I came across “Symbolic link” concept in operating System. In “Symbolic link” folder points to other location and its very useful technique to solve problem of storage. We can create symbolic link of many folder from “c” drive to any other location where we have good enough space. 

So, I wanted to point Chrome folder of “C” drive to “D” folder. For chrome it would be still in “C” drive but physically all files will be stored somewhere else. Let’s see how I did it.

Open Command prompt, you may need to open it as administrator if you will face any error in next steps.

Make sure before running below command, “C:\Users\<Your_user_name>\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome” should not exist and destination folder in my case “D:\G2\ChromeAppData” should exist. You would like to take backup of existing folder, delete it and paste it to new location.

Below command is used to create symbolic link

mklink /d “C:\Users\Jitendra\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome” “D:\G2\ChromeAppData”

After running above command, your folders will look like :

This technique can be used at many places, I did same for Outlook folder as well.

But i had worked on changing the icon in past and helped me to setup the new icon for Microsoft office 2007 or any other application.

To set the icon perform following steps:

Go to Tools | Folder Option and select “File Types” tab.

Select the application, whose icon needs to be changed and click on “Advance“. one popup window will gets open.

In that select “Change Icon” option and select the icon which should be used by the operating system to represent that particular application.

I hope this trick will help lots of Windows XP users.

1. To open the Windows Components Wizard, click Start, click Control Panel, double-click Add or Remove Programs, and then click Add/Remove Windows Components.
2. In Components, click Management and Monitoring Tools (but do not select or clear its check box), and then click Details.
3. Select the Simple Network Management Protocol check box, and click OK.
4. Click Next.

Overview of MIB Explorer:
There are lots of tools available to view the MIB structure of SNMP Agent.

Download this tool from internet which is freely available.

Above tool is very useful in finding the Object Identifiers.

As shown in above figure, enter the IP address of the SNMP agent and select the Operation.  OID can be selected from left tree and the information related to that OID is displayed in the Grid.

Using this tool, anyone can check the functionality of code written by them against the output of this tool.

To Install MSMQ, Go to Control Panel -> Add Remove Program -> Add Windows Component and select “Message Queuing”

There are two types of Messaging Queue:

1. Public Queue:

• Provide Message routing.
• Public queues are accessed through “Machine nameQueue name”

2. Private Queue:

• Do not Provide any routing.
• Private queues are accessed through “Machine namePrivate$Queue name”.
• If MSMQ is installed on the same machine as your application then you can replace the machine name with a dot, for example “.Private$Sales”

MSMQ is deployed in two mode:
1. Workgroup mode

• only private Queue therefore no messaging routing
• only “Common” and “Trigger” components needed.

2. Domain mode

• private and public queue.
• Machine that installed MSMQ must be the part of domain and uses Active Directory.
• “Common”, “Trigger”, “Active Directory Integration”, “Routing Suport” components are needed.

MSMQ Installs two window services also:

1. Message Queueing
2. Message Queueing Triggers

Administrative interface:
To Open admin Panel , My Computer -> Manage -> Services and Applications -> Message Queueing.

Under each queue you will find following three items:

1. Queue Messages

• All the messages currently seating in Queue.
• You can view the properties of all messages but cannot change it.
• Cannot create new messages or cannot delete an individual existing messages.
• You can delete all the messages by right click on “Queue messages” and select “All Tasks | Purge”

2. Journal Messages

• During Queue creation journal can be “enabled” means a copy of message from queue is placed into journal.
• Means you have the copy of all messages of queue which is read or processed.
• Purge (Delete) messages regulary from journal otherwise its size will be increased.

3. Triggers

• Allows to register the Trigger when message is placed in Queue.
• During Trigger setting you can specify COM component or external executable.

Other than Public and Private Queue, one more Queue is present which is “System Queue”. Which cannot be modified or removed.

Under System Queue you will find following three items:
1. Journal Messages:

• During Queue creation journal can be “enabled” means a copy of message from queue is placed into journal. And if the journal is not enabled then copy of message is placed in “System queue’s journal” (condition it should be enabled at code).  Means its your choice that you want to maintain journal at system queue level or message queue level.

2. Dead – Letter Messages :

• copy of all the Messages which are not delivered or expired before deliver or expired before its read / received (condition it should be enabled at code).

3. Transactional Dead – Letter Messages:

• Same as “Dead – Letter Messages” but its for Transactional Messages.

Now days, the requirement for hard disc in personal computer is increased dramatically. And if the size increased then necessity of software to manage the files and folders also increased.

To manage the documents and easy search, you can convert your system in “Google search enabled System” by just downloading Google desktop from here.

To enable the google search any time click cntrl Key twice and you will get your own google.

Just start typing, you will get two options:

• Search on Desktop
• Search on Web

The tip I wanted to share with you is : Search specific folder content using Google Desktop.

To search we will use here operator under provided by Google.

The syntax is as follow:

Who logged under:”D:TutorialsUtilities”

Above text will search for text “Who logged” in Folder “D:TutorialsUtilities”

Here’s the two versions side by side.

To set the transparent background on the icons, we’ll need to open System Properties in Control Panel (or right-click on My Computer and select Properties).

In this dialog, click the Advanced tab, and then the Settings button under the Performance section.

Check the option “Use drop shadows for icon labels on the desktop”.

1. Click Start, click Run, type Gpedit.msc in the Open box, and then click OK.
2. Under Computer Configuration, expand Administrative Templates, and then click System.
3. In the Settings pane, right-click Turn off Autoplay, and then click Properties.Note In Windows 2000, the policy setting is named Disable Autoplay.
4. Click Enabled, and then select All drives in the Turn off Autoplay box to disable Autorun on all drives.
5. Click OK to close the Turn off Autoplay Properties dialog box.
6. Restart the computer.

2) find the PID number for that port number (as shown in above image).
3) goto task manager and end process the corresponding PID number.

If  PID is not visible in task manager then goto View->Select Column and select PID column.