How to hide Drives from Windows Explorer

Sometimes you have a private data that you needs to be hidden so you use hidden feature of Windows to hide some private files. But if you need to hide entire drive then you may face some difficulties. You are very well aware of hiding files in Windows but, did you know you may also hide your drives from appearing in the Windows Explorer.

For protecting your privacy in this post you will able to know about hiding drives in Windows.

How to hide drives ?

There are certain tricks by which you can hide drives from Windows explorer but from these tricks you will have to edit windows registry. For any advanced Windows user this is an easy task but for a normal user it is somewhat tough.

Fortunately a tool that doesn’t needs to tweak registry is available for you. This tool is NoDrives manager which is a free and simple to use and and can help you hiding your logical drives in Windows Explorer. But note that if you type the name of the drive in the Windows Explorer then it will be shown to you, so keep your drive name private for make it inaccessible to others.

Following steps will help you more.

*. Download and install NoDrive manager from here.

*. Run NoDrive manager and select the drive you want to hide and click on Save changes to hide the drive.

*. Now you will be prompted with a dialog box instructing you to restart your PC or log off and log in it again for the changes to take effect.

*. Now just restart or log off your system and your drives will be hidden.

*. To recover hidden drives uncheck the checked hidden drives and click on save changes and restart or log off your system.

Along with the drives on windows, the tool can also be used to hide CD / DVD drives. You can also assign a password protection to NoDrives Manager application for your security after assigning password nobody can access the application or hide or unhide drives without your permission.

That's it from the easy tutorial for hiding drives from your Windows explorer to protect your private data from others. Hopefully you should enjoy doing it.

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How to find out details of website for safe browsing

Everyday we deal with different websites for different kinds of information. Mostly we don’t care about a website and don’t know how safe it is to browse. Sometimes some websites may be infected with suspicious content that can harm your system. Although you trust the site you must identify about it’s protection for your own safety.

In the past it is very easy for the user to find out the harmful websites because of the poor designing of websites and annoying notifications but nowadays with the mastered improvement in the designing of such harmful websites may confuse anybody and they may not easily detectable for a normal user.

Fortunately for a user there is an easy solution in the form of a browser extension named WOT.

What is WOT ?

WOT is a browser extension that is available for all popular browsers like Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera. WOT notify users about a website whether it is safe to browse or not. Once installed, the extension icon appears on your browser and changes color of it according to ratings provided by millions of users for that website around the world.

 

Download links for WOT

For Google Chrome
Download Link 

For Firefox
Download Link

For Opera
Download Link

If a website is harmful, the extension will show a red light and in case it is completely safe, it will display a green light. 

Apart from the browser icon WOT also displays a icon near search result links to alert you before you click on that link. It’s also a very amazing feature of WAT that help you protecting yourself before clicking any link.

Being an experienced web user or a newbie to the Internet all the users can protect themselves with this extension. So enjoy safe browsing on the Internet.

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Identify details of song used in YouTube video

All of you watch lots of videos on Internet and mostly YouTube as it is the most popular and amazing video sharing community that powered by search giant Google. Lots of the time when we are watching different videos on YouTube there are certain songs or music included in the background of videos but we didn’t able to understood from where it was taken. 

Mostly when the popular artist’s song or popular music in the background then it’s easy to find out the details but the music of certain advertisements and random user content won’t be find out easily. This kind of difficulties can be overcome now.

You don’t need to be worry for this now because here is the solution for you. For solving this problem you have to give a try to Audentifi.

Audentifi is a audio identifying service for YouTube which can help you identifying unknown audio from YouTube videos.

How it works ?


Audentifi is a simple and easy to use service. You have to just copy and paste the YouTube URL in the input box provided and click on Identify songs.

Audentifi will now scan the song used in YouTube video and if it is identified by Audentifi then it will show the song and artist name. Also you will be presented with the link to purchase the song from Amazon or Itunes. Alternately, you may search for that song on Internet to download it for free.

Since it is a new service we can’t say it a perfect service but it is very good service. Most of the cases it identifies the audio which is unknown to us.

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Universal Viewer: Open different format files with single program

Different format of files needs to be open by a particular program, for example if you are playing any mp3 format audio then by default it open in Windows Media Player and a pdf document needs to be open by Adobe Reader. But think about a situation where you have to open certain file with some kind of file format and you don’t have the software to open that file so, what you will do? Obviously you will search for that software on the internet or take it from your friend or relative. But that is a very time consuming process, isn’t it! But the solution for this is Universal Viewer.

What is Universal Viewer ?

Universal Viewer is a software which may help you in such situations where you need to open specific file instantly and you won't have the software to open it. It is just one program that you will need to open different kinds of files with ease. You can open different file format files with this software if you don’t have the program to open the file. Universal Viewer supports different file formats such as .doc, .pdf, .mp3, .avi, .mkv, .xls, .ppt, .flv and lots more.

How to use it ?

It is very easy to use software program. You can download it from here and the follow the normal installation procedure to install the program and you are ready to go.

Whenever you need to open any file you can open Universal Viewer and open the file from file menu.

OR

Right click on any file that you want to open and select Universal Viewer and your file will be opened.

That's it! it's nice to have a program like this isn't it? It minimizes the work of downloading extra softwares.

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