How To Hide Any Drive Through Command Prompt

Have you ever thought of hiding any drive from your system so that no one can knew about it. You may have heard or even used a lot of software’s that might be able to do that, but if you are GEEK like me and want to do things by your own without using any 3rd party software than this tutorial will show you how you can do it. Well there are 3 ways of doing it, in this tutorial we are covering command prompt way of doing it.

Here is how to do it:

Step 1. Open command Prompt, go to Start Menu > All Programs >Accessories > Command prompt
Step 2. In the Command Prompt, type Diskpart and hit enter key. If UAC (User Account Control), dialog-box prompts than click Yes.
Step 3. Then type List Volume and press enter, this will produce the list of all drives.

Step 4. Now select the drive which you want to hide, you can either do this by typing Select Volume 1 (i.e. Volume Number) or by typing Select Volume C(i.e. Drive letter)

Step 5. To hide a drive, type Remove Letter C. Here, C is the drive letter than you want to hide. You can use any drive letter you want.

Step 6. That’s it. You are done! C drive is now hidden

How to unhide hidden drive

Step 1. Follow the procedure mentioned in step 1, 2, 3 and 4.

Step 2. To show the hidden drive type Assign Letter C and hit enter, now you can view C: drive in explorer.

That’s it. This is one way of hiding and un-hiding drives from explorer, for rest two stay tuned.

Make your desktop even more beautiful and unique for free

How do you feel when your friends shows you his Linux desktop and make you jealous with it’s customizability? Probably, you’ll feel bad about having Windows, as Windows is not as flexible and customizable as Linux Desktop. The first thing that pops up in your mind might be using some transformation packs, for example, Ubuntu transformation pack, Linux transformation pack, etc.

But still they are not that customizable as they claim. When you apply such transformation packs, you’ll only have your taskbar and windows buttons changed, while the desktop interface remains same. Even though, you can gadgetries your Windows vista or seven, you’ll still be lacking the customizability power.

If you are one of them who’s is having such problem but still want to stick with Windows, then I have good news for you. Let me introduce you to Rainmeter.

Rainmeter is a desktop customization platform. Through Rainmeter, you can enhance your Windows at home or work with skins: handy, compact applets which float freely on your desktop, much like Windows Sidebar gadgets, or dashboard widgets for the Mac.

It’s easy to keep an eye on your system resources, like memory and battery power, or your online data streams, including email, RSS feeds, and weather forecasts. Many skins are even functional: they can record your notes and to-do lists, launch your favorite applications, and send your tweets to Twitter – all in a clean, unobtrusive interface that you can rearrange and customize to your liking.

Using rain meter is very easy, just drag it to your startup folder and run it. It will provide you real time information every moment. If you are not satisfied with the current style then you can always download variety of them for free from deviantart.

Download Rainmeter from here. Choose correct version of your windows, usually it’s 32-bit.

Once downloaded, install or extract it and run it.

When you run Rainmeter for the first time, you’ll have default skin, Gnometer.

You have 3 skins that comes pre-installed with Rainmeter, Gnometer, Enigma and Arcs.

You can load all these three skins at once or you may choose the part of the skin to load to make your desktop more beautiful.

The Rainmeter runs in background so make sure that it is running in Notification bar.

You don’t have to search for your credit card number or paypal username to use Rainmeter because, Rainmeter is a freeware and their skins and accessories are free as well

 

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Log in to LIVE Messenger by using Gmail id

Yesterday while chatting with my friend I came to know that she is using her Gmail id with Live Messenger to chat with me. As a big fan of Microsoft products I was quiet surprised to see how come I don’t knew this. So I searched across and found some relevant information which I would like to share so that you can also use Live Messenger with Gmail or any other email id you want.

It doesn’t matter which email id you are using to login into Live Messenger, So here is a simple little tutorial on how to achieve it. For this tutorial all you need is a Gmail account or any other email account which you want to use and Live or Windows Messenger

How to do it-

1. Go to http://www.passport.net

2. Scroll down a bit and click on the Get started now link as an Use an e-mail address you already have field.

3. Fill up your email address which you want to use, your password, secret question and answer and finally the verification code, then click the Continue button.

 

4. On the next page sign the agreements by typing your email address in the box and then click I Accept.

5. Now Login to your email account and look for verification link from Winows Live Team click on it to verify your email id.

6. That’s it now you are able to access Winows Live Messenger by using your email id.

You can now sign in to Windows Live Messenger using your Gmail or any other email address. 

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