Trick to lock your private folder

Do you worry about privacy or do you maintain some personal files on the office system or at Friends pc, then you must lock that folder. I know many software's that most people use to lock their Personal files. But this trick is the safest and locks files or folders without use of any software's. Suppose you want to lock the folder movies in d: which has the path D:\movies. In the same drive create a text file and type ren movies movies.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D} Now save this text file as loc.bat Create another...

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Creating a desktop shortcut for locking your computer

If you use your computer in an area where others may have access to it, and there are things on your system you would rather have kept confidential, locking your desktop when you leave the computer is an essential task. Here's a recipe for a desktop shortcut that will lock your computer in two easy clicks: Right click on an empty area of the desktop and choose 'new' then 'shortcut.' The create shortcut wizard will open; in the first text box, type '%windir%\System32\rundll32.exe user32.dll,LockWorkStation' and then give your shortcut...

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Create A Hidden User Account in windows XP

For our own privacy purpose or say it for security we can maintain and Create A Hidden User Account under windows xp operating system. This tweak allows an account that is normally displayed on the Welcome screen to be hidden from view. To log on using the account it's necessary to use the Log On To Windows dialog box similar to the one in Windows 2000. #[Start] [Run] [Regedit] #Registry Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\ Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\UserList #Modify/Create the Value Data...

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Create Nameless File or Folder in Windows

This trick will allow you to create files and folders without any name. Just follow the following steps: 1. Select any file or folder. 2. Right click on it, press rename or simply press F2. 3. Press and hold the alt key. While holding the Alt key, type numbers 0160 from the numpad. Note: Type the numbers 0160 from the numpad, that is, the numbers present on the right side of the keyboard. Don't type the numbers which are present on top of the character keys. 4. Press Enter and the nameless file or folder will be created. Reason:...

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Make Undeletable Or Unreadable Folders

By holding down alt, then typing numbers on the number pad (right of the keyboard) you can create special characters. If you hold down alt, then press 1, then let go, you got the ascii character 1. You try some randomn numbers. This goes all the way up to 255. Open a dos prompt, and type md (alt+1+9+4)someword. md is the dos command to make a directoy, now try and open the directory in Windows, you can't. To open it, type ren (alt+1+9+4)someword someword (ren is the dos command to renam...

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Boot your Computer Faster

Some slight changes can do wonders for your system: 1. Press start->run then type msconfig and press enter. Go to the startup tab. Here you will see a list of startup items. These are all the programs that automatically start when you boot your PC. It is these that slow down the boot up process. So uncheck all the unwanted items like ms-office, messengers other utilities that u may not need at startup). Don't uncheck your antivirus software. Restart your Pc to and see for yourself, your pc will now boot faster.... 2. A great...

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Create Shortcuts:

Create One-Click Shutdown and Reboot Shortcuts: First, create a shortcut on your desktop by right-clicking on the desktop, choosing New, and then choosing Shortcut. The Create Shortcut Wizard appears. In the box asking for the location of the shortcut, type shutdown. After you create the shortcut, double-clicking on it will shut down your PC. But you can do much more with a shutdown shortcut than merely shut down your PC. You can add any combination of several switches to do extra duty, like this: shutdown -r -t 01 -c "Rebooting your PC" Double-clicking...

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