How to create custom Hotkey for your favorite software program, file or folder

Keyboard shortcuts to open a file or folder or a specific software is called Hotkeys. Hotkeys save time and effort. It is used to perform task quickly. Windows has various predefined hotkeys for various applications but what if you want to assign your custom hotkey to your favourite application, file or folder?

Well, Windows has the feature that you can your custom hotkey for your favourite application, file or folder. You can assign your custom hotkey in two ways:

1. By using any of Function key.
2. By using combination of Ctrl + Alt/Shift + (any other key).

The problem with first method is that the function keys are already assigned to some applications/functions so you may not want to replace that.

You can use second method efficiently but there is also some hotkeys already assigned like "Ctrl + C to copy","Ctrl + S to save", etc. You should not want to replace these hotkeys. 

So, best way to use is Ctrl + Alt + (key). Because there is less chances of conflict in this combination. One thing to keep in mind is that you can only assign hotkeys to shortcuts of application, file or folder. You must need a shortcut of your favourite application, file or folder to assign a hotkey. Follow the steps given below to assign your custom hotkey to your favourite application, file or folder.

Steps To Assign A Hotkey To An Application:

• Fortunately, you don't need to create shortcuts for applications available in Start Menu.
• So, open Start Menu.
• Right click on the application you want to assign hotkey for, and go to More>Open file location.Now right click on application shortcut and go to Properties.(Windows 7 users, go to Start Menu and right click on application and go to Properties.)

• In properties dialog box, select “Shortcut key” text box.
• Enter the key you want to assign and windows will automatically add Ctrl+Alt in beginning.

• Click OK and boom!!! Your hotkey is assigned to your favourite application. You access them by pressing your hotkey. :)

Steps To Assign A Hotkey To A File/Folder:

• As you can assign hotkey only to shortcuts, you must need to create a shortcut for your file/folder.
• To do that, One way is right click on your file/folder and go to Send>Desktop(Create Shortcut). It will created a shortcut to your desktop. Second way is right click on your file/folder and select Create Shortcut option. It will create a shortcut in the same directory where your file/folder is.

• Now, right click on the shortcut and go to properties. 
• In properties dialog box, select “Shortcut key” text box.
• Enter the key you want to assign and windows will automatically add Ctrl+Alt in beginning.

• Click OK and boom!!! Your hotkey is assigned to your favourite file/folder.

Note: You must not delete the shortcut you have created otherwise the hotkey will not work.

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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 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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How To Copy Larger than 4GB file to a Capable Pendrive

Have you ever faced the problem that you are trying to copy a single file larger than 4 GB to your pen drive but it cannot copy even if there is free space more than 4 GB. The error says that the file is too large for the destination file system as show below.

It happens mostly with pen drives with FAT32 File System. The reason behind this problem is limitation of pen drive's file system FAT32. FAT32 only supports less than 4 GB files.

To do it, pen drive shouldn't be FAT32. Instead we can make it NTFS. Windows drives are also NTFS. That is why a file larger than 4 GB can be stored on your hard drive. NTFS supports larger than files 4 GB. To convert in NTFS we must have to format pen drive with NTFS file system.

Before beginning, move your important data to your computer because all data will be lost as we are formatting the pen drive. 

Formatting pen drive with NTFS will not affect the performance or anything of pen drive. Note that you can always re-format it with FAT32 in similar way once you have done your transfer of file. Follow the steps to format your pen drive with NTFS.

Steps:

• Go to My Computer/This PC and Right click on your pen drive. Select "Format" option.
• In the Format Menu, click on "Restore device defaults".
• Now, Select File System with NTFS option.

• Click on Start button to format. Now your pen drive is in NTFS file system. You can copy larger the 4 GB files to your pen drive now.

• To re-format it with FAT32,  Select FAT32 option under File System Menu.

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How To Install Dolby Digital Audio On Windows 10,8.1,8,7 on any Laptop/PC

Everyone wants High quality audio for their laptops/PCs. But not all devices come with high quality audio like Dolby/Dolby Digital Plus Sound. Here, I am sharing a tutorial for people who want Dolby for their Laptops/PCs. There 4 versions of Dolby Audio Listed Below. You can use any one you want but i will prefer to Dolby Digital Plus Advance Audio for any random Laptop/PC as it gives best performance according to my experience and guide is also for that. To install Dolby, you must Disable Driver Signature Enforcement first. So lets start, Follow the steps given below.Windows 7 doesn't need to disable driver signature enforcement so you can skip those steps and continue with steps to install Dolby.

List:

1. Dolby Digital Plus Advance Audio
2. Dolby Digital Plus Home Theatre
3. Dolby Advance Audio v2
4. Dolby Home Theatre v4 

Downloads:
Download any one you want to install for your Laptop/PC.

