How To Change Icon Of Pendrive

We all like icons. We use them to our folders as it looks awesome to see your favourite icon on your folder rather than seeing that boring window's default folder icon. It also helps to identify folders uniquely.

Imagine what if you can change icon of your pendrive, someone plugs in your pendrive and booooooom!!! Your favourite icon instead of windows default icon looks awesome!! Well,you can change icon of your pendrive and make it looking awesome.Just follow the steps given below.

Steps:

• First of all, you will need a icon. Download your favourite icon from internet with extension ".ico". 
• Remane that icon file to "logo" without quotes. The full file name with extension is "logo.ico".
• Copy that file to your pendrive's root directory.
• Open Notepad and copy and paste the text given below in the text box to notepad.

[autorun] Icon=logo.ico

• Now, go to file>Save as...
• Make the following changes and then save the file.

File Name : autorun.inf

Save as type : All files

Encoding : Unicode

• Copy and paste that file to your pendrive's root directory.
• Now, to see changes, remove your pendrive and again plug in.
• Your icon is set to your pendrive. :)

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How to activate Gmail Preview Pane

There are millions of Gmail users each day mailing to someone and getting lots of mails. They all know that when one wants to read each mail, it is irritating to open each mail then again go to back and again open new mail. This process sucks!

Many people don't know much of Gmail. They just use it to mail. that's it! But one should know that Gmail provides so many features and functionalities other than only mailing. Today I am going to share about one of those features.

Gmail provides a Preview Pane mode that can help to solve the problem mentioned above. Many people don't know about it. Preview Pane will split your Gmail screen in to 2. One for mails and One for previewing selected mail. It can be vertically or horizontally. You can set as you want. Just follow the easy steps given below. 

Steps:

• Open Gmail in your browser and click on setting button and go to settings.

• Go to "Labs" tab. Now search by writing "Preview Pane" in search box without quotes.

• It will show result of preview pane. click on Enable radio button and then click on save changes button as shown below.

• After clicking on save changes button, it will auto refresh Gmail. if it doesn't refresh automatically then refresh the page manually.
• Now, you will see a Preview pane on your Gmail. Click on any mail to open it in preview pane. you can switch through mails without going back to open new mail.preview pane will display mail you click on. 

• You can change Enable/Disable preview pane by a button provided right upper side. You can also can the view mode of pane to horizontal/vertical/No split.

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How To Track Your Mail sent by Gmail

We all are using Gmail mostly to mail someone. Suppose that you are sending an important mail to someone and you want to know whether he/she has seen it or not. Gmail hasn't that kind of feature like whatsapp and other chat messanger in which you can see the status of message like "send,received,seen".

With an extension, you can actually track your mail whether it has been seen or not. this extension provides some free features in basic version and has also a premium version. It almost provides tracking correctly 99%. Some mails cannot be tracked by this but its possibility is only 1%.

The is an chrome extension forGmail named "Mail Track For Gmail" for web store. Link for that extension is given below. 

Download From Here

Steps:

• Go to the link given above and install the extension.

• After installation. Open Gmail website or refresh it if it is already opened. It will ask to Active Mailtrack. Click on activate mailtrack. and it will redirect to sign in option. just sign in with your google account and allow permissions.

• Now, refresh Gmail. There will an icon of mailtrack that shows that the service is enabled.

• Now, all the mails you send can be tracked and you will know if your mail is read by receiver or not. When you will write a new mail, there will be a signature of mailtrack in mail like shown below.

• Whenever your mail is read by receiver, you will see a double green tick mark just like whatsapp.

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How to send Password Protected mail using Gmail

We all use mail various services today very frequently. Gmail is famous among all. We share information related business, education, entertainment, private info, etc. The point is to provide security. If you have sent a mail containing some private stuff to someone and you want that the other person only can see that stuff. What if someone is spoofing on the other person or is reading your mails!!

Well, to solve that issue, there is a way to encrypt the mail you are sending with a password!! You can encrypt the mail with password and then send it. Now it requires the password you set to decrypt the mail text at receiver side. So no other than the person that you want to send cannot read your mail. 

