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
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