Disabling Windows XP's Services

You can make your computer start more faster, run more faster and more stable. By default, Windows run some services automatically when you start your computer, and i'm sure you don't need all of that Windows services and you may don't even know what are they used for... :)

Well, i will show you how to disabling some Windows services that i think it's less important, and of course i have a reason why some services isn't much important.

Sometimes, you can also stop some Windows service by delete its start up in regcleaner.

Firstly, Click Start - Run, and type "services.msc" (without quotes of course). You will see exactly the same with picture below:

1. Find "Automatic Updates" in name, this service is to "enables the download and installation of windows updates. If this services is disabled, this computer will not be able yo use the Automatic Update feature or the Windows Update Web site". If you think you completly satisfied with your Windows now, just double click it, stop it, and set Disabled in startup type.
2. Find "Computer Browser", this service is to : "maintains an updated list of computers on the network and supplies this list to computer designated as browsers. If this service is stoppde, this list will not be updated or maintained. If this service is disabled, any services that explicitly depend on it will fail to start". If your computer wasn't designed for a network, like notebooks or computer in your house, you don't need this services. Just stop and disabled this services.
3. Scroll down, and select "Help And Support". This service is to run Help And Support in almost all Windows program, if you disabled this service, you cannot run any Help tools, even in your MS Office. and I advice to expert user to disabled this service.
4. System Restore Service. I'm not recomended this service to stop or disabled, but I prefer to disabled this system restore service to minimize windows files in my hard drive. You can also disabled this service by right click My Computer - Properties - in System Restore tab, and check Turn off system restore on all drives.
5. and last is "Wireless Zero Configuration". This service used to provides automatic configuration for the 802.11 (WiFi) adapters. I recomended to stop and disabled this service for PC without WiFi adapters, and I don't recomended this service to stop and disabled for Notebooks, you will need this to connect to near HotSpot
   

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How To Check Your Memory?

If you wondered how to make sure you RAM (Memory) is OK? well, actually there is some ways to check it out. But firstly, if you found your computer sometimes shows "the Blue Screen Of Death (BSoD)" and Errors like PFN_LIST_CORRUPT and PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA and so on including include system stalls, reboots, and weird PC behavior are the signs of bad RAM.

Here is some tools to check your memory, just to make sure will you buy a new memory or not.. :)

Speed Up My PC - (FREE Scan)

Uniblue’s Speed Up My PC repair tool will scan your RAM for errors plus automatically free up memory where it can on top of a slew of other very useful performance tweaks. It’s a free download so it is a great diagnostic tool to try before anything else.

Memtest86

It might be a little difficult or the average user, but it isn’t a bad way to check RAM. It is a useful tool, this app runs tests on your RAM, checking it out for errors.

Once you have the latest version of Memtest86, then make a diagnostic disk make it bootable, then boot from it. The cool thing about it is that it loads before the PC loads Windows drivers and such. Hence, No BSod! As Memtest86 run and diagnoses your PC, any suggestion or fixes it comes with would give a clear idea if you have bad or good RAM.

Windows Memory Diagnostic tools

Not much different with memory86, just go and find out..

Re-Install your Windows :p

It might be a very dificult things to do, but it's so accurated. When you installing your windows, you will see a blue screen with a yellow bar move on as an indicator for copying windows files. If you sure your CD and your CD-ROM is in a good time, then the yellow bar is stopped in the middle of copying process and it says " "cannot copy ......", it's mean your memory has an error in his addresses when copying your windows file.. then, just buy another memory :)

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Secure your login account with "On Screen Keyboard"

So many web or webmail offer full security to protect your login. Some websites like marketiva or internet banking use Secure Socket Layer or SSL 128 byte encryption protocol, indicate with "https://" in websites address. Yahoo and Google mail is also using this encrytion protocol to serve more secure to your loggin account to make sure nobody can't decrypted what password did you typed while surfing on that web or webmail.

But even your websites using SSL 128 Byte, if your computer was infected by keylogger virus or trojan, it has the same dangerous. It was happen to me, when i logon into marketiva.com, i suddenly got disconnected by the streamer program because "i" was login in somewhere else (double login)!!, this was sure a bad moment at the time, someone stole my username and PASSWORD!!!...

