How To View PSD Image Files Without Installing Photoshop

Yesterday, I requested my friend to send me the snapshot of the PSD file of the Wordpress design. But he claimed that his Photoshop CS2 has expired. He thought of going to his friend and copying the snapshot and again sending back to me. Photoshop Document itself was large size, therefore I asked for the snapshot. If I was going to accept his idea, then I would have to wait whole day for just a snapshot.

Rather I suggested him certain idea to view PSD files without the need of Photoshop. And that is what I want to share with my visitors as well.

With IrfanView, a 1.3 MB image viewing freeware utility, you can open almost all the images without need of any high level software. Here is a list of image files that I can open.


IrfanView is a freeware utility, licensed under End User License Agreement (EULA).

It is not only a viewer; rather you can edit the pictures there. Basically it supports cropping, cut, paste, copy, drawing tools, eraser tools etc. IrfanView is plug-in enabled, that means they have plug-in to make it more accessible and useful.

Click here to download IrfanView

How to Improve Windows XP Shutdown Speed

Shorten the time it takes for your desktop to appear when you turn on your PC and make XP shut down faster as well

.In some cases computers running with Windows XP takes too much time to shutdown and repeatedly annoy users with pop up messages asking if you really want to quit the applications. This problem is mainly due to applications that install services that start at Windows XP boot time and then take a very long time to stop and sometimes time out when Windows is being shut down. No matter how fast your PC shuts down, it's not fast enough. This tweak reduces the time Windows-XP waits before automatically closing any running programs when you give it the command to shutdown.

How to Improve Your Computers Shutdown And Reboot Speed?

For speeding up your shutdown and reboot time in Windows XP, you need to edit some registry settings. Follow the steps as given below:

1. Go to Start then select Run

2. Type 'Regedit' and click ok


3. Find 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\'

4. Select 'WaitToKillAppTimeout'

5. Right click and select 'Modify'


6. Change the value to '1000'

7. Click 'OK'


8. Now select 'HungAppTimeout'

9. Right click and select 'Modify'


10. Change the value to '1000'

11. Click 'OK'


When you complete the above steps, you will find your Windows startup and shutdown faster than before.

Warning: Modifying the Windows registry can cause serious damage to your Windows Operating System. It is better to backup your Windows registry data before making any changes. I am not responsible for any changes you may make to your system.

How to Create a Fake and Harmless Virus

How to Create a Fake and Harmless Virus | Computer Pranks

Previously i've posted a tutorial about how to create a fake facebook virus. This virus prank is similar to that one, but instead of notepad i will use a "New Shortcut" option and command prompt to create it. This “virus” can shutdown, restart and log off your pc (Can also write a message and specify the countdown time). This is actually a faster way to turn off your pc, ’cause it doesn’t require clicking Start>Turn off....
And absolutely the best thing about this virus is that you can make a fun prank to your friend... :P

Now lets start with the tutorial.

1) Create a shortcut (Right click on your desktop and go to new -> shortcut )

2) After this will appear window and that is where you type the code

shutdown -s -t 300 -c "Your Message"

To log of computer type shutdown -l -t 300 -c “your message”
To restart computer type shutdown -r -t 300 -c ” your message”

The number after -t is the number of seconds countdown there will be before shutdown . After -c write own message , that will come up when shutdown box pops up.

3) Click Next, Finish



4) After this will appear icon on desktop, when someone click it, shutdown box will pops up.

Also you can change the look of your icon (Right click on the icon -> Properties -> Shortcut -> Change Icon and replace it with your own one, like Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox...)



5 ) You can stop system shutdown by going to Start->Run , then open cmd, write shutdown -a and press ENTER on keyboard, as shown below

That's all. I think this is one of the simplest way to create a fake virus, but still to make a fun of your friend.