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

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

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

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