• Dolby Digital Plus Advance Audio - Download
• Dolby Digital Plus Home Theatre - Download
• Dolby Advance Audio v2 - Download
• Dolby Home Theatre v4 - Download

Steps:

* To Disable Driver Signature Enforcement:

• Hold Windows Key and press I key(Win+I).It will open Settings in windows 10,8.1 and 8.
• Now, Go to Update & Security tab.

• In Update & Security tab,go to Recovery and under Advanced Start-up option , click on Restart Now button.

• Your PC/Laptop will be restarted and show a Advance startup Screen. Click on Troubleshoot tab.

• Now, Click on Advanced Option tab.

• Click on Startup Settings tab.

• Now, Click on Restart button.

• Now, Your PC/Laptop will restart again. While restarting, it will show Startup Setting shown below. Press key 7 to disable driver signature enforcement.(press the number key that has this option if your option is not on 7th number).

* Steps To Install Dolby:

• Download your desired Dolby file from downloads section and extract it anywhere you want.
• Your PC/Laptop will start with this settings. Now, Go to Start>Control Panel>Device Manager.

• Double Click on "Sound, video and game Controllers" tab.

• There will be your Sound drivers as per your system. In most of case, It will be "Realtek High Definition Audio". Right on your sound driver and select "Update driver software..." option.

• A window will open and ask to select driver software shown below. Click on "Browse my computer for driver software" option.

• In next window, Click on "Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer" option.

• In next Window, Click on "Have disk..." button located on right lower side of window.

• In next window, Select "Browse" button on right lower corner.

• Go to extracted folder of the file you have downloaded.Go to 32 bit/64 bit>Drivers and click on Open button.(Select 32 bit/64 bit depending on your operating system.)

• Now, click on Ok button.

• Select Model from list that you want to install and click on Next button.

• It will ask for a warning "Update driver warning".click on Yes button to continue.(For windows 7 users : there will be a popup of windows security after this step.Simply click on "Install this driver software anyway"option.)

• Now, the driver software will be installed. It will take a few minutes to install. As installation completes, click on Close button.

• Now, check your driver software in device manager. It is changed from "Realtek High Definition Audio" to Dolby.

• Now, go to the folder that you have extracted. Go to 32 bit/64 bit>Setup. Double click on ".msi" file to run it.(Select 32 bit/64 bit depending on your operating system.)

• Now, in the installation click Next.

• Tick check box of "Create a shortcut for this program on the Start Menu" and click Next.

• Click on Install button.

• Wait for installation to complete.When installation is completed, right click on speaker icon on taskbar and select "Playback devices" from the menu.

• In the new window of Sound, Double click on Speakers. It will open Speakers Properties.

• Click on Dolby tab.

• Click on Power button.

• Click OK and you are done :)

• Dolby is installed and activated. To open control panel of Dolby, go to Start>Dolby>Dolby Digital Plus.

• You can set settings as per your requirement for different categories given in control panel. You can also set 2 Custom settings as your choice.If you are facing any problem following the steps given then feel free to ask. Enjoy Dolby :)

Video Guide for Installation:

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How To Save Windows Spotlight Lockscreen Wallpapers And Use As Wallpaper

Windows 10 has a unique feature called "Windows Spotlight". It shows a group of pre selected photos by Microsoft on lockscreen. You can save them for later use including on your phone,laptops and PCs. Spotlight images are cached on your local PC and hidden in a particular folder. To save them to use as wallpaper, just follow the simple steps given below.

Steps:

• Hold Windows Key and press R key(Win+R). It will open Run Dialog Prompt.

• Now, Enter the following command without quotes and hit Enter. It will open a  folder where all spotlight files is stored as cache.

"%localappdata%\Packages\Microsoft.Windows.ContentDeliveryManager_cw5n1h2txyewy\LocalState\Assets"

• Now, Copy and Paste all files to your desired folder.
• You need to give JPG Extension to all files. To do that follow steps below. 
• Hold Shift key and Right click on the blank space of folder. Select "Open command prompt here" option. It will open a command prompt in the current directory.

• Type this command without quotes and hit Enter.

"Ren *.* *.jpg"

• Now, all files are converted to ".jpg" format. There will be some junk files along with wallpapers those aren't images at all.

• Delete them. Remaining files are your spotlight wallpapers cached on your laptop/PC. 

• There will be some portrait images also. You can use them as your smartphone's lockscreen wallpaper.
• Quantity of images depend on how many Spotlight images were produced/cached on your PC. You can re-run this tutorial every couple of weeks for new images.

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