So, i write this to make sure my experience not happen to you. Then how do i pass from this keylogger? Firstly, your have to sure that your antivirus is up to date and updated periodicly so you can also make sure your computer is cleaned from virus and trojan. Second, use "On Screen Keyboard" which you can find in Start - Program - Accessories - Accessibility - On Screen Keyboard.

 

Maybe it is ok to type your username directly by keyboard, but with password, maybe you should use this program for your own safety. 

 

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Resize Image in a Second

There are new and nice program called "ImageResizer". This small program is an additional program (add-ins) which created and developed by Microsoft. With this program, you can change picture size in a second, very fast and easy. Click here to download

Select the picture which you want to resize, and rigth click it. An pop up will show up, choose one of your need, and click ok. Your picture will now resize.. easy, isn't it?

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Windows Command Prompt (part 8)

Ok.. after 3 weeks i forget about this cmd part........ next command are:

• Label. Label is used to view or change (rename) the label of computer disk drive. You will get the same result with renaming or giving name in My Computer.
  Here is the syntax : label [drive:][label], so if you going to give name or rename your C:\ drive, just type:
  
  label C: system
  
  [label] can be anything you wish for.

• MD. MD is abbreviation from Make Directory. So it's clearly now that MD is used to creates a new directory/folder on your drive. Just type like:
  
  md music

• MKDIR. same as MD above :)

• MORE. is used to displays a long output in continued area. This command is used after another command in pipe (|). For example:
  dir | more
  net view | more
  etc

• MOVE. this is used to moves files and renames files and directory. There are two option that you can use, so the first option's syntax to move is move [/y | /-y] [drive:][path]filename destination. if you already inside the path, you don't need to write path anymore. For Example:
  
  move c:\windows\explorer.exe D:
  
  or, if you already in windows folder just type:
  
  move explorer.exe D:
  
  and, for rename usage, i advice you use REN command than this complex command :p

• PATH. Path is used to specify the location where MS-DOS looks when using a command. For example, when using the command "format", if the path is not specified to where the command is you will receive bad command or file name. Just type path and there it go

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Windows Keyboard Shortcut

Sometimes, you will find that using keyboard shortcut is more faster than using click on your mouse to do several thing on Windows. Now, I will show you all Windows keyboard shortcut for you to increase your effective and efficient on work and doing thing on your Windows Computer.

• Alt + Tab. Switch between open applications
• Alt + Shift + Tab. Switch backwards between open applications.
• Alt + double-click. Display the properties of the object you double-click on.
• Ctrl + Tab. With an application that has multiple sub tabs/document windows, this switch between tabs
• Ctrl + Shift + Tab. Same as above but backwards.
• Alt + Print Screen. Create a screen shot (image in clipboard) only for the active screen/program.
• Print Screen. Create a screen shot (image in clipboard) for your entire desktop.
• Ctrl + Alt + Del. Reboot the computer and/or bring up the Windows task manager.
• Ctrl + Esc. Bring up the Windows Start menu. In Windows 3.x this brings up the Task Manager.
• Alt + Esc. Switch Between open applications on taskbar.
• F1. Activates help for current open application.
• F2. Renames selected Icon.
• F3. Starts find from desktop.
• F4. Opens the drive selection when browsing or pull the list of drive selections
• F5. Refresh.
• F10. Activates menu bar.
• Shift + F10. Simulates right-click on selected item.
• Alt + F4. Closes Current open program.
• Ctrl + F4. Closes Window in Program.
• F6. Move cursor to different Windows Explorer panel.
• Ctrl + Space bar. Srops down the window control menu.
• Ctrl + (the '+' key on the keypad). Automatically adjust the widths of all the columns in Windows explorer
• Alt + Enter. Opens properties window of selected icon or program.
• Shift + Del. Permanent Delete - Delete programs/files without throwing them into the recycle bin.
• Holding Shift at Startup. Boot safe mode or by pass system files as the computer is booting.
• Holding Shift. When putting in an audio CD, will prevent CD Player from playing.
• Enter. Activates the highlighted program.
• Alt + Down arrow. Display all available options on drop down menu.
• * (on the keypad). Expands all folders on the currently selected folder or drive in Windows Explorer.
• + (on the keypad). Expands only the currently selected folder in Windows Explorer.
• - (on the keypad). Collapses the currently selected folder in Windows Explorer

• WINKEY. Pressing the Windows key alone will open Start.
• WINKEY + F1. Opens the Microsoft Windows help and support center.
• WINKEY + F3. Opens the Advanced find window in Microsoft Outlook.
• WINKEY + D. Brings the desktop to the top of all other windows.
• WINKEY + M. Minimizes all windows.
  
