Simple Trick To Use Bold and Underlined Text in Facebook Chat

All the people are using facebook and sending a message to his friends.but this facebook message has some hidden trick.this tricks are very interesting and very funny.

Now follow the steps to send bold and underlined text in facebook chat.
1.go to facebook.com and login
2.then select any people to chat
3.for bold type any word with *(star).
example: hy *friends* then it displayed in hy friends
4. for underlined text just type any word with _(underscore)
example: hy _friends_ then it displayed in hy friends
thats all use this trick and share to your friends.if any problem then comment here

View Stored Password in Mozilla Firefox

Mozilla firefox is the best browser and it consists more features then flexible to users.Many browser's are protect the saved passwords and difficult to view it.
but the firefox provide a new option. That is view the stored password. This option are helps to users when the password are forgot. But this same way are used to stolen the password from others.

Method 1:

Step1:
go to Tools –> options and then click security tab.
step2:
Click on the Saved Password button then it can be opened in new window.
step3:
Click on the show passwords button.
now it will be ask to you a small alert for view this password just press yes.
step4:
now select the wanted website to view the password.

Method 2:

*go to the any login page like facebook,gmail
*right-click anywhere on the page.
*Select View Page Info and then the Security tab.
*Click View Saved Passwords. Another window will pop up showing the usernames associated with that site.
*Click Show Passwords to see the passwords for each username.

Open/Unblock YouTube in Pakistan

These three methods to open any blocked website like YouTube in Pakistan are for different users according to their usage.

1. Normal Users;
This method is for all those who just want to watch videos on YouTube and want to unblock YouTube only for watching videos. All those people are requested to open any of the following websites.
www.proxfree.com OR
www.kproxy.com

Inside the box just write down YouTube.Com and press Enter button, YouTube will be open and you can browse/download videos from YouTube on your normal speed. In these methods you cannot login to your YouTube Account.

2. YouTube Video Downloaders;
This method is for all those who want a maximum speed of download for YouTube videos, they are requested to open the following website.
www.hotspotshield.com and download the software (free) after installing the hotspotshield enable the software and browse for YouTube videos.
In this method you will be able to login to your YouTube account and can watch YouTube videos without any problem of speed. You will get the maximum speed for download that you have. In this method you cannot upload videos to your YouTube account.

3. YouTube Video Uploaders;
This method is for all those who want to upload videos to their YouTube account. Simply logon to www.spotflux.com and download the spotflux. After installing enable the software and start uploading videos to your YouTube account. Please do not download videos using this method because it reduces the speed upto 3 times than your original one, but so far the best way to use for uploading videos to YouTube Account where YouTube is blocked.

IMPORTANT: Someone has commented that his/her connection was terminated by PTCL, I am using these proxies for last two years since YouTube and Facebook was firstly blocked in Pakistan by PTA.
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Create a Digital Clock On Excel.

You can create a clock in Excel 2003,2007,2010 in one or any cells using following formula =TEXT(HOUR(NOW()),"00")&":"&TEXT(MINUTE(NOW()),"00")&":"&TEXT(SECOND(NOW()),"00") And for the  Day, Month & Year you can uses the excel NOW function: Formatting Process =Now()

The Format the cell according to you need
Ctrl+F1 => Number => Date => Select format.

Locking & Unlocking Modem

Unlocking & Locking Modem

 

The following shows the two states of ModemLockDown within your Windows taskbar - Locked & Unlocked:

Unlocking

To unlock the modems and allow an internet use:

1. Click the ModemLockDown taskbar icon and then choose the Unlock Modems option.

The Unlock screen appears.

2. Enter the correct Unlock Password. The Unlock Modems buttons will remain inactive until the correct Unlock Password is entered.

Once enabled choose either the "Unlock Modems - No time restriction" or the "Unlock Modems - With time restriction" button. If the time restriction option is chosen, you must then select an unlock period. See below.

The taskbar icon changes to green, the modems are unlocked and an internet use can resume.

Internet Access with Time Restriction

You may provided limited and automated internet access without using the "Scheduled User Access" option.

To grant access for a certain time, select either the 'Unlock Modems - With time restriction' option when unlocking the modems (described above) or select the 'Change Unlock Period' during an existing access period.

You will be presented with the following screen where you can choose the access time period required. The user will recieve notification close to and at the time the internet will be disabled.

Locking

To lock the modems immediately and cease internet access:

Click the ModemLockDown taskbar icon followed by the Lock Modems option.

That's it! The modems are now locked, any existing connection has been dropped & no new connections can be made until an unlock is in effect.

NOTE: If the "Use User Schedules" locking option has been chosen, it is not possible to lock the modems while a scheduled Unlock is in effect. See Locking Options for more information about this.

Use USB Flash As Ram In Pc

You might have noticed that your computer (window vista and xp) runs so slow while working on it, this might be as a result of low Ram space or large programs being utilized.

Today you're on the path to learn how you can use your Flash Drive as a Ram to boost up the speed of your Pc.

Many don't know the software with the name "eBoostr" while few know about it but not knowing what it's used for. eBoostr is a computer software that allows you use your USB Flash Drive as a Ram.

To learn how you can turn your USB Flash Drive into a Ram just follow the steps below :

Using USB Flash As Ram

1. You have to download the eBoostr Software which comes as zip, Unzip and Install it. The Software being a Trial Version only allows you to use it for about 5 Hours at a go. Like wise the purchased version the trial version never expires but denies you the option of using it as long as you wish like the purchased version.

So if the trial version stops working after 5 Hours, all you have to do is just restart your Pc and start using it.

You can download the free Trial version of "eBoostr."

