Changing the USB or local disk icon using NOTEPAD

HOW TO CHANGE THE REMOVABLE DISK OR LOCAL DISK ICON USING "NOTEPAD"

STEP :1 Select the icon you want to keep as an icon for the removable disk

STEP :2 If you want to keep the image (.jpeg) as an icon for the removable disk

STEP :3 Then select the image you want to keep as an icon for the removable disk

STEP :4 Then upload the file/image to the www.iconconvertor.com website and convert the image to icon

STEP :5 Then open the note pad and then type the following .....

STEP :6 

[Autorun]

Icon=<path with the .ico extension>

STEP :7 note: the icon must be in removable disk only

Save the notepad in the removable disk with the name "autorun.inf"

STEP :8 Now eject and re-insert the disk

Note: if you want to change the icon for the "local disk" then restart the computer

STEP :9 NOW THE REMOVABLE DISK OR LOCAL DISK ICON WILL BE CHANGED 😉

Creating and deleting an undeletable folder using CMD

HOW TO CREATE AN UNDELETABLE FOLDER USING CMD

STEP 1: TYPE CMD IN THE SEARCH BAR
STEP 2: RIGHT CLICK ON CMD AND RUN AS ADMINISTRATOR
STEP 3: AND CLICK YES ON THE DIALOG BOX
STEP 4: FIRST GO TO THE DIRECTORY YOU WANT TO CREATE AN UNDELETABLE FOLDER.
STEP 5: THAT IS TYPE THE DIRECTORY: (FOR EXAMPLE SELECT THE DIRECTORY “D” THEN TYPE “D:” IN CMD) AND PRESS ENTER.
STEP 6: NOW TYPE “md con\” AND PRESS ENTER.
STEP 7: SEE IN YOUR SELECTED DIRECTORY, THE FILE WILL BE CREATED WITH THE NAME “con”.
STEP 8: THIS FILE WILL NOT BE DELETED, RENAMED AND MOVED.
STEP 9: TO DELETE THE FOLDER THEN AGAIN GO TO CMD ANDTYPE “rd con\” AND PRESS ENTER.
STEP 10: THEN THE FILE WILL BE DELETED.

Removing Virus using CMD

HOW TO REMOVE VIRUS USING “CMD” WITHOUT USING ANTIVIRUS

STEP 1: TYPE CMD IN THE SEARCH BAR
STEP 2: RIGHT CLICK ON CMD AND RUN AS ADMINISTRATOR
STEP 3: AND CLICK YES ON THE DIALOG BOX
STEP 4: TYPE THE DISK THAT IS INFECTED BY VIRUS
STEP 5: EXAMPLE: “D:”
STEP 6: THEN TYPE “attrib –s *.* /s /d”
STEP 7: THEN TYPE ENTER KEY ON THE KEYBOARD
STEP 8: THEN TYPE “dir” AND PRESS ENTER KEY ON THE KEYBOARD
STEP 9: CHECK IF THERE IS ANY UNUSUAL .exe FILE
STEP 10: IF YOU DON’T FIND ANY “.exe” FILE IT MEANS THAT THERE IS NO VIRUS PRESENT IN YOUR PC
STEP 11: IF YOU FOUND ANY “.exe” FILE THEN IT MEANS THAT THERE IS A VIRUS PRESENT IN YOUR PC
STEP 12: IF THERE IS ANY “.exe” FILE. THEN TYPE “del filename.exe”. REPLACE THE FILENAME WITH THE FILE NAME YOU FOUND WITH “.exe” FILE EXTENTION
STEP 13: AFTER YOU COMPLETE THE TOTAL PROCESS THE PROBLEM IS SOLVED.

