How to start browser in kiosk mode

Chrome and Internet Explorer includes a Kiosk Mode feature that allows you to access Web pages in full-screen mode. 

How to Start Chrome in Kiosk Mode

To start Chrome in kiosk mode, you need to create shortcut for chrome. You may create shortcut by navigation to the chrome installation directory (i.e. C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application) and right-click on chrome.exe. After right click do this: Send to > Desktop.

After creating a shortcut of chrome, do the below step.

• Go to the properties of the shortcut (using right click on shortcut > properties). 
• Suppose you want to open web site "www.digneshptl.blogspot.in" in  kisok mode. Then you need to add -kiosk www.digneshptl.blogspot.in in Target filed of the shortcut tab.

        "C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" -kiosk www.digneshptl.blogspot.in

You may put this shortcut in startup to open website in full screen mode at startup.

How to IE in Kiosk Mode

To start IE in kiosk mode, open run using "Windows + R"  type the below command in the box, and then click Ok.

                  iexplore.exe -k url

e.g if you need to open website www.msn.com then command will be "iexplore.exe -k www.msn.com". You may exit kiosk mode by pressing "ALT+F4"

You may also create shortcut and put into startup. So that it will open in kiosk mode at starting of the system.

For more information about IE kiosk mode you may visit Microsoft web site.

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How to get hostname or MAC address using IP address of the system

Sometime you need to find hostname or mac address of the system for security purpose. You may find this using command "nbtstat" without physically present at required computer in your network.

To find hostname or mac address of system you must know the ip address of the system.Use below command to find

nbtstat -a IP address of the remote system

suppose you want to find hostname and mac address of  the system which is having ip address 172.16.16.16. You need to use command nbtstat -a 172.16.16.16 and output of command shown below.

How to Unhide Permanently hidden file

You may found that file in your pen-drive are not visible and your are note able to unhide the same using properties of file.

This occurs due to virus.Viruses cause different type of damage on your computer. There are some viruses that will encrypt your file so you are force to buy the decryption key form the programmer. This type of virus knows as ransomware. There is another type of virus which will hide your file and folder by setting the hidden and system attributes to the files.

To see Hidden Files, Folder Do Following steps

1. Go to Control Panel > Folder Options
2. Now in Folder Options go to View Tab.
3. Now Select "Show hidden Files, Folders and Drives" radial button and also Uncheck "Hide protected operation system files".
4. Then click on Apply and Ok Button.

To change attributes of permanently hidden file or folder windows  have a attrib command. Syntax of attrib command as below.

 ATTRIB [+R | -R] [+A | -A ] [+S | -S] [+H | -H] [+I | -I]

       [drive:][path][filename] [/S [/D] [/L]]

  +   Sets an attribute.

  -   Clears an attribute.

  R   Read-only file attribute.

  A   Archive file attribute.

  S   System file attribute.

  H   Hidden file attribute.

  I   Not content indexed file attribute.

  [drive:][path][filename] Specifies a file or files for attrib to process.

  /S  Processes matching files in the current folder and all subfolders.

  /D  Processes folders as well.

  /L  Work on the attributes of the Symbolic Link versus the target of the Symbolic Link

eg suppose virus permanently hide file or folders in your Drive. Then you can use following command. To run this command you have to run command prompt with administrative privilege.

"attrib -S -H  [drive:][path][filename] /S /D"

Set IP Address using command in Windows

Some times require to set large number of static IP address in your company. Rather than setting it manually we can use batch file using "netsh"  command to set IP. After that you need to change IP address in batch file and run it on another Computer. "netsh" is windows utility which allows local and remote configuration of network devices. You can use below command to set IP address.

ipconfig /flushdns

ipconfig /release

netsh interface ip set address "Local Area Connection" static 10.195.82.113 255.0.0.0 10.195.82.1

netsh interface ip set dns name="Local Area Connection" static 8.8.8.8

netsh interface ip add dns name="Local Area Connection" 8.8.4.4  index=2

netsh interface set interface "Local Area Connection" disable

netsh interface set interface "Local Area Connection" enabled

where IP Address is 10.195.82.113 Subnetmask :255.255.0.0 Gateway:10.195.82.1 Primary DNS:8.8.8.8 and Secondary DNS is : 8.8.4.4

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Find Lost Android Cell Phone Easily

Google’s makes easier to find your misplaced cell phone. To use this feature you need to enable location service in your android mobile and add your device to Android Device Manager in Google. You may use Android Device Manager to find mobile. Now Google has introduced new query to find your phone.  You need to just fire a query in Google Search box after login in to google account. The query is Where is my phone?.

With help of google power searching and advanced power searching.