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Convert FAT32 to NTFS Without Formatting or Losing Data

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Convert FAT32 to NTFS Without Formatting or Losing Data You have a flash drive or probably an external hard drive that currently has FAT32 file system and you want to change it to NTFS, because FAT32 does not support handling large files (over 4GB) or it is just simply old for your taste but there is just one problem, you don't want to lose your saved data. This article is for you then as it explains exactly how you can achieve seamless transition from FAT to NTFS without involving any data loss. While it is generally recommended to use the NTFS file system because of its stability, security and lesser defragmentation time, most of us end up using FAT32 because that is what most disks are preformatted with. Unless, we notice the “Not enough disk space error” despite disk space being available, we don't bother to change the file system. Moreover, most of us don't change it because of the risk of losing important data and lack of time (read laziness)

Matrix Falling Code Effect - Notepad CMD (.BAT) Tricks

Matrix Falling Code Effect - Notepad CMD (.BAT) Tricks Inspired by the movie Matrix, this falling code trick is extremely popular on social networking websites. Copy and paste the code given below in Notepad and save the file as "Matrix.bat" or *.bat. @echo off color 02 :tricks echo %random%%random%%random%%random%%random%%random%%random%%random% goto tricks

To create a log file in Notepad:

To create a log file in Notepad: Click Start , point to Programs , point to Accessories , and then click Notepad . Type .LOG on the first line, and then press ENTER to move to the next line. On the File menu, click Save As , type a descriptive name for your file in the File name box, and then click OK . When you next open the file, note that the date and time have been appended to the end of the log, immediately preceding the place where new text can be added. You can use this functionality to automatically add the current date and time to each log entry.

Watch ASCII Star Wars in Windows XP, Vista and 7

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Watch ASCII Star Wars in Windows XP, Vista and 7 Every one of us has watched Star Wars on television, computer or in a theater. It is the same movie with aliens fighting each other for galaxies and such stuff. There is nothing new in it. But wait, have you watched an ASCII( American Standard Code for Information Interchange) version of Star Wars and that too in Windows using telnet . A word mostly linked with computer wizards. Well if you have not, then you must do it now! There is a complete copy of Star Wars done entirely in ASCII characters that you can watch in the Windows operating system (or any OS that supports telnet). The only thing required to watch it is an internet connection; speed does not matter. To watch it on Windows XP, Go to Start, Run. Now type "telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl" without the quotes and press Enter. On Windows 7 and Windows Vista Telnet is turned off by default in the latest versions of Windows. So, in order to w

Block websites using HOSTS file in Windows

Block websites using HOSTS file in Windows Here is a nice trick that you can use if you want to do some funs with your friends. This trick will block them from access any websites that you specify in the HOSTS file in Windows. But you only can do this trick if you can get access to his/her PC without he/she know. Let say when he/she leave the PC for awhile. First thing that you need to do is to open HOSTS file which is located at C:/windows/system32/drivers/etc From there, open up the HOSTS file with notepad and put the sites URL that you wish to block. For an example, I want to block www.yahoo.com. What I do is to put this line 127.0.0.1 www.yahoo.com under the localhost like this: 127.0.0.1 localhost 127.0.0.1 www.yahoo.com Now what? Ok now go to the internet browser and try go to www.yahoo.com by typing the URL at the address bar. What you will get is the browser is unable to connect to www.yahoo.com. This is because the DNS for www.y

Notepad Tricks

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Notepad Tricks and Tips With these tricks, you will be able to find out the tricking ability of Microsoft Notepad. But before that, do you know:- The number of the flight that attacked World Trade Centre?  How much control the President of United States has over Microsoft? How worried Microsoft is about their reputation? Well if you don't, you will know the answers to all these questions after trying these tricks. Trick/Answer 1 The number of flight that attacked the World Trade Centre was Q33N. You might ask what is the trick in that. We could have searched it on the net in an instant. But this is not the trick. The trick starts now:- Open Notepad . Type in Q33N. Change the font size to 72 by clicking on Format and selecting Font in the Menu Bar. Also select Wingdings as your Font. Click on OK to see the trick.  Note: Change back to your default font. Trick/Answer 2 Well the President of United States is undoubtedly one of the most powerful

