Eight Tips for Windows 8

Planning on a Windows 8 purchase in the near future? While it may be the most secure version of Windows yet, a new operating system always introduces new security challenges.

There are a slew of security features in Windows 8 that we like (picture passwords, built-in antivirus, Secure Boot, among others). However, the changes in the graphical user interface, the introduction of the new online app store, and new capabilities raises security concerns. The following are some tips from the folks at Sophos on how to stay safe on Windows 8.

Which IE? The One in the UI
Internet Explorer has changed in Windows 8. One browser platform, but depending on how you are using it, you get two different experiences. There is the new Internet Explorer in the Windows UI and Internet Explorer for the desktop. While the desktop IE is familiar, IE in Windows UI have plugins disabled by default. Considering that plugins have become a major attack vector for exploit kits such as Blackhole, minimizing the attack surface as much as you can sounds like a great idea.

Exercise Application Control
Application control can help prevent malware from infecting your shiny Windows 8 system. Even if Microsoft is scrutinizing all apps listed in the Windows Store, users should assume that malicious apps may accidentally slip through. All applications in the Windows Store must list what resources they require access to. Review the permission carefully and make sure the apps aren't asking for too much.

Watch Out for AppsUsers should be careful when switching to apps for the new Windows 8 user interface (formerly known as Metro), Sophos recommended. Some applications have been completely re-written for the new user interface, so familiar applications may work differently than they used to. Existing security and management tools may no longer be able to monitor some of your applications. 

Can You Detect Malicious Apps?Related to the above point, make sure your security vendor of choice can flag Windows 8 UI apps that are malicious. Your security product should be able to distinguish between regular applications and Windows 8 apps, and be able to flag apps which are malicious, have been modified, or have an invalid license.

"Designed for Windows 8"Make sure any Windows 8 hardware you buy has the "Designed for Windows 8" logo. This logo means the hardware is UEFI compliant, which is the only way users can take advantage of the Secure Boot functionality available in Windows 8. Secure Boot allows only signed code to run during the boot up process to minimize the risk of boot loader attacks.

Don't Encrypt and Hibernate
If possible, disable hard drive encryption hibernation. Encrypting the hard drive is a critical part of data security, and with BitLocker and the option to add self-encrypting drives, Windows 8 makes it even easier to protect data. However, Sophos recommends the hibernation option in Windows 8 be disabled through group policy, as it doesn’t always work well with encryption. 

Windows RT is a Mobile Device
Treat Windows RT (the version of Windows 8 that would be installed on ARM hardware) devices as any other mobile device and protect them accordingly. Disable apps that you don't need, and make sure you have the ability to track, control, remote wipe and encrypt them.

Do You Need NFC?If you don't need them, block them. Near-field communications can be cool, but it's better to block the near field communications features you don’t need and don't plan to use.

Oh, and... Sophos also had a bonus tip. Don’t allow sign-in to Windows 8 PCs with a Live ID. Keep the credentials for your online identity separate from the physical machine.

How to Protect Yahoo Account from Hackers

How to Protect Yahoo Account from Hackers

• Login in to your Yahoo Account.
• Now open your Account Information.
• In the Sign-In and Security section look for the Second Sign-In Verification and click on it.

• Check the box to turn on the Second Sign-In Verification feature

• Now a pop-up window will open, in this give your mobile number on which you want to receive verification codes and click on Receive SMS.

• You will receive Confirmation Code on your mobile, enter this code and click on Verify button.

After completion of verification process whenever you will login from a new computer ( like cybercafe) you will receive a confirmation code on your mobile and without it your account cannot be accessed.

How to Write Urdu in MS Word

How to Write Urdu in MS Word

Please Attached File to run in your PC  then Follow these step for the URDU

If you are on Windows XP, follow these steps: (Note: this step is not required for Windows Vista)

• Click on Start, Settings, and then Control Panel
  
• Click on Regional and Language Options. (You may need Windows XP CD in your CD/DVD drive after this step)
  
• Click on Languages tab, and select first checkbox that says "Install files for complex scripts and right-to-left languages..."
  
  and then click on OK button. This will bring this prompt. Click OK button to continue:
  
• Now it will ask you for Windows XP CD in your CD/DVD drive:
  
  Once you press ok and the correct CD is in the drive, it will continue with the installation like this:
  
• Next it will ask you to restart the computer. Select No at this time.
  
