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Monday, 18 January 2010

Change icon of recycle bin

Go to

 regedit>HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/CLSID/{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}

Here we can change the  icon of our recycle bin.

But remember, the icon must be a “.ico” file and it should definitely be 32X32 pixels by size.

Enjoy Tweaking!!!

Reserved Bandwidth

20% of your available bandwidth is reserved by default by Microsoft

This affects the Broadband performance.

We can get back this 20%

Click Start-->Run—>type  gpedit.msc

This opens the group policy editor.

Go to:
Local Computer Policy-->Computer Configuration-->Administrative Templates-->Network—>

QOS Packet Scheduler->Limit Reservable Bandwidth

Now, Double click on Limit Reservable bandwidth.

It  shows that it is not configured,

"By default, the Packet Scheduler limits the system to 20 percent of the bandwidth of a connection, but you can use this
setting to override the default."

We have to set this to ENABLE and then set it to ZERO.

Now the reserved bandwidth is retrieved!!!!

Wednesday, 13 January 2010

Folder lock in Windows XP

Manual tweaking is the primary goal of this site and its applicable to this tweak too.

To Lock a folder in windows XP we need not use any third party tool.

We can do it manually using two small commands!!

Now, How you can do it ??
 

1. Create a folder and name it as say, “lock”. I’m creating it in the C drive.

2. Open command prompt

3. Now type   "attrib +s +h C:\lock"   without quotes and press enter.

This command makes the folder “lock”   invisible, you can’t even see the folder in hidden files and folders.

4. To make the folder visible again type  in the command prompt "attrib -s -h C:\lock".

That’s it!!!!!

Saturday, 2 January 2010

Hide files in a jpeg picture!!

We usually hide a file using some third party tool or keep it inside a series of files.

But files can be hidden inside a jpeg picture.

All you need is Winrar.

How you can do???

Follow the steps carefully.

Create a folder and name it say secret.

Now move all the files you wish to hide to this folder.

Add those files in a rar format and name it say hidden.rar

Now select a jpeg picture and copy the picture into the same folder.

Let me explain the rest with an example.

I’ve created a folder named secret in c drive, and created a rar file Hidden.rar and also moved the picture of my choice , hidden.jpeg  to this folder.

Now I'm going to hide the content in this picture.

Open run and type cmd

Now in the command prompt type

cd\

cd secret

copy/b hidden.jpg+Hidden.rar secpic.jpg

Here hidden.jpg is the picture of my choice ,and Hidden.rar is the rar file with files to be hidden, and secpic.jpg is the output picture with files hidden.

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Press enter, you have hidden the file in the picture.

Now open the picture using winrar and you can see the hidden file.

Enjoy!!!

Invisible Folders

Here is how you can make invisible folders in XP

1)Make a new folder  in the place of your choice.

2)While naming it, Hit space once , now  hold ALT key and type 0160.

3)Now a folder without a name is created.

4)Now Right click on that  folder go to Properties-->customize and Click on change icon.

5)Scroll a little bit to find some empty spaces and  Click on any one of them.

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6) Click OK and Apply.

7)You can see the folder is now invisible.

Change Drive Letters

Windows XP names the drives in the system in sequence from the letter given to the primary partition.

However we can change these drive letters and give our own.

How you can do??

Right-click My Computer, and then click Manage.

Under Computer Management, click Disk Management.

Drives are  listed in the right pane.

Right-click on the drive you want to change, and then click Change Drive Letter and Paths.

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Click Change and click Assign the following drive letter, click the drive letter you want to assign.

Then click OK.

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