Windows 7 Login Screen for Windows XP
You wish really login screen which look like login screen at Windows 7? You must try “Windows 7 Default Login” from AskVG.com. This login screen just only for Windows XP user.Interest!! Download this file now. To install this login screen is easy and have available readme file that containing the way to install this login screen.
How to setup this logon Screen
- Navigate to “\WINDOWS\Resources” and create folder with name Logon
- Navigate to WideScreen or Normal Screen and copy the file “logonUI.exe” to Logon Folder
- double click file “setup.reg”, click in Yes and Ok and Log off. To restore Windows XP Default’s logon click restore.reg.
you can also use third party software to install this login screen like tune-up utilities, style Xp or other.
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Imagicon|Convert Multiple Image Formats To Windows Icon
Do you want to replace out your boring computer icon with your girlfriend face, or with favorite actress face. Here’s a sweet utility which converts any picture which is having JPG,PNG,BMP format into BMP,JPG,PNG or ICO format.
The program is called ImagIcon, by using this nifty utility you can convert an image and save it as an icon in different sizes (16×16, 32×32, 48×48, and 64×64).By default 16×16 is treated as favicon. Favicon is a small icon mainly we can observe on address bar of a Web browser.
The program also supports customization like image scaling, alpha transferency icon. If you not want to get an icon, you can convert to any of these three formats: BMP, PNG, or JPG, Tool Operation is also simple just drag and drop pictures in to the colored area of application and configure your setting and get automatically converted icons.
Here I took a picture of Indian actress & I and dropped it onto the application window. By default, image icon output is an icon of 32×32 and automatically saves it in the same folder as the original picture.
Apart from this it allows you to change the Icon settings, where you can change the picture or icon size of your output icon. If you want to simply convert image format then also this tool is very helpful.
For Example if you have some BMP images and you simply wants to convert it to PNG format, just change the save mode from Windows icon to PNG then drag and drop your BMP images to application it instantly converts BMP to PNG and puts in same folder where original picture is located by default.
Finally you can customize this tool by choosing different color background,or you can also insert your own images to tool background.
I think it is very helpful tool for everyone.Do yo think So?
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Related: Free Online Funny Picture Maker and Editor-Edit Photo Without Photoshop
How to Change The Folder Color With Rainbow Folders
Rainbow Folders is a funny application that allows you to change color of any icon representing any folder.
Advantage of this Tool.
1. With this tool you can colorize your folders, so it eventually increases navigating speed, under thousands of folders present in your HDD.
2. You can easily mark your favorite folders with special color with Rainbow Folder. and also you can colorise as many foder as you want.
Download Rainbow Folders [via]
Related: How to disable File, Folder and Text from Copy and Cut
Categories: Tips And Tricks Tags: Folder color, Rainbow Folder
Minimize Currently Running Application To Desktop as a Thumbnail|miniMIZE
Generally we love to run multiple Application software simultaneously, eventually it slow down the PC but also populate on taskbar, some time it is difficult to identify which is the high priority application explorer.
Here is an interesting tool which
1) Keep your Taskbar Clean and Tidy
2) And also minimize the application explorer to desktop in the form of a thumbnail
The tool is called miniMIZE it catches the application explorers that are being minimized and creates a small thumbnail on desktop. So it doesn’t clutter up your taskbar and also you can drag and arrange thumbnail generated by this tool.
This tool also has some hot keys so that we can adjust thumbnail size, show/hide thumbnails. This tool is in beta mode and now it only supports Windows XP Operating system
Download miniMIZE
Related: How to Remove Windows Unnecessary Startup Task With Autoruns
Categories: Tips And Tricks Tags: Application, Desktop, miniMIZE, Taskbar, Thumbnail, Windows XP
How to Remove Windows Unnecessary Startup Task With Autoruns
Generally in Windows lifecycle some factors that affects the integrity of operating system, basically drivers, application programs, which runs from windows startup, apart from this in larger extent some spywares& malwares which can run at startup and become very difficult to remove.
Fortunately, Microsoft adopted one utility and named as Sysinternal Autoruns.This tool has most comprehensive knowledge of auto-starting locations windows startup so it allows you to visually see what is running at boot and where it is being controlled,Once this program installed in your system it monitors startup folder of windows along with other registry keys.
You can configure Autoruns so that it can show other location like explorer shell extensions, toolbars, browser objects, win-logon notifications, services etc… This Autoruns application goes way beyond the MSCONFIG utility of Windows. Autoruns’ Hide official Microsoft entries from startup and helps you to zoom in on third-party auto starting applications.
