Aero Glass On XP

Border Skin

Border Skin is a free portable software to skins the windows borders by skins composed of png images with the support of several aero features like Blur, Reflection and Aero Explorer

- To use the hide menu bar on xp , you must put the bar at the top of the explorer toolbars layout

- QTTabBar navigation is not supported by the aero explorer navigation buttons



How To Install

1 - Extract the rar file

2 - Open the installer and define a folder to extract border skin files in it .

- You can still move the program's folder anywhere, but make sure that the run at startup option is not enabled before you do that .



How To Uninstall

1 - Make sure that run at startup option is not enabled, if it is enabled, disable it .

2 - Simply delete the folder that contains the program data

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Download Glass CMD

Glass CMD for Vista/Seven



A Small Compiled AutoIt Script that works in the background and enables aero on the background of any new cmd window

Virus Alert Issue: occurs because used UPX compression

How To Use :

1 - Open the exe file and it will sits in the tray

2 - Open any new cmd and aero will be applied on it

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Glass Media Player Free Download

Aero  Media Player

1. Full Aero Support

2. Task bar Buttons for stop , pause ,play and volume mute or mute off

3. Perfect Outer Glow of pause and play button just like Windows Media Player 12

4. Small size Application with compare to Windows Media Player.

5. It also shows preview of Album Art /Album Cover of song in taskbar thumbnail...(when you mouse over it`s thumbnail in taskbar)

6. Shows status of current media player in taskbar(means how many part of song is played)

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Download Glass Notepad for your Windows

"Glass Notepad" is a standalone application for Windows Vista and 7 which provides full Glass interface. So if your graphics card supports Aero theme, you will definitely enjoy this nice application.



 It supports all basic Notepad functions and the Menus are almost same as Windows default Notepad. It should also work in earlier Windows versions like Windows XP.

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How to set Videos and animations as your desktop background

Yeah .. its True , you can set  Videos and animations as your desktop background .Download and Install DreamScene Activator. It is a freeware software .DreamScene is a feature that allows users to set any video in WMV/MPG format as the desktop wallpaper. This feature was  included in Windows Vista Ultimate Edition,Windows 7

Download and Run the  DreamScene Activator as Administrator. In case you get an unhandled exception error, simply click on Continue.



Next, click Enable DreamScene.



The Explorer will now restart and DreamScene will be enabled.

After the explorer has restarted, the user will be able to use DreamScene.



 This program supports .mpg & .wmv video formats.



right click on a video and Set as desktop background(Set as DreamScene). By right clicking on the desktop you can pause or play DreamScene!!

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Increase your internet Speed 20%

    Microsoft reserves 20% of your available bandwidth for their own purposes like Windows Updates and interrogating your PC etc



You can get it back:



Click Start then Run and type "gpedit.msc" without quotes. This opens the group policy editor.



Then go to:

--> Local Computer Policy

--> Computer Configuration

--> Administrative Templates



--> Network



--> QOS Packet Scheduler



--> Limit Reservable Bandwidth.



Double click on Limit Reservable bandwidth.



 It will say it is not configured, but the truth is under the 'Explain' tab i.e." By default, the Packet Scheduler limits the system to 20 percent of the bandwidth of a connection, but you can use this setting to override the default."

So the trick is to ENABLE reservable bandwidth, then set it to ZERO. This will allow the system to reserve nothing, rather than the default 20%.

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Windows XP Tricks

Hidden Programs in windows Xp. Type the following commands in RUN.



Programs :





1. Private Character Editor :

Used for editing fonts,etc.

** start>>Run

** Now, type eudcedit





2. Dr. Watson :

This an inbuilt windows repairing software !

** start>>Run

** Now, type drwtsn32



3. Media Player 5.1 :

Even if you upgrade your Media Player, you can still access your old player in case the new one fails !!!

** start>>Run

** Now, type mplay32



4. iExpress :

Used to create SetupsYou can create your own installers !

** start>>Run

** Now, type iexpress

     



Trick to Show Your name after time in taskbar...