• WINKEY + SHIFT + M. Undo the minimize done by WINKEY + M and WINKEY + D.
• WINKEY + E. Open Microsoft Explorer.
• WINKEY + Tab. Cycle through open programs through the taskbar.
• WINKEY + F. Display the Windows Search / Find feature.
• WINKEY + CTRL + F. Display the search for computers window.
• WINKEY + F1. Display the Microsoft Windows help.
• WINKEY + R. Open the run window.
• WINKEY + Pause / Break key. Open the system properties window.
• WINKEY + U. Open Utility Manager.
• WINKEY + L. Lock the computer (Windows XP and above only).

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Re-Enabling Regedit

Sometimes, computer virus created protection so we can do several thing on our computer like opening Task Manager (Ctrl-Alt-Del), Start Up Configuration (MsConfig), Registry Editor (Regedit), or even to do "run" or "find" in your own computer!!.

But i won't go to far now. I assumed you understand what Regedit is, and you have any idea what does regedit used for. Here i will explain how to manually open regedit which had been closed by viruses, so you can repair your windows from damage causes by virus. (someday, i will write full tutorial to repair damage because of computer virus :D).

Copy this text into notepad and save it as .vbs file

dim yonatan
masuk()
sub masuk()
set yonatan = wscript.CreateObject("wscript.shell")
keterangan = "Pilihan:" & vbcrlf &_
"[0].Enable Regedit." & vbcrlf &_
"[1].Disable Regedit." & vbcrlf & vbcrlf &_
"[Program Karya Bangsa Indonesia]"
tanya = inputbox(keterangan,"Edit Regedit",0)
yonatan.RegWrite"HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion" &_
"\Policies\System\DisableRegistryTools",tanya,"REG_DWORD"
if tanya=1 then
msgbox "Registry Disabled",vbInformation,"Edit Regedit"
else if tanya=0 then
msgbox "Registry Enabled",vbInformation,"Edit Regedit"
yonatan.RegDelete"HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion" &_
"\Policies\System\DisableRegistryTools"
else
msgbox "Enter 0 or 1!",vbInformation,"Edit Regedit"
masuk()
end if
end if
end sub

This tiny program was created by Indonesia people to help repair computer because of virus's attack. After created that file, just double click it and enter "0" or "1" to Enable or disable The Registry Editor.

That's it :D

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e-Surveiller, Spy Sofware

e-Surveiller 1.6.8 is a System Monitor, get 4 Stars SoftSea Rating, e-Surveiller is a user-activity monitoring, logging and real-time surveillance software, that enables you to monitor several computer users on standalone computers on a LAN or across the Internet. You can view the desktop in real-time, log keystrokes, chat conversations, applications, web sites and more. The user activity logs can be automatically transferred, emailed or uploaded to an FTP server of your choice. e-Surveiller automatically creates customized installer packages that can be distributed to the remote computers where they can run in stealth mode without user intervention. You can monitor up to 10 machines from the administrative interface and view the screen of any station with a single click (more stations can be licensed).

search e-Surveilance on Google:

During the installation, you will be asked for stealth setting. There are 3 option, first option would allow you to monitoring another computer in local network. Next is to monitoring your own computer, then the last is to do variety of monitoring task. Here i will explain how to monitoring another computer in a Local Area Network, so we have to choose the first option.

 

In "Generate New Monitor" (Action - Generate New Monitor) choose the first option (On a LAN). Then Press Next. You will be asked for how many computers do you wish to install the monitor. There are two option depend on what you need. You can choose "on one computer" or "on several computer". In this case, i choose "on several computer". Fill the indentifier, description and monitor filename, you will find out what they are later. Press Next.

Just Press next again when you asked for Other Option.

