How To Customize The Command Prompt(cmd) In Windows Vista/Windows 7How To Customize The Command Prompt(cmd) In Windows Vista/Windows 7

How To Customize The Command Prompt(cmd) In Windows Vista/Windows 7

Do you like the default Command Prompt screen in Windows? If not, then you can customize it to your needs by changing the layout, font, and color. There are many reasons why users customize their command prompt, some increase the width because they have to write long codes, some change the size of their fonts to look bigger, etc. The default command prompt style is too common these days, to make mine different I changed the background so that it can match the Windows 7 wallpaper on the desktop.



Cool, right? Anyways this is how you do it. Right-click the window and select properties as shown in the screenshot below.



Now go to fonts tab for changing the font type and size. If you are sitting a little too far from the monitor, you can increase the font size.



If you are a developer and work a lot on command prompts then you can go to Layout tab and increase the width and height of windows, you can change other layouts as well.



Finally comes the interesting part, in the Colors tab you can change the color of screen text, screen background, popup text, and popup background. If you are an advanced user, you can also select the color values manually.



While customizing the command prompt there is a preview screen where you can check the change before implementing it. Wasn’t it easy? Enjoy!

 

FlipCorner: Activate Windows 3D Preview Mode Using Mouse Cursor

 

Windows 7 includes Win+Tab function that gives you a 3D preview of running application, and lets you cycle through them. If you find the Win+Tab hotkey combination to be somewhat tiring, try out FlipCorner. It is a portable application that lets you enter the 3D preview mode by moving your cursor to a corner of your computer screen. You can set the corner of your choice, change the activation delay and define the size of reaction area to enable the function.
After installation, the application will sit in system tray. First, right-click its icon and choose Configure to set up and activate the application. You can select one or more corners to activate the 3D preview mode, set Reaction Area to define the area on each corner that can activate the function, and Activation Delay (the time you need to keep the mouse cursor in a corner to enable the 3D preview mode). Once settings are configured, click OK.

Now, move your mouse cursor to the defined corner to activate the 3D preview mode.


FlipCorner works on Windows Vista and Windows 7, provided you have Windows Aero enabled.
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iPadian Lets You Emulate iPad On Windows With Select Custom Apps

Ever wanted to bring iOS UI to Windows? If yes, then try iPadian. It is a Windows application that clones iOS user interface. It comes with a custom app store, complete with a few pre-installed iPad apps. With iPadian, you get support for full screen mode, access to resources which provide free music and videos, Webkit browser, Social Chat, Facebook notification support and much more.
iPadian comes with a few extra options than iPad, and also excludes some major ones. For example, it contains an additional Facebook messages and notifications section on the right hand side corner, whereas it does not provide access to some native application features. The Videos app is replaced by a Movies icon which leads to a third-party website providing movie streaming for members. This is, of course, due to patent issues, as the developer obviously does not have rights to replicate or provide Apple products. Nonetheless, many applications which come pre-installed with iPadian work just fine.



iPadian provides a custom app store from where you can install some additional applications (other than the ones which come pre-installed with it). The right-side window enables you to access Facebook, Windows Live Messenger, YouTube, Yahoo, Wikipedia, Gmail and Bing.





iPadian might not be a complete iPad emulator; still, it can be used to bring some applications and functionality of an iPad to your Windows desktop. This project is quite new, and it is likely to get better with newer versions. For now, it is a good way for Windows users to use some iPad features and applications with iPadian. iPadian is an  open source application, which works on Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7.
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Change Bubbles Screen Saver

Change Bubbles Screen Saver

Change From Above Screen Saver to Below :- ...........

How to do this ?

There is no settings available for changing this Screen Saver in Win Vista & Win 7
Just follow following STEPS

1. Open the Start Menu.

2. In the search line, type regedit and press Enter. (See screenshot below)



3. If prompted, click on Continue in the UAC prompt.

4. In regedit, go to: (See screenshot below)
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\Screensavers\Bubbles



5. In the right pane, right click on a empty area and click on New and DWORD (32-bit) Value. (See screenshot above)

6. Type in a DWORD Name from the table below that you want to change and press Enter.


7. Right click on the DWORD Name (from step 6) and click on Modify.

8. Dot Decimal, and type in the Value Data you want in the table above and click on OK. (See example screenshot below)


9. Repeat steps 5 to 8 to change another available DWORD Name option.
NOTE: You can add and customize one, a few, or all of the available options if you like (see table below step 6), but only add one instance of each DWORD Name in step 5 to prevent problems.

