Restore windows bootloader without installation disc

• Download MBRFix from Sysint, and extract the archive.
• Navigate to the archive through the command line and run the following command, substituting mbrfix with mbrfix64 if you are on a 64-bit system.

          mbrfix /drive 0 fixmbr /yes

For more details see the  MBRFix documentation

Implementation of getch() and getche() in Linux

#include <stdio.h>
#include <termios.h>
   
    int getch()
    {
        struct termios initialrsettings, newrsettings;
        char ch[2];
        tcgetattr(fileno(stdin), &initialrsettings);
        newrsettings = initialrsettings;
        newrsettings.c_lflag &= ~ECHO;
        newrsettings.c_lflag &= ~ICANON;
        if(tcsetattr(fileno(stdin), TCSAFLUSH, &newrsettings) != 0)
            fprintf(stderr,"Could not set attributes\n");
        else
        {
        fgets(ch,2,stdin);
        tcsetattr(fileno(stdin), TCSANOW, &initialrsettings);
        return ch[0];
        }
    }
   
    int getche()
    {
        struct termios initialrsettings, newrsettings;
        char ch[2];
    
        tcgetattr(fileno(stdin), &initialrsettings);
        newrsettings = initialrsettings;
        newrsettings.c_lflag &= ~ICANON;
        if(tcsetattr(fileno(stdin), TCSAFLUSH, &newrsettings) != 0)
            fprintf(stderr,"Could not set attributes\n");
        else
        {
        fgets(ch,2,stdin);
        tcsetattr(fileno(stdin), TCSANOW, &initialrsettings);
        return ch[0];
        }
    }

Add item to Send to menu

Open the following location and paste the link to the new sendTo item into this folder -
%APPDATA%/Microsoft/Windows/SendTo

Customize windows 7 theme

Applications to provide a awesome look to windows 7

1. fullmetro theme from deviantart.
2. xwidget
3. Rainmeter
4.eXtraButtons
5.win7 context menu editor
6.DefaultProgramsEditor to change icons
7. Rocketdock

Useful Linux Shortcuts

• Ctrl-c - Interrupter
• Ctrl-d - Terminator
• Ctrl-u - Killer
• Ctrl-s - Stop scrolling
• Ctrl-q - Resume scrolling
• Ctrl-h - Eraser
• sttysane - Restores sanity