In this tutorial I will teach you how to accomplish multiple file execution from just a single click. This might be just a useless tip for them who might have other method or already knows how to do this. If you don’t know how to do this then read on. If you know, even then read this post and comment for better upgrade.

As we used batch scripting before to accomplish several easy task and tweaks to windows, we’ll again be using batch scripting here. If you don’t know what batch scripting is then search in our blog at the right sidebar for batch scripting and learn basics of it.

OK now let me guide you how to do this.

In this tutorial I will assume that you are a basic web user who listens to music while surfing. You’ll basically open all programs you need on hand. For example, you may want Google Chrome, Microsoft word and Windows Media Player always opened.

After you list the necessary programs, we must know where the programs are installed.

You can do this by right-clicking on the shortcut icon and click on properties. In target field you’ll find the location of the program file.

In the above case, the installed location of Google chrome is, C:\Programs\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe

Copy the location of each program in similar ways.

Now open Notepad (Start>Run>type notepad).

In Notepad screen type following information:

Start "" "C:\Programs\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe"

Note: Don’t copy and paste it since it is for demo only.

Do same for all programs.

Note: refer to above syntax again.

When your path is enclosed in quotes, START interprets it as the title for the window. Adding the “” makes it see your path as the program to run.

Now save it as “browsing.bat”(with quotes).

Change the icon if you want.

Double click on the browsing.bat, it will open all the programs that you’ve specified inside it.

You can create similar set of programs to open from single click and have it at desktop.

Hope this tutorial was helpful.

Today in this tutorial, I am going to show you how you can make USB storage devices totally useless without your permission.

You won’t need any special utility or software, just a tweak in Registry editor is enough to enable or disable the USB drive.

To block all the storage device in your Windows, run registry editor by typing regedit in RUN command.

In the registry editor, at left side navigation pane, navigate to following location:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > SYSTEM > CurrentControlSet > Services > USBSTOR

Now at the right side double click on Start.

To block USB storage Medias, change the value data to 4.

If you want to unblock USB storage Medias just navigate to the same location and change th value data to 3.

If you don’t want to bother tweaking registry then I’ve made a simple program to Block and Unblock USB device.

You can download it from here.

USB BLOCKER- HacksPC

USB UNBLOCKER- HacksPC

Download both of them and open it to toggle between Block and Unblock USB storage media.

You can hide it in desktop or anywhere favorable to you.

Next time I’ll be posting a tutorial about disabling copy and paste. So, don’t forget to bookmark us.

Hope this tutorial was helpful.

You may have secured your PC by setting password. But you won’t be putting password in screensaver mode, will you?

In this tutorial I am going to show you how you can prevent your files from being copied illegally to any storage media or even inside one folder location to another location of same hard drive.

Before we begin with the tutorial, download this free utility which will be playing main role in this tutorial.

The downloaded file is a zip file; you’ll need to extract it.

After extraction install the program. Remember the location of the installation folder. It is usually in %systemroot%/Program Files/Prevent . The installer only extracts the file and while running toggles the registry values.

Go to the location where Prevent utility is installed. And open Prevent.exe.

Click on Define HotKey Field and press the shortcut keys you want to disable the copy and paste.

I clicked on the text input area of Define HotKey and pressed CTRL+ Shift + Q simultaneously.

Now Click on Activate button. After pressing Activate button, it will save the HotKey you defined with following screen:

As soon as you press activate button it will disable the copy paste feature of windows.

Now to disable it you’ll need to press the defined HotKey.

When you press the Hotkey in any part of the Windows it will enable copy/paste again with following screen:

Now go to the folder location where you’ve installed Prevent utility.

Right click on Prevent.exe, go to send to menu and create desktop shortcut.

This will create shortcut to desktop.

You may rename it whatever you want.

Now you can open Prevent utility from shortcut and always activate it if you’ve disabled it once.

This utility not only allows you to disable cut, copy and paste but also Delete, Copy To, Move To, Sent To, Renaming, Task manager’s End Process button.

Task manager before activating Prevent utility.

Task manager after activating Prevent utility.

Hope this was helpful tutorial.

Well if you are worrying about this then no more worries. I am here with a step by step tutorial to guide you through every step you need to save the current session of your desktop for later restoration.

You’ll need Cache My work which can be downloaded from here.

After the page is loaded click on green download button as illustrated in image below:

After you downloaded the program, install and open it.

Using this tool is very simple and easy. Just check on the boxes favorable to you and click on save.

Next, go to Tools > Option. In new option window check on Restore Previous explorer windows at next logon.

Now you may close the window.

Now onwards, it will start to cache your windows when system is being booted and reload the cache in next system start.

Just like hibernate, it stores the current cache of windows to seprate location of your hard drive. Since catching needs writing hard drive, you’ll feel that your system is being slow while shutting down and loading up. This is not a big deal as it takes time to read and write data to and from hard drive.

Using this technique will possibly save a lot of time. This also enables you to get familiar with the environment you were in the screen before windows restart.

Hope this tutorial was helpful.

You may be wondering why flash drive instead of CD/DVD. The answer is clear as I’ve mentioned it above, i.e. just the minor scratches fail your DVD to work properly. Moreover if you don’t have DVD drive or you have a netbook then this trick might come pretty handy. Plus, reading data from flash drives consumes less energy resources as it doesn’t need any mechanical device to read as in DVD.

But another question may arise, DVD are cheaper than flash cards. Sorry folks but I have no answer for this. However you’ll realize its need when you really don’t have any resources to install Windows. Anyways let’s begin with the tutorial. Make sure that you have a flash drive not less than 1 GB space and also you’ll need Windows 7 installer disk or iso image. Oh yes, and you must have administrator’s privilege.

