With so many trojans and worms all around cyber space ready to attack your system it’s always wise to have the best antivirus solution always ready. Here is a list of some of the best Antivirus Solutions for the Windows platform. These are not arranged in any priority order and there pros and cons are Continue reading
So you are an iDevice owner and hate Apple just because whatever it makes is proprietary to its own product. In same quest their new service called AirPlay is only supported by Apple TV, Mac and few other speakers/docks. This service is frankly speaking quite fantastic because you can stream music from your iDevice or Continue reading
As a Windows and Ubuntu user I love free softwares. On Ubuntu almost every software is available for free but when it comes to Windows there are not many good ones available. Here is a list of some free open source softwares for Windows that are helpful in browsing the internet, editing documents, managing files, Continue reading
Disk partition is getting extremely important when hard disk sizes are increasing. Now days, 1TB hard disk are common and partitioning hard disk into different parts of logical storage saves us from cluttering data and messing up files. When you need to install a new operating system on your computer and you need not mess Continue reading
Windows 7 is coming with built in mail feature, also you can download and install Windows live essential to get the email Client. But still people are looking for a more functional full featured email client that can handle many email and features at once. Mail users in Office or Home are mostly using Thunderbird or Outlook. Continue reading
Windows is very weak on security compared to Linux or Mac OS X. This is because of presence of many types of malicious codes known as worms, Virus and malware. These dangerous programs have evolved with windows and are more powerful and threatening now. Hackers and other Black Hat genius keep working on either gaining Continue reading
The wait is over. Today is the day when Nokia will unveil much awaited Windows phones in London. The event will start at 9 AM (UK TIME), a big day for Nokia after poor sales with Symbian. As usual there have been few leaks and as per the new reports the company will launch atleast Continue reading
Microsoft corporate vice president Dan’l Lewin has revealed that the much expected Windows 8 release date will be on early next autumn. Dan’l Lewin handles strategic and emerging business development of Microsoft. This hint suggested by him on the start-up LAUNCH event at the Microsoft Silicon Valley campus. Lewin suggested in his speak in the Continue reading
[How-to] Download Album Art for your Music on Windows Album art is nothing but the album cover that you see on your phone in the background when you play a song, almost always it same as that of real physical album covers. Although most of the albums would come with a pre-defined album art if Continue reading
Ultimate Boot CD is based on Bart’s PE. Bart’s PE builds a Windows “pre-install” environment CD, basically a simple Windows XP booted from CD. UBCD4Win includes network support and allows you the ability to modify NTFS volumes, recover deleted files, create new NTFS volumes, scan hard drives for viruses, etc.
The above picture is very common, you must have seen this error in your PC or on your friend’s PC. Whenever you will try to open Windows Task Manager or Registry you will get the error message saying “Registry Editing has been disabled by your Administrator” or “Task Manager has been Disabled by your Administrator” Continue reading
Windows OS’ users have got a lot of softwares to do any task; be it reading Books, listening music etc. Also, the most popular among them are the free ones. Most users have either iTunes, Winamp or Foobar for music, Firefox or Chrome for browsing. Undoubtedly, these free softwares are very useful and therefore very popular. However, there also exists a large pool of softwares that aren’t yet famous but nevertheless useful. In this post, I list 5 of such softwares and briefly discuss them.
How to backup your data when your windows crashed?? It happens to me,i have some blue screen error on my Desktop PC and my windows is not loading.I tried detaching and attaching my hard disks and RAM but still the same blue screen. OMG..My PC has my collection of over 250GBs of games and movie..!!What Continue reading
AVS System Info is a free system information utility with main task to show detailed information of all components in one’s computer such as CPU, memory, HDD, video card, motherboard, removable drives, CD drives, BIOS and more. One feature which separates AVS System info from similar products is benchmarking ability which pushes computer components to their Continue reading
Task manager is a powerful Windows tool for managing system services, processes, monitoring system activity and starting or closing applications. It is basically extended version of run box and it comes very handy to operate within Windows system. That’s way many system administrators prefer to disable task manager on public computers to restrict access to Continue reading
Due to the nature of my work with computers I reinstall operating system so often that there is no point in activating it with Microsoft center. Instead I rather use a command line tool to reset registry time counter in my operating system which gives me additional 30 days of fully functional operating system and Continue reading
Webroot Desktop firewall is a solid software firewall developed by the author of Webroot Spy Sweeper, one of the best anti spyware programs available. Thought it is not so famous as other firewalls it is not a bad product and it is certainly better than Windows Vista built-in firewall due to its outbound protection. This Continue reading
Thomas, from pcterritory.net has joined us a regular writer, we hope you find his articles interesting and helpful, if you would like to write for GeniusHackers.Com drop us a mail using the contact form -GeniusHackers.Com team Windows operating system hides many useful tools and features that we sometimes may not be even aware of and Continue reading
