5 best programs to hide windows and programs free

Hello Friends!!! Here is the 5 best program to hide windows while doing you are at work place doing something apart from office work and your boss comes near you. How many times have you been doing work on your computer and didn’t really want anyone to see what you were doing? Maybe it’s confidential financial data or far-out website that would freak other people out.
Whatever the case may be, it’s sometimes really useful to be able to quickly hide windows or running programs, which means making them vanish from the desktop or disappear from the taskbar.
In this blog, I will mention five of my fav. FREE desktop hiding, application disappearing programs.

1. ZHider 2.0

ZHider is a very good program for instantly hiding windows and programs with a single keystroke. It’s super tiny, so doesn’t eat up a lot of RAM and it removes the program from your desktop and from the taskbar.
The other cool thing about the program is that it loads up in super stealth mode, which means there is no pop up windows, sounds, and not even a system tray icon. No one will know it’s running and you can access all the options via keystrokes.
There is even a crazy option called Task Manager Stealth which will hide the hidden programs from showing up in Task Manager under Applications and Processes! Definitely very useful.

2. Hide Windows Hotkey
Another free program to hide Windows applications is Hide Windows Hotkey. You can setup to hide all windows instantly or just certain programs. What I like about this program is that you can setup using keyboard hotkeys or mouse hotkeys also!
Other nitfy features that make this program cool are password protecting the hidden windows and muting all sounds from windows that are hidden. The latter can be very useful if you have a window open that has sounds coming through and you want to hide it, but also mute the volume.
3. ClickyGone

Another new app on the market for hiding programs is ClickyGone. It’s a very simple to use and effective program for hiding programs from nosy bosses or pesky family members.
You can hide the active window or all windows using the keyboard and hide them completely or shrink them down to the system tray for easier access. It also does a very good job of hiding windows that may popup from an already hidden window, i.e. a task completes and a window pops up to display the message.

4. Window Hidie
Not as advanced as the other tools mentioned, Window Hidie is a simple and very tiny utility for hiding windows. Basically it displays a list of applications and lets you click a button to hide the window completely.
It does have a few keyboard shortcuts to hide all windows or just the active window, so that’s good. It doesn’t really have any other features.

5. Hide 3.3

Hide is another simple, yet useful window hiding application. You can create program groups which allows you to hide/show multiple windows with one keystroke. You can also password protect hidden windows.
So that’s about it! Five useful programs for maintaining your privacy wherever you are. If you don’t like all these programs, you can also check out my post on how to hide your desktop using built in Windows features. Enjoy!

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How to view the product keys for Microsoft Windows XP or Office XP/2003 for free

Need to recover your product key for Office or Windows XP? Well it may not seem like a big deal to keep your product keys safely, but here’s why you should. As a part-time computer consultant, it always bothers me to hear a client tell me that for whatever reason that they need to re-install their operating system and since they could not find the product keys, they went ahead and bought another copy of XP or Office! You should never have to do this!
So if the sticker on your computer is missing and you can’t find those CD cases or sleeves with the product key printed on the back, then how do you find your product keys? Well, you can install some third-party utilities that will find the keys for you in the Windows registry. However, before you stop reading and go purchase one off Google, read just a little more because you can recover your keys without having to pay anything either!
If you use NirSoft’s ProduKey software, you can get not only the product keys for Windows XP and Office products, but also SQL Server and Exchange Server, so also quite handy for those sloppy administrators who’ve misplaced their software. ProduKey is completely free and is the only software program that I found on the Internet to be free.

The software is extremely easy to install because there is no install. Simply download the zip file from the web site, unzip the files, and double click ProduKey.exe into the folder. No software is installed on to your computer! You can also just copy the .exe file onto a USB stick and run it off any computer directly from the stick since there is no installation required.
Of course, this kind of program is only useful BEFORE something goes terribly wrong with your computer, so take five minutes out of your schedule, run the software, copy the product keys to notepad and print them out for your records. Note, you don’t have to manually write your product keys down, you can right click and choose Copy Selected Items or HTML Report - All Items and print out the web page.
Also, if you get a warning or message from your anti-virus software, just ignore it as this program does not contain any spyware or viruses.

Automatically move files to another folder without scripts

Have you ever written a Windows script that would check a folder every so often and then move files from that folder to another location? For IT people, this is a common task, such as moving log files or copying data from an FTP folder on one server to another.
Even for normal computer users, this can be very useful. For example, wouldn’t it be cool if you could have all of your downloads from your Internet browser automatically moved into different locations depending on the file type? So if you download a PDF file, it can be moved to a folder where you store documents or if it’s a video, it can be moved to My Videos automatically!
Download Mover is a really cool app that does just that! It will check one or more folders on your hard drive at regular intervals and moves the files inside those folders to another location that you specify based on the file type.

