How to select any audio track as default track in VLC Media Player

Friends, you must have noticed that even after changing the audio track of a video in VLC media player, when you open it again , you find that it is running with its default audio setting. —which is especially annoying when watching a series and you have to change language for every episode.

Fine-tune the VLC to set your desired audio track as default audio track :-

1. Open VLC Media Player and open a media file.

2. Go to Tools >> Preferences

3. Click on Audio and you will see a dialogbox like this 

4. In the Preferred Audio Language write the  “EN” without the quotes for English language. As far as we know, you could also use “en”, or “English”, but this is what we tested with. For Hindi , two letter country code is "hi" or "HI". 

5. Click on save.

Access xyz.com Using IP Address

To open Facebook / Gmail/ Twitter or any other sites using an IP address has its advantages. Chances are that the administrator has blocked Facebook / Gmail/ Twitter or any other sites from the Windows host file. Following are the steps involved to open Facebook / Gmail/ Twitter or any other sites with an IP address:

1. Open the command prompt and type 

        “Ping facebook.com”

            or type 

        “Ping gmail.com”

            or type 

        “Ping twitter.com”

2. You will see the IP address as shown in the above image. Just enter the IP address in the browser address bar and if you are lucky, Twitter may open.

Note: If you do not have administrative rights in the computer and you are unable to open command prompt for any reason, try to find the IP address of Facebook/Twitter etc with this Online tool.

Change Hard Drive Icon

How to change Hard Drive Icon :-

1. Create a new text file , change the name New Text Document.txt to Autorun.inf
   
   
   
2. Prepare a picture Ico , change it name to MM.ico (Of course , you can also change the name of your favorite.) Open the Autorun.inf withe Notepad , edit it like this :
   
   
   [autorun]
   
   

   icon=MM.ico
   
   
   
   
   
3. Put the Autorun.inf and MM.ico into the root directory of the disk . I put it on the c:\
   
   
   
4. Reboot your computer . You can see the results .
   
   
   

Put Icon on (USB) Flash Drive

How to Put Icon on (USB) Flash Drive

• Locate and download an icon that you would like to use in the ICO format.

• Right-click on the icon and click Rename and change the name of the icon to autorun.ico

autorun.ico

• Locate your flash drive, open it and copy your new icon autorun.ico into your flash drive directly without creating any folder.

• Launch Notepad. Type [autorun] on the first line, then press Enter to drop to the second line. Type icon=autorun.ico on the second line.

                              

• Click  File from menu bar of Notepad and click on Save As, Navigate to the location of your flash drive. Click the Save As Type drop-down menu at the bottom of the window and select All Files. Name the file autorun.inf and click on Save.

                   

• Remove and reinsert the flash drive. The custom icon will be displayed in your My Computer or Computer screen.

Save or Convert Documents to PDF & XPS file in Office 2010 Word

How to Save or Convert Documents to PDF & XPS file in Office 2010 Word

1. Open Doc/ Docx document in Office 2010 Word which you want  to convert to PDF/XPS

2. Now Click on Office Button and select Save As

3. Click on Save as Type and select PDF(*.pdf)/ XPS Documents (*.xps)

4. Now Type file name and click on Save.

That’s it, No Need of any Add-on or third party software to convert documents into PDF/XPS format.

OS Installation of your Windows

How to Know OS Installation of your Windows

If you want to know OS installation of your windows or any other info related to your PC,normally windows OS does not provide that info ,about OS installation date.Here i am found simple solution to find or know OS installation date.However you can view the window installation dates from command prompt by giving external command to do that.Herebelow i am focusing to windows OS  installation date.

First of all start with command prompt,in windows by going to RUN ->CMD->HIT ENTER BUTTON.In command prompt type systeminfo ,it will look below the screen shot

Now search for the OS installation date.There you can find exact installation date.Not only this,you can also view BIOS info,Production code,time and date of system,total physical memory size, etc.

Hide Your Drive !!

Hide Your Drive From Unauthorized Users

In Windows 7 ,If you want to hide your important data’s,perform the given steps to hide or protect your system data.

1. First of all you need to be logged into your computer with full administrative rights.

2. Click start->Run and type Cmd and hit enter button to open command prompt.

3. Now you type diskpart and press enter button to appears diskpart utility.It will show the list of volumes.

4. Type list volume ,after diskpart>prompt,this command will show you all system drives details.

5. If you need to hide F drive (for example),then you type select volume 4 and hit enter button.

6. After loading volume,type remove letter F to hide F drive.Now exit the command prompt and open mycomputer to verify drives.

7. Finally next time ,when you want to unhide the F drive,just type assign drive F command after loading volume 4.