Trick to Disable Others Changing Wallpaper In Windows

Here is the trick for “Banning the changing of wallpaper and theme of your personal computer”
You can also use this trick to change the wallpaper of public comp , say your  comp for example. and make it unchangible from others.












Set the wallpaper and theme to the one which you want to lock your screen with and go to ‘RUN’ from the start menu (or click windows key + r key to open ‘run’, This is a short cut- Note this)

In RUN type ‘regedit’ and press enter as in the image below

This will open the Windows Registry Editor.

Then click on the folders given below :

Computer >
HKEY_CURRENT_USER >
SOFTWARE >
Microsoft >
Windows >
CurrentVersion >
Policies >
Explorer>

After this create a new DWord (32 bit) Entry. Give it a Name of ‘NoThemesTab’.

Now after this double-click on this Entry and change the value its data from 0 to 1.

Thats all , now once after logging off from the current user account will make the comp lock the editing option of desktop and also make those options gray indicating that there is no option to edit them.

Now when you want to turn off this locking at any time visit the Registry Editor again and change the value of the ‘No Themes Tab key’ from the current 1 to 0

Top 3 Windows Password Recovery Softwares

              Today more and more computer users lose of forget their computer password. If you are easy to forget password, creating a password reset disk in advance is necessary. The password reset disk could help you reset Windows password when you forget it. But if you forget to create such a disk, what should you do to regain access to your computer when you forget the logon password? There is no need to worry about because you can recover or reset your lost Windows password with the help of Windows password recovery softwares. In this article you can find 3 excellent Windows password recovery softwares which can help you to recover or reset lost Windows password effectively.


1.) Ophcrack:

           Ophcrack is an free Windows password recovery software based on rainbow tables. It provides an easy and safe way to recover lost Windows password. It is a very efficient implementation of rainbow tables done by the inventors of the method. It is claimed that these tables can crack 99.9% of alphanumeric passwords of up to 14 characters in usually a few minutes.

Ophcrack is regarded as the best free Windows password recovery software. But its disadvantage is that the size of its ISO image file is 496MB. It will cost you much time to download it to recover lost Windows password.

2.) Offline NT Password & Registry Editor:

           Offline NT Password & Registry Editor is another excellent free Windows password recovery software to reset Windows logon password. It allows you to reset the password of any user that has a valid local account on your Windows system. And You do not need to know the old password to set a new one. This software works offline, you have to shutdown your computer and boot off a CD or USB disk to do the password reset. By the way, it is also an almost fully functional registry editor.

         The password reset speed of Offline NT Password & Registry Editor is faster than Ophcrack's. It is a good option for you to reset lost Windows password. But please note that Offline NT Password tool is completely text based, so it is a little inconvenient.

3.) Rekeysoft Windows Password Recovery:

            Rekeysoft Windows Password Recovery is professional Windows password reset software which can help you reset Windows logon password by creating a password reset disk. It enables you to reset the lost Windows password. This software compatible with any version of Windows system, including Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows Server 2008/2003 and so on. So you can perform Windows 7 password recovery with this software. It has 3 editions to meet your different needs. And the enterprise edition of this software provides an safe way to reset lost Domain administrator password.
Perform Windows 7 password recovery with Windows password reset software.

Trick To Improve Windows XP Shutdown Speed

This trick reduces the time XP waits before automatically closing any running programs when you give it the command to shutdown.

• Go to Start then select Run 
• Type 'Regedit' and click ok 
• Find 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\' 
• Select 'WaitToKillAppTimeout' 
• Right click and select 'Modify' 
• Change the value to '1000' 
• Click 'OK' 
• Now select 'HungAppTimeout' 
• Right click and select 'Modify' 
• Change the value to '1000' 
• Click 'OK' 

 

• Now find 'HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop' 
• Select 'WaitToKillAppTimeout' 
• Right click and select 'Modify' 
• Change the value to '1000' 
• Click 'OK' 

• Now find 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\' 
• Select 'WaitToKillServiceTimeout' 
• Right click and select 'Modify' 
• Change the value to '1000' 
• Click 'OK'

That's It. Now check your shutdown speed.

With Windows 8, comes a new web browser- Internet Explorer 10

With the launch of Windows 8 came the new avatar of the Internet Explorer family- Internet Explorer 10.Internet Explorer 10 is the first ever iteration of IE browser made for touch screen platform and is the default browser on Windows 8 machines. IE 10 offers one platform that gives you two browsing experiences: One, which is optimized for touch-enabled devices and the other, which gives a familiar browsing experience on usual desktops.

What’sNew in Internet Explorer 10:

Two aspect of the same browser where one renders touch screen experience and the other renderstraditional desktop experience. The homescreen though is same for both. Other than its complete transformation to touch, IE10 supports multi-column, multi-grid and a multi-flexible box layout.

