Have you ever thought of making printer available only during a given time period? Is it possible? Yes it is. Suppose you work in an office. Office hours are from 9:00 am to 9:00 pm and your personal job timing is from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm. You have a printer attached to you PC and the printer can be used by everyone in the office. Suppose you do not want that anybody should be able to use the printer after 5:00 pm so that no one can use office printer for one’s personal work. For this purpose you will have to do availability settings in the printer so that it can be used for taking p....

In case of Hibernation, the contents of RAM are written to hard disk on a separate partition before computer is powered off. When the computer is restarted, contents of memory are reloaded into the RAM and PC is restored to that state it was in when hibernation was done. It is different from turning off because when PC is turned off, the state of the PC is not saved and when the PC is turned on again all the contents are again to be loaded in RAM from scratch. Following steps are used to hibernate the PC in Windows XP but it is possible if the user has the rights of administrator:

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Whenever a CD is inserted or Pen drive is plugged in the system, Auto Play option is automatically executed i.e. it starts running automatically without any user command. This thing can create problems if the CD or Pen drive contains Viruses. Since drive starts playing automatically, the Viruses can be transferred into the system automatically. But we can disable the Auto Run of various drives in the system.
Following steps are required to do that:

• Go to start.
• Select Run.
• Type gpedit.msc in the box and press enter.
• Group policy window i....
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In Microsoft Excel, you can enter the same data into multiple cells at once using the following steps:

• Highlight all the cells that you want to have the same text.

• Type the text you want.

• After that press Ctrl+Enter and the text will automatically be entered into all highlighted cells.

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For changing case of the text written in MS-Word, highlight that text and press the Shift + F3 again and again to change the case of the highlighted text to the case you want.
For Example:
Suppose the text is in lowercase. When you will press this key combination, once all highlighted text will be converted to Sentence Case (first character of the word becomes capital and remaining characters become small), pressing the shortcut again will convert the text to Uppercase, and then after pressing the shortcut again will convert....

To create nameless folder, the steps are:
1. Create a folder and select it.
2. Press F2 to rename it.
3. Turn on the numeric keypad if it is off, since the trick works only with the numeric key pad and not with normal numeric keys.
4. Press ALT key.
5. Type 0160 while holding the ALT key.
6. After typing, press enter.
7. Nameless folder is created.....

To create a new shortcut for an application. follow the following steps:
1. An application can be assigned a keyboard shortcut. only if it appears in Start Menu. So if it is not present in Start Menu, you will have to bring it there. For this open My Computer -> C drive -> Program Files Folder. Find the required program folder, open it and drag its exe file to the Start button.
2. Right click the program icon in the Start menu.
3. Select Properties form the pop-up menu. A dialogue box will open.
4. Select Shortcut Tab.
5. Go to the Shortcut Key fie....

Suppose you want to lock your private folder having name Data. This folder is at the path d:\user\data. You can lock it by using the following steps:
1. In the same drive, create a text file and type in it the following line:
ren data data.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}
After typing this, save the file with the name loc.bat
2. Now in the same drive, create another text file and type in it the following line:
ren data.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D} data
After typing this, save the file with the nam....

Windows reserves 20% of the available bandwidth for various purposes like Windows Updates. You can get this bandwidth back by following these steps:
1. Click on Start.
2. Go to Run.
3. Type gpedit.msc and press enter key.
4. Group Policy window is opened.
5. Go to Local Computer Policy -> Computer Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Network -> QoS Packet Scheduler -> Limit Reservable Bandwidth.
6. Double Click on Limit Reservable Bandwidth. A Window is opened. The currently selected option is “Not Configured”. Select E....