The Crusaders

It’s been a while I’ve posted in this blog. That’s because I’m pretty busy lately with some other stuffs. Taking a rest from everything I thought today I’d browse other’s blogs. Well, I love tweaks and a friend of mine has recently published a new blog PCMagics.com which has many computer tips & tweaks. So I wanted to check his new blog…you know see what it has got.

Well, his most recent post was a tweak on “Creating a Folder Lock” yourself without using any other softwares. I thought it’d be a cool trick but after reading the full post I figured out it was a total crap so I just couldn’t help criticizing about his post and also making my readers aware not to use that method at all to lock your folder. First just let me tell you what he had written.

Let us suppose you want to lock c:\picture folder

Follow the following steps

1. Open a notepad and type “ren picture picture.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}” without quotes.
2. Save it as lock.bat in c:\
3. Again open another notepad and type “ren picture.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D} picture” without quotes.
4. Save it as key.bat in c:\.
5. Double Click Lock.bat to lock the folder and key.bat to unlock the folder.

Note: Once you activate lock.bat, Control panel will be open if you try to open the folder. Keep the key.bat safely in your pen drive or so to unlock the folder later on.

The method above in blockquotes is copied from his post. I just can’t understand why he is making 2 batch files which do nothing than just renaming the folder that you’re trying to lock. You can simply right click (or press F2 key) and rename the folder. My personal funny part is that note in which he has asked to keep the key.bat file safely in pen drive because according to him it holds the key to unlock the locked folder. Wake up dude!!! Just right click the locked folder and rename it to anything else and open it.

So, my advice is not to listen to his advice. It is better you use some folder locking softwares. Some of the links from where you can download folder locking software are below. The first one is free full version but others are trial I guess but you can find plenty more if you just have few minutes to spare over the net.

http://www.fspro.net/folder-lock-box/
http://folder-lock.en.softonic.com/download
http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/Utilities/PGP_Encryption_Utilities/Folder_Vault.html

written by rajit \\ tags: Folder Lock, Lock Your Folder, Secure Your Files, Tweak

I saw this tweak in a friend’s blog about how one can edit manufacturer and support information of system properties. Actually, I think it’s a useless tweak and I can’t just figure out why someone would want to edit manufacturer logo and support information and put something rubbish instead. In my view a tweak should be something that should make a function more efficient but in this case it seems like just for fun which I don’t prefer.

Still, what the hell !!! It sure would be fun to have your face instead of your manufacturer’s logo huh? I have tried it now in my Windows XP but I don’t know if it’d work in other versions of OS (should would if it can find the appropriate files). Here’s the trick I copied from that fren’s blog:

• Navigate to the Windows system directly, normally “C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM” for Windows 95, 98 and Me and “C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32? for Windows NT and 2000, and “C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32? for Windows XP.
• Find the INI file called “OEMINFO.INI”.
• If there isn’t one, create the file by opening a notepad name it as OEMINFO.INI.
• Copy and paste the following in the OEMINFO.INI file.

[General]
Manufacturer=Your Company, Inc.
Model=Your Computer Model
SupportURL=http://www.yoursite.com

[Support Information]
Line1=first line of support information
Line2=second line
Line3=third line
…
LineN=nth line
(You can create as many lines as you need by incrementing the line number)

To change the logo file,

• Again go to the Windows system directory ( “C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32? )
• Find OEMLOGO.BMP and if there isn’t create one with your desired logo.
• Remember the standard Windows bitmap file is 160 x 114 pixels in Windows XP

After the changes have been made in the file and saved just check the system properties (System Properties from Control Panel or simply right click My Computer and then select properties) and you’ll see that the logo has been changes and also the manufacturer information has been modified. The details you entered in the [Support Information] section will show up when you click on the Support Information button. Just see what my friend has done to the system properties of his computer. HAHA !!! Funny huh??

written by rajit \\ tags: Edit Manufacturer and Support Information, Edit System Properties, Support Information, System Properties, Tips, Tweak