How to Enable and Disable Built-in Administrator account in Windows 8?

By default, the Administrator account is disabled in Windows 7 and Windows 8. Though the account you create during the setup, possess administrative rights, yet it might be necessary sometimes to perform tasks with Administrator account. There's actually no need to enable administrator account since you can execte programs that need administrative priviledges by simply right click and selecting Run as Administrator. For educational purpose it's better to learn how you can easily enable and disable Administrator account.

Process to Enable Administrator Account

Step 1: Search for Command Prompt in Start Menu. When you find it, Right click on it and select Run as Administrator. 

Step 2: Type the following command and press enter.

net user administrator /active:yes

It is important that you run command prompt as administrator else you will get error as shown below:

Now you can sign out and check. You will see your Administrator account enabled.

Process to Disable Administrator Account

Step 1: Search for Command Prompt in Start Menu. When you find it, Right click on it and select Run as Administrator. 

Step 2: Type the following command and press enter.

net user administrator /active:no

Hope this will be useful for you. If you have any queries please let me know.

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How to Partition your Hard Drive?

Disk partitioning means the act of dividing your hard drive into multiple volumes. By doing so, you can create as many partitions as per your requirements. You can partition your drive using various 3rd party software. However, in this article I will teach you how you can effectively partition your hard drive without any software.

You don't need any advance skills. You can do it by following few easy steps mentioned below.

Process of Disk Partition

Step 1: Right Click on 'My Computer' icon and Select 'Manage' as shown below.

Step 2: Click on 'Disk Management' located at the bottom.

OR

You can also directly open Disk Management with Shortcut command. 

Step 1: Open Run ( Win key + R) and

Step 2: Type 'diskmgmt.msc' and press Enter.

Step 3: Now select the volume you want to partition. I am partitioning my F: drive. Right click on it and select Shrink.

Step 4: Now enter the amount of space to shrink in MB and click on Shrink. For example: 50 Gb = 50000MB

You can see in the image below, you can see that 96 GB F: drive space has been reduced to aprrox 50GB (highlighted in Red) and the remaining space can still be used to create another partition or extend other drive space.

Process for extending your Drive 

Step 1: Right click on the drive you can to extend and select 'Extend'.

Step 2: Enter the amount of space in MB that you want to extend and click on Next. You're done.

I extended my F: drive. You can see below.

Conclusion: I performed the disk partition in Windows 8.1. You can follow the same procedures in previous version of Windows. The best thing is that you can create new partition even from drive with files and extend them in Windows 8.1 which was not possible in Window 7 and Window XP without using any software.

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How to Recover your deleted files?

Sometimes, you might delete your files accidentally and want to recover that specific files as it may hold significant importance to you. Recovering your deleted files is quite simple process and for that you need to have some softwares. In this post, I will show you, how you can recover your deleted files easily. I will be showing you to recover your files using two softwares: 

1. EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard 8.6 (Paid)

2. Recuva (Free)

You can recover your files using this softwares from any drives, SD cards and even USB drives.

There are many other software both free and paid to recover your files.However, I will only be discussing about those two mentioned above as I would prefer them over others.

Note: If you delete your files from your hard drives, then it will go to Recycle Bin ( unless you delete it permanently). You can easily restore your files from there. However, to recover your files from SD cards and USB drives, you still have to use recovery software.

Lets get started..

Method 1:Using EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard 8.6

Step 1: First download this software: EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard 8.6 (Trail) Windows Mac 

Step 2: After the download is finished, launch the setup and install it. You might see Spanish language during installation. Don't worry just install it and later you can change the language.

Step 3: Now, after installation is finished, launch the application. You can change the language from Spanish to English as shown in figure below: 

Step 4: Now, select the files type you can to recover and Click Next. For this tutorial, I am going to recover Graphics, Audio and Documents.

Step 5: Select the Drive from which you want to recover the files you accidentally deleted and click Next. You can only select one specific drive. I will be recovering my files from my pendrive TECHNOWING.

Now the scanning process will start as shown in figure. I must say that this software scans very fast and results are really reliable.

Step 6: After the scanning of files is finished, it will show you the lists of files you can recover. If you are not statisfied with the result, you can select Deep Scan. Here's the preview:

Step 7: Now, select the files you want to recover and click on Recover. 

