HOW TO RESET /REMOVE /BYPASS FORGOTTEN BIOS OR CMOS PASSWORD

BIOS PASSWORD ARE USED TO ADD SOME EXTRA SECURITY TO COMPUTER.YOU CAN EITHER SET A PASSWORD TO PREVENT ACCESS TO BIOS SETTINGS OR TO PREVENT PC FROM BOOTING.
BUT SOMETIME THIS EXTRA SECURITY MIGHT BECOME A PAIN WHEN YOU FORGET THE BIOS PASSWORD OR SOMEONE CHANGES YOUR SYSTEM BIOS PASSWORD INTENTIONALLY.

BUT THERE IS NO NEED TO WORRY.THERE ARE MANY KNOWN WAYS TO RESET/ REMOVE/BYPASS THE PASSWORD:

                                      BY REMOVING CMOS BATTERY

 
ALMOST ALL MOTHERBOARDS USE A SMALL COIN SIZED CMOS BATTERY TO STORE ALL BIOS SETTINGS ALONG WITH THE PASSWORD.TO RESET THE PASSWORD ,UNPLUG THE PC , OPEN THE CABINET AND REMOVE THE CMOS BATTERY FOR APPROX.15-30 MINUTES AND THEN PUT IT BACK.IT'LL RESET ALL BIOS SETTINGS AS WELL AS THE PASSWORD AND YOU'LL NEED TO RE-ENTER ALL SETTINGS.

                          BY USING MOTHERBOARD JUMPER

ALMOST ALL MOTHERBOARD CONTAIN A JUMPER THAR CAN CLEAR ALL CMOS SETTINGS ALONG WITH THE BIOS PASSWORD.THE LOCATION OF THIS JUMPER VARIES DEPENDING UPON THE MOTHERBOARD BRAND.YOU SHOULD READ YOUR MOTHERBOARD MANUAL TO CHECK ITS LOCATION.IF YOU DON'T HAVE THE MANUAL THEN LOOK FOR THE JUMPER NEAR THE CMOS BATTERY.MOST OF THE  MANUFACTURER LABEL THE JUMPER AS CLR.CLEAR,CLEAR CMOS ETC.

WHEN YOU FIND THE JUMPER ,LOOK CAREFULLY WILL BE 3 PINS AND THE JUMPER WILL BE JOINING THE CENTER PIN TO EITHER LEFT OR RIGHT PIN.WHAT YOU NEED TO DO, IS REMOVE THE JUMPER AND JOIN THE CENTER PIN TO THE OPPOSITE PIN.
E.G IF THE JUMPER JOINS CENTER PIN TO LEFT PIN,THEN REMOVE IT AND JOIN CENTER PIN TO RIGHT PIN.NOW WAIT FOR A FEW SECONDS AND THEN AGAIN REMOVE THE JUMPER AND JOIN THE CENTER PIN TO LEFT PIN.
                            

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POWERCFG COMMAND : MANAGE POWER SETTINGS IN COMMAND LINE

POWERCFG COMMAND ON WINDOWS ALLOWS USERS TO CONFIGURE POWER

SETTINGS ON LAPTOPS/DESKTOPS .USING THIS COMMAND WE CAN CONFIGURE

SETTINGS RELATED TO IDLE TIMERS, LOW BATTERY ALARMS,HIBERNATE/SLEEP TIMER

ETC.

GET THE CURRENT ACTIVE SCHEME DETAILS:

 POWERCFG  -GETACTIVESCHEME

LIST THE POWER SCHEMES AVAILABLE ON THE SYSTEM


POWERCFG /LIST

 SET ACTIVE POWER SCHEME

POWERCFG -SETATIVE SCHEME-GUID

OR
 
POWERCFG -S SCHEME-GUID



GET THE CURRENT SCHEME SETTINGS

POWERCFG  /QUERY

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GET BIOS SERIAL NUMBER

WE CAN RETRIEVE  BIOS SERIAL NUMBER USING THE BELOW COMMAND

WMIC BIOS GET SERIALNUMBER



WE CAN FIND OTHER BIOS INFORMATION ALSO USING  'WMIC BIOS GET' COMMAND.IN THE ABOVE COMMAND YOU NEED TO REPLACE  'SERIALNUMBER' WITH THE APPROPRIATE PROPERTY FROM THE LIST BELOW

• BIOSCHARACTERISTICS
• BUILDNUMBER
• CODESET
• CURRENTLANGUAGE
• DESCRIPTION 
• IDENTIFICATIONCODE
• INSTALLDATE
• INSTALLABLELANGUAGE
• LANGUAGEEDITION 
• LISTOFLANGUAGE
• MANUFACTURER
• NAME
• OTHERTARGETOS
• PRIMARYBIOS
• RELEASEDATE
• SMBIOSBIOSVERSION
• SMBIOSMAJORVERSION
• SMBIOSMINORVERSION
• SMBIOSPRESENT
• SERIALNUMBER
• SOFTWAREELEMENTID
• SOFTWAREELEMENTSTATE
• STATUS
• TARGETOPERATIONGSYSTEM
• VERSION

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HOW TO LAUNCH PAINT FROM RUN WINDOWS

MICROSOFT PAINT IS A BUILT IN APPLICATION IN WINDOWS OPERATING SYSTEM TO EDIT ANY KIND OF IMAGE .WE CAN ALSO TAKE SNAPSHOTS OF THE SCREEN DISPLAYED ON THE DESKTOP USING THIS APPLICATION .THIS APPLICATION CAN BE LAUNCHED FROM START MENU BY SELECTING "ALL PROGRAMS " AND THEN "ACCESSORIES" AND THEN "PAINT".