10. Close Regedit when done.

NOTE :- If not Happy with the Changes then delete all new reg file. And leave Default to remove changes. [imp- always create registry backup before making any changes]

Apps Patch My PC: Keep Your PC Up To Date With The Latest Software Updates

                                                It is required to keep a system updated with the latest operating system and third-party application updates, to avoid functionality issues by acquiring necessary software patches. For example, over the years, Microsoft’s Automatic Updates have not only provided new and improved applications for their users, but also added required hot-fixes to address system issues being caused by incompatible drivers, bugs, hardware compatibility issues and various others. 
Patch My PC is a portable application that searches for critical updates for installed software and Windows Update, in order to patch up existing and potential vulnerabilities of your PC. The supported third-party programs include a large number of widely-used applications, including Adobe Reader, Mozilla Firefox, Oracle Java, Apple Quicktime, iTunes, Microsoft Silverlight and many more.
Patch My PC has a CCleaner-style user interface, and provides numerous options located on the left side of interface. These options allow you to look up for common application updates (Adobe Reader, Adobe Flash Player, Mozilla Firefox, Java, Silverlight, iTunes and Skype) , Optional Software (Chrome, File Zilla, VLC Player, CCleaner, Winrar, Dropbox etc), Windows Tools (such as Disk Defrag, Command Prompt, Windows Backup, etc) and Windows Updates. To search for application updates, select your required programs and click “Run Common And Checked Optional Updates”.




This will start downloading and updating the selected applications. It must be noted that you will require closing all browser windows for the updates to take place. Make sure you have saved all your work, and closed your browsers before running the updates. When a software has an outdated version, it is marked in red, whereas the green ones are applications with the latest versions.



For a demo of Patch My PC, check out this video.
Patch My PC works on Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7, including 64-bit architectures.
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See you Restart Time

1. Click on the download button below to download the Restart-Time.zip file.

2. Click on Save, and save the Restart-Time.zip file to the desktop.

3. Open the Restart-Time.zip file and extract the Restart-Time.vbs file to the desktop.

 

 

 

4. Right click on the Restart-Time.vbs file, and click on Properties. 

5. Under the General tab, click on the Unblock button to unblock the Restart-Time.vbs file.

NOTE: If you do not have a Unblock button, then it is already unblocked. Continue to step 6.

6. Click on the Restart-Time.vbs file to run it.

7. Click on OK to restart the computer.

WARNING: Close and save all windows first. This will immediately restart your computer.

8. When the computer finishes restarting, you will see your Windows 7 restart time. Click on OK when done.

9. You can now delete the downloaded .zip and .vbs files on the desktop if you like, or save them somewhere to use again later.

Remove Windows XP system software

Remove Windows XP system software

  

XP hides some system software you might want to remove, such as Windows Messenger, but you can tickle it and make it disgorge everything. Using Notepad or Edit, edit the text file /windows/inf/sysoc.inf, search for the word 'hide' and remove it. You can then go to the Add or Remove Programs in the Control Panel, select Add/Remove Windows Components and there will be your prey, exposed and vulnerable.

Close All Open Windows With A Single Click In Windows 7

If you need to close multiple applications and windows at once, then it will definitely be time consuming. Try Close All Windows, it is a light-weight tool which closes all open windows simultaneously with a single click.

This tool was originally developed back in 2006 for Windows XP only. But why not give it a shot on Windows 7 as well? This tool has no interface, just run it and it will close all windows instantly. To make things easier, pin it to the Windows 7 Taskbar. A simple click and it closes all windows without any problems.




Download Close All Windows

It works on Windows XP, Windows Vista, and has been tested on Windows 7 too. If you need a more advanced tool, try out SmartClose, which closes and restores applications and works great on Windows 7 as well. Enjoy!