How To Turn On Your PC With Your Android Phone Using Wake-On

 

If you’re a techie, one of the first things you do when you walk in the door is turn on your computer. Perhaps you simply tap your keyboard or mouse, or maybe you press the power button. Either way, you have to be at your computer before you can start it.
Wouldn’t it be easier if your computer was ready for you as soon as you sat down? If you own an Android device, that’s possible thanks to a free app called PC Auto Waker. The setup can be a little complex, but the payoff makes it worthwhile.

The Quick & Easy Setup

Once you’ve downloaded PC Auto Waker off the Android marketplace, you’ll need to set it up so that it has the ability to communicate with your computer. It depends on 802.11 WiFi, but it’s not necessary for each computer to have WiFi hardware. The PC you’d like to wake only needs to be connected to a broadcasting WiFi router.
The basic setup consists of three steps. First, you’ll need to enter a name for the computer you’re going to wake. This name DOES NOT have to be the same as the computer’s network name. This is merely a way of identifying the computer in the app’s interface.

After that, you’ll need to enter the MAC address of the target computer. Do a Windows Search for  ”cmd” to open your command line interface, then type ipconfig/all and press enter. The MAC address will appear as a string of six two-digit numbers labeled Physical Address.                             

Finally, you need to enter the SSID of the wireless network the target computer is connected to. It’s not necessary to enter any security information, regardless of whether the WiFi network is secured or not.
Once you’ve handled all of that, it’s time to see if you’re set! Place your computer into sleep or hibernate mode, and press the Wake All button in the PC Auto Waker app. If it works, great! If not, you have a few other settings to mess with.

The Nitty-Gritty Setup

If your computer did not wake it’s probably because the computer is not set up to accept a Wake-On-LAN packet. Fortunately, most computers can be configured so that they will accept it.

First, restart your computer and enter BIOS. This is done by entering the correct key at boot, which should be indicated on the POST screen that appears before Windows beings loading. Once you’ve entered BIOS, look for the Wake-On-LAN setting and enable it. You’re likely to find this along with other settings related to power management or networking, but BIOS vary from computer to computer, so you’ll have to do some digging of your own.

Once you’ve enabled Wake-On-LAN in BIOS, you’ll need to make sure Windows is configured properly as well. Do a Windows Search for Device Manager and open it, then navigate down to Network Adapters. Right-click on the one you use to connect with the Internet and then click Properties. On the Power Management tab you will find three checkboxes. If they’re not already checked, do so.
This should clear up any trouble that’s causing PC Auto Waker to malfunction.

Conclusion

PC Auto Waker is an awesome app. Once you have it set up, your computer will start as soon as your phone makes a connection with your WiFi network. This means you can walk in the door knowing that your PC is already starting. It’s magic!
What do you think about it?  Are there any similar Android wake on LAN apps that do a better job?  If so, let us know about them in the comments.

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10 Tips To Get Google Adsense in Pakistan
1. Buy your own Top level domain and a reputable webhosting service, examples are Godaddy or Hostgator. If you’ll buy cheap webhosting from an ordinary webhost, initially Google might accept your application but after some time when your site traffic increases Google will surly ban your Adsense account because of the slow server speed.
2. Second and most important thing now a days specially after Google Panda Update is choosing a theme or template for your site. Its better to buy premium theme rather than free themes because of SEO optimization and other rich features. This way you can tell Google that you are serious about your blogging profession and you are not a spammer.
3. Some of you might not agree with me but try to use blogger as your blogging platform and avoid WordPress. After Google banned thousands of Pakistani bloggers Adsense accounts i have manually checked nearly 100 blogs and believe me or not more than 90% blogs were on WordPress and very few Top level Domain blogger blogs were banned by Google (as we all know blogger is owned by Google so you can understand).
4. Register your domain on your own name and address and provide same name and address when you apply for Adsense account. Its better to provide working Telephone number, full address including postal code as well.
5. Wait for at-least 6 months before applying for Google Adsense. Yes I know this is the most painful step and you don’t want to wait this long but friends we are not alone in this case. China and India are also with us and Google is not accepting applications from these countries before 6 months.
6. First 6 months of your blog wants real effort and hard work. Write as much quality and unique content as you can. This will surly leave a good impression on Adsense team and no doubt they want to partnership with you.
7. Make sure you blog has neat and clean design and easy to find navigation system. Recently Google has banned many Pakistani bloggers account saying that your blog is not providing user experience.
8. Never apply for Google Adsense if your blog has less content and is not optimized according to Google terms and Conditions. Make sure your blog has Privacy policy, Copyright Policy, Disclaimer, About Us and Contact Us pages before applying for Adsense.
9. Never try to create Adsense account via third party websites like Flixya or Docstoc. If you create account from these websites and put ads onto your blog than you are wasting your blog. In future Google will surly catch you and will ban your account.
10. Make sure that your blog has at-least 300 unique visitors per day before applying for Adsense. If you blog’s traffic’s main source is Facebook than there are little chances that Google will accept your application. Try to optimize your blog so that it gets natural traffic from search engines rather than social networking websites read more

Do you want to replace the Explorer.exe? Some Windows 7 themes that you can download on this site will come with a file “explorer.exe”. This is a very important system file, so please be careful, make a backup and follow the instructions closely when you learn how to replace the explorer.exe.

