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Creating Shutdown Icon or One Click Shutdown in windows

aco — Sat, 30 May 2009 04:40:36 +0000

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

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.

Five Hidden Programs In Windows Xp

aco — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 15:03:37 +0000

If you are a xp user and interested in learning more your xp operating system this command will be helpful for you.

1) Private Character Editor
This program is for designing icons and Characters
click :start
Then :run
type :EUDCEDIT

2) iExpress
This Program is for converting your files to EXECUTABLE files
click : start
Then : run
type : iexpress

3)Disk Cleanup
This program used for cleaning harddisk to offer space
click : start
Then : run
type : cleanmgr

4)Dr Watson
This program Is for repairing problems in Windows
click : start
Then : run
type : drwtsn32

5)Windows Media Player 5.1
Opens the old media player
click : start
Then : run
type : mplay32

Convert FAT32 hard drive to NTFS in Windows xp

aco — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 08:58:35 +0000

With standard Windows utility “CONVERT”; you can convert your FAT32 hard drive to NTFS in easy way, without losing any data.

just open command prompt and follow these steps.

For convert C hard drive fat32 to ntfs, type this command

C:\> CONVERT C: /fs:ntfs

If you want convert D drive

D:\> CONVERT D: /fs:ntfs

Where C & D hard drive name

How to open command prompt easy way in windows XP

aco — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:10:37 +0000

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.

Download Cmd Here Power toy

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Thumbnail preview in the Taskbar in window XP

aco — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:01:55 +0000

By default window xp don’t have thumbnail preview utility, when you open any program in Window xp ,its task bar don’t display any thumbnail preview of any open task. But you can do easily with Visual task tips.
Visual Task Tips is a nice small utility for windows operating system. You can change xp windows taskbar look as windows vista taskbar.

Quick use
1.Download visual task tips and install it.
2.After installation, you can found it in, Notification area (Right corner of taskbar )
3.Right click visual task tips icon and go to customize…
4.configure settings change thumbnail size , popup delay and refresh rate.

5.apply , ok and close visual task tips
6.And check your taskbar

Download free Visual Task Tips