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Folder Protector: How the program works

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Some time ago, I released a </span>folder locking application<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> on this blog. It has been downloaded by a lot of users till now. Many of them are curious about how the program works and regularly send me emails inquiring about this. This article will explain exactly what the program does and how it locks folders.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; position: relative; word-wrap: break-word;" /><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="more" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #999999; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"></a><br /><div imageanchor="1" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: right; color: #333333; float: right; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em 1em; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><img alt="Folder Protector" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJtHVPZkKhQa7-FLJ-MHBqAv2b2PIxhZPUI5DopKckwARZuc3NbpR7d9RXH92sVjmEauggSCiMD6t1AgIcBRExd3esyKgkbtUMb-kBNXKUTNhXAB8TN6AGO6X1ssAgcmYjfrYNvnqROege/s200/Lock-Folder.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(218, 218, 218); font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 4px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" title="" /></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The application is fairly basic because of the limitations of the </span>programming language<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">. Also, as most of you might have already guessed, it does not encrypt the files which explains quick locking and unlocking time.</span><br /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; position: relative; word-wrap: break-word;" /><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Oswald, "Bebas Neue", Bebas, "Arial Narrow", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">What happens when you start the program?</span></span></h3><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Oswald, "Bebas Neue", Bebas, "Arial Narrow", sans-serif; font-size: 25.2px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">When you start the program, it first checks whether a password is stored in the Registry. If it finds that a password is not saved in the registry, it asks you for a password and stores it at: </span><b style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">HKCU\Software\TweakAndTrick\FolderLock\Pass</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">. This, I intend to change in the future because storing the password in the registry defies the purpose of giving security.</span><br /><h3 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Oswald, "Bebas Neue", Bebas, "Arial Narrow", sans-serif; font-size: 25.2px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; position: relative; word-wrap: break-word;" />What happens when you lock and unlock folders?</h3><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The program checks the presence of SecuredFILES folder on the Desktop to determine whether the folder is locked or unlocked. Depending on what it finds, it shows you the status. Now, here is what it does when you lock and unlock the folders.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; position: relative; word-wrap: break-word;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; position: relative; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">When you lock the folder, it renames the SecuredFILES folder to </span><b style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">Control Panel.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> in Windows Vista, 7, 8 and 8.1. In Windows XP, it renames the folder to </span><b style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">. These folders use the Control Panel's GUID, so when a user clicks on them, the Control Panel opens. This prevents the average user from knowing that it is a renamed folder.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; position: relative; word-wrap: break-word;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; position: relative; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">I could have left these folders at the Desktop itself but that would make them susceptible to getting deleted or being found out by any tech geek.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; position: relative; word-wrap: break-word;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; position: relative; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">To prevent this, I decided to move these renamed folders. They are moved to </span><b style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">%AppData%\Microsoft </b><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">which is located at</span><b style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"> C:\Users\{User-Name}\AppData\Microsoft\</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">in latest versions of Windows (if C is your system drive). In Windows XP, it is located at </span><b style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">C:\Documents and Settings\{User-Name}\Application Data\Microsoft\ </b><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; position: relative; word-wrap: break-word;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; position: relative; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">I chose the Microsoft folder because that is where the Control Panel fits perfectly.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; position: relative; word-wrap: break-word;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; position: relative; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">To prevent the renamed folder from getting deleted, the program changes the permissions on the renamed folder. As you can see, the program basically obscures your data from you in an attempt to hide files.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; position: relative; word-wrap: break-word;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; position: relative; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">When you unlock the folder, the reverse process takes place and the SecuredFILES folder is displayed on the Desktop.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; position: relative; word-wrap: break-word;" /><br /><h3 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Oswald, "Bebas Neue", Bebas, "Arial Narrow", sans-serif; font-size: 25.2px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">Why am I revealing this?</h3><span style="color: orange;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">There are a lot of reasons. Primarily, most users have started to use this program to hide their sensitive information which is not what I had in mind when I released the software. Although, even the most well crafted security systems can be breached by hackers, I still don't want people to hide their really sensitive information with this software especially considering that one of the primary focus of this blog is giving tips on security.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; position: relative; word-wrap: break-word;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; position: relative; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Another prominent reason is that providing support to such a large user base is proving difficult. Also, some users are reporting that the program is not unlocking the folder despite entering the correct password (which should not happen given how simple the code is).</span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; position: relative; word-wrap: break-word;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; position: relative; word-wrap: break-word;" /><b style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">What next?</b><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; position: relative; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">I have modified the original post to indicate that the software should not be used to hide very sensitive data. Also, given that I have revealed how the program works, the best way to use it will be to delete the program after locking the folder and then re-downloading it when you want to unlock your files, i.e, not letting other people know that you </span>use the program<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; position: relative; word-wrap: break-word;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; position: relative; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">If you have some suggestions or want to help develop a truly secure folder locking program, do add a comment.</span></div>

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How To Convert any Video to ASCII using VLC Media Player

