April 22, 2008 7:47 am by Jal
It took me 2 weeks to compile these shortcuts (Commands) by searching & playing with WINDOWS. I am just posting a few commands here for you all to have a glance on. You can download the whole text file that is provided as an attachment below. Hope it’ll help you. :).
Run Commands
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compmgmt.msc – Computer management
devmgmt.msc – Device manager
diskmgmt.msc – Disk management
dfrg.msc – Disk defrag
eventvwr.msc – Event viewer
fsmgmt.msc – Shared folders
gpedit.msc – Group policies
lusrmgr.msc – Local users and groups
Run Commands to access the control panel
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Add/Remove Programs control appwiz.cpl
Date/Time Properties control timedate.cpl
Display Properties control desk.cpl
FindFast control findfast.cpl
Fonts Folder control fonts
Windows XP Shortcuts
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ALT+- (ALT+hyphen) Displays the Multiple Document Interface (MDI) child window’s System menu
ALT+ENTER View properties for the selected item
ALT+ESC Cycle through items in the order they were opened
ALT+F4 Close the active item, or quit the active program
ALT+SPACEBAR Display the System menu for the active window
ALT+TAB Switch between open items
ALT+Underlined letter Display the corresponding menu
BACKSPACE View the folder one level up in My Computer or Windows Explorer
CTRL+A Select all
CTRL+B Bold
Download whole Windows Commands text file here.
December 13, 2007 2:41 am by Jal
Ever wished to chat on Yahoo messenger with two (or more) ids on the same computer at the same time. Ya, you obviously did, but weren’t able to. Here’s a small tweak that can enable you to have multiple logins on Yahoo! Messenger. Here’s how you do it. However this tweak works only if you have a Yahoo! Messenger version other than version 9.
1. Open the Windows Registry Editor by clicking on
Start → Run and typing regedit. Press OK.
2. Navigate to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\yahoo\pager\Test
3. Go to the right column, right-click on any blank space and choose
New DWORD Value
4. Name it to “
Plural“ as shown in the screenshot below (Click to enlarge).
5. Double click and assign it a decimal value of 1.
6. Close Windows Registry Editor and restart Yahoo! Messenger. Double-clicking on Yahoo! Messenger icon many times will give you as many Yahoo! Messenger login windows. (see screenshot below; click to enlarge).
June 27, 2007 12:42 pm by Jal
The answer to the above question is yes. It is a common misconception that once the file is deleted, it’s completely lost. However, things are not always the same as they seem to be. Infact one can still retrieve the data from a file that has already been deleted because the data is not actually gone from the hard drive. The only thing required is a suitable software to recover those deleted files.
So what actually happens when you hit that delete button on that file? Well, the file gets deleted but not erased. What is erased is a little bit of information (or technically, a pointer) that points to the location of the file on the hard drive. These pointers provide a way to the operating system and hence the users to connect with the files stored in a hard drive. Now when the pointer pointing to a file itself gets deleted then the file becomes invisible and unusable to the users. It just ‘seems’ to be deleted but it still exists. It is, however, easy to retrieve deleted files with suitable softwares. Some of the free file recovery softwares are:
PC Inspector File Recovery 4 (5.83 MB)
SoftPerfect File Recovery 1 (276.5 KB)
Smart FAT Recovery 3.3 (797.21 KB)
Smart Flash Recovery 3.4 (802.39 KB)
Pandora Recovery 1.1.20 (1.87 MB)
Then you might think how to delete a file securely that cannot be recovered? Well there is a solution to this also. The targetted file just needs to be overwritten. By default, the operating systems eventually overwrites the ‘orphaned’ files (files that have no pointers). This is where probability comes in. The older the unpointed file, the greater the chances of it to be overwritten. Many softwares are available that can securely and permanently erase a file by overwriting them. Some of the secure file deletion softwares are:
Disk Redactor 1 (362.44 KB)
AbsoluteShield File Shredder 1.41 (508.48 KB)
EZ Wipe 1.5 (523.84 KB)
FileDeleter LT 1 (194.95 KB)
JB File Shredder 1 (155.21 KB)
