How to recover a deleted file in windows (Shift + Del)

You all might be wondering, how to recover a file when it is permanently deleted (shift + del) from the system. Lemme put it this way, if you clear the files from the Recycle bin in windows, then here is the tip to restore your files.

Fact: When a file is deleted from your computer, its contents aren’t immediately destroyed. Its hard drive space is made available for use, but until that space is overwritten, your old data is usually intact. Restoration by Brian Kato recovers such files on either FAT or NTFS partitions. Only 406 KB (or 200 KB for XP or 2K), it fits easily on a floppy, or runs from your hard drive. Generally, the sooner you try to restore a file, the more successful you’ll be.

Step by Step procedure to restore:

• Download the Restoration file from here and extract it.
• After extracting go to the location where the files got extracted and locate a folder which is something like this REST2514.
• There double click on the Restoration MFC Application and choose the drive from where the files are been deleted. Now click on Search Deleted Files button (look at the image for more details).
  
• Now choose your files and restore them.

Hope you find this tutorial helpful, do comment if you need any help.

Avoid system sluggishness and freeze ups with this free utility.

RAMBooster is a free utility that optimizes how your computer uses its RAM, working to keep as much free as possible. Much like FreeRAM XP Pro, it can also try and free up a specified amount if you have a program that needs more free RAM than you have available.

It's a simple-to-use program, and seems to do a good job of managing the RAM to keep more available. The author does not provide any support beyond the rather meager help file that comes with the program, though, so you're on your own if you have problems.

License Type: Free
Price: Free
Date Added: Jun 2006
Operating Systems: Windows 2000, Windows 9.x, Windows Me, Windows XP

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source: pcworld

Another Cool Replacement For Notepad

Looking for a geeked-out Notepad replacement? Look no further. This text editor for programmers features syntax highlighting for HTML, C/C++, Perl, and Java.

Key Features:

Edit multiple documents
- switch between documents using file selection tab.
- Ctrl+Tab brings the last accessed document to topmost.
- support window splitter to see different parts of a document.

Syntax highlighting
- configurable via custom syntax files.
- preconfigured for more than 100 computer languages.

Multi-level undo / redo
- all editing actions are recorded from the opening of a file.
- any document always can be undone to it's initial contents.
- unlimited undo and redo buffers.

Project management
- manage group of related files into one project.
- remote files also can be included in a project.

Directory tree view window
- click to open documents.
- filter to display only selected file class.

Find & Replace
- replace specified text one by one, or as a whole.
- support regular expression.

Column mode editing
- copy and paste rectangular selections.
- switch between column mode and line mode. (Alt+C)

Natural word wrapping
- word wrapping does not affect syntax highlighting.
- configurable wrapping indentation. (easer to understand the syntax)

Spell checker
- around 100000 words were added in the dictionary.
- users can register new words in their own dictionary. (InstallDir/user.dic)

User tools and macros
- execute external programs with proper arguments.
- compile, execute and test your code.
- ease your fingers with key stroke recording. (record & replay)

Edit remote files directly using built-in FTP client
- open, edit, and save documents in remote FTP servers.
- save account information (encoded) for automatic logon.

Print & Print preview
- configurable page header and footer.
- print with line numbers.
- print with syntax highlighting. (used in color printer)
- true type font selection for printer.

source: http://www.crimsoneditor.com/

Download(FREE)

Convert any printable DOC to PDFs

PrimoPDF is a free PDF creator. PrimoPDF lets you to convert any printable document to pdf format. The options are very simple and thus it is quick and facile.

Features:
You can create a PDF for screen viewing, print, ebook, or prepress (which embeds your fonts). You can include document properties like author name and keywords. You can encrypt your PDF using 40-bit and 128-bit encryption -- useful if you are publishing a ebook you'd like to protect from free distribution or an internal document you only want certain people to see. Then select the destination for your new PDF and click OK.

Best feature:
The security feature really is this program's best feature. You can choose whether users can print, copy text and graphics from the PDF, add comments, and make changes to the PDF.

Downlaod it from the site or from here.

Keep your confidential files away from intruders

There are many ways of hiding private data from intruders. Let us see how we can hide things with and without using softwares.

* Without Using any Softwares.

First we shall cover the basic file system concepts of the operating system.

Every Operating System has a file system. The file system is the basic of holding any kind of data. A File System basically is a record keeping system, it keeps the record or description of any file. This Task is specifically done by a thing called FAT ..... Which stands for File Allocation Table. This File Allocation Table is a encoded database kind of thing. The Fat Basically Holds The Following Information : 1. File Name + extention 2. File Size 3. Location 4. Hierarchy Pointer 5. Location Variable 6. Extention flags etc. and a lot for information.

The Most Popular Way and probably the oldest one is Hiding using MS-DOS.

This technique equally works on all os platforms. or where ever We can use a command prompt to access files. The trick is to rename your folder in a way which is not recognizable by your Operating System. The Best Way To Do Is to Rename Them Using Special Characters because special characters are not recognized by even Linux and Unix.
So the steps would be

1. Identify The Folder of file u want to LOCK.
2. Do The Command Prompt
3. Use the 'ren' Command To Rename the file/folder to name containing ASCII characters other than the ones found on the keyboard , which can be done by using combinations of ALT+(some number) keys combination.
eg. ren c:\temp c:\temp¶É¢ª

In The above example the characters at the end of the name are made by using the following key combinations
ALT+144 = É etc.

Now You can even use these characters at the beginning of the name of the file/folder, now the use of doing all this is that these special character are not recognized by many operating systems as valid characters. In windows when u double click it You would simply get an error.
But there is a way to break this deceit this system, that is the name still shows properly in the directory listings in the command prompt and rename it back to recognizable form to use it. if u can do it yourself, any body else can too , so do something special. ;-)

Now If You Want to become invincible I have another trick for you up my sleeve.
In the ASCII Chart there is a character that DOES NOT SHOW in the directory listings in Command Prompts. This Character can be used As Many Number of times as u like with combination with other characters as well. This Would Ensure That Nobody else can see that how many times u have used the "SPECIAL" Character.. So Nobody Else Would Be Able To OPEN the folder of file other than ur self. That special character is an invisible character marker by key combination : ALT+255

* Using Softwares
Google will take you to many softwares when you search about folder locking. But after trying many softwares in this category I came out with two best locking softwares, one is Folder Lock which is free of cost and Microsoft's Private Folder v1.0 . I recommend Microsoft Private Folder to Folder Lock and you can download it from third party sites if your not legitimate Windows O.S. user. These softwares will allow you to put all your important files in a suitcase kind and lock, The suitcase can be opened with the password which you have to select. Last thing you need to do is remember that password, guess u dont need another suitcase to save that password :P

source: Hackthissite

Mocking Images

Ido lot of image mocking when I am free. Have a look at these images which I have mocked.

Don't get surprised and judge my photoshop talent before I tell the truth :p. Trust me! you no need to use photoshop or other complicated softwares to mock images. I recommend FaceOnBody software with which you can replace the faces of your friends with famous characters and thus astonish your buddies. Get the trial version of the software from Here, Usage of the software is really simple, try to get the crack by googling or PM me. For more queries comment here.