Shutdown Your Computer or a Remote PC via Command Prompt !!!!!!!!!!

Most of us shutdown our computers using the power button given in the Start menu. Some of us use the physical power button on our machines. Very few people actually use other means of shutting down a computer and even less is the number of people who use the command prompt to shutdown a computer.

A reason for this is that most of us don't know that the command prompt can be used to not only shutdown, restart or log off our computer instantly but also to shutdown a remote computer provided you have administrative access. It can also be used to hibernate a computer and give a comment containing the reason for shutdown. This post will show you how to do all this.

Required:

A computer running Windows (XP, Vista, 7 or 8) with the command prompt working perfectly, i.e. not disabled by a virus.

Initial Steps :

1) Press Windows Key + R.

2) Enter CMD and press Enter.

This will start the command prompt. Follow the instructions below depending on what you want to do.

Shutdown Local Machine (Your Computer) :

Type "shutdown -s" without the quotes in the command prompt and press Enter. Shutdown is the command being executed and the switch -s tells the computer to shutdown.

Restart your Local Computer :

Type "shutdown -r" in the command prompt and press Enter. In this case, the command switch -r is telling the computer to restart after shutdown.

Log Off the Current User :

Type "shutdown -l" in the command prompt and press Enter. The -l command switch tells the computer to log off.

Shutdown a Remote Computer:

Type "shutdown -s -m \\name of the computer" in the command prompt and press Enter. Replace \\name of the computer with the actual name of the remote computer you are trying to shutdown. As mentioned earlier, you must have administrative access to the computer you are trying to shutdown. To know if you have administrative access, press Windows key + R and then type the name of the computer and press Enter.

Note: If you don't remember the name of the remote computer, you can look for it by opening a list of all the computers you are connected to by executing "net view" in command prompt.

If you can connect to the computer, you will be asked to login with your username and password. Upon entering them, a window will display the list of all the directories available to you. This should help you know whether you can or cannot shutdown the remote computer.

Hibernate a Local Computer :

Type in "Rundll32.exe Powrprof.dll,SetSuspendState" without the quotes and press Enter. Your computer should hibernate, if it does not, then you must enable hibernation to do this.

Shutdown your or a remote computer after a specific time :

Type "shutdown -s -t 60" to shutdown your computer after 60 seconds. Upon executing this, a countdown timer displaying a warning message will be shown. This command uses the -t command switch followed by a variable (which is 60 in this case) which represents the number of seconds after which the computer will shutdown.

Display a Message containing the reason for shutdown :

Type shutdown -s  -t 500 -c "I am tired. I don't want to work anymore." (with the quotes) in the Command Prompt and press Enter. The -c switch is used in the code to give the reason for shutting down and what is followed in quotes will be displayed in the dialog box as the reason. This can be used to display all sorts of funny messages. One example :-

Skynet has become self aware. John Connor did not stop me. You can not use your PC anymore.

Stop a System Shutdown :

Type "shutdown -a" and press Enter. This will stop the system from shutting down if the countdown to shut down has not reached 0.


Hope u like it......... :)

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Use Keyboard as Mouse [How To] ????

    
       If your mouse is not working and you don't wish to wait till you get a new mouse, you would definitely like to know how you can use your keyboard as your mouse. It is easy to use your mouse as keyboard in Windows using the On Screen Keyboard utility, but it is also possible to do the reverse.          

All you need to do is:

Windows XP Users:-
->Go to Control Panel.
- >Then click on Switch to Classic View.
->Then Click on Accessibility Options.
->Then Click on the Mouse Tab.
->Select Use MouseKeys.
->Click on OK.
->Then activate NumberLock (by pressing the NumLk key).
You should hear a beep sound.

Now you can control the mouse pointer using the arrow keys on the numeric keypad.

Windows 8, Windows 7 and Vista Users:

Open Ease of Access Center by clicking the Start button , clicking Control Panel, clicking Ease of Access, and then clicking Ease of Access Center. 
Click Make the mouse easier to use.
Under Control the mouse with the keyboard, select the Turn on Mouse Keys check box.

You can also increase the acceleration and speed of your mouse movements according to your needs.

You can alternately press the Alt+Shift+Num Lock combination to instantly activate the mouse keys.

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Watch ASCII Star Wars in Windows XP, Vista, 7 and 8 !!!!!!!!!!!!