Try this  trick to add up ur name in place of AM and PM beside time

Its simple

Step-1:- Navigate to -> Start -> Control Pannel -> Regional and Language Option -> Click on Customize -> Go to TIME Tab -> Change AM symbol and PM symbol from AM and PM to ur name -> Apply -> Ok ...

Did It change? If not, follow step-2 below.



Step2:- Now go to time in taskbar and Double Click it to open "Date and time property" ...Look place where time changes in digital form i.e. 02:47:52 AM , click to arrow to cnage the AM or PM by selecting and press arrow. It will Show ur name or name that was entered by u, Apply -> OK

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How To Make Your Firefox Fast

This Firefox tricks will improve the speed & load time of firefox. And you will be able to surf faster.





Type about:config in the address bar, Then look for the following entries, and make the corresponding changes. 

network.http.max-connections-per-server =32

network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy =16

network.http.max-connections = 64

network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server = 10

network.http.pipelining = true

network.http.pipelining.maxrequests = 200

network.http.request.max-start-delay = 0

network.http.proxy.pipelining = true

network.http.proxy.version = 1.0



Lastly right-click anywhere and select New- Integer. Name it nglayout.initialpaint.delay and set its value to 0. This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives. Enjoy!!

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Join Video Files using Command Promp

 

Yes, that’s right. In this post I am going to show you a simple tip to join video of various formats like Mpeg, dat, mpg.. If you have questions like

1. How to join various video files into one?



2. Join two video files?



3. How to Join videos taken from mobile phone?



Then, the best method to follow is shown below. You can join your video files using just the windows Command Prompt. No need of any video joining software’s.





Step 1: For example if you have 3 videos in your hardrive root drive: video1.mpg, video2.mpg and video3.mpg just rename them to a, b, and c (just the letter withoug the file extension).



Example:

ren video1.mpg a

ren video2.mpg b

ren video3.mpg c



Step 2: Open Command Prompt.  Start–>Run–>type “cmd”.



Step 3: Type the location of the drive like d: or C:



Step 4: Type: Copy /b a + b + c videoname.mpg

and click enter



Step 5: Now wait till you see: 1 files<s> copied.

And type exit and press enter. Thats it.You are done!

Note: If you want to join two files then those files must have the same extension.

Alternative Method to Join multiple video files using freeware software:

Use Easy Video Joiner

Easy Video Joiner can help you join multiple AVI, MPEG (MPG), RM (Real Media) or WMV/ASF (Window Media) files into one large movie file. You can add an unlimited number of video files as you like to the list and easily rearrange their order if needed. With just a few mouse clicks, you can enjoy your movie clips without interruption.

Key Features



1. Can join AVI files(*.avi, *.wav), MPEG-4 and DivX are supported;

2. Can join MPEG files(*.mpeg, *.mpg, *.m2p, *.m1v, *.m2v, *.mp3, *.mpga), MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 are supported;

3. Can join Real Media files(*.rm, *.ram);

4. Can join Windows Media files(*.wmv, *.asf, *.wma);

5. Not only join video files, but also join most audio files with popular format(*.mp3, *.mpga, *.rm, *.wma, *.wav);

6. Very easy to use and very fast to work.

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You can even use HJSplit software to join video files or any other files like mp3 too.

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Google Search Tricks

Google tricks/Google tips, does not mean hacking google, Using the below Google operators, we can get the desired Google result very quickly. Well we can name this as hidden Google secrets or Advanced Google searching.  

GOOGLE OPERATOR  

Type the following highlighted words in Google search box.

