How to use PIN instead of passwords for Login in Windows 8

How to use PIN instead of passwords for Login in Windows 8 

Entering your full password on a touch screen device can really become a pain in the *** , luckily for us we can link a short 4 digit PIN to our user account and log in with that instead.

Note: PIN codes are nowhere near as safe as using an alphanumeric password, however, they do still have a purpose when you don’t want to enter your 15 character password on a touch screen device.

Creating a PIN

1. Press the Win + I keyboard combination to bring up the Settings Charm, then click on the Change PC settings link.
2. This will open up the Modern UI PC Settings app, where you can click on the Users section.
3. On the right hand side you will see a Create a PIN button, click on it.
4. Now you will need to verify that you are the owner of this user account by entering your password.
5. Then you can choose a PIN, remember that it can only contain digits.
6. Now when you get to the login screen you will have the option to use a PIN.

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Use KeyRocket to become a master of keyboard shortcuts

Use KeyRocket to become a master of keyboard shortcuts

Use of keyboard shortcuts can incredibly improve your productivity but it’s difficult to find all the keyboard shortcuts at one place and remember all of them at once. KeyRocket helps you to learn new shortcuts as you do your work. For example if you are working in Word and using your mouse every time when you need to make some text bold. It will notice and suggest you the keyboard shortcut for this. 

It also allows you to search shortcuts. Suppose you remember a shortcut combination but don’t know what is it used for, you can use KeyRocket’s library to search shortcuts. KeyRocket silently sits in the background and will suggest you through notifications whenever it has any suggestion. Currently it has shortcut suggestions for Windows Explorer and Microsoft Office suite. 

It supports Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 operating systems. You can download it using the link given below. 

Click here to download KeyRocket

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How to Change Logon and Logoff Music in Windows 8

How to Change Logon and Logoff Music in Windows 8

Logon and Logoff music was possible to be changed  from control panel in Windows 7. However this functionality is hidden in Windows 8, but we can definitely help you to get it back in Windows 8. Follow the steps given below.

1. Our favorite shortcut – Win + R.
2. Type regedit and press enter.
3. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER/AppEvents/EventLables.
4. Look for WindowsLogon in the left pane. Select it.
5. Change the DWORD value to 0 for ExcludeFromCPL key.
6. Repeat the same process for WindowsLogoff and SystemExit.
7. Now press Win + X. Select Control Panel.
8. Go to Hardware and sound -> Sound.
9. There you can change all the system sounds. You can even select custom sounds using this.

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How To Create Your Own Custom Google Search Engine

How To Create Your Own Custom Google Search Engine

Creating a Custom Search Engine 

To get started, head over to the Google Custom Search Engine page and click the Create a custom search engine button. You’ll need a Google account for this – the search engine will be saved with your Google account.

     

Enter a name and description for your search engine – these can be anything you like.

The Sites to search field is the one that really matters. Here, you’ll specify a list of the websites you want to search. For example, if you wanted to search both anindya-nandi.blogspot.com and microsoft.com, you’d enter:


anindya-nandi.blogspot.com/*
microsoft.com/*

The * character is the wildcard, which can match anything, so the /* characters tell your search engine to search everything on both of these websites.

There are more advanced things you can do with this box – we’ll get back to that in a bit.
      

     

 
After clicking Next, you can specify a style for your search results and test the search engine you created.

 

Once you’re happy with your search engine, click the Next button at the bottom of the page and you’ll end up at a page that gives you an embed code for your search engine.

You’re probably not a web developer, so you’ll want to ignore this page. Click the Google Custom Search logo at the top of the page instead.

 

 To get to your search engine’s page, click its name in the list of search engines you’ve created.

     

You can bookmark this page for easy access your search engine. You can also share your search engine with anyone by sending them the full URL that appears in your address bar.

Once you’re done, you can even add your custom search engine to your browser’s search bar.

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How to Enable Firefox’s Built-in PDF Reader

How to Enable Firefox’s Built-in PDF Reader

Firefox 15 or higher include an all new PDF reader built into the browser–for those of you wondering, that means you can finally disable the Adobe PDF Plugin and uninstall it once and for all.

Note: obviously if you need to access more advanced PDF features, you’ll still need the Adobe plugin.

Here is how to go about it :

Open Firefox and navigate to about:config.

This will bring up a sarcastic warning telling you that you might void your warranty, just click the “I’ll be careful, I promise!” button to move on.

Now you will need to search for:

browser.preferences.inContent

When you find it, right click on it and select Toggle from the context menu.

Next you will need enable the actual PDF Reader feature, you can do this by searching for:

pdfjs.disabled

That’s all there is to it, you can even drag PDF files on your local machine on t0 the Firefox windows to view them!

Note: You will need to disable the Adobe addon after you have completed this.