2. After Installation Reboot your computer when ask to, Don't Ignore the Notification.

3. After your PC is been Restarted, Insert your USB Flash Drive then Open the eBoostr Software that you earlier Installed on your PC.

4. In the Program eBoostr window, Go to Edit -> Add New Cache Device, select your USB disk at the left screen and click Ok. And it will start caching the memory in your USB drive.

USE KEYBOARD WITH MOUSE (ON SCREEN KEYBOARD)

Use Keyboard with mouse

If you feel that your external keyboard is not working properly or some particular key is not functioning then you can use internal keyboard on your desktop screen. This property of keyboard is found in windows xp and seven. Just follow these steps

Go to start menu and press “run”

Type  “osk”

Now press enter.

(note. Don’t use commas)

you will see keyboard on your desktop screen. Now use mouse to click on keys for operation.

Convert Image to Icon with Any to Icon Converter

Any to Icon 3.51 converts BMP, JPEG, GIF, PNG, PCX, PSD, TGA, TIFF, WMF, WBMP, XPM, XBM and CUR formats into Windows icons. You can add files and folders from Windows Explorer or other file shells using drag and drop. You also can paste bitmaps from the clipboard and change color resolution and size to create customized icons. It's possible to convert 256-color icons into True Color icons and vice versa.

In addition, you can split icon libraries into individual icons. Any to Icon allows you to extract icons from folders and libraries and place them into the directory of your choice.

The application has wizard and command line interfaces that make it simple to process multiple files at once. You can find many images on the Internet and convert them to icons for use on your Windows desktop, in applications and elsewhere.

Supported formats:

• ICO - Windows Icon
• CUR - Windows Cursor
• BMP - Windows Bitmap
• GIF - Compuserve Graphics Interchange Format
• JPG - JPEG JFIF Image
• PNG - Portable Network Graphics
• PCX - ZSoft Publisher’s Paintbrush Image
• PSD - Adobe Photoshop Image
• TGA - Truevision Targa Image
• TIF - TIFF Image
• WMF - Windows Metafile
• EMF - Enhanced Windows Metafile
• WBMP - Wireless Bitmap
• XBM - X Bitmap
• XPM - X Pixmap
• ICL, EXE, DLL, SCR, IL, NIL and other icon libraries

System requirements:
 Windows 95/98/ME/2000/NT/XP/2003/Vista/7/8, 32 MB RAM, Pentium-233 MHz, 15 MB Hard Disk.

Trial limitations: Nag-screen, only 5 files can be converted only at once, 30 trial runs allowed.

Convert a PDF File to Word, Excel or JPG Format

One common question I’ve run across a lot these days in the office is how to convert a PDF file to Microsoft Word format (doc), Excel format (xls), or JPG picture format. Usually, people want to know how to convert a file to PDF, but it’s also nice to be able to convert back the other way. Converting to Word is actually pretty simple and can be done directly using an online file conversion service called Zamzar. Going to Excel or JPG is a two step process, but nothing very difficult to follow.
Update: There’s a much easier way to convert a PDF to JPG image format than the method I have mentioned below. Here’s how you can do it using Zamzar.com.

Convert a PDF file to JPG – Easy Way

Go to ZamZar.com, browse for your file and choose PNG format for the format to conver to under Step 2. PNG is another newer picture format that is slowly replacing the JPG format. Most programs that can open JPG files can open PNG. Zamzar automatically converts each page in the PDF document into it’s own PNG picture file. Now you can simply open Microsoft Paint (yes, all you need it Paint!) and choose File – Save As from the menu and choose JPEG from the drop down list of formats.

Convert PDF to JPG Format – Second Way

The first thing you’ll need to do is download a free software (the only one I could find) that converts PDF documents to JPEG image format automatically. Go to the Omniformat download page and download both Omniformat v8.3 and the PDF995 app. You will need to download and install PDF995 first before installing Omniformat. Once you have both programs installed, go to your Start Menu programs, find the program group Software995 and click on Omniformat.

The only annoying thing about this program is that it requires you to view some ads for about 30 seconds! However, it’s better than paying $20 or $40 for a program just to do a simple conversion! It does pop up another instance of your browser window for the web site of each of the sponsors, but it does not install any spyware onto your computer (no popup ads). Once the program is loaded, you’ll see it has a section called “Watch Folders” and then a button at the bottom titled “Start Monitoring” and “Single Pass“.

Basically the way it works is that you need to COPY the PDF files you want to convert to JPG format to the C:\omniformat\watch folder and then press Single Pass. The program will look in that directory and convert each page of each PDF into a separate JPG file. If you click Start Monitoring, you can keep dropping PDFs into that folder and the program will automatically convert them into JPGs as long as the program is open. Note that the program DELETES the original PDF document that it uses, so that’s why you need to COPY the PDF document to the watch folder, not move it! You should now see your converted files like below:

Convert your PDF to a Word document

Go to Zamzar.com and click the Browse button next to Step 1 and choose your file. By default, Step 2 will be set to DOC format, but you can choose to convert your PDF to other file types such as TXT, HMTL, RTF, etc. Type in your email address for Step 3 and click Convert.

You should receive an email within a few minutes with a download link to your converted file. I have tried out this service on some pretty complex PDF documents with text in multiple columns, multiple images, etc and have been very impressed with it’s conversion accuracy.

Convert a PDF file to Excel format

We will again follow the steps above using Zamzar, but this time choose TXT as the format you want to convert to. Unfortunately, you can’t convert straight to Excel format, so we’ll have to go through the intermediary TXT format. Once you have downloaded the TXT file and saved it on your computer, open Microsoft Excel and go to File – Open and change the Files of Type combo box to All Files.