 SNAPSHOT OF MICROSOFT PAINT APPLICATION IS SHOWN ABOVE. EVEN THIS SNAPSHOT IS TAKEN USING PAINT APPLICATION  ITSELF.

WE CAN LAUNCH PAINT APPLICATION DIRECTLY FROM RUN WINDOWS ALSO.RUN COMMAND FOR OPENING PAINTS IS MSPAINT 

THIS COMMAND  MSPAINT CAN ALSO BE USED FROM COMMAND PROMPT TO LAUNCH PAINT APPLICATION. THIS COMMAND WORKS ON WINDOWS XP, VISTA, AND WINDOWS 7 OPERATING SYSTEMS.


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OPEN TEXT FILE FROM COMMAND LINE

ON A WINDOWS MACHINE, WE CAN OPEN A TEXT FILE FROM COMMAND PROMPT BY

JUST  GIVING THE FILE  NAME.

FOR EXAMPLE TO OPEN A TEXT FILE NAMED FILE1.TXT, WE JUST NEED TO TYPE

FILE1.TXT IN THE COMMAND PROMPT  AND PRESS "ENTER".


C:>FILE1.TXT


NOTE THAT FILE NAME SHOULD HAVE THE EXTENSION AS .TXT OTHERWISE COMMAND

PROMPT WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO IDENTIFY WHICH APPLICATION NEED TO NE USED

TO OPEN THE FILE.



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HOW TO HIBERNATE WINDOWS FROM COMMAND LINE

 WE CAN HIBERNATE  A WINDOWS COMPUTER FROM COMMAND PROMPT USING

SHUTDOWN  COMMAND .SHUTDOWN COMMAND HAS  VARIOUS SWITCHES FOR

DIFFERENT  OPERATIONS LIKE SHUTDOWN,REBOOT,HIBERNATE ,LOGOFF ETC. THE

COMMAND FOR HIBERNATING WINDOWS COMPUTER IS GIVEN BELOW


SHUTDOWN /H

THIS WORKS ON ALL WINDOWS VERISONS -XP,VISTA,WINDOWS 7, SERVER 2003 AND

SERVER 2008.

SHUTDOWN CA BE USED IN A BATCH SCRIPT FILE ALSO.ONCE THE COMMAND IS

TRIGGERED ,WE CAN'T ABORT THE HIBERNATE OPERATION.



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GER SERIAL NUMBER FOR RAM ,MOTHERBOARD ,HARD DISK

WE CAN FIND THE SERIAL NUMBERS OF VARIOUS HARDWARE DEVICES  USING WMIC.YOU CAN FIND THE COMMANDS BELOW.THESE CAN BE EXECUTED FROM WINDOWS COMMAND PROMPT.

GET SERIAL NUMBER OF RAM CHIPS.
WMIC MEMORYCHIP GET SERIALNUMBER

THIS COMMAND LISTS  SERIAL NUMBER FOR EACH RAM MODULE INSTALLED ON THE COMPUTER.

GET SERIAL NUMBER FOR HARD DISKS
 WMIC DISKDRIVE GET SERIALNUMBER

GET SERIAL NUMBER FOR MOTHERBOARDS
WMIC BASEBOARD GET SERIALNUMBER

GET SERIAL NUMBER FOR CD ROM DRIVE

WMIC CDROM WHERE DRIVE ='D:' GET SERIALNUMBER

REPLACE 'D:' WITH THE DRIVE LETTER FOR THE CDROM ON YOUR COMPUTER.

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FIND DISK FREE SPACE FROM COMMAND LINE

OPEN COMMAND PROMPT (RUN AS ADMINISTRATOR).
IN WINDOWS, WE CAN FIND FREE SPACE OF A DISK DRIVE USING  FSUTIL COMMAND.THIS COMMAND'S SYNTAX IS SHOWN BELOW

FSUTIL VOLUME DISK FREE DRIVE LETTER

DRIVE LETTER CAN BE ANY LOCAL DRIVE

EXAMPLE:

FSUTIL VOLUME DISKFREE  E:


NOTE THAT THIS COMMAND SHOULD BE RUN FROM ELEVATED COMMAND PROMPT(CMD RUN AS ADMINISTRATOR).

 THE ABOVE FSUTIL COMMAND WORKS ON XP,VISTA, WINDOWS 7 ,SERVER 2003 AND SERVER 2008.


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DELETE NETWORK DRIVE FROM COMMAND LINE

WE CAN DELETE  MAPPED DRIVE COMMAND LINE USING  'NET USE' COMMAND .FOR

EXAMPLE TO DISCONNECT THE NETWORK SHARE MAPPED TO THE DRIVE Z: WE CAN

RUN THE BELOW COMMAND

NET USE  /DEL Z:

SIMILARLY TO DELETE  ALL THE MAPPED DRIVES WE CAN RUN THE BELOW COMMAND

NET USE  /DEL *





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OPEN MY DOCUMENTS FOLDER FROM MY COMMAND LINE

IN WINDOWS XP, WE CAN USE USERINIT COMMAND TO OPEN MY DOCUMENTS FOLDER IN EXPLORER.