Identifing and removing a bod program using CMD

HOW TO IDENTIFY AND REMOVE A BAD PROGRAM RUNNING IN OUR PC

STEP 1: OPEN CMD
STEP 2: THEN TYPE “netstat -ano”
STEP 3: AND HIT ENTER KEY ON THE KEYBOARD
STEP 4: WAIT TILL THE TOTAL OUTPUT IS OBTAINED
STEP 5: SEARCH FOR THE “ESTABLISHED” STATE IN THE STATE COLOUMN
STEP 6: NOTE “PID” COLOUMN NUMBERS
STEP 7: NOW RIGHT CLICK ON THE TASK BAR
STEP 8: CLICK ON THE “TASK MANAGER”
STEP 9: CLICK ON THE PROCESS OR DETAILS (DEPENDING UPON THE O.S)
STEP 10: NOW WE CAN SEE THE “PID” NUMBERS IN THE TASK MANAGER
STEP 11: NOW CLICK THE ESTABLISHED PID NUMBERS AND NOW CLICK ON THE END TASK AT THE END OF THE DIALOG BOX

Removing Virus using CMD

HOW TO REMOVE “$RECYCLE.BIN” VIRUS

STEP 1: OPEN CMD
STEP 2: SELECT THE DRIVE IN WHICH THE “$RECYCLE.BIN” VIRUS IS ATTACKED
STEP 3: FOR EXAMPLE TAKE THE DRIVE “D” {LOCAL DISK (D) or NEW VOLUME (D)}
STEP 4: THEN TYPE THE DRIVE YOU HAVE SELECTED AS “drive name:”
STEP 5: THAT IS “d:” AND PRESS ENTER KEY ON THE KEYBOARD
STEP 6: THEN TYPE “rmdir ”$RECYCLE.BIN” /s /q”
STEP 7:  PRESS ENTER KEY ON THE KEYBOARD
STEP 8: NOW, THE PROBLEM IS SOLVED

Starwars in CMD

HOW TO WATCH STAR WAR IN “ASCII” TEXT

STEP 1: OPEN CMD
STEP 2: THEN TYPE “telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl”
STEP 3: AND PRESS ENTER
STEP 4: WE CAN WATCH STAR WAR IN “ASCII” TEXT

Changing the prompt title

HOW TO CHANGE THE PROMPT TITLE 

STEP 1: OPEN CMD
STEP 2: THEN TYPE “prompt text”
STEP 3: AND PRESS ENTER
STEP 4: THE PROMPT TITLE WILL CHANGE.
STEP 5: TO GET ANY HELP FOR PROMPT TITLE, TYPE “help prompt”

Uninstalling a program using CMD

HOW TO UNINSTALL A PROGRAM USING CMD

STEP 1: OPEN CMD
STEP 2: THEN TYPE “wmic product get name”
STEP 3: THEN PRESS ENTER
STEP 4: WE CAN FIND A LIST OF ALL THE PROGRAMS INSTALLED IN OUR PC
STEP 5: TO UNINSTALL A PROGRAM, TYPE “wmic product where “name like %name of application%” call uninstall /nointeractive”
STEP 6: THEN PRESS ENTER
STEP 7:  THEN THE PROGRAM WILL GET UNINSTALLED

List of all installed programs

HOW TO LIST ALL THE INSTALLED PROGRAMS

STEP 1: OPEN CMD
STEP 2: THEN TYPE “wmic product get name”
STEP 3: THEN PRESS ENTER
STEP 4: WE CAN FIND A LIST OF ALL THE PROGRAMS INSTALLED IN OUR PC

Creating a WIFI HOTSPOT using CMD

HOW TO CREATE A WIFI HOTSPOT USING CMD

STEP 1: OPEN CMD
STEP 2: THEN TYPE “netsh wlan set hostednetwork mode=allow ssid=HotspotName Key=Password”
STEP 3: ASSIGN HOTSPOT NAME IN PLACE OF “HotspotName”
STEP 4: ASSIGN PASSWORD IN PLACE OF “Password”
STEP 5: THEN PRESS ENTER
STEP 6: TO START THE HOTSPOT THEN TYPE “netsh wlan start hostednetwork”
STEP 7:  THEN PRESS ENTER
STEP 8: TO STOP THE HOTSPOT THEN TYPE “netsh wlan stop hostednetwork”
STEP 9: THEN PRESS ENTER

Changing CMD window title

HOW TO CHANGE THE CMD WINDOW TITLE 

STEP 1: OPEN CMD
STEP 2: THEN TYPE “title title you want to assign for the cmd window”
STEP 3: AND PRESS ENTER
STEP 4: THE TITLE OF THE CMD WINDOW WILL CHANGE.

