Easter Egg in WinRAR

WinRAR the most popular file compression utility, has a little Easter egg.

Easter eggs in software are messages, videos, graphics, sound effects, added game levels, new characters in games or an unusual change in program behavior that sometimes occur in software in response to some undocumented set of commands, mouse clicks, keystrokes or other stimuli intended as a joke or to display program credits.

In WinRAR go to the "Help Menu" and select the "About WinRAR" option.

Now click on the WinRAR file.
It will bounce up and down with a thumping sound each time it hits the bottom.
Turn on your speakers ON.

How to archive multiple files to separate archives

If you have several hundred files and you want to put each one of them into it's own archive WinRAR can really be useful.

Here is how to do it:

How to create software installer using WinRAR

Installer is a software program which make it convenient for us to install software on our system. When a software is installed three kinds of changes are brought about in the system :-

1. File System changes
2. Registry changes and 
3. Drivers and services.

There are several software installers available on internet like - NSIS, Innosetup, GhostScript.

However you can also use one of the most popular file compression program WinRAR for this job. 

Here is the step-by-step procedure to do it:

Google Cache Link Missing - Solution

The Google cache link which used to appear at the end of the search result URL is missing (and people are missing it too).

No Google Cache Link

To access the cache link you have to click on the preview button on the right side of the search result URL.(as shown below):

That's where your dear - cache link is.

Create Multiple Folders Using File Names & Move File To Them

In my previous post I wrote about how you can generate folders from file names using WinRAR.
However there is an even simpler way to accomplish this task - FoldMonkey.
Using FoldMonkey you can create folders from file names and copy or move your files to these new folders.

This is the FoldMonkey main screen: [click the image for enlarged view]

To create folders from the file names follow the following precedure:

1. Select (check) the "Archive File" option.
2. Select (check) the "Create Folder" option.
3. Select "Add Old File Name Without .Extension" from the drop down menu next to the entry box.
4. Uncheck the "Folder Path" option.
5. Select "Move File To The Above Created Folder".
6. Click the "Scan Once Only" button.

The folders will be created. [click the image for enlarged view]

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Create Multiple Folders Using Filenames

If you want to create multiple folders using filenames here is a simple way. You will however require WinRAR for this method. If you don't have WinRAR you can download a trial copy from here.
Here is how to do it:

How To Generate 'UnCrackable' Passwords

Since we are now spending more time online and logging in on several sites it has become necessary to have such strong passwords that cannot be cracked. Passwords must be really difficult to guess but easy to remember by the user.
A little insight and HowSecureIsMyPassword.net can help us a lot in this matter. HowSecureIsMyPassword.net can tell you how secure your password is and how long it will take to crack it.
Using this website's data I calculated the time required to crack some (standard) passwords. The result is shown in the table:

s. no.	password	time to crack
1	abcdefgh	~ 5 Hours
2	abcdefghij	~ 163 days
3	ABCDEFGHIJ	~ 163 days
4	Abcdefghij	~ 458 Years
5	Abcdefgh12	~ 2000 Years
6	Abcde@1234	~ 17000 Years

The conclusion is :

1. Password strength increases with increase in number of characters.
2. Password strength remains same if the same letters are used in UPPERCASE or lower case.
3. Notice that the addition of a single capital letter 'A' increased the password strength from 163 days to 458 years.
4. In the fifth case two alphabets were replaced by two numerals which resulted in increase of password strength by nearly 5 times.
5 Adding only one special character increased the password strength 8 times.

A password with 10 characters having a mix of numerals, alphabets and special characters will take 17000 years to be cracked.
Taking in account all these factors we can say that a really strong (and nearly uncrackable-assuming that human life is shorter than 17000 years ) password is one which has:

1. at least 10 characters
2. a mix of lower case and CAPITAL letters, numerals and special characters.
3. it should not have a complete word-a random mix of word is the best.
4. a replacement of word with numerals like small case L with numeral '1' or zero (0) with alphabet (o) may increase the password strength several folds.
5. it must be easy to remember but difficult to guess.

How To Resolve Drive Opening Problem

Are you facing the 'Drive Opening Problem' meaning you double-clicked any drive on your PC but instead of opening the drive the explorer opened the 'Open With List'. Here is the simplest solution.

How To Protect Your USB Drive from Autorun.inf Virus

The Autorun.inf virus is a big headache if you are using USB drive and even more if you are using it on other's computers. It creates executable files of the folder name in which it resides and may even corrupt your Hard Disk(s). Here are a few simple ways to protect your USB drive from this virus.

How To Rectify 'Active Desktop Recovery' Error

Something bad happened to your desktop and you can't see your favorite wallpaper; all you can see is a button 'Active Desktop Recovery' Error.
Here is the simplest solution to this problem.