To do that, There is an chrome extension for gamil named "Secure Mail for Gmail" for web store. You and receiver both must have to install the extension in order to encrypt and decrypt the mail. Link for that extension is given below. 

Download From Here

Steps:

• Go to the link given above and install the extension.

• After installation. Open Gmail website or refresh it if it is already opened. It will show a Locked/Secure button at the right side of the compose button.

• Click on that button to write an encrypted mail.

• Write your mail and click on Send Encrypted button after finishing your mail. Now, it will ask for a password to encrypt the mail.

• Click on Encrypt $ Send button to send. Now, your mail has been sent in encrypted form. No one can read it without password.(Receiver must need to install the same extension in order to decrypt the mail. If receiver have not the extension than a link to install that extension will be sent along with the mail you have sent. so don't worry about that :) )
• Click on received mail to decrypt it. It will ask for the password to decrypt it.

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How To Create Shutdown, Restart, Log Off, Suspend and More Shortcuts on Windows Desktop

We all use shortcuts today to do our tasks quickly. Generally to Shutdown/Log off/Hibernate/Restart, we use Start menu to access these option or we use keyboard shortcut Alt+F4 to open menu for these options. 

The other way is to create shortcuts of these options on desktop or wherever you want so you can use them by just double clicking on it!! You can also assign an icon to them.

Here i will show you how to create a shortcut of these options and how to change their icons. I am taking example of shutdown.

Steps:

• Right click on desktop and go to New>>Shortcut.
• In the Create Shortcut Setup Wizard, copy the code given below(without quotes) in the box. (Here "00" is timer in seconds as time system will shutdown after the given time. you can change if you want)

"Shutdown -s -t 00"

• Click Next. In next wizard, Give a name to shortcut whatever you want. I am giving name Shortcut as its shortcut for shutdown.

• Click on Finish. Your shortcut is created. Now, you can set a icon to it.
• To set icon, right click on that shortcut and go to properties. In properties wizard, go to change icon and select a icon for your shortcut and click OK.

Other Codes : 

Copy it without quotes

• Restart :  "Shutdown -r -t 00"
• Log Off : "Shutdown.exe -L"
• Hibernate/Suspend : "rundll32.exe PowrProf.dll, SetSuspendState"
• Lock : "rundll32.exe user32.dll LockWorkStation" 
• Enable Firewall : "netsh.exe firewall set opmode enable"
• Disable Firewall : "netsh.exe firewall set opmode disable"

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How To Download Any Website Offline

We uses many websites to get information today. Some websites we visit frequently and some we don't. We all have some websites that we use often in a day. You need internet to open any website every time. Its very boring to access your website in slow internet. But what if you need information from your website and there in no network connectivity?

What if you can access your website offline!! Yes, it is possible with a software called HTTrack. HTTrack is website copier that we can copy website for you to use it offline.

HTTrack is a free and easy-to-use offline browser utility.It allows you to download a World Wide Web site from the Internet to a local directory, building recursively all directories, getting HTML, images, and other files from the server to your computer. HTTrack arranges the original site's relative link-structure.

Simply open a page of the "mirrored" website in your browser, and you can browse the site from link to link, as if you were viewing it online. HTTrack can also update an existing mirrored site, and resume interrupted downloads. HTTrack is fully configurable, and has an integrated help system.

Download it from here : HTTrack Website Copier

Steps:

• Open HTTrack application after installation.
• Click on Next.
• Give Project Name you want. It is preferable to give website's name to identify it when downloaded.Click Next.

• It will ask for website address. Enter the URL of the website you want to download offline.

• Click Next and then Click Finish. It will start downloading your website.

• It will take time depending on your website how big is. Once it is downloaded you can access it offline. To open your website, go to C://My Web Sites//<Project Name>. Here, <project name> is the folder with the project name you had given while downloading.
• You will find a HTML file named "index.html". You can access your website from this file. Double click on it to open your website.

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