Snaked Shutdown Control - Get control over windows shutdown routines.

Snaked Shutdown Control helps you manually control and program your Windows shutdown, restarting processes and gives you the ability to cancel them too.

Especially helpful in the following cases :

* When you need to carefully plan your Windows restart/shutdown process using a long timeout up to 100 days from now.
* When you've been infected by viruses that cause your computer to automatically restart and you need to stop it so that you deal with the infection.
* When running Windows 8 and you find it complicated to shutdown or restart your PC.
* When it's usual for you to be in the need of canceling an accidentally given shutdown or restart command.

Snaked Shutdown Control is free, simple and easy to use for any Windows user's experience level. It's interface is customizable and it supports English and Greek for now.

More translations might be added later. If you would like to help us with a translation feel free to contact us using this form. We hope you enjoy using our software.

The application was developed in C#, it does not require installation as it is a standalone portable executable and it can be run even from USB sticks. However keep in mind that the application settings will be reset if you change the executable's location.

Files included in the zip package :

1. Snaked Shutdown Control.exe
2. Licence.txt
3. Information.txt

Operation Systems Supported :
Microsoft Windows XP (Not tested)
Microsoft Windows Vista (Not tested)
Microsoft Windows 7 (Tested)
Microsoft Windows 8 (Tested)

System Requirements :
Microsoft .Net Framework 4.0

Manual :

The Snaked Shutdown Control main window.

 In the main window of "Snaked Shutdown Control" you can find the main functions of the application restart / shutdown computer after the specified timeout or cancel an already given shutdown command. The current timeout setting is shown on the top of the window. You might wanna check out the settings window before using it for the first time.

The Snaked Shutdown Control settings window.

In the settings window of "Snaked Shutdown Control" you can adjust the timeout in seconds, minutes, hours or days to a maximum value of 100 (up to 100 days from now). You can also change the language of the application's interface (currently only English and Greek are supported - however more translations could be added if they are requested so feel free to leave a comment requesting one if you really need it). Also you can change the background color of all windows according to what feels better for you. Changing it to black will cause the labels to not be visible anymore. Clicking reset returns all settings to their default values.

We hope that you will be satisfied from this application due to its simplicity and effectiveness. It is freeware with no ads at all under the Lesser GNU Public Licence, and a copy of the original licence file is distributed alongside the application's executable. Moreover if you really like the software feel free to use the donate button in the "About Snaked Shutdown Control" window to support the development of our free software.

We'd love to read your feedback in the comments section.

How to change your MAC Address in Windows 7 Registry

1. Why should you change your wifi's MAC Address
2. How to check your current MAC Address
3. How to generally change your MAC Address
4. How to change your Wifi's MAC Address


Hello everyone, recently I came up with an obsession of changing my wifi's physical MAC Address. I've searched around the web and there's a mess going on about changing it on Windows 7, so I'll try to show the easiest possible way to you. There is a lot of applications around promising to do that but you don't actually need an application. The whole process is about creating a key in registry, and I think that's an easy thing to do. Now, let me explain what am I talking about and how to do that.. (If you are an advanced user go straight to the Wifi section)



Why should you change your wifi's MAC Address?


First of all every PC running windows, that is connected to the internet uses a networking device such as an Ethernet or WiFi network adapter. Just like every other device in the world, each one has a unique ID in order to trace where it was manufactured, by whom and when. This unique ID in networking is called Physical MAC Address. More info about MAC Addresses can be found here. What you need to know is that MAC Address is all someone needs to trace your network adapter, meaning where it was designed, where and when you purchased it and all data connected to that purchase. I know, I'm beginning to sound weird now.. but let's get down to the point.


Let's say you carry your laptop and visit a local library or a public wifi access point. You decide to connect to the internet through that access point using your laptop's wifi adapter. Now, by connecting to the access point your PC automatically sends your MAC Address to the access point, while the access point registers your PC Name and MAC Address and grants you the connection. Someone with access to that specific wireless router is now able to see your MAC Address and if that someone has some "bad will" power could harm you using that information. For example someone could use your MAC Address in doing something illegal and the whole matter is going to include you.. You wouldn't want that.