First thing to do is obvious; insert your flash card in to your computer. Since Windows 7 setup can only be booted in NTFS format, you’ll need to format your flash drive in NTFS format with any volume label.

Run command prompt and in command prompt, type diskpart.

The disk partition manager will run in DOS mode.

To check the existence of your flash drive type “list disk” (without quotes). It will list all the volumes even the hidden one with the volume name.

Remember the disk number and disk space for the identification purpose. In my case it’s disk 2. Select disk by using following syntax.

Select disk #

Where, # is the disk number.

If the disk is selected it will say that disk 2 is selected.

Type, clean to clean the disk. It will notify you when its done.

Now type create primary partition and press enter. If you got confused, then refer to the following screen:

Now list the partition by using following syntax:

list partition

The partition available will be listed. Now with the help of disk space you noted previously in select disk. Remember the partition number.

Type select partition # . While # is the partition number.

If selected, the partition number is selected message will be showed.

Now type activate, to activate the partition.

You’ll get similar result as the image below:

Now you’ll need to format the drive in NTFS format by using following syntax:

format fs=NTFS

Wait until the format is complete.

After the format is complete, type assign.

Now you are done with diskpart. Type exit and press enter to exit.

Now insert Windows 7 disk or extract the iso image to your hard disk with the help of 7-zip or similar extraction software.

Now in command prompt change the directory to root location of your Windows installer. If its DVD then it might be the drive letter (in my case it’s F drive). If you have extracted it to a directory then load command prompt from there.

After you are inside the boot folder, type the following syntax:

bootsect /nt60 Z: (Where, Z is the drive letter of your flash drive)

If everything went well you’ll see the following screen:

Now, copy all the files from the Windows 7 DVD or ISO to the flash drive.

Reboot the computer. Remember to change the first boot device to your Flash drive in the BIOS.

You should be able to install Windows 7 from your USB flash drive now.

Hope that was helpful.

Update: If you don’t want to go through these mess then Microsoft has released a utility for this, you can download it from their site.

Windows 7 USB-DVD tool

Instruction

To do so, go to start, type Windows Live. In Windows Live messenger, right click and select properties.

In Window Live Messenger Properties, go to Compatibility tab and enable compatibility mode by choosing previous version of Windows, I chosed Windows XP SP3. Now click OK button.

Now you’ll see that Windows Live Messenger will appear in Notificaton area.

Hope this short tips was helpful.

This useful tool is actually brought to you by tweaks.com.

It enables you to change the background of the windows logon screen. You can have any size of background, this tool automatically resizes and recompresses the image to the highest quality possible being the original image untouched and unmodified.

If you want the default Windows 7 logon screen back just click Revert to Default Logon Screen and the application will automatically uninstall any customized screens.

To change the logon screen, download Tweaks.com Logon changer for Windows 7.

Unzip the 250 KB zip file and run the program. When the program loads up, Click on Change Logon Screen button.

Browse the background image you want in your logon screen. Don’t worry about 245KB image limit as logon changer tool automatically compress and resizes the image. So you can choose any large file.

If the file size is too large, then it will ask to create copy of it and resize it. Click Yes to proceed.

If it detects old logon backgrounds then click OK. Now you’ll have new logon screen ready. To have a live preview of it click on Test button.

If you don’t like the current screen and want to switch back you can always click on Revert to Default Logon Screen.

Hope this tutorial was helpful.

With following command you can view whole detail about the manufacturer and about your OS. In this tutorial I am focusing to installation date of Windows.

systeminfo

Open command prompt window by going to Run and type “cmd” (without quotes).

Input “systeminfo” command to it.

It will look up for system information and load the result below the input.

Search for the OS installation date. There you’ll find exact date for installation of OS. Not only this, you can view the BIOS version of your system, Computer model name, Product code, Time and date of system startup etc.

Hope this tutorial was informative.

This is guest post from You Can Hack Blog.

The Regedit.exe is only the executable file to list up registries in systematically. You can arrange the registry’s easily by your own if you are a good programmer. But who is talking about programming here? I am talking about the program which is alternative for registry editor, RegAlyzer. This works exactly similar to Windows’ registry editor, only the difference is it’s name and it’s third-party.

This tool might be great help if you want to have instant hack to public computers and networks.

You can easily Download RegAlyzer from here.

Hope you liked this info.

Therefore, using your USB storage device as RAM can be one of the best alternative for your real RAM.

First of all, you’ll need to download this file, Eboostr (Trial Version) or Eboostr (Full Version from torrent ).

Now you’ve one of the above file downloaded to your computer. Install it with default settings.

After installation, it is compulsary to reboot your computer.

Insert your USB flash drive first then open eBoostr from start menu.

In the program window, go to Edit > Add new cache device

You’ll see your USB disk at the left screen. Select it and click ok.

Then start caching the memory in your USB drive.

Alternatively, you can also click on Autoconfiguration button. Program will diagnose your system. After the diagnose is ended, click next. Choose all the recommended option to increase your system performance and click Next.

Now program will start to cache your memory. You may feel some difference in your windows performance.

This software requires USB device more than 256 MB.

It stores the current memory as a cache in your USB device. Eboostr stores cache of your frequently used applications on your USB Flash drive. It will help to reduce the Hard Disk access which is comparatively slower as compared to access in chips. Since hard disk requiers motor to rotate the disks, it will also consume a lot of your battery.

This is guest post from suraj kayastha, where he blogs about technology at You Can Hack Blog and Hacktutors.