Hiding and unhiding folder or a file

HOW TO HIDE A FOLDER USING CMD

STEP 1: TYPE CMD IN THE SEARCH BAR
STEP 2: RIGHT CLICK ON CMD AND RUN AS ADMINISTRATOR
STEP 3: AND CLICK YES ON THE DIALOG BOX
STEP 4: THEN TYPE “attrib +s +h F:\Xbox”
STEP 5: YOU CAN REPLACE THE FILE PATH (F:\Xbox) WITH THE PATH OF THE FOLDER YOU WANT TO HIDE
STEP 6: AND PRESS ENTER
STEP 7: THE FOLDER YOU SELECTED (ADDRESSED THE PATH) WILL BE VANISHED
STEP 8: THE FOLDER WILL NOT BE SEEN EVEN THOUGH WE SELECT THE HIDDEN FOLDERS OPTION.
STEP 9: TO UNHIDE THE FOLDER, AGAIN GO TO CMD AND TYPE “attrib -s -h F:\Xbox”
STEP 10: CAN REPLACE THE FILE PATH (F:\Xbox) WITH THE PATH OF THE FOLDER YOU HAVE HIDDEN.
STEP 11: AND PRESS ENTER.
STEP 12: THE FOLDER YOU HAVE HIDDEN WILL UNHIDE.

View WIFI password using CMD

HOW TO SEE THE SAVED WIFI’S PASSWORD USING CMD

STEP 1: RIGHT CLICK ON THE START BUTTON AND SELECT COMMAND PROMPT (ADMIN) OPTION.
STEP 2: A DIALOGUE BOX APPEARS WITH YES AND NO OPTIONS SELECT YES
STEP 3: A COMMAND PROMPT WINDOW WILL APPEAR.
STEP 4: THEN TYPE “wmic” AND PRESS ENTER.
STEP 5: THEN TYPE “quit” AND PRESS ENTER.
STEP 6: THEN TYPE “netsh wlan show profiles” AND PRESS ENTER.
STEP 7: NOW WE CAN FIND LIST OF ALL NETWORKS WHICH WERE CONNECTED TO OUR PC BEFORE OR SAVED NETWORKS
STEP 8: NOTE THE NETWORK NAME WHICH YOU WANT TO SEE THE PASSWORD IN THAT LIST. FOR EXEMPLE TAKE THE NETWORK AS “ABCD”
STEP 9: THEN TYPE “netsh wlan show profiles ABCD” AND PRESS ENTER.
STEP 10: WE CAN FIND SOME COMMANDS ARE RUNNING IN THE DISPLAY, AT THE LAST WE CAN FIND “PROFILE INFORMATION”, “CONNECTIVITY SETTINGS”, “SECURITY SETTINGS” AND “COST SETTINGS”
STEP 11: IN SECURITY SETTINGS WE CAN FIND “security key” IF WE FIND “security key : absent” THEN THE WIFI PASSWORD IS UNSECURE SO, WE CAN CONNECT TO THE WIFI WITHOUT PASSWORD. IF WE FIND “security key : present” THEN THE WIFI PASSWORD IS SECURE SO, WE CAN FIND THE WIFI PASSWORD.
STEP 12: THEN TYPE “netsh wlan show profiles ABCD Key=clear” AND PRESS ENTER.
STEP 13: AGAIN WE CAN FIND SOME COMMANDS ARE RUNNING IN THE DISPLAY, AT THE LAST WE CAN FIND “PROFILE INFORMATION”, “CONNECTIVITY SETTINGS”, “SECURITY SETTINGS” AND “COST SETTINGS”
STEP 14: NOW IN THE SECURITY SETTINGS WE CAN FIND “Key Content: password”
STEP 15: IN PLACE OF password WE CAN FIND THE PASSWORD OF THE SAVED NETWORK.

