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How To Change Icon Of Pendrive

We all like icons. We use them to our folders as it looks awesome to see your favourite icon on your folder rather than seeing that boring window's default folder icon. It also helps to identify folders uniquely. Imagine what if you can change icon of your pendrive, someone plugs in your pendrive and booooooom!!! Your favourite icon instead of windows default icon looks awesome!! Well,you can change icon of your pendrive and make it looking awesome.Just follow the steps given below. Steps: First of all, you will need a icon . Download your favourite icon from internet with extension " .ico ".  Remane that icon file to " logo " without quotes. The full file name with extension is " logo.ico ". Copy that file to your pendrive's root directory . Open Notepad and copy and paste the text given below in the text box to notepad. [autorun] Icon=logo.ico Now, go to file>Save as... Make the following changes and then save

How to activate Gmail Preview Pane

There are millions of Gmail users each day mailing to someone and getting lots of mails. They all know that when one wants to read each mail, it is irritating to open each mail then again go to back and again open new mail. This process sucks! Many people don't know much of Gmail. They just use it to mail. that's it! But one should know that Gmail provides so many features and functionalities other than only mailing. Today I am going to share about one of those features. Gmail provides a Preview Pane mode that can help to solve the problem mentioned above. Many people don't know about it. Preview Pane will split your Gmail screen in to 2 . One for mails and One for previewing selected mail. It can be vertically or horizontally . You can set as you want. Just follow the easy steps given below.  Steps: Open Gmail in your browser and click on setting button and go to settings . Go to " Labs " tab. Now search by wri

How To Track Your Mail sent by Gmail

We all are using Gmail mostly to mail someone. Suppose that you are sending an important mail to someone and you want to know whether he/she has seen it or not. Gmail hasn't that kind of feature like whatsapp and other chat messanger in which you can see the status of message like " send,received,seen ". With an extension, you can actually track your mail whether it has been seen or not. this extension provides some free features in basic version and has also a premium version. It almost provides tracking correctly 99%. Some mails cannot be tracked by this but its possibility is only 1%. The is an  chrome extension  forGmail named " Mail Track For Gmail " for  web store . Link for that extension is given below.  Download From Here Steps: Go to the  link  given above and  install  the  extension . After  installation . Open Gmail website or  refresh  it if it is already opened. It will ask to Active Mailtrack.  Click on activate m

How to send Password Protected mail using Gmail

We all use mail various services today very frequently. Gmail is famous among all. We share information related business, education, entertainment, private info , etc. The point is to provide security . If you have sent a mail containing some private stuff to someone and you want that the other person only can see that stuff. What if someone is spoofing on the other person or is reading your mails!! Well, to solve that issue, there is a way to encrypt the mail you are sending with a password !! You can encrypt the mail with password and then send it. Now it requires the password you set to decrypt the mail text at receiver side . So no other than the person that you want to send cannot read your mail.  To do that, There is an chrome extension for gamil named " Secure Mail for Gmail " for web store . You and receiver both must have to install the extension in order to encrypt and decrypt the mail. Link for that extension is given below.  Downl

How To Create Shutdown, Restart, Log Off, Suspend and More Shortcuts on Windows Desktop

We all use shortcuts today to do our tasks quickly. Generally to Shutdown/Log off/Hibernate/Restart , we use Start menu to access these option or we use keyboard shortcut Alt+F4 to open menu for these options.  The other way is to create shortcuts of these options on desktop or wherever you want so you can use them by just double clicking on it!! You can also assign an icon to them. Here i will show you how to create a shortcut of these options and how to change their icons. I am taking example of shutdown. Steps: Right click on desktop and go to New>>Shortcut . In the Create Shortcut Setup Wizard , copy the code given below( without quotes ) in the box. ( Here "00" is timer in seconds as time system will shutdown after the given time. you can change if you want ) " Shutdown -s -t 00 " Click Next . In next wizard, Give a name to shortcut whatever you want. I am giving name Shortcut as its shortcut for shutdown. Click on

How To Download Any Website Offline

We uses many websites to get information today. Some websites we visit frequently and some we don't. We all have some websites that we use often in a day. You need internet to open any website every time. Its very boring to access your website in slow internet. But what if you need information from your website and there in no network connectivity? What if you can access your website offline!! Yes, it is possible with a software called HTTrack . HTTrack is website copier that we can copy website for you to use it offline. HTTrack is a free and easy-to-use offline browser utility .It allows you to download a World Wide Web site from the Internet to a local directory, building recursively all directories, getting HTML, images , and other files from the server to your computer. HTTrack arranges the original site's relative link-structure. Simply open a page of the " mirrored " website in your browser, and you can browse the site from link to link, a