Dos -Commands

 ATTRIB Change file attributes. '+' adds an attribute, '-' removes it. Attributes are: A=archive; R=read only; S=system; H=hidden. ATTRIB -R -A -S -H <VIRUS.EXE> All these attributes will be removed from virus.exe. C: Go to the C: drive. Similarly A: and D: etc. C: CD Change directory. When you change directory, the prompt changes, showing the path of the directory you are currently in. Note, directory is the term used by DOS for what Windows calls a folder. CD\ takes you to the top of the directory tree (typically to C:) . CD.. moves you one level up the directory tree (i.e. up towards the root directory). CD <DIRECTORYNAME> takes you to that directory. You can use one or more subdirectory names, separated by \ e.g. CD WINNT\Media takes you to the directory C:\WINNT\Media To change to another path, type the full path with slashes. e.g. CD \WINDOWS\SYSTEM CLS Clear the screen. CLS DEL Delete one or more files in the current directory.

Create a folder without name in Windows XP

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Create a folder without name in Windows XP This is not a super high-tech geeky trick but it just a short and simple trick on how you can create a folder without name in Windows XP. When each time you create a new folder in Windows XP, Microsoft has made “New Folder” as the default name. Even you enter the spacebar so many times to create blank spaces, it still will generate the “New Folder” text like this. So, how you can create a folder like this? No, it is not a Photoshop trick. I did not edit the first image. Lol… Here is how. To do this trick, you need a keyboard with numpad. To rename the folder with blank spaces, just press Alt + 255 and hit Enter . Then you are successfully creating a folder without name in Windows XP. But, make sure to press the numbers from the numpad and not from the numbers below the F1 – F12 keys. And take note that you only can create one folder without name in a directory. Why should I use this trick? Nothing! Just for fun or may

Explaination of con folder in windows

Why can't you create a folder named CON in Windows or MS-DOS? In MS-DOS, several special "device files" were available to aid in performing certain tasks, such as clearing the screen or deleting extraneous output from a program. In order to maintain backwards-compatibility, all versions of Windows up to and including Windows 7 will refuse to allow you to create a file with these "reserved" device file names. The following file names are reserved: CON PRN AUX NUL COM1 COM2 COM3 COM4 COM5 COM6 COM7 COM8 COM9 LPT1 LPT2 LPT3 LPT4 LPT5 LPT6 LPT7 LPT8 LPT9 CON, incidentally, was a device file used to capture whatever was printed onscreen. Note: There are comments associated with this question. See the discussion page to add to the conversation. How to Create Con folder in windows C:\> md \\.\c:\con   How to Remove Con folder in windows  C:\> rd \\.\c:\con

How to Install Android on PC

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How to Install Android on PC The first step is to download android X86  and copy it on your memory card or flash drive. Scroll down and download it from the firm release section of the website, which gives an ISO file from the site( android X86  - Direct Download ). Your memory card or flash drive must have memory more than 256MB, and also make sure that your memory drive is free from virus. You should have a Universal Netboot Installer (UNI) to run android on pc; so, before you move further, download UNI from UNetBootin site, which is compatible with all the leading Operating Systems like Windows, Mac, and Linux. You can download your OS from UNetBootin site. < Download UNetBootin > Consider the case wherein you’ve downloaded UNI for your windows platform. All you need to do here is just insert drive in order to install android on pc . UNI extracts the ISO file of OS that you downloaded and select the target disk. Now, it’ll start extracting the file from I

Install and Run Android 4.0 SDK and Ice

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Install and Run Android 4.0 SDK and Ice Google announced Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich, on October 19. Android 4.0 SDK has also been released for developers. 1st smart phone Samsung Galaxy Nexus with Google Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) will be available for customers in November 2011. In this tutorial we will learn how to run Android 4.0 SDK  and Ice Cream Sandwich in an emulator and explore the features of new Google Mobile OS. See below the step-by-step instructions on how to set up and install the Android 4.0 SDK on your PC. Step 1 -  Download the Android SDK files from:  HERE . Select x86 or Windows Version if you are using Microsoft Windows OS. Step 2 -  Extract or install the Android SDK files you just downloaded to any location on your PC. Step 3 -  Now, open the folder where you have extracted the SDK and run the “SDK Manager” application. Step 4 -  The application will load and fetch all the Android SDK packages. Step 5 -  Once the SDK manger c

