If you're using your
flash drive as a vehicle for simple file transfers, you’re missing out
on one of the single-best roles one of these wee data buckets can
fulfill. Indeed, hardcore enthusiasts know that simple flash drives are
perfect portable repositories for all the software that can breathe life into an otherwise ailing PC.
All the web apps in the world
won’t help you when your PC breaks down or falls prey to a particularly
nasty piece of malware and refuses connect to the Internet. A properly
loaded USB drive, on the other hand, can be a machine saver. And when
your grandma calls with a dire PC emergency, you'll be glad to have an
always-ready "ninja drive" to slip into your pocket as you run out the
door.
In this article we’ll show you how to load out a USB drive with
everything you need in case of a PC emergency. So next time your
computer breaks down, don’t panic. Instead, take a deep breath, plug in
your ninja drive, and start making things right.
The first thing you’ll
want to install on your drive is PortableApps—a free, open source
platform for installing desktop applications on removable media, like a
USB drive. PortableApps manages the installation of new portable
software on your USB drive, and also acts as a frontend when you’re
actually using the USB drive, letting you easily browse and launch
applications.
PortableApps maintains a list of hundreds “portable” versions of
popular free programs, designed to work without installation. You can find the full list here.
Each of the following apps with the word “Portable” in their title is
available for the PortableApps platform. You can download them at the
links provided, or just start PortableApps and click on Apps > Get More Apps. You’ll see a large list of applications appear. Just check the ones you want and click Next to download and install them all automatically.
Even though it’s not a maintenance application, strictly speaking, a
mobile browser is a great inclusion on your emergency thumb drive. Why? A
lot of malware targets your web browser, so it’s one of the most likely
components of your system to be out of commission, or otherwise
compromised. Chrome's sandboxing security feature and Safe Browsing
functionality—which guards against malicious websites and downloads—make
it one of the better options for mucking around on a potentially
infected system.
If your computer is
running slow because of malware, Spybot S&D should be the first (and
often last) weapon in your arsenal. It’s one of the oldest and best
spyware removal suites around, and should be able to weed out most
malware on even the slowest of machines.
ClamWin is a Windows graphical interface for the Clam open source
antivirus engine. It doesn’t provide real-time scanning like you’d get
in an installed antivirus application, but the portable versions
provides powerful on-demand virus scanning for any suspicious files.
Many unofficial tech support geeks consider Malwarebytes to be a
go-to malware scanning solution, but it doesn't offer a portable
version. You can, however, save the Malwarebytes installation file to
your emergency drive and unpack the app directly onto the maligned PC
after you've taken a first pass at badware using ClamWin and Spybot
portable. A second opinion never hurts when you're dealing with viruses.
When you need to root out stubborn malware, a rootkit detector does the trick.
If you’ve tried running malware removal programs like Spybot Search
and Destroy but your computer is still exhibiting malware symptoms like
bogus error messages and browser hijacking, you might be dealing with a
rootkit. Rootkits are designed to conceal malware running on your
system, and can be very hard to detect themselves. If you suspect your
computer might be infected with one, try running TDSSKiller, a rootkit
scanner from Kaspersky. Just leave the .exe file on your thumb drive,
and run it on the infected computer—it will find and remove most rootkit
malware.
Even if you’re not trying to uninstall whole programs, deleting files
can prove to be a challenge—especially when you're dealing with an
infected system. Windows might tell you that access is denied to a file,
or that another program or user is currently using it, or otherwise
tell you that the file you want gone isn’t going anywhere at all.
FileAssassin lets you get around those roadblocks, and delete any
file you want. Make sure you really want it gone, though, because it’s
going to be.
When you snag the program, make sure to grab the portable version, at the bottom of the download list.
Sometimes the problem isn’t that you can’t delete a file, it’s that you want to make sure that it’s really, really gone.
If you need to securely delete sensitive documents or files, use
Eraser—an application for securely erasing and overwriting files and
directories stored on standard mechanical hard drives. You can also user
Eraser to overwrite all the empty space on a disk, making sure anything
you’ve deleted in the past is truly gone.
One of the simplest
ways to get a gridlocked computer running faster is to remove programs
that you don’t need. This has two benefits: you clear up hard disk
space, which can speed up your computer, and you reduce the number of
apps running at startup, which can make your boot time shorter. You can
uninstall programs by hand, but that’s slow going and the programs
aren’t always completely removed. Instead, keep a portable copy of Revo
Uninstaller handy to quickly and completely uninstall as many programs
as you want.
