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  • Windows 7 Tips

    Create Administrator Mode Shortcuts Without UAC Prompts in Windows 7 or Vista


    Create the Scheduled Task Item
    Open up Task Scheduler through the start menu search box (usually you can just type task), and then on the right-hand side click the “Create Task” link:

    Note: The Screen Shots shown below are for Vista but it is the same in Windows 7 as well.
    The first thing you need to do is give the task a short, simple name, preferably without any spaces in it. Then check the box for “Run with highest privileges” (very important)
    Now switch to the Actions tab, click the New button, and then browse down to the application that you are trying to start.
    Close out of the dialogs by clicking the OK button, which should create the new task in the list. You can right-click on it and choose “Run” at this point, simply to make sure that it launches the application the way you were expecting.
    At this point our scheduled tasks setup is done, so you can close out of that if you want as long as you remember the name that you used for the task.
    Create the Shortcut to Start the Task
    Right-click anywhere on the desktop and choose New \ Shortcut from the menu.
    Now here’s where the real magic happens we need to add a command that will run the scheduled task, passing in the name of the task that we used. As you can see, I used runregedit as the name for the task.
    Make sure you enter the task name like this, replacing the capitalized letters for the name of your task. (It’s not case sensitive)
        schtasks /run /tn “TASKNAMEINQUOTES”
    Now give your shortcut some useful name, and then click next to create it.
    At this point you should have a shortcut that will launch the application in administrator mode.
    But we can tweak it a bit more… open up the properties for the shortcut, and then change the Run drop-down to “Minimized” (to hide the schtasks command line utility), and then click on Change Icon.
    So now you have a nice looking icon that launches an application in Administrator mode with no prompts.

  • Windows 7 Tips

    Create a Shortcut or Hotkey to Open Task Manager’s “All Users” View in Windows 7

    Create the Task Manager Shortcut
    Right-click on the desktop or elsewhere, and then choose New \ Shortcut from the menu.
    Then in the shortcut location box, add the following command:
        taskmgr.exe
    Once you’ve added the command, go to the next screen and give the shortcut a useful name – I chose “Task Manager (All Users)” as the name since it seemed descriptive enough.
    Now right-click on the shortcut and open up Properties, where you can add a shortcut key if you’d like (note that the shortcut needs to be on the desktop or in the start menu for this to work)
    And now the most important step, click the Advanced button and choose the “Run as administrator” checkbox.
    Now you’ll have a shortcut that will immediately open up Task Manager to the all users view (after a UAC prompt).

  • Windows7 Tips

    Create a Shortcut or Hotkey to Eject the CD/DVD Drive

    Create a Shortcut to Eject the CD/DVD Drive

    Right-click on the desktop or elsewhere and choose New \ Shortcut.

    In the location box, put the full path to the nircmd.exe file that you downloaded, and append the “cdrom open” command to the end of it, adjusting the drive letter to match your disc drive:

        “C:\path\to\nircmd.exe” cdrom open D:

    Note the location of the quotes.. if you are using a path with spaces in it, you need to make sure the quotes are only around the path to the executable, and the arguments should be placed after the quote.

    Give the shortcut a meaningful name, like Eject CD or something like that, and you’ll have a new icon (read below on how to use the cd-rom icon as shown)

    You can move the icon to anywhere you’d like… double-clicking on it will immediately eject the drive.

    Create a Shortcut to Close the CD/DVD Drive

    You can follow the same exact instructions as above, but instead of “cdrom open” just substitute “cdrom close”.

    Assign a Hotkey to the Shortcut

    Now that we have a shortcut, we can assign a hotkey to the shortcut by right-clicking on the icon and choosing Properties. On the Shortcut tab you’ll see a place to assign the Shortcut key:

    Add in the shortcut key and close the dialog. As long as the shortcut is on your desktop you shouldn’t have to restart anything for the hotkey to work.

    Assign an Icon to the Shortcut

    If you click on the Change Icon button in the properties window, you can give the shortcut a more meaningful icon, perhaps the DVD one you see below.

  • Windows 7 Tips

    Create a Shortcut To Group Policy Editor in Windows 7

    If you’re a system administrator and find yourself making changes in Group Policy Editor, you might want to make a shortcut to it. Here we look at creating a shortcut, pinning it to the Taskbar, and adding it to Control Panel.
    Note: Local Group Policy Editor is not available in Home versions of Windows 7.
    Typing gpedit.msc into the search box in the Start menu to access Group Policy Editor can get old fast.
    To create a shortcut, right-click on the desktop and select New \ Shortcut.
    Next type or copy the following path into the location field and click Next.
        c:\windows\system32\gpedit.msc
    Then give your shortcut a name something like Group Policy, or whatever you want it to be and click Finish.
    Now you have your Group Policy shortcut.
    If you want it on the Taskbar just drag it there to pin it.