By default, IE10 keeps you on the traditional browsing experience (to follow links), in which you go on your web browser, run a search and then click on the link to visit the page. Now in Internet Explorer 10, you can change this default setting, switch to a built-in Lockstep (on Windows 8), and enjoy the Metro Style applications.

You can decide the settings of the tiles that open in your Internet Explorer 10 browser. These settings can be applied on Start screen as well as individual sites, which are pinned on your start page.

Enhanced Protect Mode is new in Internet Explorer 10, which extends the normal protected mode of your web browser. This mode prevents attackers from modifying settings and installing any malicious or unwanted software into your browser. Additionally, this mode adds further restriction on accessing personal information by restricting locations that houses your personal information. This section is accessible only if you permit.

IE 10 also restricts access to any valuable information on a corporate network resource by restriction internet tab processes to access user’s domain credentials, by not allowing internet tab processes to operate as a local web server and by restricting internet tab processes to make any connections to intranet servers.

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Windows 7 Style Taskbar Thumbnail Previews in XP

Are you still running the good-old Windows XP and being just a tad envious on the Taskbar Thumbnail Preview? Wishing you could have that on your XP taskbar? I have found two freeware applications for you that will do the trick. One plain and simple and one with a few more options.
This is also for those of you who desperately miss your MAC taskbar, but have to use XP at work or whatever. Curious? Read on!

Visual Task Tips (What you expect, is what you get):

Visual Task Tips is a straightforward little application that gives you exactly what you’d expect. A Thumbnail Preview. Nothing more, nothing less. Just Download and install.

Visual Task Tips Supports both 32bit and 64bit platforms.

Download Here!

Visual Tooltip (The one for MAC lovers):

If you want more than just a preview, then Visual Tooltip is for you. Not only do you get the pretty Taskbar Thumbnails, you also get more.

You can control where the thumbnails appear as well as  how they appear.

With Visual Tooltip you can also replace your Windows Taskbar entirely with a

MAC-Look-A-Like Taskbar similar to the one found i OS X.

Download here!

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Windows 8: How To Eliminate Shut Down Problem

           Windows 8 latest operating system launched by Microsoft known for its Modern UEFI interface, windows defender with antivirus program, snap multitasking and instant start shutdown process. Windows 8 has offered ease of use and simplified computing. Most of the people have switched from windows 7 to Windows 8 or some of them are planning to switch. But there are some issue which must be root out otherwise it remain issue of concern. Most of the user who has installed Windows 8 preview on their computer is suffering from windows 8 shut down problem. It is noticed that when you shutdown windows 8 computer then it's display goes off but still the power is on and computer still consumes energy and if you are working on a laptop then after sometime your battery will drains out.

           A new feature known as “Hybrid sleep” is introduced with windows 8. Most of you are aware of Hibernate and sleep feature of windows operating system. They all are designed to reduce the power consumption of computer during idle period. Hybrid sleep is the combination of Sleep and Hibernate which saves a copy of your opened docs & Settings on both RAM as well as on your hard drive and switch to minimum power consumption state so that all programs can be launched quickly when user resumes his work. If power failure occurs then it will not let user to loose his important work and launch all running application from computer hard drive. By default this is enabled in windows 8.

           But most of you are not aware of Hybrid Sleep which is the cause of this problem. Hybrid sleep is developed to reduce the windows booting and shutdown time. Windows 8 reducing the startup time by saving data pertaining to kernel session on the hard drive instead of closing it properly. Resuming work from hibernated state for computer is more tedious in comparison of full system initialization process.  To get rid of the problem you have to follow the procedure mentioned below,

Steps To Follow:

1. If you are on the Start screen then move your cursor to top right corner of screen to trigger charms Bar. Then Click on the Search option.
2. Then Type Power in the search box and press the enter key to search, then your computer will automatically search for the text and show the results.
3. A new window will appears on your screen, make a click on the Settings option on the right pane of results obtained and then click on Change what the power buttons do link generated in the search results. 
4. It will show Power options available in Windows 8, you have to select “Choose what the Power buttons do” available on the left pane of window.
5. You can also make changes in Power option of computer through Run dialog box. Type powercfg.cpl in the text box of Run dialog box and then select “Choose what the Power buttons do”.
6. A new window appears on your screen, scroll down the screen and disable “Turn on the Fast startup (recommended)” option from the list.
7. Uncheck the “Turn on the Fast startup (recommended)” option checkbox and then select “Save Changes” button. If the option is not active then scroll up and select “Change Settings that are currently unavailable” link.
8. Restart your computer to make changes to take affect or reboot your system to fix Windows 8 shutdown problem.
9. That's It!

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              Matthew Ferrall…is a Tech Savvy and Software Engineer. He has been working from 2008 for getting secure and reliable software solution for viruses, malwares with Impcsupport. Impcsupport provides the computer support for all windows operating system.