One of the main reasons that older systems gradually slow down is the
accumulation of programs and services set to automatically run at
startup. Autoruns is a powerful app from Sysinternals that shows you
every single process that will start with your computer, along with
other common sources of trouble, including browser toolbars and shell
extensions. Telling a process to not run at startup is as simple as
unchecking a box.
If you use KeePass to store your passwords (and if you don’t, you
should think about it), it’s not a bad idea to keep your KeePass install
and password database on a thumb drive. That way, you’ll always be able
to access your online accounts, no matter what computer you’re on. Even
better, you don’t have to worry about identity theft if you lose the
USB drive, because the Keepass database is encrypted and requires a
master password. Be careful about logging in to potentially infected
computers with KeePass, though.
If you want to be
really, truly prepared for a PC disaster, you can go one step further
than just creating an emergency app thumb drive. By loading up a second
drive with a Live install of the SystemRescueCD operating system, you’ll
be prepared even if your computer’s OS is so FUBARed that you can’t
even log in.
SystemRescueCD is a free live operating system, meaning you don’t
have to install it on a hard drive. Just insert the SystemRescueCD USB
drive into the computer, restart, and boot from the thumb drive. The
Linux-based operating comes equipped with software that you can use to
access the data on your hard drives and back it up across the network,
along with various other handy-dandy utilities—basically, everything you
need to fix (or at least recover) as much of your broken OS as
possible. The makers of the distribution were even kind enough to
provide step-by-step instructions on how to get a SystemRescueCD live drive up and running.
Follow these steps to protect your facebook account :
1- Log in to Facebook, then click Account.
It is located on the top right (next to Profile). Click Privacy Settings.
2- Decide how private you want your profile to be.
Click
on each tab—everyone, friends of friends, friends only, recommended,
and custom. Look at the dots for each one—the dot shows who can see that
aspect.
3-Uncheck the "Let friends of people tagged in my photos and posts see them" box.
This ensures that only your friends are able to see posts and photos that you tag.
4- Click the Customize Settings link under the box you just unchecked.
This will allow you to further edit your Facebook settings.
5-Decide how private you want certain things to be by selecting from the drop-down menu.
6-Hide certain people or networks from seeing your information
To do so, click Customize
from the drop down menu. Then, choose "Friends Only," uncheck any
networks you don't want to see your photos (remember that when this is
checked it means that anyone in the network can see that piece of
information, not just your friends in the network), and type in the
names of any person on your friends list you don't want to see your
info.
7-Make a certain piece of information visible to only a couple people.
To do so, click Customize from the drop down menu. From the next drop down menu, choose Specific People...Then,
type in the name of the people you want to be able to see the info. As
long as your networks are unchecked, only those to whom you grant
permission will be able to see that piece of information.
8-Change your photo privacy settings.
Click on Edit Privacy Settings for existing photo albums and videos at the bottom of the Things I Share section.
9-Choose the appropriate settings for each album
Use the drop down menu as you did for the previous steps. Click the Back to Settings button in the upper left corner when you are done.
10-Preview your profile.
This feature allows you to view
your own profile as if you were someone else. It will help you make
sure that they can only see what you want them to. To do so, click Preview My Profile in the upper right corner.
Type in the name of the person's view you want to check and press enter.
11- Click Back to Privacy Settings to make any necessary changes.
We have been getting comments that the
SuperOneClick doesn’t work to root the Samsung Galaxy S Advanced I9070
smartphone and we know how painful it is when you really need root
access on your smartphone and you don’t have it. You don’t have to worry
any longer as we, actually the XDA Developers, have come up with a root
method that just works fine to root your smartphone so you can perform
your tasks on it. Here’s how you can root your Samsung Galaxy S Advanced
I9070 smartphone:
I. Before You Begin:
1. You are voiding the warranty of your
device by rooting it. However, you can get the warranty back by either
unrooting it or installing the stock firmware.
2. The following procedure works on Windows based PCs only.
II. Downloading Required Files:
1. Root Package (Download link’s given in the first post)
2. Original Kernel (Download link’s given in the first post)
III. Rooting the Samsung Galaxy S Advanced I9070:
1. Place both the files you downloaded to your Desktop.
2. Extract files from the Root Package archive to your Desktop.
3. From the files you extracted, double-click the Odin3 v1.83.exe file.
4. Enable USB debugging on your smartphone from Menu>>Settings>>Applications>>Development>>USB debugging.
5. Enable Mock Locations on your smartphone from Menu>>Settings>>Applications>>Development>>Allow Mock Locations.
6. Turn OFF your smartphone using the Powerbutton.
7. Reboot your smartphone into the Download mode. To do so, while your smartphone is turned OFF, press and hold Volume DOWN+Home+Power buttons together.
