Friday, July 6, 2012

Open web page from Windows command line

Use the below start command to open a web page from the command line. For example, the below command would open the itakhil web page from the command line.

start http://itakhil.blogspot.com/

Access Windows Desktop icons without minimizing anything

If you keep your most frequently used files and shortcuts on the Desktop, you can quickly access those icons by adding a Desktop Toolbar to your Windows Taskbar by following the below steps.

Right-click on the Windows Taskbar.
Click Properties.
In the Taskbar and Start menu Properties Window, as shown below, click the Toolbars tab.
In the Toolbars tab check the Desktop checkbox and click Apply.
Once the above steps have been completed you should have a Desktop option by the Windows Notification area of your Taskbar, which is also shown at the bottom of the below picture.

After the above steps have been completed, click the chevron arrows next to Desktop will display all shortcuts and files stored on the Desktop.

Wednesday, July 4, 2012

How to "Delete administrator Password" without any software

Method 1

Boot up with DOS and delete the sam.exe and sam.log files from Windows\system32\config in your hard drive. Now when you boot up in NT the password on your built-in administrator account which will be blank (i.e No password). This solution works only if your hard drive is FAT kind.

Method 2

Step 1. Put your hard disk of your computer in any other pc .Step 2. Boot that computer and use your hard disk as a secondary hard disk (D'nt boot as primary hard disk ).Step 3. Then open that drive in which the victim’s window(or your window) is installed.Step 4. Go to location windows->system32->configStep 5. And delete SAM.exe and SAM.log
Step 6. Now remove hard disk and put in your computer.
Step 7. And boot your computer

Tip: To make invisible folder, hold ALT and type 0160 while renaming it.

Micromax A56 SuperFone ninja

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Dual Sim GSM
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Multiformat Video/Audio Player
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Pre-loaded AISHA
Wi-Fi
3G
GPS navigation
Bluetooth v3.0
Pre-loaded AISHA – Micromax voice based assistant
Changeable back panels
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Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Microsoft Windows Shortcut Keys

This is a listing of some common shortcut keys in different versions Microsoft Windows.

Some shortcut keys below are not supported in all versions of Windows.
The shortcut keys on this page are only applicable for Windows in general, if you are looking for shortcut keys for a specific application (i.e. Excel, Word, etc..) please see the links at the bottom of this page.

Use at your own risk.

Shortcut Key	Supported Window Versions	Short Key Description
Alt + (double-click)	95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, Vista	Open Properties dialog of selected item.
Alt + Enter	95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, Vista	Opens properties window of selected item.
Alt + Esc	95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, Vista	Switch Between open tasks available on the taskbar.
Alt + F4	95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, Vista	Close the top (focused) window.
Alt + Tab	95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, Vista	Switch between open windows.
Alt + Tab + Shift	95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, Vista	Switch between open windows, backward.
Ctrl + Alt + Delete (or Del)	95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, Vista	Bring up the Windows Task Manager, or reboot computer.
Ctrl + Esc	95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, Vista	Bring up the Windows Start menu.
Ctrl + '+' ('+' key on the keypad)	98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, Vista	Autofit the widths of all columns (if available) in current window.
Ctrl + F4	95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, Vista	Close sub window/tab.
Ctrl + Tab	95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, Vista	Switch between existing tabs (within a window).
Ctrl + Tab + Shift	95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, Vista	Switch between existing tabs (within a window), backward
F1	95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, Vista	Open Help for Windows or focused application.
F2	95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, Vista	Rename.
F3	95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, Vista	Find/Search.
F4	95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, Vista	Select drives or display the list of drives
F5	95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, Vista	Refresh.
F6	95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, Vista	Switch focus to the address bar (if exists).
F10	95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, Vista	Switch focus to the top menu bar.
Shift + F10	95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, Vista	Same as mouse right-click on the select item.
Print Screen	95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, Vista	Capture a screenshot of the entire desktop to clipboard.
Print Screen + Alt	95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, Vista	Capture a screenshot of just the top(focused) window to clipboard.
Shift + Delete (or Del)	95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, Vista	Permanently delete selected file(s)/folder(s) (bypass recycle bin)
Shift (hold while inserting an audio CD to drive)	95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, Vista	Prevent autoplay.
* (keypad) on Windows Explorer.	95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, Vista	Expand all sub-directories from the selected item.
+ (keypad) on Windows Explorer.	95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, Vista	Expand only the first level of selected item.
- (keypad) on Windows Explorer.	95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, Vista	Collapse

Most keyboards have a Windows Key (key with a Windows icon). This key provides additional shortcuts for Microsoft Windows. Below is a list of the shortcut keys by combining the Windows key and other keys.