• Now click on the Details... button which will bring this window, which lists the currently installed languages and keyboards:
  
• Now click on the Add... button which will bring this window, where you will select Input language: Urdu and Keyboard layout/IME: Urdu Phonetic 1.0 (this is the keyboard layout that we installed instep 2)
  
• Now press OK on all windows to close them. You can restart your computer now to load new settings. Once you have restarted, you can see that Urdu language is available in your taskbar as shown in this screen shot:
  
• Now to switch between Urdu and English, you can press Alt+Shift. Or on your taskbar you can see EN orUR and click on it to select the language.

How to make your computer faster

How to make your computer faster This tutorial will teach you how to increase your operating system speed 3 times faster. this steps should be applied by either slow and fast computers. it will speed up your operating system surfing. there are 28 easy steps. it might take a bit long to apply them all especially if you're not familiar with windows registry, but trust me it worth it. Ok now here it goes...read carefully... coz i wont accept any questions about it... 1.. Visual effects should be set to a minimum. Start > Settings > Control Panel > System > Advanced > Performance Settings > Visual Effects Tab > Adjust for best performance 2. Switch Off Desktop Background Image Right Click Desktop > Properties > Desktop Tab > Background None 3. Disable Screen Saver Right Click Desktop > Properties > Screen Saver > None 5. Disable Fast User Switching Start > Settings > Control Panel > User Accounts > Change the way users log on or off > Untick Use Fast User Switching 6. Switch Off Power Schemes Start > Settings > Control Panel > Power Options > Always On > Turn off monitor and turn off hard discs to Never 7. Switch Off Hibernation Start > Settings > Control Panel > Power Options > Hibernate > Untick Hibernation 8. Activate DMA on Hard Discs/CD ROMS Start > Settings > Control Panel > System > Hardware > Device Manager > IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers > Right Click Primary IDE channel and Secondary IDE channel > Properties > Advanced Settings Tab > Tra 9. Disable System Sounds Start > Settings > Control Panel > Sounds and Audio Devices > Sounds Tab > Sound Scheme to None. 10. Do Not Map Through Soundcard Start > Settings > Control Panel > Sounds and Audio Devices > Hardware Tab > (highlight your soundcard from the list) > Properties > Audio Devices > (highlight your soundcard from the list) > Properti 11. Disable System Restore Start > Settings > Control Panel> System > System Restore Tab. Tick the "Turn off System Restore on all Drives" 12. Disable Automatic Updates Start > Settings > Control Panel> System > Automatic Updates > Turn off automatic updating. I want to update my computer manually 13. Startup and Recovery Options Start > Settings > Control Panel> System > Advanced > Startup and Recovery Settings > Untick Automatically Restart 14. Disable Error Reporting Start > Settings > Control Panel> System > Advanced > Error Reporting > Disable Error Reporting 15. Disable Remote Assistance Start > Settings > Control Panel> System > Remote > Untick Allow remote assistance invitations to be sent from this computer 16. Fix Swap File (Virtual Memory) Start > Settings > Control Panel > System > Advanced > Performance Settings > Advanced > Virtual Memory Change > Custom Size. Set initial and maximum size to the same value 17. Speed Up Menus Start > Run > Regedit > HKEY_CURRENT_ USER > Control Panel > Desktop Folder. Set MenuShowDelay to 1 18. Disable Offline Files Start > Settings > Control Panel > Folder Options > Offline Files Untick "Enable Offline Files" 19. Disable Remote Desktop Start > Settings > Control Panel > System > Remote > Untick "Allow users to connect remotely to this computer" 20. Disable Internet Synchronise Time Start > Settings > Control Panel > Date and Time > Internet Time > Untick "Automatically synchronize with internet time server" 21. Disable Hide Inactive Icons Start > Settings > Taskbar and Start Menu > Taskbar TAB > Uncheck "Hide Inactive Icons" 22. Disable Automatic Desktop Cleanup Wizard Start > Settings > Control Panel > Display > Desktop > Customise Desktop > Untick "Run Desktop Cleanup Wizard every 60 days" 23. Disable NTFS Last Access Time Logging (NTFS File Systems Only) Start > Run > regedit > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > System > CurrentControlSet > Control > Filesystem. Add a new DWORD value - "NtfsDisableLastAcc essUpdate" and set value to 1. 24. Disable Notification Area Balloon Tips Start > Run > regedit > HKEY_CURRENT_ USER > Software > Microsoft > Windows > CurrentVersion > Explorer > Advanced. Create a new DWORD value called EnableBalloonTips and set to 0. 25. Disable CDROM Autoplay Start > Run > regedit > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > System > CurrentControlSet > Services > Cdrom. Set autorun to 0. 26. Disable Disc Indexing Service Right Click Start > Explorer > Right Click Each Disc > Properties > Untick "Allow Indexing Service to index this disc for fast file searching" 27.Restart ur pc...enjoy!! !