8. Connect your smartphone to the PC using the USB cable.
9. Odin should show your device as connected in its main interface.
10. Click on the PITtab in the Odin and choose the GT-I9070_EUR_XX_8G_20111220_KL6.pit which you extracted from the Root Package.
11. Now, click on the PDAtab and choose the rootkernel.tar.md5file.
12. Make sure that only Auto Reboot and F. Reset Time boxes are checked in the Odin, leave rest as unchecked.
13. Hit the Startbutton and it should begin rooting your device.
14. After the rooting is finished, your device should reboot.
15. Turn OFF your device.
16. Once again, put your device into the Download mode. Just press and hold Volume DOWN+Home+Power buttons together and your device should boot up into the Download mode.
17. Connect your device to the PC using the USB cable.
18. Open up the Odin Tool on your PC by double-clicking the Odin3 v1.83.exe file, it’s the file you extracted from the Root Package.
19. Click on the PITtab in the Odin and choose the GT-I9070_EUR_XX_8G_20111220_KL6.pit to be flashed on your device. This file should exist where you extracted the contents of the Root Package.
20. Click the PDAtab and choose the Original Kernel file you downloaded earlier. It should match up with your device’s firmware.
21. Check-mark the Auto Reboot and F. Reset Timeboxes in the Odin and leave rest of the options as unchecked.
22. Start the process by hitting the Startbutton.
23. Your device should reboot after the Odin has finished its work.
24. Now, head over to the Play Store and download the Superuser and BusyBox apps. Install them on your device
Congrats ! You have successfully
achieved root access on your smartphone and now you can manage the root
rights using the Superuser app.
If this procedure helped you please thank/donate to the original developers here.
If you need help with this procedure, please ask in the comments below or in the forum.
This is part of our Android How
To’s. We have how to’s on rooting, loading ROMs, and tons of other tips
and tricks for your specific device or for Android devices in general!
For all of our Android How To’s, head here.
Right its realy simple goto www.getjar.com download both the .jad and .jar file to your pc choose games which are 240x320
connect your phone to pcstudio and goto the file manager
transfer both .jad and .jar file to your "other files"
right now through your phone goto other files you should see the .jad file is 1kb select options and then install !
Considering that Windows 8 is still relatively new, and that a lot of
people are still trying to adapt to the new operating system with its
unorthodox design and layout changes, problems are nothing surprising.
One of the issues, apart from the subjective criticism that the
operating system has been receiving, is certain folders slowing down
under Windows 8. More specifically, this complaint has been lodged
repeatedly against the Downloads folder, whereby users claim that
clicking the Downloads directory from the sidebar, to the actual
folder’s contents loading up, can take up to 10 minutes in worst cases.
While I haven’t personally encountered the problem, there are some steps
that you can take to remedy the situation, not just for Downloads, but
for any folder that slows down under Windows 8.
Basically, there are three distinct measures that you can take to get
things back to normal, and I’ll list them down in the order that you
should follow them, from simplest to more complicated.
Customizing the Downloads folder for General Items
Step 1: Launch the Downloads folder.
Step 2: Right click anywhere inside the folder, and select Properties.
Step 3: Go to the Customize tab, and from the dropdown list that
says, “Optimize this folder for:”, select “General Items”. It’s also a
good idea to apply the template to all subfolders, too.
Step 4: Hit OK or Apply.
Adding the Downloads Folder to a New Library
If the above fix didn’t work for you, you can try adding the Downloads folder to a new library under Windows 8.
Step 1: In Windows Explorer (or just Explorer, as it is now called),
right-click the Libraries area from the left sidebar, and select New
> Library. Name the library as “Downloads”.
Step 2: Right-click the newly created library and go to Properties.
Hit the Add button to include a new folder, and browse to the Downloads
folder under your username (it’s usually located at
C:\Users\your_user_name\Downloads).
Step 3: Once the folder is added, trying accessing it through the library, and it should open up instantaneously.
Force Delete the Downloads folder and Create a new one
If both the above fixes don’t work, and you just want to start
afresh, you may want to delete the Downloads directory from your user
profile under C:\Users, and create a new one in its place. In this case,
the only trouble that you might encounter would be rogue file that can
prevent the folder from being deleted. In such a case, you can run an
elevated Command Prompt window (with administrative rights), kill the
Explorer process and then delete the folder. However, the need for that
shouldn’t really arise, and the above two fixes should solve the problem
for you.