 

 THIS COMMAND CAN BE USED FROM RUN WINDOWS ALSO. 

  IN WINDOWS 7, 'USERINIT' COMMAND OPENS THE LIBRARIES FOLDER, WHICH SHOWS LINKS TO DOCUMENTS, PICTURES, MUSIC AND VIDEO.TO OPEN DOCUMENTS FOLDER, WE CAN RUN THE COMMAND 'DOCUMENTS' FROM RUN WINDOW.

HOWEVER,THIS DOES NOT WORK FROM COMMAND PROMPT.WE CAN USE 'START DOCUMENTS' IN COMMAND PROMPT TO OPEN THE DOCUMENTS FOLDER.

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GET CDROM DVDROM INFORMATION

WE CAN FIND THE DETAIL LIKE SERIAL NUMBER,MANUFACTURER AND OTHER DETAILS ABOUT  A CDROM OR DVDROM DRIVE FROM WINDOWS COMMAND LINE.WE CAN USE
'WMIC CDROM" COMMAND FOR THIS.
WE CAN USE THE BELOW COMMAND TO GET THE INFORMATION ABOUT CDROM OR DVDROM.


WMIC CDROM WHERE MEDIATYPE!='UNKNOWN' GET /FORMAT:LIST

 'WMIC CDROM' COMMAND CONSISDER USB DEVICES ALSO AS CDROMS.FOR USB DRIVES  THE MEDIA TYPE FIELD WOULD BE UNKNOWN.THE ABOVE COMMAND'S OUTPUT WILL SKIP THOSE ENTRIES AS WE ARE FILTERING THEM WITH THE CONDITION
'MEDIATYPE!=UNKNOWN'.

TO GET SERIALNUMBER OF THE CDROM/DVDROM DEVICE.

WMIC CDROM WHERE MEDIATYPE!='UNKNOWN' GET DESCRIPTION,SERIALNUMBER

TO GET THE CDROM OR DVDROM MODEL FROM COMMAND LINE.

WMIC CDROM WHERE MEDIATYPE!='UNKNOWN' GET NAME,MEDIATYPE



 
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HOW TO FIND COMPUTER MODEL ON WINDOWS COMMAND LINE

WE CAN GET COMPUTER MODEL (LIKE MANUFACTURE NAME,MODEL NUMBER) AS BELOW.

JUST RUN COMMAND GIVEN BELOW TO GET COMPUTER MODEL

OPEN COMMAND PROMPT AND TYPE THIS CODE

WMIC CSPRODUCT GET VENDOR, VERSION
 
THERE'S ANOTHER COMMAND WHICH CAN BE USED TO GET THE COMPUTER SYSTEM

MODEL INFORMATION.WE CAM ALSO GET ARCHITECTURE (32BIT/64BIT) USING THIS

COMMAND.


WMIC COMPUTERSYSTEM GET MODEL , NAME, MANUFACTURER,SYSTEMTYPE


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HOW TO FIND PHYSICAL MEMORY SIZS FROM COMMAND LINE

IN WINDOWS , WE CAN FIND THE PHYSICAL MEMORY SIZW FROM COMMAND LINE.WE CAN DO THIS EITHER USING SYSTEMINFO OR WMIC COMMAND .BOTH THE COMMAND ARE GIVEN BELOW.
 
USING SYSTEMINFO COMMAND
 OPEN COMMAND PROMPT AND TYPE THESE CODE
 
SYSTEMINFO | FINDSTR /C:"TOTAL PHYSICAL MEMORY"

EXAMPLE
 C:\>SYSTEMINFO |FINDSTR /C:"TOTAL PHYSICAL MEMORY"
 TOTAL PHYSICAL MEMORY: 3,794 MB

USNG WMIC COMMAND
OPEN COMMAND PROMPT AND TYPE THESE CODE
WMIC MEMORYCHIP LIST FULL
 THIS COMMAND GIVES GET CAPACITY
CAPACITY
4294967296

THE EXAMPLE COMMANDS ARE RUN ON THE SAME COMPUTER. AS YOU MIGHT HAVE NOTICED, THE VALUE SHOWED BY SYSTEMINFO COMMAND IS LESS THAN WHAT WMIC COMMAND SHOWS.
THIS DISCREPANCY CAN BE UNDERSTOOD AS FOLLOWS.WMIC COMMAND SHOWS THE TOTAL INSTALLED MEMORY ON THE SYSTEM WHERE AS SYSTEMINFO COMMAND SHOWS USABLE MEMORY.

                                              
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INTRODUCTION TO EVENT VIEWER

 THE WINDOWS EVENT VIEWER IS A SOFTWARE FEATURE FOUND IN MICROSOFT WINDOWS 2000, WINDOWS XP, WINDOWS VISTA , WINDOWS 7 AND WINDOWS  8 THAT LOGS EVENT ,ERROR AND OTHER INFORMATION. IT IS USEFUL FOR THING LIKE TROUBLESHOOTING ERROR AND VIEWING AUTOMATIC UPDATES. THE FILES THAT CONTAINS THESE EVENTS IS CALLED THE THE PICTURE BELOW SHOWS AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT EVENT VIEWER LOOKS LIKE IN WINDOWS.
WINDOWS EVENT LOG.

