new "drive.exe" taskbar button, then right-click its file name and select Properties. Change the contents of both the Target and Start In boxes to point at the drive or folder of your choice, perhaps click Change Icon to choose an appropriate drive icon, and you're done - that drive or folder is now available at a click.

REPORT PHISHING PAGE

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Remove Annoying delete Confirmation Messages in windows

1. Right click on the 'Recycle Bin' on the desktop and then click 'Properties'

2. Clear the 'Display Delete Confirmation Dialog' check box and click 'Ok'

If you do accidentally delete a file  don't worry as all is not lost. Just go to your Recycle Bin and 'Restore' the file.

Create nameless files and folders in windows

This trick will allow you to create files and folders without any name.
Just follow the following steps:

1. Select any file or folder.
2. Right click on it, press rename or simply press F2.
3. Press and hold the alt key. While holding the Alt key, type numbers 0160 from the numpad.

Note: Type the numbers 0160 from the numpad, that is, the numbers present on the right side of the keyboard. Don't type the numbers which are present on top of the character keys.
         
4. Press Enter and the nameless file or folder will be created.

Reason: The file or folder that seems nameless is actually named with a single space.

FUNNY TIP(FOR XP)

1.Copy and paste the java script code to the address bar of your browser   

TIP1  CLICK HERE

TIP2  CLICK HERE

2.press enter and watch your window's "shaking it". You can change the value of i if you wish :-) 

How to Make Password Protected ZIP Files using WinRAR

Winrar is a popular archive management software that can be used to open or create archive (rar,zip etc) files.

STEPS:

Right click on the folder/file which has to be  Password Protected and select ADD to Archive option.

 From the pop up window select the Advanced Tab.

 Now click on the Set Password.

  

Enter and Verify your Password (Use both Alphabets and Numeric words to make a strong Password).

Now a new compressed file will be generated at the same location of your original file

Now whenever somebody will try to open or extract the files in archive it will ask for the password. 

Burn CD without software in Windows XP

If you're using a Re-Writable CD (CD-RW), make sure the disc is blank. You might need to erase (or "format") it before use. For information how to erase a CD-RW on Windows XP without using any other software.
Requirements: You need to enable the CD-R feature on Windows XP.

1. Insert a Formated-ReWritable CD or a Recordable (CD-R) disc into the CD drive.
2. From Desktop, double-click on "My Computer".
3. Navigate to the files/folders you want to copy to CD. Select them and press "Ctrl-c" to copy.
4. Browse back to the CD-ROM, and press "Ctrl-V" to paste. The files/folders will show up as temporary files/folders at this time.
   
   
5. On the left panel, select "Write these files to CD".
   
6. The window "CD Writing Wizard" appears with the default CD name. Change the CD name if you wish, then click "Next".

7. The "CD Writing Wizard" starts to write files/folders to the CD:
   
   
   
8. Once the writing process is complete, the wizard will disappear and the CD-Rom will be ejected.

HIDE FILES OR FOLDERS USING COMMAND PROMPT

The most important thing is that, once hidden with this method, the files/folders cannot be viewed by any search options even if you click "Show All Hidden Files and Folders".Hiding the most wanted files and folders is very important nowadays and it's really a tedious job too. In order to make this tedious job an easy one, i'm going to deliver you a the trick now.

For that you need to follow the following instructions

1. Press windowkey+R: Run command dialog box appears.
2. Now type "cmd" and hit enter. A command prompt window displays.
3. Now type "attrib +s +h E:\collegephotos" and hit enter.
4. The folder "collegephotos" will be hidden (Note: It cannot be viewed by any search options)
   
   (To view this folder again, use the same command but replace '+' with '-' on both flags 's' and 'h')

How do put a password on Pendrive?

explain the process step by step to understand it better:

• Once we have finished installing Rohos Mini Drive, open it and we went to set the USB key.

                                 It opens a window which will depart in 3 sections:

                                  
 1: Path of the unity of origin Pendrive: Select the drive that corresponds to our memory stick.

2: Setting the partition to create the pendrive (leave the default)

3: Create password for Pendrive is the key we ask that the executable will create the pendrive in order to access their data.

• Once the program has finished creating the partition on the pendrive, appears in this image that shows the name of the new virtual disk (Disk F), which is the drive on which stores all content.

• Now click on disconnect and close the application.

• Open Pendrive and unity as we go beyond the data we had stored, an executable file called Rohos mini. If you execute it, we see an opening screen asking for the password to access the virtual drive F:

• By entering the password, look as it appears in Windows Explorer drive F, which is the virtual drive that we have to save protected documents created in the pendrive.

You can change the password from the program Rohos pendrive and also allows you to increase the capacity of the virtual drive, delete it, create backups, etc..

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