Block A Site On Your Pc

Block A Site On Your Pc

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Are you trying to block a website on your PC? You need not setup firewall filters to do this. Here is a simple trick to block the site on your system. Although many of you know this, this is for the unknown....


First of all I need to describe about the "Hosts" file

It is a file located in C:WINDOWSsystem32driversetc , and it contains information about the hosts on your system...

Here are the steps

1. Go to the location C:WINDOWSsystem32driversetc

2. You will find a file by name "hosts" with no extension.

3. Open that file in "Notepad"

4. Go to the bottom of the page where you could find the following line "127.0.0.1 localhost"

5. Now add another line at the bottom for ex: "127.0.0.1 http://www.xyz.com/ localhost"

6. This line will block the site http://www.xyz.com

The trick behind this

127.0.0.1 is the IP address of local system the so called loop back address... Now when you enter a site the browser will first check the hosts file and then it would go for the DNS service of your ISP.

Now we have added the Ip address of the xyz site as 127.0.0.1, so the browser will assume that 127.0.0.1 is the IP address of the xyz site and will connect to the local host itself and so the websites doesn't get opened...

This is the basic trick to block and we can overcome it very easily.....

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Memory Trick To Speed Up Windows Xp

" All u need is a High GB Pendrive "

Follow these steps :-

1. Insert the Pen Drive (1Gb atleast) in the USB port

2. Let the PC do what it wants to do to detect it..

3. After he finished his work, you have to act smart

" Here goes the real thing "

4. My Computer -> Properties

5. Advanced -> Performance Settings

6. Advanced -> Change

7. Select the Pen Drive

8. Click on Custom Size

" Check the value of space available "

9. Enter the same in the Initial and the Max columns

" You just used the space of the PenDrive as a Virtual Memory "

10. Now u have to release the memory from C: to make the PC faster

11. Select the C: and Click on Custom Size

12. Decrease the size to as low as u want.. Not "0" please..

13. Restart...

" VOILA !!! Your PC is fast and furious "

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Speed Up Your Hard Disk

Speed Up Your Hard Disk

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To speed up your hard disk speed we need to configure a special buffer in the computer’s memory in order to enable it to better deal with interrupts made from the disk.


This tip is only recommended if you have 256MB RAM or higher.

Follow these steps:

Run SYSEDIT.EXE from the Run command.



Expand the system.ini file window.



Scroll down almost to the end of the file till you find a line called [386enh].



Press Enter to make one blank line, and in that line type



Irq14=4096



Note: This line IS CASE SENSITIVE!!!



Click on the File menu, then choose Save.



Close SYSEDIT and reboot your computer.



Done. Speed improvement will be noticed after the computer reboots.

Update: The most speed improvement is visible with IDE drives, however there are reports that this tweak also does good for SCSI disks. In any case, it won’t harm your system, so why not try it yourself and let me know what you find

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Speed Up Your Hard Disk

Speed Up Your Hard Disk

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To speed up your hard disk speed we need to configure a special buffer in the computer’s memory in order to enable it to better deal with interrupts made from the disk.


This tip is only recommended if you have 256MB RAM or higher.

Follow these steps:

Run SYSEDIT.EXE from the Run command.



Expand the system.ini file window.



Scroll down almost to the end of the file till you find a line called [386enh].



Press Enter to make one blank line, and in that line type



Irq14=4096



Note: This line IS CASE SENSITIVE!!!



Click on the File menu, then choose Save.



Close SYSEDIT and reboot your computer.



Done. Speed improvement will be noticed after the computer reboots.

Update: The most speed improvement is visible with IDE drives, however there are reports that this tweak also does good for SCSI disks. In any case, it won’t harm your system, so why not try it yourself and let me know what you find

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Check Your Nokia Phone Is Original Or Not?

Check Your Nokia Phone Is Original Or Not?

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Nokia is one of the largest selling phones across the globe.Most of us own a Nokia phone but are unaware of it’s originality.Are you keen to know whether your Nokia mobile phone is original or not? Then you are in the right place and this information is specially meant for you. Your phones IMEI (International Mobile Equipment Identity) number confirms your phone’s originality.




Press the following on your mobile *#06# to see your Phone’s IMEI number(serial number).



Then check the 7th and 8th numbers



Phone serial no. x x x x x x ? ? x x x x x x x



IF the Seventh & Eighth digits of your cell phone are 02 or 20 this means your cell phone was assembled in Emirates which is very Bad quality



IF the Seventh & Eighth digits of your cell phone are 08 or 80 this means your cell phone was manufactured in Germany which is fair quality



IF the Seventh & Eighth digits of your cell phone are 01 or 10 this means your cell phone was manufactured in Finland which is very Good



IF the Seventh & Eighth digits of your cell phone are 00 this means your cell phone was manufactured in original factory which is the best Mobile Quality



IF the Seventh & Eighth digits of your cell phone are 13 this means your cell phone was assembled in Azerbaijan which is very Bad quality and also dangerous for your health.

