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WordPress and WAMP Part 2

thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:23:27 +0200

The software will now install.

After all the files are extracted we are asked for the DocumentRoot directory. This is the root directory for your website and will contain WordPress and any other files you want accessible through the webserver. Unless you have a specific reason, go with the default.

Next we are asked for the default browser. Your choice here is not really important, so pick whichever browser you prefer.

And that’s it! We now have a fully working webserver on our computer. This same software is used in hundreds of thousands of websites across the world. We also have MySQL to provide our database.

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Connecting Your Database to the Web

mon, 09 Jun 2008 01:22:58 +0200

Before you can build pages that are database driven, you must first establish a connection between your Web server and your database. In the Windows operating system, this process is relatively straightforward, but there are several potential pitfalls that can keep your pages from effectively communicating with your database. This article shows you the step-by-step process of setting up a data source name for your database.

This article was excerpted from Inside Dreamweaver UltraDev, by Sean Nicholson.

Creating a Data Source Name (DSN) Entry
After you have built your database and have it located on your Web server, the first step in building your database-driven site is to create an avenue of communication between your Web server and the database. While this can be accomplished using drivers designed specifically for your flavor of database, it is much easier to use the Open Database Connectivity Driver (ODBC) or the Java Database Connectivity Driver (JDBC) to accomplish the task.

ODBC and JDBC are standards that have been developed for communicating with modern databases. Most of today’s databases, including Access, SQL Server, and DB2, are capable of using the ODBC driver. Other databases are capable of using the JDBC driver. For instance, MySQL can either use the standard JDBC driver or connect through the ODBC driver using an additional program called MyODBC.

How Many Drivers Do You Need?
An ODBC or JDBC driver must be set up for each database that you want to connect to the Web.UltraDev also requires that you have the most recent ODBC drivers available in order to function properly. If you have not already installed the latest Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC), I highly recommend that you take a moment and download them from MDAC and install them on your workstation.

Article Exercise: Establishing an ODBC Data Source for Your Database
Setting up an ODBC data source on your workstation differs among operating systems. If the machine that you set up as your Web server is a Windows 9x machine, click Start/Settings/Control Panel. In the Control Panel, select ODBC Data Sources (32bit). If you are using Windows NT, select Start/Settings/Control Panel and select the Data Sources (ODBC) icon. If, however, your machine is using Windows 2000, you should select Start/Settings/Control Panel and choose the Administrative Tools icon. Within the Administrative Tools window, choose the Data Sources (ODBC) icon.

Choose the System DSN tab from the ODBC Data Source Administrator dialog box, shown in , and click the Add button.The System DSN tab allows you to create a data source that can be shared on the Internet. Using a System DSN

Caution: To make a database available to your Web page visitors, you must create the ODBC source under the System DSN tab.

Select the Microsoft Access driver and click Finish.In the ODBC Microsoft Access Setup dialog box, shown below, type the name you wish to use for your data source name in the Data Source Name field.In the Database panel of the ODBC Microsoft Access Setup dialog box, click the Select button.

Navigate to the location of your database on your Web server and click OK

Click the Options>> button located in the lower-right corner of the ODBC Microsoft Access Setup dialog box. In the Page Timeout field, type 5000.

Changing the Default Page Timeout

Caution: It is especially important that you change the default page timeout setting if you are using Windows 2000 as your Web server and an Access database. Failing to change this value can result in permission problems when accessing database-driven Web pages. For more information on this potential problem, visit Microsoft.

Click OK to close the ODBC Microsoft Access Setup dialog box.

As shown in the screenshot below the ODBC Data Source Administrator dialog box now shows a data source for your database.

A data source has been created for your database.

The ODBC Microsoft Access Setup box.
Before you can build pages that are database driven, you must first establish a connection between your Web server and your database. In the Windows operating system, this process is relatively straightforward, but there are several potential pitfalls that can keep your pages from effectively communicating with your database. This article shows you the step-by-step process of setting up a data source name for your database.

