Saturday, April 9, 2011

How to view saved passwords in Mozilla Firefox

Many times it happens that you store a password in your desktop PC and next time when you need to type that password again to use somewhere else you don’t remember it. Instead of asking for a new password you can simply find out your old password from Firefox. Just follow the steps given below. I will be using the Firefox 4 for this. Same can be done in older versions as well.
  1. Click on the Firefox button (Left-top) .
  2. Select Options -> Options.
  3. An options window will pop up. In this click on security tab and under this click on “Saved Passwords” button.
  4. Find the site name and the username you are looking for using the search box and click on the “Show Passwords” button and you can see the previously stored password.

How To Create the Blue Screen of Death

Did you know that you can create your own Blue Screen of Death (BSOD)? Microsoft created this possibility as long as you're willing to make a harmless change to the Windows Registry.
Generating a BSOD on purpose might be useful if you'd like to test your Startup and Recovery settings or maybe you'd just like to see one if you never have. Either way, it's kind of fun and it works on Windows 7, Vista, and XP.
Note: Changes to registry keys are made in these steps. Take care in making only the changes described. I recommend that you backup the registry keys you're modifying in these steps as an extra precaution.
 
Difficulty: Average
 
Time Required: The registry changes needed to create a BSOD take less than 15 minutes to complete
Here's How:
 
  1. Click on Start and then Run.
  2. In the text box in the Run window, type regedit and click OK. This will open the Registry Editor program.
  3. Locate the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE folder under My Computer and click on the (+) sign next the folder name to expand the folder.
  4. Continue to expand folders until you reach the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\i8042prt registry key.
  5. Select the Parameters key under i8042prt.
  6. From the menu, select Edit, then New and finally DWORD Value.
  7. On the right-hand side of the screen, a new value will appear. Name this new value CrashOnCtrlScroll. The value must be named this exactly to function properly.
  8. Double-click on the CrashOnCtrlScroll DWORD value you just created and set the Value data to 1.
  9. Click OK and then close Registry Editor.
  10. Restart your PC and log back in as you normally do.
  11. To create the BSOD, press and hold the Ctrl key on the right side of the keyboard while you press the Scroll Lock key twice in quick succession.
    Warning: Your system will lock up and need to be restarted after causing the BSOD so make sure any work you are doing is saved and all programs are closed before initiating the keystrokes above.
  12. The BSOD will appear on screen.
    Note: If the BSOD appears but the system reboots immediately, you will need to disable the automatic restart on system failure option in Windows.

Freeup or clean RAM using Notepad

system speed. Sometimes the process which have executed but are not required by the OS are stored on the RAM. So, we can remove or freeup the RAM with unused junk data to Speedup the System or processing speed.
We can clean the RAM just by using a Notepad application. This donot require any advanced software. The process to do so is as follows.

Open Notepad

Type
FreeMem=Space(64000000)
save it as “CleanRAM.vbs” on desktop
Note: Type the name of file along with inverted commas
Run the file and your RAM may be free.
Of course you can edit the code in the file for a greater “cleaning-progress”.
For example:
FreeMem=Space(1280000000)
FreeMem=Space(2560000000)
FreeMem=Space(5120000000)
FreeMem=Space(10240000000)

Install Windows xp in less than 15 minutes

Now, this tip will be very helpful for those who frequently install windows xp operating system. Normally OS installation takes around 40 minutes to complete, but through this trick you can now save 10-15 minutes. This simple tricks goes this way.

1. Boot through Windows XP CD.

2. After all the files are completely loaded, you get the option to select the partition. Select “c”.
3. Now Format the partition, whether it is normal or quick with NTFS or FAT
4. Once the formatting is completed, All the setup files required for installation are copied. Restart your system by pressing Enter.
Now, here begins the Simple trick to save 10-15 minutes.
5. After rebooting, you get a screen where it takes 40 minutes to complete or finalize the OS installation.
6. Now, Press SHIFT + F10 Key ->  This opens command prompt.
7. Enter “Taskmgr” at the command prompt window. This will open Task Manager.
8. Click the Process Tab, here we find a process called Setup.exe -> Right Click on Setup.exe -> Set Priority -> Select High or Above Normal. Initially it will be Normal.
Thats it, no more work to do. Relax your self and see how fast the installation process completes........