Shortcut Keys	Description
WINDOWS-KEY	Bring up the Windows Start menu.
WINDOWS-KEY + F1	Bring up the Windows Help.
WINDOWS-KEY + e	Open Microsoft Explorer.
WINDOWS-KEY + f	Windows Search.
WINDOWS-KEY + Ctrl + f	Search for computers
WINDOWS-KEY + d	Minimizes all and bring up desktop, or restore all
WINDOWS-KEY + l	Lock the computer (Windows XP & newer).
WINDOWS-KEY + m	Minimizes all windows.
WINDOWS-KEY + Shift + M	Restore all. Opposite with WINDOWS-KEY + M and WINDOWS-KEY + D.
WINDOWS-KEY + r	Open the run window.
WINDOWS-KEY + u	Utility Manager.
WINDOWS-KEY + Tab	Cycle through the programs on task bar.
WINDOWS-KEY + Pause/Break	Open the System Properties window.

Reset Windows Password

Forgot your administrator password? Don't panic, it happens to some other people too, and you have found the solution! The following instructions will show you step-by-step how to reset your local Windows password. This only works for local user accounts, however, not domain accounts.The password recovery tool from this page is written by Petter Nordahl-Hagen, and the original information, as well as the downloadable tool, can be found from his website. According to the author, this tool should work for Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista.
WARNING! Users who have EFS encrypted files on the Windows XP or Vista computers will loose access to the EFS encrypted files after recovery of your password!

Use this trick at your own risks
The tool to reset your password can be downloaded here.

I. Download the bootdisk:

Download the bootdisk, which includes the password recovery tool here. The file contains the ISO CD image.
Unzip (extract) the ISO file and burn it to a CD. Note that this is an ISO file, you must burn it to CD as an ISO image, not as a "data" file. If you're not sure how, see this article. Also, the image is bootable, you need to burn the image to a CD using the image burning feature; do not extract the contents of the ISO and burn them to the CD, you'll end up with a CD that can't boot!

II. Understanding the process:

You'll use the bootdisk created from the above steps to bootup your computer, which you want to reset your administrator password.
You'll be asked for things like: which drive is the boot drive, which path to the SAM file, etc.. but don't worry, details will be provided.
Once you have selected an account to reset the password, you'll need to type in a new password; however, it is highly recommended to use a BLANK password at this point, then you can change your password later in Windows.
Follow the prompts to the end. You'll need to save the changes at the end!

III. OK! Enough talking. Here are the steps:

Startup your computer with the bootdisk created above. You should see a welcome screen following with a prompt:
```
 boot:
```

Just wait, the bootup process will continute automatically. Then you should see a screen similar to this:

 =========================================================

 . Step ONE: Select disk where the Windows installation is

 =========================================================

 ....

 NT partitions found:

  1 :   /dev/sda1    4001MB  Boot

  2 :   /dev/sda5    2148MB

 

 Please select partition by number or

 a = show all partitions, d = automatically load new disk drivers

 m = manually load new disk drivers

 l = relist NTFS/FAT partitions, q = quit

 Select: [1]

Notice the last line "Select: [1]" which shows the [1] as default selection because the tool detected the bootup partition is [1]. This might be different on your own machine, so you should review the list shown under "NT partitions found:". The partition with the word "Boot" should be selected.

Hit Enter once you confirm the selection. You should see a similar screen as follows:

 =========================================================

 . Step TWO: Select PATH and registry files

 =========================================================

 ....

 What is the path to the registry directory? (relative to windows disk)

 [windows/system32/config] :

Notice the last line "[windows/system32/config]" which shows the default path. This was also detected by the tool. If the path is correct, hit Enter, or if you wish to enter a different path, enter it now then hit Enter.
Here are the paths for different versions of Windows:
- Windows NT 3.51: winnt35/system32/config
- Windows NT 4 and Windows 2000: winnt/system32/config
- Windows XP/2003 (and often Windows 2000 upgraded from Windows 98 or earlier): windows/system32/config

Once you hit "Enter", you should see the next screen similar to the following:

 -r--------    1 0        0          262144 Jan 12 18:01 SAM

 -r--------    1 0        0          262144 Jan 12 18:01 SECURITY

 -r--------    1 0        0          262144 Jan 12 18:01 default

 -r--------    1 0        0         8912896 Jan 12 18:01 software

 -r--------    1 0        0         2359296 Jan 12 18:01 system

 dr-x------    1 0        0            4096 Sep  8 11:37 systemprofile

 -r--------    1 0        0          262144 Sep  8 11:53 userdiff



 Select which part of registry to load, use predefined choices

 or list the files with space as delimiter

 1 - Password reset [sam system security]

 2 - RecoveryConsole parameters [software]

 q - quit - return to previous

 [1]

Hit "Enter" with the default option selected "[1]". Then ...:

 =========================================================

 . Step THREE: Password or registry edit

 =========================================================

 Loaded hives:   



   1 - Edit user data and passwords

   2 - Syskey status & change

   3 - RecoveryConsole settings

    - - -

   9 - Registry editor, now with full write support!

   q - Quit (you will be asked if there is something to save)



 What to do? [1] -> 1

Hit "Enter" with the default option selected "[1]". Then ...:

 ===== chntpw Edit User Info & Passwords ====



 RID: 01f4, Username: <Administrator>

 RID: 01f5, Username: <Guest>, *disabled or locked*

 RID: 03e8, Username: <HelpAssistant>, *disabled or locked*

 RID: 03eb, Username: <pnh>, *disabled or locked*

 RID: 03ea, Username: <SUPPORT_388945a0>, *disabled or locked*



 Select: ! - quit, . - list users, 0x<RID> - User with RID (hex)

 or simply enter the username to change: [Administrator]

