How to use notepad as electronic diary
How to June 11th, 2010
Many people have habit to write personal diary or we can also say that if you want to know exact time when your write something in your computer.
This is very small trick but do great work.
Open notepad in your windows (XP, Vista, 7) computer.
Type .LOG (upper case) and save as your desired place, where you can open easily.
Now open your saved notepad file, write something and save and open again you’ll see that, your file automatically add current Date and time.
You can also add current time with F5 (function key) but with this trick you can do this in more easy way and you don’t need to memorize it when every time you open your notepad file.
Tags: notepad
Install IIS (internet information server) on Windows Vista
How to June 11th, 2009
By default IIS (Internet Information Server) is not intergraded with Window Operating System because this is not for general purpose software. IIS Server can be install in window OS as per requirement like ASP/.NET web development.
For installing IIS in your vista operating system firstly you will need knowing this, that IIS not come with all vista flavors.
- Windows Vista Business, Enterprise and Ultimate come with IIS 7
- Windows Vista Home Premium comes with IIS 7
- Windows Vista Home Edition does not support PWS or IIS
If you find that, your vista comes with IIS.
Then, go to Control Panel, and then click on Programs. And click on “Turn Windows features on or off” link in Programs and Feature section.
Select Internet information services check box and then click ok button and wait (Times depends on your system & hardware Configuration)
Now open your browser and type localhost and enter, you’ll see the new default page like this…
If you want to test or run your .asp file
open this location C:\inetpub\wwwroot
Now copy your .asp file on this location and after this, open your browser and type your address such as -
http://localhost/filename.asp
or
http://127.0.0.1/filename.asp
Tags: Development, Windows Vista
You know that Pen & flash drive is a very popular device and generally used for transferring & storing data. But using of such type of device can be create problem for your computer some time or I can also say that USB / pen drive’s behave like a virus transporter and one other thing which help this.
Name of this helper – Autoplay system in windows operating system (vista, seven, xp)
But some say it is good and others are bad. After listen this type of things, I decide write something about in this matter and what the strategy that may you follow according to your work and choose batter option,so that you decide what is good and what bed is, for you.
When you attach your pen drive with your pc, an auto play popup display on your screen and ask you what do you want?
This is very good option when you attach pen drive because you don’t need to double click your computer icon and then double click your pen drive icon.
But according to today’s scenario Autoplay option is not secure for your system.
The main drawbacks of autoplay option is that, pen / flash or any USB drive are the big source to spread virus between computer and most of the virus work with auto play option because writer of the virus also know this things.
So this is a good choice for you to disabled pen / flash drive auto play option.
You can permanently disable your system auto play option but in this situation every time you need to open your drive with many clicks.
I know that, this type of setting can slow your work but in the bases of your Pc infected by any virus. This may be good deal for you.
Follow these instructions to disable autoplay option
Open control panel > classic view (top left side) > and double click on Autoplay icon.
Unselect “Use Autoplay for all media and devices” check box
And click on save button.
If you think that you don’t need disabled autoplay all time.
Ok, you can do this, But in this situation transfer data only trusted source or you know confidently and believe that pen/ flash/Usb drive don’t have any virus or malicious code.
Or you can also do other things if you know which people or friend ‘s pen / flash drive always have virus, and Every time when you attach your pen / flash drive, press and hold the Shift key, this will disable the auto play dialog box. Holding down the Shift key will also block the applications that starts automatically (mostly virus).
If you don’t interested this type of configuration and believe in Usfaw (Using software for any work) you can also try some of the free software.
This tip work for windows-7 ,Windows vista & xp
Tags: security, usb drive, virus, Windows Vista, windows-7
Creating Shutdown Icon or One Click Shutdown in windows
How to May 30th, 2009
This may be good news for you if you are unsatisfied to default shutdown option & location in windows operating system (windows-7, windows-vista, and windows-xp).
But now you can shut down your pc in just one click, take some instruction and after this you are ready for it.
Navigate to your desktop. On the desktop, right-click and go to New, then to Shortcut.
Now you see a pop-up window.
Copy & paste below command in “Type Location of the Item”
SHUTDOWN -s -t 01
Click the “Next” button. Name the shortcut and click the “Finish” button. Now whenever you want to shut down, just click on this shortcut and you’re done.
To abort the shutdown in progress, at the command prompt, type shutdown -a. or you can also create shortcut like one click shutdown.
Create new shortcut and Copy & paste below command in “Type Location of the Item”
Shutdown -a
Mostly users always use c drive for installing windows operating system.
But If the C: drive is not your installed windows drive, and then first replaces “C” with the correct letter of the hard drive. For changing your drive letter right click your created shutdown shortcut and open properties and replace your drive letter with your installed windows drive.
If you want to shut down your system after some time or any specific time period
The valid range is 0-600, with a default of 30.
Shutdown -s -t <time in seconds>
Shutdown -s
Your system will be shutdown in 30 seconds.
Shutdown -s -t 300
When you use this command your system will be shut down in 5 minutes.
Shutdown -s -t 600
When you use this command your system will be shut down in 10 minutes.
You can also customize one click shutdown icon because by default it don’t have any icon
For changing icon right click your created shutdown shortcut and open properties and click change icon button, and choose your desire icon.
You can also change your one click shutdown icon location and save some space from your desktop, this is more handy to move from desktop to quick launch in taskbar.
If you want to know more about it, open your command prompt and use this command shutdown /?
You can also do same thing with one keyboard key, just press power button form your keyboard (mostly top right side) , but you don’t abort the shutdown progress after use this power button.
Tags: How to, windows seven, Windows Vista, Windows XP, windows-7
Every time when you work in Microsoft Office Word 2007 you always feel this, that every time Ms Word open same location for saving file because it is a default seeting.
But after saving the file when you open your save file directly from hard drive, this is not handy due to very long path to open saved file.
Windows vista – <user folder> \ Documents \ and then open your saved file
But this is good for you if you change your default file save location so that you can easily open your file.
For changing file location follow these instructions -
Go to title bar and click customize quick access toolbar then click more commands.
Click on advance in left side, scroll down window and go to general section and click on file location buttons.
Select Documents and then click on modify button, and select your new desire location.
Tags: Microsoft Office, Microsoft Office Word 2007, office tips
You know that the main game is always played in computer by file.
But if you have more knowledge about file type you can batter handle your system and your hard drive.
Sometime this is more handy when you transfer some file with your pen drive / usb drive and you need some more space, but physically it’s not possible to increase your hardware capacity immediately.
But you can do this by decreasing your file size.
You can understand it with this example -
I have two bin file
Total size of .bin & .cue files = 1.51 GB
After converting bin into iso
Total size of .iso files = 1.32 GB
Now you save = .19 GB / 194.56 Mb (where 1024 mb = 1 GB)
You can easily convert your bin file into iso with anytoiso free utility.
when you try to install Medal of Honor Allied Assault(tm) Breakthrough some time you find this type of problem.
But now you can solve your problem and install the game. Follow this instruction to fix this problem.
Open registry editor – Window logo +R, type Regedit and then enter
Find the key: Hkey_local_ machine > software > EA games > Medal of Honor allied assault
Where you find one folder, right click on this folder ,rename and replace last three digits with 200
Close your registry editor and try again.
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