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HTTP Error Codes and Their Meaning

HTTP Error Codes and Their Meaning

        While surfing the net we always get some HTTP Errors. These Error codes are crucial for troubleshooting various issues. You can see these error codes in various logs. If you can interpret the correct meaning of the http error code, you can decide the places to look at for resolving this issue.

       So here are they. All the error codes with their meaning. Hope this will help a lot many of you.

       The client should be prepared to receive one or more 1xx responses before receiving a regular response.   

• 100 - Continue. 
• 101 - Switching protocols.

2xx - Success

This class of status codes indicates that the server successfully accepted the client request.
 

• 200 - OK. The client request has succeeded.
• 201 - Created.
• 202 - Accepted.
• 203 - Non-authoritative information.
• 204 - No content.
• 205 - Reset content.
• 206 - Partial content.
• 207 - Multi-Status (WebDay).

3xx - Redirection

The client browser must take more action to fulfill the request. For example, the browser may have to request a different page on the server or repeat the request by using a proxy server.

• 301 - Moved Permanently
• 302 - Object moved.
• 304 - Not modified.
• 307 - Temporary redirect.

4xx - Client Error

An error occurs, and the client appears to be at fault. For example, the client may request a page that does not exist, or the client may not provide valid authentication information.

400 - Bad request.
401 - Access denied. IIS defines several different 401 errors that indicate a more specific cause of the error. These specific error codes are displayed in the browser but are not displayed in the IIS log:

• 401.1 - Logon failed.
• 401.2 - Logon failed due to server configuration.
• 401.3 - Unauthorized due to ACL on resource.
• 401.4 - Authorization failed by filter.
• 401.5 - Authorization failed by ISAPI/CGI application.
• 401.7 – Access denied by URL authorization policy on the Web server. This error code is specific to IIS 6.0.

403 - Forbidden. IIS defines several different 403 errors that indicate a more specific cause of the error:

• 403.1 - Execute access forbidden.
• 403.2 - Read access forbidden.
• 403.3 - Write access forbidden.
• 403.4 - SSL required.
• 403.5 - SSL 128 required.
• 403.6 - IP address rejected.
• 403.7 - Client certificate required.
• 403.8 - Site access denied.
• 403.9 - Too many users.
• 403.10 - Invalid configuration.
• 403.11 - Password change.403.12 - Mapper denied access.
• 403.13 - Client certificate revoked.
• 403.14 - Directory listing denied.
• 403.15 - Client Access Licenses exceeded.
• 403.16 - Client certificate is untrusted or invalid.
• 403.17 - Client certificate has expired or is not yet valid.
• 403.18 - Cannot execute requested URL in the current application pool. This error code is specific to IIS 6.0.
• 403.19 - Cannot execute CGIs for the client in this application pool. This error code is specific to IIS 6.0.
• 403.20 - Passport logon failed. This error code is specific to IIS 6.0.

404 - Not found.

• 404.0 - (None) – File or directory not found.
• 404.1 - Web site not accessible on the requested port.
• 404.2 - Web service extension lockdown policy prevents this request.
• 404.3 - MIME map policy prevents this request.
• 405 - HTTP verb used to access this page is not allowed (method not allowed.)
• 406 - Client browser does not accept the MIME type of the requested page.
• 407 - Proxy authentication required.
• 412 - Precondition failed.
• 413 – Request entity too large.
• 414 - Request-URI too long.
• 415 – Unsupported media type.
• 416 – Requested range not satisfiable.
• 417 – Execution failed.
• 423 – Locked error.

5xx - Server Error

The server cannot complete the request because it encounters an error.
 
500 - Internal server error.

• 500.12 - Application is busy restarting on the Web server.
• 500.13 - Web server is too busy.
• 500.15 - Direct requests for Global.asa are not allowed.
• 500.16 – UNC authorization credentials incorrect. This error code is specific to IIS 6.0.
• 500.18 – URL authorization store cannot be opened. This error code is specific to IIS 6.0.
• 500.19 - Data for this file is configured improperly in the metabase.
• 500.100 - Internal ASP error.

• 501 - Header values specify a configuration that is not implemented.
• 502 - Web server received an invalid response while acting as a gateway or proxy.
• 502.1 - CGI application timeout.
• 502.2 - Error in CGI application.
• 503 - Service unavailable. This error code is specific to IIS 6.0.
• 504 - Gateway timeout.
• 505 - HTTP version not supported.

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Installing Android SDK

Installing Android SDK

In most cases, when you connect an Android device to your computer for the first time, the drivers will automatically be installed. However, the phone will most likely be detected as a mass storage device, not as an Android device. This gives it similar properties as an external hard drive, and should be fine for most users, since you will still be able to copy files to and from your device.

