Change The Windows 7 Start Orb the Easy Way

Want to make your Windows 7 PC even more unique and personalized? Then check out this easy guide on how to change your start orb in Windows 7.

Getting Started

First, download the free Windows 7 Start Button Changer (link below), and extract the contents of the folder. It contains the app along with a selection of alternate start button orbs you can try out.

Before changing the start button, we advise creating a system restore point in case anything goes wrong. Enter System Restore in your Start menu search, and select “Create a restore point”.

Please note: We tested this on both the 32 bit and 64 bit editions of Windows 7, and didn’t encounter any problems or stability issues. That said, it is always prudent to make a restore point just in case a problem did happen.

Click the Create button…

Then enter a name for the restore point, and click Create.

Changing the Start Orb.

Once this is finished, run the Windows 7 Start Button Changer as administrator by right-clicking on it and selecting “Run as administrator”. Accept the UAC prompt that will appear.

If you don’t run it as an administrator, you may see the following warning. Click Quit, and then run again as administrator.

You should now see the Windows 7 Start Button Changer. On the left it shows what your current (default) start orb looks like inactive, when hovered over, and when selected. Click the orb on the right to select a new start button.

Here we browsed to the sample orbs folder, and selected one of them. Let’s give Windows the Media Center orb for a start orb. Click the orb you want, and then select open.

When you click Open, your screen will momentarily freeze and your taskbar will disappear. When it reappears, your computer will have gone from having the old, default Start orb style…

…to your new, exciting Start orb! Here it is default, and glowing when hovered over.

Now, the Windows 7 Start Orb Changer will change, and show your new Start orb on the left side. If you would like to revert to the default orb, simply click the folder icon to restore it. Or, if you would like to change the orb again, restore the original first and then select a new one.

The orbs don’t have to be round; here’s a fancy Windows 7 logo as the start button.

The start orb change will work in the Aero and Aero basic (which Windows 7 Start uses) themes, but will not show up in the classic, Windows 2000 style themes. Here’s how the new start button looks with the Aero Classic theme:

There are tons of orbs available, including this cute smiley, so choose one that you like to make your computer uniquely yours.

Conclusion

This is a cute way to make your desktop unique, and can be a great way to make a truly personalized theme. Let us know your favorite Start orb!

Link

DOWNLOAD WIN 7 START BUTTON CHANGER

Add OS X Styled Stacks to Your Computer with 7Stacks

Do you love how Stacks look in Mac OS X and want to add that kind of functionality to your Windows system? Here we look at 7Stacks which gives you a similar experience.

Note: Stacks attach to the Taskbar in Windows 7 and to the Quick Launch Toolbar in Vista and XP.

Setting Up Your New Stacks

Installation of 7Stacks is simple and straightforward. As soon as you start the app you can immediately begin creating stacks using this window. Notice that you will need to choose between two browsing options to “add” the appropriate folder for your new stack.

The “SF Button” is for “special folders” and the “… Button” is for adding any regular folder that you desire. We decided to begin with a regular folder first.

Note: The default “Stack Type” is “Vertical Stack”.

We browsed until we found the Internet Browsers folder from our start menu, selected it, and clicked “OK”.

As you can see more details are filled in now such as “Target Path” and the “Caption/Name” for this particular stack. Once you have things sorted click on “Create Shortcut on Desktop”.

Note: You may want to deselect the “Show Explore Item” option if you do not want to access the “stack’s originating folder” using Windows Explorer and wish to cut down on “clutter” in your stacks.

Here is our new “Stack Shortcut” on the Desktop…

In Windows 7 right click on the shortcut and select “Pin to Taskbar”. For those using Windows Vista and XP drag the shortcut to your “Quick Launch Toolbar”.

There is our first stack full of browser shortcut goodness.

If you want access to the shortcuts in one of the folders in the stack click on it and it will open (“shift into focus”) as shown here.

Whenever you are ready to create a new stack right click on any existing “stack icons” and select “Create a new stack”.

This time we decided to create a stack for a “special folder” and use “Grid” as the “Stack Type”.

When you click on the “SF Button” you will see a “classic start menu styled” menu. You can choose one of the preset choices in the main area or browse through the “Start Menu, Common Folders, & Other” sub-areas. Here we chose “My Pictures”…

Once again click on “Create Shortcut on Desktop” to finish your new stack and add it to your “Taskbar or Quick Launch Bar”.

