Hide and Lock your drives in Windows XP, Vista & 7 0

Hide and Lock your drives in Windows XP, Vista & 7 Doing some simple Registry editing, you can hide or lock your drive in My Computer. Here is the trick: 1. Open RUN dialog box, type regedit and hit enter. 2. Navigate to the following key: Code:HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer3. Now right click in right side pane and create a new DWORD Value. 4. Rename it as "NoViewOnDrive" (for locking...

Simple Script to Close and Restart Explorer Automatically in Windows XP, Vista and 7 0

Simple Script to Close and Restart Explorer Automatically in Windows XP, Vista and 7 I have discussed in my previous post how to Restart Explorer in the safest way. Now I will discuss about how to create a batch file to close and restart Explorer in one click. Just copy and paste the code below in notepad and save it as "Restart_Explorer.bat" (including quote). Code:@ECHO OFF echo. echo. echo STEP 1: Closing Explorer . . . echo. TASKKILL...

Hidden Trick to Safely Restart Windows Explorer in Windows XP, Vista & 7 0

Hidden Trick to Safely Restart Windows Explorer in Windows XP, Vista & 7 Sometimes we notice that installing some software or shell extension, we require to restart our system. But log off or end task of explorer does the job perfectly without restarting the whole system. We usually end task of Explorer from Task Manager. But this method of forcibly restart Explorer is not recommended by Microsoft. But there is a hidden option in Windows...

Easily Show / Hide Hidden Files and Folders in Windows XP, Vista and 7 0

Easily Show / Hide Hidden Files and Folders in Windows XP, Vista and 7 In my previous post, I discussed how to generate a simple script to show/hide file extensions in Windows. In this post, I am going to discuss how to create a VB script to easily show/hide hidden files and folder in Windows without going to Tools > Folder Option > View > Show/Do not show hidden files and folders. Just copy and paste the following script in notepad...

Easily Show / Hide File Extensions in Windows XP, Vista and 7. 0

Easily Show / Hide File Extensions in Windows XP, Vista and 7. We know that when we want to show or hide file extension in Windows Explorer, we follow these steps: In Windows explorer Tools > Folder Option > View > Check or Uncheck Hide Extensions for known file types. It is a tedious job to open all this again and again. Instead we can create a simple script to do all the job, in a single click. Just create a VB Script and save it as "ShowHideFileExtensions.vbs" including quote. Here is the script: Code:FileExt = "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced\HideFileExt" Set...

Add Recycle Bin, Run, Search and Many Other Useful Shortcuts in My Computer. 0

Add Recycle Bin, Run, Search and Many Other Useful Shortcuts in My Computer. You can add useful shortcuts to My Computer for easy access. Here is the trick: 1. Type regedit in RUN to open Registry Editor. 2. Navigate to the following key: Code:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MyComputer\NameSpace3. Now right click on NameSpace and create a new key. Assign a name for this key as per your requirement from...

Reset Hosts File to Default in Windows XP, Vista and 7 0

Reset Hosts File to Default in Windows XP, Vista and 7 In Windows, hosts file is an important file which maps hostnames to IP addresses. It is an simple text file that contains text lines containing IP address followed by the hostname. It is usually found in "%windir%\System32\drivers\etc\" folder. In 64-bit editions, it might be also stored in "%windir%\SysWOW64\drivers\etc\" folder. It is sometimes hijacked by malware to redirect to website...