Creating a bootable pendrive using CMD

HOW TO MAKE A BOOTABLE PENDRIVE USING CMD

STEP 1: CONNECT THE PENDRIVE.
STEP 2: OPEN CMD.
STEP 3: TYPE “disk part”
STEP 4: PRESS ENTER
STEP 5: A WINDOW WITH THE NAME DISKPART.exe WILL APPEAR
STEP 6: THEN TYPE “list disk” IN THE DISKPART.exe WINDOW (YOU CAN CLOSE THE CMD WINDOW)
STEP 7: PRESS ENTER.
STEP 8: NOW WE CAN FIND THE DISKS CONNECTED TO THE PC. WE MUST SELECT THE DISK WHICH WE WANT TO MAKE AS A BOOTABLE PENDRIVE.
STEP 9: TYPE “select disk 1” AND PRESS ENTER.
STEP 10: WE FIND “Disk 1 is now selected disk.”
STEP 11: TYPE “clean” AND PRESS ENTER (to clean the pendrive)
STEP 12: WE FIND “Disk part succeeded in cleaning the disk.”
STEP 13: TYPE ”create partition primary” AND PRESS ENTER
STEP 14: WE FIND “Disk part succeeded in creating the specific partition.”
STEP 15: TYPE “select partition 1” AND PRESS ENTER
STEP 16: WE FIND “Partition 1 is now the selected partition.”
STEP 17: TYPE “active” AND PRESS ENTER
STEP 18: WE FIND “Disk part marked the current partition as active”
STEP 19: TYPE “format fs=ntfs quick” (to format the pendrive) (quick-fast format) AND PRESS ENTER.
STEP 20: WE FIND “0 percent completed”
WAIT TILL THE “0 percent completed” TO THE “100 percent completed” SINCE IT MAY TAKE SOME TIME.
STEP 21: WE FIND “Disk part successfully formatted the volume”
STEP 22: TYPE “exit” (to exit the window) AND PRESS ENTER
STEP 23: THE WINDOW WILL CLOSE
STEP 24: ONCE CHECK THE PENDRIVE WILL BE EMPTY
STEP 25: IN “CD DRIVE” KEEP ANY WINDOWS CD WHICH YOU WANT TO MAKE THE PENDRIVE AS A BOOTABLE ONE.
STEP 26: NOW COPY ALL THE FILES IN THE OPERATING SYSTEM CD AND PASTE ALL THE FILES IN THE PEN DRIVE.
STEP 27: THIS PROCESS MAY TAKE SOME TIME.
STEP 28: AFTER COPYING ALL THE FILES IN THE PEN DRIVE THE PENDRIVE BECOMES AS THE BOOTABLE PENDRIVE.
STEP 29: NOW RIGHT CLICK ON THE PENDRIVE AND SELECT EJECT
STEP 30: AND REMOVE THE PENDRIVE FROM THE PC AND RE-INSERT THE PENDRIVE
STEP 31: NOW THE PENDRIVE ICON WILL LOOK SAME AS THE O.S CD

Display a message before shutting down the PC using CMD

HOW TO PRINT A MESSAGE BEFORE SHUT DOWN PC USING CMD

STEP 1: TYPE CMD IN THE SEARCH BAR
STEP 2: RIGHT CLICK ON CMD AND RUN AS ADMINISTRATOR
STEP 3: AND CLICK YES ON THE DIALOG BOX
STEP 4: THEN TYPE “shutdown –s -t 500 –c”your message”
STEP 5: YOU CAN REPLACE THE 500 SECONDS TO ANY NUMBER OF SECONDS
STEP 6: YOU CAN REPLACE ”your message” TO ANY MESSAGE YOU WANT TO DISPLAY
STEP 7: AND HIT ENTER TO START THE TIMER.
STEP 8: THE PC WILL SHUT DOWN AFTER THE TIMER IS COMPLETED BY DISPLAYING THE MESSAGE.

Setting a timer to shut down PC using CMD

HOW TO SET A TIMER TO SHUT DOWN PC USING CMD

STEP 1: TYPE CMD IN THE SEARCH BAR
STEP 2: RIGHT CLICK ON CMD AND RUN AS ADMINISTRATOR
STEP 3: AND CLICK YES ON THE DIALOG BOX
STEP 4: THEN TYPE “shutdown –s -t 123”
STEP 5: YOU CAN REPLACE 123 sec TO ANY NUMBER OF SECONDS
STEP 6: AND PRESS ENTER TO START THE TIMER.
STEP 7: THE PC WILL SHUT DOWN AFTER THE TIMER IS COMPLETED.

Logging off PC using CMD

HOW TO LOG OFF PC USING CMD

STEP 1: TYPE CMD IN THE SEARCH BAR
STEP 2: RIGHT CLICK ON CMD AND RUN AS ADMINISTRATOR
STEP 3: AND CLICK YES ON THE DIALOG BOX
STEP 4: THEN TYPE “shutdown –1”
STEP 5: AND PRESS ENTER
STEP 6: THE PC WILL LOG OFF.