In Bulid Location, you will asked in which folder do you want the Monitor Installer to be placed. press Next then Finish. Then, you will find an new monitor installer on folder you set before. Copy that, and install it in computer which you want to monitoring.

Open your e-Surveiller Station. If you had installed monitor installer on target computer, soon your Surveiller Station will show you connected computer on "Connected Monitor" tab. (If you can't see anything on connected monitor, just press F2) Just Double Click which computer do you want to surveilance and ta-ta... you will see another computer desktop activity in your computer.

 

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Delete Startup List with RegCleaner

This old program called RegCleaner, this was made and developed by Jouni Vuorio from 1999 until 2001 (quite old enough). Actually, this program is another thing from what we know as REGEDIT. Yes, Jouni Vuorio had find a nice way to make REGEDIT become more simple and attractive. Of course this program just can do several thing, not as much as what REGEDIT can do, but this is still better than try to find something which you want to delete or add in registry such as startup and other things.

Find RegCleaner here:

Now, If you want to delete a startup list more easier than using "msconfig", you can use this program. Go to Start Up tab, you will find your computer start up list there. Just give a mark to program(s) which you want to remove from startup list, and Remove Selected. You don't need to restart your windows and you get what you want.


This Program is also usefull when you are under attack by a virus to delete the viruses start up which you can't do it in MsConfig due to virus blocking. You can also delete some Windows start up services that you think you don't need that.



You can restore what had you remove by going to "backups" tab and restore your back up. Easy and simple right?

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Windows Command Prompt (part 7)

• FIND. Allows you to search for text within a file. Although MS-DOS itself is not case sensitive, when typing in the string that you are looking for with the find command, it is case sensitive.
  
  Additionally, this command is used to find text within a file, not the actual file itself. If you are wanting to search or find a file with a particular name, use the dir command. There are some parameters, /V to displays all lines NOT containing the specified string, /C to displays only the count of lines containing the string, /N to displays line numbers with the displayed lines, and /I to ignores the case of characters when searching for the string.
  
  For example:
  

find /c "REM" c:\autoexec.bat, The above example would find any "REM" statement in the autoexec.bat. or:

find "mate" *.txt, Next this example searches for any text file (.txt) that contains the text hope in the current directory. Below is an example of the output you may see

• FINDSTR. The findstr command is short for find string and is a command used in MS-DOS to locate files containing a specific string of plain text. There are so many parameters that you can use, it’s better to improve yourself to try on it one by one, makes you smarter :). However, I will give some example how to use this command

findstr "computer mate" myfile.txt

In the above example, any lines containing "computer mate" would be printed to the screen.

findstr /s "computer mate" *.txt

Similar to the first example, the above example would find any lines containing "computer mate" in any txt file in the current directory and all sub directories

findstr /x /c:"computer mate" *.txt

Match .txt files that contain an exact match on "computer mate"; therefore, files that contain "computer mates" or other non-exact matches will not be displayed. It is important to realize that using /x must be a line that exactly matches "computer mate"; in other words, if anything else is on the same line, it's not an exact match.

findstr /n /i /c:"computer mate" *

Search for any file containing "computer mate" regardless of its case and display the line where the text is found.

• FORMAT. This command use to re-format or erase all information in disk. I will just explain the format recovery disk in CMD, since doing format with click in windows explorer is more easy and get the same result, everyone prefer to use click than type :p.
  
  

format a:

Would erase all the contents off a disk. Commonly used on a diskette that has not been formatted or on a diskette you wish to erase.

format a: /q

Quickly erases all the contents of a floppy diskette. Commonly used to quickly erase all information on the diskette.

format c:

This would erase all the contents of your C: hard disk drive. In other words, unless you wish to erase all your computer's information, this command should not be done unless you're planning to start over.

• FTYPE. This command use equal with ASSOC. If assoc is showing what extension does that mean, FTYPE use to modified it. This was a little hard for me to understand :p.

aaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhh :P

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Windows Command Prompt (part 6)

No more words to say, let’s movin..

• DOSKEY, is a MS-DOS utility that allows a user to keep a history of commands used on the computer. This allows frequently used commands to be used without having to type the commands in each time you need to use it. By default, CMD is automaticly starts doskey, so you can straightly use up or down arrow to displays your command history. There are keyboard shortcut that you can use, press F7 to overview history, F8 to search command history, and “alt” + F7 to clear history
  
  
• ECHO. Echo is used to repeat the text typed in back to the screen and/or can be used to echo to a peripheral on the computer, such as a COM port. Type echo without parameters to show current echo setting.
  
