Showing posts with label windows. Show all posts
Showing posts with label windows. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 12, 2014

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 :)

Tuesday, February 11, 2014

How to set an animated .gif as the desktop background

Many a times we want to do something different like making the laptop/system background using a gif image

GIF (Graphics interface format)
The Graphics Interchange Format (better known by its acronym GIF/ˈɪf/ or /ˈɡɪf/) is a bitmap image format that was introduced by CompuServe in 1987[1] and has since come into widespread usage on the World Wide Web due to its wide support and portability

A sample gif is shown below















See this utility
Bonix Desktop Wallpaper Changer

BioniX Wallpaper Changer is the world's famous wallpaper changer that allows you to fully take control over your desktop. It is the choice of millions of users all over the world and winner of multiple awards from renowned reviewers and critics.

Use and give comments regarding the post.

Enjoy

Saturday, January 14, 2012

Enable administrator account in Windows Vista

To enable administrator account in Vista to get rid of annoying UAC(User Account Control)
The steps are:

*Click on start menu
* Type "cmd" on search bar
* Select cmd, right click and select "Run as Administrator" option
* Now in cmd prompt
    type: 'net user administrator /active:yes',
    then press enter
Now you have activated the admin account.

To disable

* Just type: 'net user administrator /active:no'
* press enter

Friday, April 15, 2011

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

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

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