Microsoft Windows have been around for a while now. Other than just few visual effects like Aero, Windows 7 barely does something exciting for me. So, I thought of trying other third party programs to see what windows can do to have some exciting look. I tried a lot of programs so far. There a huge list of programs that I have just to give a try. Following video shows you my desktop:
There are just a few programs that I have used. They are: Real Desktop, Shockwave3D and Rocketdock. And following are just few of the programs I have actually tried:
RocketDock,
Shock4way3D
ShockDesktop3D
TopDesk
BumpTop
DeskSpace
Finderbar
Leftsider
When I had XP I tried vistart
Windows sidebar
WindowsBlinds
Bootskin
Logon Studio
LeopardXP visual style
Yahoo Widgets
and many more that I cant even remember...
So, basically I love tweaking with my computers and try new things and love to have a good look at it. In the youtube video I posted, its just a few programs that I had when I actually made that video. And my computer is not very new. Especially my graphics card is really bad. But it still is good for my computer what you saw in the video.
Now, I will talk few things about the programs I used there.
First the Real Desktop.
Real Desktop is a program that makes your desktop look like a 3D box. It will make it look like as if oyu are looking inside a cuboid box. The icons will be like a small piece of wooden, or metallic(depending upon your settings) squares. You can literally pick it and throw it anywhere in the box that you can see. You can also pick and put it in the trash can. To pick up these icons you have to click both mouse button at same time and move it. You can also decorate the box with sticky notes and soccer ball. You can stack the icons too. and stick the sticky notes on the walls. You can also change all the wallpapers of the sides of the box. If you want to download real Desktop then you can do that by clicking here: Download Real Desktop free
Second the Shock4way3D.
Shoch4way3D is the program that will give you 4 desktops!!! Isn't that amazing??? You can do different things on different desktop without even other people knowing about it. If you are working very private and someone comes to your room suddenly then you can actually change the desktop with a shortcut key and when they use it, they will not even know what were you using unless they know about it program. For me it is really handy. And best part about it is that it is completely free. And it also have have cool graphics and a lot of features that you will really enjoy playing with. There are other programs to do the same thing for you and I have tried most of them. But since my graphics is not that good, I found this program to be the best for me because it is very very light weight. I don't even have to bother about cracking for making patch for this program. So, if you want to download it, then you can do it from here: Download Shock4way3D
Third one is RocketDock.
Many people may be familiar with the rocketdock. It is present there in all Apple computers as a Dock at the bottom of the screen by default. It is the same dock for windows. You can add programs in the dock and clear all the programs the desktop and keep it clean. I personally do not like the mess in the screen. And it is really good if you are same kind and have this rocketdock in your windows computer. In this rocketdock you can also customize the icons by yourself and you can even put the animated icon for the programs. And this program is also completely free to download. And you can do it from here: Download Rocketdock
And for the icons pack and animated icons visit http://www.rocketdock.com
Brief Descriptions of programs I have mentioned earlier:
ShockDesktop3D: It is also same as Real Desktop but the difference it that this is really really light weight again. It does not have all the features of real desktop but it have few features that even real desktop doesnot have. Frankly speaking I prefer this program to Real Desktop not only because it is light weight but also because if some of its cool features like cuboidal icons and a lot of other things too. And its easy to handle according to my personal experience. You can download it from here: Download ShockDesktop3D
TopDesk: The feature this program provides is already there in Windows vista or later version of Windows(When you press Windows Key+Tab). So, basically windows XP users might be interested in it. And what it does is, just shows all the opened windows in stacks so that you can open the window that you want to work on, easily. Download TopDesk trial version from here, Problem with it is that it is not free. But if you want contact me.
Bumptop: It is also same as ShockDesktop3D or real desktop. When I used it, I had few problems with it like it is really memory consuming and really slow. But if you have better hardware, then you will definitely love it. But personally, I did not like it that much. And also it is not free. You can only download pro version now. There is no free version at all. So, if you want go give it a try just contact me again.
DeskSpace: Its also a virtual desktop program like Shock4way3D. But it have six face like a dice rather than 4 faces. I prefer Shock4way3D to Desktop for it being light weight but you might wanna have a try at DeskSpace. But it is not free again. So, if you want contact me or Download the trial version here.
Finderbar: It is like a theme for microsoft windows that will put a finder bar in your start menu like it is there in mac computers. You will need to patch a system file to do it, but if you are interested, then I put another blog tutorial on how to do it.