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HOW TO DISPLAY MENU BAR IN WINDOWS 7 EXPLORER

BY DEFAULT WINDOWS EXPLORER  DOES NOT DISPLAY THE MENU BAR IN WINDOWS 7. THE MENU BAR CAN REALLY HELP YOU IN MANAGING YOUR DAILY ROUTINE TASK, IT CONTAINS ALL OPTION TO  CUSTOMIZE WINDOWS EXPLORER. GO THROUGH THE FOLLOWING SIMPLE STEPS TO ENABLE THE MENU BAR IN WINDOWS 7 EXPLORER.

FIRST OF ALL, CLICK THE START BUTTON AND TYPE FOLDER OPTION AND HIT ENTER. THE FOLDER OPTIONS WINDOWS WILL BE DISPLAYED.

 

NOW IN THE FOLDER OPTIONS DIALOG WINDOWS ,CLICK THE VIEW TAB AND UNDER THE ADVANCED SETTINGS YOU WILL BE ABLE TO SEE THE OPTION ALWAYS SHOW MENUS, CHECK THIS TO ENABLE THE MENU BAR.

 

HERE IS HOW THE MENU BAR LOOKS IN WINDOWS 7 EXPLORER.

YOU CAN ALSO VIEW THE MENU BAR TEMPORARILY BY HITTING ALT KEY IN YOUR KEYBOARD , HITTING IT AGAIN WILL HIDE THE MENU BAR.

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HOW TO QUICKLY FIND OUT HOW LONG YOU HAVEN'T TURNED YOUR COMPUTER OFF

SOMETIME, YOU NEED TO FIND OUT HOW LONG YOUR COMPUTER HAS BEEN RUNNING JUST SO YOU CAN GIVE IT A BIT OF A REST.NOPE, YOU DON'T NEED A STOPWATCH AS WINDOWS XP, VISTA AND 7 , ALL HAVE A WAY OF TELLING YOU HOW MUCH TIME HAS ELAPSED SINCE YOU LAST TURNED IT ON.

WINDOWS 7 AND VISTA MAKE IT REAL FROM THE TASK MANAGER. HERE'S HOW YOU CAN FIND HOW YOU LONG YOU HAVEN'T TURNED YOUR COMPUTER OFF IN WINDOWS 7 (SOME FOR VISTA) AND IN WINDOWS XP.


1) RIGHT-CLICK ON THE TASKBAR AND THEN CLICK ON TASK MANAGER.YOU CAN ALSO PRESS CTRL+SHIFT+ESC TO BRING UP THE TASK MANAGER

2) SELECT THE PERFORMANCE TAB.YOU CAN SEE HOW LONG THE COMPUTER HAS BEEN ON SINCE THE LAST REBOOT MENTIONED AS UP TIME UNDER SYSTEM.

 

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HOW TO KNOW THE LAST SHUTDOWN TIME OF YOUR WINDOWS PC

IF YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT WAS THE  EXACT LAST SHUTDOWN TIME OF YOUR COMPUTER ,THEN YOU CAN FIND THAT OUT USING A SIMPLE TRICK.YOU'D NEED TO GO TO THE EVENT VIEWER IN WINDOWS TO GET THAT INFORMATION.
HERE ARE THE STEPS.

IF YOU ARE USING WINDOWS VISTA OR WINDOWS 7,CLICK THE START ICON AND TYPE EVENT VIEWER IN THE SEARCH BOX. EVENT VIEWER PROGRAM WILL APPEAR .CLICK ON IT.


IF YOU ARE A WINDOWS XP USER ,GO TO START >RUN.TYPE EVENTVWR.MSC AND CLICK OK BUTTON.

EVENT VIEWER WINDOWS WILL OPEN.NOW ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THAT WINDOWS CLICK ON "WINDOWS LOGS". NOW ON THE RIGHT SIDE ,CLICK ON SYSTEM.

 

ALL THE SYSTEM FILES WILL OPEN ON THE RIGHT SIDE.NOW ON THE SOURCE COLUMN YOU  HAVE TO FIND OUT EVENT LOG SOURCE HAVING EVENT ID 6006 (6006 IS AN EVENT ID FOR SHUTDOWN). YOU WILL FIND MANY EVENT LOG SOURCES HAVING EVENT ID 6006.BUT YOU NEED TO FIGURE OUT SOURCE WITH THE MOST RECENT DATE AND TIME.

NOTE: ALL THE EVENTS  ARE PLACED IN DESCENDING  ORDER (LATEST TIME FIRST) SO THE TOP EVENT LOG WITH EVENT ID 6006 WILL SHOW THE CORRECT TIME AND DATE  OF THE LAST PC SHUTDOWN (IN THIS CASE THE TIME IS 1/10/2010 1:06:48 AM).

SO THE LAST SHUTDOWN TIME OF MY PC IS 1/10/2010 1:06:48 AM.

THAT'S HOW YOU CAN EASILY FIND OUT WHEN EXACTLY WAS YOUR COMPUTER LAST SHUTDOWN.