Here is our “Pictures Stack” using the “Grid Setting”. Looking good…

For our final addition we created a stack for “My Documents” using the “Menu Stack Type”.

Not bad at all. Notice how the folders are set up for easy content browsing.

A look at our three stacks pinned to the “Taskbar”.

Preferences

There are only a few preferences to sort through for 7Stacks…”Text Appearance, Behavior, & Stack Closing Style”.

Conclusion

If you have been wanting Mac OS X Stacks style functionality in your Windows system then 7Stacks is definitely worth taking a look at.

Thanks to HTG reader Realitizer for the great tip!

Links

DOWNLOAD 7 STACK

How To Make Your Keyboard Lights Flash!!

Make yor keyboard lights do a Flash!!
To do that:

1]Go to notepad.

2]Type the following code:

Set wshShell =wscript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
do
wscript.sleep 100
wshshell.sendkeys "{CAPSLOCK}"
wshshell.sendkeys "{NUMLOCK}"
wshshell.sendkeys "{SCROLLLOCK}"
loop

3]Save as ANYNAME.vbs

4]Run it.

5]To stop it:Open Taskmanager>WSCRIPT***** FILE>End Proccess.

Enjoy!!

How To Bypass CPAlead Ads From A Website!!

Ads that prevent you from downloading your fav contents are a headache.So here i present before you a trick to bypass the CPAlead Survey from sites:

To Do the trick:

1]Visit the webpage which asks you the survey.

2]Download the Following text file[Since blogger doesnt accept the code i had to upload it to Hotfile the size of the file is just 868 bytes]:

DOWNLOAD

4]Paste the code in the text file in the address bar of the survey page.

5]Now enjoy the web content without the annoying survey!

How To Prevent Your Keylogger Or RAT From Being Detected By The Antivirus.[Make It FUD]

To make your Keylogger or RAT Undetectable by Antivirus,
Do the following:

1]Make the Keylogger or RAT.

2]Download this Software[CLEAN]:

LINK

3]Extract it.

4]Open the Toxic Public Crypter.exe

5]In the Input Field,Browse to the path of the Keylogger Or RAT.

6]Tick the CLONE WITH FILE.

7]In the File Clone,Browse to the file with which you want to bind the Keylogger or RAT.

8]Tick Custom Icon.[Else it will be detected by Avira]

9]Select the icon.

9]Tick the use Antis.

10]Now click Crypt.

Check the file with the Antivirus...........yeah it is not detected by the antivirus.

Enjoy!!

How to send testimonial to urself on orkut

U must have seen my post named "how to add urself as friend on orkut". For this tutorial u must add urself as ur own friend on orkut. So,lets begin...


Go to this link:

http://www.orkut.co.in/TestimonialWrite?uid=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

replace your UID with xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and hit enter. write the testimonial and submit it..

NOT sure works in NEW ORKUT or not, but worked fine in Old orkut

add yourself as a friend before writing yourself a testimonial

How to add urself as friend on orkut

1. Login to Orkut Your Profile.



2. At bottom of right side sidebar there is an option "invite friends" enter any random e-mail id which does not exist. Make sure to keep a note of it then click on. Once you do this a notification comes up saying "An invitation has been sent to so that something@gmail.com can join the Orkut community. something@gmail.com has also been added to your friends list."



3. No Navigate to "Friends" option which is on top menu and near to Orkut logo



4. Now you will see the e-mail id which you added recently saying something@gmail.com "has not joined." in your all friends. Right side of it you will find two options Send New Invitation and Edit.



5. Click on Edit option and replace something@gmail.com with your own Orkut profile mail id and click on Update option.

6. Now login to your Orkut Default mail account, you will receive e-mail from Orkut saying "Your Name" wants you to join orkut. Click on Join now! option.



7. It will redirect you to Orkut signup page. Click on "Sign up for orkut and connect to Your Name" now you will be redirected to Google Account page where it will ask you to fill your information. You don’t have to fill it. On top there is an option which says "Your Google Account gives you access to orkut and other Google services. If you already have a Google Account, you can sign in here." Click on sign in



8. Now sign in with your Orkut password.



9. Now you will receive Friendship request from your self Don’t add it. (Don’t Do anything)



10. Now repeat same thing from 1 till 8 procedures with same mail id which you used before.



11. Once you have done from 1 to 8 procedures, now it will automatically add yourself as your friend.