How To Make Vector Wallpapers : Photoshop Tutorial

I have seen a lot of beautiful Vector wallpapers these days and that's why decided to write a tutorial for my IndYaTricks readers on How to design Vector Wallpapers. Actually designing a wallpaper needs creativity and this creativity is sometimes natural or comes by practice. I am sure that by reading and following my tutorial you can also create such beautiful wallpapers, all you need is to START. Click here to view Top 10 Beautiful High Quality Vector Wallpapers.

Note : This post is for those who knows some basics of Photoshop and want to develop their skills.

Lets Start :For creating wallpapers you should have these basic things :

1) Theme : About which topic your wallpaper is i.e music, nature, horror, sports etc.

2) Background : What kind of background you want. Your wallpaper is attractive if your background is good.

3) Fonts : You can get alot of beautiful fonts for free from http://www.dafont.com/

Ok, now I am making my first wallpaper and the first thing I need is a theme and my theme is Music and here is my background.

Now I add sun rays light effect to my background and a DJ picture taken from Internet.

Have a look :

Here is the tutorial on how to add sun rays light effect to your picture.

Now I'l download some custom shapes and add to my wallpaper and my wallpaper now looks like this :

In this way I can add alot of images and shapes to my wallpaper to make it more attractive. The main thing that makes your wallpaper attractive is good brushes and custom shapes.My wallpaper is very simple because I haven't added much stuff to it but you can add much more images and effects to your wallpaper to make it more attractive.

Click here to know how to install custom shapes and brushes to photoshop.Download some custom brushes and shapes from here.

When you'll practice more on it you can design more beautiful wallpapers.


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I Lost My MotherBoard Driver CD/DVD, What To Do ?

Whenever I install Windows I have to search for my motherboard CD for installing drivers of sound, LAN, graphics etc and majority of times it takes hell a lot of time to search for driver CD. At least I find it very difficult to keep my CD in a safe place so that I can use it when I need it.But what will you do if motherboard driver CD gets lost, I know you will say that you'll go to Internet and download all the desired drivers from there but for that you should know the model number also. If you have lost your motherboard CD and do not know your motherboard model number and want to download or update your drivers, here is a very good application for you.

Driver Genius :

Driver Genius Professional manage your PC to get 100% up to date Drivers and optimize PC performance. Driver Genius Professional is a powerful driver manager for Windows that can backup, restore ,search and update your drivers automatically in several mouse clicks!

Yes, you can backup all your installed drivers and can restore it back when needed. Without going to any website you can easily download and install required drivers. Isn't this a useful application !!

Have a quick look at some features of this software :
Quickly backup device drivers for your computer.

Backup your drivers to a ZIP or EXE self-extracting file.

Clone your drivers to an auto-setup package.

Wizard mode allow you step by step backup or restore your drivers.

Get detailed information about your installed devices.

Search for drivers for non-Internet connected computer.

Easy to get the most recent drivers for your computer.

Search all available drivers update by one click.

Live update your drivers information database online.It works on the following Operating Systems : Windows 98/98SE /ME/2000/XP/2003/Vista/XP x64/Server 2003 x64/Vista x64.This is a must have application and visit their official website to download this application.

ViStart : Change Your XP Start Menu Like Windows Vista

When Windows Vista came, I was very excited to see its new features and graphics. But after using it for 2-3 months I switched onto Windows XP.

There are many excellent features in Windows Vista that we like to see in XP too and one of that feature is Start Menu.I really like the Start Menu of Windows Vista and especially that search option at the bottom.

Now you can get the same Start Menu in XP too with the help of ViStart.ViStart is a perfect start menu replacement for Windows XP.

ViStart will now index all personal files and program files and give *ACTUAL instant results* that's 4 times faster then the real Vista start menu....

Download Instructions : Click here to download ViStart.

Click here to know more about tweaking Windows XP.

