Make your USB read only while putting in other's machines.

Now a days most of the people might have an experience from virus attacks after giving their USB Pendrives to their friends or putting it in other's systems. My machine doesn't have any virus "I think so". Up to this point it is OK. But what about other's machines? To prevent your USB virus attacks from others system here is a tip for you.

Recently the most common viruses attacking USB drives are:
folder.exe
,.exe
thumb.dll
Scandle.exe

Preventing method is, after writing files or data into your Pendrive just make it as "Write Protect". If someone need the data they can "Copy" it and "Paste" in their machine. But they don't have chance to write again into it. Or the viruses in their system will not enter into your write protected USB Device.

You can do it by a small utility i.e "Thumbscrew".

Procedure:
1. Download thumbscrew.zip extract it.
Open thumbscrew folder Double click on the .exe file.


2. You can see a tray icon with USB logo.
3. Write file you need into the USB drive (i.e Pendrive).
4. Write click on the tray icon and click on "Make USB Read Only".


5. Then remove your USB drive safely.

That's it. Now your pen drive is Write Protected. No one can write again.
Virus will not attack your "USB Drive".
If some one wants to write in the drive an error message dialogue box will appear
like this,


To make it "Write" just put your "USB pendrive" to your machine right click on
the tray Icon and click "Make USB writable". That's it. Now your USB Pendrive
is read and write mode.

So Guys prevent your machine form virus attacks form "USB pendrives" data travelers by thumbscrew.

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Irritated by XP themes? Then switch to Mac

Dear visitor,
In my last posts I explained how to change your windows default XP theme to Vista by VistaMizer. Still if you are irritated to use such XP or Vista themes try Macintosh theme in your machine. I just tried and it is working up to my expectations.


A theme called “Flyakite OSX” developed for you. This theme provides exactly the same UI (User Interface) what Mac OS provides. It provides the apple boot screen at startup and provides its logoff screen too. Very smooth interface provided and it makes you think like; working on Mac machine. FlyakiteOSX is associated or affiliated with Apple Computers to provide its theme. The above figure captured in my machine.
To view the exact theme look, just open the above image in new window.

What is FlyakiteOSX?
FlyakiteOSX is a transformation pack. It will transform the look of an ordinary Windows XP+ system to resemble the look of Mac OS X. The installer simply automates the process of replacing critical system files, setting registry tweaks, and installing extras such as cursors, sounds, visual styles, etc. FlyakiteOSX DOES NOT contain any spyware or ad-ware of any kind. All files needed for FlyakiteOSX are stored in the Windows directory in a folder named 'FlyakiteOSX' that is hidden by default. All registry values for FlyakiteOSX are written to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\FlyakiteOSX.

Feature provided by FlyakiteOSX transformation pack:

• Object Dock – You can move around the desktop borders easily.


• Search Spy -- Search bar to search for a file or folder like Google desktop search.


• Y’Z Shadow – To place colorful shadows for windows and dialog boxes.


• WinRoll -- A nice little utility that allows you to roll up a window so that just the title bar shows.


• iColorFolder - allows you to change the color of any normal folder.

So dear visitor just download FlyaKiteOSX transformation pack and enjoy the User Interface of Mac without installing Mac OS.

Restore accidentally deleted from your computer by Recuva

Accidentally deleted data from your hard disk? No Problem dear...
Here is a solution to retrieve them by Recuva. By Recuva you can retrieve data even if you delete them by suing SHIFT+DELETE key. We generally think that by using SHIFT+DEL data may lost permanently. But it's wrong. But Recuva you can!

Recuva (pronounced "recover") 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!

Recuva supports:
► FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, NTFS5 , NTFS + EFS file systems
► Restores files from removable media (SmartMedia, Secure Digital, MemoryStick, Digital cameras, Floppy disks, Jaz Disks, Sony Memory Sticks, Compact Flash cards, Smart Media Cards, Secure Digital Cards, etc.)
► Can be run from a USB thumb drive
► It's fast, tiny and takes seconds to run!


► Select drive
► Click on Scan
► Select files which you want to recover
► Click on Recover
► Save it.

Make sure that it is better to recover files as quick as possible when you accidentally deleted. Because newly updated data may over write on deleted data space. This results incorrect backup of your lost files.

Download Recuva from filehippo

Delete files securely with File Shredder

With File Shredder you can remove files from your hard drive without fear they could be recovered. There are quite a few software tools today for retrieval of deleted files under Windows OS. Those tools, often referred to as "file recovery" software, are taking advantage of shortcoming of Windows "delete" command that we all use regularly to delete files.

Actually, the "delete" operation in Windows only removes bits of information from files so they appear deleted in OS. It is easy to retrieve those files using aforementioned specialized file recovery software.

In order to remove, or shred files permanently from your system you have to use a program that is capable of rewriting the files with random series of binary data multiple times. This process is often called shredding. That way, the actual content of the file has been overwritten and the possibilities to recover such a shredded file are mostly theoretical.



File Shredder has been developed as fast, safe and reliable tool to shred company files. I believe this utility should be available to anyone for free and that permanent and safe removal of confidential documents is a matter of basic right to privacy.

In File Shredder you can choose between 5 different shredding algorithms, each one gradually stronger than the previous one. It also has integrated Disk Wiper which uses shredding algorithm to wipe unused disk space. More on options of File Shredder check Online Help page.

Reference from: http://fileshredder.org/
Download linke: click here to DOWNLOAD
For tutorial help: click here

Batch files Magic :Shutdown, Restart, And Stand By

In MS-DOS,OS/2, and windows, a batch file is a text file containing a series of commands intended to be executed by the command interpreter. When a batch file is run, the shell program (usually COMMAND.COM or cmd.exe) reads the file and executes its commands, normally line-by-line. Batch files are useful for running a sequence of executable automatically and are often used by system administrator to automate tedious processes.

Here is a technique to shutdown, restart , and standby of your PC by using batch file.

Just copy and paste below text in a notepad and save it "shutdown.bat" , "restart.bat",and "standby.bat" respectively.

Shout down: shutdown.exe -s -t 0
Restart: shutdown.exe -r -t 0
Standby: rundll32.exe PowrProf.dll, SetSuspendState Standby


You can see those files like this

To put those file in quick launch button menu you have to fallow these steps

Just drop and drag those file into quick launch menu.
Right click on each short cut and click on change icon.
Then you can change those file appearances according to your wish.

By these way you can easily access Shutdown,Restart,and standby options.