Google has several google operators that can help you find specific information, specific websites or inquire about the indexing of your own   site, below you will find the most important ones:  

define: - This google operator will find definitions for a certain term or  word over the Internet. Very useful when you come across a strange word when writing a post. I use this as a google dictionary. example : (define computer)

info: - The google info operator will list the sets of information that    Google has from a specific website (i.e. info:www.yahoo.com)

site: - This google operator can be used to see the number of indexed     pages on your site (i.e.site:www.yahoo.com).                  Alternative it can also be used to search for information inside a specific        site or class of sites.

link: - This google link operator allows you to find backlinks pointing         to your site. Unfortunately the count is not updated frequently and             not all backlinks are shown

allinurl: - Using this Google operator will limit the search to results         that contain the desired keywords on the URL structure. (i.e. allinurl:hackingtips)

file formats:Sometimes you know that the information you are looking for is likely to be contained in a PDF document or on a PowerPoint presentation, for instance. (i.e. “fileformat:.pdf market research” will search for PDF documents that contain the terms “market” and “research”)

1. Google trick to  search different file formats (keyword filetype:doc)


2. Google trick to search educational resources (keyword site:.edu) example (computer site:.edu)


3. Finding the time of any location (time romania)


4. Finding the weather of any location (boston weather)


5. Tracking commentary of live events (Olympic games Beijing 2008)


6. Using Google as a calculator (9 * 10)(143+234)(119-8)


7. Converting currencies (1 USD in INR)(10 US Dollars in Indian Rupee)


8. Find how many teaspoons are in a quarter cup (quarter cup in teaspoons)


9. how many seconds there are in a year (seconds in a year)


10. Tracking stocks (stocks:MSFT)


11. Finding faces (add imgtype=face to the URL)

Top Essential Google Search shortcuts

#1: Get Local Weather

Type: “weather [city name or zip/postal code]”             Example: “weather 500054″ or “weather boston”

#2: Check Flight Status

Google automagically pulls flight data from FlightStats.com. All you have to do is enter the flight number.                             Type: [flight name and/or number]                      Example: “bc254″ or “newyork21″

#3: Convert Distances 

Type: “[value] [first distance unit] to [second distance unit]”          Example: “100 kilometers to miles”

#4: Find a Phone Number

Find a Person:

    Type: “[person’s name], [city or zip/postal code]”              Example: “john smith, london”

Find a Business/store:

    Type: “[business name or type], [city or zip/postal code]”              Example: “book store, boston”

Google search trick for Rapidshare files search:

#1 site:rapidshare.com inurl:users "*"



#2 site:rapidshare.de inurl:users "*"



#3 site:rapidshare.com inurl:files "*"



#4 site:rapidshare.de inurl:files "*"



#5 site:rapidshare.com inurl:users (pass|password)



#6 site:rapidshare.de inurl:users (pass|password)



Suppose u need some info on ebooks. Then u can try following keyword to see all rapidshare folders having any hacking related thing in it



site:rapidshare.com inurl:users "ebooks"

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How to Make Your PDF Files Speak To You

1. First of all Install Adobe Reader , if you haven’t already.

2. Ok So first you go to View>Read out Loud> Activate Read Out Loud.

3. After you have done that just do this.

Now it will read it to you out loud in the Default Microsoft Sam voice.

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How To Increase Download Speed In Torrent

The use of Bit Torrent is an efficient way to transfer files of just about any size quickly and efficiently. How this works is by breaking the huge files into smaller pieces and is from one or many of the different sources. This is one of the best ways to transfer bulky files quickly even when you are using a low bandwidth connection. There are many more things that you can do with Bit Torrent, but here we are going to discuss how to make this work much faster. 

Here are some essential tips for the same,

1. Start with your ISP:

All ISP has a preset maximum upload and download speed, and you cannot make your torrent work beyond this speed. All you can do is to use the best use of this upload and download speed even when the signal is weak. You can check the maximum speed that you can achieve by conducting a broadband speed test and compare with the DSLReports that comes with your uTorrent.

2. Opt-In for healthy seeds and peers:

A peer is any computer participating  in downloading and uploading of torrent files along with that of yours. A seeder is one who has a complete copy of the file that is being shared across a torrent network. A leecher is the person who has joined the network recently and do not have most of the file that you or the peer has. This leecher becomes the seeder when they download the entire file and is able to share it across the network.  For getting high torrent speed, you need to increase the number of seeders to increase the chance of healthier and reception of higher speeds.

3. Get through the firewall:

Many times, you will find the administrator or the firewall in your web browser is set to block and receive torrent files. The first thing that you need to do is to get appropriate permissions for downloading torrent files, and add this to your firewall, which will enhance the speed at which you can download torrent files. If the internet is through a router, then you have to set the torrent file to cross the barrier of the security of the router also.

