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.

First let’s see how it works on the versions of Windows upto XP SP2

It’s really easy, all you need to do is follow these steps:

1. Run command prompt (Windows Logo Key + R, then type “cmd.exe”).
   

   Running Command Prompt

2. Type net send x “Your message goes in here between in quotes”, in this command, replace the “x” with the username of the PC on your LAN to which you want the message to be sent. And hit Enter.
   

   How to use Net Send command

   If the user is on-line, your message will be sent or else an error message would appear.

3. You can also send messages to ALL THE PCs connected to your LAN at ONCE! To do that just type this command: net send * “Your message here!”
4. The star(*) in the above command tells cmd to send the message to all the PCs which are connected to your LAN rather than specifying one (including your PC also) :D

On Windows Vista and Windows 7

It’s the same thing as above, except the “net send”, you’ve to replace it with “msg”.

For example, msg x “Your message here” or (to send to all PCs) msg * “Your message here”

Please Note:

The ports used by these messenger services are 135, 137, 138, and 139. Make sure they aren’t blocked or the message will not be sent.

If you have any difficulty using any of these commands, please mention it in comments below. (or even if you don’t have, commenting is not a crime :P)

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).

My McAfee went through some unrepairable error for which the only solution was a REINSTALL. Since I had enough of McAfee, i decided to uninstall it and install Kaspersky AntiVirus 2009. However as everyone knows, KAV is a very “rigid” type of an Antivirus. It requires that it is the ONLY Antimalware app. on a particular PC. When I started to install it, it refused & said that “McAfee is there, I can’t install !”, even though i had uninstalled it. I googled for a McAfee REMOVAL TOOL and it saved me :) It can be downloaded from here.

Another alternative is also available, if you don’t want to google removal tools. In my case I came across another application. Windows Blinds and it refused to get removed and showed “”Could not open INSTALL log”.

The Steps required are -

1. First try to clean uninstall it again using windows Installer Clean Up utility, it’s available at Microsoft.
2. Once downloaded and installed, go to “C:\program files\windows installer clean up”, there you will find a file msicuu.exe.
3. Run this and see if windows blinds is listed in the box. If so, select it and click on remove.
4. Restart computer.

However, I don’t know why I did not see Windows Blinds in the dialog Box, so i downloaded this. It’s the authorized tool from Stardock Inc. themselves. After all, The Creator of the Application knows best ;)

By,

Ahmad Shumayal,

Admin.

You will see in this guide that explaining how to do this for uTorrent basically explains how to do it for any bittorrent client. On to the tutorial…

Opening ports for a bittorrent client has nothing to do with the bittorrent client (well, except for the port number….that’s kind of important). Opening ports is all about working with your router’s settings. I will be using a Netgear router for this tutorial. Most routers’ have very similar settings and options, so it shouldn’t matter if you don’t have a Netgear router.

Step 1: Find out what port your program uses.

I use uTorrent, but you may use a different BitTorrent client. In just about every BitTorrent clients’ options, there is a place to change the port it uses. For uTorrent, you just go to Options->Preferences, and the connection options pop right up. As you can see below, the port is 17120. Make sure you write down this port. You’ll need it later.

Step 2: Find out your network IP address.

Click on your start menu, and select run. Once the run box is up, type “cmd” in the box.

Now, a dos-like box will open up. Type in ipconfig and press enter.

Next, you will get a result like this.

Write down the IP address as you’ll need this later

Step 3: Log into your router settings page.

This can be done by entering 192.168.1.1 into the address bar of your browser. After you have done this, you should be promoted to log into the router settings page. The default username is “admin” and the default password is “password”.

Step 4: Click on Port Forwarding/Port Triggering

Step 6: Forward your port from Step 1.

Now, you should be given a few different fields to fill in about the port you are forwarding. First, you want to give the port a name. I usually just name it the same as the program it is associated with, so in this case it would be uTorrent. Second, you want the port to be open for both TCP and UDP. Next, you put in the port from Step 1. It may ask for a range, but you can just put the same number for both the starting and ending ports. Finally, you put in your server IP address as found in Step 2.

Congratulations! Now, you should be able to download and share much faster!

Shumayal,

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 a list of Services that’re running on your PC…

The list of the processes that you see in the Task Manager isn’t the complete list of the processes/services running on your Pc…
To get the list of all the services that are currently running on your PC, follow these 2 steps:

1. Go to “Run“(Windows Logo Key + R) and type “services.msc” and hit Enter.
2. There you are! A complete list of services running on your PC would be there for you…And you know, this list can be used to terminate trojans that are residing on your PC!

2.How to Detect Trojans using it?

It’s really easy, just browse through the list and look for *weird* and *unusual* service names…most of the names that you find will be the ones that you might have came across before, like the words that begin with “Windows”. There will be a bunch of such names, and you can easily make out which one does what by looking at its description, and then note down the suspicious names.

3.Clear your Suspicion

Time for some research…time to see if your suspicions are really harmful or not :)

Try your suspicious names in the TrendMicro ThreatEncyclopedia and see if you get it there…If you don’t,then Google the suspicious  names, you’ll surely find them :D

If you find some positives, then carry on to the next step

4.Got the Culprits? Shut them off!

• Right-click on the Trojan service and go to “Properties”
• Click the “Stop” button.
• In the “Start-up type” choose “Disabled”.
• You’re done with it…

You have blocked a trojan manually, now the next time you turn on your PC, go  to services and check if it worked :D

What if I tell you that you can make custom variables like the %TEMP% variable? Something like %MUSIC% which can take you to the folder where you have your music collections or %GAMES% which would take you to your favorite NFS Collections…how about that?

In this post I’ll be writing on how to make such cool run shortcuts (using variables) in:

1. Windows XP
2. Windows Vista
3. Windows 7 (oops, currently this one is out of my reach :(  )

In Windows XP

1. Go to System Properties (Windows Logo key + Pause Break key).
2. Go to the “Advanced” tab.
3. At the bottom, you’ll see “Environment Variables“, click on it.
4. In that Window, you’ll see “Environment Variables for…“, click the “New…” button below it.
   

   Environment Variables

5. Now in the “Variable Name“, type whatever you want the shortcut text to be (Music? Games? Movies?) & in the “Variable Value“, type the path where you want the shortcut to take you (it can be an application, file, folder or anything you wish!).
6. That’s it…Let’s test it! Go to Run (Windows Logo key + R) and type your variable’s name between two percent signs (%),i.e, %your-variable-here% and hit Enter. It will take you to whatever value you had given in the “Variable Value” :)

In Windows Vista

1. Go to Advanced System Properties (Windows Logo key + Pause Break key & then click on “Advanced System Settings” on the right sidebar).
   

   Step 1: Selecting "Advanced System Settings"

2. Click on “Environment Variables” at the bottom of the “Advanced” tab.
   

   Step 2: Selecting "Environment Variables"

3. Choose “New..” to create a new Variable.
   

   Step 3: Creating New Variable

4. In the “Variable Name“, type whatever you want the shortcut text to be & in the “Variable Value“, type the path where you want the shortcut to take you (it can be an application, file, folder or anything you wish!).
   

   Step 4: Filling the Variable Details

5. Done! Time to test your shortcut…Go to Run (Windows Logo key + R) and type your variable’s name between two percent signs (%) i.e, “%your-variable-name%” and hit Enter, this will take you to whatever “Variable Value” you had given to it :D

Impress your friends with these cool shortcuts :) -HacK_MiNDeD