  
• ENDLOCAL. Stops the localization of the environment changes enabled by the setlocal command. Ends localization of environment changes in a batch file. Environment changes made after ENDLOCAL has been issued are not local to the batch file; the previous settings are not restored on termination of the batch file.
  
  If Command Extensions are enabled ENDLOCAL changes as follows:
  If the corresponding SETLOCAL enable or disabled command extensions using the new ENABLEEXTENSIONS or DISABLEEXTENSIONS options, then after the ENDLOCAL, the enabled/disabled state of command extensions will be restored to what it was prior to the matching SETLOCAL command execution.
  
  
• ERASE. This command is exactly same with DEL, just different name.
  
  
• EXIT. Quits the CMD.exe program (command interpreter) or the current batch script. Just type “exit”, and your cmd will disappear.
  
  
• FC. Or file compare, is used to compare two files against each other. Once completed, fc will return lines which differ between the two files. If no lines differ, you will receive a message indicating no differences encountered. For example:
  fc c:\autoexec.bat c:\config.sys, Give a file comparison between the the config.sys and the autoexec.bat in the current directory.
  fc c:\autoexec.bat c:\config.sys /b, Give a file comparison between the the config.sys and the autoexec.bat in the current directory in binary format.

But, I think this command is no use anymore, since we could findout the different between two files from windows explorer.

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Windows Command Prompt (part 5)

There are a long way to finish this CMD tutorial. Step by step, command by command I’ve writed to you, againts all ods which come through me. Yeah, feel too lazy to do and boring is the main problem. But, this is a test for me…… hahaha…

Ok.. next!!

• COPY, Used to copy one or more files to another location. Simple example if you wanna copy your files in C:\Documents and Setting\a.doc to folder Files in drive D:
  
  copy C:\”Documents and Setting”\a.doc D:\files
  (Remember, you have to type the source files extension.)

There are space to sepperated between source and destination folder/file. For another example, if you already in source folder (C:\Documents and Setting\), you can straight to write filename, become:

copy a.doc d:\files

This command comes with some usefull option. Like /V to verify that the new files are written correctly, or /Y to overwrite your same filename in destination folder.

• DATE. Used to displays or sets the date. To view now date, just type
  
  date /t

If you just type date, cmd will bring you to enter the new date. Just press “enter” key if you don’t want to change the date

• DEL. Used to deletes files. DEL command is equal with ERASE command, they both also has the same syntax. For example, if you want to delete files named virus.exe, just type:

del virus.exe

this command comes with five option, there are /P, to give you a confirmation, /F to force deleting on read-only files, /S to delete specified files from all subdirectories, /Q for quite mode and /A to delete file with attributes. For Example, you want to delete a file named virus.exe which has read-only, hidden and system-files attribute. Just type:

del /f /q /arhs virus.exe

You can also use wildcard for this operation. Like del *.*, or del *.exe

• DIR. DIR is used to displays a list of files and subdirectories in a directory. This command with so many option, so I will explain which option that I think it’s important. but of course, you can just use DIR with no option.

/A, to displays files with specified attributes. Just like ATTRIB, there are five attributes. Example in use : dir /ah (to display hidden files/folders), dir ./as (to display system-files.

/O, to list by files in sorted order. You can order by Name (N), Extension (E), Group (G), Size (S), Date (D). Example in use: dir /on (to order by name), dir /od (order by date).

/T, to controls which time field displayed ir used for shorting, depends on Creation (C), Last Access (A), or Last Written (W). For example you want to know which is the last accessed file : dir /ta

You can pause DIR result using /P or “| more” (pipe). So, it would become dir | more, or dir /p. To continue, press enter key

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Windows Command Prompt (part 4)

Meet again huh? but i don't mind... you may think why i didn't write these windows command prompt post to become one post only?!, but for real, my mood which driving me to write, so thats why i didn't write it in one post.hehe...

lets started with next command.