Restarting PC using CMD

HOW TO RESTART PC USING CMD

STEP 1: TYPE CMD IN THE SEARCH BAR
STEP 2: RIGHT CLICK ON CMD AND RUN AS ADMINISTRATOR
STEP 3: AND CLICK YES ON THE DIALOG BOX
STEP 4: THEN TYPE “shutdown –r”
STEP 5: AND PRESS ENTER
STEP 6: THE PC WILL RESTART

Shutting down PC using CMD

HOW TO SHUT DOWN PC USING CMD

STEP 1: TYPE CMD IN THE SEARCH BAR
STEP 2: RIGHT CLICK ON CMD AND RUN AS ADMINISTRATOR
STEP 3: AND CLICK YES ON THE DIALOG BOX
STEP 4: THEN TYPE “shutdown –s”
STEP 5: AND PRESS ENTER
STEP 6: THE PC WILL SHUTDOWN

Make your CMD more colourful

HOW TO CHANGE THE CMD TEXT COLOUR

STEP 1: OPEN CMD
STEP 2: THEN TYPE “help color”
STEP 3: AND PRESS ENTER
STEP 4: THEN WE CAN FIND THE COLOURS LIST WITH THE NUMBERING
STEP 5: SELECT THE COLOUR YOU WANT TO KEEP AS THE TEXT COLOUR
STEP 6: THEN TYPE “color 01”, “color 02”, “color 03” OR etc.,
STEP 7: AND PRESS ENTER
STEP 8: THEN THE COLOUR OF THE TEXT IN THE CMD WILL CHANGE.

Update all windows aplications in one click

HOW TO KEEP ALL OF THE WINDOWS APPLICATIONS UPDATED AUTOMATICALLY

STEP 1: GO TO ANY BROWSER AND DOWNLOAD UPDATE CHECKER
STEP 2: www.filehippo.com/updatechecker
STEP 3: THEN DOWNLAD THIS APPLICATION AND INSTALL IT.
STEP 4: THEN THIS APPLICATION WILL RUN IN BACKGROUND.
STEP 5: AND AUTOMATICALLY UPDATES ALL THE APPLICATIONS RUNNING IN OUR SYSTEM

Blocking windows applications

HOW TO BLOCK WINDOWS APPLICATIONS

STEP 1: GO TO RUN {WIN+R}
STEP 2: TYPE gpedit.msc
STEP 3: A DIALOGUE BOX APPEARS WITH THE NAME “Local computer policy”
STEP 4: THEN GOTO “USER CONFIGURATION”
STEP 5: AND SELECT “ADMINISTRATION TEMPLATES”
STEP 6: THEN GOTO “SYSTEM”
STEP 7: NOW ON THE SIDE WINDOW WE CAN SEE THE TWO OPTIONS
DON’T RUN SPECIFIED WINDOWS APPLICATIONS
RUN ONLY SPECIFIED WINDOWS APPLICATIONS

Case 1: block some applications

STEP 8: ENABLE “DON’T RUN SPECIFIED WINDOWS APPLICATIONS” BEFORE IT WILL BE IN “NOT CONFIGURED”
STEP 9: NOW IN “OPTIONS”, SELECT “SHOW”
STEP 10: CLICK ON THE BAR AND THEN TYPE THE APPLICATION NAME {according to c drive (installation path)} WITH THE FILE EXTENTION
STEP 11: FOR EXAMPLE “FIREFOX”, TYPE “firefox.exe”
STEP 12: WE CAN NUMBER OF APPLICATION WE WANT BLOCK
STEP 13: THEN CLICK ON “OK”
STEP 14: AND THEN SELECT “APPLY”
STEP 15: IF WE WANT TO UNBLOCK AGAIN * NOT CONFIGURED “DON’T RUN SPECIFIED WINDOWS APPLICATIONS” BEFORE IT WILL BE IN “ENABLE”

