Install .NET framework 3.5 in windows 10 - Offline Method

Some application requires .net framework 3.5 to work. By default .net 3.5 framework is not install on your system. But user gets error while trying to install .net 3.5 framework from control panel using "Turn on or turn off windows feature" or some application try to download this features online and gets error due to poor internet connection.

To overcome this problem, windows has feature call Deployment Image Servicing and Management (DISM.exe) by using this you may install .net 3.5 framework. To use this feature you need the Windows 10 OS media.

To install net 3.5 framework using DISM.exe, follows below steps.

1. Open Command Prompt as administrator. You may do this by  click All Programs, and then click  Accessories, Right-click Command prompt, and then click Run as administrator. If UAC dialog box appears then click on Yes to confirm.
2. Now write below in cmd.

  Dism /online /enable-feature /featurename:NetFX3 /All /Source:DriveLater:\sources\sxs /LimitAccess

Where DriveLater is latter which windows assign to your windows 10 OS media.

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.

With help of www.microsoft.com

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"