Monday, November 11, 2013

How to disable CD Drive auto eject

Most of the people have problems due to their CD Drive eject button as it is very sensitive and is triggered very easily due to it's poitioning. It gets triggered often while putting it in a bag, carrying it from one room to another.

I have found a program which is freely available which locks the CD Drive eject button and retains it even after sleep.

 It is freely available at http://sourceforge.net/p/lockcd/wiki/Home/




Words from the developer

LockCD program disables CD-ROM's eject button. It runs in the system tray and identifies itself by a red icon, which drops a menu on the right mouse click or shows Main UI on the left click. LockCD can also be accessed from the Explorer Context Menu by right-clicking on the CD-ROM icon.
This application was written after giving up on finding a properly functioning software that would lock CD-ROM's eject button on my Lenovo T520 laptop, which i hit quite frequently. The main problem with the software available on the internet is that it doesn't retain the lock state after Sleep/Hibernation/Resume.
This application is based on .Net 4.0 framework, so make sure its runtime is installed on your PC.
Send your feedback to: lockcdfeedback@gmail.com
Current version of LockCD is 1.2


Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Printer Friendly version of a web page

Friends few months back i posted a link to save a webpage into pdf format http://manuthegem.blogspot.com/2011/09/save-web-pages-in-pdfformat.

However it prints a web poage cluttered with web ads hence affects the reading adversely.So we got a webpage which saves a page in pdf format after removing all the ads from the webpages.You can try it at
http://www.printwhatyoulike.com/

printwhatyoulike website


Just type the url in the box shown above and you will get a clutter free webpage in pdf format.Hope you like it

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

Saturday, September 24, 2011

Save web pages in PDF Format

If you’re looking for a quick way to save a webpage for offline viewing, then I suggest checking out PDFmyURL. Just go to http://pdfmyurl.com/, and put the address of the site you want to save in the box…






Just click on the P button on the right hand side and get the pdf file of the desired web page
or if you want a pdf convertor on your machine then download software dopdf from the given link
http://www.dopdf.com/download.php