Now you should see the converted text file in the list of files. Choose it and click Open. You’ll now be brought to the Text Import Wizard. You have to open the file in this manner because if you simply right-click and say Open With Excel, all of the text for each row will appear in the first column and not be separated.
For Step 1, choose Delimited from the two options listed.

Click Next and check off the Space checkbox as one of the delimiters. Each value should now be separated by a vertical line, indicating it’s going to be in a separate column.

Click Next and then click Finish. You can now save the file as an Excel file by going to File – Save As. There are a few drawbacks, however, as this conversion does not always work perfectly! For example, if the original Excel sheet had a column where there was text with spaces included, each word will be separated into it’s own column! Also, you won’t see any formulas or functions that may have been in the original Excel sheet, only the text.
It’s as easy as that! You can use many other image editing programs also such as Photoshop, Corel, etc, etc, but I chose Paint because that is universally available on just about every Windows computer.

Make Your Own Movies on Your Computer

Make your own home movies that you can store and edit on your computer, convert to CD Rom, e-mail.

1. Obtain a webcam. You don't need to have one of those fancy little white round ones. You can get a cheap one from Wal-Mart
   
   

   
   

2. Choose Video Editing Software - Windows Movie Maker is available in Windows but if you are using a Mac try iMovie or Linux try AviDemux.
3.  Check how to operate your webcam. Attach your camera to your computer via USB cord, normally included with camera. Make sure your camera is in WebCam mode. Find out how to put it in WebCam mode in your manual.
4. Click Tasks in Windows Movie Maker.
5. Click Capture video.
6. Enter specific settings in the window that appear. You need to enter a title for the scene. Select Best Quality for Playback on my computer and then click Next. Now, position the camera correctly so that you can capture yourself.
7. Click Start Capture to begin recording, and then click Stop Capture to stop recording.
8. Click Finish.
9. Start arranging movie clips. Drag your clips to the time-line/storyboard at the bottom of the page.
10. Click View video effects. You can add effects to your video clips, such as increasing the brightness, easing in on the picture, and more!
11. Add titles at the beginning, end credits and transitions. This step is optional.
12. Burn your movies to a CD using third-party software or a pre-installed CD burner in your XP. You can also e-mail your movies to your friends!

Protect only certain Cells, Columns or Rows in Excel

In the last post we saw how to Protect and Unprotect Excel sheets with password in general and in this post for advanced users who want just to protect only certain cells, columns, rows in an Excel sheet. This makes only certain sensitive cells as read-only while allowing the user to edit other cells or information.

So how to protect only certain cells in Excel 2007?

This tip is written for Excel 2007 but the idea maybe applied to earlier version like Excel 2003.
When you protect a sheet all the contents are protected because by default all the cells are set to be locked.
So Press the Keyboard Shortcut Ctrl + A to select all the cells of the sheet. Right click and choose Format cells. Go to the Protection tab and uncheck Locked option and click Ok.

Now select only the cells or columns, rows that you want to protect. Right click and choose Format cells again. Go to the protection tab and check Locked option and click Ok.

Go to Review tab, click Protect Sheet and protect the sheet using a password. See the previous post (How to Protect and Unprotect Excel Sheets) for more details.

Now only certain cells of the sheet will be protected.
To unprotect, just go to the review tab, and click Unprotect sheet and enter the password.

Additional Tips: If you want users to be able to change the colors or fonts, choose format cells, columns and rows option while you protect the sheet.

Convert a Numeric Value into English Words in Excel

This article contains sample Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications functions that you can use to convert a numeric value in a Microsoft Excel worksheet cell into its equivalent in English words.

Microsoft provides programming examples for illustration only, without warranty either expressed or implied. This includes, but is not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. This article assumes that you are familiar with the programming language that is being demonstrated and with the tools that are used to create and to debug procedures. Microsoft support engineers can help explain the functionality of a particular procedure. However, they will not modify these examples to provide added functionality or construct procedures to meet your specific requirements.

 

How to create the sample function Called SpellNumber

1. Start Microsoft Excel.
2. Press ALT+F11 to start the Visual Basic Editor.
3. On the Insert menu, click Module.
4. Type the following code into the module sheet.
   
   

   Option Explicit
   'Main Function
   Function SpellNumber(ByVal MyNumber)
       Dim Dollars, Cents, Temp
       Dim DecimalPlace, Count
       ReDim Place(9) As String
       Place(2) = " Thousand "
       Place(3) = " Million "
       Place(4) = " Billion "
       Place(5) = " Trillion "
       ' String representation of amount.
       MyNumber = Trim(Str(MyNumber))
       ' Position of decimal place 0 if none.
       DecimalPlace = InStr(MyNumber, ".")
       ' Convert cents and set MyNumber to dollar amount.
       If DecimalPlace > 0 Then
           Cents = GetTens(Left(Mid(MyNumber, DecimalPlace + 1) & _
                     "00", 2))
           MyNumber = Trim(Left(MyNumber, DecimalPlace - 1))
       End If
       Count = 1
       Do While MyNumber <> ""
           Temp = GetHundreds(Right(MyNumber, 3))
           If Temp <> "" Then Dollars = Temp & Place(Count) & Dollars
           If Len(MyNumber) > 3 Then
               MyNumber = Left(MyNumber, Len(MyNumber) - 3)
           Else
               MyNumber = ""
           End If
           Count = Count + 1
       Loop
       Select Case Dollars
           Case ""
               Dollars = "No Dollars"
           Case "One"
               Dollars = "One Dollar"
            Case Else
               Dollars = Dollars & " Dollars"
       End Select
       Select Case Cents
           Case ""
               Cents = " and No Cents"
           Case "One"
               Cents = " and One Cent"
                 Case Else
               Cents = " and " & Cents & " Cents"
       End Select
       SpellNumber = Dollars & Cents
   End Function
         
