Folder Vault 2.1.3.207 - Folder/File Locker

Another computer's tiny program to hide or protect your files and folder and even to hide your drive. This Programs called "Folder Vault" created by gearboxcomputers.com. Folder Vault uses advanced folder locking & hiding technology to password protect folders and files. hide folder, lock folders, encrypt folders; ultimate windows file system security program.

This is a easy-use programs, just type your password and tada... you can controls your file in all of your harddrive in your hands. 

There are 4 main option in Folder vault, there are "Stealth", "Vault", "Select", and "Passwd". There is also "advance" menu which you can setting your Folder Vault setting, like Protection setting, History, Hack Prevention, Password Recovery, Automation.

Use "Vault" to lock your files and folders. Just copy your files or folder which you want to lock and then paste it in vault area. This is simple and secure. Another one is "Select" which also called as Hidden Item Manager. There, you can choose folder or drive that you want to hide, and this Folder Vault will hide it for you, there no need to copy-paste anymore.

This Programs Support FAT, FAT32, and NTFS files systems, Windows Vista / 2003 / XP / 2000 compatible.

Check out another Folder/Files Protector here

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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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Lock Your Folder Instantly

Do you have a really personal folder? you don't want anybody to open it?. Sometimes we made our folder hidden and made it as system folder, so you seem to foolish everyone with invisible personal folder, or maybe protect your files using CACLS in cmd (see here). Well maybe you should try this nice and easy to use program. Called Instant LOCK created by MTG Security, with the last version in 3.0. In this version, MTG claims that this program can use to serve multiuser/multi password interface, and each user can set/change his/her password independently from others, OR one person can use different passwords for different files.. Wow...!!

At the first time, you will be asked to enter your own password. This password will be asked everytime you wish to open this program, so don't forget the passwords, or you will lose you data too :p.

 

Then, Instant Lock program will open. Click "add" at bottom of program to add folder which you want to lock. Simply choose one, and your choosen folder will automaticly disappear from where it shoud be (Instant Lock didn't erase or supper hidden your folder, i guest this program move your folder somewhere else. That's why you can't see it even from cmd).

 

 

to Open the locked folder, just click "remove" and your folder with it's files will come back normally (shows "open" at status area).
 

I advice not to install or putting this program's installation destination in frozen partition/harddisk (Deep Freeze), because unknown destination does this program use to put the locked folder. It's not funny to locked your important folder and it's really disappear when you restart your computer because it's placed in frozen partition/hardisk.

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How to Kill Unstable Program

If you wonder that your computer has a great processor speed, a number of Gigabyte memory, and nice motherboard but why sometimes your computer seems work so slowly? for so many reason why, maybe there some program that works unstable. So, lets check it out. Press ctrl-alt-del at the same time (open task manager). At "process" tab, scroll down until you find image name (it's your program name) which have a big number at CPU. Here for example in my computer, Mozilla Firefox browser got unstable or almost crash because of something (i didn't mean to threw off on Mozilla!!), and if my computer seem to unresponding, it means i have to end task Mozilla Firefox program.

Every program can become unstable or crash everytime, even a program from microsoft it self. Note: "System Idle Process" will always give you a big number at CPU process, but it won't make your computer crash, it there for some reason, so it's better not to end task it for any reason :)

 

You can also use Cprocess to stop unstable program, and also a virus process. Sometimes you can open your task manager because the viruses has block task manager.

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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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Disable Copying to Flash Drive

Maybe you wondering how to make your files in your computer so it cannot be copy or move to Flash Disk? (in another case, you want to protect your data from getting copying by your enemies). Well, there is an answer for that.

By using REGEDIT (Registry Editor), you can do whatever you want with your windows (make sure you know what are you doing), also how to make your data cannot be copy or move to all flash disk.

Just go to “run” and then type “regedit” there, then find “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control
\StorageDevicePolicies”.


If you can’t find it, create it!!. At “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\” click “Edit” -> “New” -> “Key”, and give name it with “StorageDevicePolicies”



After that, Create another DWORD value same as how you create new Key, only this time you choose DWORD, not Key. Give name it with “WriteProtect”, double click it, at Value data enter 1.



That’s it. Restart your explorer.exe (you can find how to restart explorer.exe in another tutorial)

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Put Your Name Besides Time Indicator

Sometimes, it’s a wonderfull proud when your computer become different from other. :p. Now, I will teach you one of proud that you can show up your name beside the time indicator in task bar.

              

First, go to Registry by typing regedit in “Start – Run”. If you cannot open your registry, maybe it's blocked by virus. To re-enabling your registry, click here.

Then Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\International\

Look inside international folder, Scroll down until you find “sTimeFormat” key at the bottom of list. This key is used to format how your time will show up.

 

Now, Double click it, and a pop up editing windows will come. Just type your name after “tt”, then press ok. After that, close regedit editor.

Next, restart your explorer. Press Ctrl+Alt+Del (Task Manager) at the same time. At “Process” tab, find list named “explorer” and End it. Your icon, start menu and everything will gone, there will be just desktop and this task manager. Press File and “New Task (Run…)”  then type explorer, and press enter. Ta-da!! Your name has already there!!

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Send Messages in Local Area Network

By defult, Windows comes with messenger services which allow you to send messages via CMD in a local network area. But Windows didn’t make it enable, you have to enable it manually.

To enable it, go to “start” – “run”, or just press windows key + r, then type services.msc, and of coure press enter key!, you don’t wanna sitting there all day watching your computer huh?hehe.

Services.msc is a computer services management, there you can enable or disable services you desire to active or not, and one of the services which you have to make enable to use messenger in local area network call “Messenger” too.

So, scroll down until you found messenger, and double click it. In “start up type” Change from disable into automatic or manual, then click apply. Click Start on Services status, finally press OK.

Now open Command Prompt (CMD), and you can use net send command to send messanges to another computer. Here is the syntax:

net send [computer name] [messages]

for example:

net send computer18 hay, may I know your name?

computer name is depends on target computer name, you can see it by typing net view in cmd. And ta..ta,, you know her/his name now…. :)

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