Windows Tricks

Download Windows Movie Maker for Vista/Windows 7

by Bhaveek Patel

I love windows movie maker for creating and editing our own movies, I think everyone enjoy doing this, but when I installed windows 7 on my machine, I came to know that its not there in windows 7. I thought that I will have to find another software similar to windows movie maker. But there happened a miracle, after searching a lot at microsoft.com I found the solution, you need to download this small 7 .....

Converting FAT32 Partition To NTFS

by Bhaveek Patel

Your hard drive must be formatted with a file system such as FAT, FAT32 or NTFS so that Windows can be installed on to it. This system determines how files are named, organised and stored on the hard drive. If you’re not using it already, NTFS (New Technology File System) is recommended for Windows XP because of the additional functionality it offers. If your PC came with Windows XP pre-installed then there’s a chance that .....

Increase Windows xp Booting Speed

by Bhaveek Patel

If your Windows XP takes much time to boot up or seems to be slowing down, then simply follow the below steps to speed up boot process: 1. Open notepad, type del c:\windows\prefetch\ntosboot-*.* /q and save it as fastboot.bat 2. Now click on Start menu, Goto Run and type gpedit.msc 3. Double click Windows Settings under Computer Configuration and double click again on “Shutdown” in the right side window. 4. Now, in the new window, .....

Crack BIOS Password

by Bhaveek Patel

Here is the best way to crack the bios password in windows, Follow the steps below: 1. Boot up windows. 2. Goto Run type cmd to open command prompt. 3. Type debug at command prompt. 4. Now type the following lines now exactly as given:

Remove Unwanted Items From Add Remove List

by Bhaveek Patel

If you are annoyed while removing a deleted software or game from Add And Remove list then, just try this below trick : 1. Click Start menu. 2. Goto Run, then type REGEDIT and hit enter. 3. Now, in Registry Editor navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ SOFTWARE\ Microsoft\ Windows\ CurrentVersion\ Uninstall 4. Now remove any unwanted subkeys under “Uninstall”. Now that item will not be shown in Add And Remove List.

Find Total Uptime Of Your Windows XP

by Bhaveek Patel

Here’s how you verify system total uptime: Just Click Start => goto Run and type “cmd” to open a Command Prompt. At Command Prompt, type “systeminfo” Scroll down the list of information to the line that says “System Up Time”. This will tell you in days, hours, minutes and seconds how long the system has been running. Note: This command only works in Windows XP Professional only.

How to Create a Shutdown Shortcut

by Bhaveek Patel

Ever want a quicker way to shutdown XP without navigating through the start menu, or using a third party shutdown utility Here is a script that will do just that. Right click the desktop and choose New Shortcut. Copy and paste this script or type it in. %windir%System32shutdown.exe -s -t 0 Choose Next and name it whatever you like. (I named it as TURN OFF) Click Finished.

Rename Recycle Bin To Whatever You Want

by Bhaveek Patel

Yes, friends its true that you can rename the “Recycle Bin” to anything you wish, just follow these instruction: 1. Goto Start menu => Run, in run window type ‘Regedit’(without quotes). 2. Press ‘Ctrl’+’F’ to open find box and type ‘Recycle Bin’ to search. 3. Change the value data with ‘Recycle Bin’ to whatever name you want

How To Hide Drive in My Computer

by Bhaveek Patel

If you want to keep something hidden then you have to hide that folder, but that’s not safe as anyone can unhide it again; Now here is the solution for you. You can completely hide your drive so that no one can access it except you. Here is the steps to follow: Hiding the drive: 1.Just goto start->run->type “diskpart” (with out quotes) and hit enter. 2.Now in this DOS command line, Type “list volume” (with .....

How To Change Text On Start Button

by Bhaveek Patel

Want to edit your start button text then just follow these steps: Step 1 – Editing Explorer.exe File The file explorer.exe is located at C:\Windows\ needs to be edited first. Since explorer.exe is a binary file it requires a special editor. To do this I have used Resource Hacker. Resource Hacker is a freeware utility to view, modify, rename, add, delete and extract resources in 32bit Windows executables and resource files (*.res). It incorporates an .....