So why would you let anyone access that info? It would be better (and fun too) to change it to a fake address in order to be secure.

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How to check your current MAC Address


In order to know which is your physical MAC Address shown to access points when you connect to them, follow the steps below.


1. Open a console window by pressing "Start" and typing "cmd.exe".
2. Type the following command in the command line: "ipconfig /all"

3. Press "Enter" and check the results. Scroll up to find your wifi's name.
4. Your MAC Address is in the "Physical Address" field. I've removed the rest of the info.

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How to generally change your MAC Address


First of all, let's note that this whole article is mainly about WiFi MAC Address spoofing in Windows 7. But we'll mention, how to generally change your network device's MAC Address. In most of the cases you could easily change your MAC Address simply by following these steps.


1. Go to the "Device Manager" (Control Panel -> System -> Device Manager)

2. Double-click your networking device.

3. Go to the "Advanced" tab.
4. Select "Network Address".
5. Change your value to your desired address. Make sure it is formed by acceptable 16-bit digits only. (Numbers 0 to 9, Characters from A to F).

6. Close the window by pressing "OK".
7. Right Click your device -> Disable.
8. Right Click your device -> Enable.

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How to change your Wifi's MAC Address


In most of the cases though, your wifi advanced tab does not have such an option so it's a bit more difficult to change it. You could use software in order to do that but there is always a risk when using software to change your registry. You never know what's gonna be changed. So my suggestion is to change your registry manually. In fact you don't actually change anything, you just have to add one value. So let's get down to it. Before starting you need to know your network adapter's name in order to identify it correctly in the registry. So you could go to the "Device Manager" just like above, find your wifi network adapter's name and try to memorize it (Really it's not that difficult..) Now follow the next steps:


1. Click on "Start" and type "regedit.exe" and press "Enter" to enter the Windows "Registry Editor".
2. Browse to the value :
-> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
-> SYSTEM
-> ControlSet001
-> Control
-> Class
-> {4D36E972-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}


Now notice that the following numbers match different devices.
Click on "0000" and check the keys in the right panel. There is a key named "DriverDesc" which is the description (aka name) of the device.

2. Check the numbers one by one in order to find your wifi network adapter's name in the "DriverDesc" field.

You can see your real Wifi MAC Address in the field DeviceInstanceID that I have hidden with a black rectangle. That is the one that the access point will receive when you connect to it, "IF" you haven't changed your MAC Address manually. Now let's get to the point.


3. Right Click the number of your device (which in my case is 0026) and select
New -> String Value
4. Write down the value name "NetworkAddress" instead of "New Value #1" that will appear. Make sure not to press any spaces.
5. Double Click the new value that was created.
6. Be creative as you enter your desired MAC Address, just make sure you start it in an acceptable form etc starting with 12 then add ten more 16-bit digits (Numbers 0 to 9, Characters from A to F).

7. Click "OK".
8. Close the Windows Registry Editor.
9. Go to your Device Manager and disable and re-enable your device.


You can now check your Wifi's MAC Address and see if that has been changed properly.


This is Solid Snake..
Thank you all for reading, I hope I got you out of a lot of trouble.

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Forum Signatures.. some define us.. others make us laugh.

Have you ever noticed those few words people add to their forum signatures? Sometimes they tell us about stuff they like, dislike, love, hate plus something that defines them. But there is also this trend, that some users like to add jokes or funny notes to their signatures, so that everyone else in the forum, who gets to read them is driven to "ROFL"..

Today's subject is not about every type of joke but the ones that a computer maniac would enjoy more.. Remember, this blog is mainly dedicated to techies like me.. So here, I've made a collection of nice signatures that would mostly attract that kind of people.. They mainly come from OCN. (Overclock.net) Normal people might not understand much of the sense of humor in them, but anyway.. I hope that if I don't make you laugh.. at least I'll make you smile..

Here they are...:

1. Originally Posted by dalteezy
I am new to overclock.net. I am from States United and I can has info on computers

2. Originally Posted by xplodee
i know copy-paste , tooth paste..

now whts this thermal paste ?

3. Originally Posted by SpookedJunglist
Turns out naming the Servers after transformers has caused Starscream to fight with Megatron over who is the best server.