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Solid Link Building

sun, 08 Jun 2008 02:02:18 +0200

Once your new Web site is launched, you can submit it to Web directories and noncompetitive, industry-related Web sites. Once a Web site has some high-quality link development, the commercial search engines should easily discover your site through the natural crawling of the Web. However, submission is not the end of the optimization, design, and marketing processes. Individual Web page effectiveness must be monitored as well.

Understanding Link Development

Objective, third party link development is a key component to effective, long-term search engine optimization. Link development is one of the most overlooked components of a successful optimization campaign. Web site owners can write keyword-focused content and provide search engines with easy access to that content. But without well-planned and carefully implemented link development, search engine visibility is often short lived.

Link popularity vs. click-through popularity

To review, link popularity is the number and quality of objective, third party links pointing to a URL. The quality of a link carries far more weight than the quantity of links. Personally, I have seen many Web sites receive long-term, qualified search engine traffic with less than 50 links pointing to a site’s home page. And I have seen sites with over 1000 low-quality links receive little or no qualified search engine traffic. Therefore, quality is certainly more important than quantity.

Click-through (or click-thru) popularity is the measurement of the number of clicks that a Web page receives from a search engine results page (SERP), and how long the searcher stayed on the Web site after clicking on the link from the SERP. If a searcher clicks on a SERP link and continues to browse the Web site, then it might be assumed that the searcher found the information he desired and did not need to return to the SERP to view other Web pages. However, if a searcher clicks on a SERP link and quickly returns to the SERP, then it might be assumed that the searcher did not find the information he desired on the Web page and/or site.

Unfortunately, some Web developers and programmers have created clickbots to deceive the search engines into calculating more clicks to a Web site, making it seem as if a Web page receives more qualified clicks from human beings. In other words, the clicks do not come from actual searchers; they come from cleverly designed software.

Due to the rise in click fraud in both organic search results and search engine advertising, click-through popularity is a less important or a nonexistent factor in determining a Web page’s relevancy. Search engines do measure click-through popularity; however, it has little or no value for determining positions in the main search results.

Thus, when search engine optimizers refer to link popularity, they are referring to the number and quality of links pointing to a URL, not click-through popularity.

Link development, or the popularity component, is off-the-page criteria because Web site owners do not ultimately control how other people link to their sites’ content. Web site owners can influence how other people link to their sites’ content by using keyword-focused titles, headings, meta-tag descriptions, and page abstracts.

In the end, though, other people will determine how they prefer to link to a site’s content.

True long-term link development is difficult to imitate. Copywriting, information architecture, and site design can be easily imitated. All too often, the imitation constitutes a violation of copyright. Even so, it has not stopped a large number of search engine optimizers from stealing another site’s content and site design. Cloaking, a form of search engine spam, often hides copyright infringement.

Unique link development is equally important as keyword-focused text and an intuitive information architecture for obtaining long-term search engine visibility.

What I like about the entire link development concept is that Web sites will not be able to maintain search engine visibility unless they contain unique content and are easy to use.

If two sites contain similar unique content, the one that is easier to use is more likely to receive more objective, third party links.

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How To Add 3-up 4×6’s to the Picture Package Layouts

sat, 07 Jun 2008 10:00:55 +0200

I was always baffled by the fact that Photoshop’s Picture Package command did not offer an option for three 4×6’s on a page. Little did I know, it’s extremely easy to customize these layouts and create your own just by editing a plain text file. These instructions also work for Photoshop Elements and Photoshop Album.

Important: Mac OS X users much first apply an update to Photoshop before attempting to customize the Picture Package layouts. Information and and a download link can be found at http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/
Copy the next five lines and paste them into a text editor, like NotePad or SimpleText:

# I 8 10
Letter (3) 4×6
0 0 6 4
0 4 4 6
4 4 4 6

Name this file FourBySixes.txt
Copy the file to your Adobe\Photoshop X.0\Presets\Layouts folder where X represents your version of Photoshop.
Open Photoshop and try it!

Tips:

The ReadMe.txt file in the Layouts folder explains how to make your own custom picture package layouts.
If you’ve never used the automated Picture Package function in Photoshop 6 and up, it can be found under the File > Automate submenu.
Adobe Photoshop Album and Adobe Photoshop Elements use the same format for Picture Packager layouts, so this tip will also work in those programs.