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RESET INTERNET EXPLORER SETTINGS

IF YOU HAVE BEEN USING INTERNET EXPLORER (IE7,IE8 &IE9) FOR LONG,IT'S QUITE OBVIOUS THAT YOU MIGHT HAVE ADDED MANY CUSTOMIZATIONS,  ADD-ONS ETC.YOU HAVE BECOME ITS MASTER,ITS DOES WHAT YOU INSTRUCT .BUT A DAY COMES WHERE THE SCENE GOES OUT OF YOUR HAND,INTERNET  EXPLORER DOES RESPOND AND BEHAVES IN AN  UNEXPECTED MANNER.DOESN'T OPEN THE WEBSITE ,THROWING ERRORS  AT YOUR FACE WHICH YOU NEVER WANT TO SEE LIKE "INTERNET EXPLORER HAS "ENCOUNTERED A PROBLEM AND NEEDS TO CLOSE " OR VISUAL C++ "RUNTIME ERROR  HAS OCCUREED INEXPLORER.EXE", IT EITHER STOPS  RESPONDING OR EVEN WORSE ,IT CRASHES! WHATEVER MAY BE THE CAUSE OF THESE ERRORS,THEY ARE REALLY ANNOYING .THE FIRST THING THAT YOU SHOULD DO IN  SUCH A SITUATION IS TO DISABLE THE ADD-ONS THAT ARE KNOWN TO CAUSE THESE PROBLEMS.EVEN THOUGH,THIS MAY SOLVE THE ISSUE FOR NOW,THE IDEAL OPTION HOWEVER IS TO RESET THE IE SETTINGS.THIS WILL AUTOMATICALLY DELETES ALL THE ADD-ONS AND CUSTOMIZATIONS ANS MAKES  YOUR INTERNET EXPLORER LIKE A FRESHLY INSTALLED VERSION.FOLLOW THE STEPS EXPLAINED BELOW TO RESET THE IE SETTINGS ON YOUR COMPUTER.

1) START THE INTERNET EXPLORER.
2)OPEN INTERNET OPTIONS VIA ALT BUTTON>TOOLS .GO TO ADVANCED TAB IN THE INTERNET OPTIONS.
3) CLICK ON THE RESET BUTTON AVAILABLE AT THE BUTTON OF THE WINDOWS TO RESET  YOUR IE SETTINGS.

IE WILL START RESETTING THE SETTINGS, WAIT UNTIL IT GETS FINISHED AND CLICK CLOSE IN THE RESET INTERNET EXPLORER SETTINGS DIALOG BOX.

 

RESTART YOUR INTERNET EXPLORER TO SEE THE CHANGES.IE SHOULD BEHAVE IN THE USUAL WAY FROM NOW ON.

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REMOVE SYSTEM VOLUME INFORMATION FOLDERS WINDOWS XP

SYSTEM VOLUME INFORMATION .IS IT REALLY A VIRUS.
SYSTEM VOLUME INFORMATION IS A VIRUS AND IT SUDDENLY APPEARS IN YOUR WINDOWS XP COMPUTER AND IT DOESN'T LET YOU OPEN   ITS CONTENTS.IT MAY HAVE VIRUS OR SUSPICIOUS FILES WITHIN IT.










 FACT: SYSTEM VOLUME INFORMATION (AND EVEN "RECYCLER") FOLDER IS A STANDARD WINDOWS FOLDER.SYSTEM VOLUME INFORMATION FOLDER STORES THE RESTORE POINTS  DATA AND THE RECYCLER  FOLDER BELONGS TO THE RECYCLE BIN.SO FIRST UP, YOU DON'T NEED TO DELETE THEM AND TREAT THEM AS VIRUS.THESE FILES DO EXIST IN LATER VERSION OF WINDOWS TOO.





 THESE ARE SYSTEM FOLDERS AND ARE HIDDEN BY DEFAULT .THEY WILL SHOW UP ONCE CHANGE  THE SETTING UNDER "FOLDER OPTIONS" TO SHOW THE HIDDEN  SYSTEM FILES AND FOLDERS.
 THANKS FULLY WINDOWS (VISTA,WINDOWS 7) DOESN'T GIVE YOU ACCESS TO THIS FOLDER SO THAT AVERTS ANY PROBABLE MESS UP IF AT ALL YOU ACCESS THEM AND CHANGE THE FILES INSIDE IT.HAVING SAID THAT, A VIRUS CAN WORK AROUND THIS AND GAIN ACCESS TO THIS FOLDER TO CORRUPT THE RESTORE POINTS AND CREATE SOME .EXE FILES INSIDE IT.
SO TO REMOVE (ACTUALLY TO HIDE) THE FOLDER, JUST CHANGE THE SETTINGS BACK IN THE FOLDER OPTIONS TO NOT TO SHOW HIDDEN SYSTEM FILES AND FOLDERS.HOWEVER IF YOU STILL INSIST ON REMOVING THE SYSTEM VOLUME INFORMATION COMPLETELY (HIGHLY NOT RECOMMENDED).





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CHANGE KEYBOARD INPUT LANGUAGE IN WINDOWS 7

WINDOWS 7 ALLOWS YOU TO CHANGE THE DEFAULT INPUT LANGUAGE OF YOUR KEYBOARD LIKE MOST OTHER OPERATING SYSTEMS DO. THIS IS PRETTY STRAIGHTFORWARD IF YOU FOLLOW THE STEP MENTIONED BELOW:

GO TO CONTROL PANEL, CLICK "CHANGE KEYBOARD OR OTHER INPUT METHODS" UNDER THE CLOCK , LANGUAGE, AND REGION SECTION.