   ' Converts a number from 100-999 into text 
   Function GetHundreds(ByVal MyNumber)
       Dim Result As String
       If Val(MyNumber) = 0 Then Exit Function
       MyNumber = Right("000" & MyNumber, 3)
       ' Convert the hundreds place.
       If Mid(MyNumber, 1, 1) <> "0" Then
           Result = GetDigit(Mid(MyNumber, 1, 1)) & " Hundred "
       End If
       ' Convert the tens and ones place.
       If Mid(MyNumber, 2, 1) <> "0" Then
           Result = Result & GetTens(Mid(MyNumber, 2))
       Else
           Result = Result & GetDigit(Mid(MyNumber, 3))
       End If
       GetHundreds = Result
   End Function
         
   ' Converts a number from 10 to 99 into text. 
   Function GetTens(TensText)
       Dim Result As String
       Result = ""           ' Null out the temporary function value.
       If Val(Left(TensText, 1)) = 1 Then   ' If value between 10-19...
           Select Case Val(TensText)
               Case 10: Result = "Ten"
               Case 11: Result = "Eleven"
               Case 12: Result = "Twelve"
               Case 13: Result = "Thirteen"
               Case 14: Result = "Fourteen"
               Case 15: Result = "Fifteen"
               Case 16: Result = "Sixteen"
               Case 17: Result = "Seventeen"
               Case 18: Result = "Eighteen"
               Case 19: Result = "Nineteen"
               Case Else
           End Select
       Else                                 ' If value between 20-99...
           Select Case Val(Left(TensText, 1))
               Case 2: Result = "Twenty "
               Case 3: Result = "Thirty "
               Case 4: Result = "Forty "
               Case 5: Result = "Fifty "
               Case 6: Result = "Sixty "
               Case 7: Result = "Seventy "
               Case 8: Result = "Eighty "
               Case 9: Result = "Ninety "
               Case Else
           End Select
           Result = Result & GetDigit _
               (Right(TensText, 1))  ' Retrieve ones place.
       End If
       GetTens = Result
   End Function
        
   ' Converts a number from 1 to 9 into text. 
   Function GetDigit(Digit)
       Select Case Val(Digit)
           Case 1: GetDigit = "One"
           Case 2: GetDigit = "Two"
           Case 3: GetDigit = "Three"
           Case 4: GetDigit = "Four"
           Case 5: GetDigit = "Five"
           Case 6: GetDigit = "Six"
           Case 7: GetDigit = "Seven"
           Case 8: GetDigit = "Eight"
           Case 9: GetDigit = "Nine"
           Case Else: GetDigit = ""
       End Select
   End Function
        

Block Websites in Firefox

There is an Add-on available for Mozila Firefox named “BlockSite” which helps users to block websites of their choices and password protect the settings to stop unauthorized changes. So just follow the simple process written below to block sites in Firefox.


Block Web Sites in Firefox

Step 1

Add BlockSite extension to Firefox

• Click on Get Add-ons.
• Type “blocksite” in search field.
• Click on “Add to Firefox” button to install.

Step 2

Restart Firefox and navigate to “Tools” menu and select “Add-ons”

Step-3

Select “Blocksite” from extensions list and click “Options”

Step-4

• On following window click on “Add” button to add URLs that you want to block.
• Check the enable authentication check box and enter a password to protect from anyone to make changes in this block list.

Take a screen shot of Window XP

Ever see something on your screen that you’d like to email or save for later? With Microsoft Windows XP, you can take a screen shot and capture an exact image of what’s on the screen.

To take a screen shot and save it as a picture

1. Click the window you want to capture. Press Alt+Print Screen by holding down the Alt key and then pressing the Print Screen key. The Print Screen key is near the upper-right corner of your keyboard. (Depending on the type of keyboard you have, the exact key names on your keyboard may vary slightly.)

   Note

   • You can take a screen shot of your entire desktop rather than just a single window by pressing the Print Screen key without holding down the Alt key.
2. Click Start, click Accessories, and then click Paint.
3. In the Paint window, click Edit, and then click Paste.
4. When the image appears in the Paint window, click File, and then click Save As.
5. In the Save As dialog box, in the File name box, type a name for the screen shot, and then click Save.

You can now print or email the saved screen shot just like you would any other picture.

Change Windows XP all sounds

You can personalize the sounds that your computer makes when different tasks happen, such as when you turn on your computer or when you receive an email or an instant message.

To obtain sounds, you can search the web for sound clips from your favorite songs, TV shows, and movies, and then download the clips to your computer. If you want to record your own sound clips, copy sound clips from a CD or DVD, or save anything else you can hear through your computer speakers, you can use Sound Recorder, a basic sound program that comes with Windows XP.

Sounds have to be in the .wav format; you can't use .mp3 or .wma sounds. Once you've downloaded or recorded some sounds, you can set them up to play in Windows.

To change the sound associated with a program event

1. Log on to your computer as an administrator. Click Start, and then click Control Panel.
2. Click Sounds, Speech, and Audio Devices.
3. Click Change the sound scheme. The Sounds, Speech, and Audio Devices Properties dialog box appears.
4. In the Program events list, click an event. Then, click the Play button to listen to the sound currently assigned to the event.
5. To change the sound, click the Sounds list down arrow, and select a different system sound. To choose a sound that you have downloaded or recorded, click the Browse button, select the sound, and then click OK. Click the Play button again to preview the sound.
6. When you are satisfied with your sounds, click Save As.
7. In the Save Scheme As dialog box, type a name for your scheme, and then click OK.
8. In the Sounds and Audio Devices Properties dialog box, click OK.