Every one of us has watched Star Wars on television, computer or in a theater. It is the same movie with aliens fighting each other for galaxies and such stuff. There is nothing new in it. But wait, have you watched an ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) version of Star Wars and that too in Windows using telnet? A network protocol known only to computer wizards. Well if you have not, then you must do it now!

There is a complete copy of Star Wars done entirely in ASCII characters that you can watch in the Windows operating system (or any OS that supports telnet). The only thing required to watch it is an internet connection; speed does not matter.

To watch it on Windows XP, Mac OS X and Linux

1.Go to Start, Run. (Only for Windows users)
2.Now type "telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl" without the quotes and press Enter. Users of Mac OS X and Linux can directly execute this code in the terminal window.

On Windows 8, Windows 7 and Windows Vista

Telnet is turned off by default in the latest versions of Windows. So, in order to watch star wars, you must first enable telnet by going to Control Panel › Programs › Turn Windows Feature On or Off and ticking both the telnet check boxes. After doing that, follow the steps given below:-
1.Go to Start, Search in Windows Vista and Windows 7. On Windows 8, open the main Start page.
2.Type telnet and press Enter.

3.In the following command prompt window, type "o" without quotes and press Enter.

4.Now type "towel.blinkenlights.nl" without the quotes and press Enter.

If you do not need telnet anymore, you can turn it off.


A command prompt window like the one in the image will open with the movie being played in it. See the movie yourself. Did you enjoy watching this new version of Star Wars? Well, I did and know it for sure that you would have too.

Hope u njoy ........ :)

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How to install Android 4.4 Kitkat on your device ???

How to install Android 4.4 on your Nexus 4 + Download Link

How to install Android 4.4 Kitkat on your device + Download Links(video)

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Download Android Apps From Google Play to ur PC directly !!!!!!!!!

                  Have you ever wanted to get your hands on the latest game, only to find that the Google Play thought it wasn't compatible with your phone or You dont have enough data to download the app!

                 Then You Can Just Download it from Your home internet and install in your device

                 Maybe you don't have a snapdragon device, but youre're pretty sure an old device could handle it still. Have a Kindle Fire and want access to more than just the AppStore?

                Directly to your desktop rather than to your device.


Steps:

Find Your App In Play Store And Copy The URL.

After Copying The URL Visit Apk Downloader Page

 Paste The Copied Link The given Space.

(You Can Also Type the app name to download) And then Click On Generate download Link

The Above Given Screen Will be seen And Now You Can Download the app easily by clicking on 'click here to download'

If These Steps Don't Work Use the extension for chrome to download.

You will get extension from here-

 http://apps.evozi.com/apk-downloader/#extension

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How to Block Ads in Google Chrome Firefox or in any Browser ????

                
                 Internet has become a major part of our lives. We send emails, we download music, movies etc, we book tickets and what not? everything has become easy with the internet and almost everything is absolutely perfect with internet except for some of the issues like unnecessary and irritating ads in the web browsers. We open a website and boom! A meaningless and completely irritating ad appears on the screen and diverts your attention. Is not there any way to block these ads? Yes there is a solution for this problem. 

For any web browser, there are a few simple steps to follow and yes you can block all the annoying ads! 
Here, I will be showing it on Google chrome, which is also applicable for other web browsers too.There is an awesome web application, Ad Block or Ad Block Plus which can be installed on your web browser, that is Google chrome for example, in the Google web store. 
Open the Google web store and search for Ad Block Here.( You can also use AdBlock Plus)

Click on the free installation.
After successful installation, you will get a message on the screen, that Ad block has been added to your web browser.

Now you can see the Ad block icon on your screen. click on it. The settings page will open.Click on the General button and make sure you select the "Add items to the right click menu" option.

Now move on to the filter lists and click on it.  Here you can subscribe to the filter lists, which automatically blocks the ads without asking you. This makes your work easy. Click on update now. This updates the filter lists in periodic time intervals. Make sure you select all the options carefully. In the custom Filter lists category, you can add URL's of the websites which you visit often. You shall not be seeing any ads on the websites again.

I have just tried it and entered the URL link of Facebook. And when i checked my Facebook web page, there are no ads on it. 

Now select the Customize button. This is mostly for advanced users,  Where you are given a choice to block the ad by its url and hide a section of a webpage.

Now that you have installed the Ad Block, you can go to any website and right click on the screen. You will see the Ad Block option and you can place it on any ad you see and boom! You can shoot it out with no efforts.
This is available in Mozilla firefox,opera,Android phones as AdBlockPlus



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Retrieve Passwords in Windows XP !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

How to Retrieve Passwords in Windows XP
Here are multiple ways to recover or change passwords
on a Windows XP computer if you have forgotten your
password.