4. Originally Posted by EMP7Y
Your brother is quite obviously a new type of computer virus... but it also affects hardware

5. Originally Posted by Newbie2009
I did not read the article & I have an urge to write something stupid, but looks like I have been beaten to it by a lot of other people.

6. Originally Posted by F1ForFrags
Companies don't understand that you can screw the console market all you want, but when you screw with the PC Gamers, we just crack it.

7. Originally Posted by Technodanvan
The amount of stupid in this thread is astonishing.

8. Originally Posted by kledster
great job man. and i thought you were black

9. Originally Posted by TheArchfiend
I punished my gay Mac by making it download straight porn for an entire year non-stop.

10. Originally Posted by Richard Chan
BTW,
MACs using Bootcamp to use PC software is like a white guy trying act black.

11. Originally Posted by Maris

i use 1280x1024 (19') full hd philips monitor which is perfect for gaming

12. Originally Posted by Afrodisiac
You are such a hypocrite it's not even funny.

13. Originally Posted by CryWin
Using a quad core octocore with Linux is like putting a V8 on a tricycle

14. Originally Posted by Pir
Don't you have an AMD pen lying around somewhere? They write a bit slower but at least they always do.

15. Originally Posted by Hephasteus
CPU's used to have to do more work, they were fighting off wolves with flyswatters, today they are swatting at flys with bazookas.

16. Originally Posted by nathris
OSX User: Oh look funny dog pictures, I'm going to download them!

"Funny Dog Pictures requires that you type your password"
OSX User: Hurr Durr, OK!

17. Originally Posted by Djghost454
Titanic ring any bells? Say something will never happen and BAM!

18. Originally Posted by Supacasey
Holy crap I'm still shaking... I was benching my 280's... And my PSU just started to... BLOW THE $%#@ UP. It was like firecrackers in my freaking case! Smoke started spewing out of the back!

19. Originally Posted by sotorious
I would love to have a 980x but i have my limits. I almost fainted when i bought the 5970

20. Originally Posted by k4m1k4z3
LOL, evolution proves nothing. It is a theory that has been denied by its author, and it is slowly being proved wrong.

21. Originally Posted by xeeki
Aaaw, Sweden, we used to be vikings, now we're pirates. Aargh! 

22. Originally Posted by sharpshoooter82
can be a cpu bottle meck

23. Originally Posted by aSl33pR0
I'm no expert and having not read any of the posts above this, In my opinion, I believe there is something wrong with your rig.

Yours, aSl33pR0

24. Originally Posted by Matthew_Rocz
Sorry if the Pix are LQ, Took with my Cell Phone, Cam recently fell into Niagara Falls

25. LMAO meaning :
Originally Posted by Tainok
Come on now, seriously? Every time you type that, DOES YOUR ASS LITERALLY FALL OFF?

I didn't think so.
Answer:
Originally Posted by Chunky_Chimp
Yes it does. I just put it back on, though, but only so I can laugh it off again. I have to keep it taped on to do the #2, though.

25. Originally Posted by liberalelephant

Prisoner A: "What did you do to get in here?"

jshay: "I tried to sell a CPU on craigslist and this noob called me a scammer, so I made a thread on OCN and they traced his IP address, then someone murdered him"

Prisoner A: "Bend over"

26. Originally Posted by T3h_Ch33z_Muncha
yo dawg i herd u leik patching so i put a patch in your patch so you can patch while you patch.

27. Originally Posted by MrDeodorant
Yeah, that'll win hearts and minds. Nothing says "Yay democracy" like having your neighbourhood torched.

28. Originally Posted by d3v0
It's galaxy, he has a better shot getting an RMA from Jesus himself haha

29. Originally Posted by michaeljr1186
my dad bought an emachine and i got pissed off.

30. Originally Posted by Shane1244
Maybe I can come over to your house and we can play some SuperPi? Then later on we can set up a LAN and play 3D Mark Vantage?

31. Android Ninja on CPU Heat Sinks:
"i was using an old AMD cooler and I held in on there with twist ties that you find on like loaves of bread"

32. Originally Posted by holtzman
Computer viruses are like herpes. You never think in a million years you'd get one... Till you do.

