How to change user accounts using MS DOS commands

Using MS DOS commands you can create new users account, delete them, change the passwords or add a new user to a group. You can even add or delete an administrator account using MS DOS commands.
The MS DOS commands are listed below:
net user – displaying all users accounts
net user HERE_THE_NAME /add – to add a new user
net user HERE_THE_NAME * – change / add a password
net user HERE_THE_NAME /delete – to delete an account
net localgroup – displaying the local groups
net localgroup power users – display all users belongs to this group
net localgroup power users HERE_THE_NAME /add – adding a user into the power users group
Every time when the command is ok after you press ENTER there will appear a new line telling you: “The command completed successfully”

How to have preferred programs running when computer starts

I am quite sure you have at least 2-3 programs which you want to start when you turn on your computer. I will show you how in a few an old trick I used for many years, something valuable for me, used to make programs starts when the PC starts.
On your C:/ partition exists a folder from which the system initiate programs automatically at start up. This folder is named Startup, obviously, isn’t? What you have to do is to put in that folder the shortcuts from the programs you want to start when windows boot.
The way to find out Startup folder on my computer is:
C:\Documents and Settings\Bill\Start Menu\Programs\Startup\
Once you found it, create the shortcuts for the programs you want to run when you open the computer. To create a shortcut, right click into that Startup window / New / shortcut and locate the .exe file you want to create the shortcut. Add as many shortcuts you want.
To remove a program from running at the computer startup follow the same path and delete the shortcuts you don’t want or press Windows button + R, write msconfig, go to startup tab and deselect the programs you don’t want to run when computer starts.

How to Hide only Specific System Tray Icons

1. Right click on the taskbar and select properties
2. Now select Notification Area and then click Customize
3. Now, click the specific icon you want to hide in system tray and select always hide in the dropdown box.
Windows by default display icons for active or urgent notifications and hide inactive ones.
This may not work for all applications

re-enable task manager

Click Start, Run and copy/paste this command:
REG add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System /v DisableTaskMgr /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f
Click OK.
If you still cannot access the Task Manager try the second method:
1. Click Start, Run and write: regedit
2. Go to the following:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Policies\ System
3. In the right-panel, right click on DisableTaskMgr, click on Modify and change the Value to 0
4. OK
4. Close the window
Now try CTRL+ALT+DEL. It should open the Task Manager without any message :)

How to transfer pictures from iPod Touch / iPhone to PC

1. Plug in your iPod Touch / iPhone.
2. This will pop-up a new window “Select the program to launch for this action”.
3. Click on Microsoft Scanner and Camera wizard / Next.
4. Select de pictures you wanted transferred to your PC and Click Next, give to the group of pictures a name and choose a place to save this group of pictures.
5. Check Delete pictures from my device after copying them if you want to have this pictures only on your PC.
6. Click Next and all your selected pictures will be transferred from your iPod Touch / iPhone to your PC.

Take screenshot from windows media player

1 – Open Windows Media Player
2 – Go to Tools > Options > Performance
3 – click on “Video Acceleration“, drag the slider to none
4 – Click Apply and then OK
5 – Restart WMP if it’s not restarting by itself.
6 – Open the movie you want to take a screenshot of, fast forward to the place that you want one of, then click Print Screen button.
7 – Open MS Paint / Adobe PhotoShop, Corel Paint or whatever program you are thinking to use and paste it.
8. You should have now the printscreen of the movie.

A second method is referring to Overlays:
1. Open Window Media Player
2. Go to Tools > Options
3. In Options, click on Performance Tab
4. Click on the Advanced Button
5. Uncheck “Use Overlays”

Don’t forget to roll back the changes when you’re done :)

Great tool: Dupe Trasher

DupeTrasher is a tool for removing the duplicates files from your HDD. It’s not removing only the files but the duplicate directories and archives too.Let’s just assume that you have hundreds or even thousands of pictures on you computer. A part of this pictures you’re sending to your friends over the internet and you duplicate and resize this pictures in order to sent them. After a while your computer will be full of duplicate pictures.Or, maybe you are a big music listener. You will have tons of mp3s, a part of them in two or more places on your computer, as duplicates. To delete manual all this junk is a big pain. The only solution is to use a tool and DupeTrasher is it’s doing a great job cleaning your HDD for duplicates.DupeTrasher is searching on your HDD for duplicates. Once the search process is done you can let DupeTrasher to remove automatically the duplicated files/directories/archives or you can select them manually.I had chosen the automatic method and the results were impressive – almost 9 GB of duplicates were founded and removed from my HDD, most of them pictures but a few movies and dozens of mp3s too. Of course you can use a free tool to do this but I have found very hard or, to be sincerely, impossible, to find a good free software to remove safely the duplicate files, and anyway what I found didn’t removed the directories which contained that files too.