Sticky Notes

• To open a new Sticky Note, type sticky in start search and hit Enter.

• To change its size, drag it from its bottom right corner.

• To change its color, right click the note and then click the color you want.

• To create a new sticky note, click on the ‘+‘ sign in its top left corner.

• To close a sticky note, right click on its taskbar icon and select ‘Close window’. If you reopen Stiky Notes now, you will see the earlier Notes. The Notes will appear exactly where you left them, even if you restart your Windows computer.

• To delete a sticky note click on the ‘x‘ mark in its top right corner.

Once its running and you start making notes, you can use the following keyboard shortcut keys to format its text:

Select the text where required, and then press the desired keys:

1. Bold: Ctrl+B
2. Italics: Ctrl+I
3. Underline: Ctrl+U
4. Strikethrough: Ctrl+T
5. Bullet list: Ctrl+Shift+L
6. Increase size of text: Ctrl+Shift+>
7. Decrease size of text: Ctrl+Shift+<
8. See the options when you press Ctrl+Shift+L each time (1 to 5 times).. To get Roman numerals: Press 5 times, Ctrl+Shift+L.
9. Capitalize (or otherwise) highlighted letters: Ctrl+Shift+A
10. Right Align : Ctrl+R
11. Center align: Ctrl+E
12. Left Align: Ctrl+L
13. Single line space: Ctrl+1
14. Double line space: Ctrl+2
15. 1.5 line space: Ctrl+5

Ctrl+A, Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V, etc of course work as usual. Know any more? Do share below in the comments!

Backup, Save, Restore Sticky Notes

You can backup the Windows 7 Sticky Notes by backing up this file to another location:

C:\Users\Username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Sticky Notes\StickyNotes.snt

You may have to show hidden/system files via the Folder Options.

To restore it, delete the sticky notes from your desktop and copy paste the backed up one into this folder:

C:\Users\Username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Sticky Notes folder

How To Retrieve Back The Lost Notes, After Closing Windows Vista’s Sidebar Notes Gadget may interest some Windows Vista users.

Turn the Sticky Note delete warning back on

If you have at any point, on selecting delete,  opted to NOT have the confirmation box show up again, by selecting Don’t Display this message again, and would now like to get this delete confirmation box, here is the way to do it.

Open Registry Editor and navigate to the following key :

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Applets\StickyNotes

Now delete the value called PROMPT_ON_DELETE or set its value to 1.

If you do not want to touch the Windows registry, you could simply download our freeware FixWin to fix the issue, quickly.

Change Sticky Notes font

Windows uses the Segoe Print font. Changing of the default is not supported in Sticky Notes. What you can do is type your text in the desired font in a text editor like Word, and copy-paste it here. The Sticky Note should display the text in that font. Let us know if this works for you.

How to minimize Windows Sticky Notes to your notification area and Sticky Notes alternatives may also interest you.

Launch Multiple Programs From A Single Shortcut Using A Batch File

Some PC applications just work together like two peas in a pod. I’m talking about pairs like Winamp and Last.fm. There’s Skype and Pidgin, Steam and Raptr, and more. When you’re using one of these, launching the next one just feels natural. However, having too many paired program groups like this can really cause some serious clutter on the desktop.

That being said, is there really a need to have both shortcuts on your desktopwhen two applications work alongside each other? If you don’t think so and you’re running Windows, let me show you how to combine both applications into a single shortcut icon for your desktop.

Pick Your Icon

The first step to setting this up, after you’ve picked out the two (or more) applications that you want to combine into a single shortcut, is selecting your main shortcut icon. This is an optional step of the process, but bypassing it means that you’ll be using the Windows icon for every batch file as your shortcut icon.

If the desktop icon you want to use is already on the desktop, then good. Keep it there. If not, find the application whose icon you want to use (either through your Start menu or through Windows Explorer), right-click on it, and select Desktop (create shortcut) from the Send to menu.

Get Program Paths

The next step is to collect the program paths of the applications that you are trying to launch. Again, to do this you can use the Start menu or Windows Explorer. Simply find the application, right-click on it, and select Properties. The Target field is what we’re looking for.

Copy what’s in that field and paste it into an empty Notepad window so that you have it somewhere easily accessible. Do this same thing with the second program that you’re trying to launch.

