What happens when you press the power button on your computer ?

You can choose what happens, when you press the power button on your computer case (or the edge of a laptop). The computer can shut down, sleep, hibernate, or do nothing. You can apply the same setting to all of your power plans or you can apply different settings to individual power plans.

To apply the same setting to all power plans

1. First Goto Control Panel to open Power Options.

2. On "Select a power plan" page, in the left pane, click Choose what the power buttons do.

3. On "Define power buttons and turn on password protection page", next to When I press the power button, choose what you want your computer to do when you press the power button.

If you have a laptop, you can choose separate settings for when your laptop is running on battery and when it's plugged in

4.Click Save changes.

How to write a bach file or a batch job?

If your are connected with world of programming, you might have heard this word " Batch File ". A batch file is used to execute a no of operations or a list of commands one after the other often requiring no user input. A no of operations are batched in a file to be executed sequentially when we run that file. In Microsoft Windows Operating system a batch file is a file saved with .bat extension while in other operating systems like Unix and Linux it can be written as a command file shell script. Batch files are often used to load programs, run multiple processes at a time, and perform common or repetitive tasks. For example, a batch job could be used to back up many files on a computer system, process log files, run a series of calculation commands, run multiple system diagnostic processes, or any number of other things that require multiple commands to be run. A big advantage of a batch job is that it can be started at any time and left alone until t...

Adding Password to Microsoft Word Document

Recovering Deleted Files, Pictures & Videos

So many times we accidently delete some important files, pictures or videos. Sometimes we loose files because of unexpected system failure ( ultimately causing system format). We can get our deleted files back using Recovery Softwares/Utilities. Even though a file was deleted there is a good chance that contents of the file are still around. When a file is deleted the contents of the file are not removed. Only a pointer to the file in the file system table is deleted. It is very important to immediately stop writing to the storage device that previously contained your files/pictures so that the old file contents are not overwritten. For example, don’t take any more pictures with your digital camera because new pictures will overwrite the deleted files. HOW TO RECOVER DELETED FILES???? Step1: You will need to use a utility to recover your lost files. I like to use a free ut...

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