Type the new symbol of the Indian Rupee using Keyboard

With India being a rising power in the global economy, the Government Of India has announced a new symbol for the Indian Rupee. The Indian Rupee will no longer be denoted as “Rs” as it was previously done. It will be replaced by the  new symbol shown below…

When it comes to typing the this new symbol on the keyboard we cannot type it, as no ASCII code has been assigned to the new symbol yet.
For this a special font called “Rupee Foradian” is available. After you download this, it allows you to easily type the Rupee symbol using keyboard.
To do so follow these steps:
1. Download the required font using following link:
Download Font

2. Extract the file using WinRAR or 7-zip  run the installer’s EXE file which will automatically install the font in your system.

You can also just copy the font’s TTF file to your Fonts directory.

3. Now open MS Word or notepad or any text editor to type the Rupee symbol. Select “Rupee Foradian” font from the font list

4. That’s it. Now just like how you type the ‘$’ symbol, you just need to press (~) key which is placed just before the “1″ key or above the “Tab” key and it’ll insert the Rupee symbol in your document.

Readymade Script for Killing a Not Responding program

In my last article I had mentioned aout how to Kill a not responding program directly from the context menu. I got a few comments for that article and some said that they indeed found it useful. One of my friend, however, mentioned that he found the whole process of going into the registry, adding a new entry and tweaking it a bit tedious. He was of the opinion that all that would be too complicated for a naive computer user and they would rather opt for the “conventional” method of restarting the computer.

On thinking about it even I thought that not everyone would take the effort of digging in so deep to make a small (but very useful) change. So for all such people who think that editing the registry are for the geeks here’s the readymade script for adding “Kill not responding task”. All you have to do is download following ZIP file, extract it and run the desired REG file.

After downloading this is what you’ll see.

Just click on it and the hanged program will stop immediately. Hope this will make your work easier.

Click Here to Download.

How to Kill “Not Responding” Programs Directly

Most of us have certainly experienced our PC’s getting hanged at some point or the other. Certain programs all of a sudden stops responding andthe computer screen becomes still. The easiest and the stupidest thing people do in such situations is restart the PC. The other common practise is to press Ctrl+Alt+Del, go to Task Manager, select the culprit program and End Task. But this again is a tedious process espesially if there are more than one programs causing the PC to get hanged.
Today I’m sharing a small tweak by which you can kill the “not responding” programs instantly. All you have to do is add a new key in the registry and then just like “cut, copy, paste” you can kill a not responding program simply by right cliking and selecting from the Desktop context menu.
To do so follow these steps:

1. Go to Start> Run and type regedit. It’ll open Registry Editor.

2. Now go to:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\DesktopBackground\Shell (for Windows 7)
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Background\Shell (for Windows Vista)

3. Now we’ll need to create a new key under “Shell” key. Right-click on “Shell” key and select “New -> Key”. Give the new key name “Kill Not Responding Tasks”.

4. Now right-click on the new key which we created in step 3 and select “New -> Key”. Give the new key name of command.

5. In right-side pane, change value of “Default” to:

taskkill /F /FI “STATUS eq NOT RESPONDING”

6. That’s it. Now you’ll have “Kill Not Responding Tasks” shortcut in Desktop context menu.

To set its position in the context menu, create a new String value “Position” and set its value to:

Top (To show it at top)
Bottom (To show it at bottom).

Hope you’ll find this useful.

TechQuest is Back…

Hi friends. Well its been exactly two months since the last time something was posted on TechQuest. My internet connection was badly screwed up and I could not even access the internet, forget about blogging.  The only option I had was to frequent cyber cafes and I ended up spending a fortune there. Also I’ve been busy with my college and other projects, so couldn’t devote much time in writing new articles.

Thankfully my internet connection is back and I’m back doing what I like to do the best….sharing whatever little I know. So in the coming days you can expect some articles to come up. So keep checking your mails and once again thanks for supporting me.