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How To Prepare Photoshop For Creating Web Images

sat, 07 Jun 2008 08:43:11 +0200

If you primarily use Adobe Photoshop for creating Web images, there are a few program changes you should make. These few tweaks will result in better Web graphics.

1. Go to File > Preferences > Saving Files

2. Set Image Previews to Never Save.

3. Go to File > Preferences > Units and Rulers

4. Set the Unit of measure to pixels.

5. Click one of the color swatches on the toolbar and check the box for Only Web-Safe Colors.

Image previews have been known to cause problems for AOL users viewing JPEG images through AOL’s default browser.

It also adds several bytes to the file size.

Pixels are the standard unit of measure for Web images.

72 pixels equal approximately one inch on a standard monitor.

Restricting the color palette to web-safe colors will ensure that colors will not shift or dither when your images are viewed on another computer.

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Advertise With Linkworth

thu, 22 May 2008 22:22:31 +0200

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Increasing Your Technorati Ranking

wed, 21 May 2008 21:36:00 +0200

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Lossless jpeg applications

wed, 21 May 2008 09:22:50 +0200

Here is a list of applications which provide the JPEG lossless rotation feature based on the IJG code:

Jpegcrop [Guido Vollbeding] (Windows) - Sample application
cPicture [Jürgen Eidt] (Windows) - Includes lossless cropping, Exif patch and automatic Exif orientation correction!
PIE [PicMeta Software] (Windows) - Picture Information Extractor, includes Exif patch
EXIF Image Viewer [Michal Kowalski] (Windows) - Digital camera photo viewer, includes Exif patch
IrfanView [Irfan Skiljan] (Windows) - Freeware graphic viewer, includes Exif patch (version 3.85 or later [PlugIn!])
DigiAlbum [Bernhard Baier] (Windows) - Digital photo album, includes Exif patch
Cam4you [Hans-David Alkenius] (Windows) - Canon digital camera utilities, includes Exif patch
BreezeBrowser [Breeze Systems Limited] (Windows) - Canon digital camera utility, includes Exif patch
IxPictures [Reimar Grasbon] (Windows) - Transfer photos from your Canon-DigiCam to your computer, includes Exif patch
GetCanon! [David Vidmar] (Windows) - Image downloader for Canon digital cameras, includes Exif patch
Exifer [Friedemann Schmidt] (Windows) - Free JPEG Exif management software, includes Exif patch
Rota [TsuruZoh Tachibanaya] (Windows) - Lossless rotation utility, includes Exif patch
Jasc After Shot [Jasc Software Inc.] (Windows) - Digital imaging application, includes Exif patch
PixVue [PixVue] (Windows) - Digital camera image management tool, includes Exif patch
Thumber [TawbaWare] (Windows) - Digital camera image management software, supports Exif patch
PhotoThumb [Jarle Aasland] (Windows) - Digital image manager, includes Exif patch
ABC-View Manager [ABC-View Software] (Windows) - Flexible file manager and fast image viewer, includes Exif patch and automatic Exif orientation correction!
PMView Pro [Peter Nielsen] (Windows, OS/2) - A Versatile and Fast Image Viewer and Converter, includes Exif patch and automatic Exif orientation correction!
cam2pc [nabocorp softwares] (Windows) - An Image Downloader and more, includes Exif patch
FixFoto [Joachim Koopmann] (Windows) - Image editing for digital photography, includes Exif patch
FotoView [Martin Pola] (Windows) - jpegtran Frontend for comfortable lossless cropping and rotation, supports Exif patch
JPEGCrops [Toke Eskildsen] (Windows) - jpegtran Frontend for comfortable lossless cropping and rotation, supports Exif patch
Dreher [Martin Schulze] (Windows) - jpegtran Frontend for comfortable lossless rotation, supports Exif patch
ljcrop [Marshall Perrin] (Unix) - jpegtran Frontend for comfortable lossless cropping, supports Exif patch
imgSeek [Ricardo Niederberger Cabral] (GNU/Linux, Windows) - Photo collection manager and viewer, supports Exif patch
PhotoLine 32 [Computerinsel] (Windows, Macintosh) - Image editing software, includes Exif patch
Photo Studio [John Hawkins] (Windows) - Multi-purpose image management tool, includes Exif patch
IMatch [photools.com] (Windows) - Digital image management application, includes Exif patch
