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To Remove Recyle Bin From Your Desktop

If you dont want to see recycle bin on your desktop then follow simple steps as follows: 1. Open Regedit by going to START - RUN and type Regedit and hit enter.  2. Then you should navigate to following entry in registry HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ Desktop\NameSpace\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E} and delete it. 3.  This action should remove recycle bin from your desktop.

Trick To Lock Hard Disk Drives In Computer

We don’t usually prefer to lock our drives, but sometimes it becomes nesscary. Say for instance you might have stored your office documents in D:\ and you don’t want your kids to access it, in such case this technique can be useful for you. Please don’t try this tweak with your root drive (usually C:\ is the root drive) since root drives are not intended to be locked because they are mandatory for the system and application programs. Start  &  Run  and type  Regedit  to open Registry editor Browse  HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\Explorer Create a new  DWORD  value  NoViewOnDrive  and set its value as 2 ^ (Alpha Number of Drive Letter-1) where Alpha number are simple counting of alphabets from A to Z as 1 - 26 For example: to lock C:\, Alpha number of C is  3 so 2^ (3-1) = 4  (decimal value) To  lock more drives , calculate the value of each drive and then set sum of those numbers ...

Locking Folders Without any Software

Consider you want to lock a folder named  XXXX  in your E:\, whose path is E:\XXXX. Now open the Notepad and type the following [code]ren xxxx xxxx.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}[/code] Where xxxx is your folder name. Save the text file as  loc.bat  in the same drive. Open another new notepad text file and type the following [code]ren xxxx.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D} xxxx[/code] Save the text file as  key.bat  in the same drive. Steps to lock the folder: To lock the  xxxx  folder, simply click the  loc.bat  and it will transform into control panel icon which is inaccessible. To unlock the folder click the  key.bat   file. Thus the folder will be unlocked and the contents are accessible.