computer latest tips and tricks: November 2009

Friday, November 6, 2009

Change Text Size In Internet Explorer

To alter the Size Of Text displayed in firefox , Just hold ctrl and scroll your mouse wheel !

Scroll UP : To Reduce Text Size
Scroll Down : To Increase Text Size

Ever wanted to maintain a diary on your PC ?
Now, you can do it without the use of a software !

USE NOTEPAD !

For © : Alt+0169
For ® : Alt+0174
For ™ : Alt+0153
For › : Alt+0155
For † : Alt+0134
For ø : Alt+0248
For ¤ : Alt+0164
For « : Alt+0171
For ° : Alt+0176
For ± : Alt+0177
For ² : Alt+0178
For ³ : Alt+0179
For µ : Alt+0181
For ¶ : Alt+0182
For ¹ : Alt+0185
For » : Alt+0187

Amazing thing but true , Notepad knew about 9/11/2001 !
The flight number which hit the WTC in New York was Q33N !

See it yourself :
1. Open Notepad
2. Type : Q33N
3. Now, go to Format menu
4. Choose Font.
5. Now, change the size to '72'
6. Now, change the font to 'Wingdings'
7. See what is displayed !

SHORTCUT !!!

You need : Mozilla Firefox or Internet Explorer 7

Simple :

* Click any link with the Scroll Wheel

Have you ever locked your car keys inside the car ?
This is a very frustating event in which you can't blame anyone !

Well the solution come here :

If you have remote control car lock system in your keychain (Very Common These Days), you are saved !

** Just call some one at home at his/her cell phone and ask for the duplicate keys to someone at home.

Exciting isn't it?

The user can't burn any CDs by this trick. This restriction will disable the use of the inbuilt CD recording functions of Windows.

This tweak will launch WindowsMediaPlayer with the 'AboveNormal' priority setting when opening a mediafile. Having trouble watching a movie when you also have a lot of background processes going on? Here's what to do:
1. Create a new textfile in the root of c:\, but instead of giving it the .txt extension you name it wmp_AboveNormal.bat

2. Right-click this file and choose 'Edit', you'll see it'll open notepad. Put this line in: start /AboveNormal C:\"Program Files"\"Windows Media Player"\wmplayer.exe %1 %*

3. Save (make sure you save it as .bat, not as .txt) and close. Now all you have to do is register your mediafiles to this batchfile. Here's how to do that:

This is a great trick you can play on your friends. To disable the display of local or networked drives when you click My Computer.

1.Go to start->run.Type regedit.Now go to:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer

Now in the right pane
create a new DWORD item and name it NoDrives (it is case sensitive).
Now modify it's value and set it to 3FFFFFF (Hexadecimal) .
Now restart your computer.
So, now when you click on My Computer, no drives will be shown(all gone...).

To enable display of drives in My Computer, simply delete this DWORD item that you created.Again restart your computer.You can now see all the drives again. Magic........lol....

Save time and effort in typing URL addresses

There is a quicker way to have auto-completion of the whole website address in internet explorer,like "www" or ".com" With Internet Explorer 6 in Windows XP, typing web addresses is very convenient. All you have to do is type the domain of an address, such as 'google' and then press [Ctrl]+ENTER . Internet Explorer automatically wraps ' http://www...........com' around what you typed.

Drag & Drop in Firefox

There are many things that you can drag and drop in Firefox.

* Drag the favicon of any site to your home icon to set it as the home page.
* Drag a hyperlink (or image) to the new tab icon to open the link in a new tab.
* Drag a download link (or image file) to the download icon to instantly download the file.

Disable Right Click on your blog or webpage

Its becoming essential to secure the content of your web page and blog from being copied. To achieve this you have to disable the RIGHT CLICK . Many of my friends are trying various scripts to disable right click. Even I tried one. But the problem is that it was running fine in Internet Explorer and not in Firefox or other browsers. So I found the simplest way to disable right click. A bit higher security is achieved.

Lets see..... how..

( sign in to your blogger --> layout -->edit html)

Find this piece of code in your template.

< / head>

its the end of the head tag < / head > and the beginning of body tag .
In the body tag just write this sentence " oncontextmenu='return false;' "

u will see it like this

Bypass CD or CD-ROM autoplay [SHIFT] while inserting the disc

Delete an item with no undelete [SHIFT][DEL]

Rename an item [F2]

View an item's Properties [ALT][ENTER]

Prevent Reboots or to check on automatic restarting

Prevent Reboots

Many people leave their PCs on all of the time. That often means dozens of open windows, and information that hasn't been saved as recently as possible. There's nothing worse than going back to your PC and seeing a message that says "Windows recently downloaded and installed an important security update to help protect your computer. This update required an automatic restart." Or, while you are working, you may grow tired of the nagging little pop-up window with a countdown that tries to reboot your computer in 15 seconds. A simple edit to the system Registry will end this annoyance and save you from losing potentially hours of work if a reboot occurs when you aren't there to prevent it.

In fact, the U.K. publication The Register recently reported that a computer consultant in the U.K. has invoiced Bill Gates for £1,200 for "sabotaging" his work, left open during a critical system update reboot. Even if you tell Windows Update that you wish to perform a custom manual installation of new software, updates can still be pushed down to your system. Most of these critical updates are system-level files that require a reboot to fix problems properly, but you can still make Windows work the way you want it to.

Click Start, then Run. Then type regedit and press Enter. Be careful in the Registry, following the directions slowly and reading twice before clicking once. With the Registry Editor opened, click and expand HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies and finally Microsoft\Windows. Right-click on Windows and select New\Key with your left mouse. Type WindowsUpdate and press Enter. This will create a new folder.

Now right-click on that folder and create another new key, this one named AU, and press Enter. AU stands for Auto Update. Turn to the right-hand pane, where an entry reads (Default); right-click on the white space and select New DWORD Value. Enter the string NoAutoRebootWithLoggedOnUsers, and press Enter. Now double-click that entry and change the Value Data to a 1, with the Base button of Hexadecimal selected.

Click on File | Exit, after which the Registry autosaves (just as other applications ought to but don't), and reboot. Once Windows loads this value it should never force a reboot when you are not present. It's a small price to pay for regaining control of your computer.

How to Create An Auto-Play CD

The application CDs that you buy launch automatically, and your burned CDs can do the same. They can invoke a setup program or display an HTML page that links to the CD's contents. Use Notepad to create a three-line text file based on the lines below, and name it Autorun.inf. Place the file in the CD's root directory.

[autorun]

open=setup.exe

icon=icon.ico