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Password resetting consists of 5 simple steps.

1. First reboot Windows XP in safe mode by re-starting the computer and pressing F8 repeatedly as the computer boots up. If you missed the right moment, you will need to repeat the attempt.

2. Then (in safe mode) click Start and then click Run. In the open box type the words exactly as following (without quotes) - control userpasswords2.

3. You will now get a pop-up window with full access to all the user accounts, including the administrators account. From here, you will be able to reset the lost or forgotten password.

4. Just click the administrator's user account, and then click Reset Password.

5. At this moment, you will have to add a new password in the New password field, and the Confirm new password as well. Confirm the new chosen password by clicking OK.

Want to hide any partition of your hard disk just follow these simple steps.

1. Goto Start > Run and type diskpart



A DOS window will appear with following description

DISKPART>

2. Then type list volume

All partitions will be listed, there will be also a volume number for each partitions

3. Suppose you want to hide drive E:, type select volume 3 (Here 3 is the volume number of E:, in your pc it may vary). A message will now appear in the window saing "Volume 3 is the selected volume".

4. Now type remove letter E . You may have to reboot the computer. Diskpart will remove the letter. Since Windows XP doesn't have the capability to identify the unknown volume, it won't display or show results from it. To access the content of the hidden drive, repeat the process, but in the foruth step, replace remove to assign, ie., assign letter E

I have been using 7zip for the file compression and decompression needs; recently I found another application for the same, KGB Archiver.

KGB Archiver is simply awesome, and is probably the best. I tried compressing a folder with image files with folder size on disk 481Mbs, compressing it with 7zip, I got a 444Mbs file with .7z, whereas when compressed with KGB Archiver, 157Mbs with .kgb extension.

Features of KGB Archiver -

• Password protected compressions can be done.
• Two Choices for the compressed file format, .zip or .kgb.
• 10 compression levels to choose the one as per your needs, however choosing more compressed levels will require more resources, I chose Maximum and it made my system (Core 2 Duo 2.0 GHz with 3GBs RAM) damn slow while compression and decompression.
• You can create SFX (Self Extracting) modules for Windows.

KGB Archiver is definitely a nice solution to all your file compression requirements, as far as the question of being a resource hog for high level compressions, you can choose to do such compressions while the system is idle, it also has an option so that your system can be scheduled to shut down after the compression process is over.

Try it and do share with us your views about KGB Archiver.

Download KGB Archiver.

Doing a search over multiple search engines had been existing from quite some time but now its time to combine services along with it.

By services I am pointing to Encyclopedia Britannica, Britannica Concise (Yahoo), American Heritage Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, backdoor, Oxford Advanced Learner’s Columbia Encyclopedia, Wordsmyth Educational, Century Dictionary (1909; “largest”) etc and also Services which deal in books. So its pretty huge. And yeah you can include the file type searches also.

And now if you are thinking on how search result is displayed, dont worry a damn. This service basically opens a new window for every service you select to search on. So you get 15 new windows if you selected 15 services.  This might be little annoying but actually it is saving a lot of time for you. How much time you put on going to each of them and then adding keyword to each etc etc.

So if you don’t want to waste much time searching, I would recommend you to bookmark  Query Multiple Services Simultaneously Now

Don't Forget to say thanks ("Siddharth")

Free M4a to MP3 Converter is a free tool which allows you to convert formats like AAC, M4A, MP4 to MP3 format. This is necessary when you want to play formats which is used in devices like mobiles etc.

It has also mp3 splitter and joiner along with video converters. You can also use to create ring tone from your favorite mp3 music files.

Features :

• MP3 settings can be varied from bit rates up to 320 Kbit/s and sample rates up to 48 KHz.
• Create high quality audio files.
• Built-in audio player to listen to  AAC and M4a files before converting.
• Audio books M4b to MP3 converter.
• 3GP audio converter.
• AAC, M4a, M4b player.
• Batch convert of multiple M4a, AAC, M4b, MP4 etc. files.
• Meta information (ID3 tags) is copied from source files. So all your meta tags is retained into converted files also.
• AAC , m4a to WAV converter.

Download  Free M4a to MP3 Converter

Doing a search over multiple search engines had been existing from quite some time but now its time to combine services along with it.

By services I am pointing to Encyclopedia Britannica, Britannica Concise (Yahoo), American Heritage Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, backdoor, Oxford Advanced Learner’s Columbia Encyclopedia, Wordsmyth Educational, Century Dictionary (1909; “largest”) etc and also Services which deal in books. So its pretty huge. And yeah you can include the file type searches also.

And now if you are thinking on how search result is displayed, dont worry a damn. This service basically opens a new window for every service you select to search on. So you get 15 new windows if you selected 15 services.  This might be little annoying but actually it is saving a lot of time for you. How much time you put on going to each of them and then adding keyword to each etc etc.

So if you don’t want to waste much time searching, I would recommend you to bookmark  Query Multiple Services Simultaneously Now

Don't Forget to say thanks ("Siddharth")

IPL fever can be experienced all over; people rushing from offices to catch the live matches, crowd on the roadside stalls etc. are the couple of examples of this fever.

Well, I don’t have any interest in Cricket, but people around me watch the matches regularly, so I too keep getting the glimpses of these matches, one thing which I am very much interested in is the Vodafone ad campaigns.

These campaigns showcase a cartoon character, and some other members from same community, and these ads talk about alerts and other services on Vodafone.

So if you too like these ads, go ahead and download them, here you can find several other Vodafone ad campaign videos.

Download Funny Vodafone Ad Videos

Windows creates lot of hidden folders including the system folders so as to avoid people from deleting them accidently. However if people are aware of these deature they also tend to create hidden folders to hide some data on your computer which you might not like it.

Special Folders View is a small software which lists all hidden folder in one place, giving you an exact idea of its location. Apart for listing hidden folders it also lists down system folders like temp folders, storing application settings and files, storing Internet files, storing shortcuts to other files etc.

A user might not have to do much with System Folders but he definitely would like to track down if there are any un necessary folders which were made hidden with purpose.  Give Special Folder View a try Via Ghacks

Cuteness.ws has this simple online tool which allows you to give a retro look to your photos, this actually makes your photo look like the one shot using a Polaroid Cameras.

This tool named as Polaroid-o-nize an image is very simple and easy to use. As seen in above snapshot, you can add retro effects to your images in few steps, i.e. choose a background color, give the URL for your online photo, define the position of photo, rotation angle, and some text. Finally hit the Onize button, soon the photo will be in front of you.

Now simply copy the image and save it anywhere using any image editor you have.

Try Polaroid-o-nize

In tha latest press release Jane Liles of MS announced SP2 release for Microsoft office 2007 which is available as separate download for everybody.

One of the important aspect of this update is the support for OpenDocument format in Word, Excel and PowerPoint 2007 i.e. to read and write  any document in the ODF format can be achieved without use of any third part plugins.Apart from this now we have save to PDF also rolled in.

Here are few more points :

• Users should notice the improved performance and stability of Outlook, better charting functionality in Excel, and more control over the appearance of SmartArt graphics.
• Outlook 2007 SP2 is 26 percent faster than its predecessor on a set of common e-mail tasks and is even faster, 35 percent, with larger mailboxes.
• Several enhancements to the security and performance of SharePoint Server 2007, including support for read-only content databases, improvements to forms-based authentication, and an STSADM command-line utility that enables administrators to scan sites that use the variations feature for errors. SharePoint Server will also feature better support for newer versions of the Firefox browser

You can start download the update sp2 file for Microsoft Office from here