Protecting your Folder from Unauthorized User

Hi all,
                Perhaps all might be need to safeguard certain confidential matters in their computers. And almost plenty of softwares are available in the market to serve you. Some might be freeware and someother might demand you to pay for their softwares. Why not make use of Disk Operating System for this command?(which is almost inbuilt in IBM based computers). Let me describe how to safeguard your folder view from unauthorised users. Suppose you need to keep the folder ‘Confidential’ in the ‘D’ drive to be unviewable to others. So just go for the command prompt(Start->Run->command) and proceed upto the parent directory of the folder you need to protect for. Type the following command : ‘attrib “<folder name>” +R +A +S +H’ (ie., attrib confidential +R +A +S +H). Go and check for the folder ‘Confidential’ and you could not find it. You can check in the command prompt too. And to renew this folder just type again: attrib “<folder name>” -R -A -S -H.

                  Let me discuss on the pros and cons of making use of it.

pros: 

• You can protect the folder from unauthorised access

• You could not able to delete the folder unless remove the attribute constraint

cons:     

• Though folder name in not avail in the list of command prompt, when just using the Tab key to search for folder in command prompt, it would display it.

• When you forget the protected folder, you could not able to predict the folder from the list of folders on pressing TAB key of Change Directory (CD) in command prompt

                                      Hope the above post will be helpful to you.

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How to log on to Windows XP if administrator password is lost.

Hi all,

                     What happens if the administrator password is lost when demanded on login screen. Do the following steps to recover from such a hassle situation. 

1. With your Windows XP CD in the cd-rom drive and boot your computer

2. Press any key when you read “Press any key to boot from cd” on the screen

3. The first screen will indicate that Setup is inspecting the system hardware and loading files

4. When you get to the Welcome screen, press ENTER to Setup Windows now

5. Press F8 to accept the Licensing Agreement

6. The next screen gives you the option to start a Repair process. Use the arrow keys to select your XP installation (if you only have one, it should already be selected) and press R to begin the Repair process

7. Setup will now check your disks and then start copying files which can take several minutes. Shortly after this stage you will be required to reboot

8. During the reboot do not press any key to boot from the CD again. Setup will resume automatically with the standard screen

9. Keep your eye on the lower left hand side of the screen. When you see the Installing Devices progress bar, press SHIFT + F10. A command console will now open up giving you a wide access to the system

10. At the prompt, type NUSRMGR.CPL and press Enter. You have gained graphical access to your User Accounts in the Control Panel

11. Now remove or change your password as you prefer. Once the Repair is done, you will be able to log on with your new password. Your programs and personalized settings should remain intact.

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Hiding a file inside a JPEG file

Hi all,

                Here is the tips to hide a file inside a picture file. You might be in the need to hide a file from unauthorised users. And this could be achieved through simple DOS command. Let me explain how it could be possible.

                 Consider you have a secret file documents.zip and you need to keep it safe from others. So I hereby guide you to keep so. Let me assume that file be in the ‘D’ directory. Place any picture file in the same directory where secret file is. Go on to the command prompt where the secret file is. Let me assume the name of the picture file is sample.jpg. Then in the command prompt enter the following command.

copy /b sample.jpg+documents.zip success.jpg.

In the execution of above commands, the documents.zip and sample.jpg file will be copied into success.jpg(optional : Delete both the documents.zip and sample.jpg file). In clicking the above success.jpg file, only the picture of sample.jpg will be shown and the file will not be known to the users.

                 The file can be retrieved by right clicking the picture file and opening with WinZip(So always encrypt the file before adding on to the image). Hope this could be useful to you.

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