ECE - Computer Tricks

Restarting Windows Without Restarting Your PC
http://www.pctipsbox.com/restarting-windows-without-restarting-your-pc/

A modern PC with Vista Home Edition takes about one and a half minutes to boot. An older machine with XP is about the same. That’s 30 seconds for the PC itself (the BIOS) to boot up, plus a minute for the Windows operating system to boot.
Sometimes, you need to reboot Windows (e.g. when installing new software), but there is no need to restart BIOS, too. However, the default is to reboot both. (That’s called doing a “cold boot,” rather than a “warm boot.”)
There’s a trick that works on both XP and Vista to get it to do a warm boot instead, thus saving you 30 seconds per cycle.
The trick is to hold down the SHIFT key when invoking the restart. Windows Vista: Select Start, then hover over the right arrow that is to the right of the padlock icon until the pop-up menu appears that contains “restart” as one of it’s choices. Hold down the SHIFT key while clicking on the “restart” choice. Windows XP: Select Start. Select “Shut Down…”. Change the drop-down combo box under “What do you want the computer to do?” to “Restart”. Hold down the SHIFT key while clicking on the “OK” button.

How to get Office 2010 Beta serial or hack it

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4sGcKG202Y)

They will ask you to put a serial code during the installation, just type this:
9GBHH-MTFDV-CCKDJ-RTW9V-24J4G
Once you installed Microsoft Office 2010 Beta, you can activate it online or you can:

1. Click run, (Windows 7 or Vista just search when you click start)
2. Type regedit
3. Open HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
4. Open SOFTWARE
5. Open Microsoft
6. Open OfficeSoftwareProtectionPlatform
7. Open Plugins
8. Open Objects
9. Click on msft:/algorithm/pkey/2005/
10. Look for moduleID, right cick and click modify.
11. Change the last digit number (usually

to a 7
12. Restart and you're done!!

Once you open any program like word, it will say Unlicensed Product but don't worry.. it wont affect anything..

How to Make an Application Portable

Ever wanted to use your programs on the go? Not want to install your favorite programs on other computer. Try this little moderately simple trick to use your favorite programs easily from your flash drive, mp3 player, or external hard drive.

Instructions

The first thing you are going to need to do is download two programs, Universal Extractor and WinRar. To download the Universal Extractor, to to the software section at http://www.legroom.net . Follow the simple instructions on download and installation. To download WinRar, go to the download section of http://www.rarlabs.com . Download the free trial version, and follow their simple instructions.
2

Once you download the two programs you will need for this process, decide which program you would like to install. For example, you could download the free music recording and editing software Audacity from http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ .
3

After your program is downloaded, right-click on the setup file. If you have properly installed Universal Extractor, one of your options should be to uniextract to sub-directory. A command prompt will open and it will automatically extract to a folder, on your desktop or wherever you save it.
4

Open the folder, and search for the folder which contains the executable file that opens the application(you can test it to make sure it works properly). Highlight all of the files needed for the program in that folder. Right-click, and click on add to archive.
5

Change the archive name to whatever you want, such as: Audacity Portable. Click on create SFX archive. Choose "best" under the category "Compression Method".
6

Go to the advanced tab. Click on SFX options. When the options window comes up, type the name of the executable (Audacity.exe) in "Run After Extraction" in the SetUp Program category. In the Modes tab, click on unpack to temporary folder and hide all. In the Update tab, click on "Overwrite All Files".
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Click OK to exit both windows. If all has gone correctly, it should create a single executable file that you can copy to your flash drive, mp3 player, or external hard drive and use from any computer you choose.

DELETING FOLDER USING CMD

to remove a folder you would use RD not DEL

rd /s/q "%allusersprofile%start menuprogramsgames"

the rd stands for remove directory
The /s switch is for all sub directories and files in the dir
The /q switch is for quiet mode, which means it wont ask you for confirmation