Back up your data from a virus infected pen drive

Trouble:

We have been receiving lots of problems these days, most of the problems relate to different types of virus which commonly infect through pen drives. There are large number of viruses like NewFolder.exe virus, Funny UST Scandal avi.Exe , kinza.exe and W32.Rontokbro.B@mm virus.

Most of these viruses cause the following most common problems on your windows computer.
Folder Options Hidden
Task Manager Disabled
Registry Editing Disabled
Command Prompt Disabled
All the types of viruses which infect from your system, through a file called autorun.inf created on the root directory of your pen drive. So, when you double click your virus infected pen drive the virus automatically copy itself to your system.

Let’s see how can you still open your infected pen drives on your computer copy your data.

Fix:
1. Firstly insert your pen drive into the USB port, windows will run autorun menu but don’t open your pen drive through autorun menu rather cancel it.
2. As your pen drive will get detected and will show under My Computer with a drive letter associated.
3. Press Window + D and type : and press Enter.
For Example
e:
4. Back up your files from your pen drive, but remember to copy files only not folders
5. Now, Click on Tools >> Folder Options and Click the View tab.
Scroll down and select to show hidden files and folders and click Ok
6. Move back the focus to your pen drive, you will many virus files and folder and delete any files or folder which looks suspicious to you from your pen drive.

How to fix system tray icons not displayed properly

Many a times when the windows boot, the tray icons like volume control icon, network status icon, safely remove hardware icon etc. which should be visible in the tray are not visible properly.
In such a case, many a times you will find volume control button missing, or you will find Safely remove hardware icon missing, or any other useful tray icon which you frequently use.
Why are tray icons not loaded properly?
At the time when windows is booting, there are many processes which are simultaneously being launched. All these are running in parallel waiting for the CPU turn. Some times when the CPU is busy with some processes, windows misses to properly load the icons.

Lets see how to fix this issue.
Fix:

The fix is simple, whenever you find that the tray icons are not properly loaded, you can restart explorer task. This will freshly build all the tray, task-bar and desktop icons.

To restart the explorer task, we have made a small windows-batch file which you can download from here. Just download and save this file on your computer. Double-click on this file and it will re-start the explorer task for you. After this, all the tray icons will be loaded properly.

For those who like to do it manually, open the command prompt and type the following two commands one by one:

taskkill /f /im explorer.exe
explorer.exe

We Hope you find this handy and useful.

How to make your Desktop Icons Transparent

How to make your Desktop Icons Transparent

Are you bothered with your desk top icon's background, is not clear?No problem, solution here.Go to
Control Panel
System
or right click on
My Computer
select "Properties"
Advanced
Performance area
Settings button Visual Effects tab
selet the check box "Use drop shadows for icon labels on the Desktop"
and
click Apply,
OK
DONE

Tips To Create Good Passward

One of important problems with passwords is that because we have the tendency of forgetting them, we land up creating some easy password which are prone to be hacked.
Its important that our password has enough security as well as its easy to remember. Below are few simple tips for creating a good password; [...]

To rename the start button

To Rename The Start Button

you will need a hex editor.
My preference is UltraEdit
Copy the \windows\explore.exe file to a new name (e.g. explorer_1.exe)
With the hex editor, open that file and go to offset 412b6
You will see the word start with blanks between each letter
Edit it be any 5 characters or less
Save the file
Boot to DOS
Copy the existing c:\windows\explorer.exe to explorer.org
Copy explorer_1.exe to explorer.exe
You will also need to replace the explorer.exe in the c:\windows\system32\dllcache file as well with the new one.

Note: If the partition is NTFS and you can't access the files from DOS:
Start Regedit
Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows NT \ CurrentVersion \ Winlogon.
Change the value of Shell from Explorer.exe to explorer_1.exe

Rotate your desktop screen.

Press ALT+CTRL+Left ARROW key in windows xp.
This will rotate the screen to 90 degree.
Press ALT+CTRL+Upper ARROW key to bring back original screen.