Case 2: allow some applications

STEP 16: ENABLE “RUN ONLY SPECIFIED WINDOWS APPLICATIONS” BEFORE IT WILL BE IN “NOT CONFIGURED”
STEP 17: NOW IN “OPTIONS”, SELECT “SHOW”
STEP 18: CLICK ON THE BAR AND THEN TYPE THE APPLICATION NAME {according to c drive (installation path)} WITH THE FILE EXTENTION
STEP 19: FOR EXAMPLE “FIREFOX”, TYPE “firefox.exe”
STEP 20: WE CAN NUMBER OF APPLICATION WE WANT ALLOW
STEP 21: THEN CLICK ON “OK”
STEP 22: AND THEN SELECT “APPLY”
STEP 23: IF WE WANT TO UNBLOCK AGAIN * NOT CONFIGURED “DON’T RUN SPECIFIED WINDOWS APPLICATIONS” BEFORE IT WILL BE IN “ENABLE”

Advanced setting in computer

HOW TO CREATE A “GOD MODE”

STEP 1: GOD MODE IS NOTHING BUT THE ADVANCED SETTING OPTION WHICH WE CAN FIND OUR PC AND WHICH WE DONOT FIND IN OUR PC.
STEP 2: FIRSTLY, CREATE A “NEW FOLDER” ON THE PATH YOU WANT TO CREATE THE “GOD MODE”
STEP 3: NAME THE FILE AS “God Mode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}”
STEP 4: NOW THE FILE WILL BE NAMED AS A “God Mode” AND THE ICON WILL LOOK LIKE A CONTROL PANEL ICON.
STEP 5: IF WE OPEN THIS “God Mode” WE CAN FIND MORE SETTINGS THAN WE FOUND ON OUR PC.

Pining any kind of file on the taskbar

HOW TO PIN MY COMPUTER, DRIVES, and FOLDERS etc., ON TASKBAR

STEP 1: FIRSTLY, RIGHT CLICK ON THE DESKTOP AND SELECT NEW AND CLICK ON THE SHORTCUT.
STEP 2: A DIALOG BOX WITH NAME SHORTCUT WILL APPEAR.
STEP 3: CLICK ON BROWSE AND SELECT MY COMPUTER, DRIVE, FOLDER, etc. YOU WANT TO PIN ON THE TASK BAR
STEP 4: AFTER SELECTING THE LOCATION EDIT THE LOCATION AS explorer path i.e., explorer D:\
STEP 5: AND SELECT “NEXT”. NOW SELECT NAME YOU WANT TO KEEP FOR THE SELECTED ONE. AND SELECT “NEXT”.
STEP 6: THE SHORTCUT ICON WILL BE CREATED ON THE DESKTOP.
STEP 7: RIGHT CLICK ON THE SHORTCUT ICON AND SELECT “PROPERTIES”.
STEP 8: CLICK ON “CHANGE ICON” AND CLICK ON THE “BROWSE” AND SELECT YOUR DESIRED ICON.
STEP 9: TO DOWNLOAD IT FROM INTERNET GO TO www.iconarchive.com and download any desired icon
STEP 10: AFTER YOU HAVE SELECTED THE ICON CLICK ON “OK”
STEP 11: NOTE: DO NOT DELETE THE ICON FROM THE PATH YOU HAVE SELECTED.
STEP 12: DRAG THE SHORTCUT TO THE TASK BAR
STEP 13: NOW YOU CAN DIRECTLY OPEN THE PATH OF THE FILE YOU HAVE SELECTED BY CLICKING ON THE ICON ON THE TASK BAR

Converting USB as a RAM

HOW TO USE OUR USB AS VIRTUAL RAM

STEP 1: FIRSTLY, INSERT THE USB {PENDRIVE}
STEP 2: RIGHT CLICK ON THE USB AND SELECT PROPERTIES.
STEP 3: NOW SELECT “READY BOOST” OPTION.
STEP 4: SELECT “DEDICATE THE DEVICE TO READY BOOST” IF YOU WANT TO MAKE THE TOTAL MEMORY AS VIRTUAL RAM
STEP 5: SELECT “USE THIS DEVICE” IF YOU WANT TO MAKE SOME MEMORY AS VIRTUAL RAM AND REST OF THE MEMORY AS PENDRIVE MEMORY ONLY.
STEP 6: AND SELECT “OK”
STEP 7: IT MAY TAKE SOME TIME AND IT WILL SHOWS THAT THE SELECTED MEMORY OF USB IS OCCUPIED.
STEP 8: NOTE: THE USB MUST BE CONNECT TO THE PC IF YOU WANT TO EXTEND THE RAM.
STEP 9: THE SYSTEM WILL BECOME SOME WHAT FASTER AS COMPARED TO THE PREVIOUS ONE.
STEP 10: THE SPEED OF THE PC WILL BE MORE EXPERENCED WHEN THE SYSTEM RAM IS LESS THAN 1GB.