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Recover Data From Damaged Cd

Recover Data From Damaged Cd

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Recently when I was going through my collection of old cds, I saw that almost all of them have some scratches all over it and they have become mostly unreadable. I wanted to copy some data out of it but my pc was unable to read from the CD.




I tried several softwares to recover the data from my CD and finally I came across this life saving free tool.CD Recovery Toolbox supports almost all kind of disks like CD, DVD, HD-DVD, Blu-ray disks etc. This tool actually works when it comes to recovering data from physically damaged CDs. So if you have any damaged CD or DVD and want to recover some data from it give this a try and I am sure you won’t regret.



recover data from scratched/damaged CD



It’s a freeware and small in size. This tool allows you to copy the part which is not damaged. So if you are copying some song which is not readable this software can copy the song but the unreadable part will be missing. This can be useful because in Windows even if some small part is unreadable it will not allow you to copy the whole file.


http://www.recoverytoolbox.com/download/RecoveryToolboxForCDInstall.exe

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Get Any Product Serial From Google

Get Any Product Serial From Google

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Go to Google.*




In the search field type: "Product name" 94FBR



* Where, "Product Name" is the name of the item you want to find the serial number for.



* And voila - there you go - the serial number you needed.



HOW DOES THIS WORK?



Quite simple really. 94FBR is part of a Office 2000 Pro cd key that is widely distributed as it bypasses the activation requirements of Office 2K Pro. By searching for the product name and 94fbr, you guarantee two things. 1) The pages that are returned are pages dealing specifically with the product you're wanting a serial for. 2) Because 94FBR is part of a serial number, and only part of a serial number, you guarantee that any page being returned is a serial number list page.



See these example searches:



"Photoshop 7" 94FBR

"Age of Mythology" 94FBR

"Nero Burning Rom 5.5" 94FBR

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Easy Way To Rename Start Button

Easy Way To Rename Start Button

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Change Start Button Text with Start Button Caption Renamer






1. Download the utility from http://www.brothersoft.com/start-button-caption-217303.html
and double click StartB.exe to run it



2. Enter the name which you want to set in start button and click the button Change Start Button Name
You can revert the default text in start button by clicking the button Change Start Button to Default

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Check How Long Your System Have Been Running

Check How Long Your System Have Been Running

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Click Start

Run and type cmd to open a command prompt.

At the prompt, type systeminfo

These will tell you about  days, hours, minutes and seconds how long the system has been running up

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Use USB As A Key To Start Windows

Use USB As A Key To Start Windows

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Most of us are concerned about the security and privacy of our data. We put login passwords, encrypt data and do various other tricks to ensure that someone cannot access our system without our authorization. Hardware manufacturers have also started exploiting our desire for data security by offering fingerprint readers, face recognition and other fancy stuff. If you are paranoid about who accesses your system, you can use a simple trick to prevent the system from booting unless you want it to boot.


This can be achieved by using a regular USB/pen/thumb drive (whatever you call it). Basically configure your system to boot windows from USB stick. The hack would be more than enough to keep even your curious geeky computer friends from booting into the system. That said, it is by no means foolproof (which security measure is? ) so you might not want to bet your life on it.

*** DISCLAIMER : the following method requires you to make some changes to your operating system.MakeUseOf cannot accept any legal liability if anything goes wrong with your PC and you should proceed at your own risk.Please read the instructions thoroughly before beginning and if you are still not sure what you are doing, you should seek help from a knowledgeable friend ***

A key requirement for the hack to work is that your system should support booting from a USB device. This can be verified from within the BIOS menu. So if you have an older system that doesn’t support booting from USB devices, this one is not for you. We will cook up something else! Although, now that I think about it, theoretically (because I have not tried) the hack should work with a floppy disk as well. So you guys with older systems can also follow along and let us know if it worked.

What we are going to do is transfer some of the important files (you will see which ones) that Windows needs in order to boot, to the USB drive. Now if someone was to boot up the PC without your USB drive the system won’t find these important files and will thus fail to boot.

So now that you know the concept, let’s get working:



Format the USB drive.

Within Windows Explorer go to Tools > Folder Options. Within the View tab, choose “Show hidden files” and uncheck “Hide protected operating system files”.


Open up the Windows Partition (usually C:), copy boot.ini, NTLDR and ntdetect.com onto your USB drive.

Boot up the system and change the boot order preference to check for a USB device first. You can access the BIOS menu generally by hitting F8 when the computer just starts.

Just in case you are curious, the boot.ini file is required to tell where the operating system resides. NTLDR is the NT loader which actually loads the operating system. ntdetect.com detects basic hardware that is required to boot up the system.

The changes are fully recoverable, although it would require some work for the uninitiated. If something goes wrong or you want to restore back things as they were then use the Recovery Console from your Windows CD.
 
Try At Ur Risk

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