How to use Autoruns Utility? Read more via [Microsoft Technet]
Categories: Tips And Tricks Tags: Computer Hardware, Microsoft Windows, Operating System, Software, Sysinternals Autorun
Trick to Download Images From Right Click Disabled Webpages
Generally some webmasters disable the right click menu on their blog or websites to prevent copying images from their websites.We can easily break those barrier by adapting several tricks.Some of them are screen capture,javascript disabling,extracting url from HTML source etc..
Method 1:
When you are in right click disabled page you can use Print Screen Button (prtScr) on your keyboard then paste it on your favorite image editors like paint, MS office picture manger then save the picture etc. Or you can use some free screen capture software’s.
Method 2:
Read the image URL from the HTML source of the web page and then save the image using your download manager.
Method 3:
All the above methods work but some time geeky, so we can adopt another method that is it’s called “drag-n-drop. In this method point your mouse pointer over the image, press and hold the left click button and drag that image either to browser address bar or to comment section or somewhere on desktop. That’s it. This method really comes handy when the web page is opened in a window
Method 4:
If you are using Internet Explorer 6, 7, 8
- Go to “Tools”->”Internet Options”
- Click on “Security” tab.
- Click “Custom Level”
- Scroll down to the “scripting” section.
- Set “Active Scripting” to “disable” (Active scripts are programs written in JavaScript)
- Click “Ok”. Restart your internet browser.
Note: This will disable the JavaScript from being rendered by your Internet Explorer .So right click disabling script doesn’t load
For Firefox browser, these are the steps (maybe be vary depending on the version).
- Go to “Tools” -> “Options”
- Click “Web Features”
- Deselect enable JavaScript
Method 5:
Alternatively, you can also use this method to re-enable the website right click function.Enter the JavaScript code below inside your browser’s address bar.
javascript:void(document.oncontextmenu=null [source]
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Control your Windows PC through your Mobile-PuppetMaster
Do you have a PowerPoint presentation to give? Do you thinking off Remote Controller, here is one cool application that allows you the freedom of a remote controller. It’ll show you, your slide notes as you go even the actual slides themselves! Only the requirement is your mobile phone. PuppetMaster is an interesting application that turns your cell phone into a universal remote controller for Windows PC. This cool application works using Bluetooth technology to allow you to control your computer from a short range.
Some time you may want to skip the song from your bed that is currently playing through iTunes or Windows Media Player Just a click on your mobile phone and you’re on to the next song and also you can browse or search songs by name or artist.
If you having good hand with VBScript or JavaScript, you can customize PuppetMaster to perform just about any action you wish. Apart from this you can use the built-in scripts, as well as configure your own keymaps or file-open actions to provide a wide range of functionality.
Requirement and Support
A Bluetooth device and a COM connection to the phone, Symbian Series 60 phone with Bluetooth support, Symbian UIQ phone with Bluetooth support. (* Preliminary support) Microsoft Smartphone , Microsoft PocketPC 2003,· Java enabled phone that supports the Bluetooth API. · Sony Ericsson T68, T68i, T610, T630, K700i or Z1010.
You can check compatibility of your phone [via]
Categories: News, Tips And Tricks Tags: Control PC, Control Windows, Mobile, Puppetmaster
Trick to Enable Hidden Admin Account in Windows Vista and Windows7
In Windows7 and Windows vista default Administrator account is created during installation, and disabled by default for security purposes.So if you want to enable it for troubleshooting or to get rid of the UAC prompts while tweaking your system. So here I’ll describe a few methods to enable / activate the hidden Administrator account in Windows Vista and 7
Method: 1
1. Right-click on My Computer icon on Desktop and select “Manage“, it’ll open “Computer Management” window. (You can also open it by giving “compmgmt.msc” command in RUN dialog box or Start menu Search box).
2. Navigate to “Local Users and Groups -> Users“. In right-side pane double-click on “Administrator” account. It’ll open its Properties. Deselect “Account is disabled” option and Apply it.
Method: 2
1. Type “secpol.msc” in RUN dialog box or Start menu search box, it’ll open “Local Security Policy” window.
2. Navigate to “Local Policies -> Security Options“.
3. Double-click on first option “Accounts: Administrator account status” and select “Enabled” and click on apply.
Method: 3
1. Click on “Start button -> All Programs -> Accessories“. Right-click on “Command Prompt” and select “Run as Administrator“. If you are prompted to enter password, enter the password and continue. You can also open Command Prompt in Administrator mode by typing “cmd” in Start menu Search box and press “Ctrl+Shift+Enter“.
2. Now provide following command: net user administrator /active: yes
3. Now the Administrator account will be enabled. If you want to disable it again, simply replace “yes” with “no” in above command.
NOTE: Never activate the hidden Administrator account until required. It’s better to use other general accounts for better security.
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Categories: News, Tips And Tricks Tags: Security