Update 8/7/2010: The easiest and shortest way to replace the explorer.exe and any other system files is to download a registry hack that will add the option Take Ownership to your right-click context menu.
Download this script: Download TakeOwnership.zip and double-click on the .reg (registry) file to add an option “Take Ownership” to your contextual menu (the right-click menu).
You can then right-click on your system files and take ownership of them. After that, you can rename all files and replace the system file / explorer.exe easily.

There are three methods, one for the beginners and the other for advanced users, click on the links below to start:

• Method 1 (Beginner via Registry)
• Method 2 (Beginner via GUI)
• Method 3 (Advanced via Command Prompt)

Method 1: Change registry path to explorer.exe

The easiest method to replace explorer.exe is to open the registry and then change the path to the explorer.exe.

If you still need the system icons: Volume, Network Connections, Battery and Action Center, then don’t use Method1 because changing the registry path to explorer2.exe will disable them.

0. Make sure to know the difference between a 64-bit explorer.exe and a 32-bit explorer.exe. You can’t use a 64-bit explorer.exe on a 32-bit system. Should you have no clue, please read this: What Windows Version do I have? 32 or 64?
1. Rename your new explorer.exe to explorer2.exe and copy it into the Windows directory: C:\Windows\
2. Open the registry: Click on “Start” and enter regedit into the search field:

3. Right-click on regedit at the top and select “Run as administrator”
4. Uncollapse the following path: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE>Software>Microsoft>Windows NT>CurrentVersion>Winlogon
5. Change explorer.exe to explorer2.exe.
6. End the process explorer.exe via the task manager and start a new process by entering “explorer2.exe”.
If 6. is too complicated for you: Reboot or read below for more instructions how to end the process explorer.exe.

Method 2: Take Ownership + Edit Permissions via Interface

Assign Ownership of Explorer.exe

1. Right-click on explorer.exe and click on “Properties“. Go to the tab “Security“, click on “Advanced“:

2. Go to the tab “Owner” and click on “Edit“:

3. Assign the ownership to your administrator account by selecting your “Administrator account” (usually Administrators(username\Administrators)) and click on “Apply“:

The current owner should now be your administrator account. Confirm that!

Change Permissions of Explorer.exe

4. Click on “OK” and you will be back at the security tab of explorer.exe. There click on “Edit”:

5. Select your administrator account (usually Administrators(username\Administrators ) and check the option “Full Control“. Click on “Apply“:

6. Now you can rename your explorer.exe to explorer.exe_old and copy your new explorer.exe into the Windows folder.
Restart your PC or restart explorer.exe (instructions below).

Method 3: Take Ownership via Command Prompt

Copy your new explorer.exe to C:\

Take Ownership of new Explorer.exe

Next, we take control of it!
You can either download this script: Download TakeOwnership.zip (it will add the option “take ownership to your context menu) or you can do it manually.
I usually do it manually:
Enter cmd.exe into the search field on the Start menu and right-click on cmd.exe, click on “Run as administrator”.

• Enter cd C:\Windows\
• Enter TAKEOWN /F explorer.exe

Terminate Explorer.exe

Open up the task manager (CTRL+ALT+DEL) and right-click on Explorer.exe and terminate it:

New Task (Run…)

Don’t be shocked, your taskbar will disappear. You can always make it reappear again by launching a new task and entering “explorer.exe”.

Now click on “New Task” and enter:

• runas /u:Administrator cmd.exe (this will launch cmd.exe as administrator)

You will be prompted for your password, enter it. If it does not work, read this tip:

Tip: If the command prompt immediately closes you did not enter an administrator password. First active the hidden administrator account of Windows 7 and then set a password for that account. Then you are able to open a command prompt via runas /u:Administrator cmd.exe.
If you receive the error: No mapping between account names and security ID’s was done please try another method of this tutorial or try running this after logging into the real admin account.

Take Ownership of old Explorer.exe

5. Take ownership of the real explorer.exe and grant permission to administrators to modify it :

• cd C:\Windows\
• TAKEOWN /F explorer.exe
• ICACLS explorer.exe /grant administrators:F

Final Step: Rename and move Explorer.exe

Rename the explorer.exe and paste the new explorer.exe into the Windows folder:

• Enter rename explorer.exe explorer.exe_old
• Enter move C:\explorer.exe C:\windows\

Back in the taskmanager click on “New Task” and enter “explorer.exe”. Voilà, you just replaced your explorer.exe!

Explorer.exe: Class not registered

If you receive the error “Class not registered”, you might want to try this:

Start > Run > regsvr32 ExplorerFrame.dll

Make sure that ExplorerFrame.dll is a valid DLL

If you receive the error “The module ExplorerFrame.dll was loaded but the entry-point DllRegisterServer was not found. Make sure that ExplorerFrame.dll is a valid DLL or OCX file and then try again”, you are probably trying to launch a 32-bit explorer.exe on a 64-bit system.
Are you running a 64-bit system? Then make sure that your new explorer.exe is a 64-bit file or it won’t work!

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