Hit "Enter" with the default option selected "[Administrator]", or select another user account. Here you can enter the full user account surrounded by < and >, CASE-SENSITIVE, or enter the RID number (i.e. 0x1f4). Assuming you select the Administrator account, you should see the following screen:

 RID     : 0500 [01f4]

 Username: Administrator

 fullname: 

 comment : Built-in account for administering the computer/domain

 homedir : 



 Account bits: 0x0210 =

 [ ] Disabled        | [ ] Homedir req.    | [ ] Passwd not req. | 

 [ ] Temp. duplicate | [X] Normal account  | [ ] NMS account     | 

 [ ] Domain trust ac | [ ] Wks trust act.  | [ ] Srv trust act   | 

 [X] Pwd don't expir | [ ] Auto lockout    | [ ] (unknown 0x08)  | 

 [ ] (unknown 0x10)  | [ ] (unknown 0x20)  | [ ] (unknown 0x40)  | 



 Failed login count: 0, while max tries is: 0

 Total  login count: 3



 * = blank the password (This may work better than setting a new password!)

 Enter nothing to leave it unchanged

 Please enter new password: *

At the prompt "Please enter new password", Enter the * for a blank password (HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!) then press Enter
```
 Please enter new password: *

 Blanking password!



 Do you really wish to change it? (y/n) [n] y
```

At the prompt, type in "y", then press Enter. Note that the default option is "n".

 Do you really wish to change it? (y/n) [n] y

 Changed!



 Select: ! - quit, . - list users, 0x - User with RID (hex)

 or simply enter the username to change: [Administrator] !

Enter the "!" to go back to the main menu. Then select "q" at the following menu to quit:

 <>========<> chntpw Main Interactive Menu <>========<>



 Loaded hives:   



   1 - Edit user data and passwords

   2 - Syskey status & change

   3 - RecoveryConsole settings

    - - -

   9 - Registry editor, now with full write support!

   q - Quit (you will be asked if there is something to save)



 What to do? [1] -> q

A prompt to save changes displays, enter "y" to save:

 =========================================================

 . Step FOUR: Writing back changes

 =========================================================

 About to write file(s) back! Do it? [n] : y

The changes are saved! You should see the following screen, press Enter, and reboot your computer.

 



 ***** EDIT COMPLETE *****



 You can try again if it somehow failed, or you selected wrong

 New run? [n] : n

Basic PC Shortcut Keys

Basic Shortcut Keys

The followings are some basic PC shortcut keys that are supported in most IBM compatible computers. They are also supported in most application software.
Use at your own risk.

Shortcut Keys	Supported Window Versions	Description
Alt + e	95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, Vista	Pull down the top Edit menu.
Alt + f	95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, Vista	Pull down the top File menu
Ctrl + a	95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, Vista	Select all text.
Ctrl + c	95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, Vista	Copy selected item(s) (to clipboard).
Ctrl + f	95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, Vista	Find.
Ctrl + v	95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, Vista	Paste copied item(s) from clipboard
Ctrl + x	95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, Vista	Cut.
Ctrl + Ins	95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, Vista	Same as Ctrl + c
Ctrl + (left arrow)	95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, Vista	Move one word to the left at a time.
Ctrl + (right arrow)	95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, Vista	Move one word to the right at a time.
Shift + Ins	95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, Vista	Same as Ctrl + v
Shift + Delelte (or Del)	95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, Vista	Cut. Or permanently delete selected item(s) on Windows Explorer.
F1	95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, Vista	Help.
Home	95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, Vista	Jump to the beginning of the line or page.
Ctrl + Home	95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, Vista	Jump to the beginning of the document or page.
End	95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, Vista	Jump to the end of the line or page.
Ctrl + End	95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, Vista	ump to the end of the document or page.
Shift + Home	95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, Vista	Set selection (highlight) from current position to beginning of the line or page.
Shift + End	95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, Vista	Set selection (highlight) from current position to end of the line or page.
Shift + (left arrow)	95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, Vista	Set selection (highlight) from current position to the left, one character at a time.
Shift + (right arrow)	95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, Vista	Set selection (highlight) from current position to the right, one character at a time.
Shift + (down arrow)	95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, Vista	Set selection (highlight) from current position to the next line down.
Shift + (up arrow)	95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, Vista	Set selection (highlight) from current position to the next line up.

Any Folder as a Photo Folder

This tricks shows you how to setup any folder to display its contents as a photo folder. In many cases, you save your images/photos in a folder different than "My Pictures" (under "My Documents"). Since this folder you choose is just like any other normal folders, its contents displayed as a listing of files. You can temporary change it by just right-click and select "View" >> "Thumbnails". But if you want to change the folder so that everytime you come back, the folder itself, as well as all its subfolders, display the contents as photo thumbnails.

* Right-click on the folder you choose and select "Properties