• CLS. This one is used to Clear your screen, not your windows screen, but your cmd’s console screen. Just type cls, and see the result. This command comes with no option.
  When you had type a lot of command, cmd become so crowded and its make you a little headache, I think it is the time to use this command than take a deep breath to disappear your confuses. If this is doesn’t seems to work, maybe it’s time to press your windows key, the press “u”, and press “u” again. In other word, turn off your computer, and go to sleep for a while until you can handle your problem again
  
  
• CMD. This command is used to starts a new instance of the windows command interpreter in its own window. Because this command comes with so many option that I don’t understand most off them, one option that I understand is /T option, but this is not different at all with COLOR command, so lets moving on next command
  
  
• COLOR. Used to sets the default console foreground and background color. This command comes also with no option at all, but comes with color attributes. As you can see in its help, there are 15 color attributes which you can use to re-color your console.

For example, if you got bored with black background and gray font you can make it like Linux terminal which had white background and black font. Just type:

Color 70

First color “7” is for background and second “0” is for text. Just be creative for your mood. But, how to make it back to the default? Easy.. just close your cmd console then start – run – and type cmd there.

• COMP. Use to compare two files due to their both size, I think this command just created for this. Although I tried all of COMP option when I compare two files, didn’t seem different result on it.
  
  
• COMPACT. Used to displays or alters the compressions of files on NTFS partitions. I guess it is almost same with zip or rar program, but when I tried to compact small files, it make no changes. This command just effect big files only, not in “size” but in how did computer save files in harddisk. Do you understand? No? so am i.. hehe
  
  
• CONVERT. Used to converts your FAT volumes to NTFS. As you know, in windows, there are three type of how windows arrange files to save in harddisk (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/100108), FAT and NTFS are two of them. There are advantage and disadvantage to using FAT or NTFS, like compability to other OS and security issue (see CACLS - http://computermate.blogspot.com/2008/08/windows-command-promt-part-3.html)
  you can use some option like /FS /V /CvtArea, etc. But I really don’t suggest to use this command to convert from FAT to NTFS, its better to re-format your disk then choose FAT or NTFS.

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Windows Command Prompt (part 3)

Oke… Now let’s continue our lesson with CMD. In this tutorial, I didn’t add BREAK and CHCP command intentionally because I also didn’t understand what is that command for :). I’m not perfect… so let’s talk about what I know..haha (",)

• CACLS. This command use to Displays or modifies access control list (ACLs) of files. Let’s say your windows has more than one user Account, your account named “handsome” and your brother’s account named “ugly” for example. Your brother like to read your diary which you had wrote in MsWord so much, so you can’t even protect your privacy.

Now, with this command, you can protect your files so you become the one who can read your files!!!..

CACLS command uses with option, you can see it in its help. I will explain how to use it, furthermore, try it your self :). For example you wanna protect your diary.doc files from opened by your brother, (remember, you had go to your diary.doc’s folder first!):

cacls diary.doc /p ugly:N, that mean your brother account (ugly) is preventing from opening your files (N option), other option is R (read), W (write), C (change), F (full control). OR,

cacls diary.doc /d ugly, it’s same with /p but more simple and efficient :p

• CHDIR, this is used to change directory. Same as CD command

• CHKDSK, or check disk. Is used to check a disk and displays a status report. It’s same with analyze in disk defragment. This command need an administrator login. Can be use with /f option to fixes errors on the disk (but doesn’t work sometimes :p).
  

• CHKNTFS. Used to displays or modifies the checking of the disk at boot time, another command which is same with analyze in disk defragment (CHKDSK), but this one can add a schedules to check disk on next reboot.

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Windows Command Prompt (part 2)

after you know basic of CMD, now you are ready to use it. The main point from CMD is typing command with adding option (if necessary) and getting result. Sometimes CMD is more usefull than any other tools if we talk about manual not automatic, for example in use to delete virus or send a message to local computer.

Here is list, explanation and also an example from each command (as I said before, you can get explanation straight with typing “help command-name” or “command-name /h”), Remember, command in CMD is NOT case sensitive.

• ASSOC. if you find an extension of a file which you can’t find out what is it or what program should be opened to read it, you can use ASSOC. For example, you find a file with .rar extension and you don’t know what is it, you can type (of course in CMD):

“assoc .rar”, with out pick sign, and don’t forget it’s dot.