 

A NEW REGION AND LANGUAGE  WINDOWS POPS UP.CLICK ON "CHANGE KEYBOARD.." BUTTON:

AGAIN A NEW   " TEXT SERVICES AND INPUT LANGUAGE" WINDOWS  OPENS UP . TO ADD A NEW KEYBOARD INPUT  LANGUAGE ,JUST CLICK "ADD" BUTTON FOUND UNDER THE "GENERAL" TAB.

CHOOSE THE LANGUAGE THAT YOU WANT TO ADD ,CHECK AGAINST IT AND CLICK "PREVIEW" TOO SEE HOW IT LOOK LIKE BEFORE ADDING IT.

CLICK OK TO ADD BUTTON THIS INPUT LANGUAGE TO YOUR KEYBOARD.

YOU NEWLY SELECTED INPUT LANGUAGE WILL APPEAR UNDER THE  "INSTALL SERVICES"

SELECT THE INPUT LANGUAGE AND YOU CAN EITHER MOVE IT OR MOVE DOWN ON THE ORDER OF PRIPORITY. YOU WILL ALSO GET AN OPTION TO "REMOVE" THE ADDED INPUT LANGUAGE.

FROM TH E "DEFAULT INPUT LANGUAGE" OPTION,SELECT THE INPUT LANGUAGE THAT YOU  WANT TO FROM THE DROPDOWN LIST AND CLICK "APPLY" BUTTON.

THAT IS IT! YOU HAVE SUCCESSFULLY CHANGE YOUR KEYBOARD INPUT LANGUAGE.OPEN NOTEPAD OR ANY TEXT EDITOR TO TEST THE NEWLY ADDED INPUT LANGUAGE.


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WINDOWS VISTA DATA EXECUTION PREVENTION (DEP) CRASHING MOZILLA FIREFOX

MANY  PEOPLE WHO USE MOZILLA FIREFOX WEB BROWSER IN WINDOWS VISTA ARE FACING  A FREQUENT  CRASHING PROBLEM.AFTER 4-5 MINUTES FIREFOX BROWSER CRASHES  IN THEIR COMPUTERS AND WINDOWS VISTA SHOW FOLLOWING ERROR MESSAGE:

DATA EXECUTION PREVENTION (DEP) HAS SHUTDOWN FIREFOX TO PRODUCT THE OS.

IF YOU ARE ALSO FACING THIS PROBLEM IN WINDOWS VISTA OR LATER ,YOU CAN USE FOLLOWING SIMPLE STEP AND YOUR PROBLEMS WILL BE SOLVED:

CLICK ON START BUTTON->ALL PROGRAMS->ACCESSORIES".RIGHT -CLICK ON "COMMAND PROMPT "  AND SELECT  "RUN AS ADMINISTRATOR". YOU CAN ALSO OPEN COMMAND PROMPT IN ADMINISTRATOR  MODE .

NOW TYPE FOLLOWING COMMAND AND PRESS ENTER:

bcdedit.exe   /set  {current} nx alwaysoff

 RESTART YOUR SYSTEM AND NOW YOU SHOULD NOT FACE THAT ANNOYING CRASHING PROBLEMS ANY MORE.

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HOW TO DISABLE WINDOWS ERROR REPORTING IN WINDOWS 7

WINDOWS ERROR REPORTING ,A TECHNOLOGY (PREVIOUSLY KNOWN AS DR.WATSON) ,DEVELOPED BY MICROSOFT LETS YOU REPORT POST ERROR DEBUG INFORMATION TO THE DEVELOPER OF THE PARTICULAR APPLICATION THAT HAS JUST CRASHED OR STOPPED RESPONDING .WINDOWS ERROR REPORTING HAS BEEN INTRODUCED AS A WINDOWS SERVICE FROM WINDOWS XP AND IS BEING CONTINUED IN THE LATER VERSION.WINDOWS VISTA AND WINDOWS 7.BY  DEFAULT,THIS ERROR REPORTING SERVICE WILL BE STARTED AUTOMATICALLY.

HOWEVER FOR SOME REASONS  LIKE  YOU MAY GET ANNOYED BY FREQUENT ERROR REPORTING ALERTS OR FOR PRIVACY CONCERNS ETC.YOU MAY WANT TO DISABLE OR STOP ERROR REPORTING  IN YOUR WINDOWS OPERATING SYSTEM (HERE IT IS WINDOWS 7).IF YOU ARE NOT SURE HOW TO STOP ERROR REPORTING IN WINDOWS 7, PLEASE DO FOLLOW THE STEPS OUTLINED BELOW:

USING ACTION CENTER:
 TYPE  "WER" IN THE START MENU SEARCH BAR.CHECK THE RESULT OBTAINED FOR THIS SEARCH IN CONTROL PANEL (REFER TO THE SCREEN SHOTS)

 

CLICK ON THE  "CHOOSE HOW TO CHECK FOR SOLUTION " ITEM IN THE SEARCH RESULTS.IT WILL OPEN UP THE  "PROBLEM REPORTING SETTING" UNDER WINDOWS ACTION CENTER.