changing the folder icon permanently

HOW TO CHANGE THE FOLDER ICON PERMANENTLY FOR A NEW FOLDER

STEP 1: FIRSTLY, DOWNLOAD DESIRED ICON FROM THE BROWSER
STEP 2: WE CAN FIND MANY WEBSITES IN INTERNET LIKE www.iconarchive.com
STEP 3: CLICK ON START MENU AND SELECT RUN {START BUTTON + R}
STEP 4: THEN TYPE “regedit” AND PRESS ENTER. WE CAN FIND A DIALOG BOX
STEP 5: GOTO “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE” AND THEN GOTO “SOFTWARE”
STEP 6: AND GOTO “Microsoft” AND GOTO “Windows”
STEP 7: AND THEN GOTO “Current Version” AND GOTO “Explorer”
STEP 8: RIGHT CLICK ON THE RIGHT (to user) WINDOW AND SELECT “NEW”
STEP 9: IN NEW SELECT “KEY”. THEN THE NEW FOLDER WILL APPEAR ON LEFT (to user)
STEP 10: NAME THIS FOLDER AS “Shell Icons”
STEP 11: OPEN THIS FOLDER. AND RIGHT CLICK ON IT AND SELECT “NEW”.
STEP 12: AND NOW SELECT STRING VALUE. AND NAME IT AS 3.
STEP 13: NOW GOTO {MY COMPUTER\C DRIVE\WINDOWS\}
STEP 14: RIGHT CLICK ON THE WINDOWS AND SELECT NEW AND THEN NEW FOLDER
STEP 15: NAME THE FOLDER AS “ICONS” AND OPEN IT
STEP 16: NOW PASTE THE DOWNLOADED IMAGE IN THIS FILE. AND CLICK CONTINUE
STEP 17: COPY THE ICON PATH.
STEP 18: NOW AGAIN GOTO {RUN> regedit> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE> SOFTWARE> Microsoft> Windows> Current Version> Explorer> Shell Icons> 3 }
STEP 19: RIGHT CLICK ON “3”. THEN SELECT MODIFY.
STEP 20: NOW PASTE THE ICON PATH IN VALUE DATA.
STEP 21: IN VALUE NAME SELECT 3.
FOR EXAMPLE---VALUE DATA: C\Windows\Icons\1.ico
                          VALUE NAME: 3
STEP 22: NOW CLOSE ALL THE FILES or WINDOWS AND RESTART THE COMPUTER.
STEP 23: NOW IF YOU CREATE A NEW FOLDER, DIRECTLY THE SELECTED ICON WILL BE SET AS A FOLDER ICON

HOW TO CHANGE THE WINDOWS WELCOME SCREEN USING SOFTWARE 

STEP 1: FIRSTLY, DOWNLOAD THE SOFTWARE NAMED “WINDOWS 7 LOGON BACKGROUND CHANGE”
STEP 2: TO DOWNLOAD VISIT THIS SITE www.softpedia.com/get/tweak/system-tweak/windows-7-logon-background-changer.shtml
STEP 3: CLICK ON “DOWNLOAD” AND SELECT “EXTERNAL MIRROR 1”
STEP 4: THE FILE WILL START DOWNLOADING
STEP 5: EXTRACT THE FILES AND INSTALL THIS SOFTWARE
STEP 6: OPEN IT AND CLICK ON “CHOOSE A FOLDER” AND SELECT A PATH WHERE YOUR DESIRED WALLPAPER IS THERE.
STEP 7: SELECT THE PICTURE AND CLICK ON “APPLY”
STEP 8: AND IT WILL BE DONE.
STEP 9: TO SEE THE LOGON SCREEN RESTART THE PC.

STEP 10: NOW YOU CAN SEE THE LOGON SCREEN WILL BE CHANGED TO YOUR DESIRED ONE.