If you have powertoys installed on Windows XP you know how important and functional it is. Its available for free at Microsoft website. PowerToys add fun and functionality to the Windows experience. What are they? PowerToys are additional programs that developers work on after a product has been released. Color Control Panel Applet Professional-level photographers Continue reading Go to My Computer open root directory open Windows open system32 open the folder named “oobe” open images folder search for the file named “title” THAT’S IT…. its the secret Window Welcome Music !! enjoy it !!! Using the below given tips you can change the password of an user account in your friend’s system. 1. Open notepad. 2. Type the following command. @echo off net user username password echo “type message here” pause 3. Save as filename.bat and select type of files as all files otherwise, file didn’t work. 4. Send Continue reading If you check the system files and program files folder you will find a lot of files with DLL extension, In this post lets learn about dll files and their advantages, i hope you will find it useful and interesting. Third-party applications aside from the Windows platform can also employ dynamic-link library (DLL) files to Continue reading
Windows XP takes a lot of time to start, If you hate waiting like me then you must consider using hibernation option instead of turnoff for a faster startup. To do this, 1.Hold down the “shift” key in the shutdown dialog to change the “Stand By” to “Hibernate“. 2. Or You can just press H Continue reading The Windows Experience Rating is sort of like a system performance gauging system that you only find in Vista . While many complain that it’s flawed and unfair at times, there’s a way to fool Vista. Basically, we change the performance figures in the XML that holds the scores for each of the subsystems. To Continue reading Allowing Network Access with Blank Passwords (XP and Vista) Although you can log in locally without a password, by default, WindowsXP Pro does not allow network users to access the computer without a password. Typically you will receive an Unknown error 31 if this is the case. To change this setting: Run gpedit.msc Go to Continue reading
Grrrrrrrr……I yelled out because the data being transferred to my computer from the DVD was interrupted due to an error stating”Cyclic Data redundancy…” which means that the DVD/CD writer isn’t able to read the DVD due to bad sectors formed generally due to scratches .Just before this error had popped,3GB of my DVD was already Continue reading Open notepad and paste the following code and save the file with .vbs extension, it will create a VBScript File. It will prompt you for a text, input the text and press ok.” ;copy from here————– Dim msg, sapi msg=InputBox(“Enter your text”,”Talk it”) Set sapi=CreateObject(“sapi.spvoice”) sapi.Speak msg ;———-to here Download the .vbs file This trick will add your name in place of AM and PM beside time and make you feel proud among your group of friends. Go to Start -> Control Panel -> Regional and Language option -> Customize (beside English US) -> Go to TIME tab -> Change AM symbol and PM symbol from AM and Continue reading
Download StartClock form the following url and run StartClock http://startclock.osnn.net/files This cool freeware will replace the word start with the system time. This tiny piece of code comes with startclock.ini file for making configuration changes such as 12 hour clock with seconds 24hour clock ,load program at start up, refresh rate (Be careful with this Continue reading As an added security precaution it is possible to clear all data that has been written to the page file so it cannot be retrieved. The downside to this tweak is that it may substantially increase shutdown time depending on the amount of data in the page file. [Start] –> [Run] –> Type Regedit –> Continue reading If you dont like the shortcuts on your multimedia keyboard jsut because they launch the default programs given by windows then here is a way to change them. Internet key Open the Registry Editor and navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\AppKey\7 Right-click in the right column and create a new String called ShellExecute Set the value as the Continue reading Remove Security Alerts From System Tray Go to Start > Control Panel > Security Center.In the left pane, click the Change the way Security Center alerts me link, located right at the end of the column. In the new window that popsup, uncheck everything. In these days,everyone uses computers. Computers have become something like a diary. Imagine that you would have the ability to read one’s diary without being exposed. Now you can! With All In One Keylogger you can monitor every activity on the computer including chat conversations,e-mails,keystrokes,desktop activities,and much more. Have you ever thought who is your Continue reading To change windows xp start up sound You have to convert the sound which you want to put as the start up & shutdown sound Rename the files as Windows XP Startup.wav & Windows XP Shutdown.wav Navigate to c:\windows\media & replace the orginal winxp startup & shutdown sound with the new Windows XP Startup & Continue reading Many People Might have faced , cases when a system fault/error/crash ends up freezing the OS at the dreaded BSOD (Blue Screen Of Death), which displays the cause of the crash and gives some details about the state of the system when it crashed. The major annoyance is that it requires a “cold” reboot (reset) Continue reading Creating a desktop shortcut for locking your comp! If you use your computer in an area where others may have access to it, and there are things on your system you would rather have kept confidential, locking your desktop when you leave the computer is an essential task. Here’s a recipe for a desktop shortcut Continue reading
You can display any web page free of any browser baggage using this simple hack.
Battery Doubler can double your battery’s autonomy with little to no concessions. Install Battery Doubler, unplug AC power and experience total laptop freedom! * Double your laptop battery economy Before, your only solution to have a decent battery for your laptop was to buy an extra one. Now, there’s a lighter, more efficient, and cheaper Continue reading For those of you using Windows, do the following: Open an empty notepad file Type “Bush hid the facts” (without the quotes). Save it as whatever you want. Close it, and re-open it. Are you surprised by what you see?? This is why it happens You see, text files containing Unicode (more correctly, UTF-16-encoded Unicode) Continue reading The following reserved device names cannot be used as the name of a file: CON, PRN, AUX, CLOCK$, NUL, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, COM5, COM6, COM7, COM8, COM9, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, LPT4, LPT5, LPT6, LPT7, LPT8, and LPT9. CON is reserved for console, PRN is reserved for printers………..etc. You must avoid using these names as Continue reading