exifiron [Marko Mäkelä] (Windows, Macintosh, C/POSIX) - Orientation correction and optimization of EXIF JPEG images, includes Exif patch
DW:Rotate [Photographer Solutions] (Windows) - Fast and easy lossless rotation of JPEG images, includes automatic Exif orientation correction!
JPegger [Vallen-Systeme GmbH] (Windows) - Digital image viewer, includes Exif patch
BetterJPEG [BetterJPEG Team] (Windows) - Lossless rotation, crop, and editing tool, includes Exif patch
FastStone Image Viewer [FastStone Soft] (Windows) - An image browser, converter and editor, includes Exif patch and automatic Exif orientation correction!
Lossless JPEG Toolbox [Michael Lee] (Windows) - Lossless JPEG Toolbox, supports Exif patch
JPEG Lossless Rotator [Anry] (Windows) - Comfortable lossless rotation utility, includes Exif patch and automatic Exif orientation correction!
Picasa [Google, Inc.] (Windows) - Photo organizer, includes Exif patch
imageN [Pawel Szczerbina] (Windows) - Digital imaging software
Cameraid [Juri Munkki] (Macintosh) - Digital photography utility package
jpeg explorer [Jurij Mirtov] (Windows) - Digital camera JPEG file explorer
GraphicConverter [Lemke Software] (Macintosh) - Shareware graphic converter
ACDSee [ACD Systems] (Windows, Macintosh) - Picture viewer and digital imaging software
Ulead Photo Explorer [Ulead Systems] (Windows) - Digital photography software
ThumbsPlus [Cerious Software] (Windows) - Graphic management software
PolyView [Polybytes Software] (Windows) - Image viewer, conversion, and printing utility
Qimage [Digital Domain Inc.] (Windows) - Image viewing and printing software
EyeBatch [Atalasoft] (Windows) - Batch image processing software
Diji Album [Xequte Software] (Windows) - Digital photo album software
CompuPic [Photodex Corporation] (Windows) - Digital content manager
Photo Viewer [PhotoParade] (Windows, Macintosh) - Digital photo viewing and managing
FotoAlbum [FotoTime] (Windows) - Organizing and sharing digital pictures
MyAlbum [Pierre Meindre] (Windows) - Image cataloger and slideshow
NikonView [NikonTechUSA] (Windows) - Nikon digital camera accessory software (dubious!)
Image Preview [Microsoft Corporation] (Windows ME, XP, GDI+) - Embedded image component
Photo Studio for Canon [Scott Murray] (Windows) - Scott Professional Photo Studio for Canon cameras
iView MediaPro [iView Multimedia Ltd.] (Macintosh) - Multimedia management software
OfotoNow [Ofoto Inc.] (Windows, Macintosh) - Online photo album uploader software
jpegtranGUI [Robert Williams] (Amiga) - jpegtran Graphical User Interface
Prince Digital [Erithacus Software] (Windows) - Digital image printing utility
PhotoTip [DurSoft Development] (Atari) - Digital photo graphics program
MediaChest [Dmitriy Rogatkin] (Java) - Media file organizer
FishEye [Willem van Schaik] (Windows) - Digital image viewer
Firegraphic XP [Firegraphic.com] (Windows) - Image management software
PhotoPhilia [Pholix Software] (Windows) - Image management software
MaPiVi [Martin Herrmann] (Linux, Unix/X11, Mac OS X, Windows, Perl/Tk) - Martin’s Picture Viewer and Organizer
Easy Thumbnails [Fookes Software] (Windows) - Freeware utility for creating thumbnail images
XnView [Pierre-e Gougelet] (Windows, Linux, Unix/X11) - Multimedia viewer, browser, and converter
CodedColor [1STEIN GmbH] (Windows) - Photo viewer, image editing and archiving software
ImageBuddy [KepMad Systems] (Macintosh) - Digital image printing software
Image Resizer [SEM] (Windows) - JPEG and EXIF viewing and editing software
GTK Photo Gallery [Jens Wilke] (Unix) - Manage photograph collections and order prints online
My Photo Gallery [fuzzymonkey.org] (CGI/Perl) - Online album
PhotoMan [Keith Sheppard] (Windows) - Digital photo organizing application
Gwenview [Aurelien Gateau] (Linux/KDE) - Fast and easy to use image viewer for KDE
gThumb [Paolo Bacchilega] (Linux/GNOME) - Image viewer and browser for the GNOME Desktop
StudioLine Photo [H&M Software] (Windows) - Digital image editing and archival software
pixafe [pixafe GbR] (Windows) - Relational database with lots of imaging functions
Eye of Gnome (eog) [The GNOME Project] (Linux/GNOME) - Standard picture viewer in the GNOME Desktop
RealWorld Photos [RealWorld Graphics] (Windows) - Image editor; retouch a .jpg image without losing quality

