Shut Down Windows XP in 7 Ways

There are so many different ways to turn off your Windows XP computer, let's look at some of them:

1. The standard approach - click the Start Button with your mouse, then select the Turn Off menu and finally click the Turn Off icon on the Turn Off computer dialog.

2. Press Ctrl+Esc key or the Win key and press u two times - the fastest approach.

3. Get the Shutdown utility from Download.com - it add the shut down shortcuts for you. Else create them yourself using approach 4.

4. Create a shutdown shortcut on your desktop. Right click on the desktop, choose New Shortcut and type shutdown -s -t 00 in the area where you are asked to specify the location of the program file. Now you can just double click this icon to turn off the computer. The best location would be your quick launch bar.

5. Press the Win key + R key to open the run window. Type shutdown -s -t 00. [s means shutdown while t means the duration after which you want to initiate the shutdown process].

If some open processes or application won't let you turn off, append a -f switch to force a shut down by closing all active processes.

Update: Added new shutdown tricks

6. Win+M to minimize all windows and then Alt+F4 to bring the Turn Off computer dialog.

7. Open Windows Task manager (by right clicking the Windows Task bar or Alt+Ctrl+Del) and choose Shut down from the menu. Useful when the Windows are not responding.

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Download Torrent Files with IDM

Download Torrent Files with IDM

We all use Torrent to download various kinds of files like songs,movies,books,software's and much more.The download speed of torrent depends on many factors like seeders,leeches,peers, Internet connection and much more.Sometimes you may face difficulty in downloading torrent files with less seeds which results in slow download.So here I got a trick to Download Torrent Files With IDM. Downloading Torrent Files with IDM is a very good trick to increase your downloading speed of torrent file. and also, If Torrent is blocked in your offices,schools,colleges etc then you can download torrent files with Internet download Manager(IDM) easily

Steps:

1. First of all download your favorite torrent file which you want to download
2. Then go to Zbigz.com. and Signup for a free account there (not necessary).
3. There hit on upload and choose the torrent file which you have downloaded previously then hit Go.
4. After you hit go your torrent file will be downloaded by high speed servers and your file will be ready to download(If its a large file then wait for few minutes).
5. When you hit download button then a box will pop up asking the type of download which you want either freeor premium.Go for free download.
6. That's it your download will be ready and you can download torrent files with idm or any other download manager
7. So now you can comfortably download torrent files with IDM without any difficulty.

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Super Trick - Change any user's password easily

This tweak gives a user the opportunity to use it for good or bad. It enables the user to re-password any account without having to know the existing password and also shows you every account that exists on the machine (even the ones that are hidden). This is a good tool to use if you forgot a password to say your administrator account and you needed to be logged into the admin account for any reason.

>>To view all of the user accounts:

1) While logged onto the computer, click on Start>Run>and type CMD.
2) From the command prompt window, type in cmd "net users".
This will show you every account that is made onto the computer whether it is hidden or not.


To change an account password:
1) While logged into the computer to an account that has administrative rights, click on Start>Run>and type CMD.

2) Type in "net user" then the name of the account then * and press enter. here is an example: net user administrator * or net user "Jay Prakash" * . Put the name in quotes if it contains spaces.

3) From there it should ask for a new password. Type in your new password (type very carefully - the command window won't display what you type) and once more to confirm it. If you get the message that the command succeeded successfully you're all set!!

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