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Disable Mouse and Keyboard from waking up PC

On most computers, you can resume working by pressing your computer’s power button. However, not all computers are the same. You might be able to wake your computer by pressing any key on the keyboard, clicking a mouse button, or opening the lid on a laptop. For a desktop PC pressing any key on the keyboard and clicking a mouse button are the most common ways to wake up system, but some user... 

Lock your programs using AppLocker

Windows 7 has introduced a new security feature which helps to prevent unauthorized software from running, this new feature is called AppLocker. Till now I have written a lot of Windows 7 Tweaking articles like What is the Windows Experience Index and How To tweak it and How To Format USB drive into NTFS format, today after a long time I am writing a Windows Security based article, First I was about... 

Learn Windows tweaking with Gpedit and Regedit – Part 2

In the part 1 of this tutorial you have seen how Group Policy Editor can be used to tweak Windows System Configuration, we have learned in the previous tutorial how to Hide Specified drive form My Computer, now its time to go in deep and see what exactly happens when we apply any policy settings in Group Policy Editor (GPEDIT). What happens when you apply any tweak in GPEDIT? The Group Policy Editor... 

Find the social profiles of your business contacts

FlowTown – it’s a is a social media tools which helps you to find any person social profile (of-course virtual) like his facebook, twitter profiles and demography etc. it let you submit the email address of any person and be show you the list of all the social networks that individual is a part of. The retrieved information consists of all his personal/social information like Name, age,... 

Learn Windows tweaking with Gpedit and Regedit – Part 1

If you like Tweaking Windows than you must be aware of Regedit, it’s the best way to change the settings of Windows, like its operation, its behavior, for instance, you can disable access or hide any drive using Registry Editor (Regedit). But the problem with editing registry is that you need to know where, which key and of what type should be created to perform a following job. But this is not... 

Why there is 140 characters limit in Twitter?

Twitter lets you write and read messages of up to 140 characters, or the very length of this sentence, including all punctuation and spaces. The messages are public and you decide what sort of messages you want to receive—Twitter being a recipient driven information network. In addition, you can send and receive Twitter messages, or tweets, equally well from your desktop or your mobile phone.... 

How To know if a port is open in your PC

First I am talking about virtual ports and not the physical ports. Virtual Ports are those which allow transfer of data just like physical ports but the only thing is they are virtual ie you can’t see them, they just reside in your PC. In computer networking, a port is an application-specific or process-specific software construct serving as a communications endpoint used by Transport Layer... 

On April 12, Microsoft will launch Visual Studio 2010

On April 12, Microsoft will launch Visual Studio 2010, you can join them at the launch ceremony by registering yourself a seat today and by joining them at the Microsoft Visual Studio Conference & Expo, you will not only experience the launch alongside the Visual Studio team and industry legends – you’ll get three days of sessions by the best speakers in the industry on the latest... 

Barcode Maker – Barcode Software Generator

Before getting started lets first know what a barcode is. A barcode is an optical machine-readable representation of data, which shows certain data on certain products. Originally, barcodes represented data in the widths (lines) and the spacings of parallel lines, and may be referred to as linear or 1D (1 dimensional) barcodes or symbologies. They also come in patterns of squares, dots, hexagons... 

Disable "Solve PC Issues" Notification Messages in Windows 7

Sometime back I have written a post on What is the Windows Experience Index and How To tweak it and following it with lots of Windows 7 related hacking and tweaking tutorials. I added another article which was quite very popular ie How To Format USB drive into NTFS format to make complete use of USB Space. Now today again I am writing on my favorite topic Windows 7 tweaking. Solve PC Issues - It is...