Fix windows xp bootsector problem

Many times my friends have confronted with this problem ,Windows doesnt start saying that NTLDR is missing or damaged boot sector  .My friends used to format their system to fix this problem,even i used to do the same when i  was a noob.After many trial and errors i have found this trick to solve that NTLDR or Damaged Boot Sector problem.Whenever you confront with such a problem boot Your system with Xp bootable cd.Now enter into Recovery console  .
TO deal with NTLDR problem type COPY G:\i386\NTLDR C: and  COPY G:\i386\NTDETECT.COM 
          The above method replaces the corrupted NTLDR files,here G: is your CD/DVD rom drive.
To deal with   damaged boot sector  at the command prompt type FIXBOOT and press Enter. Then answer "Y" These Tricks will save u lot of time spent on formatting .
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Remove Autorun.inf virus

Iam going to tell u two methods to remove autorun.inf virus which is common in pendrives.
Method 1:-Open the command prompt and type del /a:rhs [yourdriveletter]:\autorun.inf  .For example if your virus is in h: drive then you should type del /a:rhs H:\autorun.inf .Just restart the computer after doing that.
Method 2:-This method looks weird but very useful one .You require winrar software to make this work. After installing Winrar all you have to do is insert ur  pendrive.It pops up a autoplay window dont open it from there,dont open it from My computer or Run .Just open it from Winrar software and you could see all the Virus  files such as autorun.ini.,Newfolder.exe present in the Pendrive along with our files.

Delete the unwanted files.Mission accomplished enjoy folks

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tiny tricks in Run dialog box

Invoke your RUN dialog box.
Now type . and press enter.
Now type .. and press enter.
Now type ... and press enter.

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Use timestopper to use your trail software forever

With the growth of internet usage ,we are downloading more and more softwares.But we cannot afford to buy all of them,To get around this we can follow a simple trick i.e use a trail software as if it was a purchased one.Yes download any trialware of your choice and you can use it as long as u wish to.computer geeks in the olden days used to stop their system time to make the trail software work forever.But now softwares are smart enough,so the best way to trick them is by using a software called TimeStopper.
Follow these steps to work with TimeStopper our ultimate Timemachine
Step 1. Open Time Stopper
Step 2. Browse and select .exe of required trial software
Step 3. Choose the new date (Any date which occurs in between your trial software time period before expiration, suggestion: set it to two days before trial software expiration date.)
Step 4. Choose any time
Step 5. Click open software on your selected date

If you wish to create an icon for your modified trial software and do not want to open Time stopper every time then use last button in software to create new icon. open that trial software after that from that newly created icon always otherwise it can expire. Download this amazing software from here TimeStopper

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Disguise as Google bot to access sites.

Many of us have experienced this we try to search for something in google; the engine returns with a number of finds, but if you try to open the ones with the most promising content, we are confronted with a registration page instead, and the ccontent we are looking for will not be revealed to us unless we agree to a credit card transaction first or a registration is needed to access the contents....

can we solve this yes? we can let me tell u one thing that google can go in or lurk around those dark corners in the internet where we cannot.

so if we use google as our mask then we can also make it

but how google can access????

lets see for ourselves

In fact, many sites that force users to register or even pay in order to search and use their content, leave a backdoor open for the Googlebot, because a prominent presence in Google searches is known to generate sales leads, site hits and exposure.

Steps to disguise  as a Googlebot
Download a addon called User Agent Switcher .This extension adds a menu and a toolbar button to switch the user agent of the browser.Download this here User Agent Switcher .

Next goto tools>Default User Agent >Search Robots>Google bot 2.1
thats it .
Download another addon called Configuration Mania .To set More Advanced (hidden) configurations.
Download it by clicking  here Configuration Mania .

Thats it folks njoy

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"AVATAR" step into another world

Many of u may wondering why am i posting about a movie in a site related to computer tips.Well to speak in technical terms this movie was made using CG (computer graphics) so why not of talking about the movie.Let's take a sneakpeak into the AVATAR world.AVATAR  is a cameo created by James cameron.This movie is really a eyecandy .Cameron decided a decade ago to make this movie but he couldnot step further due to the lack of technology then.After watching lord of the rings-return of the king,he was convinced that he can make this AVATAR movie.This movie was a $230 million baby.

To give scenes the realistic look Cameron along with his cameramen Vince  pace and Patrick campbell made a pace/cameron fusion camera system to capture image the same way human eye does.He then used a virtual camera to fly around in the scifi world to record any shot of the N'avi and merged the scenes with the real world footage.If u want to see James interview with NewYork times click here .Here am gonna show how these charecters were actually sculpted using zbrush

See the magic of computer graphics .Here you can see the actress in motion sensor suit on the right hand side and the CGI on the left hand side the motion sensors maps her actions to her CGI(computer generated imagery)

The avatar birds were simply awesome creatures .It was a superb experience watching actors riding them .Iam going to show you how these birds are made.

Notice jake is sitting on the bird trying to ryde it.wait for more avatar secrets.......