It’s noteworthy that the above steps apply not only to the Downloads
location, but to any other folder as well that might slow down under
Windows 8. If you have any other tricks up your sleeve to address the
issue, drop us a comment on our Facebook page, and we’ll be glad to
include that here.
Here's something for broadband people that will really speed Firefox up: 1.Type "about:config" into the address bar and hit return. Scroll down and look for the following entries: network.http.pipelining network.http.proxy.pipelining network.http.pipelining.maxrequests Normally
the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you
enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really speeds up
page loading. 2. Alter the entries as follows: Set "network.http.pipelining" to "true" Set "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to "true" Set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to some number like 30. This means it will make 30 requests at once. 3.
Lastly right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it
"nglayout.initialpaint.delay" and set its value to "0". This value is
the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it
recieves. If you're using a broadband connection you'll load pages MUCH faster now!
Clear Browsing Data
Firefox keeps track of sites you’ve visited, files you’ve downloaded,
searches, form data, cookies, and more. All this data collects in the
history database, and that database can get very large. There are
several ways to clear your browsing data from the database.
Multitasking on the iPhone is very useful, but you may not realize that it also leaves your other apps open in the background. This is good in certain cases, such as when you're waiting for a video to load and want to check your email. However, it can also drain your battery to have all of those open applications running in the background. To save battery power, you have to completely close these apps through the multitasking bar.
Instructions
Double-press the "Home" button on your iPhone in one fluid motion to view recently used apps. You can do this while using an application or directly on the home screen
Press and hold any app icon until it displays a red "-" symbol.
Press the red "-" symbol in the left corner of the app's icon to fully close it.
Swipe to the left or right to view other open apps, and repeat Steps 2 and 3.
A lot of smartphones are still only available as contract phones and
that is the kind of monthly bill that people are trying to avoid more
and more. That is why the best of the smartphones of 2012 is definitely
the Samsung Replenish and surprise! It's a no-contract phone offered by
Boost Mobile.
Looks Like a BlackBerry but With a Thin Twist
One
look at the Replenish and you can see that is copied one of the best
smartphones ever, the BlackBerry in its design. It is laid out the same,
it is black with chrome trim and the screen and keyboard are arranged
in the same manner. But there is one important difference that stands to
capture an entire market.
One of the reasons this will quickly
join the list of favorite smartphones for many is that while it is laid
out like the BlackBerry the design is slightly smaller and narrower. Who
cares about that? Every woman on Earth. Women, who represent a large
slice of the smartphone demographic pie, have smaller hands then men and
the Replenish design is ideal for small hands. The QWERTY keyboard is
perfectly sized for fast typing. Forget a touchscreen, either you are
doing the one finger hunt and peck with those or lugging around a frame
stand - the QWERTY smartphone will always be the sign of a serious user.
Features
What
will also surprise many is that for all its similarities to RIM's
blackberry, Replenish is running Android Gingerbread and where
Gingerbread is, Ice Cream Sandwich will soon follow. This suddenly
pushes the Replenish to the front of the pack of the top smartphones of
2012. It also has a surprisingly good 2 megapixel rear camera and a
decent processor and screen.
The case buttons controls are
arranged in an intuitive and sensical pattern so they won't
inadvertently get triggered while you are using the phone and all of
this operates over the Boost Mobile system which uses the Sprint
network. This is an entry level smartphone and there is a lot it cannot
do, but for what it is, it is perfect.
In fact i personally and many users of windows 7 are facing this problem of Run command , in this article you will learn how to add the run command in your windows 7 start menu .
Previous
versions of Windows has the Run command at the start menu but in Windows 7 the
Run command is hidden by default. I am one of the guys that uses the run
command on a regular basis with the help of these list of Run Commands. Windows
7 introduces the start menu search but I still prefer using the Run Command. If
you are like me that wants to bring back the old and reliable Run command
follow the easy steps below.
3 Easy Steps to Add the Run Command in Windows 7 Start Menu
1. Right click on your Windows Orb then click Properties”
2. In the Taskbar and Start Menu properties window select the Start Menu
tab and click Customize button.
3. In the Customize Start Menu window scroll down to locate and check the
box for the Run command then click OK
4. It’s done. Now if you open your Start Menu, you
can now see the Run Command added to it. thank you for reading , and i hope that this article help you .
