Display Multiple Clocks in Window 7 System Tray

Okay, suppose you are studying abroad or are visiting someone or are abroad or (you get the idea, right). You wanna check on the right time to call back home. Here, most of you guys and gals would download a software to display clocks right.

But what if I can show you that Windows itself allows you to have multiple clocks (now this is awesome), it would be great right.So, here is the how to:

• Click on Clock on System Tray
• Click Change date and time settings...
• Click tab Additional Clocks
  
  


• Click Show this clock
• Now, change the details like time zone and display name.
• There is one more Show this clock, this means you can show two additional clocks on Windows
• Click Apply and then click OK
• Hover over clock in system tray and it's done.

But if you want more than two clocks, I am looking into it. But, if you guys find it out soon, then let me.

As always thanks for reading and please comment.

Manually Change Windows 7 logon screen

Yep! As the title tells, this post is about changing the logon screen of Windows 7. We all know, Windows 7 logon screen is down right plain, simple and boring. But, fear no more as I am about to tell you how to change it.

Without further ado, here are the steps:

• Click Start Button.
• In Start Search Box, type regedit and press Enter
• Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Authentication\LogonUI\Background
• Double click OEMBackground key
• Set the Value data to 1
  
  


• Choose any image you want, Wait, there is a catch. The image size should be less than 256 KB. So, yeah, if your image is greater than that, shrink it down. (I am not gonna tell you how)
• Move to C:\Windows\System32\oobe
• Create a new folder, call it info
• Create a new folder inside info, call it backgrounds
• Copy your image here, but rename it to backgroundDefault.jpg
• Reboot and voila!

Simple, right. Nothing much to it. And for those that don't want to do it manually, there is a software named Logon Changer.

Thanks for reading and as always please comment.

Watch Movie from DOS

Hey, long time no see. Just joking. Now, in Schools I know that most computer stuff is known by the Geeks and Nerds but I ask you this question:

How can you impress someone you like via computer?

 Well, the answer is pretty simple, just show them a movie from DOS (I know there are tons of different ways, this is one of them).

Enough about impressing (seriously dude this trick is awesome and plain simple), you can use this trick for show off or any other thing you like. Just, as a reminder, the movie is Star Wars. So, here's how:

• Start cmd (Mentioned here)
• Type telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl and press Enter.

If you get an error message, something on the lines that telnet is not recognized as an internal or external command or file name, then probably your telnet is switched off (Don't worry, it's there with every Windows).
If it's switched off, then:

• Click Start Button
• Click Control Panel
•  Click Programs and then Click Turn Windows features on or off
• A new box will appear, scroll down and click on the check box for Telnet Client.
  
• Press OK.

After that Windows will activate Telnet and you can watch the movie.

Thanks for reading and as always please comment.

Remove Windows 7 not Genuine

I recently encountered a friend of mine with the message "Your copy of Windows 7 is not genuine". Now, this is no big deal right. I mean, you just get a message, your screen becomes black with no screensaver, right! But guys all of you are thinking "What happened?" or "How did I get this?"

It's simple, you just downloaded and installed an update. Windows update contains among them one update that checks for the authenticity of your copy of Windows. There are some websites that do the same, so be very careful.

You can remove it by:

• Click Start Button.
• Among the programs listed, right click cmd and select Run as administrator
• Now type SLMGR -REARM (Yep! type it as is, no changes) and press Enter
• You get a pop telling you to restart the system.
  
• Press OK and restart the system

This just removed the annoying message. Now to reactivate your Windows key:

• Click Start Button
• In Start Search Box, type cmd
• Among the programs listed, right click cmd and select Run as administrator
• Now type SLMGR -ato and press Enter
• If successful, you get a pop telling Windows key is activated.
• Press OK and you're done.

If that doesn't fix it, then simply:

• Click Start Button
• Click Control Panel
• Click Windows Update
• Click View Installed Updates (It's at the bottom left)
• Uninstall update KB971033

Now, the methods written up top are manual. You have to do it yourself. But, if you feel that something may go wrong, I may screw up!, yada yada... .Then there is one more method.

Go to any search on the internet and search for RemoveWAT. It's a small utility to fix this issue. But, a point to note: Most antiviruses will tell you that it's a virus. Need not worry, I mean seriously, look at the type, it says HackerTool. Simply, stop the antivirus and run it or you can add as an exception.

Thanks for reading and as always please comment.

Declaration

Well, this is just my backup. This is to declare that Blogger and the author of this blog will not be under any responsibility for the mess the reader may make.

Simply put, the decision rests with you.

Okay that was creepy. Now how to put, the words aren't coming. Let's compare this to a class. The teacher teaches the class about some exothermic reactions. One of the students goes ahead and creates a firecracker with it. But ends, up hurting someone. So, in this case the fault is entirely of the student, not of the teacher. So, the same applies to this blog and it's author.