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windows 7 frequent access folder shortcut

Do you know that you guys can create a virtual drive for ur frequently accessed folder.This tip is extemely useful when u want to access your favourite folder which is deep rooted in the system such as d:\myfav\wallpapers\gizmo\gadgets\computer .To do this click on Start type CMD in the search box and press Enter. Let us assume that you have a folder called dinu  your d: drive.Now u wanna create a virtual partition so that u can access it whenever you want.Type  SUBST X: "D:\DINU" Here x is the unused drive letter in your computer.Now open explorer voila u hav created a new partition to access ur favourite folder.Now whenever you click on that you will be taken directly into d:\dinu.you can drag and drop your files here.The same trick works for windows vista as well.After sometime you may think of removing it.To do that follow my footsteps.type SUBST X: /D   in command prompt and press enter.Thats it enjoy enjoy friends.

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Access multipe logins using Internet Explorer 8

This trick helps you to login your mutliple gmail,hotmail or facebook accounts simultaneously.We know that upto now  if we login through one gmail acc then we cannot access another gmail account until we sign out.Internet explorer 8 has come up with a new feature called New session under File menu.Using this option you can login into multiple gmail accounts,by opening each account in seperate session window.

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Difference between Low-level formatting and High level formatting

This is short post to tell the basic differences between different types of formatting to the noobs.
Low-level formatting happens at the factory where the disk is manufactured.Low level formatting divides the blank surface into Cylinders,Heads and Sectors.It also maps any physically defective sectors on the drive and does some fine tuning.
High-level formatting prepares a logical drive for use with particular Operating system by establishing a file system on the drive that the OS can support.There are many file systems such as FAT16,FAT32,NTFS.Ill cover     these file systems in detail in upcoming posts.
The formatting done by end user is often  reffered as High-level formatting.I think many of you have formatted your HDD and USB a zillion times.Do u remember, there is another option called quick format.If you check this option and start formatting it formats instantaneously.Have you wondered why this formatting happens at a rapid pace.This is due to the fact that it doesn't check for badsectors in Quick-format mode.

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Common laptop positions to avoid

According to studies the second position mentioned above is ideal for doing ur work on  lappys.Remaining all positions are prone to RSI(Repetitive Stress Injury).Follow these pictures for healthy computing

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shell commands in windows 7 & xp

Shell commands are useful to quickly access certain folders or locations which are deep rooted in the Operating system .Using Start menu we can access them easily Type these commands in the box present in start menu.For example to access administrative tools generally you go through Control panel which of course is a tedious task.Using Shell:administrative tools  you can quickly gain access to them.Here is the list of shell commands that can used.

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All about Registry

Before showing the tweaks  you can make using windows registry.I would like to give a indepth tutorial on what is Registry ,how can we use it to suit our needs.
Definition:In simple terms "Registry is a hierarchial database where you can store information related to hardware ,System software(operating system),application software,system preferences and user preferences."
The hierarchial organisation of the database is divided into machine information,user information and software information.When the system starts it looks in the registry for the configuration settings of hardware and software installed.Its organisation depicts the directory-subdirectory concept in windows explorer. The registry is divided into six main divisions called HIVES  which are inturn divided into keys and subkeys which contain values where information about software,hardware and users is stored.
The values are divided into 3 types they are DWORD,BINARY,STRING based on the usage.
DWORD  is used for storing binary values where you can store list of values.Each value leads to different behaviour of OS,HARDWARE,APPLICATION SOFTWARE.String is used for human readable format.While BINARYis for storing raw data in hexadecimal format which contains hardware settings.

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Disable hibernation in windows 7 to save hdd memory

This tip is meant for people who donot use Hibernate feature at all.To those who never heard of hibernation.
let me tell few words about this feature.Hibernation is a feature which stores all the contents of the ram into our harddisk before the system is shutdown so that the user can resume the work from where he stopped.To do this this feature takes good chunk of memory to store all the contents in the Ram .Windows users coin this feature as Hibernate while mac users coin it as Safesleep . This feature is also found in latest microsoft shipment i.e win7which takes hdd space in gb.Inorder to free that space we have to delete a file called Hiberfil.sys .Deletin g dis file is nothing but disabling hibernate feature .To do this type cmd in search box now right click on it and choose the option Run as administrator .
Now type the following command powercfg.exe -h off .Now type exit and restart ur computer.

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How to send secret messages

Steganography is the art of sending secret messages in such way that apart from reciever and sender no other person can see the message.According to greek origin the word steganography means concealed writing  .Steganography is different from Cryptography in which the message is made unreadable by others except the reciever.But the existence of a message is known in Cryptography.
In olden days Steganography was most prevalent when a secret message has to be sent from one king to the other.They used wood carved with message ,concealed it in wax to send the message.Usually no suspicion arises when seen by a third person.Believe it or not Human urine was also used to send secret messages.

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Workrave our health guide(health is wealth)

Stop working on computer for some time and be healthy.Yes its true according to Doctors it is not advisable to work on computers without having rest.Working several hours on computers make us prone to some illness such as Repittive stress injury.There is an excellent software called Workrave which keeps us healthy by showing some workouts using animated pictures. 

We know the famous saying Health is wealth without proper health we cannot accomplish our goals,health is to be given the utmost importance.Nowadays many people especially kids playing online games for long hours on computer suffer from Repititive stress injury related ailments.

let me show some screenshots of this software so that u can understand it better .

This excercise is meant to relax our eyes.

 This excercise is meant for hands .

 This excercise to make our neck muscles relax.

Download this workware now and be healthy .You can download this workware absolutely free by clicking here Workrave . 

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