Change your XP Boot Screen

The first step to change your XP boot Screen safely is to download a software from the following link,

BootSkin

Once you download and install the Application perform the following steps,

1. Once you have the application running, changing the boot screen is very simple. Just
navigate through the list of boot screens by using the scroll bar arrows.

2. Once you find the boot screen that you like, click the item and then click the Preview
button to see a full-screen animated preview of what the boot screen will look like.

3. Click a button on the mouse again to exit the full-screen preview. If you like the boot
screen, then click the Apply button. That’s it!

You can get various skins for Boot screen from the following link

WinCustomize

Sample BootSkin Preview:



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The KM Player

KM Player is one of the most convenient Media Players i have ever used for my PC....The Interface is really cool and attractive, really simple to use....I feel it to be better than VLC media Player... It plays most of the video formats, so just try it out if you haven't....

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Create a Simple Web Browser

Here is a procedure to create a very simple WebBrowser in Visual Basic 2008 with less than 7 lines of code. Just follow the given steps, (remember this is only to create a simple one and pls don’t expect it to be in par with good ones. Just uses IE control of the system, these steps assume that you are relatively new to VB environment). Click the pictures to get an enlarged view of it.

Open Visual Basic 2008

Select File->New Project

Enter the name of the New Project As “WebBrowser”

Select the “Web Browser” Control from the Toolbox.

Your window should now look as below, in that select the WebBrowser Component(default name is ‘WebBrowser1’ and in the “Properties” window in the right side of your side change the Dock property to value None as shown in the figure below.

Now you can resize your WebBrowser as per your wish. Now create 5 command boxes and 1 TextBox from the toolbox. The following pictures demonstrate the procedure,

Just click the controls and drag it in the form and resize it as per your wish,

Then set the “Text” property(you can change the property of a control from the properties pane in the right side with the control clicked), change the name of the first command box to “Back” second one to “Forward” third one to “Stop” fourth one to “Refresh” and fifth one to “Go”. Then place the controls at the appropriate places. The completed form will look like this,

The controls along with their name property (in quotes) is given below

Back – “Button1”

Forward – “Button2”

Stop – “Button3”

Refresh – “Button4”

Go – “Button5”

Textbox – “TextBox1”

WebBrowser – “WebBrowser1”

Now double click the Button1(back button) and enter the following code,

WebBrowser1.GoBack()

Now your code window should like this,

Similarly double click the button2(forward) and enter the following code

WebBrowser1.GoForward()

Double click button3(stop) and enter the following code,

WebBrowser1.Stop()

Double click button4(Refresh) and enter the following code,

WebBrowser1.Refresh()

Double click button5(Go) and enter the following code

WebBrowser1.Navigate(TextBox1.Text)

Double click the webbrowser control and enter the following code in its “DocumentCompleted” event,

Me.Text = "WebBrowser - " + WebBrowser1.DocumentTitle

Your final code window should look like this,

Now press F5 to run your project and your Simple Web Browser is ready for usage.

Final page looks like this

Have Fun. Do drop in your comments and queries.

Student Mark Database

(coming soon........)

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Opening Screen:


Sort Records by GPA


Male students Vs Female Students Statistics:




Convert to Excel
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Adding a Record



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