4. Go to a different port:

The default port for BitTorrent protocol is always between the numbers 6881-6999. This is because BitTorrent sharing will involve high bandwidth usage. However, this is possible that you can configure a different port for your torrent client and this has been best advised to set this number to somewhere around 10000

Go to Preference,select Connections change Port

5. Limit your upload rate:

A peer to peer network is sharing alike on the same or similar platform and therefore you should be able to set your client’s upload speed rate to a maximum amount, which will usually be about 80 percent of your maximum upload speed that is being offered by your ISP. Keep this speed, as high as possible, but you have to play your cards well as the upload speed affects your download speed as well.

6. Use your common sense:

If you understand the concept of how Bit Torrent works, then your common sense will automatically tell you that this is possible to view the individual files being downloaded and disable the ones that you are not in need off, which will  help you to speed up the process of downloading the files using Bit Torrent.

7. Bandwidth and connections:

This is possible to set the maximum number of connections, maximum number of peers connected per torrent and number of slots per torrent so that you can decide on which numbers gives the maximum efficiency from your Bit Torrent files.

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How To Make A Window Stay Always On Top in Windows 7

There are times it’s convenient when having one window always stay on top of any other windows on your windows desktop, especially on a dual monitor setup. And that’s exactly why PowerMenu comes in play.



It’s a small free utility that only does one thing, adding a few extra menu options in addition to the standard “Close”, “Maximize”, etc options. Besides Always on Top, it also offers Transparency and Minimize to Tray.

 The tool was developed originally for Windows 2000, but works quite well in all other versions, including Windows 7. However, because of the new task bar in Windows 7 that doesn’t have Window options, the only way to make it work is to use the top frame of the Window. Just right-click and pick one of the three extra options.



And here is what the Live Writer looks like when the Transparency was set to 40%, with the big green leaf as the wallpaper at the background.



That’s it, and enjoy.

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5 Tweaking Tools Make Windows 7 Like Windows 8

Tile-based Windows 8 is getting around the corner. But for those  who like the Tiles, here are a few tools that can make your Windows 7 to the tiles.

Omnimo 4

Omnimo 4 is a Windows Phone 7 inspired multifunctional interactive desktop information center based on Rainmeter, a popular desktop customization platform. It turns your desktop into a productive and attractive workarea where delivers the information you need. Every interactive tile on the desktop gives you information at glance, and can be easily customized to your needs.

Omnimo 4 requires Rainmeter 2.0 or higher installed on your Windows 7 system first  before can be installed and configured.

AeroTile

AeroTile is a free portable utility tools that adds an selective glassy aeroful tiles on your computer’s desktop. By using it, you have the choices choosing many of the options like My Computer, Control Panel, Fonts, My Documents, etc.

It’s a fairly easy to use tool. Simply download and extract the files from the zipped file, and launch it. Then, pick up the items you want them to show on your desktop in tile shape. The only downside is that you will have to manually organize those tiles to make them layout neatly.

Mosaic (formally known as Metro Home 2)

Mosaic is an application that brings Metro UI to your desktop. It’s a set of widgets that displays in tile on your desktop showing the content from your local computer or from the Internet.

When the application is running, it shows a list of selective choices from the panel that stick to the right side of your desktop. Simply click to select them and it will immediately show on the desktop. Once on the desktop, you will be able to move them around just dragging and dropping to the grid predefined by the application.

Windows8Menu

Windows8Menu is a simple portable application that put the Windows 8 UI on top of Windows 7 desktop. It works just like any other application that you can simply launch and see what it offers. You can also customize the settings to show the stuff you would like to see.

Zetro

Zetro is a Windows 8 metro UI style theme made for Windows 7. It brings the snazzy tiles to Windows 7. The Zetro theme takes a few steps to get Windows 7 ready to the tile, but it’s fairly easy to follow the instructions in the Readme file from the package. And because it’s a Theme pack, you can switch between Tiles and Aeros back and forth fairly easy.

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