Change Windows 7 sounds

As usual, click on the link “Sounds”:

Here, you will find all saved Windows 7 sound schemes:




Most of our themes come with new sound themes, which can be changed and customized here. If you want to apply a new sound file for “Critical Stop”, you simply click on “Browse” and locate the sound file that you want to assign for this error.

You can apply any WAV sound files as a replacement sound for:
“Asterisk”, “Close Program”, “Critical Battery Alarm”, “Critical Stop”, “Default Beep”, “Device Connect”, “Device Disconnect”, “Device Failed to Connect”, “Exclamation”, “Exit Windows”, “Low Battery Alarm”, “Maximize”, “Menu Command”, “Menu Pop-up”, “Minimize”, “New Fax Notification”, “New Mail Notification”, “Open Program”, “Print Complete”, “Program Error”, “Question”, “Restore Down”, “Restore Up”, “Select”, “Show Toolbar Band”, “System Notification”, “Windows Change Theme”, “Windows Logoff”, “Windows Logon”, “Windows User Account Control”, “Blocked Pop-up Windows”, “Complete Navigation”, “Empty Recycle Bin”, “Fax error”, “Fax sent”, “Feed Discovered”, “Incoming call”, “Information Bar”, “Move Menu Item”, “Search Provider Discovered”, “Start Navigation”.
Often you will also be able to customize sounds for special applications like iTunes or VNCviewer for example. So, there are quite a lot of sound files that you can change and customize.
If you are new to this, I would start with the most important sounds:
Asterisk, Critical Stop and Default Beep

Where can I download WAV sound files for my Windows 7 theme?

You can find, search and download sound files for Windows 7 here:
www.wavcentral.com/
www.ilovewavs.com/
www.moviewavs.com/
There are many sites out there, where you can download WAV files. You should also be looking for sound files that are SHORT, because it would be pretty annoying to hear a 12 minute long sound every time you receive an error message.

Create Windows 7 Themes

A lot of people ask me how to create Windows 7 themes. If you want to create some themes in Windows 7, you have to know that Microsoft made creating and sharing themes really simple, thanks to a new file format “.themepack”, which is basically a special ZIP format that includes cursors, sounds, wallpapers, icons, colors and more.



First of all, to create Windows 7 themes open your “Personalize” Control Panel. To do that right-click on your desktop and click on “Personalize”:
On the following windows, you will be able to create, customize and share Windows 7 themes.

The highlighted items are the most important entries. You can change “Desktop Background”, “Windows Color”, “Sounds”, “Screensaver”, “Desktop Icons” and “Mouse Pointers”.

Create Windows XP Themes

• 1
  Open and start Windows XP. There is no need to enter safe mode to create themes.
  
• 2
  Click on the Start menu and select the "Control Panel" menu option.
  
• 3
  Click on the "Appearance" link in the Control Panel window (if you are viewing the control panel in the default Windows XP view). If you would like to switch to the classic Windows Control Panel view, click the "Switch to Classic View" link.
  
• 4
  Click the "Display" icon in the Control Panel. From here you will be able to control nearly every aspect of your Windows XP themes.
  
• 5
  Click on the "Appearance" tab along the menu bar.
  
• 6
  Experiment with different settings. Change fonts, colors and sizes. Tweak the way the menu buttons behave.
  
• 7
  Click the "Desktop" tab to choose from the collection of wallpapers you have stored on your hard drive. You can choose to stretch, center or tile the wallpaper to make it appear the way you desire.
  
• 8
  Change your screensaver to something that fits with the themes you are creating. Just choose from the list provided and change its parameters to see how it would look in different states.
  
• 9
  Click back to the "Themes" tab, and then click "Save As..." in order to preserve the themes you create.
  
• 10
  Delete a theme that you no longer wish to have by selecting the theme from the drop-down menu in the "Themes" tab and clicking "Delete." You will be asked to confirm your selection, at which point you may press "Yes" or "No" to complete the operation.
  

Add an image or logo to your Hotmail Email Signature

Slightly later than planned (sorry all you folks that have been waiting with baited breath) here it is, the Clarity guide to adding an image to your Hotmail signature.
Now you may want to design your whole signature as an image (like mine, pictured) or you may just want to add an image, perhaps your logo, on to some carefully chosen words.
After much hair-tearing-out and head-bashing-on-desk I have worked out how to do it, and now I am going to share the secret with you all!
Before we start, I am going to assume you have your Hotmail (or Windows Live Mail) account open on a webpage, and that you have the picture/image/logo you would like to include. In the right size- i.e. the size you would like it to appear at on the bottom of your emails.
The crucial first step is to realise that you cannot use an image saved on your computer. You need to upload the image on to the web somewhere. If you have your own website you can upload it there, add it to a post on your blog, or just use an online image repository like flickr.com. Open a webpage with your image on it. And off we go.

