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Add a Network Location under Windows for a Website:

Open "My Computer". Right click by mouse on free area. 3.Click on "Add a Network Location"                             4. Click "Next" from the dialog. 5. From next screen select "Choose a custom network location" and click "Next" button. 6. In Next screen provide the URL of the Website and click on "Next" button.

How to create heavy file under Mac/Windows of any Extension type

 For Windows: 1.    open command prompt( type cmd under run window) 2.    Navigate to a folder using command cd say(cd “C:/test”) 3.    Type:  fsutil file createnew test.txt 5248 and hit enter key from keyboard.  For Mac: 1.   Open terminal 2.    Navigate to location, where you want to create file 3.    Type: mkdir –v 10m test.txt (Note: 10m demotes 10MB files, so give file size in MBs) Note: You can change extension type of file to create any type of file like fsutil file createnew test.jpg 5248

How to Enable/Disable USB drive in Windows

To DISABLE the access to USB port, in Windows OS follow the below steps ****** 1. Click Start, and then click Run.  2. In the Open box, type regedit, and then click OK.  3. Locate the following in the Left side menu under "Computer",  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\USBSTORE  4. Search for "start"  register  key in the right side bar and  double-click on it. 5. In the Value data field type 4( Before it can be 3),further click Hexadecimal (if it is not already selected), and then click OK. 6. Quit Registry Editor. Now Your USB drive is disabled and no one can use it To RE- ENABLE a disabled port:  ***** 1. Click Start, and then click Run.  2. In the Open box, type regedit, and then click OK.  3. Locate the following in the Left side menu under "Computer",  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\USBSTORE  4. Search for "start"  register  key in the right side bar and  ...

How to superhide a folder without any software

Want to make a folder hidden which cannot be search or located, just follow the steps and you will have a folder which is super hidden Before executing the steps you should have the folder which you want to hide and its path (the path can be copied from the header bar when present inside the folder to be hidden) 1) Open the command prompt ( can be opened by typing "cmd" in run window) 2) Type in the command [attrib +s +h  "path of the folder"]  , Exclude the square brackets         eg. attrib +s +h "C:\Users\Desktop\Test" 3) Hit enter and your folder is super hidden. In case this command does not works , Please execute the following command before above step#2 attrib +a +s +h +r (this command is used to enable attrib which is used to hide the folders) To unhide the folder simple replace "+" with "-" [attrib -s -h  "path of the folder"], eg attrib -s -h "C:\Users\Desktop\Test"

How to do private browsing without storing the cache and history.

Want to do private browsing without saving the history  just follow the steps and you are good to go. In this case we will be using Chrome as a reference browser but this can be used in any other browser To open In Chrome Click the Chrome menu   on the browser toolbar. Select  New incognito window . A new window will open with the incognito icon   in the corner. You can continue browsing as normal in the other window. Benefit's of using these options are : Webpages that you open and files downloaded while you are incognito aren't recorded in your browsing and download histories. All new cookies are deleted after you close all incognito windows that you've opened. Changes made to your browser bookmarks and general settings while in private browsing mode are always saved. You can also use the keyboard shortcuts  Ctrl+Shift+N  (Windows, Linux, and Chrome OS) and  ⌘-Shift-N  (Mac) to open an incognito window. W...

How to access the web content from one machine to another using WAMP

Here are the steps to make WAMP enabled on LAN or WAN: Before executing the steps you need the machines two be connected on same network(LAN) Step 1 First you need to set up the WAMP service on your server and on the required services. And make sure that your WAMP server is online and it’s running on your browser using any specified port http://localhot:8081/ (I have given a fixed port number 8081 to my WAMP server). to provide this use the below steps To run the WAMP Apache server on your specified port, do the following. Go in the \wamp\bin\apache\Apache2.2.11\conf\httpd.conf  file and search for  “#Listen”  and then change the port from 80 to 8081 and in that case, your URL will be  http://localhost:8082/ . Like below:   #Listen 12.34.56.78:80 Listen 8082 Step 2 Now make the WMAP Server accessible in the LAN or WAN, you have to get \wamp\bin\apache\Apache2.2.11\conf\httpd.conf  and open it and find the following code: <Direct...

How to create a bootable Pendrive using DOS

Creating bootable pendrive is a very easy task without having any software, Follow the TWO steps and its done Note: These steps can only be used to prepare a WIN 7  or WIN Vista bootable pendrive Step1:   (Format the Drive) ***** 1) Plug in your USB Flash drive into the PC. 2) Open Command prompt as administrator (right click on Start>All Programs>Accessories > Command Prompt abs select "Run as Administrator" 3) Find the drive number of your USB drive by typing the following commands into the command prompt window. diskpart list disk the number of your USB drive will get listed. you will need this for the next step. I will assume that the USB flash drive is disk 1( you can guess the USB drive by the size mentioned after the disk number) 4) Format the drive by typing the next instructions into the same window. select disk 1 (replace the number with your disk number) clean create partition primary select partition 1 active  ...

How to disable Flash in IE

 To disable the Flash plugin in IE browser without uninstalling the plugin follow the steps. - Open the IE browser and go the the tools option in the "Menu Bar" as shown below Note: The below mentioned screen shot are taken from IE9 and are similar in other IE browsers with minor UI Changes - Notice Manage Add-ons window is displayed, Select "All add-ons" from the "Show" drop down as shown below:   - Now select "Shockwave Flash Object" from the center pane under  "Adobe Systems Incorporated" and click on "Disable" button as shown below.   - Now the status of the Flash is changed to Disabled and the browser will act like as there is no flash plugins installed in the browser.