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
How to block specific website without any software
Internet May 28th, 2009
You can block any website in windows vista, seven and xp with this small trick. You don’t need any software for it and when you are trying to open any specific website in browser like internet explorer, Firefox, safari, chrome or opera, it does not open.
Follow these instructions-
Browse C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\
Find the file named “HOSTS”
Open it in notepad
under “127.0.0.1 local host” and add website like this-
127.0.0.1 www.example.com
127.0.01 example.com
If you want to block example.com, add both line your hosts file because some of the website also open without www.
http://www.example.com
http://example.com
If you don’t edit your file directly in windows vista & seven, first you need to copy your hosts file in other drive( except c drive) and then edit and replace your hosts file with original host file.
You can also understand with this example you can see here when you want to block orkut, add both domain -
www.orkut.com
www.orkut.co.in – it is a default domain for Indian region.
Now check your browser and that site will no longer be accessible.
Tags: internet tips, Orkut, windows seven, Windows Vista
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