How to Block an Email

How to Block an Email

Electronic mail, commonly called email or e-mail, is a method of fast exchanging of digital messages from an author to one or more recipients easily. Commonly email service is a good to all people. But some of emails may bothering you. How to block such emails........? 
Now i would like to say how to block an email in your gmail account.

• First of all, you must Sign In on your gmail account.
• Then Open email setting.

In basic HTML view

In standard view

• From setting window click on 'Filters'.

• And create a new filter. 

• In new filter window, they will ask the email id to filter. Here is our point, in 'from column' type email id in  you want to block. Then go to next step.

• Now gmail will ask you that what to do when an email is come from this email. So tick on "Delete It".  

• By clicking the button 'Create Filter', your filter was created.  

Now gmail will automatically delete emails from this email id.

Note: If you send again emails to blocked email id, your filter will be remove. So take care. Njoy.........

Computer shot cut keys

Here are Computer shot cut keys

Remember me in  your prayers 

Lock folder without any software:

Lock folder without any software:

1. Copy the bellow Code:

cls
@ECHO OFF
title Folder Locker
if EXIST "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}" goto UNLOCK
if NOT EXIST Locker goto MDLOCKER
:CONFIRM
echo Are you sure u want to Lock the folder(Y/N)
set/p "cho=>"
if %cho%==Y goto LOCK
if %cho%==y goto LOCK
if %cho%==n goto END
if %cho%==N goto END
echo Invalid choice.
goto CONFIRM
:LOCK
ren Locker "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}"
attrib +h +s "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}"
echo Folder locked
goto End
:UNLOCK
echo Enter password to Unlock folder
set/p "pass=>"
if NOT %pass%== type your password here goto FAIL
attrib -h -s "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}"
ren "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}" Locker
echo Folder Unlocked successfully
goto End
:FAIL
echo Invalid password
goto end
:MDLOCKER
md Locker
echo Locker created successfully
goto End
:End

2. Firstly open a notepad and then put code in notepad.
3. You will find “type your password here” in that code (Without quotes) so just write your password in place of “type your password here” (Without quotes)
4. Save this notepad as Locker.bat anywhere you wish
5. Then double click on Locker.bat.
6. when you double click on this it will create ‘Locker’ folder automatically, After creating of this folder place the contents you want to lock inside the Locker Folder and run locker.bat again, So it will ask to lock this folder… So just type “y” (without quotes) then press enter. Your folder get dissappered that means you locked your folder.No one can see your files of your locked folder.
7. Now if you want to unlock folder then again double click on Locker.bat, It will ask your password so just enter password and then press enter, Your folder get appeared. 