There is a program called FileMove Lite that will also automatically move files at scheduled times between folders, but the only problem is that it had no option to filter. So it would move ALL files from one folder to another, regardless of file type.
Download Mover has the added benefit of being able to move different types of files to different target folders or to not move certain file types at all.

As you can see from the screen shot, the program has a decent number of features. The top combo box has a list of all the directories that are being watched. Choose one or create a new directory to watch and then you can configure the settings below.
Click new to add a file extension and the target folder to move the files too. You can add as many file extensions as you like for each watched directory. At the bottom you can set the interval for the file checking and whether or not you want to show a confirmation or error message every time a file is moved.

The program, unfortunately, is no longer supported by the developer, but works really well on XP. I have not tried it on Vista, but I think it will still work. Overall, it’s a great program that can be used by anyone without having to write any kind of Windows scripts.
If you use only Firefox, you can install the Download Sort add-on that does the same thing, but just with Firefox downloads. If you are on a Mac, check out a program called Hazel that allows you to create folder actions on a Mac.

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Some Website Don't Open On Your Computer and What you have to do ?

Your computer is connected to the Internet and you can reach most websites just fine but there’s a problem when you try to open some particular website(s).Though that website is unreachable from your computer, it is definitely not down because you are able to access the same website from another computer at home.Facing a similar problem ? Here’s how to diagnose and fix the problem,Try these methods it should work Method 1:
Check your Windows HOSTS file - Make sure there’s no entry in the hosts file that maps the website’s address to localhost or an incorrect IP address like 127.0.0.1 - it is a possibility if you have imported some third-party hosts file.cmd /k notepad c:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
Method 2:
Find Faults in the Pipeline - Paypal website may be up and running but it is possible that the real problem lies with a router that is between you and the computer hosting the Paypal website. Do a traceroute and check for messages like “Request Timed Out” - they will help you find the location of the breakdown.Type the following command in the Run Window:
cmd /k tracert http://www.paypal.com/ - remember to replace paypal with address of the website that is unreachable.
Method 3
Clear DNS Cache - The DNS cache keeps a record of sites that you have recently visited on your computer. If that gets corrupted, you may have issues opening sites that were previously accessible without problems.Type cmd /k ipconfig /displaydns in the Run window to see the cache entries. If that unreachable website is listed in the cache, type cmd /k ipconfig /flushdns to clear the cache.
Method 4
Website May Be Blocked - The chances are rare but it is possible that access to some particular website may be have been restricted by the Office firewall. To test this, send an email to www@web2mail.com with the problematic website URL in the subject field. If the website is up, you will get a text copy of the web page in an email message.
Method 5
Suspend/Deactive the AntiVirus and Firewall - If you are running an external software firewall or anti-virus program (like Norton, ZoneAlarm, etc), exit and restart the web browser. Is the problem solved now ?When nothing works, open 192.168.1.1 and reboot the modem/router. At times if you are using cable connection you may not have access to 192.168.1.1 then you have to call the provider or if it is changed you have to have the correct ip to reconfigure the modem.
If this fails, restart your computer and as a final step, call your ISP support for help.

How to Delete Files with Long / Not Valid Filenames in Windows

Hello Everyone!!
Here is a new tool which i want to share with you all as most of the people experience in windows. I’ve experienced quite an annoying Windows problem . I tried to delete some files inside my Windows XP machine but this error kept popping out - “Cannot delete - The file name you specified is not valid or too long. Specify a different file name“. As you guess it, you can throw that suggestions into the dustbin cause it did not work. I’ve tried to rename the file, delete the file through command prompt and others but I ‘ve just wasted my precious time. Being curious as always, I Googled for solutions and was thankful that I find a software called Delinvfile.
Delinvfile (hope that in the future the author can think of a better, easier to remember name ) is short for “Delete invalid files and folders” and it really does what it says.
Here is how I solve the above problem with Delinvfile:
1- Install and run Delinvfile.

2- Choose the location of files / folders that you want to delete.
3- I want to delete some stubborn files inside a folder so I’ve chosen the “Delete Folder” tab. In case you just want to delete a file, choose “Delete File” instead.
4- Select the “Delete Folder via Short Name” option and confirm the folder deletion process.
5- File successfully deleted. Enjoy!
That is all that you need to do. Just in case you encounter any problem with file deletion (long, invalid file name etc.) in Windows in the future, this is the tool that you should look up for. Another Windows annoyance fixed, million thanks to Delinvfile!

You can download from the link below

Delinvfile

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