Task Manager Keyboard Shortcut

ALT + CTRL + DEL will open task manager directly if your system is configured to display Login Welcome Screen

Other shortcut :
ALT + CTRL + ESC

Pidgin

Pidgin is an Instant Messaging client which supports many IM networks such as AIM, IRC, MSN, Yahoo, Google Talk and others.

Download Link


Trillian & Miranda are also good multi platform instant messenger clients.

Remote Control Winamp

BrowseAmp plugin allows Winamp to be controlled over LAN or other network. It provides web interface with lots of features.

Download Link : http://www.thasler.org/winamp2/BrowseAmp2.exe

You can start/stop server from Winamp - Preferences - Plug-ins - General Purpose - BrowseAmp - Configure

Take Screenshot of Active Window

Press Alt + Print Screen Key

Click Start - Accessories - Paint
Paint Window will open. Click Edit - Paste
Image will be pasted, Now Click File - Save As
Enter the File Name & File Type, Click Save

To take screenshot of the entire screen, press Print Screen key and follow the steps as above.

Yahoo Block Checker

Yahoo Block Checker allows you to check if someone has blocked you. You can check the status whether your contact is online or offline.
MSN/ICQ/AIM/Trillian status checker is also available.

Disable User Account Control

You can disable User Account Control (UAC) in Windows Vista with msconfig.

Click Start - Run, Type msconfig
Click OK
Click "Tools" tab
Scroll down & you will see "Disable UAC"
Click on that line & Press the Launch button
A CMD(Command) window will open. When the command is done, you can close the window.
Close MSCONFIG.

You need to restart the computer for changes to take effect.

Remove Linux Boot Loader from MBR

Boot the system with Windows 9x disk.
run the command
fdisk /mbr


You can also remove it with xp cd.
Boot the system with Windows XP cd & go to recovery console
run the command
fixmbr

You can get boot disks from bootdisk.com.

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Make ISO Image

dd if=/dev/hdx of=filename.iso
The iso file will be created in current directory.

Replace hdx with the device you want to make iso image whether its hard disk, cd/dvd rom or any other disk.
use hdxx for making iso image of a partition.
run fdisk -l if you want to know the partition number.

Make ISO image of a directory
mkisofs -o /tmp/filename.iso /tmp/directory/
The iso file will be created in /tmp directory.

You can also create an ISO image of mulfiple files.
Simply put the files in a directory & run the above command.

Read/Write ext2 Partition

Ext2 Installable File System software gives you read write access to ext2 partition from windows (NT/2K/XP/2K3). It is available for free of cost.
Please refer FAQ for accessing ext3 partitions.

Configuration is very simple. Simply run the setup file and select the settings as prompted. At the end of setup, you have to specify the drive letter for ext2 partition(s). Once the setup is finished, you will find ext2 partition like any other drive in windows explorer.

Please see the following screenshots.





Disclaimer: Please use at your risk!

Slackware Package Management

Following commands are available in slackware to work with packages.

Install
installpkg packagename.tgz

Remove
removepkg packagename.tgz

Upgrade
upgradepkg packagename.tgz

makepkg (Creates a new Slackware compatible package.)

explodepkg packagename.tgz
(Extracts the contents of a Slackware compatible package to the current directory.)

rpm2targz packaganame.rpm
(Converts an RPM package to standard GNU tar + zip format [tar.gz])

rpm2tgz packaganame.rpm
(Converts an RPM (RedHat Package Manager) to a Slackware-compatible package [tgz])

pkgtool
package maintenance tool

Batch Image Resize

You can resize images in batch with
IrfanView.
Click File - Batch Conversion\Rename
Locate the image(s) folder & Add the images

Click "Set advanced options" button
Specify the size & Click OK
Sepcify other option such as Output directory, Output format

Once you have configured the settings, click Start

Enjoy!!!

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Read / Write NTFS partition from Linux

NTFS-3G driver will allow to read / write to NTFS partitions.
Download source code from http://www.ntfs-3g.org/.

unpack the source package and 'cd' to the directory.
now run these commands.

./configure
make
make install

Use the following statement to mount ntfs partition.

mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/hdxx /mount-point

To know the partition (/dev/hdxx), run the command
fdisk -l

CPU Information

CPU-Z is a free utlitiy which gives information of CPU and other system devices.

WCPUID/XCPUID is another program which displays information of cpu, memory etc.

MSN Block Checker

MSN Block Checker allows you to check if someone has blocked you. You can also check the status whether your contact is online or offline.

Yahoo/ICQ/AIM/Trillian status checker is also available.

Change file extensions of multiple files with one DOS command

Say you have .txt files in a folder and you want to rename them to .doc

Run this command ren *.txt *.doc


Enjoy!!!

Remove Vista Boot Loader

Please do it at your risk.

Take backup and verify it.

Boot the system with XP CD and go to Recovery Console.
Login to the windows installation
Run fixboot
Run fixmbr to reset the master boot record
Exit the Recovery Console
Edit the boot.ini file to remove the vista entry.
You can format the Vista Partition if not needed.

I would say again to take backup and do at your risk.

Auto login to Windows XP / Vista

Please take backup & do at your risk.

Please follow these steps to automaticaly login to XP / Vista system on boot.


Click -> Start -> Run
Type control userpasswords2

Deselect checkbox "Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer."
Click OK

Enter the username by which you want to login automatically.
Enter the password & confirm it.

Click OK.

You need to restart the system for changes to take effect.

Access Linux partition from windows

explore2fs is a free utility which reads ext2 & ext3 filesystem. It is supported by all versions of windows.