Remember, in trial version, you can only preview the files but cannot recover them unless you buy the license. 

You can buy the premium version for $69.95 for Windows and $89.95 for Mac.

I have bought the premium version, so I will be continuing the further step.

Step 8: (I am assuming you have paid version) After you click on Recover, then you have to select the destination where you want to save your files. I saved my files in Technowing folder.

After the recovering of files is finished, a new window will appear showing you the recovered files.

Conclusion: This app user interface is really clean and easy to use. The speed of scanning the files and recovering files is very fast. Besides, it also has deep scan feature. So, if its in your budget then I would strongly recommend to go for this software.

Method 2: Using Recuva

Step 1: At first, download this free app: Recuva

Step 2: After the installation is finished, launch the software. A similar (shown below) will appear. You have to select the file type you want to Recover and click on Next. Here I will go with 'All Files' type.

Step 3: Then you have to specify the drive from which you want to recover your deleted files. There are six different options available for you. Select one option and click on Next.

I will be recovering my deleted files from my pendrive TECHNOWING.

Step 4: In next step, make sure you check 'Enable Deep Scan' for more reliable search results and click on Next. However if you want fast result, then there's no need to check that option.

Now, it will take several minutes to gather the results.

Here's the final result of Deep Scan.

Step 5: Now select the files you want to recover and click on Recover.

Step 6: Select the destination to save the recovered files.

At the end of recovery, it will show a dialog box as shown below:

Conclusion: This software is really good and provides with different options from where you can recover your files and also has Deep Scan features. This software is available for free. If you can't pay for premium recovery software then I would definately suggest you to use this software.

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Create a Password Protected Folder in Few Steps without any Software or Programming Skills

Hey Guys! Welcome to the new tutorial. In this , you will learn to create a password protected software without any software. Most of us, think that it is impossible to create such a folder but the truth is that it is very easy to do so. Read on to know how to create it.

Lets get started..

Process:

Step 1: Make a new folder (with any name as your wish).

Inside that  folder make a  Text  file( with .txt extension ) & copy inside it copy the entire code given below:

Quote:

Quote: cls

@ECHO OFF

title Folder Private

if EXIST "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}" goto UNLOCK

if NOT EXIST Private goto MDLOCKER

:CONFIRM

echo Are you sure you want to lock the folder(Y/N)

set/p "cho=>"

if %cho%==Y goto LOCK

if %cho%==y goto LOCK

if %cho%==n goto END

if %cho%==N goto END

echo Invalid choice.

goto CONFIRM

:LOCK

ren Private "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}"

attrib +h +s "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}"

echo Folder locked

goto End

:UNLOCK

echo Enter password to unlock folder

set/p "pass=>"

if NOT %pass%== password here goto FAIL

attrib -h -s "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}"

ren "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}" Private

echo Folder Unlocked successfully

goto End

:FAIL

echo Invalid password

goto end

:MDLOCKER

md Private

echo Private created successfully

goto End

:End

After you have copied the above code into text file, go to line 23  and keep the desired password instead of that bold word (i.e. password here). 

For example: if NOT %pass%== technowing goto FAIL

/* In this case your password becomes = technowing */

Step 2: After that, click on File > Save As and name it as 'locker.bat'.

This is our locker file. Remember the file extension should be '.bat' . Make sure you have selected "All Files" in 'Save as type'.

Now close the text file and return into the folder that you had created earlier. You can see a batch file named locker. 

Step 3: Click on it. It will prompt you to enter a password. After you enter password, a folder name Private will appear.

This is the secret folder where you can keep your important data and files. Now save all your important files in this Private folder.

Step 4: After that when you need to lock that folder, again click on that locker.bat file. It will prompt you to ask whether you want to lock or not.

Now enter 'y' or 'Y' the folder will be locked and invisible. 

  

If you again want to gain access to that folder click on that locker.bat file and type the password. Again to lock the folder same  as previous can be done.

In case if delete the locker.bat file, then you can again create a new file as created above but remember that the password should be same.In order to avoid such circumstances, you can save locker.bat in several locations for future reference.

Note: If you forget the password, you can still check it by: Right Click and Select Edit Option.

I hope you like this article..If you have any suggestions or queries then please forward it to us through comments.

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