However, if you need to “debug” your Android device (one of the requirements for rooting), you will need to make sure the computer recognizes it as an Android device. Since there is such a great variety of Android devices, there is no single solution for installing the drivers. This guide should work for most devices, but might not work for all.

Installing the drivers using the Android SDK (recommended):

1. Download the Android SDK.



2. Double-click the downloaded file to run it, and follow the on-screen instructions to install the SDK. Make sure you change the installation directory to “C:\android-sdk\”.



3. Run the SDK manager. You will be presented with the following screen:



4. From here, select the following 3 items (and uncheck all others):
         Tools/Android SDK Tools (might already be installed)
         Tools/Android SDK Platform Tools
         Extras/Google USB Driver Package

5. Click on “install packages”. On the window that opens, click on “Accept All”, and then “Install”.



6. Make sure your Android device is in USB debugging mode (Settings -> Applications -> Development), and connect it to your PC. Hopefully the right drivers will now be installed.

7. To test whether the installation was successful, type the following text into notepad, and save as “test.bat”:
cd c:\android-sdk\platform-tools\
adb devices
pause





8. Double-click the file that you just created. If the driver installation was successful, you should see the text “List of devices attached”, followed by a serial number. If this is not the case, you can try to install the drivers using PDANet.

Installing the drivers using PDANet:

1. Download PDANet. Select either the 32-bit or the 64-bit version, depending on your computer’s operating system.

2. Double-click the file and follow the on-screen instructions to install PDANet. If Windows prompts you with the message “Windows can’t verify the publisher of this driver software”, simply click “Install this driver software anyway” (you may be prompted more than once).

3. The drivers for your phone should now be installed (you can test with the same method as mentioned above). If you don’t need PDANet (it’s for tethering your phone) you can simply uninstall it. The drivers will remain installed.

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How to Hide Partitions Without Any Software

How to Hide Partitions Without Any Software
 
Re-post

We all use Computer and have some important data also in the form of some pictures, Videos, Audios, documents etc. We want to hide and protect our personal data. There are several freeware software which provide us facility to hide folders and drive as well. We save the data into some folders and hide them to protect that data. But What if you have no software to do this Or don't wanna use that kind of software to hide and protect your data ? Here is the solution, I am sharing here an easiest way of How we can hide a complete Drive without using any software. Just follow this tip step by step.

1    Goto Start > Run and then type DISKPART or Simple Press Win key+R and type DISKPART, then press Enter. You will see a new window shown in below picture

2    Now Type list volume and hit enter. Now you will see a list of all drives of your computer. 

3    Now Just select the Drive which you wanna hide. Suppose You want to hide D drive then see the volume number of Drive D which will be shown beside the Ltr D, See below picture

4   In my computer the Volume Number of Drive D is 3 (this number can be different in your computer). Now to hide the D drive, Type Select Volume 3 (Select the appropriate number according to your computer) and hit enter. 

5     Now Type remove letter d and hit enter. This step will hide your D Drive.

6     Now, No one will be able to access D drive But you want to see the drive back or want to un-hide that drive then type Select Volume 3 (Select the number of drive which you used during hiding the drive or just type List volume to check the volume number of hidden drive.) And then Type assign letter d and press Enter 

This will bring back your hidden drive again.

Note : This Method normally Hide all drives but Not C drive or where the Window is installed.

Having any problems ? Discuss in comment

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Hide a file behind Image without Any Software

Hide a file behind Image without Any Software

This was posted by me on 26 Feb 2010. Re-posting it as requested by readers of this blog:

To hide data in an image you need winRAR. First you add file into a rar archive as Secret.rar.

Now copy secret.rar file to a new folder. 

Now copy any image u want and paste it in folder of rar file as anyname.jpg.  (You can use any other picture file type like .gif, .png etc)


Now open MS-DOS, go to the folder that contains secret.rar file and the image file and type 
"copy/b anyname.jpg + secret.rar output.jpg" (without quotes).

You'll now see an image called output.jpg in secret.rar's folder. 

Open it with WinRar. Only winrar can open the secret file in it. This can be opened by changing the extension to .rar.

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Password Protection for Google Chrome

Password Protect Google Chrome

 

Simple Startup Password is an addon for Google Chrome browser that blocks unauthorized people from using your browser. Just go to the extensions gallery of Google Chrome and install the Simple Startup Password add-on for your browser.



After installing the add-on go to Settings -> Tools ->Extensions. There look for Simple Startup Password and click on Options. Set a password for your browser and done. Now every time you start your Google Chrome browser it will ask you for the password and if you fail to give the correct password your browser will be closed.

You can get this add on from Google Chrome’s extensions gallery.
Link : Simple Startup Password for Google Chrome

In case you forget your password there is no option to recover it. You will have to reinstall the browser.

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Pin A Drive in Win 7 Taskbar

Pin A Drive in Win 7 Taskbar

This is a really very useful but simple trick. Many of you might already be knowing this. Those who don’t know can read on. Follow the steps given below to pin any of your drives to taskbar.   