BY DEFAULT THE FIRST OR SECOND OPTION  ("AUTOMATICALLY CHECK FOR SOLUTIONS") WILL BE SELECTED BY YOUR WINDOWS.IF YOU WANT ERROR REPORTING TO BE DISABLED,SELECT THE LAST OPTION "NEVER CHECK FOR SOLUTION" FOR COMPLETELY DISABLING IT OR SELECT THE THIRD OPTION  "EACH TIME A  PROBLEM OCCURS, ASK ME BEFORE CHECKING FOR SOLUTION" FOR MODERATING THE ERROR REPORTING ALERTS. CLICK "OK" BUTTON THE WINDOWS ONCE YOU HAVE SELECTED YOU OPTION.




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CLEAR RECENT DOCUMENT IN THE XP START MENU

NOBODY IS ASKING WHY YOU WANT TO CLEAR THE RECENT DOCUMENTS FROM YOUR XP START MENU, BUT WE''LL SHOW YOU  HOW TO DO IT ANYWAY.

 

RIGHT CLICK THE START MENU ICON AND SELECT PROPERTIES.CLICK THE START MENU TAB AND CLICK ON CUSTOMIZE.

IN THE CUSTOMIZE START MENU  WINDOW CLICK ON THE ADVANCED TAB.

 

NOW YOU HAVE TWO OPTIONS:

1) CLICK THE CLEAR LIST BUTTON TO  JUST CLEAR THE RECENT DOCUMENTS.

2)UNCHECK THE "LIST MY MOST RECENTLY OPENED DOCUMENTS " BOX TO MAKE THE ENTIRE FEATURE GO AWAY.

SEE ABOVE PICTURE.

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HIDE ANY DRIVE USING COMMAND PROMPT IN WINDOWS

INTRODUCTION: SIMPLE COMMAND PROMPT TRICKS AND HACKS MAY COME IN HANDY AT ANY TIME.IN THIS ARTICALS YOU  WILL LEARN TO "HIDE ANY DRIVE IN WINDOWS OPERATING SYSTEM USING COMMAND PROPMT OR POERSHELL."  THIS COMMAND WORKS IN ALL WINDOWS OPERATING SYSTEMS.
 

 

PRESS "WINDOWS+R" AND TYPE "CMD", NEXT TYPE "DISKPART".A NEW COMMAND WINDOWS MAY APPEAR.

 

TYPE "LIST VOLUME"(SPACE MUST BE GIVEN BETWEEN LIST AND VOLUME) AND PRESS ENTER.

 

NOW REMEMBER THE VOLUME LETTER OR NUMBER YOU WANT TO HIDE AND TYPE "SELECT VOLUME" NUMBER OR LETTER.

 

NEXT TYPE "REMOVE LETTER G"(TYPE THE DRIVE LETTER YOU WANT TO HIDE, HERE  I WROTE G JUST FOR AN EXAMPLE.)

NOW GO TO MY COMPUTER AND CHECK WEATHER THE DRIVE IS HIDDEN OR NOT .IT SHOULD BE HIDDEN IF YOU'VE DONE EVERYTHING AS ABOVE.

 

 

TO UNHIDE THE DRIVE AGAIN, JUST TYPE "ASSIGN LETTER LETTER OF DRIVE " (SEE THE SCREENSHOT). THAT'S IT NOW THE DRIVE OR PARTITION YOU HAVE HIDDEN BEFORE WILL APPEAR NOW.

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HOW TO MAKE BOOTABLE USB USING WINDOWS COMMAND PROMPT FOR

MAKING A USB DRIVE BOOTABLE IS POSSIBLE IN WINDOWS 7 AND 8 AND XP OPERATING  SYSTEM.FORMATTING A COMPUTER TO INSTALL FRESH WINDOWS OS WITH A CD/DVD DRIVE IS NOT VERY GOOD BECAUSE IT TAKES TOO MUCH TIME TO INSTALL FRESH WINDOWS OPERATING SYSTEM. THERE CAN ALSO BE A PROBLEM FOR MANY THAT CD/DVD DRIVE DOESN'T WORK PROPERLY. SO THIS CAN BE A PROBLEM FOR THEM.TODAY LAPTOP OR DESKTOP COMES MANY USB PORTS.SO THERE IS NO NEED OF CD/DVD DRIVE TO FORMAT A SYSTEM.FORMATTING IS VERY FAST AND EASY WITH FLASH DRIVE/PEN DRIVE AND ALSO NO SOFTWARE IS REQUIRED FOR THIS METHOD.WINDOWS 7 OR WINDOWS 8 AND XP COMMAND PROMPT CAN DO THE WORK WITH FEW LINES OF COMMAND .

NOTE:SAME PROCEDURE FOR 8 AND XP.
START YOUR COMMAND PROMPT.
FOR WINDOWS 7 USERS:

GO TO "START" BUTTON AND CLICK.WRITE "CMD" THEN CMD ICON WILL APPEAR ON THE TOP OF THE PANEL.

 

"RIGHT CLICK" ON THE CMD ICON AND CLICK "RUN AS ADMINISTRATOR"

 

IT WILL OPEN THE COMMAND PROMPT.