Check these programs out and let me know you feedback.

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BlogPowered Blog List

mon, 19 May 2008 20:29:25 +0200

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Making Money With Social Marketing

mon, 19 May 2008 17:35:33 +0200

Marketing plays a very important part in sales. If the marketing department generates a potential customer list, it can be beneficial for sales.

The marketing department’s goal is to bring people to the sales team using promotional techniques such as advertising, sales promotion, publicity and public relations.

Social marketing is the systematic application of marketing along with other concepts and techniques to achieve specific behavioral goals for a social good.

Although social marketing is sometimes seen only as using standard commercial marketing practices to achieve non-commercial goals, this is an over-simplification.

The primary aim of social marketing is social good, while in commercial marketing the aim is primarily financial.

This does not mean that commercial marketers cannot contribute to the achievement of social good.

Today, we seem to live in a world where anyone wants something from everyone else. Even in our families, we set conditions for every reward or benefit that we can extend to another person.

Many people feel the lack of true friendship in their non-cyber lives. This can easily create a situation where they turn to the Internet.

Just as lonely people turn to the Internet, salesmen are also desperate to sell their products.

A salesman is trained to identify places where people are likely to buy specific items and likely to find them. As a result, social networks are a top place to do business.

Increasing, social marketing is being described as having “two parents”, a ’social parent’ where there are social sciences and social policy and a ‘marketing parent’, which equals commercial and public sector marketing approaches.

Here is where one learns how to make money on the Internet thanks to social marketing.

A marketing strategy is a process that can allow an organization to concentrate its limited resources on the greatest opportunities to increase sales and achieve a sustainable competitive advantage.

You can make money on the Internet thanks to social marketing by driving more customers “through the door” which gives the sales department a better chance by ratio of selling their product to the consumers.

There may also be a downside to this phenomenon. Very often (for legal reasons, e.g. in non-store retailing) companies have to provide credit to customers.

This may cause a conflict between the sales department and the credit department. In most large corporations, the marketing department is structured in a similar fashion to the sales department.

And the managers of these teams must coordinate their efforts to drive profits and business success.

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10 Stategies for Site Promotion

mon, 19 May 2008 17:32:50 +0200

1. Generate Traffic. To generate a lot of traffic to your site and gain recognition, you need to promote in as many places as you possibly can. Do not throw all your advertising dollars in only one or two spots. Try to determine or ask the amount of traffic they are generating. Sites generating huge traffic often require higher advertising rates. Be aware; however, that some sites requesting high advertising rates, may not necessarily be generating that much traffic. There are many sites out there that really offer a great deal and do not charge high rates. To generate more traffic find as many free places to advertise as you possibly can.

2. Target the Right Market. Try to find sites that target the type of audience you are marketing to. Example: Someone selling baby products should advertise at baby sites, mommy sites, networks, groups and forums where mommies hang out and visit frequently. Just because you may be a work-at-home mom doesn’t mean you have to limit yourself to just advertising at “WAHM” sites. Place your focus mainly where your targeted market will be, but find all similar possibilities to target as well. Example: If you sell educational products to career-minded young people, you would want to focus where young people of this age visit frequently, but you can also search for a few places to network where moms may visit who have teens getting ready to graduate from high school.