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;">VLC is a video player with a lot of tricks. While you definitely would be aware about converting videos with it, the feature of converting any video to ASCII is one that is slightly less known. As ASCII version of movies like Star wars are very popular online, I think this feature of this amazing media player can be used to have lots of fun.</span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out;" /></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out;" /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKpKnPzFyDB_xn30azwLI4G8zjgsQrsGvxh2DYR_wll0WEC5ZV4HeGHpPO3ZngXOz0i2yHE5P3B5qsnwFVyz7F2tPveHa5UrPthL1qEN1mUxBypgt0Buk47r-y5IYQ0A06z6PaVJ9IclHf/s1600/ASCII-videos-VLC.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;"><img border="0" height="184" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKpKnPzFyDB_xn30azwLI4G8zjgsQrsGvxh2DYR_wll0WEC5ZV4HeGHpPO3ZngXOz0i2yHE5P3B5qsnwFVyz7F2tPveHa5UrPthL1qEN1mUxBypgt0Buk47r-y5IYQ0A06z6PaVJ9IclHf/s400/ASCII-videos-VLC.PNG" style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; position: relative; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline; width: 760.391px;" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out;" /></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out;" /></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out;" /></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;">    All you need to do is open any video and VLC will automatically display its converted form. To convert any video in ASCII, just follow the steps given below:-</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out;" /><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out;" /></span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out;" /></span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out;" /></span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: orange; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out;" /></span><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;">1) Open VLC Media Player.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out;" /><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;">2) Click on the Tools menu and in the drop down list, click on Preferences at the bottom of the list.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out;" /><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;">3) Click on Video icon in the left sidebar.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out;" /><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;">4) Click on the drop down box next to Output.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out;" /><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;">5) Select "Color ASCII art video output" from the drop down list.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out;" /><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;">6) Click Save and restart VLC.</span></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out;" /><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out;" /></span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;">Older versions of VLC might require you to modify these settings under the Advance tab or All Settings tab. As VLC runs on a variety of OSs, this trick will work on any PC capable of running this media player. However, it is interesting to point out that older PCs having poor hardware will slow down and give a stuttered output.</span></div></div></div>

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Shutdown Your Computer or a Remote PC via Command Prompt

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 2;"><br /></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3; text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-no-proof: yes; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><img height="366" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEganCCjEvTBnOvexa_1T6rINh8BG9rfXeOSiSxLURtSeQVXojckXqzVklyxRY6P5qSmBgo6WsN7D5xDrsjBWapOi3VzSCSVHhtfaSd7iQrL8IKXQhGBT1mOQeFgZ54fnJOExj7kTjWcuFvh/s640/1.jpg" width="640" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Most of us shutdown our computers using the power button given in the Start menu. Some of us use the physical power button on our machines. Very few people actually use other means of shutting down a computer and even less is the number of people who use the command prompt to shutdown a computer.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A reason for this is that most of us don't know that the command prompt can be used to not only shutdown, restart or log off our computer instantly but also to shutdown a remote computer provided you have administrative access. It can also be used to hibernate a computer and give a comment containing the reason for shutdown. This post will show you how to do all this.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Required:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">A computer running Windows (XP, Vista, 7 or 8) with the command prompt working perfectly, i.e. not disabled by a virus.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Initial Steps: </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1) Press Windows Key + R.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2) Enter "CMD" and press Enter.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">This will start the command prompt. Follow the instructions below depending on what you want to do.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Shutdown Local Machine (Your Computer)</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Type "shutdown -s" without the quotes in the command prompt and press Enter. Shutdown is the command being executed and the switch -s tells the computer to shutdown.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Restart your Local Computer </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Type "shutdown -r" in the command prompt and press Enter. In this case, the command switch -r is telling the computer to restart after shutdown.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Log Off the Current User</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Type "shutdown -l" in the command prompt and press Enter. The -l command switch tells the computer to log off.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Shutdown a Remote Computer</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Type "shutdown -s -m \\name of the computer" in the command prompt and press Enter. Replace \\name of the computer with the actual name of the remote computer you are trying to shutdown. As mentioned earlier, you must have administrative access to the computer you are trying to shutdown. To know if you have administrative access, press Windows key + R and then type the name of the computer and press Enter.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="color: orange; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Note: If you don't remember the name of the remote computer, you can look for it by opening a list of all the computers you are connected to by executing "net view" in command prompt.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">If you can connect to the computer, you will be asked to login with your username and password. Upon entering them, a window will display the list of all the directories available to you. This should help you know whether you can or cannot shutdown the remote computer.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Hibernate a Local Computer</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Type in "Rundll32.exe Powrprof.dll,SetSuspendState" without the quotes and press Enter. Your computer should hibernate, if it does not, then you must enable hibernation to do this.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Shutdown your or a remote computer after a specific time<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Type "shutdown -s -t 60" to shutdown your computer after 60 seconds. Upon executing this, a countdown timer displaying a warning message will be shown. This command uses the -t command switch followed by a variable (which is 60 in this case) which represents the number of seconds after which the computer will shutdown.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Display a Message containing the reason for shutdown</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Type shutdown -s  -t 500 -c "I am tired. I don't want to work anymore." (with the quotes) in the Command Prompt and press Enter. The -c switch is used in the code to give the reason for shutting down and what is followed in quotes will be displayed in the dialog box as the reason. This can be used to display all sorts of funny messages. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">One example :-<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Skynet has become self aware. John Connor did not stop me. You can not use your PC anymore.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Stop a System Shutdown</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Type "shutdown -a" and press Enter. This will stop the system from shutting down if the countdown to shut down has not reached 0.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div></div>

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