5 Easy Ways to Speed-Up Your Laptop

5 Easy Ways to Speed-Up Your Laptop

Does your notebook seem slower than molasses these days? Do you often find yourself coming to the point of heartache and even yelling a few choice words at your machine? If so, then the simple steps listed below

1.) Defrag - How can defragging your hard drive speed up your notebook? Maybe by explaining how a defrag works, you will see how important it is.

When your hard drive is new and has no data on it, things get stored in blocks easily. When files and/or programs are stored in nice chunks, they can get accessed quickly – This is why your hard drive is blazing fast in the beginning. As time goes on things start to slow down. Files get deleted and this creates empty blocks in the hard drive.

New files and programs will get saved to these empty blocks, only they aren’t all together – They are spread out. When files/programs are spread out among different blocks of storage, they get accessed much slower. Defragmenting your hard drive brings related files and programs back into a nice big block. This is achieved because your computer knows which files and programs are related through their address.

2.) Empty Recycle Bin – This one is pretty self explanatory, and may even seem like a non-issue. Maybe it is, but there are plenty of people that keep their recycle bins full, all the time. If something is in the recycle bin, you might as well empty it.

3.Erase Temporary Files – The internet as well as your operating system often store temporary files in special folders. These temporary files are just that, temporary, but they often stay on your computer for a number of days or even indefinitely. I don’t recommend going and deleting stuff in folders if you are unsure of what you are doing. Thankfully though, there are many programs out there that will go through and delete unnecessary files for you.

You can set many of them up to run periodically, and they will do many of things talked about in this article. You can find many of these programs on freeware download sites.

4.) Spyware & Adware Removal – Both spyware and adware are real computer killers these days. You have probably been bombarded by offers to buy programs that will get rid of all the junk on your computer – The simple answer is you don’t need to get these programs. You can find freeware ones all over that will work great. I like to use two programs simply because sometimes one will find stuff that the other won’t. My favorites are Ad-Aware by Lavasoft and Spybot – Search and Destroy.

5.) Hard Drive Space – Ok, I’ll admit, this one may not be free. If you have deleted everything off of your hard drive that you possibly can and you still have a shortage of space, you are simply going to need a bigger hard drive. If you have less than 500 megabytes still available for storage space, I highly recommend getting a bigger hard drive, as a computer with a filled up hard drive will perform very sluggishly.

By periodically doing all of the above you can generally keep your notebook in tip-top shape, and save your yelling for something else 

How to Create Filter

How to Create Filter Gmail

The procedure to create filter in GMAIL is as mentioned below:

Open your VU ID.

Go to settings > filters > create new filter.

In the subject carefully write XXXX (Your Subject Code).

Now click 'next step’. Select the boxes 'skip the inbox archive it' and apply the label.

From choose label click new. Now give the label name as XXXX (Your Subject Code). 

Now select the box apply filter to conversations. Now click create filter.

This way all the group mails will automatically go in this filter leaving your inbox free.

Note: Create filter similarly for each Subject Separately

How to Create Filter in Yahoo

You can easily create filters in yahoo by clicking on Mail Options in right upper corner & then click on Filters & click on add filter.

But remember that yahoo provides only few options for creating of filters like

1.       Sender

2.       Subject

3.       Recipient

4.       Body

All filter tricks are based on above 4 options.

Now if you want to create filter to arrange mails sent from UZAIR you will choose

“Send” and then “contains” and in 3^rd column you will type mc000000000@vu.edu.pk and below you will provided the folder where all mails from Uzair should be arranged.

If you want to create filter to arrange mails of all bachelors in separate category you will choose

“Send” and then “begins with” and in 3^rd column you will type “bc” only. So all emails sent by bachelor students will be automatically arranged.

If you want to create filter to arrange mails of MGT503 sent by anyone either know or unknown. You will choose

“Subject” and then “contains” and in 3^rd column you will type “MGT503”. So this rule will automatically arrange all mails where MGT503 is written in email subject.

I hope you will understand it, if not feel free to contact.

 For more explanation see the attachment