3. Visit Mom Sites. Spend time visiting other sites by moms and see where they are advertising. If they are displaying a banner on their site referring to some directory or networking site this gives you a clue that they may have exchanged links or listed in their directory for free in exchange for displaying their banner. Exchanging links with websites of similar content and products as yours will help with your search engine rankings and once again target your market. While you are visiting other sites by moms, be sure to sign their guest book while you are there. Many guest books allow you to add your website’s url.

4. Use the Search Engines. Use Google and Yahoo and do a search for “Free Advertising”, “List your URL”, “Add your URL”, “Add your Site”, “Free Site Promotion”, etc. Also include keywords you use for marketing your site. Just be cautious before spending money with any new sites you haven’t heard of before. You will probably be surprised at how many sites you find that still offer free advertising.

5. Go Local. There is a HUGE competition going on all over the internet especially for those who are promoting websites with direct sales. “Local” is gaining popularity…and for a good reason. If I decided to start buying Avon, for example, I would probably prefer to buy from someone locally. Use the search engines to do a search for free classified ads in your city and nearby locations. See if you can find any local networks, groups, forums, portals, directories, etc.

6. Write Articles or E-books. You don’t have to be a professional writer. Just find some great content, some interesting facts, some helpful hints, etc. Your article does not have to be very long at all. To get better results, write more frequent short articles than just a couple of big long ones now and then. Be sure to include your name and website at the end. If you offer a newsletter, promote it as well. After you write your article, submit it to as many places as you possibly can. Give permission to others to use your articles as long as they include your name and website address.

7. Start a Newsletter. Newsletters are a great way to generate repeat traffic. It reminds your customer or interested visitors about your site when they receive your newsletter. In your newsletter, be sure to encourage your subscribers to forward your newsletter to a friend. Include information about how they can easily subscribe to your newsletter. Offering your subscribers a chance to win a free gift will often help you receive more signups.

8. Add Content. Content helps get repeat visits to your site. Sites become stale without new content. If you have a site that you can edit, use plenty of good content, especially using keywords that the search engines will pick up particularly targeting your audience that you are marketing too. If you don’t have time to do this, there are lots of sites that offer “free content” and “free articles”. Just do a search on the search engines to locate them. You can use their content for your site instead of trying to write your own content.

9. Partner with Someone. Working at home can begin to seem like a long lonesome journey. Find someone you can connect with and trust. Exchange front page links or banners and help each other promote your businesses. You could even add your partner to your signature. For example, under your name and link place: Partner, Sherry - partnerdomain.com. Have your partner do the same for you. Write and promote a newsletter together; manage a networking group together. Partners can encourage each other and make the marketing road a little smoother.

10. Read and Learn. Marketing is an endless task that must be done to generate sales. The best tip I can give is to read and learn all you can about marketing and sales. You can do this on the internet as well as your local library. Find someone who is successful and get some of their best tips. If possible, set aside at least an hour or two each day promoting your business. Many people make the mistake of thinking they can create a website and traffic will automatically arrive. It just doesn’t happen. Behind each successful site is a hard worker who labored away to advertise and promote. You can do it too!

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Windows Tip

sun, 11 May 2008 20:04:25 +0200

If you work on windows , you know that shutting it down can be really a hassle and time taking , especially when a lot of programs are running . Most of us tend to avoid shut down due to this reason but we know that shut down is always safer and also considered good for the pc .

There are a lot of shut down tricks and tools available , which help you to achieve a smooth and fast shut down of windows without negatively affecting your pc . However this trick , which was suggested to me by a friend , is probably the simplest one and also the fastest way to shut down your pc .

Here are the steps :-

1: Press Ctrl+Alt+Delete to go to the Task Manager .

2: Click on Shut Down on the Top .

3: Highlight ‘ Turn Off ‘ and while holding down the Ctrl key , click on it .

And thats it ! Just count 1 , 2 , 3…5 and there you go…your pc is off !

I have tried this trick on my XP system and it has worked everytime and hasn’t negatively affected my pc . I haven’t tried this on any other version of Windows but I think it’ll work .

However I advise you to use this trick only when you are in a rush and you need a speedy shut down of your pc .

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