  • Energy Resources in Cityville

    Energy Resources in Cityville

     

    City ville Beginners Guide
    As we promised we have put together the guide of  Energy for Cityville .Energy is the most essential and indispensable part of the game to build houses, to collect rent or to harvest crops. Without energy points, the player will be able only to seed plots or to dispatch goods to the business buildings.
    Energy can be restored when the player levels up or if he uses the energy batteries, however these batteries will cost in-game cash. To restore the energy points in CityVille, the player can use various strategies and tricks.

    We can increase energy in cityville by Proper management in building your city in CityVille, this is the key to dominate the game, but proper allocation of resource will also maximize our energy in City ville, how efficiently you will use your resources in this game that much energy you will save and this will help to increase energy too, the low energy you will spent will be able to recover energy quickly.But then the energy refill every five minutes that was a little problem in playing this game so you better check this guide:

    The major energies source of Cityville include
    1. Waiting
    2. Batteries
    3. Visiting Friends:
    4. Collection
    5. Gifiting
    6. Daily Bonus
    Waiting

    The first logical option you will see to increase energy in city ville is waiting, The energy will be refill after every 5 minutes, as long as we wait that much our energy will refill 1 point at a time, which can be very annoying for some of us but for the people who don’t mind go ahead by all means
    Batteries

    Batteries are the main source of energy in the Cityville, which we can get from friends, as many friends you have you will be able to get more energy here. Batteries can also be purchased with Cityville cash, just go to city menu and use city cash. Just click “Build” and then the lightning bolt icon to access the Energy shop where you can buy Batteries that give either 3, 7 or 12 Energy for 3, 6 and 9 City Cash, respectively.
    Visitng Friends

     
    Like in Farmville,visiting friends daily grants you a whopping 3 Energy for nothing among other rewards like XP coins and Reputation points like same before we got Fuel, Mystrey Gifts etc in farmville, . The more friends you help, the more oomph you’ll have to do things back Home. Not to mention you’ll look good around your friends, who might come around and help you out some in return. (This is my favorite option Helping Friends around and in return our energy level will quickly increase)
    Gifitng
    It is a feature which is almost included in every Zynga Poker Game, here as i mentioned earlier gifts from friends may include batteries and other accessories, as much as you send gifts to other, you will also be entitled to get energy batteries too, or may your friends also send the gift in return to you. this will also help us to increase energy quickly, with the latter two locked until you reach certain levels.
    Collections
    As much as collections of gifts we had, we can sell out these gifts for energy battries. Play game normally and collecting from properties like the Toy Shop and Coffee House, but there’s a neat little feature called the Wishlist that might help. Here in this game go to collection menu you’ll see that every item in each Collection contains a small button that looks like the RSS symbol (bottom left of the Collection item menu).Make your Wishlist here by clicking on this button and then Click Share , this will broadcast your wish list and friends will help you to complete your wishlist
    Daily Bonus

  • Windows 7 Tips

    Remove Gadgets and Screen Resolution on Windows 7 Desktop Context Menu

    One of the first things you might notice in Windows 7 is the addition of the new Gadgets and Screen Resolution items to the context menu. The only problem is that you might not really want them there—so we’ll explain how to get rid of them.
    No clue what we’re talking about? If you are using Windows 7 and you right-click on the desktop, you’ll see a bunch of new items at the bottom:
    Remove Gadgets and Screen Resolution Items
    Normally removing items from a menu should be a simple registry hack. The problem, in this case, is that the new Windows 7 items are actually protected by special permissions making them annoying to remove—but using registry editor we can do it.
    Note: Before making any changes to registry always take a backup of registry.
    You’ll want to open up regedit.exe through the start menu search or run box, and then browse down to the following registry key:
    HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\DesktopBackground\Shell
    Once you’re there, you might notice that while you can see the three new items, you can’t remove or rename them.
    What we’ll need to do is give ourselves permission to the keys, starting by right-clicking on the DesktopBackground key and choosing Permissions.
    Now you’ll want to pretty much ignore everything in here, and click the Advanced button.
    Head to the Owner tab, click on Administrators in the list, and then check the box for “Replace owner on subcontainers and objects”.
    Make absolutely certain you’ve checked that box before you click Apply
    Now head back to the Permissions tab, and select Administrators in the list (which should say Full Control already), and check the box for “Replace all child object permissions with inheritable permissions from this object”.
    Make absolutely certain you select that checkbox before clicking Apply

    You’ll be prompted by Windows, asking if you really want to proceed. Click on Yes.
    And now, you should be able to rename or delete any of the keys.
    For example, to remove Gadgets and Screen Resolution from the menu, I’ve deleted both of those keys (after making a backup, of course).
    We now have a nice, clean desktop menu.

