Wednesday, 6 August 2014

Lock your Computer with USB using Password Booster Screen Lock

Using Win + L to lock your computer is boring nowadays because every time you need to unlock your computer you need to enter password. It is frustrating sometimes. So its a cool idea to make your system unlock without entering password, just you need to do is plug your USB drive and your Computer get unlock, isn’t it cool…!


What is Password Booster Screen Lock ?

Password Booster Screen Lock is a small software program that lets you lock/unlock your computer using USB drive. You don’t need to enter password every time you want to unlock your computer. It minimizes your work of typing a password every time when you are waking up your system from sleep or lock mode.

How to use Password Booster Screen Lock ?

It is very easy to use software program and anyone can handle it with ease. It gets automatically enabled when you install it in your computer. After installation you can see a green icon in your system tray. Download it from here.

*. After installation click on the green icon to see the window for your USB drive setup.

password booster icon
*. Now click on Setup and then select Enroll a flash drive then connect your USB flash drive. It will automatically detect the flash dive and configure it for locking/unlocking purpose.

setup usb
*. Now whenever you remove your USB flash drive your computer gets automatically locked and connecting it will automatically unlock your computer.

You can enable or disable it by simply right clicking on the icon from the system tray. That’s it! you are free from the boring password unlock.

Sunday, 3 August 2014

Hide or Blur your Windows

You are in the situation where you may need to hide your personal work from others like friends or family or just need to hide from anyone. But you are not able to do this normally, but don’t worry you are now do this and you may not need to take your computer to sleep every time.

One software tool is in a help for you for this. Name of the software tool is AntiSnooper. AntiSnooper is available for everyone to use. You have an option to purchase it or you can use it freely. This is very simple to use software that anyone can use easily.

How to use AntiSnooper ?

AntiSnooper is very easy to use you can download it from their official website here.

*. After installation you will be presented with the Window as shown in the screenshot below.

antisnooper

*. All the active programs will be shown in that Window. You can see the currently active window there, when you are working on it.

*. Now click on the green plus icon and your program will be protected with AntiSnooper.

*. When you remove your cursor from that program you can see that its window becomes blurred.

blurred facebook window

*. For removing protection again click on that icon and your protection will be removed.

You are now protected with AntiSnooper. It’s very cool to use and protect your privacy. Use it and share with friends.

Thursday, 31 July 2014

How to Remove files waiting to be Burned to Disk Error

When you are burning files on CD/DVD and if some files not burned properly on the disk you may cause the error like this. This error shows near your system tray and you can’t able to remove that kind of error.

This kind of error have to be fix by most of the Windows users but unable to fix it after removing CD/DVD and completed burning files to it.

What is the cause of this error ?

This error cause due to temporary storage of files into your systems temporary storage folder. If you didn’t burn some of the files that stored into that folder then this error continue to show near your system tray.


burn files

How to fix the error ?

Fixing this error is not that much hard thing to do. You are now able to fix this error by using simple Run commands or by just opening the folder.

*. Open Run directly by pressing Win + R. Now type shell:cd burning and press Enter.


shell burning

*. You will prompt a Window in which temporarily files were stored during burning process. You just need to delete that files and you are done.
OR

*. Open the folder located at C:\Users\<Username>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Burn\Temporary Burn Folder and delete all the files stored in that folder.

Note: This folder is hidden by default and may not open directly, so first check that you have checked show hidden files and folder option from folder and search options.


You are now able to fix this issue easily and not teased with this issue again.

Monday, 28 July 2014

GIF Screen Recording using Recordit

There are lots of tools available for Windows that are very useful in your day to day life. One of them is Recordit. It is a very easy to use software for Windows by which you can capture your screen in GIF file i.e. you can record your screen activities in the form of GIF files and save them or upload them on the web.

As GIF files don’t need more space they are easy to share on the Internet and you can able to make videos of your screen activities with this simple tool Recordit.

How to record your screen in GIF

You need Recordit software for making your GIF videos of your computer screen. It is free software for Windows. You may direct upload GIF files to the Recordit servers from where you can further use the file on the web or download it for your own use. It is available in a free as well as a paid version. We are discussing about the free version now.

With free version of Recordit you can record the computer screen for upto 5 minutes which more than enough for any GIF file. You can download Recordit from here.

*. After downloading and installing you will see a small camera icon in your system tray. You just need to click on that and then select the area for recording and click on Record button.

camera icon

*. Once you are done with the recording you can click on Stop button to stop the recording or you can also click on flashing icon for Stop from your system tray.

stop icon

*. Now Recordit will automatically upload the video on the server after which you will be notified by a small system tray icon. You can click on it to view the video.

uploading video

*. To download the created video you must click on the GIF button on the bottom right corner of the video player and then right click on the GIF file opened and then click on Save image as.

*. You can view previously created videos by clicking the Recent Screencast menu from the system tray icon.

screencast icon


Recordit is very easy to use software by which you can create your free GIF screen videos which are very small in size. So enjoy creating GIF videos of your computer.

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