Create Locked Password Protected Folder Without Using Any Software

Yes, you can create a locked password protected folder without using any third party software. While surfing on internet i found a .BAT script that creates a folder with password protection. You have to only copy & paste this script, put your password and you are done!

Here are the steps :

1) Open notepad. Copy and paste below script and save file as lock.bat

cls @ECHO OFF title technoyz.blogspot.com if EXIST "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}" goto UNLOCK if NOT EXIST MyFolder goto MDMyFolder :CONFIRM echo Are you sure to lock this folder? (Y/N) set/p "cho=>" if %cho%==Y goto LOCK if %cho%==y goto LOCK if %cho%==n goto END if %cho%==N goto END echo Invalid choice. goto CONFIRM :LOCK ren MyFolder "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}" attrib +h +s "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}" echo Folder locked goto End :UNLOCK echo Enter password to Unlock Your Secure Folder set/p "pass=>" if NOT %pass%== Your_password_goes_here goto FAIL attrib -h -s "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}" ren "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}" MyFolder echo Folder Unlocked successfully goto End :FAIL echo Invalid password goto end :MDMyFolder md MyFolder echo MyFolder created successfully goto End :End

2) Now when you double click on lock.bat, it will create a new folder named "MyFolder". You can put your private data into this folder.

3) After that again double click on lock.bat, it will hide the MyFolder. To show this folder click on lock.bat and enter your password.

 4) In this type, there is one type of drawback that anyone can see your password. You have to just right click on lock.bat-->choose "edit" and you can see source for file lock.bat.

5) The solution is to convert this .bat file to .exe file. By doing this nobody can view source for lock.exe. But you have to download "Bat to Exe converter" for this.

6) Download Link for : "Bat to Exe converter"

7) Open converter and select path of your .bat file and click on compile.

8) Done ! Delete the lock.bat file and Enjoy your locked password protected folder.

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Shrink Or Extend Volumes In Windows 7 Without Formatting

Shrink or Extend Volumes Using Disk Management Utility :

Disk Management Utility is a built-in tool in Windows 7. It can be used to shrink or extend volumes, create or delete hard disk partition, format partition, change drive letter and so on without formatting your windows 7.

Let's Start :

1) Go to "start" and type "disk management", and hit enter.

2) Window like shown below opens, it is Disk Management Utility.

3) Now select the volume you want to shrink and right click on it-->choose shrink volume.

 4) After calculating space available, it shows details.

5) After shrinking process a new column "free space" will be appear.

6) The process of shrinking is done. Now you can create new partition(volume) of this free space or you can extend it to its previous volume(in this case "G:").

7) To extend the volume right click on G: -->choose extend volume and follow the wizard. It will immediately extend the volume.

  8) To create new volume, right click on "free space"-->choose "new simple volume" and follow the wizard.

9) IT'S DONE !

Please, share your comments, queries in comment Box. 

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Restore Accidentally Deleted Files with Recuva

It can be the worst feeling in the world when you accidentally delete a very important file you have been working on for days.  Today we look at Recuva, a free tool that helps you restore accidentally deleted files.

 What is Recuva ?

Recuva is a freeware Windows utility to restore files that have been accidentally deleted from your computer. This includes files emptied from the Recycle bin as well as images and other files that have been deleted by user error from digital camera memory cards or MP3 players. It will even bring back files that have been deleted by bugs, crashes and viruses!

After using Recuva for a couple of days, I have ended up being very impressed with it. It is very fast with finding recoverable files and when you click on what you want brought back, it restores the file and sends it back to your hard drive within seconds.

Let's Begin :

1) Download Recuva from here... and install it.

2) When you first start up Recuva it brings up an easy to follow wizard which guides you through the recovery process.  There is an option to disable this from starting up if you don’t care to use it.

 3) Now choose the type of file your trying to recover.  If you’re not sure click on Other to show all files

 4) Select the location of where the file was located.  You can choose removable media, certain directories, or search everywhere on the computer.