33.  Originally Posted by Firestorm252
so is "Chair-man of the Boards" an OCN achievement yet?

34. Originally Posted by frien
That's all very well, but how does it [GTX 470] perform in windows 95?

35. Originally Posted by Clorox
about babies: can you overclock babies 0.o??????? I'd totally overclock my baby, then try to voltmod it or something.

36. Originally Posted by Marin
I stared at him, not breaking eye contact, and silently let him know that if he waited around any longer he would soon be telling his friends that he lost his virginity to a display keyboard.

37. Originally Posted by Klue22
nobody actually cares about my vantage score, just my gf.

38. Originally Posted by pauldovi
Nvidia...

"The Way it............. BSOD

39. Originally Posted by lokster
little tiny people where to go FtW1!!

150$ to order little tiny people to go around destroy/defend other tiny people or buildings that blow up and stuff, a good story of course to sweeten the deal, maybe a little multiplayer to player with other tiny people, and of course bonus little people content 

id tap that.

40. Originally Posted by funky882
i can still turn the computer on, it just catches on fire when i do...

41. Originally Posted by Eska
all i see is a stupid chip that i dont have

42. Originally Posted by AlexTheBlue
Ah, I see you're running the new Trollware 49.3, how's that working out for you?

43. Originally Posted by Gallien
REPOST!! STONE HIM!! 

44. Originally Posted by Skylit
ATI grows each one of their GPU's till their ripe enough to produce amazing graphics.

Nvidia fired too many people and they can't keep up with the crops this year. 

45. Originally Posted by Miki, re Boxxy
She's totally adorable, who could not like her? I know, I know, some find her annoying. But, I think they are just boring so their opinions don't count.

46. Originally Posted by Krunk_Kracker
...I ended up handing out infractions like I was dealing cards in Texas Hold 'em.

47. Originally Posted by FuNkDrSpOt
The only time I'd ever pay $150 for a game is if it was HL3 and it came with a crowbar and a license to kill.

48. Originally Posted by Inuyasha1771
I hate it when they are like " LET'S WATCH A MOVIE >=3" and you're like "No, it's 6 PM, I just got off work, I need to overclock." and they can't relate. Give me a girl who overclocks, and I'll give you a miracle.

49. Originally Posted by dracotonisamond
the day will soon come that my computer will get me food WHILE it plays crysis.

50. Originally Posted by Rayzer76
I drove 65 miles yesterday for that 920 from micro center. It was my first time there. My jaw dropped and i didn't want to leave. I wish we brought lunch, i could have sat there and just inspected every case and mobo they had.

This is where i want to go to die.....

51. Originally Posted by Ecchi-BANZAII!!!
Do YOU want realism? stab yourself in the leg, then jump off a seven story building and use the knife on the person below and scream HEAD SHOT! without breaking a sweat

52. Originally Posted by SZayat
QTF, I'm facing some painful bottlenecks with solitaire. & BTW Minesweeper is unplayable.

53. Originally Posted by Ktulu
I can't tell if I am smelling a bad overclock or grandpa...

54. Originally Posted by _02
Well it's just the principle that if there is infinity of space, there is inherently an infinity of possibilities for planets and life.
Given infinity, this also means that there is a planet somewhere with plants that look EXACTLY like Core i7 systems in HAF cases, but they all give off coca-cola flavored gasses and sing american show tunes.

55. Originally Posted by llama16
wow?! I sigged myself.

56. Originally Posted by Steve Wozniak:
Never trust a computer you can’t throw out a window.

57. Originally Posted by T3h_Ch33z_Muncha
there's just bugs in their patch so they need to patch their patch before they release the patch

58. Originally Posted by cl04k3d
Someone please explain to me why I am up at 5am on overclock.net!
Reply:
Originally Posted by CrazyHeaven
How about you explain to me why I'm up at 5am reading your up at 5am post?

59. Originally Posted by jshay
Well since you jammed it in 1 way and bent it whichever way. Can you stick it in and jam it back the other way?

60. Originally Posted by Zawarudo
"Pro gamers are 60 year old fighter pilots"

That's all folks!

I know they are not all funny.. but some really are..