30 September 2010

How To Repair Detectable But Corrupt USB Drive



Have you suddenly encountered with the problem that when you plug in your USB drive,
the Removable media shows up but when you try to open it,
it returns with the message “Please insert a disk in to drive H:”.

If yes then you have been on right tutorial page.


By applying this simple method you’ll have 80 % chance to get back your USB drive hardware.
This works only in the above error condition. If the windows doesn’t detect your USB drive,
then there is probably flaw in the USB media.
Please keep in mind that, you’ll have to lose your data when following this tutorial.
Plug in your USB drive.
Go to Start>My Computer, right click on My Computer icon and click on Manage menu.



Computer Management window will pop up. Click on Disk management under Storage tree menu.



Now at the right side of the window right click on your removable media. (unlike the image below, it will show unknown information), right Click on your removable media and choose Change Drive Letter and Paths.

Now in new window choose any drive later that is not taken by any media (M:, N: , :K: etc).
Click on ok button and close the management window. Try opening your pendirve. There may be the chance to have your pendrive recovered if this method worked.
If the problem still prevails then follow the above tutorial but instead of choosing Change drive letter and paths, choose Fomrat and give a quick format to it.



Now you’ll have finally lost your data but the pendrive is safe in your hands.
Hope this tutorial was working. If it didn’t please do comment me. I’ll find other solutions as well.


23 September 2010

How To Shutdown A Computer With A Cell Phone/Email


In this tutorial, I am going to teach you how you can control your computer’s basic function using Microsoft Outlook and your Cell Phone Network.

For this tutorial I am demonstrating how a user can shutdown, restart, hibernate their computer,

just by sending an email from their phone.To make this happen, all you need is Microsoft Outlook installed on the PC which you want to control from your cell phone

Now let’s begin with the tutorial.

First, you need the batch files to perform the Shutdown, Hibernate operation.
For example,



shutdown -r -t 10 -c “shutting down”

Copy this code and paste it in notepad, save it as shutdown.bat

Now open up Microsoft Outlook. I am assuming that you have already configured it for your Email and

I am not going to teach you about setting mail in Microsoft Outlook.

Now we will need to make it so that Outlook checks your inbox about every minute.

You can do this by going to Tools>Options. Then click on Mail Setup tab, and then, the Send/Receive button.
























Make sure that the Schedule an automatic send/receive every… box is checked, and set the number of minutes to 1 or anytime you may like. Now you may close all of these dialog boxes.























Now go to Tools>Rules and Alerts. Click on E-mail Rules tab. In new window select Check messages when they arrive and click Next.















Now in next page, check on, on this machine only and with specific words in the subject.
After checking these two values, click on specific words underlined.
























Search Text window will open, in the input field type the command that shuts down the PC. You can use any commands. For prevention of accidental execution I kept %shutdown% as a command. Click on Add button after you are done and click on OK.



Now click on Next.
In the next window check mark on start application. In the lower screen, click on application link.


Now you’ll be welcomed to your familiar file open window. Load all files. And select the batch file that you’ve created to shutdown your PC.

If everything went well you’ll see the screen similar to below:

on Next, again Click on next (don’t choose any things in this step). And finally click on Finish button.


You’ll have %shutdown% alert shown in the E-mail Rules tab.
Now, when you send a message from your phone to your e-mail address with the Subject %shutdown%your computer will trigger shutdown.bat file and instantly executes the command in that batch file finally leading to shutdown the PC.
You can use any batch file to execute any command.
Hope you loved this tutorial.

07 September 2010

Hack the Time on Windows xp Taskbar

Hack the Time on TaskBar
goto--> Start Run and Type"regedit"










Once on regedit,we will navigate through
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control panel\international and select the "international folder"
on the right panel we will change the value of s1159 and s2359 by MORNING and EVENING

Easily Find the Latest version\update of installed software on your Computer Po


At any given time there are number of software installed on the computer. Checking for latest version of each software can be time consuming(& boring!) process .

You can automate this process and complete the whole process of checking latest version of software installed on your PC using small utility SUMo.

SUMo stands for Software Update Monitor. It scans system for all the installed software. It shows latest version and updates available for each software on your PC.

Features include:

* Automatic detection of installed software.
* Detects required updates / patches for your software.
* Filter / authorize Beta versions (user setting).
* Ignore list : only tracks software YOU want to track.

After scanning, you can click on ‘get update’ button – it will take you to software vendor website to download latest version of that specific software.

You can simply download it here Software Update Monitor.