5) Wait while Recuva scans your system for deleted files.

6) When you get the results it will show the file(s) and the green or red dot next to them lets you know how likely they will be restored without any damage.

 7) Now say I want to want to recover those 3 files? I just need to tick them and click the “recover” button. Recuva will ask me to specify where on the computer they should go.

8) Just remember to untick those files in Recuva before you close the program because Recuva remembers those files next time and will keep on downloading them over and over again! So untick them once you have recovered them.

Note : But as with any deleted file that you want to bring back, the older it is, the harder it will be to bring back. Plus if you are able to bring it back, the older it is, the more corrupted the file will be. So if you want to bring a deleted file back, you need to do it as fast as possible. The more you delay, the less chance there is of recovering it.

Do you use Recuva? If so, what have been your experiences with it?  What do you think about recuva? Is there any better software than recuva? please share your views in comments.

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10 Best Websites To Download Free eBooks

It would be nice if we’re able to download free e-book. That’s why we’ve again crawled deep into the Internet to compile this list of 10 places to download free e-books for your use. 

You can search and download free books in categories like scientific, engineering, programming, fiction and many other books. No registration is required to download free e-books.

•  ebookee :

You can search and download free books in categories like Technical, Study, Novel, Nonfiction,  Medical, Tutorial, Entertainment, Business, Magazine.

•  FreeBookSpot :

FreeBookSpot is an online source of free ebooks download with 4485 FREE E-BOOKS in 96 categories which up to 71,97 GB.

• 4eBooks
  
  4eBooks has a huge collection of computer programming ebooks. Each downloadable ebook has a short review with a description. You can find over thousand of free ebooks in every computer programming field like .Net, Actionscript, Ajax, Apache and etc.

• Free-eBooks
  
  Free-eBooks is an online source for free ebook downloads, ebook resources and ebook authors. Besides free ebooks, you also download free magazines or submit your own ebook.
  
  You need to become a Free-EBooks.Net member to access their library. Registration is free.

• FreeComputerBooks
  
  FreeComputerBooks consists of a huge collection of free online Computer, Programming, Mathematics, Technical Books, Lecture Notes and Tutorials. It is very well categorized by topics, with 12 top level categories, and over 150 sub-categories.

• Scribd
  
  Scribd, the online document sharing site which supports Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF and other popular formats. You can download a document or embed it in your blog or web page.

•  OnlineFreeEBooks
  
  OnlineFreeEBooks provides links to various ebooks (mostly in pdf) spanning in 9 big categories which are: Automotive Ebooks, Business Ebooks, Engineering Ebooks, Gadget Ebooks, Hardware Ebooks, Health & Medical Ebooks, Hobbies Ebooks, Programming & Technology Ebooks, Sport & Martial Art Ebooks.

• OnlineComputerBooks
  
  OnlineComputerBooks contains details about free computer books, free ebooks, free online books and sample chapters related to Information Technology, Computer Science, Internet, Business, Marketing, Maths, Physics and Science which are provided by publishers or authors.

• Sam Teach Yourself

It contains all the free ebooks published by SAM Teach Yourself. It has a huge collection of computer programming ebooks.

• freeprogrammingebooks

 FreeProgrammingeBooks has a huge collection of computer programming ebooks. You can find over thousand of free ebooks in every computer programming field like C/C++, Java, J2EE, PHP, CSS, C#.Net, Actionscript, Ajax, Apache and etc.

 

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How to Hide Secret Documents inside JPG Images

Turn out that it is actually very easy to hide (or embed) other file inside a JPEG image. You can place video clips, pdf, mp3, Office documents, zipped files, webpage or any other file format inside a JPEG image.

Let's say you want to hide a confidential PDF document. What you can do is convert that file into a regular jpg image so even if anyone double-clicks this file, all he will see is a preview of the image and nothing else. And when you want to work on the actual PDF, just rename the extension from jpg to pdf.