1. Right click on your desktop and create a new folder. Name it as anyname.exe.
2. Now drag and drop this folder to Taskbar.
3. Right click on the new Taskbar icon. Right Click on the name of the folder. Select Properties.
4. In the properties window, under the shortcut tab, change the target value with any drive you want. For eg. if you want to set it to ”D” drive and then type “D:\” and press ok.

Note : You can change the name in the General Tab.

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Windows Media Player 11 Keyboard Shortcuts

Windows Media Player 11 Keyboard Shortcuts

Hey all you Windows Media Player users out there – looking for some keyboard shortcuts? Well, load up WMP 11, open a video and follow along, because here’s a bevvy of them to try out!

Switch to full mode – CTRL+1
Switch to skin mode – CTRL+2
Switch to the first view in a media category – CTRL+7
Switch to the second view in a media category – CTRL+8
Switch to the third view in a media category – CTRL+9
Play the previous item – CTRL+B
Move the focus to the search box in the library – CTRL+E
Play the next item – CTRL+F
Turn shuffle on or off – CTRL+H
Eject CD or DVD (won’t work on PCs with two or more CD or DVD disc drives installed) – CTRL+J
Show or hide the Menu Bar (full mode only) – CTRL+M
Create a playlist – CTRL+N
Open a file – CTRL+O
Play or pause a file – CTRL+P
Stop playback – CTRL+S
Rewind video – CTRL+Shift+B
Turn subtitles on or off – CTRL+Shift+C
Fast-forward – CTRL+Shift+F
Play faster than normal speed – CTRL+Shift+G
Play at normal speed – CTRL+Shift+N
Play slower than normal speed – CTRL+Shift+S
Repeat the playlist – CTRL+T
Specify either a URL or path of a file – CTRL+U
Close or stop playing a file – CTRL+W

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Command prompt to reveal Hidden Files

Command prompt to reveal Hidden Files

Some viruses leave behind nasty side effects, even when your antivirus program has cleaned the actual virus from your computer. If your desktop icons are missing and your C: drive appears blank, don’t panic — your files haven’t gone permanently AWOL. Common viruses, such as the Windows 7 Recovery virus, will hide your files in an attempt to coerce you into paying for the virus’s removal. When you view your desktop or click on your C: drive, it may appear that all of your files have been deleted, but they haven’t — the virus has simply hidden them. You can restore them easily using a simple command prompt trick that works in Windows XP, Vista and 7.

Click the Start button in the lower left corner of your task bar. Type cmd in the search box at the bottom of the menu and press Enter. If you’re using Windows XP, click Run and type cmd into the Run box.

Type attrib -s -h -r c:/*.* /s /d and press Enter to execute the command. The command prompt window should look like this after you’ve typed the command:

Allow the command to finish executing (it may take a few minutes). When it’s done, close the command prompt window and check your desktop — your files, hidden by the virus, have been restored. You can use the same trick to restore files the virus may have hidden on other drives, including removable storage such as flash drives and external hard drives; just change the drive letter in the command above to the drive letter of the storage device with the hidden files.

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How to Zip

How to Zip

Say you have many files that all need to be e-mailed, but you don’t want to add them one by one and you don’t think all of them will be within the recipient’s e-mail size limits.

What do you do then ? Why zip ‘em up, of course!

So....here is how to do it in a flick of a second .........

Browse to the folder where the files you want to zip are at. Now highlight the files by either drawing a box around them or by holding the Ctrl key and selecting each of them. Once you have all of the ones you want to zip up highlighted, Right-Click one of them, go down to “Send to” and choose “Compressed (zipped) folder”.

Like magic, your highlighted files will appear in one convenient package. If you don’t like the name Windows gives your zipped folder, just rename it!

If you don’t want to use the built-in Windows zip utility, there are also third-party programs like WinZip and WinRar, that have more features, like the ability to set the compression size and file extension.

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Start Internet Explorer 9 in Private Mode

Start Internet Explorer 9 in Private Mode

For all you Internet Explorer 9 users out there, how would you like to learn a quick trick so that every time you start IE, it runs in Private mode right from the start ?

What we’re going to do is create a desktop shortcut for IE and set a switch to make it start in InPrivate mode. So, right-click on your desktop, select New and choose Shortcut.



Now, if you’re using a 32 bit version of Windows, copy this text and put it in the path box:

“C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe” -private



For those out there running 64 bit windows, you have to change it a bit. Use this line:

“C:\Program Files (x86)\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe” -private



Notice that in both cases we put -private after the quoted path.

When you’re done, hit Next, give your shortcut a name and you’re good to go.

Note: if you get an error while inputting this path, you might have a different version of windows and should try the other path.

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