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Windows - Restart Prank

 Go to Desktop Right click > new > Shortcut In “Type the Location of the item” , write: “C:\WINDOWS\system32\shutdown.exe -r -t 00″ without quotes.  Delete existing "My Copmuter icon on desktop. Click next and in “Type a name for this shortcut” > write ”My Computer” and click Finish. Now Right Click on the shortcut of Internet Explorer and goto “Change Icon” and select the icon of Internet Explorer. Now its Ready… check it out.. whenever you double click on Internet Explorer Shortcut… Computer will Restart. Note: To get back "My Computer" icon, Go to "Personalize" by right click on desktop. Go to "Change Desktop Icons" in "Personalization" window. And select "My Computer" icon. Thus "My Computer" icon will appear on Desktop.

BlueStacks - Speed Up

1) Close BlueStacks and all its background processes from task manager, ie     > HD-adb.exe     > HD-Agent.exe     > HD-BlockDevice.exe     > HD-Frontend.exe     > HD-Service.exe 2) Go to Start >> Run and type “regedit”. 3) Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\BlueStacks\Guests\Android and double click on the Memory String. 4) Choose the decimal mode and enter the value you want to allocate (in megabytes) for RAM. 5) Close the Registry Editor and relaunch BlueStacks. Its done. Note: This process incereases the RAM used by bluestacks which leads to speed up performance.

BlueStacks - Re-size SD Card

1) Download the zip file DATA.IMG_Maker 2) Extract the zip file "DATA.IMG_Maker" . 3) Click on " Re-size SD " (Windows Batch File). 4) Tick on " create new ". New window will opened. 5) Select the folder to store the SD card. 6) Give a name to your SD Card file with the .fs extension (for example SDCard.fs) and click on Save. 7) The slider sets the amount of space (in megabytes) you want to allocate for the new SD Card. 8) Click on Create File. The program will ask you to select a file system. Select none. 9) Click Ok and exit the application. Your unformatted SD Card image will be created in your chosen location. 10) Download and install OSFMount. 11) Launch the application and click on Mount New button. 12) Select source as Image file and browse and select the newly created image. 13) Assign a suitable drive letter to mount the image and set the drive type as Auto. 14) Untick Read only drive option and click on OK to mount the ...

BlueStcaks - Android App Emulator

Download Bluestacks -   Offline Installer Bluetacks 0.7.11.885 Instructions: Steps installing Bluetacks 0.7.11.885, > Extract the zip file and install "BlueStacks-ThinInstaller_0.7.11.885_native". Note: You must not     be connected to internet! > When the intallation is in progress, copy the "runtimedata_0.7.11.885.zip" file in the folder " C:\ProgramData\BlueStacksSetup ". > If you cant see folder "ProgramData", then it will be hidden in C: drive. > The bluestacks installer will then install runtime data and now bluestacks is installed in your machine. > Enjoy it !

Windows - History Of A Graphical Operating System

  Introduction - In 1983, Microsoft announced the development of Windows, a graphical user interface (GUI) for its own operating system (MS-DOS), which had shipped for IBM PC and compatible computers since 1981. The product line has changed from a GUI product to a modern operating system over two families of design, each with its own codebase and default file system. The 3.x and 4.x family includes Windows 3.0, Windows 3.1x, Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows ME. Windows for Workgroups 3.11 added 32-bit networking and 32-bit disk access. Windows 95 added additional 32-bit capabilities (however, MS-DOS, some of the kernel, and supplementary utilities such as Disk Defragment remained 16-bit) and implemented a new object oriented user interface, elements of which are still used today. The Windows NT family started with Windows NT 3.1 in 1993. Modern Windows operating system versions are based on the newer Windows NT kernel that was originally intended for OS/2. W...