Step 1: You will need two files - the file you want to hide and one jpg image - it can be of any size or dimensions. [If you want to hide multiple files in one jpeg image, just zip them into one file]

Step 2: Copy the above two files to the C: folder and open the command prompt window.

Step 3: Move to the c: root by typing cd\ [enter][if the files are in another folder, you'll have to change the prompt to that folder]

Step 4: The most important step - type the following command:

copy /b myimage.jpg + filetohide.txt my_new_image.jpg

Step 5: To see the original TXT file, just right click--> my_new_image.jpg and open with notepad-->go to end of file you will see your secret message.

Here we illustrated with an .TXT file. If you want to apply this technique to other file formats like XLS, DOC, PPT, AVI, WMV, WAV, SWF, etc, you may have to first compress them in RAR format before executing the copy /b DOS command.

To restore the original file, just open file with winRAR or 7-zip.

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How to extend Windows 7 trial to a full version

If you install Windows 7 and don’t enter an installation key, the 30-day activation clock starts. To see how many days you have left, click Start, right-click Computer, and choose Properties. At the bottom of the dialog under Windows Activation, you’ll see the number of days left in your trial period.

When that number gets close to zero, you can extend the free period another 30 days via the following steps:

• Step 1 : Click Start-->All Programs-->Accessories. Right-click Command Prompt and choose Run As Administrator. 

• Step 2 : Type the following command and press Enter

slmgr  -rearm

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•  Step 3 : Restart Windows 7.

Once the OS restarts, the Properties dialog described above will indicate that Windows 7′s activation grace period has been reset to a full 30 days.

You can run the -rearm trick a total of three times. If you perform a -rearm at the end of each 30-day period, you end up with 120 days of full, unfettered Windows 7 use without having to supply an activation key.

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Change Windows 7 Logon Screen Background

This issue is all about changing the logon screen in Windows 7 and we are immensely hopeful that the readers find it very much interesting and useful.

• Go to start>Run and type "regedit" then press enter.

•  The registry editor opens up. Now just follow the given path:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Authentication\LogonUI\Background

• Search for the key “OEMBackground”. In case you do not find it, right-click on the right half of the window and click on “New” and then select “DWORD (32-bit) Value” to create one. Now give that key the name as “OEMBackground”.

•  Having done with the above open “OEMBackground” by double clicking on it or by right clicking it and then choose the option “Modify”.

• The Edit DWORD window opens up. In this window change the “Value data” field to 1 and press OK.

• The next step requires you to open Windows Explorer and then follow the mentioned path:

[windows drive letter]:\windows\sytem32\oobe 

• Create a new folder named info, and open it. Create a new folder within info named backgrounds.

•  Select the image you want as your logon screen background and then copy the image into the backgrounds folder that you just created. You should always keep in mind one thing that your selected image must be less than 256KB in size and should have a file extension jpg.

• In the next step you should rename the image as “backgroundDefault.jpg” and in case the image dimensions are different to that of the screen resolution that you are using then the image will be auto adjusted to the fit the screen.

• That's it.

• Other Way : If you find this process tedious you can use a software to change your logon screen. You can download it from here...

 If you have any problems please feel free to contact us or you can comment your problems.

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Google logo trick

• Google Style Name :

You can put your name on Google search engine.http://www.buzzisearch.com/ is a site where you can put your name on search engine. Buzzisearch search is not a part of google.com. It use Google custom search to show the search results. Enter your name in search box and choose google style.

•   Google loco :

1. Enter "google loco" in google search and click on I'm Feeling Lucky.
2. You will see "Google loco" moving.

•  Google Gothic :

1. Enter "google gothic" in google search and click on I'm Feeling Lucky. 
2. You will see "Google Gothic" theme.
3. Also try "google gothic 2" and click on I'm Feeling Lucky.

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