How to know the hostname of your system

Here is a step by step guide on how to achieve this

1) Press Windows + R and type cmd then press Enter or search for cmd by pressing Windows key

2) In the command prompt type hostname and you will get your the hostname of the system

Enjoy :)

Getting the MAC address on your Windows 7 system

What to do when we want to know the MAC address of a system????

Here is a step by step guide on how to achieve this

1) Press Windows + R and type cmd then press Enter or search for cmd by pressing Windows key

2) In the command prompt type getmac and you will get your mac id

Alternatively you can enter ipconfig /all and get the mac address

System Restore using SAFE MODE with command prompt

When system is not able to boot properly then to restore system proceed as following

Select safe mode with command prompt as shown in the image

For Windows Xp 
enter 
%systemroot%\system32\restore\rstrui.exe and selectEnter.


For Windows 7 and Vista
Just enter rstrui.exe and press enter

After it the system will start to work properly

Know how long your computer is ON

For Windows Vista and Windows 7

Open Taskmgr(Press Cntrl+Alt+Delete or Cntrl+Shift+Esc)

Click on the Performance Tab

On the right side under System see Up Time

For Windows Xp

Open Command Prompt(Windows +R then write cmd and press enter)

Write systeminfo and press enter

See the up time

Check Activation Status of Windows 7 & and Windows Vista through command prompt

Enter Windows +R key

The run box will appear

Type cmd and then press enter

In the command prompt write slmgr.vbs -dli

Press enter and then wait for some time.A window will pop up showing the License details