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Showing posts with label Others. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Others. Show all posts

Wednesday, 13 July 2011

Adding your own sub-option to [Right Click/Send to] option

  1. Create a shortcut to the location of the place whose sub-option you want to add.
  2. Cut this shortcut.
  3. Paste it on the following address : C:\Documents and Settings\Username\SendTo
Username can be replaced by whatever your username in your PC is.

Wednesday, 29 June 2011

Displaying An Image In The Background Of A Folder In Windows XP

  1. Open Notepad.
  2. Type the following in it :
  3. [ExtShellFolderViews]
    [{BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}]
    Attributes=1
    IconArea_Image=D:\Images\Pattern.jpg
    IconArea_Text=0x00FFFFFF
  4. Save the file as Desktop.ini in the folder whose background you want to change.
  5. Refresh. You picture is being displayed in the background of the folder.
You can replace  D:\Images\Pattern.jpg with a desired image path. 0x00FFFFFF can be replaced with any other colour's hexadecimal value.
It's funny to find softwares that simply write this file and change the background and funnier is seeing people admiring these softwares... Enjoy.!

Sunday, 26 June 2011

Creating A Self Extracting Package In Windows XP

There is no need search for softwares on internet which can create self extracting packages. Windows comes with a default software that can do this job perfectly. Try it...
C:\WINDOWS\System32\IExpress.exe

Tired Of Seeing Names Below Your Files And Folder Icons?

Have you tried renaming a file to something that displays no name below its icon? It doesn't work if you rename a file or folder to a blank with no characters. To do it, while renaming your file or folder, delete the highlighted old name, press Alt and type 0 1 6 0 and then press Enter. To rename other files in same folder, repeat the given process twice separated by a space and so on. Your computer will look cleaner....
The reason for this happening is that the unicode for no character is 0160. You may try other combination of numbers to get characters that do not exist on your keyboard. Enjoy!

Saturday, 25 June 2011

Hiding The Contents Of A Folder By Renaming It

I don't really know what this should be called. But if we rename a folder in the following manner, it becomes a shortcut to control panel...
Rename it from FolderName to FolderName.{21EC2020-3AEA_1069_A2DD-08002B30309D}.
To rename it back to a normal folder, I suggest use of a Batch File. To do it, use Notepad and type the following..
ren FolderName.{21EC2020-3AEA_1069_A2DD-08002B30309D} FolderName
Save it in the folder where the folder FolderName exists with an extension of .bat. Double click on it to execute this batch file. Your folder is back to normal condition.

Note : FolderName is just a sample name that I have used. this could be replaced with any desired name.

Similarly, if we add .{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D} to a folder name, it starts acting as a shortcut to My Computer.