Steps
Tips and Warnings
Administrative Privileges Method
1
Use your admin privileges.If you are logged on to
an account with administrative privileges, you can
change user passwords using the following steps.
2
Click on the green Start button and click Run .
3
Type cmd into the text box and press Enter .
4
Type net user [Username of the Account] *. (For
example, net user Administrator*). Then press Enter.
Make sure you spell the username correctly, and you
have the "*" after the username and space between
username and "*".
5
Type in what you would like to reset the password
to, then press Enter . Type it in again and press
Enter.
Restart and Reset Method
1
If you are logged out of the computer and cannot
figure out the password at the start up screen, do
the following . (This typically only works on Windows
XP Home Edition.)
2
Restart the computer.
3
Tap the F8 button repeatedly while your
computer starts up . You will get a screen with a list
of options.
4
Choose Safe Mode or Safe Mode with Command
Prompt . Press Enter to confirm your selection.
5
Select your account. After waiting a while for all the
drivers to load (all the scrolling stuff), you will get the
Welcome Screen, where you choose an account to log
into. We know that the other accounts you can't get
into, but there should be a new account called
Administrator.
6
Click on the Administrator account and then use
the Administrative Privileges Method above to
reset someone's password .
Other Username Method
1
Log in with any valid account.
2
Go to Start menu .
3
Click on “Run” and type “cmd” . Click OK.
4
Type the “net user” command to view the user
accounts list .
5
Choose the account for which you want to change
the password . For example, if you change the
password of administrator account, type the
command “net user administrator *” without quotes.
Type the new password for the user and retype the
password to confirm and press enter. The password
has been successfully changed.
Note that this might not work on a limited
account.
Windows XP Method
1
Boot off your XP disk.
2
Start an installation and 'Repair' your windows
installation.
3
When the progress bar says 'Installing Devices',
press Shift-F10 to get a command window .
4
Type NUSRMGR.CPL to get the User Accounts
control panel . Change what you like.
Windows XP Password Manager Method
1
Download and install Windows Password changer
from www. password-changer. com on another
computer.
2
Run the software to create a password recovery
disk with a CD or USB drive .
3
Boot the Windows operating system from “Active
password changer” CD and chose the “Active
Password changer” option.
4
Chose the second option of “search for MS SAM
Database on all hard disk and logical drives”.
5
Press Enter to continue.
6
Chose the account number for changing the
password .
7
Press “Y” to save the changes and exit.
8
Press any key to restart the system .
Windows 2000 Method
1
Use a Windows 2000 recovery CD to boot the
machine.
2
Start the Windows Recovery Console.
3
Access anything you like.
4
Add a user with Administrator privileges.
5
Change the Administrator password .
Linux Method
1
Boot the machine with a recent version of Linux
that runs off CD.
2
Mount the Windows drive (or volume with
'Documents and Settings' in it) .
3
Access whatever files and folders you need to.
Hard Drive Method
1
Pull the hard drive from the machine.
2
Install it in a drive enclosure.
Or plug it into another machine's IDE/SATA/SCSI/
(whatever it is) port and give it power.
3
Boot up with that second machine's normal boot
drive as 'Administrator' and access or change
permissions on any files on the drive you like.
4
Put the drive back in its original case .
Tips
Press Ctrl-Alt-Del twice at the login menu to pull up
NT style login to bypass the process of booting to a
"Safe Mode".
3 Helpful? 4
To practice bypassing passwords for speed, make a
password you know and restart the computer and get
the timing right for the boot F8 menu.

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Why is bluetooth called BLUETOOTH ?????

When two devices need to talk to each other, they
need to have a handshake on various parameters
before the conversation starts. The first agreement
is on the medium – will they use wires, or talk over
some wireless signal? Bluetooth is one such wireless signal (protocol)
over which two (or more) devices communicate
over.



Strange name though isn’t it – are the bluetooth
waves invisible but blue and shaped like teeth?
Wrong! There is absolutely no relation between the name
and the meaning.


The Bluetooth protocol was created by Ericsson
(pre-Sony Ericsson) which is a major Swedish
telecommunication company. They named it after
the Danish viking king, Harald Blåtand. As legend goes, Blåtandhad
the blessed ability to bring people negotiate with each other, and
cometo talking terms. So skilled was he, that he was able to unite Denmark
and Norway together! The literal translation of Blåtand means blue-tooth, hence
the name Bluetooth for the protocol. It does precisely what Blåtand did – lets
two wireless device to communicate with each
other!


