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  • Create a shortcut to Shutdown, Restart, Hibernate, Standby, and even logoff on your desktop.

    This can be very very useful when you really get tired by the number of clicks you need to make to shutdown, or pressing the shift key to enter hibernation. Just make some shortcuts to these tasks on your desktop, and you can double click to access them.

    Steps:
    1: Right click on your desktop (or inside any folder where you want this to be) and select New –> Shortcut.

    2: The new shortcut wizard appears. Add the following link in the quotes without the quotes, in the box according to what you need.
    For Shutdown : “shutdown.exe -s -t 0” (The 0 means the computer will wait zero seconds before shutting down)
    For Restart : “shutdown.exe -r -t 0”
    For Logoff : “shutdown.exe -l -t 0”
    For Standby : “rundll32.exe PowrProf.dll, SetSuspendState Standby” (This one is not working when hibernation is enabled)
    For Hibernation : “rundll32.exe PowrProf.dll, SetSuspendState Hibernate”
    (You are making a shortcut to the windows file that does these. But when you make normal shortcuts it doesn’t work.)

    3: Give names that you like

    4: Done. If you want to change the icon, right click, select Properties –>Shortcut –> Change Icon

  • Women’s smartness

    I got this from India community’s official joke thread submitted by a person called Harshit
    -Akshay S Dinesh

    A Woman was out golfing one day when she hit the ball
    into the woods.
    She went into the woods to look for it and found a
    frog in a trap.
    The frog said to her, “If you release me from this
    trap, I will grant
    you three wishes.” The woman freed the frog, and the
    frog said, “Thank
    you, but I failed to mention that there was a
    condition to your wishes.
    Whatever you wish for, your husband will get times
    ten!” The woman
    said, “That’s okay.” For her first wish, she wanted to
    be the most
    beautiful woman in the world. The frog warned her,
    “You do realise that
    this
    wish will also make your husband the most handsome man
    in the world, an
    Adonis whom women will flock to”. The woman replied,
    “That’s okay,
    because I will be the most beautiful Woman and he will
    have eyes only
    for
    me.” So, KAZAM-she’s the most beautiful Woman in the
    world! For her
    second wish, she wanted to be the richest woman in the
    world.
    The frog said, “That will make your husband the
    richest man in the
    world.
    And he will be ten times richer than you. ” The woman
    said, “That’s
    okay, because what’s mine is his and what’s his is
    mine.”
    So, KAZAM-she’s the richest woman in the world! The
    frog then inquired
    about her third wish, and she answered, “I’d like a
    mild heart attack.”

    Moral of the story: Women are clever. Don’t mess with
    them.
    Attention female readers: This is the end of the joke
    for you. Stop
    here and continue feeling good.
    Male readers: Please scroll down.

    The man had a heart attack ten times milder than his wife!!!
    Moral of the story: Women are really dumb but think they’re really smart.
    Let them continue to think that way and just enjoy the show.

  • Best Educational sites

    These are a few of the hundreds of great websites that can not only help you in your studies and reference, but also increase your interest in some subjects.

    Physics:
    http://particleadventure.org/ A great site that lets you explore inside atoms and more – inside protons. Really an adventure through. Gets interesting from halfway onwards.

    Computer:
    http://codepunk.hardwar.org.uk/ This one is really helpful in teaching you how to make full-fledged web pages in html, css and javascript. You don’t need to know anything other than how to visit websites (that you must already be having or you won’t be reading this), how to type in text editors like notepad and how to access files in your hard disk. Very very very easy, free web designing course

  • Auto Login into Windows

    Have you ever felt that your computer automatically logged into your user account, without you having to type your password? An obvious option would have been to have only a single user account so that windows would automatically log in to it. But what if you are at your house and all of your family members have their own user accounts? There are many softwares that helps you to do this automatically. But there is an alternate option by which you need not download anything of that kind. Here is how to do it.
    1: Go to ‘Run’ in the start menu
    2: In the Run dialogue box enter “control userpasswords2” (without the quotes )
    3: A new window opens up. In it click on the user account you have to automatically log on to.
    4: Uncheck the users must type a user name and password check box.
    5: Click OK or Apply
    6: In the new dialogue box, enter the password of the user account you selected. (Leave them blank if you don’t have a password)
    7: You’re done. Restart to see the change

  • Best blogs

    Here is a list of many most useful blogs that I found from he internet and thought can be useful to you. I will try to categorize them.

    Everything:
    http://michaelbluejay.com/ Crazy World of Michael Bluejay

    Computer tips:
    http://www.jeetblog.com/ by Abhijeet Mukherjee

    Improving daily Life:
    http://theconfidenceguyonline.com/blog/ by Steve Errey
    http://www.improvedlives.com/ by Stuart M

  • Internet Explorer 8 launched to fight Firefox 3 scare

    Microsoft has released the beta version of IE 8 and can be downloaded at
    http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/ie/ie8/getitnow.mspx

    The new IE loads faster than previous versions – 7,6..

    It has improved security and privacy

    But still it is freeware vs corporates

  • Relieve pain in your lower back with a simple stretching

    For all those long time PC users, if you have developed lower back uneasiness, there is a very very effective stretching that you can do. Trust me, it works magically well.
    Sit on the floor with your legs straight and apart forming a V-shape. Lean forward and move your torso from left to right over your legs keeping the hands forward. Do the reverse too.
    It produces instant effect. No need to wait for months or so.

  • Solar Eclipse

    Today the first day of August, we have got a rare opportunity to watch total solar eclipse. Though it can only be seen in Central Asian countries, NASA will provide live coverage of it from 15:30 IST

  • Bandhs and hartals

    1915. MK Gandhi, a new leader, plunged himself into India’s freedom struggle. He had a new way of fighting – satyagraha. It included demonstrations and processions, hartals and bandhs, towards the conscience of the oppressor. This trick worked well and finally India got independence. Thereafter hartals and bandhs were allowed in India. But now, the political parties in Kerala and India have misused it to such an extent that people begin to count the hartal-less days in an year to count the number of hartals. This overuse has also brought with it another disadvantage. Hartlas does not serve its purpose like it did earlier. As the frequency of hartals increased, people began not to think about the cause of them. Now, they can only be used to disrupt public life. And they couldn’t even do that had them been conducted in the right spirit and only those who wished to take part needed to take part. But what happens today is that people are forced, almost violently to keep inside their houses on such day. This is certainly different from how hartals were organised in pre-independence period. And this is certainly unjust. So it is high time that the government make sure that hartals become succesful only if people want them to be.

  • Tips for a better life
    If you think that you want to improve your daily life, read on. These tips when followed will surely help you.

    1: Keep smiling
    2: Do your best
    3: Be Prepared
    4: Service