  • Windows 7 Tips

    Change Monitor Timeout From Command Line

    It drives me crazy when my monitors turn off while I’m watching a movie. If you want to quickly change the monitor timeout using the command line, it’s actually pretty simple.
    The powercfg utility can be used on the command line to change power configuration settings, including the monitor timeout, which is what we’ll use here.
    The command syntax:
    powercfg -Change -monitor-timeout-ac 120

    This will change the monitor setting to stay on for 120 minutes while on AC power. You can use -dc at the end to change the setting for when you are on battery power.

  • Windows 7 Tips

    Allow Only Certain Items or Hide them All

    The method below works well for removing certain items from the Control Panel. But if you only want to show a few items, you don’t want to type them all in. So instead select Show only specified Control Panel items.
    Then type in only the items you want to be shown. For example we only want Programs and Features, System, and Sound to be displayed.
    Now when you open Control Panel, only the items you want will be displayed.
    If you don’t want anything displayed at all for some reason you can do that as well. If you try to keep the value field empty, you’ll get the following error.
    So in the value field type in null then OK and close out of Group Policy Editor.
    Then when you open Control Panel.There’s nothing to see here.
    Removing items from Control Panel can be useful if you you no longer need an icon for an uninstalled item, want to clean out the clutter, or just don’t want users to see them.

    Again, always remember to create a Restore Point or backup the registry before making any changes to it!

  • Windows 7 Tips

    Prevent Windows Asking for a Password on Wake Up from Sleep/Standby

    If you’ve configured Windows to automatically log you in rather than having to enter a password, you might find it annoying that you still need to enter a password when your PC comes out of sleep mode. Here’s the quick fix.
    Make Windows 7 Not Require a Password on Wake
    Windows 7 makes the whole thing a lot easier—just head into Power Options in Control Panel, then click the “Require a password on wakeup” on the left-hand side.
    Then click the “Change settings that are currently unavailable” link

    Then you can click the “Don’t require a password” radio button, and make sure to Save your changes.

  • Windows 7 Tips

    Manage the Delete Confirmation Dialog box in Windows 7

    The confirmation dialog box that pops up when you want to delete a file or folder is meant to prevent accidental deletion of data. It can be a great thing in some situations, and very annoying in others. Let’s take a look at managing the messages and how to prevent users from turning it off.
    Turn Off Delete Confirmation Dialog Box
    If you’re a system administrator or a power user, having Windows pop up a confirmation screen every time you want to delete a file becomes annoying. To turn the messages off, simply right-click the Recycle Bin and select Properties.
    In the Recycle Bin Properties screen uncheck the box next to Display delete confirmation dialog the click Apply and OK.
    Prevent Users from Turning off Delete Confirmation Dialog Box
    Unless you know what you’re doing, it isn’t recommended to turn off the delete confirmation dialog box, as it can prevent accidental deletions. For beginner and novice users, taking the extra step of answering the confirmation message is quite important. We can change a setting in Local Group Policy Editor to make sure this safeguard is always on and can’t be turned off.
    Click on Start and type in gpedit.msc into the search box.
    Navigate to User Configuration \ Administrative Templates \ Windows Components \ Windows Explorer then double click on Display confirmation dialog when deleting files.
    You will want to Enable it to make sure it is always on and users can’t turn it off.
    After you close out of Local Group Policy Editor, go back to the Recycle Bin properties and you’ll see the dialog is enabled and grayed out so users cannot change it.
    You can also achieve the same setting through the Registry. Click Start and type regedit into the search box and hit Enter.
    In Registry Editor navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Policies \ Explorer then right-click and create a new DWORD value.

    Name it ConfirmFileDelete and give it a value of “1”. You’ll need to log off and back on again for the setting to go into effect.

    Again, these steps are not meant for beginners and unless you know what you’re doing there is no reason for you to try this. However, if you’re an experienced user and annoyed by the Delete confirmation box but want to make sure it stays enabled for others, these steps will help you out.