NOTE: USE THE KNOWLEDGE PRESENTED WITHIN THIS BLOG WITH YOUR OWN DISCRETION.

Rename Recycle Bin

Recycle Bin or the garbage dump. It sits quietly on the system and does nothing (Until you delete something). But it's name is annoying (Well to me it is). There is a cool way to change the name to anything you want.


Do you want to know. So, here it is:

• Click Start.
• For Windows XP, Click Run, type regedit and press Enter.
• For Windows Vista and up, in the Start Search box type regedit and press Enter.
• Press CTRL + F and type Recycle Bin
• Change the value to anything you want.
• Press F3 to search again.
• Repeat till all names have been changed.

Simple as that. This way you get to change Recycle Bin to most anything you desire. This little trick should not affect anything else.

Try it and let me know how it goes.

Update: Sorry, to mention but I have only tried this on Windows XP. Let me know if it works on others.

Delete an Undeletable File

Upon several occasions, I came across a file that could not be deleted. Now, this is a big headache for a lot of guys (and of course gals). Even, I tried restarting the system but still the file could not be deleted. I finally thought, the message said the file is being used by another process, so what if I remove all process or if I changed to another operating system or .... (I know that's a lot of or's).

So, not to despair, I have a solution ( I know, a cliche):

• Open cmd. (It is listed here)
• Close all open programs.
• Right-click on an empty area of the Taskbar and select Start Task Manager.
• Click on Processes Tab.
• Find explorer.exe
• Right-click on it and select End Process.
• A Prompt may come up, so select the appropriate option.
• Then, using cmd go to the place where the file was.
• Type del filename to delete the file or rmdir foldername to delete the folder.
• Now, finally in Task Manager, Click on File Menu.
• Select New Task and type explorer.exe

There is another method though. If you have a live USB or CD or DVD of Linux lying around, you could use that. Here's the how-to. First boot into Linux, then delete the file. (Seriously, this is it)

If that didn't work or for that matter you don't have Linux, then simply download and install FileZilla. When you start it you see something like

Now, see that Local site bar on the left. Below that, find the file/folder you want to delete and then,  well delete it.

Let's say you have tried all of this but still you could not delete it. Man! what the hell did you put into that. Nevermind. Then finally you could try:

• Open Notepad.
• Click on File.
• Click Save As
• Locate the folder where you kept that monstrosity.
• Choose All files as the File Type.
• Click once on the file you want to delete. (Just so that you can get a name)
• Put a " (Yep! That's an apostrophe) on the start and beginning of the filename.
• Click Save.

Hey, the process is not complete. Now try Deleting the file as usual.

I hope this comes as help. If it did or did not, please comment.

See All Hidden Files

You know the easiest way to keep something on a system which everyone uses and still keep it private is to make it hidden. Microsoft took a big leap with that concept and so it's most important files are hidden. Not common hidden, like you would hide a folder or file. You can even try to see it by doing:

• Open Windows Explorer.
• Click on Tools.
• Click on Folder Options.
• Click on View Tab.
• Under Advanced Settings section, inside Hidden Files and Folders, click on Show hidden files, folders and drives.
  

But still you would be disappointed. Not to fear, there is another way.

• Start cmd. (Mentioned in earlier post)
•  cd (Yep! This is a command) to the place where the hidden files are supposed to be.
• Type dir/ah and there you go.
• If there are many files, type dir/ah/p
  

Now, the boring part. These files are system hidden. Simply put, even if you try to unhide it using the conventional style, it will not work. This is the so far only way I know (without using any software) to do so.

See it was pretty easy. Thanks for reading and please comment.

Remove Windows XP Splash Screen

Have you ever wondered, what exactly happens when Windows boots up? Now, those who have Linux can see a long list of things when Linux boots but in Windows, we get a Splash Screen (sorta animation). Now, this sucks in many ways. How many of you wanted to show that your system is super awesome? With a splash screen, nobody takes heed but remove that, and well you are a rockstar (kinda).

There is a way to remove the splash screen, which is:

• Open System Properties. (You have to go to Start Menu, then click on Control Panel. Click on System and finally on Settings)
• Click Advanced (It's the tab on the top of the box)
• Click Settings in the Startup and Recovery section.
• In the new box, in the System Startup section, click Edit. (This will open boot.ini in a notepad)
• Find the line that ends with /fastdetect
• Position your cursor to the right after the paramter and press space.
• Then, add /SOS
• Save the file.
• Close both the dialog boxes.
• Restart the system and watch.

It is as simple as that. Oh! If you are wondering, how I remove it. Just follow the same procedure as mentioned above but remove the /SOS and the job is complete.

Thanks for reading and please comment.