Step by Step

• Click on your id in the top right hand corner of the Hotmail window, and select Options from the dropdown menu.
• On the next screen click on Mail in the left hand menu
• Click Personal e-mail signature under Writing email. This brings up a new screen with a blank ‘page’ for you to design your signature in. If you are doing a signature with some text in too, add your text now (it will be easier to position your image if the text is there first)
• Click over to the web page containing the image or just load the image itself using its URL.
• Highlight the image — just the image — with your mouse.
• Press Ctrl-C (Windows, Linux) or Command-C (Mac).
• Go back to Hotmail, position the cursor where you want to insert the image and press Ctrl-V (Windows, Linux) or Command-V (Mac).
• If you have already inserted some text, you are now done, and can click Save. However, if you have a full image signature, you need to add some text in order for the Hotmail system to save it. I used a line of __________ , but you could use ******* or ——– or anything you like. If you do NOT add text, the image will not be saved in your signature.
• Click Save.
• Do a dance because you now have a pretty email signature in Hotmail. Simples.

Add or Change a Signature in Yahoo

1. Click Options in the upper-right corner of your Mail page and select More Options.
2. From the list on the left, click Signature.
3. You can select Show a signature on all outgoing messages to enable the signature. Select Do not use a signature if you want to turn your signature off – or you can simply delete it manually from emails in which you’d rather not show it.
4. On the far right of the message window, above the text area, click either Plain Text or Rich Text. Plain Text is just the letters. In Rich Text, you can work with color, font, size and style choices that you select from the toolbar.
   
   Note: For a Rich Text signature to appear in Rich Text, you must compose your email in Rich Text. Make that selection by clicking the Rich Text link in the Compose window, to the right of the Subject box.
5. Next, add or change your signature by typing in the text area.
6. At the top of the page, click Save Changes.

Your signature will now appear at the bottom of any message you compose.

How to Change the Welcome/Login Screen in Windows XP ?

Seeing the same old blue screen each time you login to Windows XP can get quite boring for you with passing time. Probably the best way to get rid of this blue screen is to use the direct login feature and not see the welcome screen at all but for multi user computers the welcome screen acts as a login portal and you can not disable it whatsoever.
However there is a simple trick to change the welcome screen .


How would you Like this One ?
How to Change the Welcome/Login Screen in Windows XP ?
Change Windows Welcome (Login) Screen
Just make sure that you have the “Use welcome screen” option activated in

Control Panel –> Users Accounts –> Logon and Logoff Options
before trying to apply this trick.
Basically there are two ways to change your login screen.
First One is to either replace your default login screen with your new one and the other method is to play with the registry such that it recognizes the new login screen as the default one ..
The following steps will guide you how to over write your existing login screen with your new one.
Here are the steps :
1. Make a backup copy of C:\windows\system32\logonui.exe
2. Rename your new login screen to logonui.exe
3. Overwrite the existing login screen file with your new login screen and thats it you are done.
Second Method that will help Windows identify your new login screen as the default one. The good thing about this trick it that you don’t have to delete or replace your original login screen file. Here it goes.
1. Copy your custom login screen file under another name, let’s say logonuiA.exe, to C:\Windows\system3\
2. Open Start menu –> Run –> and type Regedit
3. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE –> SOFTWARE –> Microsoft –> Windows NT –> CurrentVersion –> Winlogon and change the value for UIHost to logonuiA.exe.

How to Reset Windows 7 Administrator Password

Lost or forgot Windows 7 administrator password? This is the most common problem that Windows 7 users are usually confronted with. How to deal with it so that you can log back into your administrator account? Even if you don't have to reset a forgotten password now, you should get acquainted with this issue. I must admit that I managed to forget my password more than once. Here I'm going to show you 2 easy ways to reset Windows 7 administrator password, so you can log on your computer when you forgot the admin password.

 

Method 1: Use Other Administrator Account

If you can still log on to an account with administrator privileges, it's very easy to reset the password for any other user account, including the administrator account. Please follow these steps:

1. Go to Control Panel and click on the User Accounts and Family Safety, then click on User Accounts.
   
   
2. In the next window, click on the Manage another account link, you'll see a list of Windows accounts.
   
   
3. Select the administrator account that you want to remove the password for.
4. Click on Remove the password link, it will blank your forgotten administrator password immediately.
   
   

This method enables you to reset Windows 7 administrator password without using any software. But it requires you to log on through another admin account.

 

Method 2: Reset Windows 7 Administrator Password with Software

If you forgot Windows 7 password and can't log on to your computer with any administrator account, you need to create a Windows password reset disk which enables you to reset Windows 7 administrator password quickly and easily.

1. Download the self-extracting Zip file of Reset Windows Password package.
2. Unzip the download file, there is an ISO image: ResetWindowsPwd.iso. Burn it onto a blank CD/DVD or USB flash drive using ISO2Disc or any CD/DVD burning software you like.
3. Boot your locked computer from the Windows password reset disk.
4. Wait until the boot process is complete. When a window pops up with all your Windows accounts, select the administrator account and then click the Reset Password button.
5. It will reset Windows 7 administrator password immediately.

Next, take out the Windows password reset disk and restart the computer. You can then log into administrator account without being asked for a password.

Create different viruses

Yes, You can create your own fake viruses to fool you fiends and have some fun. Creating fake viruses is so much fun that reading and following along this article would seem like a game.
It is very easy it is to create a fake virus. You don’t even need advanced skills, but after creating the virus, I bet, you friends will be amazed and think of you as a master programmer. But, actually you do not even need progamming skills to master this art.
You can fool your friends by creating fake viruses that seem identical to a normal virus. It will also seem to behave like a normal virus, but actually won’t harm the system. Remember, Our primary goal is to have some fun. We do not intend to harm anyone’s system at all. Be honest, play safe.


