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We all use a lot of portable storage devices in our every day life – in the form of USB Flash drives, Portable Hard Disks, Mobile memory cards, Micro SD, SD card etc etc. – the list goes on and on. And the more often we use these devices chances are that we accidentally loose data from them – in one or other way. You should have atleast one single experience of loosing data from your portable memory device – isn’t it ? Well the question is:-
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Written by Tony on May 3rd, 2011 with no comments.
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Do you own a laptop ? If yes, then you also must have faced a problem similar to mine atleast once in your laptop saga. A common problem with most of laptops is its DVD RW frequently showing complaints. It wont read some disks, some disks may get crashed inside and in some cases (like mine) your DVD RW may not even show any signs of life at all. Though a DVD RW is of not much use now a days, we all still find it unavoidable for Installing/Repairing your operating system – may it be read more
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Written by Tony on April 9th, 2011 with no comments.
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Do you feel your computer is running slow?
Or
Do you feel some problems with your internet speed even if you are using a broadband internet connection?
Or
Do you feel that someone secretly use your internet connection?
So there’s a small chance that some piece of malicious software’s like Trojan horses or spywares is consistently connecting to the internet without your knowledge.If you want to know about the programs on your computer,which are secretly making connections to read more
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Written by Tony on March 28th, 2009 with no comments.
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In the previous articles,I explained how to create super hidden files and folders in Windows and how to hide hard disk drives in Windows without using any third part applications and softwares.Here, I explained an interesting trick to hide files and folders within a JPEG Image file (ie the JPEG image mask the files and folders).Any type of file, any extension, any number and any size can be secretly embedded in a JPEG image with this simple Windows Trick.
Basically,in this trick you create a read more
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Written by Tony on March 22nd, 2009 with 5 comments.
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Many peoples ask me for an effective way to lock folders in Windows Vista without the use of any third party software’s.You can easily create a folder in Windows Vista that will not just be invisible, but also require a password to reveal it and open it.Simply says you can easily lock a folder using Notepad.
Open Notepad editor from Windows Vista start menu and copy the code given below.
cls
@ECHO OFF
title Folder Locker
if EXIST “Control read more
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Written by Tony on March 22nd, 2009 with 2 comments.
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You can easily create your own custom system folders in Windows Vista or in XP, like “My Documents” or “My Computer”, that can not be deleted or renamed and place it on the desktop and My Computer.
Create the following series of keys and values in the Windows registry at [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID] or [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID]. The GUID, globally unique identifier, can be a random number, in this example “FD4DF9E0-E3DE-11CE-BFCF-ABCD1DE12345″ is read more
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Written by Tony on March 2nd, 2009 with no comments.
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Sometimes it becomes necessary to lock your hard disk drives in Windows Vista or in XP,to avoid un-authorized user access.For example you might have stored your office secret documents in D:\ and you don’t want strangers to access it, in such case this Windows registry tweak can be useful for you. Please don’t try this registry tweak with your root drive (usually C:\ is the root drive) since root drives are not intended to be locked because they are mandatory for the system and read more
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Written by Tony on March 2nd, 2009 with no comments.
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