Create the Batch File

To make this work, we now need to take those two application paths and work them into a batch file. We have explained how to write simple batch file previously. Open the Notepad file that contains the program paths you copied earlier and adjust it to look like the example below.

@echo off
cd "C:\Program Files\CCleaner"
start CCleaner64.exe

cd "C:\Program Files (x86)\Wunderlist2"
start Wunderlist.exe

exit

Above is an example of the complete batch file script. Below is a breakdown of what is going on in the script.

@echo off
This simply prevents commands from being displayed in the command prompt, which is used to execute your batch file.

cd "C:\Program Files\CCleaner"
This is changing our directory to the CCleaner directory (which we got from the program path earlier).

start CCleaner64.exe
This is launching the executable file (that we noted in Notepad earlier) from within the directory we just navigated to.

exit
That one’s kind of self-explanatory.

In Notepad, save this file (making sure your Save as type is set to All Files) with the .bat extension. Take note of the path where you’ve saved this file at, in Notepad, because we’ll need it in the next step.

Point Your Shortcut to the Batch File

Remember that icon we placed on the desktop earlier? Right-click it, select Properties, and look at the Target field. This should display the path to your application.

Now, change that to the path of your batch file. Click Apply and OK.

Launch Your Batch File From The Shortcut

Now, double-click the shortcut icon on your desktop. You should see a command prompt window quickly open, then close (as the first line of the batch file forces), then your two applications should launch!

Conclusion

As someone who really appreciates automation, it’s worth it to take these five minutes of your time to save yourself the unnecessary clicks and effort it would otherwise take you to launch two applications at once. It keeps your desktop nice and tidy, too.

Got any neat ideas for other ways that this batch file trick could work? Any suggestions for program pairs that you’d throw in a batch file like this? Leave me a comment below and let’s talk about it!

Are batch files really not your thing? Check out my favorite application launcher for Windows: Fingertips! Feeling cluttered on your desktop but really not interesting in combining shortcut icons? Here’s how to clean up your desktop efficiently!

Interrupted Download? Here’s How To Resume In Chrome

Have you ever been in the process of downloading a large file in Chrome, then suddenly and without warning, your Internet gets disconnected or your computer hangs and you are forced to reboot? A download could also be interrupted by accidentally removing the electrical power cord from the wall socket or through power outage in your area.

When you finally get your computer up and running again, you agonizingly realize your download progress has disappeared and you have to restart.

If this happens a couple of times, a simple download can take ages to complete. If you are on a limited bandwidth plan or your carrier throttles your data after you exceed the fair usage limit, the consequences of an interrupted download can be expensive.

Unfortunately, unlike Firefox and Internet Explorer which allow you to easily resume interrupted downloads, this is one area that Chrome fails miserably. If you are a die-hard Chrome user, then the following workaround should help you avoid restarting a big download. Take note that I tested this in Windows 7.

WGet

This handy application is free and is part of the GNU project. Its primary purpose is to retrieve content from web servers. The name is a combination of the words “World Wide Web” and “Get”. Download the program and install it on your computer. Do not install it in the default programs folder. Select a different install location, because you will need to copy the failed download file to the same location as Wget’s executable file.

Locate the unconfirmed download file, paste it into the same location as the Wget executable file. Look in the Google Drive > GnuWin32 > Bin folder.

Rename it by deleting the “.crdownload” extension as shown below. Click Yes in the notification that pops up.

Next, in the download location folder, press and hold down the Shift key, right click and select Open Command Window Here.

A command window should launch. Type in the following command wget -c [URL], where [URL] is the download link, and press Enter. You can find the download link by going to your Chrome downloads page using the shortcut Ctrl +J.

You will notice that the download picks up where it left off before the interruption. Once the download completes, the command window closes. Confirm that file has been downloaded by checking the download location.

Can You Do It With An Extension or App?

Unfortunately, there isn’t a Chrome download manager that resumes interrupted downloads in same way a Firefox add-on such as DownThemAll is able do it. I tested out several popular Chrome download managers and they all failed to pick up a download at the point it was interrupted. The only option available was to restart the download. Chrome simply doesn’t have this functionality yet but we hope the developers will include this feature in the next release. This is yet another thing Chrome doesn’t let you do, that Firefox does.

