Make Your PDF Files Speak to You.

The later versions of the PDF reader (version 6+) have added the ‘Read Out Loud’ feature. This does exactly what it says. Select this feature on the menu and the document will be read to you in a computer generated voice.

How to fix corrupted windows files in XP?

Many of you could have got stuck by corrupted file error in Windows XP.

To fix corrupted windows file is very easy.Following these following steps

Requirement:

1. Windows XP CD

Now, follow this steps:

1. Place the xp cd in your cd/dvd drive
2. Go to start
3. Run
4. Type sfc /scannow

The fix will now load, and will hopefully fix all of the corrupted files on your Windows XP drive.

If that does not fix it, there could potentually be damage to your hard drive that is not fixable on a software level. You can also try to Defragment your hard drive, as fragmentations of files can sometimes produce errors.

How to Create and Manage Profiles in Firefox

Firefox store a user's preferences and data such as installed add-ons, saved passwords, history, bookmarks and others in a unique profile. The first time you start Firefox, it automatically creates a default profile and stores all settings associated with the profile within a special profile folder on your computer.

Most users are unaware that they can create additional profiles in Firefox. Profiles are useful when there are multiple users on the same computer which all share the same user account. For example, the PC in your living room. Profiles can also be helpful in certain situations such as testing of new add-ons – use a “test” profile to test new add-ons, and if they work correctly, install them under your “default” profile. Similarly, you can keep separate profiles installed with different sets of extensions.

To create a new profile or manage existing profiles in Firefox, press Ctrl+R to open the Run dialog box and type “firefox.exe –p” as shown below.

Disable USB Drive Access in Windows

It’s easily possible to simply disable USB Ports support in PC BIOS in order to prevent and forbid computer user from using USB removable flash drive or mass storage device (portable hard disk drive) to copy and transfer data and files. However, disabling USB ports totally also shutdown the ability for system to use USB based keyboard, mouse, webcam, printer, scanner and etc, which has become a common connectivity norm in modern computer.

As a workaround, use the following registry hack to stop USB Mass Storage drivers from starting when the system boots up.

1. Press WIN + R
2. Write regedit in it.
3. This will open Registry Editor.
   
4. Navigate to the following registry key:

   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\UsbStor

5. In the right pane, double click on the Start value name.
6. Change the value data to 4 to disable the removable USB Drive access.
5. To revert and re-enable the drive access for removable USB driver, change back the value data for Start to its original default of 3.

The change will take effect immediately to block any USB mass storage device such as USB Drive and portable harddisk from been used in the system, while still allowing hardware components to work properly via USB connection. The hack works in most Windows operating system such as Windows Vista, XP, Windows Server 2008, 2003 and 2000.

Write protect your Pendrive to protect it from Virus

Many times you copy our working files into a USB DRIVE and take it to a client’s office or college to print or show the workings to clients and frnds using dere PCs. This could pose potential risk of exposure to virus infection especially if the PC you are using does not have an up-to-date antivirus application installed. As today’s viruses are crafted to perfection . it can damage to files stored in Pen Drive and even create infection in your laptop later .

For user who just want to disable write access to the external removable USB mass storage disk Drive, there is a registry hack of WriteProtect in StorageDevicePolicies registry key that able to restrict Windows system from writing to the USB disk drive.This trick will let Windows consider the USB Drive as read only.

To disable writing access to USB drives follow these steps:
USE ALL KEYWORDS WITHOUT " " DOUBLE QUOTES.

1. Press WIN + R
   
2. Write "regedit" in it.
   
3. It will open Registry Editor.
   
4. Navigate to the following registry key:

   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control

5. Create a New Key named as "StorageDevicePolicies".
6. Highlight "StorageDevicePolicies", and then create a New DWORD (32-bit) Value named as "WriteProtect"
7. Double click on "WriteProtect", and set its value data to 1.

Once set, all users on the computer is now blocked and prevented from copying, transferring or writing any files, documents and data to the USB disk drives.

8. To revert and remove the blocked write access to USB drives, just delete the StorageDevicePolicies registry key, or delete the WriteProtect registry entry, or change the value data for WriteProtect to 0.

OR

Copy the next 2 lines given below in notepad and save it as Disable.reg {you can give any name to this file but dnt forget to use .reg } and in file type select "All Types"


[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageDevicePolicies]
"WriteProtect"=dword:00000001


Similarly to remove write protection mode make new with name Enable.reg and write these 2 lines in it.


[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageDevicePolicies]
"WriteProtect"=dword:00000000


After creating these files Double Click them and registry setting will automatically get change.
*Registry Settings will get activate once u restart your computer.

Enable Telnet in Windows 7

It’s very rare that anyone use TELNET these days, but those who are new in the field of IT must have heard about TELNET and could have tried it on their PC. But by default it is not packaged with Windows 7 and Windows Vista. Reason for this is that telnet is not secure and Microsoft decided to leave it out because they were trying to update their level of security. However, you can easily make TELNET command work on Windows 7 and Windows Vista by following these steps:

1. Go to Start
2. Open Control Panel
3. Click on Programs And Features
4. Turn Windows features on or off
5. Check Telnet Client
6. Hit OK

After that you can start Telnet via Command Prompt and can try various commands.

For eg: telnet yahoo.com 80