Fake virus message
Introduction
Fake virus message can make your friends feel that a virus has infected their system. You can create fake virus message without harming your own or someone else's computer. This fake virus will just create a mental havoc, but actually won’t harm the system.This is the most basic virus you can create using notepad. You just need to type in your message and the message is displayed as soon as anyone clicks on the bat file you created using notepad. This kind of virus may threaten the user into believing that a virus has attacked their computer and is causing such messages!But only you, being the programmer of the virus know that the message is just a command prompt command and is actually not a virus. So, have fun creating your own custom messages to threaten the user!

How to do it
1. Open notepad. Click start => All Programs => Accessories => Notepad.
2. Now type the following in the notepad as shown in the screenshot below:

3. Now save as virus.bat & in the files type select- All Files.

Shutdown Time-out

Introduction
This kind of fake virus shows an error message & shuts down the computer within a time limit. The user does not get an idea to prevent the shutdown. This fake virus starts a countdown & turns off the computer just after the completion of the countdown.This kind of virus can threaten the user. It acts as if a virus has attacked the computer, damaged system files, damaged the operating system and deleted system data. (but you, the creator of the virus actually know that it won’t delete anything, heck. It won’t even do anything!).It acts as if a virus has attacked the system which is forcing a shut down on the system. This is a great way to have fun with your friends. You threaten them & after a moment when he turns on the computer, he finds nothing has happened at all!. Then you can tell them that it is a fake virus! Don’t blame me afterwards, after all, you created it!

How to do it
1. Right click on the desktop
2. Go to New => Shortcut

3.Now in the location of the item text box type shutdown -s -t 30 -c “Your message here“.

Endless command prompt Windows

Introduction
This kind of virus opens numerous command prompt windows, which in turn hangs the user’s system (in other words, freezes the system). You can create this kind of virus to hang the user’s system, and then there is no option but to turn off the system. The user cannot do anything to stop the command prompt windows from opening!There is a flow of endless Command Prompt windows which cannot be stopped by any methods. Not even task manager will help. Untill the time you decide and see the task manager windows, you will already have a hundreds of command prompt windows!To understand the technique behind the endless flow of command prompt Windows, read the description below in full:We create 2 files- 1.bat, 2.bat. Both of them (as you know) open with command prompt. Now when we open 1.bat, 2.bat automatically opens because 1.bat calls 2.bat & 2.bat again call 1.bat. This process of calling (or opening) each other continues endlessly. We open 1.bat which opens 2.bat. Now 2.bat again opens 1.bat & 1.bat opens 2.bat again. This process continues endlessly.1.bat => 2.bat => 1.bat => 2.bat => 1.bat => 2.bat ……………………. The process continues

How to do it
1. Open notepad.
2. Now type the following: start 2.bat.

3.Now save as 1.bat with save as type: All files.

4.Now open the untitled notepad again.
5.Now type start 1.bat & save as 2.bat in the same location as the previous file 1.bat.

6.Now you need to double click (or execute) any of the bat files created to check the working of the fake virus.

Deadliest virus!!!

Introduction
This is the most dangerous virus I am going to discuss with you in this article. In short, you may say, this is going to be the deadliest virus you are going to create after reading this section!So far, I have discussed about making three types of viruses. Out of which, endless command prompt windows virus works with all windows versions, whereas the other two viruses discussed may not work in windows vista and later version of windows because they have other commands for performing the task.In this section, I am going to teach you the art of creating an actual virus that may threaten a user and make him believe that his computer has been attacked by a real virus. In this section for creating the deadliest virus, we are going to integrate all of the above mentioned viruses into one single batch file.In this final virus, we will not only integrate the previously mentioned commands, but also add some more commands and functionality to make it look like a real threatening virus!!! Ok let’s get started…

How to do it
1. Open notepad.
2. Now type the following: @echo off echo Do you want to delete C:\windows and boot sector files? (Y/N) Pause >nul dir /s echo all files deleted pause msg * Windows has encountered a problem and needs to close. shutdown -s -t 30 -c "Windows has been targetted by Dipojjal virus. Unable to locate system.exe"
3. Now save the file as complete.bat (or any file name you like with .bat extension).Here is a screenshot to illustrate the above mentioned steps:

Disable Restart Prompt

Introduction
It is irritating when your mom tells you to turn off your computer when you are doing some important work or playing a game.
The restart prompt is just like that “mom”. It's frustrating when you get a prompt to restart your computer when you do not want to.
Why is it so & how does it happen?
When you are connected to the Internet, the important updates are automatically downloaded. After the completion of the windows update, you get a message to restart your PC.
Now this is the most irritating part. Imagine that you are browsing something that is very important to you & do not want to restart or get an advanced tension of restarting it later. I admit that you can click the button restart later, but what if you could permanently remove this nagging screen?
Voilla!!! You can remove this nag screen. You can disable restart prompt. Thanks to the registry editor!

How to do it
1.Click run located on the start menu.
2.Now type “regedit” and click OK.
3.Now you will encounter a registry editor screen.
4.In the registry editor screen, navigate to- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies > Microsoft\Windows
5.On the right pane, right click & select New => Key
6.Now a Folder is created.
7.Right click the folder created on the left pane & select New => Key
8.Now you will see a sub-folder. Rename this sub-folder to AU (AutoUpdate)
9.Now return to the right pane & select New => DWORD Value.
10.Now right click on the new DWORD Value created & change the name to- NoAutoRebootWithLoggedOnUsers & the value to 1 (value 0 means false & 1 means true).

Results
Now you are completed with the operation of preventing windows from showing that irritating, frustrating restart dialogue box. Now you may restart the windows to see the changes. From now, you wont be asked to restart windows after updating you system
A single restart for preventing the lifetime automatic restart. Seems like a profitable deal isn’t it?

