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Saturday 31 December 2011

Google's Doodle wishes Happy New Year

                              Google's last doodle  of year 2011 wishes Happy New Year to everyone.
Sunday 25 December 2011

How to pin the links in the taskbar?

'Your favourite websites are just a click away with Internet explorer 9'



Friday 9 December 2011

How to remove or modify the ugly arrows from the shortcut icons?

 "No one knows it is a shortcut on your desktop"

  Arrows from the shortcut icons can be removed by two ways :
-Using an application (Vista Shortcut Manager).
-Another by creating some keys in  registry editor(manually).




-----Using an application
-There are various applications using which we can remove and modify the shortcuts.
-Vista Shortcut Manager is one of the application  using which we can remove or modify the shortcut arrows.
 

-This application is easy to use. Just open this application choose what you want to do.
-After selecting the desired option. Click on apply.
-Restart the computer settings will be applied.


It also works on Windows 7



-----Doing Manually
-Click on start button.
-Type regedit. or  go to run and type regedit.
-Navigate HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE>Software>Microsoft>Windows>Current Version>Explorer>Shell icons.
-Create a new string value under this key by right clicking and name it as 29
-Set its value to C:\WINDOWS\system32\shell32.dll,52
-Close the Registry editor, and restart your computer for changes to take effect

 
Saturday 19 November 2011

What are Captchas?



"Because we care, we're security aware"

Whenever we create an account on any website or comment on any blog we see scrambled words
which we have to type and continue these are CAPTCHAs . 

What are CAPTCHAs and what they do?
It stands for Completely Automated Public Turing-test to tell Computers and Humans Apart.These tries to test that you are a person and not a auto filling software.

Why CAPTCHAs are necessary?
These are used to prevent hackers from avoiding misuse of online services.
There are some examples of activities which are undertaken by hackers are given below :-
-Opening someone's account  by attempting different  password again and again.
-Creating  hundreds of  free accounts
-Swaying an online poll by robotically submitting hundreds of false responses. 
-Spamimng blogs by posting dozens of bogus comments.

These CAPTCHAs test prevent about 90% of hackers attacks. 



What is a logic behind this CAPTCHAs?
 Commonly, these CAPTCHA phrases are .gif pictures of scrambled words, but can also be .mp3 voice recordings. These pictures and recordings are very hard for conventional software programs to understand, and hence, robots are usually unable to type the phrase in response to the picture or recording.

 
Friday 11 November 2011

How to create your own customized RUN commands

"No need to mess up with your desktop"


Create your own customized RUN command in just 5 easy steps :-

By this you should be able to run your programs directly for eg. you want to open windown media player.You need to type only   wmp    in the Run dialog box. Its your wish what name you want to give  the command.  

----Right click on the desktop screen and click on "New" then click on "Shortcut".


----Browse for the program for which you want to create the command.(Navigate where the program is installed. In my case location is "C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player\wmplayer.exe") . Target to the main file of the program such as wmplayer, iexplore etc. 


----Click "OK". Type a name for the shortcut. Then click "Finish" .
----Cut the shortcut and paste it to C:\Windows ..
-----You are done. Just open the Run dialog box, type wmp and hit Enter to open the Window media player.

Just like this you can create various othercommands for other programs such as "ff" for firefox, "idm" for internet download manager etc.

Wednesday 9 November 2011

Introducing to my blog

"Computers can never replace human stupidity..."


The idea of my this blog is to share  computer  tricks and tips which are very  much unknown to the common people who uses computer and internet  daily .I will also aware people about hacking, viruses and many other  traps which are caught by hackers...For any help or assistance in the computer field you can give your problem in the comment section and will be replied within  a day