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Hide/Lock and Unlock USB Ports in Windows 7 and XP

Arun — Fri, 06 May 2011 03:34:11 +0000

Hiding or Locking all the USB ports in our system helps to protect our personal data from other users who may use our Desktop computer or Laptop. Without editing the registry,We can lock all our USB Ports with single Click. We can also Unlock it to reuse the USB Ports again if necessary. USB ports on your Windows can be locked and unlocked in one click without having to do them manually from Windows device manager or registry.

USB Port Locked is a lightweight utility that will help you lock all existing USB ports on your computer. This application is very useful if you want restrict the use of USB ports on your computer for security reasons.

Features of the USB Port Locked 2.0:

System Tray Icon. Now USB Port Locked already be hiding in the Tray Icon
Tools viewing process. You can use this tool to see what processes are running on your Windows
Improved locking USB port. Now you can lock the USB port is for sure locked.
Portable. You do not need to install this application if you want to use it on another computer
Free of cost,Easy to Lock Unlock with Single Click

USB Port Locked Free Download

1-Click Free Drive Locker for Windows-Hide Drives Easily

Arun — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 17:07:36 +0000

How to Hide a Drive on Windows ? There are many ways we can hide our Hard Disk Drives. We already saw a post to hide drive without registry edit. But Drive Locker,a freeware by Anilsoni will do it for you with one click. DriveLocker allows you to lock any drive and subsequently hide it from any users to protect your personal data/files from others who are using your computer or Laptop.

The program is lightweight and very easy to use. Just select the drive you wish to lock or hide and press apply. Then, it will no longer be available to anyone else. You can also restore the drive back easily with 1-click.

Download Drive Locker Freeware

Hide DVD Drive HD Drive without editing Registry

Arun — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 17:11:52 +0000

How to hide a DVD Drive or Hard Disk Drive (c:/) ? Without using a software and registry editor we can easily hide or remove our drives in our PC . Using Command Prompt in both Windows 7 and XP, we can hide a particular drive. This trick helps to protect our PC from unwanted DVD Drive usage and file access in a drive which may have some secret confidential files. Please try this administrator mode in your PC or Laptop.

Steps to hide a DVD Drive or Hard Disk Drive in XP,Vista and Windows 7

Step 1: Go to Start–>Run – > Diskpart. Click Yes if you are prompted for (User Account Control) dialog Box.

Step 2: And then type List Volume and hit enter.This command lists all drives in your PC or Laptop

In above screenshot you can see the DVD Drive letter is H:.

Step 3: If you want hide the DVD Drive, type Select Volume H (here,H is the drive letter) or Select Volume 0 (here zero is the volume number) and press Enter. This command will select H: (DVD Drive).

Step 4:To hide a drive, type Remove Letter H. Here, H is the DVD drive’s letter that you want to remove.

Now the DVD Drive successfully removed from the PC. You may also try this to hide your Hard Disk drives (C:,D: etc.)

To show the hidden drive (Removed drive), follow the steps given below:

Step 1: Repeat steps 1,2 and 3.

Step 2 : To Unhide a drive, type Assign letter H. Here, H is the DVD drive’s letter that you want to enable).

How to change the color of Yahoo Mail Beta ?

Arun — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 07:34:00 +0000

Yahoo released their Yahoo Mail Beta Last Month. The New Yahoo mail is very neat and twice as fast as previous Version.Now users can easily change the Color of your Yahoo Mail Beta using Yahoo Themes.

Change the color of Yahoo Mail / Change Yahoo Mail Themes

Now Users can customize your mail experience using Yahoo Themes

1. Login to your Yahoo Mail Beta

2. Click the Help Menu in the upper left corner of your Yahoo Mail

3. Select Themes from the list. A new window will open to show you a list of themes. Choose your Favorite Theme

4. Click on the theme of your choice.Yahoo! Mail Beta will update in the background.Click Done or close

Steps to Redirect Old Permalinks to New Permalinks in WordPress

Arun — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 06:52:30 +0000

If you have Migrated your WordPress blog from one permalink structure to another, and you wants to redirect all your Old Permalinks to new Permalinks fastly and Quickly without generating a 404 Error Page. Here is the best way to do this.

Many of us started our blog 3 to 4 years back and we used the Permalink Structure like this “http://www.blognotes.in/2010/10/31/wordpress” . Now you changed the Permalink structure to “http://www.blognotes.in/wordpress” .

After Migration of your Permalinks to new structure, you supposed to loose traffic from Old Links. Use the following WordPress plugin to solve this issue.

Solution for Redirect Old Permalinks to New Permalinks:

WordPress plugin: Permalinks Moved Permanently by Microkid

Right before the old permalink generates a 404, this simple plugin grabs the slug from the end of the request and checks if there’s a post with this slug living somewhere else on your blog. If so, it will forward your user to the new location of your post. It’s simple, but effective.