 

TYPE "DISKPART" INSIDE THE COMMAND PROMPT AND HIT "ENTER"

 

IT WILL GOOD BEFORE GOING TO NEXT STEP THAT YOU SHOULD DISCONNECT ALL OTHER EXTERNAL HARD DISK,FLASH/PEN DRIVE ETC.BECAUSE ACCIDENTLY THESE DRIVE CAN BE FORMATTED.SO TAKING PRECAUTION IS GOOD. ONLY ONE USB DRIVE WITH MINIMUM 4 GB SHOULD BE CONNECTED.SAVE ALL THE DATA FROM THE USB DRIVE BECAUSE IT WILL BE FORMATTED IN ONE OF THE FOLLOWING STEP.

AFTER LAST STEP TYPE "LIST DISK"  INSIDE THE COMMAND PROMPT AND HIT "ENTER".

 

THIS WILL SHOW ALL DISK CONNECTED TO THE SYSTEM LIKE DISK 0,DISK 1 , AND SO ON WITH  "STATUS", "SIZE", "FREE" ETC.WE CAN RECONGNIZE THE USB DRIVE WITH SIZE.DISK 0 WILL BE THE SYSTEM DISK IN WHICH THE WINDOWS OS IS INSTALLED.IN THIS COMMAND PROMPT DISK 1 IS THE USB DRIVE  (3855MB=4GB).THIS USB DRIVE IS GOING  TO BE A BOOTABLE USB DRIVE.

TYPE  "SELECT DISK 1" INSIDE THE COMMAND PROMPT AND HIT "ENTER". IT WILL SELECT THE DISK 1(USB DRIVE) FOR ALL COMING STEPS

 

TYPE "CLEAN" AND HIT "ENTER".IT WILL ERASE ALL THE DATA FROM THE USB DRIVE.

 

 

TYPW "CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY" AND HIT "ENTER".IT WILL CREATE A PRIMARY PARTITION IN USB DRIVE

 

TYPE "SELECT PARTITION 1" AND HIT  "ENTER". IT WILL SELECT THE PARTITION CREATED IN LAST STEP

 

TYPE "FORMAT FS =NTFS QUICK" AND HIT "ENTER".IT WILL FORMAT THE USB DRIVE QUICKLY WITH NTFS FILE TYPE

 

TYPE "ACIVE" AND HIT "ENTER".IT WILL MAKE PARTITION  AS ACTIVE FOR BOOTING AFTER RESTARTING THE COMPUTER.IF THIS STEP IS MISSED THEN COMPUTER WILL NOT BOOT FROM THE USB DRIVE

 

TYPE "EXIT" AND HIT "ENTER" TO CLOSE THE DISKPART AND CLOSE THE COMMAND PROMPT

  

NOW THE USB DRIVE HAS BECOME BOOTABLE.NOW ALL THE FILES ROOT OF WINDOWS OPERATING SYSTEM SETUP DVD OR ISO  HAS TO COPY INSIDE THE USB DRIVE ROOT.

 SO OPEN THE WINDOWS SETUP FILE FROMDVD OR ISO AND COPY ALL FILE BY SELECTING WITH "CTRL+A"  AND PASTE IT INSIDE THE USB DRIVE'S ROOT FOLDER AS SHOWN IN THE FIGURE.

 

AFTER COMPLETE COPY,THE USB DRIVE WILL BE A BOOTABLE FOR WINDOWS 7 AND 8 AND XP COMPLETELY .YOU JUST NEED TO "RESTART" YOUR COMPUTER ."RESTART" YOUR COMPUTER.WHEN BIOS SCREEN APPEARS THEN PRESS "F12" KEY.IT WILL SHOW THE OPTION TO BOOT FROM CD/DVD DRIVE,HARD DISK AND USB DRIVE.JUST SCROLL DOWN TO USB DRIVE AND HIT "ENTER" . YOU SYSTEM WILL BOOT FROM USB DRIVE.NOW YOU CAN INSTALL WINDOWS OS.

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KILL WINDOWS PROCESSES FROM THE COMMAND PROMPT

WHEN DO YOU DO WHEN A PROGRAM DOES NOT REPONED OR HANGS INDEFINIETLY ON YOUR MACHINE? OFTEN , USER HIT THE CTRL+ALT+DEL OR CTRL+SHIFT+ESC COMBINATION TO LAUNCH  TASK MANAGER AND PUT AN END TO END THAT PROCESS/APPLICATION.HOWEVER, I HAVE FACED SITUATIONS WHEN  FAILS TO WORK TOO.

UNDER SUCH CIRCUMSTANCES, THE WINDOWS COMMAND PROMPT IS THE ONLY OPTION THAT I SEE .IT IS EASY TO KILL A PROGRAM FROM THERE AND GET THINGS WORKING AGAIN.HERE'S THE TWO-STEP METHOD THAT I SUGGEST.

1 OPEN THE COMMAND PROMPT BY TYPING CMD IN THE WINDOWS START SEARCH AND KEY IN THE COMMAND TASKLIST.
INSTANTLY, YOU WILL SEE THE LIST OF PROCESSES THAT ARE CURRENTLY RUNNING AND ACTIVE ON YOUR MACHINE. TAKE NOTE OF THE PID(PROCESS ID) OF THE PROCESS THAT YOU WANT TO KILL.

 

2  FOLLOW UP WITH ANOTHER  COMMAND TASKKILL/PID PID WHERE ,PID IS THE PROCESS ID OF THE YOU WANT TO KILL.
FOR EXAMPLE IF I WANTED TO KILL FIREFOX.EXE.I WOULD TYPE TASKKILL/PID976.
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