Leftsider: Leftsider is a small tweak for windows that will put the three windows button(at the top: minimize, maximize and close) to the left like in mac computers.
Vistart is a program for windows xp that will change the start menu that windows XP have to be like the one in vista or 7.
Windows Side bar for XP is program that will install the side bar to use on windows XP from Vista.
Bootskin is the program that will change the boring screen that you will see when computer is booting up in windows XP or vista to a custom designed picture. You can also change the picture to what ever you want it to be but you will need a lesson on how to do it. If enough number of people are interested, then I will post the tutorial on this topic too. You can download Bootskin from here: for XP, for Vista but if need more premade skins, then contact me.
Logon Studio: Change the Logon screen of the windows: the screen where you put in your password when you start the computer. Download it from here or contact me.
Thank you for reading this. I hope you liked it. And if you need to ask something please email me or put a comment below. My email is jack_store@rocketmail.com
Running command prompt in full screen in windows vista or later version of windows...
Today I am going to write about a issue in Microsoft Window's later versions regarding the DOS or command prompt. After Windows XP Microsoft Windows does not have DOS anymore. It only consists of command prompt which is shortly called command or just cmd. You can open this by typing cmd at start menu in Windows Vista or Windows 7. But the main issue people might talk about this is the full screen mode of this cmd.exe program. This is mainly useful for program if they can use cmd in full screen mode. So, here I m going to talk about how you can actually just make it like full screen even though the windows does not support it.
The conventional way of making full screen is by pressing Alt+Enter. But when you do that to cmd in Vista or 7, you will get this message saying that "The system does not support the fullscreen mode." So, lets try to get something even though it does not allow us to do that.
Follow the steps that you see below and please comment if it is working for you or if this helps.
It's rather odd but I've verified that it works.
There is a kind of solution, and it's even recommended by Microsoft.They suggest replacing the driver for your graphics card with the equivalent XP video driver. You'll lose the ability to run Vista's spiffy Aero interface if you do so, but you'll gain back the ability to run full-screen DOS programs. But that may not be what you would really want to happen...
Thank you for reading this. Hope this helps. If you need more help or suggest something for me or need something then please email me at jack_store@rocketmail.com. I will try to reply you before 24 hours.
The conventional way of making full screen is by pressing Alt+Enter. But when you do that to cmd in Vista or 7, you will get this message saying that "The system does not support the fullscreen mode." So, lets try to get something even though it does not allow us to do that.
Follow the steps that you see below and please comment if it is working for you or if this helps.
It's rather odd but I've verified that it works.
- Click Start and type CMD, but don't hit enter or click on cmd.exe.
- Right-click cmd.exe above and choose Run as administrator.
- Respond to the UAC prompt.
- In the command prompt enter WMIC--you'll get a different prompt for Windows Management Instrumentation Control (but you're not going to actually DO anything with WMI).
- Click the normal maximize button at top right. The Command Prompt window will fill the screen.
- Enter EXIT to exit WMIC.
- Right-click the Command Prompt's title bar, choose Properties, click OK.
- Enter EXIT to exit the Command Prompt.
- Right-click its and choose Properties.
- Click the Layout tab
- Set Screen Buffer Size's Width to 80
- Set Window Size Width to 80
- Set Window Size Height to 25
- Click OK
There is a kind of solution, and it's even recommended by Microsoft.They suggest replacing the driver for your graphics card with the equivalent XP video driver. You'll lose the ability to run Vista's spiffy Aero interface if you do so, but you'll gain back the ability to run full-screen DOS programs. But that may not be what you would really want to happen...
Thank you for reading this. Hope this helps. If you need more help or suggest something for me or need something then please email me at jack_store@rocketmail.com. I will try to reply you before 24 hours.
How to get amazing scores for Bejeweled Blitz on facebook
Here's my game play video posted on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PockVcbBs-o
I would recommend you to read the notes before you start with the steps.
If you love Bejeweled Blitz on facebook and if you are also interested in beating all your friends or making high score, even a million then then I m going to show you how to do it. It is a cheat for the bejeweled blitz game that is working till date today. And this is only if you want to make a big score. If you enjoy just playing it, then you don't have to do it. Just good to know that you can do it(make very scores) easily. So, follow the descriptions below and you will be probably making a million for bejeweled today.