The Bluetooth symbol has HaraldBlåtand’sinitials inscribed into it (in Runic).
The two lines stickingout of the back of the B
actually represent a Runic H – thats
H for Harald .The B for Bluetooth also stands for

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Add Background Images to Folders in Windows !!!!!!!!!!

Suppose you have a music folder that contains all songs by your favorite singer. Would it not be great if instead of the plain white background, you could add the singer's image as the background of this folder? 

It is relatively easy to add background images to folders using a simple desktop.ini trick just as easily as you can change your Desktop's background. 

Desktop.ini is a system file that is used to customize the appearance and behavior of folders in Windows. We can use this ability of desktop.ini files to add backgrounds to folders just by adding a few lines of code.

Steps for adding backgrounds to Folders
1.Open Notepad.
2.Copy and paste the following code:-

[{BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}] iconarea_image="location of the image"

3.You need to slightly modify this code on Windows Vista and Windows 7 as the ability to add folder backgrounds has been removed. So, if you use these versions of Windows, install AveFolder and then, replace [{BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}] with [AveFolder] in the above code. To install this app, extract all the files and then, open the folder according to your installation of Windows (32 bit or 64 bit), right click install.bat and select Run as Administrator.
4.In this code, iconarea_image is the parameter where the location of your image will go.
5.Save the file as desktop.ini.
6.Place this file in the folder where you want your personalized background.
7.On Windows XP, you need to add system attribute to the folder where you want a background. To do this, open command prompt and execute "attrib +s D:\Music" (without quotes) if "D:\Music" is the location of your folder. If there are spaces in the location of your folder, you need to add double quotes around it. Windows Vista and 7 users need not add system attribute to folders.
8.You might need to log off and log back on for the changes to take effect. Sometimes, AveFolder app fails to work in which case you need to restart Windows Explorer. I recommend you to create a System Restore point in case you do not like the results.

You can hide this desktop.ini file if you feel that it is something that should not be visible in your folder.

Tip: I am using this trick to have a personal picture as the background of the root folder of my flash drive. So, whenever I connect it to my Windows PC, the picture is displayed as the background. You can also do this but you should have the image in the drive itself. As you cannot assign a static location to the iconarea_image parameter (as the drive could be G:/ on one computer while F:/ on the other), you need to add the image's dynamic location. To do this, add "/{location of the image in flash drive}" as the value of iconarea_image. For example, if your image is located in the Pics folder in the flash drive, you need to have this value as:-

iconarea_image=/Pics/Image.jpg

It is important to note that the background to your flash drive will only be displayed on computers running Windows XP (if you have used the code for XP) or those computers running Windows 7 and Windows Vista that have AveFolder installed. Sadly, there is no way to make the background of your flash drive visible on all computers unless you modify your flash drive to automatically install this app on every PC you plug it in.

If this trick does not work for you, do add a comment.

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GMAIL Shortcuts !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

* Note: Must have "keyboard shortcuts" on in settings.
* C: Compose new message.
* Shift + C: Open new window to compose new message.
* Slash (/): Switch focus to search box.
* K: Switch focus to the next most recent email. Enter or "O" 
        opens focused email.
* J: Switch focus to the next oldest email.
* N: Switch focus to the next message in the "conversation." 
        Enter or "O" expands/collapses messages.
* P: Switch focus to the previous message.
* U: Takes you back to the inbox and checks for new mail.
* Y: Various actions depending on current view:
* Has no effect in "Sent" and "All Mail" views.
* Inbox: Archive email or message.
* Starred: Unstar email or message.
* Spam: Unmark as spam and move back to "Inbox."
* Trash: Move back to "Inbox."
* Any label: Remove the label.
* X: "Check" an email. Various actions can be performed 
          against all checked emails.
* S: "Star" an email. Identical to the more 
         familiar term, "flagging."
* R: Reply to the email.
* A: Reply to all recipients of the email.
* F: Forward an email.
* Shift + R: Reply to the email in a new window.
* Shift + A: Reply to all recipients of the email in a new 
                    window.
* Shift + F: Forward an email in a new window.
* Shift + 1 (!): Mark an email as spam and remove it 
                        from the inbox.
* G then I: Switch to "Inbox" view.
* G then S: Switch to "Starred" view.
* G then A: Switch to "All Mail" view.
* G then C: Switch to "Contacts" view.
* G then S: Switch to "Drafts" view.

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