How to access .net website on another computer

How to access .net website  on another computer  Make sure you actually have IIS installed! Try typing http://localhost/ in your browser and see what happens. If nothing happens it means that you may not have IIS installed. See Installing IIS (IIS 6.0) Set up IIS How to set up your first IIS Web site You may even need to Install the .NET Framework (or your server will only serve static html pages, and not asp.net pages) Installing your application Once you have done that, you can more or less just copy your application to c:\wwwroot\inetpub\ . Read Installing ASP.NET Applications (IIS 6.0) for more information Accessing the web site from another machine In theory, once you have a web server running, and the application installed, you only need the IP address of your web server to access the application. To find your IP address try: Start -> Run -> type cmd (hit ENTER ) -> type ipconfig (hit ENTER ) Once you have the IP address AND IIS

Access WAMP Server from other Computer in LAN Network

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Access WAMP Server from other Computer in LAN Network Web development software Web server software Lamp Apache How to Access WAMP Server from other Computer in LAN Network or Workgroup     Looking for better Web Server? Beginning to explore the Web Development World? Then you probably need a good web development tools for it? If you intend to make a quick management and development of Web Server, all you need is WAMP if you are a Windows user or LAMP if you are a Linux user . But for now, let’s discuss WAMP on How to Access it via LAN network or from other computer. 1.) If all you need is to access it via your LAN Network (Internal IP Address), such as your computer and then access it thru another computer in the network. Then there is no need for DOMAIN or External IP Address. (For example: 192.168.11.3 is your Local Area Network IP Address) -> This is all you need to access someone’s shared computer and also Web Server. 2

Installing and Configuring a WAMP Server on Your Computer

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Installing and Configuring a WAMP Server on Your Computer Install the software Once you have downloaded and uncompressed your WAMP executable you will need to go ahead and launch it to start the installation process. When you click next you will be asked to accept the license agreement. Since it is a GPL license you are free to do just about anything with it so you can go ahead and accept. The next step requires you to select the folder where you would like to install your WAMP server. The default will be c:\wamp however you can change this to install the server into any directory or partition you choose. Chose where to install the software After you choose your directory you will have the option to setup icons. Once you decide on this click Next and then confirm the installation settings again by clicking Install . Once the installation runs its course you will be asked to choose your default browser. Internet Explorer is the default choice b

How To Create an Active Directory Server in Windows Server 2003 (and how to add users and computers to the domain)

How To Create an Active Directory Server in Windows Server 2003 (and how to add users and computers to the domain) Steps: 1. Log on as Administrator to the Member Server. 2. Click Start, and then click Run. 3. In the Run box, type “dcpromo” and then click OK. 4. On the Welcome to the Active Directory Installation Web page, click NEXT. 5. On the Domain Controller Type page, ensure that “New Domain Controller for a new Domain” is selected, and then click NEXT. 6. On the Domain Controller Type page, ensure that “New Domain Controller for a new Domain” is selected, and then click NEXT. 7. ON the Create or Join Forest page, ensure that “Create a new Forest of Domain trees” is selected, and then click NEXT. 8. On the New Domain Name page, in the Full DNS Name the new domain text box, type the “Domain name” you want for your Organization and then click NEXT. 9. On the NetBIOS Domain name page, ensure that “Domain Name” appears and if Domain name doesn’t appear specify the Ne

Step By Step Guide for Windows Server 2003 Domain Controller and DNS Server Setup

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Step By Step Guide for Windows Server 2003 Domain Controller and DNS Server Setup Windows Server 2003 includes all the functionality customers expect from a mission critical Windows Server operating system, such as security, reliability, availability, and scalability. In addition, Microsoft has improved and extended the Windows server product family to enable organizations to experience the benefits of Microsoft .NET—a set of software for connecting information, people, systems, and devices. This tutorial will explain how to create a first domain controller(DC) in your network or company includes DNS server setup in windows server 2003 .You have to install DNS server for DC without DNS the client computers wouldn’t know which one is DC.You can host DNS on a different server than DC. Before Starting the DC installation process you need to make sure the following points You have installed Basic windows server 2003 installation Make sure you have assigned