HOW TO CHANGE THE WINDOWS WELCOME SCREEN 

STEP 1: FIRSTLY, TO KNOW OUR SCREEN RESOLUTION RIGHT CLICK ON THE DESKTOP AND CLICK ON THE SCREEN RESOUTION
STEP 2: OR, GOTO GOOGLE CHROME AND GOTO www.whatismyscreenresolution.com and note your screen resolution
STEP 3: AGAIN GOTO GOOGLE CHROME AND SELECT GOOGLE IMAGE SEARCH.
STEP 4: SELECT ADVANCED SEARCH
STEP 5: TYPE THE WORD YOU WANT TO SEARCH
STEP 6: GOTO IMAGE SIZE AND SELECT EXACTLY AND TYPE THE RESOLUTION OF YOUR SCREEN. THAT IS WIDTH AND HEIGHT
STEP 7: AND DOWNLOAD THE ANY IMAGE
STEP 8: SEARCH FOR THE “REGEDIT” IN THE SEARCH IN THE START BUTTON
STEP 9: AN ICON LIKE A CUBE WILL APPEAR. DOUBLE CLICK ON THAT ICON
STEP 10: A DIALOGUE BOX WILL APPEAR WITH THE NAME “REGISTRY EDITOR”
STEP 11: IN THAT DIALOGUE BOX FIND THIS PATH {HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Authentication\LogonUI\Background}
STEP 12: NOW ON OUR RIGHT SIDE OF THE DIAGOGUE BOX WE CAN FIND A NAME: (DEFAULT) TYPE: REG_SZ DATA: (value not set)
STEP 13: NOW RIGHT CLICK ON THAT PLACE AND SELECT A NEW OPTION
STEP 14: IN NEW OPTION WE CAN FIND “DWORD (32-bit ) value”, CLICK ON IT
STEP 15: NAME THAT ICON AS “OEMBackground”
STEP 16: NOW OPEN IT, A DIALOGUE BOX WILL APPEAR WITH THE NAME “Edit DWORD (32-bit) value”
STEP 17: VALUE NAME: OEMBackground
              VALUE DATA: 1
              BASE: Hexadecimal
CLICK ON “OK”
STEP 18: NOW CLOSE THE WINDOW
STEP 19: NOW OPEN THE PATH {MY COMPUTER\ LOCAL DISK(C)\ WINDOWS\ system32\ oobe}
STEP 20: CREATE A NEW FOLDER IN THIS PATH AND NAME IT AS “info”
STEP 21: OPEN THE FOLDER AND AGAIN CREATE A NEW FOLDER AND NAME IT AS “backgrounds”
STEP 22: NOW MOVE THE DOWNLOADED IMAGE TO THE NEW FOLDER CREATED WITH THE NAME “backgrounds”. A DIALOGUE BOX APERARS THEN CLICK ON CONTINUE
STEP 23: NOW CLOSE ALL THE WINDOWS AND RESTART THE COMPUTER
STEP 24: NOW THE WINDOWS WELCOME SCREEN WILL BE CHANGED

HOW TO CHANGE THE REMOVEABLE DISK ICON USING “NOTEPAD”

STEP 1: SELECT THE ICON YOU WANT TO KEEP AS AN ICON FOR THE REMOVEABLE DISK 

STEP 2: IF YOU WANT TO KEEP THE IMAGE (.JPG) AS AN ICON FOR THE REMOVEABLE DISK
STEP 3: SELECT THE IMAGE YOU WANT TO KEEP AS AN ICON FOR THE REMOVEABLE DISK
STEP 4: SEARCH FOR THE WEBSITE TO CONVERT THE IMAGE TO ICON CONVERTOR
STEP 5: EXAMPLE: www.iconconvertor.com etc,
STEP 6: AFTER CONVERTING IMAGE (.JPG, .JPEG, etc.,) TO ICON (.ICO)
STEP 7: OPEN THE NOTE PAD AND TYPE THE FOLLOWING
[Autorun]
Icon=path of the icon if that icon is in the file with the extention (.ico) or the icon name if the icon is directly in the removeable disk with the extention (.ico)



NOTE : THE ICON MUST BE IN THE REMOVEABLE DISK ONLY
STEP 9: SAVE THE NOTE PAD WITH THE NAME “autorun.inf” IN THE REMOVEABLE DISK ONLY
STEP 10: NOW EJECT THE DISK AND RE-ENTER THE DISK
STEP 11: NOW THE ICON WILL BE CHANGE TO YOUR DESIRED ONE.