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
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.
How to watch high quality video in YouTube
Internet May 9th, 2009
If you have good speed internet connection this tip may be helpful and make your net surfing more enjoyable and interested. You already know that YouTube is the god father of video website on internet but you always miss some things like high quality video and good stereo sound because by default when you watch any video on YouTube it always open with low audio & video quality.
But now you can watch most of the video with high quality, for watching high quality video click on HQ button and your video start again with high quality graphics and good sound.
Tags: How to, internet tips, youtube
Deleting a File or Folder without moving it to the Recycle Bin in windows vista
Windows Vista July 11th, 2008
First method
To delete a file or folder without moving it to the Recycle Bin, hold down the Shift key and use Delete command. You can use following three way for this.
•Select the file or folder, hold down the Shift key, and then press the Delete key with keyboard.
•Right-click the file or folder, hold down the Shift key, and choose the Delete item on the context menu.
•Select the file or folder in Windows Explorer window, hold down the Shift key, click the Organize button, and then click Delete.
Tags: How to, Windows Vista
How to open command prompt easy way in windows XP
How to July 10th, 2008
Generally most two way use to open command prompt in windows xp-
1.Start > All programs> accessories > Command prompt
2.Press Window logo + R , type Cmd and then enter
But in this all condition when you go to in any deep directory , it’s more difficult to type many command and wasting more time, but you can solve this problem with Cmd Here Powertoy tool, After installing this software right click any directory / folder and click open command windows here .
Now You can directly open this directory without type any command.
Tags: How to, Windows XP
How to block images for specific website in Firefox 3.0
Firefox July 7th, 2008
First method – If you have list of sites
1.Open Firefox.
2.Click tools and then select options…
How to open corrupt images in Photoshop CS3
Tips and Tricks July 6th, 2008
Many times when you download images from internet or transfer from other device like computer, pen drive, USB stick memory, mobile card, digital camera. Some time it’s not correctly transfer in your computer, and when you trying to open this file in Photoshop its show some error “this image is corrupt”
But you open same image file in computer without any problem. So follow these steps –
Tags: Adobe photoshop cs3, How to, Tips and Tricks
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