Experimental Features

There is a Chrome experimental feature that is supposed to enable download resumption though I couldn’t get it to work in Windows 7. The feature can be accessed by typing “Chrome://flags” in your URL bar. This takes you to Chrome’s experimental features. Scroll down and look for Enable Download Resumption andclick Enable.

If this works, you should see a new context menu item labelled Resumeuponright clicking on the file in Chrome’s download page . But, like I said, this is an experimental feature and the developers make no guarantees on whether it works. To the best of my knowledge, it doesn’t work in Windows 7 and I am only including this information here for the benefit of Mac, Linux and Chrome OS users who may have better luck with the feature.

How Do You Resume Your Downloads?

Finally, if you need to download a really big file, for the moment it is best to use Firefox if your Internet connection is choppy. Alternatively, you could search online for the torrent version of the file and download it using a Bit Torrent client such uTorrent. This certainly adds a twist to the Chrome Vs Firefox Vs Opera debate.

Have you ever had to resume an interrupted download in Chrome?

Rohos Face Logon

Adds Log-In convenience to the standard Windows log on procedure. It allows to access Windows computer in an easy and fast way by using any Web camera. The log in is performed automatically once the face has been recognized by the program. Rohos Face Log on provides identification of a user by bio-metric verification based on neural network technology.

Face recognition benefits:

Automatic log in or desktop unlock when your face is recognized.

Multi - user support - You may register faces of several users for any user account!

All registered face patterns are saved and poor ones may be deleted.

Self training allows to view and register face models that were not recognized. This will simplify usage and convenience of face recognition log in.

Video - Using face recognition for Windows 7 log in

In this video you will see:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=2zro3gmwXFE

Register some face models for proper face recognition with Rohos.

Unlocking Windows using face recognition.

Rohos Face Log on auto- training using face models that were not recognized before.

See the list of faces that were used for log in / unlock for a week.

Hiding the face recognition dialogue from the log on window for: 1. Preventing people know that you use face for logging; 2. Makes it impossible for another person to use your face or your photo to access your computer

Comparison Matrix - Rohos Face Logon, Standard vs Free :

Key features list	Standard Edition	Freeware Edition
Automatic Windows login or desktop unlock when your face is recognized.
Multi-user support - You may register faces of several users for any user account
Self-training - help to avoid face recognition failure
Keep history of all login attempts by face
[Unique] The option Hide Rohos Face Logon window during login hides the fact of program™s presence.
Power saving - suspend recognition process if there is no user activity.
[Unique] Allow to use USB flash drive as a back up key to login Windows
Price	24 $	Free
Get your Rohos software right now!

http://www.rohos.com/products/rohos-face-logon-free/

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Winsplit-Revolution

 What is Winsplit-Revolution ?

WinSplit Revolution is a small utility which allows you to easily organize your open windows by tiling, resizing and positioning them to make the best use of your desktop real estate.

WinSplit is especially useful for high-end LCD screens with high resolutions because it helps you to efficiently manage many active windows. As you can see on the screenshot on the right, the advantages of using WinSplit is that it saves you from having to drag and drop windows by allowing you to snap windows into specific tiled configurations using simple keyboard hotkeys.

It is also useful for owners of multi-monitors systems, as it can move a window from one screen to one other by simply hit a hotkey.

It has also been improved with some features dedicated to the active window like "taking screenshots", "applying the always on top style", "setting transparency", and many others.

Quick use

Modern day monitors continually provide higher resolutions and for this reason we've developed a simple program that permits you to "divide" your screen into several parts: halves, thirds, fourths, etc...
For instance, a window can be resized and moved to the left half, the right half, the top, a corner... of the screen.

Once the program is launched, an icon appears in the system tray: 

To affect a window in a zone of your desktop, by default just use the pop-up frame (virtual numpad) or hotkeys on your keyboard, which are by default:Ctrl+Alt+numpad.
The window's positioning respects the numeric keypad scheme. Typically: "Ctrl + Alt + 1" corresponds to the bottom left part of the screen.

See the help page for other compliant functions that have been achieved.

