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[HOW TO]Turn Monitor off using keyboard

Filed under Computer tricks, Featured, Free Softwares, Freeware, Funny Computer Tricks by on August 28, 2009 at 9:37 pm {5 comments}

If you are using a Desktop computer then it’s easy to turn On or Off your monitor screen.  But still if you are lazy enough to stretch your hand to the monitor screen we have one cool small app to make your life easier.

PushMoitorOff is a tiny app which allows you to control your monitor screen from your keyboard. This tool comes handy for laptop users too. As most of the laptops don’t have the different On/Off button for the screen. So those who believe in saving energy can use this tool when needed.

The app is very easy to use. Whenever you feel like turning on/off your monitor you just have to press Shift+f1. You can change this shortcut key also using the options provided in the software.

PushMonitorOff

Download PushMonitorOff (211 KB)

Enjoy

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[HOW TO]Change welcome/logon screen in Windows 7

Filed under Computer tricks, Windows 7 Tricks and Tips by on August 27, 2009 at 8:35 pm {2 comments}

If you are bored of the same blue welcome screen in Windows 7 then here is the trick for you. Using this trick you can easily change your Windows 7 background image.

  • Press windows+r to open run and then type regedit. Press Enter.
  • Now in Registry Editor navigate to the following key. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Authentication\LogonUI\Background. There create a new DWORD value and name it as OEMBackground. Set it’s value as Hexadecimal – 1 .
    OEMBackground
  • Now go to c:\Windows\System32\oobe and there create new folder and name it as info.There create one more folder and name this one as  backgrounds .
  • Now copy the image you want as background for welcome screen here and rename the image to backgroundDefault, also make sure that the image size is less than 256 KB. change welcome screen image windows 7
  • If you need any good background image for welcome screen search for “Windows 7 Wallpapers” in Google image search. You will get many.

Enjoy

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YAPM – Yet Another Process Monitor

Filed under Computer tricks, Featured, Free Softwares, Freeware, Open Source, Windows Tricks by on August 26, 2009 at 4:07 pm {no comments}

You don’t need to be an expert to use the Windows task manager through which you can perform various operations such as ending the non responsive tasks and processes, changing the priority of the processes etc.

If you are not satisfied with the features provided with the built in Task Manager, check out this YAPM (Yet Another Process Monitor).

Yet Another Process Monitor

Yet Another Process Monitor

Features:

  • Local and remote monitoring
  • Module and thread management
  • Handle management (keys, files…)
  • View of TCP/UDP connections opened by the processes
  • Windows management (opacity, position, show, hide…)
  • Window’ find’ process feature : allows to find the process associated to a window via a drag & drop over the screen
  • Emergency Hotkeys feature : allows to associate a custom shortcut to a custom action (for example : Ctrl+Shift+Suppr to close the window which is on foreground)
  • Privilege management : allows to view and modify the privileges of processes
  • Build-in hex editor to view memory of processes
  • “Log mode” to monitor all actions made by a specific process
  • Hidden Processes feature to detect basic rootkits
  • Local and remote shutdown
  • Dependency viewer
  • … And lots & lots of other features !

Requires .NET Framework 2.0 Sp1 for running.

Download YAPM(800 KB)

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