         You may find the result is : .rar=WinRAR, and BRAVO, now you know what program shoud be opened to open that .rar files.

• AT. Due to its help, the AT command schedules commands and programs to run on a computer at a specified time and date. The Schedule services must be running to use the AT command. So it’s clearly that this command is use to give a schedules to opening a program or even to shutdown your computer at a specific time.

The simple use of AT command is: AT time(AM:PM) command. For example:

at 01:55PM shutdown –s –f –t 0,

which mean you give a schedules to your computer to automaticly turn off him self at 01:55 o’clock.

        
         Or another example:

         at 01:55PM C:\”program files”\mirc\mirc.exe

           it will open mirc.exe also at 01:55PM. 

• ATTRIB. used to Displays or changes files attributes. There are option that you can use: +, -, R, A, H, S, /S, /D. you can read those option explanation in attrib help. example:

You want to hiding your files, named “dada.doc” in My Document folder, so you can go to My Document then type attrib –h dada.doc, but if you want supper hidden, you can add –s, become attrib –s –h dada.doc.

        
        Example 2:

If you want to hiding a My Documents folder, go one level up before My Documents, (if My Documents path on your computer is D:\My Documents, one level up mean D:\) then type: attrib –h /d “My Documents”.

If your flash drive is infected by Virus and all of your data is gone. But, wait, it’s probably not 100% gone, it may had been hidden by virus. How to know it? Go to windows explorer and change folder views in “Tools – Folder Option – choose View Tab”, mark “show hidden files and folder” and unmark “hide protected operationg files system”, then try to see inside your flash disk, if you can see your data again, it’s mean you have to use this ATTRIB command to restore your files and folder to normal. (go to your flash disk then type attrib –s –h /s /d *.*)

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Windows Command Prompt (part 1)

Because Windows is simple to use and has elegant and nice view, its become the most popular operating system in the world now. So many features and support to this operating system make working more efficient and faster. But sometimes efficient and faster is not the answer to learn, we dont learn something when we dont get the hard time.

Command Prompt (CMD) is something that can't be separated from windows - as we know operating system is started with something like command prompt many years ago - but now, it's become the "important" part for expert. So diffrent from usual people which use computer just for finish their work with MsWord or excel and finally they call a technician when their files has become "supper hidden" because of virus, besides to fix it by him self by using tools or "command promt". Yes, windows has support of his system and your files with so many tools to prevent from damage.

ok... Now i dont wanna just talk, lets start :)

Command Prompt can be found in: Start - Programs - Accessories - Command Prompt.
if this is your first time using CMD, dont confused, you will see a black screen with white font like this:

Here's the explanation from cmd. The blinking underscore is where you can type your command to get a result. Then, "complex spell" before the blinking underscore is path or directory where you are now in cmd. Confused? say you are using windows explorer, when you want to see your Corel Draw's program folder in your computer, you will point your pointer to "C:/" (your primary HardDrive) -- "Program Files" and then to "Corel" directory (you can see this corel directory address in "address" area in windows explorer right after you click that corel's program directory).

If we convert that address into CMD it's will become C:\Program Files\Corel>. So, if your cmd address now is "C:\Documents and Setting\Floo>" (floo is my computer name", could be everything depend on what your computer name) it's mean your cmd now pointing at Floo folder in Document and Setting in your Primary HardDrive (C:\), and floo directory or your computer ready to get order. Understand? yes Commandant :)

Now type your first command : help, it's will show all of cmd's command, and there you can see word incribed with "For more information on a specific command, type HELP command-name". For example you want to delete something with hidden attributes but you don't know how, so you can type "help del", (where "del" is command from delete), or del /?.

to go to one directory level up, you can type cd..

To go to the root directory you can type cd\

to go to another disk drive just type the directory with ":", like C:, D:, E:

to go to another folder, type cd plus folder name, but you must follow the path. for example you want to go to folder system32m you have to go to C: root first, then type cd windows, and last cd system32

one thing... if you want to go to a folder or open a file which have a space like Program Files or My Document, you must add apostrophe, so it would become cd "Program Files", or cd "My Document"

ok, enaugh for warming up about CMD, next lesson is command in CMD. Don't miss read an learn it :)

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