Hide drives of your computer

Introduction:
It is amazing know that we can hide windows drives. You might be aware of how to hide files and foldes, but did you know you can hide drives in windows?
Hiding a whole volume is fun but sometimes it becomes important also. Actually for me, It's fun to hide a full drive.
Actually the main purpose behind hiding a drive is to restrict users from viewing the contents of a particular drive. You can hide the whole drive and it can be any of your drives- d drive, e drive, or even c drive!. Yes, you can hide any of them. Once you hide a drive, it’s gone! No one would even get to know about the hidden drive.
Consider an example situation where hiding a drive becomes necessary - I have kept my security passwords, important files, folders, etc. on drive E: and I don’t want anyone to view the contents of that drive, so I will simply hide the drive, so that it is harder even for an advanced user to open that particular drive.
A normal PC user will not even get to know that E: drive is there, already residing on your computer because he cannot see it. But only me and you know the inside secret that it has been hidden. No one can unhide the hidden drive without using group policy editor (gpedit).

How to do it:
1.First go to "Start" => "Run"
2.In the "Run" dialog box, type "gpegedit.msc"
3.Now you will see the group policy editor window.
4.In the group policy editor window, navigate to- Administrative Templates => Windows Components => Windows explorer
5.Now on the right pane, double click- ‘Hide these specified drives in my computer’.
6.Now on the ‘Hide these specified drives in my computer properties’ screen, click enabled.
7.Now in the section ‘pick one of the following combinations’ click the down arrow to see all the drives.
8.Select one of the mentioned drives in the down arrow & click apply
9.Click OK.
10.Close the group policy editor window

Remove welcome screen in "Window XP"

Introduction:
If you have only one user account & do not have a password for it, you can remove Welcome screen. Earlier I installed a software that turned on Welcome screen & it irritated me a lot because I had only one account to switch to & did not have a password for it, still had to click on my user account to open it every time I turn on my computer.
Generally, in such a case as outlined above, we do not need to click on the username, so we don’t have a welcome screen. But, sometimes some antiviruses or other softwaes may turn on the welcome screen. You need to click on your username everytime you turn on the computer.
Finally I decided to get rid of this unnecessary irritating welcome screen. I will teach you the same so that you can also remove welcome screen.

How to do it:
1.Click start.
2.Now click control Panel to open it.
3.Now click User Accounts.
4.Now in the pick a task section, click “change the way users log on or off”.
5.Now uncheck ‘Use the Welcome screen’.
6.Click apply option.

Brief how to do it:
Control Panel => User Accounts => Change the way users log on or off.

Convert "FAT32" to "NTFS"

Introduction
"Windows XP" have 2 types of file systemsm, which are given below.

• FAT32
• NTFS

You may keep any of the above mentioned file systems but, I recommend you to use NTFS file system because I have tried both files systems & concluded that NTFS has many advantages over FAT32 file system. That is why I created the article to convert FAT32 to NTFS file system, so that you can update your file system.
It would be worthless to convert NTFS to FAT32 file system. NTFS is a newer and better file system than FAT32. Here are some of the advantages of NTFS file system over FAT32 files system:

• NTFS file system is much faster than FAT32.
• NTFS drives can be compressed to save disk space.
• NTFS drives have stronger security system than FAT32.
• Administrator password on a FAT32 drive can easily be hacked, whereas doing so in an NTFS drive is difficult.

So, I recommend you to use NTFS file system rather than FAT32 files system as it is the latest, more secured, fast, and reliable file system than the previous FAT32 file system.

How to do it
1. Click "start"
2. Click "Run"
3. Type "cmd" (without ‘’ quotes)in the run dialog box & click OK
4. Now you should see the command prompt window. In the command prompt window, type ‘convert [driveletter]: /FS:NTFS’ (without ‘’ quotes).

Some examples to help you
1.convert c:/FS:NTFS- This will convert file system of C: drive from FAT32 to NTFS.2.convert d:/FS:NTFS- This will convert d: drive from FAT32 to NTFS.
Here is a screenshot illustrating conversion of FAT32 to NTFS:

Rename your recycle bin on desktop

Introduction:
Renaming the "Recycle Bin" can be a bit of fun because as I guess you would be pleased to hear your friend saying- wow how did you do it? It’s amazing, you are a genius. Does not it sound nice? I would not admit that renaming "Recycle Bin" is as easy as renaming other icons & even if I would, I would be lying to you.
This is because you cannot just right click Recycle Bin & select rename from the right click option. You will not even get the option to rename it. The option for renaming is not shown when you right click recycle bin icon. However, it would generally do so in case of any other file, folder or icon. You can not just rename the recycle bin icon in "Windows XP" using normal ways to rename. If you want to rename the recycle Bin, you would need to use the Registry Editor (a component included in Windows to edit, manage & maintain the registry).
But, it is still easy. Just follow the step by step procedure, you will breeze through the steps and the process would seem like a gameplay.

How to do it:
1.Got to start & click Run.
2.Now in the open dialog box, type ‘regedit’
3.Now, you should see a registry editor screen as shown below:
4.Now navigate to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\EXPlorer\CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}.
5.Now after navigating to the above mentioned address in the Registry Editor, You will see an entry called (Default) which has no value data. Right click it & select Modify.
6.Now in the value data type "Trash" (Without quotes) as shown in the screenshot below:
7.Now you are finished, so click OK & close the registry editor.
8.Now as soon as you refresh your Desktop, the boring Recycle Bin text is gone & you are ready with you new text- Trash.

Results:
Now as soon as you see the desktop, refresh the desktop by pressing "F5" & you are ready with the new name of Recycle Bin.Restart if you still do not see the changed name.