How to change Startup sound of Windows

Are you a long time Windows user? Surely you are not new to the Windows OS. Most of the computer users make you of Windows OS.

Some or all the users were annoyed with Windows Startup sound. Windows doesn’t provide default setting to change the Startup sound. But you can change your Windows system’s Startup sound with some methods. First method you can use to change startup sound of Windows is by hacking or you may say tweaking registry setting but it is very complicated for a normal user.

There is another method to change the startup sound with the help of a free program named Startup sound changer. This is very is to use program and you can easily change your system’s startup sound.

How to change Startup sound?

*. Download Startup sound changer from here.

*. Run the downloaded file with administrator privileges. You will be presented by the following interface.

 *. Now click on Replace and select the .wav audio file that you want to set as the default startup sound for Windows.

*. Finally click on play to hear the changed sound.

Note: The file size should be less than 1 MB and the file format should be .wav.


That’s it! The startup sound for Windows would be changed. Restart your computer and you would be able to hear the new startup sound set by you. In case you want to revert back to the default startup sound, simply click on Restore.

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How to hide Drives from Windows Explorer

Sometimes you have a private data that you needs to be hidden so you use hidden feature of Windows to hide some private files. But if you need to hide entire drive then you may face some difficulties. You are very well aware of hiding files in Windows but, did you know you may also hide your drives from appearing in the Windows Explorer.

For protecting your privacy in this post you will able to know about hiding drives in Windows.

How to hide drives ?

There are certain tricks by which you can hide drives from Windows explorer but from these tricks you will have to edit windows registry. For any advanced Windows user this is an easy task but for a normal user it is somewhat tough.

Fortunately a tool that doesn’t needs to tweak registry is available for you. This tool is NoDrives manager which is a free and simple to use and and can help you hiding your logical drives in Windows Explorer. But note that if you type the name of the drive in the Windows Explorer then it will be shown to you, so keep your drive name private for make it inaccessible to others.

Following steps will help you more.

*. Download and install NoDrive manager from here.

*. Run NoDrive manager and select the drive you want to hide and click on Save changes to hide the drive.

*. Now you will be prompted with a dialog box instructing you to restart your PC or log off and log in it again for the changes to take effect.

*. Now just restart or log off your system and your drives will be hidden.

*. To recover hidden drives uncheck the checked hidden drives and click on save changes and restart or log off your system.

Along with the drives on windows, the tool can also be used to hide CD / DVD drives. You can also assign a password protection to NoDrives Manager application for your security after assigning password nobody can access the application or hide or unhide drives without your permission.

That's it from the easy tutorial for hiding drives from your Windows explorer to protect your private data from others. Hopefully you should enjoy doing it.

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How to find out details of website for safe browsing

Everyday we deal with different websites for different kinds of information. Mostly we don’t care about a website and don’t know how safe it is to browse. Sometimes some websites may be infected with suspicious content that can harm your system. Although you trust the site you must identify about it’s protection for your own safety.

In the past it is very easy for the user to find out the harmful websites because of the poor designing of websites and annoying notifications but nowadays with the mastered improvement in the designing of such harmful websites may confuse anybody and they may not easily detectable for a normal user.

Fortunately for a user there is an easy solution in the form of a browser extension named WOT.

What is WOT ?

WOT is a browser extension that is available for all popular browsers like Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera. WOT notify users about a website whether it is safe to browse or not. Once installed, the extension icon appears on your browser and changes color of it according to ratings provided by millions of users for that website around the world.

 

Download links for WOT

For Google Chrome
Download Link 

For Firefox
Download Link

For Opera
Download Link

If a website is harmful, the extension will show a red light and in case it is completely safe, it will display a green light. 

Apart from the browser icon WOT also displays a icon near search result links to alert you before you click on that link. It’s also a very amazing feature of WAT that help you protecting yourself before clicking any link.

Being an experienced web user or a newbie to the Internet all the users can protect themselves with this extension. So enjoy safe browsing on the Internet.

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Identify details of song used in YouTube video

All of you watch lots of videos on Internet and mostly YouTube as it is the most popular and amazing video sharing community that powered by search giant Google. Lots of the time when we are watching different videos on YouTube there are certain songs or music included in the background of videos but we didn’t able to understood from where it was taken. 

Mostly when the popular artist’s song or popular music in the background then it’s easy to find out the details but the music of certain advertisements and random user content won’t be find out easily. This kind of difficulties can be overcome now.

You don’t need to be worry for this now because here is the solution for you. For solving this problem you have to give a try to Audentifi.

Audentifi is a audio identifying service for YouTube which can help you identifying unknown audio from YouTube videos.

How it works ?


Audentifi is a simple and easy to use service. You have to just copy and paste the YouTube URL in the input box provided and click on Identify songs.

Audentifi will now scan the song used in YouTube video and if it is identified by Audentifi then it will show the song and artist name. Also you will be presented with the link to purchase the song from Amazon or Itunes. Alternately, you may search for that song on Internet to download it for free.

Since it is a new service we can’t say it a perfect service but it is very good service. Most of the cases it identifies the audio which is unknown to us.

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