Send Messages to Other PCs over LAN on Windows

Long since I’ve posted any PC tips, so here we go. This post will introduce you to the net send and msg.exe and tell you how to use it to send messages to other PCs which are connected to your LAN. :)

The net send command works for most of the versions of Windows upto Windows XP SP 2. Due to the use of the command for spamming over the WWW, this command was replaced by msg.exe in Windows Vista and Windows 7.

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Uninstalling Some Really Dirty Applications

Heya,

In this post, I am going to share a simple solution, yet not known by many. I had a personal experience of having it with McAfee 2009 Total Protection & Windows Blinds (6.0).

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Guide to Opening Ports for uTorrent and Azureus

This guide will help you turn this pesky yellow triangle into a nice green circle in uTorrent through port forwarding. Making that icon green will get you better download speeds, and thus, more happiness. You will see in this guide that explaining how to do this for uTorrent basically explains how to do it for [...]

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Detect & Block Trojans Manually

Block Trojans Sometimes, even antivirus softwares fail in removing the trojans, or they don’t even get to know that a trojan is residing on your PC… Here’s what you can do if that happens, and also manually protect yourselves from them and have some fun yourselves blocking them without using any other software :) 1.Get [...]

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Make Cool Run Command Shortcuts in Windows

Have you ever tried out “%TEMP%” in the Run window? If no, then try it now (it will take you to the temp folder where Windows stores Temporary files). These “%TEMP%” are called variables in Windows. What if I tell you that you can make custom variables like the %TEMP% variable? Something like %MUSIC% which [...]

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