Just install this Plugin and activate it. You don’t have to change any settings. The plugin will do the remaining for you. Enjoy.

Easy way to Enable or Disable Hibernate in Windows 7/Vista/XP

Arun — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 12:58:55 +0000

Here is the Easy way to delete hiberfil.sys. We can easily enable or Disable Hibernate option in Windows 7/Vista/XP using command prompt.

Disabling hibernation helps to delete hiberfil.sys (250MB-2GB) .

Enable Hibernate using Command prompt in Windows 7/Vista/XP

Go to command prompt Window key+R then type cmd and press Enter key
Type powercfg -h on andpress enter key

This will create hiberfil.sys (250MB-2GB) in C:/ of your PC

Disable Hibernate using Command prompt in Windows 7/Vista/XP

Go to command prompt Window key+R then type cmd and press Enter key
Type powercfg -h off andpress enter key

This will delete hiberfil.sys (250MB-2GB) from your PC

Free download YouTube/Google Videos in different Formats

Arun — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 18:31:31 +0000

Bender Converter is an easy-to-use online application for downloading and converting videos from such services as YouTube, Daily Motion, Mega Video, Vimeo, TwitVid.com, Veoh, Google Video and many others. You can download video and audio in MP3, AVI, FLV Flash, iPod / iPhone and other popular formats. The service is fast and doesn’t require you to register. All that you need is a link to a page with a video and our software.

You can also do video search at Benderconverter.com and the service is very fast and No registration is required to download/Convert the Videos.

Google Book Downloader-Downloads Books from Google

Arun — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 13:11:51 +0000

Google Book Search is a major unique source for all ebooks readers- a preview site for sample pages of a book. Using Google Book Downloader we can save the Google books as PDF format for free and very Easily.

Download & Save Google Book as PDF with Google Book Downloader:

To download eBooks or PDF copies from Google Book search results, Use the following free google Book downloader software.

Its available at Codeplex.Google Book Downloader 0.1.0 can only download books which are marked as to full view. If you try to download copy write book then it not download all pages of book.

Useful Windows 7 Keyboard Shortcuts-Udpated List

Arun — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 07:47:31 +0000

Some best and useful Windows 7 Keyboard Shortcuts.Users can update some new Keyboard shortcuts in the comments.

Win + “+”-key:- Zoom in using magnifier
Win + “-”-key:- Zoom out using Magnifier
Windows logo key +U : It opens Access Center
Win+UP Arrow :- Maximize the current window
Win+Down Arrow :- If the current window is maximized, restore it; if the current window is restored, minimize it
Win+Left Arrow :- Dock the current window to the left half of the screen
Win+Right Arrrow :- Dock the current window to the right half of the screen
Win+Home :- Minimize all but the current window
Win+P :- Open the projection menu (generally used for laptops
connected to projectors)
Alt+F4 :- Close the active window
Alt+Tab :- Switch to previous active window
Alt+Esc :- Cycle through all open windows
Win+Tab :- Flip 3D
Ctrl+Win+Tab :- Persistent Flip 3D
Ctrl + Shift + N : Create a new folder

Win+T :- Cycle through applications on taskbar (showing its live preview)
Win+M :- Minimize all open windows
Win+Shift+M :- Undo all window minimization
Win+D :- Toggle showing the desktop
Win + G :- to bring gadgets up front
Ctrl+W :- Close the current Window
F11 :- Maximize or minimize the active window
Ctrl+Period (.):- Rotate a picture clockwise
Ctrl+Comma (,) :- Rotate a picture counter-clockwise
Alt+D:- Select the address bar
Ctrl+E :- Select the search box

Download Unlock for iPhone 4 free !

Arun — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 07:10:31 +0000

JailbreakMe is actually all in one solution for iPhone 4 3GS 3GS and iPod Touch 3G 2G along with iPad. Any iPhone on 4.0 or 4.0.1 iOS can be jailbroken using JailbreakMe 2.0. Any iPod Touch 4.0 can be jailbroken untethered irrespective of MC Models while iPad 3.2.1 jailbreak is also possible.

The following tutorial will aid you to carry out iPhone 4 Jailbreak with JailbreakMe 2.0.

Step 1: There are two possible firmware that are installed on iPhone 4 either iOS4 or iOS 4.0.1. JailbreakMe 2.0s both iOS4 and iOS 4.0.1.

Step 2: Visit JailbreakMe.com on your iPhone 4.

Step 3: Follow the instructions on website for iPhone 4 Jailbreak.

Step 4: Let JailbreakMe 2.0 do the assigned duty and wait till it flaunts a message of Success.

Step 5: You have a jailbroken iPhone 4 running on iOS4 or iOS 4.0.1.

Download JailbreakMe for iPhone 4

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