Create a Changing Pen Drive Icon

To do this in an easy way we need 10 icon files. After gathering up all ten icons rename them to core(0-9).ico like:

Now, create a folder named “icons” on the top of the Pen Drive directory (root) and copy the icons on it.

Create an Animated Desktop Background

You might have already known that webpages like www.google.com can be set as the Desktop’s Background But there isnt any animation in google.com.

So the idea is to use a webpage with an Animated Flash content which will act as the animation of the desktop.

Increase the Capacity of Your PenDrive by NTFS Compression

There are many kinds of File Systems such as FAT, FAT 32 and NTFS but one of the main advantage of the NTFS file system that it has a compression option. Which means if you copy a File with the Size of 50MB in a Drive with Compression enabled NTFS File System it may take only 30MB.

The file system of Pen Drives are usually FAT and if you don’t Have the NTFS option

Extend Vista’s Trial Period From 30 days to 4 Months !!!

You might have downloaded Windows Vista with 30 days trial period to check things out and make the decision if its worth of buying or not. But you can use it for 4 months by cracking the 30 day trial restriction.

Lets say you have 2 days remaining on the trial. First check the remaining time out by Right Clicking on “My Computer” and selecting properties then you will see

FBI’s Top Secret Information in an Image File?

See the Image below? Pretty nice dolphins, huh?

Now, save the image in your computer by right clicking and choosing “Save Picture As”, then open it with Zipping Softwares like WinRAR WinZip or 7-Zip and see what I mean.

Stopping Pen Drive Viruses by Disabling Autorun

Viruses spread from computers to computers by targetting the main epidemic source of the Pen Drive’s Autorun in mainly XP and later windows based systems. Antiviruses help but there are numerous viruses created and spreaded worldwide before your AntiVirus company can even prepare an update. So the Circumtances tell us that Disabling the autorun feature is always the better option and Heres the steps:

1. Start -> Run -> gpedit.msc and then OK.

2. Look Right then go to Computer Configuration-> Administrative Templates -> System
3. Scroll Down and double click on “Turn off Autoplay”

Configure the Way of Opening Multiple Files by using Shortcuts

Shortcuts can be created to open multiple files at once that may make things convenient. Lets check a simple example of opening a file located at the C: drive named dxcore.psd ( C:\dxcore.psd) with the Photoshop program located at C:\Program Files\Photoshop\Photoshop.exe:

“C:\Program Files\Photoshop\Photoshop.exe” “C:\dxcore.psd”

By creating a shortcut containing the above command will open the dxcore.psd file with photoshop. Now, notice that the first quotation contains the program path and then after a single space there is the path of the file to open. So the general formula for this is:
“Complete Path of the Program exe” <space> “Complete path of the file to open”

Keep Your Computer Virus Free By Scanning Suspecious Files Online With All AntiViruses

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DriverMax – An easy way to handle Drivers

DriverMax is a new program which allows you to easily reinstall all your Windows drivers. No more searching for rare drivers on discs or on the web or inserting one installation CD after the other. Simply export all your current drivers (or just the ones that work ok) to a folder or a compressed file. After reinstalling Windows you will have everything in one place!

Most of the situations when Windows is running slower are caused by faulty driver installations. Windows stores all versions of older drivers just in case you want to go back;

Gaining Disk Space After Installing Softwares

Lets see, you haven’t installed a Software or Utility on Windows Installation Drive, but just after installation you find that Hundreds of megabytes are ate up in the unused drive.

The main reason is that softwares like Adobe Photoshop, Dreamweaver or Flash and even Adobe Reader copies a *.msi file on the root drive. These files aren’t that necessary and you may want to delete them to gain back