Make your Windows Transparent

You may not thought about this before reading this post. If its right then this will surely help you to know about yet another trick for your Windows.

Making Windows transparent simply means you can see through your active Window. Suppose you are working on MS Word then you may also see your Desktop without closing it. It may help you whenever you want to work on different Windows at a time. Just Imagine you are very excited to watch a new movie from your computer and you have an important project which you have to complete at the same time, then this post for you to solve the issue.

How to make Transparent Windows ?

You need a small tool named PeekThrough to do this. Follow the steps given below to make it easy for you to make your Windows transparent.

*. First of all download PeekThrough from here.

*. Click on the file install.exe and install it on your system.

*. After installation you will see an icon in your system tray as seen in the image below.

*. Now you just need to click on that icon and then click on Activate to activate PeekThrough, after which you may able to make your Windows Transparent with the shortcut Win + A. You can also change the shortcut key. 

*. To set transparency level just click on the Transparency tab.

*. You have options under Option tab for start PeekThrough on startup and also you can check an option Allow click through of transparent window if you want to click on other Windows other than your working Window after making it transparent.

*. Now whenever you need to make any of the Windows transparent just press Win + A and the same key can be used to make Windows normal.

It’s easy… simple tricks can make your life easy. Keep following for further more tricks.

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How to change folder background in Windows 7

Many of the times if you want to add images as a background in windows explorer then you do this with the help of the small tool named Windows 7 background changer. You can change the background as you want with different images.

How to change folder background

Following simple steps will help you in changing the background.

*. Download Windows 7 background changer from here.

*. For changing the background run the file W7FBC.exe

*. Now click on Browse to select the folder for which you want to change the background.

*. After selecting folder you need to add image for that just click on Change Background Image and select the image.

*. You can also change the text color of the folder name from Text Color.

 For removing the background follow the same procedure, just select the folder location and click on the Remove Background Image.

That’s it, it’s very easy isn’t it! Just change background of folders and enjoy with the posts.

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Convert folders into Virtual Drives

You may have different drives on your computer. But do you know you can access any folders as a drive ? Yes it is possible. You can create virtual drives and able to access them from My Computer without any partition process.

How to access folder as a drive

For creating your own drives of folders. You need to follow some simple steps as follows

*. Open Command Prompt from start menu or directly by pressing Win+R and typing cmd.

*. Type subst F: D:\Files\folder and hit Enter.

*. You can replace F: with your desired drive letter.

*. You can replace D:\Files\folder with the path of the folder for which you want to create drive.

Now you can see on My Computer that another drive with drive letter H: is created. But it is temporary because when you restart your system then this drive will be disappeared.

If you want to create a permanent drive without partition for particular folder then you can do this by following process.

*. Open Notepad and type the code

         @echo off
                subst F: D:\Files\folder
         exit

*. Save this file with .bat extension and paste it to the Startup folder of your system which is located at C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup.

It is actually hidden by default you may change your system settings to Show the hidden files and folders from folder and search option in the view tab.

Now, just Restart your computer and you are done. Enjoy with this tutorial.

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Hide files behind images

 



Most of the time you need to save your files from others. To do this you may use this simple trick to hide files behind any image. You can use any type of image to do this. Only you need is a compression tool named WinRAR which is most commonly used tool for compressing files  and folders.

How to hide files using WinRAR

To hide files behind images you just need to follow simple steps as given below. Note that you must compress your files using WinRAR for using this trick.

*. Press Win+R and type cmd to open command prompt or open it from from menu.

*. Type cd\ in command prompt to change the directory.

*. Now type cd users\xyz\desktop to access the location of your image. Your image may be anywhere in your computer. So you need to change the path according to the image location.
                                              

*. After this type copy /b img.jpg+files.rar pic.jpg

                                               

*. Now another image named pic.jpg will be created in the same directory where your image and files are located.

*. To access the files from the image just Right click on the image and open the file using WinRAR and extract it.

                                 

That’s it! Your job is done. Now you can see the files that you have hidden behind image.

Thanks for reading. Keep visiting for more such simple and useful tricks.

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