Download :- http://winsplit-revolution.com/download

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Install Windows XP, Windows 7 And Windows 8/8.1 From The Same USB Drive

Do you want to create a bootable USB drive containing Windows XP, Windows 7 and Windows 8/8.1 installation files to avoid creating multiple bootable USB drives? Would you like to install Windows XP, Windows 7 and Windows 8/8.1 from the same USB drive? If you said yes to above questions, you have come to the right place.

In this guide, we will show you how to create a bootable USB drive containing Windows XP, Windows 7 and Windows 8/8.1 installation files and install XP, 7 and 8/8.1 from the same USB drive.

Things you need:

# Windows XP ISO file or DVD

# Windows 7 ISO file

# Windows 8/8.1 ISO file

# 8 GB+ USB flash drive

Procedure:

Step 1: Connect your 8GB+ USB flash drive to your PC and backup all data before proceeding further, as the drive will be erased while making it bootable.

Step 2: Head over to this page and download the newest version of WinSetupFromUSB zip file. Extract the zip file to get WinSetupFromUSB folder containing separate executable for x86 and x64 versions of Windows.

Step 3: Depending on the version of Windows you’re running, double-click either on WinSetupFromUSB.exe or WinSetupFromUSB x64 to launch the software.

Step 4: Once WinSetupFromUSB is launched and running, select your USB pen drive under USB disk selection and format tools section (see picture) and select Auto format it with FBinst option. Also select FAT32 as file system instead of NTFS if you want your multi-boot USB to be compatible with both BIOS and U/EFI.

Step 5: Skip this step if you don’t want to add Windows XP files to the USB. Select the check box under Windows 2000/XP/2003 Setup and then click the browse button to browse to the i386 folder in your Windows XP DVD or ISO file. Note that if you have the ISO file, you need to mount the ISO file using a third-party software or using the built-in Mount feature in Windows 8/8.1.

If you’re on Windows 7, we suggest you go through our how to mount an ISO file in Windows 7 guide for detailed instructions.

Once you have selected the I386 folder, proceed to the next step.

Step 6: Next, select the check box under Windows Vista/7/8/Server 2008/2012 based ISO, click on the browse button and browse to location where you have saved your Windows 7 ISO file. Select the ISO file and click Open button.

Step 7: Now that you have chosen to add Windows XP and Windows 7 to the USB drive and make it bootable, check the Advanced options box to open Advanced Options dialog, select the option titled Custom menu names for Vista/7/8/Server Source. This will enable you add your own custom names to your Windows 7 and Windows 8 setups in the boot menu.

Once done, close Advanced Options dialog.

Step 8: Finally, click GO button. Click on the Yes button when you see the Warning messages. If you have selected Custom menu names for Vista/7/8, you’ll see a small dialog box asking you to enter custom name for Windows setup. Enter a name and click OK button to allow WinSetupFromUSB begin its job.

NOTE: We’ll add Windows 8/8.1 to the USB in the next step.

Step 9: Once done, you’ll see Job done message on the screen. Don’t close WinSetupFromUSB yet as we have yet to add Windows 8/8.1 installation files to the USB. And if you don’t want to add Windows 8/8.1 files, you can stop the procedure here and close the application.

Step 10: In order to add Windows 8/8.1 installation files, select the option titled Windows Vista/7/8/Server 2008/2012 based ISO and then select your Windows 8/8.1 ISO file (make sure that the same USB drive is selected).

Step 11: Enable the option titled Advanced Options and then select Custom menu names for Vista/7/8/Server source.

Step 12: Finally, click the GO button. Click Yes button when you see warning dialogue boxes and enter a name for the setup when you’re asked to do so. That’s it! Your bootable USB containing Windows XP, Windows 7 and Windows 8/8.1 should be ready in a couple of minutes. Good luck!

Once done, you can connect the USB drive to your PC or any other PC on which you want to install Windows XP, Windows 7 or Windows 8/8.1, and then boot from the USB. You’ll see the following screen, where you need to select the Windows setup that you would like to start.

And if your PC doesn’t support booting from USB, please refer to our how to boot from USB even if your PC doesn’t support booting from USB guide.

Download :- http://www.winsetupfromusb.com/downloads/