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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.

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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")