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- Password Protecting your Folder without a software.

Do you share a computer with other users and want some extra security on your folders? There are two ways to password protect a folder built into Windows XP (for other Windows flavors, there are some freeware/shareware programs out there).

Trick #1 
If you have a log in password for your account, this can be used to protect folders from other users. Your hard drive must be formatted using NTFS (which it probably is unless you're dual booting with another operating system). Here's what to do...

Right-click the folder that you want to make private and choose "Properties" (or Alt+Double-click). Go to the "Sharing" tab and check the "Make this folder private" box.




Click Apply . If you do not have a password on your account, a box will pop up asking if you want to assign a password. This must be done if you want to make the folder private, so click Yes . You will need to use your password to log on to your computer from then on.






Type in a password then confirm it. Click the "Create Password" button then close the Password window.

Click OK in the Properties dialog box.

Now anyone else logged on to your computer can't access that file without knowing your password.

Trick #2
 If the Folder is Zipped you can give it a unique password.

Just double-click the zipped folder. In the top menu select File then click "Add a Password".






Type a password into the Password box. Then again in the "Confirm Password" box.



Now, you are the only person who can access files in this folder. The folder can be opened allowing the files to be seen, but you are the only one who can access them.

Don't you feel more secure now?

Credit : WorldStart.com

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- Forcefully Close Full Screen Application.

This is a good program that is able to kill all kinds of processes by pressing a hotkey whether hung or not.

SuperF4 kills the currently selected program when you press Ctrl+Alt+F4. This is different from when you press Alt+F4. Alt+F4 only asks the currently selected program to exit, allowing it to decide for itself if it really want to.

You can also kill a process by pressing [the windows key]+F4 and then clicking the window with your mouse. Note that the mouse cursor does not change to reflect that SuperF4 is in this mode. You can press escape or the right mouse button to exit this mode without killing a program.



SuperF4 should be able to kill all kinds of processes, whether they are hung or not. Beware though, SuperF4 effectively kills the program and doesn’t give it a chance to save unsaved work etc…



There’s another tool that moo created which is able to execute specified exe with commands when you click ctrl+alt+del. It is sort of like a launcher for the hotkey ctrl+alt+del. All you need to do is to download CtrlAltDel, extract it and run CtrlAltDelAction.exe followed by the command. An example is C:\>CtrlAltDelAction.exe taskkill /F /IM hl2.exe



CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD CTRLALTDEL.


Alternatively, you can also drag any file such as .bat file over CtrlAltDelAction.exe. To remove or stop CtrlAltDelAction, just run CtrlAltDelAction.exe again. Simple and a very geeky tool.

Mojo also suggested a tool called Game Minimizer which is a freeware tray application that minimize full screen applications such as games to system tray by pressing a hotkey. In addition, GameMinimizer will minimize all windows when its tray icon double-clicked.



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- Test Your Computer's Reboot Time: XP & VISTA


  1. Simply open notepad and copy/paste the below code. Then save as: Reboot Time.vbs


Option ExplicitOn Error Resume NextDim Wsh, Time1, Time2, Result, PathFile,
MsgResult, MsgA, AppName, KeyA, KeyB, TimeDiffMsgA = "Please close all running
applications and click on OK."KeyA =
"HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\RestartTime\"KeyB =
"HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\RestartTime"AppName
= "[KNOWURSYSTEM.blogspot.com] Reboot Time"Set Wsh =
CreateObject("WScript.Shell")PathFile = """" & WScript.ScriptFullName &
""""Result = wsh.RegRead(KeyA & "Times")if Result = "" thenMsgResult =
Msgbox (MsgA, vbOKCancel, AppName)If MsgResult = vbcancel then
WScript.QuitWsh.RegWrite KeyA & "Times", left(Time,8), "REG_SZ"Wsh.RegWrite
KeyB, PathFile, "REG_SZ"Wsh.Run "cmd /c Shutdown -r -t 00", false,
0elseWsh.RegDelete KeyA & "Times"Wsh.RegDelete KeyAWsh.RegDelete
KeyBTimeDiff = DateDiff("s",Result,left(Time,8))MsgBox "Your computer reboots in
" & TimeDiff & " seconds", VbInformation, AppNameend ifwscript.Quit


2. Save to desktop for easy access !!


3. Double click on the script file you saved.


4. Close all the running applications and click the OK button in the dialog box.




5.The computer will reboot and when Windows and a dialog box will open displaying the time your computer took to reboot.



My record time is 77 seconds for a reboot...Beat me, if u can !!!

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- Few Steps to Faster Smartbro Connection.





1.)
Download Cablenut by clicking here. 


2.) Install CableNut, restart PC after installation.


3.) Test your speed here at testmy.net
 
      Note your Download and Upload speeds.


4.) Note your download, upload values in Kbps & latency value in ms (milliseconds).

** To know your latency, open Command Prompt (start menu/run/type cmd/enter).
In the command prompt type ping testmy.net and hit enter. Your latency is the "Approximate roundtrip times in milli-seconds Average".
However, it is just fine if you may want to get the maximum latency value.


5.) Go to
http://www.j79zlr.com/cablenutXP2k.php, don't forget to choose your connection carefully, then put your download, upload & latency values in the box provided.


6.) Click "Compute Settings"


7.) Click "CCS File Download", save the file to your desktop.


8.) Go back to
http://www.j79zlr.com/cablenutXP2k.php


9.) Click TCP/IP Analyzer


10.) Know your TCP Receive Window (RWIN) values, write down the values for "scale factor of 8" and "scale factor of 4".


11.) Now, download the latest version of CCleaner by clicking here.
 

12.) Install CCleaner, Analyze and Run Cleaner to eliminate all unwanted and junk files in your HD.


13.) Now open Command Prompt, type ipconfig /flushdns.


14.) Exit Command Prompt.


15.) Open the CableNut setting you saved on your desktop.


16.) In the "DefaultReceiveWindow" box, change the current value to the value you wrote for "scale factor of 8"


17.) In the "DefaultSendWindow" box, change the current value to the value you wrote for "scale factor of 4"


18.) Important, see to it that the value for TCPMaxHalfOpen = 100, MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server = 10 and MaxConnectionsPerServer = 10


19.) Click "Save to Registry", OK & Exit.


20.) Restart PC

Your speed must be optimized now. Test your speed
http://www.testmy.net/tools/test/d_load.php


Notes:
i. Smartbro's advertised speed is only 384 Kbps but this guide will give you almost twice that speed.
ii. This guide worked for some but might not work for others.
iii. Viruses, trojans, spywares, adwares, basestation downtime will surely affect speed tests.

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