Tuesday, February 7, 2012

How to Test Your Computer's Reboot Time

1. Open Notepad and copy everything in the code box below and paste it in Notepad.



Option Explicit
On Error Resume Next
Dim Wsh, Time1, Time2, Result, PathFile, MsgResult, MsgA, AppName, KeyA, KeyB, TimeDiff
MsgA = "Please close all running applications and click on OK."
KeyA = "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\RestartTime\"
KeyB = "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\RestartTime"
AppName = "[GeekPolice] Reboot Time"
Set Wsh = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
PathFile = """" & WScript.ScriptFullName & """"
Result = wsh.RegRead(KeyA & "Times")
if Result = "" then
MsgResult = Msgbox (MsgA, vbOKCancel, AppName)
If MsgResult = vbcancel then WScript.Quit
Wsh.RegWrite KeyA & "Times", left(Time,8), "REG_SZ"
Wsh.RegWrite KeyB, PathFile, "REG_SZ"
Wsh.Run "cmd /c Shutdown -r -t 00", false, 0
else
Wsh.RegDelete KeyA & "Times"
Wsh.RegDelete KeyA
Wsh.RegDelete KeyB
TimeDiff = DateDiff("s",Result,left(Time,8))
MsgBox "Your computer reboots in " & TimeDiff & " seconds", VbInformation, AppName
end if
wscript.Quit


3. Save the file as Reboot Time.vbs

4. Run it!!!!

Monday, January 23, 2012

How to Create Your Own Customized Run Commands

Here i am showing, how to create run command for google chrome

1. Create a shortcut of "chrome" and rename it as "gc".

2. Copy this shortcut into your windows directory.(C:\Windows).



3. That's it, simply run the Run utility and type gc and hit enter to see the customized runcommand results




Saturday, January 21, 2012

Open multiple file formats(75+) with single software

It is a pain for a lot of users to install different softwares for different file formats.You can save yourself from this trouble by installing a freeware application that is capable of opening multiple file formats (75+ formats).

Supported File formats are,

Code Files (.vb, .c, .cs, .java, .js, .php, .sql, .css, .aspx, .asp)

Web Pages (.htm, .html)

Photoshop Documents (.psd)

Images (.bmp, .gif, .jpg, .jpeg, .png, .tif, .tiff)

XML Files (.resx, .xml)

PowerPoint Presentations (.ppt, .pptx, .pps)

Media (.avi, .flv, .mid, .mkv, .mp3, .mp4, .mpeg, .mpg, .mov, .wav, .wmv, .3gp, .flac)

Microsoft Word Documents (.doc, .docx)

SRT Subtitles (.srt)

RAW Images (.arw, .cf2, .cr2, .crw, .dng, .erf, .mef, .mrw, .nef, .orf, .pef, .raf, .raw, .sr2, .x3f)

Icons (.ico)

Open XML Paper (.xps)

ML Paper (.xps)

Torrent (.torrent)

Flash Animation (.swf)

Archives (.7z, .gz, .jar, .rar, .tar, .tgz, .zip)

Rich Text Format (.rtf)

Text Files (.bat, .cfg, .ini, .log, .reg, .txt)

Apple Pages (.pages)

Microsoft Excel Documents (.xls, .xlsm, .xlsx)

Comma-Delimited (.csv)
Outlook Messages (.msg)

PDF Documents (.pdf)

vCard Files (.vcf)

EML Files (.eml)


Click here to download Freeopener (25 mb).

1. Install freeopener software.

2. Double click on freeopener shortcut which is created on desktop.

3. Goto File>open and select any of the file having extension as given above.





Send Profile Picture in Facebook chat

To send profile picture of any one, you need have the username of the user

1. Login to your Facebook account

2. Visit the profile of the user or group whose image you want to send

3. Copy the username or User ID from the address bar


4. Now in chat box type his username or user ID in following format

[[Username]] or [[User ID]]

5. For sharing karteek's Profile picture type [[bKarteek]]