1. Download this program called cheat engine if you don't have it already by clicking here.
2. Install the program.
3. Run the program.
4. Click on the little computer icon on the program as pointed by the arrow the in following picture:
5. You will see the list of all processes going on in your computer. From that list, find firefox.exe as shown in the picture below:
6. Click open of press enter. And then click on the "Enable Speedhack" in the main window of cheat engine which is located in the pointed area in following picture:
7. After clicking that, select your desired slowness of the game. In the video that I provided, I was playing at 0.125. You can type that in the box or move the slider that you can see like in the picture below:
8. After that hit apply below the slider and go back to your browser and open the game. Your game will be now very slow if you have input a number less than 1 or it will be faster if you have input more than 1 depending upon your applied value.
Thank you for reading this. Check my other blogs, if you have curiosity about computers or technology. You can also email me at jack_store@rocketmail.com if you need anything(movies, songs or softwares). And if you want to ask me some question, or have some problems then please email me. I will try to reply your email within 24 hours of time.
Enjoy and have a great day.
UPDATE 1:
Ok guys, here's the first update to this blog who have been complaining that its not working for them and this should work cuz I tried it today on Sept 3 2010.
Here's what u need to change:
Everything the same until the step 4.
On step 5, instead of looking for the firefox there, look for the thing that says xxxxxxxx-plugin-container.exe, where xxxxxxxx is the address but if you don't know about it, then don't worry about it.
And after that follow the steps again from step 6 and I am sure you will be happy to see what u see :-)...
And you might also see more than one xxxxxxxx-plugin-container.exe, where only xxxxxxxx will only change to something else. If selescting one did not work then try the other one.
Ok takecare and have fun with it...
Note:
1. For the people who use mac, you will need to download the cheatengine for mac and then install it and then follow the steps. And if you do not know where to and how to get cheatengine for mac, email me(cuz it involves a little complications sometime if you are not very familiar with computers.
2. For the people who are using other internet browser other than firefox, you will have to look for the browser you are using instead of firefox.exe but I would recommend to use firefox, cuz I have only tested it on firefox and internet explorer(and I don't like internet explorer for many reasons and hence I don't recommend it at all.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PockVcbBs-o
I would recommend you to read the notes before you start with the steps.
If you love Bejeweled Blitz on facebook and if you are also interested in beating all your friends or making high score, even a million then then I m going to show you how to do it. It is a cheat for the bejeweled blitz game that is working till date today. And this is only if you want to make a big score. If you enjoy just playing it, then you don't have to do it. Just good to know that you can do it(make very scores) easily. So, follow the descriptions below and you will be probably making a million for bejeweled today.
1. Download this program called cheat engine if you don't have it already by clicking here.
2. Install the program.
3. Run the program.
4. Click on the little computer icon on the program as pointed by the arrow the in following picture:
5. You will see the list of all processes going on in your computer. From that list, find firefox.exe as shown in the picture below:
6. Click open of press enter. And then click on the "Enable Speedhack" in the main window of cheat engine which is located in the pointed area in following picture:
7. After clicking that, select your desired slowness of the game. In the video that I provided, I was playing at 0.125. You can type that in the box or move the slider that you can see like in the picture below:
8. After that hit apply below the slider and go back to your browser and open the game. Your game will be now very slow if you have input a number less than 1 or it will be faster if you have input more than 1 depending upon your applied value.
Thank you for reading this. Check my other blogs, if you have curiosity about computers or technology. You can also email me at jack_store@rocketmail.com if you need anything(movies, songs or softwares). And if you want to ask me some question, or have some problems then please email me. I will try to reply your email within 24 hours of time.
Enjoy and have a great day.
UPDATE 1:
Ok guys, here's the first update to this blog who have been complaining that its not working for them and this should work cuz I tried it today on Sept 3 2010.
Here's what u need to change:
Everything the same until the step 4.
On step 5, instead of looking for the firefox there, look for the thing that says xxxxxxxx-plugin-container.exe, where xxxxxxxx is the address but if you don't know about it, then don't worry about it.
And after that follow the steps again from step 6 and I am sure you will be happy to see what u see :-)...
And you might also see more than one xxxxxxxx-plugin-container.exe, where only xxxxxxxx will only change to something else. If selescting one did not work then try the other one.
Ok takecare and have fun with it...
Note:
1. For the people who use mac, you will need to download the cheatengine for mac and then install it and then follow the steps. And if you do not know where to and how to get cheatengine for mac, email me(cuz it involves a little complications sometime if you are not very familiar with computers.
2. For the people who are using other internet browser other than firefox, you will have to look for the browser you are using instead of firefox.exe but I would recommend to use firefox, cuz I have only tested it on firefox and internet explorer(and I don't like internet explorer for many reasons and hence I don't recommend it at all.)
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