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Creating Emergency Shortcut To Shutdown Windows

Posted: 09 Jun 2010 03:09 PM PDT

This tutorial might be useful to those who hate to use mouse to shutdown windows. With the combination of three keys you can easily shutdown your computer. In this tutorial, I am going to show you, how you can create a shutdown shortcut key.

In desktop Right click>New>Shortcut

A create shortcut window will pop up. In the input field type, “shutdown –s” (without quotes), as shown in the figure. Remember that there is space between shutdown and -s

Click on next.

In next window, name anything you want your shortcut name to be. I named it shutdown. Alternatively you can have no name for shortcut. Deleting all the text and clicking on finish button won’t help you to create blank shortcut name.

To make blank shortcut name, Hold down ALT and type 0160 (i.e. ALT+0160). This will give a blank name. Click on finis button. You’ll have your name less shortcut menu ready.

Finally you’ll have shutdown shortcut icon similar to the image below:

Now all you need to is add shortcut keys to it. To do so, right click on the shortcut icon that you’ve just created. Choose properties.

By default shortcut key is set to none. Click on the shortcut key input field. Hold down CTRL and press any key you want. I used CTRL+ALT+S. Windows allows only the combination of CTRL+ALT to have a shortcut.

Now you are finally done.

Click on OK.

To test, Press CTRL+ALT+S (or any shortcut that you’ve given), following window will popup.

Press enter and sit back and relax until your system shuts down.

Hope this tutorial was a great help.

Actually, this article was guest post from the author of YouCanHack Blog and Hacktutors.info

How To Install XAMPP On Vista

Posted: 08 Jun 2010 06:26 PM PDT

If you’re looking easy way to develop and test websites locally, then you should try XAMPP server. You don’t need to connect to internet. XAMPP is really very easy to install and to use just download, extract and start. This is complete step by step tutorial with images that will help you trough installation process ,also here you’ll find solutions for problems with XAMPP installation .

1) Go to apachefriends.org and download the package you want. I recommend Basic package .exe 51 MB

2) Install XAMP

3)After this will appear XAMP Control panel, other way to launch Control panel is to click on xampp-control in C/xamp/xamp.

4) Launch web browser as mozilla firefox , and type http://localhost in address bar

5)Choose language

6) If you installed XAMPP successfully , then you should see something as below

Problems with XAMPP installation:

1) Apache Won’t Start

If you try to start apache from the control panel but it won’t start.If you get a green “running” notification from the control panel, but it only appears for a second then goes away. Then , there is an enormous chance that port 80 (and possibly 3306) is in use by something else. For example some software as skype or similar can cause this problem .

To fix it, press crtl+alt+delete , start task manager, and end process which which causes problems

2) Missing or insufficient write permissions

Because of missing or insufficient write permissions in “C:\Program Files”, I recommend to use alternate folder for XAMPP (“C:\xampp” or “C:\meinverzeichnis\xampp”).

3) You can’t start services with the Control Panel

You can’t start services with the Control Panel: You have installed Apache/MySQL in “C:\xampp” as Windows service. But you can’t start/stop the services with the “XAMPP Control Panel” or can’t uninstall them.
Solution: Use the service management console from Windows or disable UAC.

To disable the UAC, use the program “msconfig”. In “msconfig” go to “Tools”, select “disable user account control” and verify your selection. Now you must restart Windows. At the same place, you can enable the UAC again.