How to make your computer welcome you at startup?

Have you ever thought of making your laptop/computer greet you or welcome you whenever you turn it on?

Well if you had, then this one is for you.

Generally in many Science Fiction movies you might have seen a computer greeting his master when he turns it on. This is no way confined to fiction and you need not be a hardcore programmer to do this. Anyone can do this by following this simple trick.

All you need is just Notepad, and a simple code provided below.

Here is how to make it work:

Step-1:

First of all open Notepad, which is the best text editor and is provided by default in Windows.

Step-2

Now paste the below code into the Notepad. This is the most important script that must be stored in your computer to make your computer welcome you.

[sociallocker]

Dim speaks,speech 
speaks=”Welcome to your PC, username” 
Set speech=CreateObject(“sapi.spvoice”)
speech.Speak speaks

[/sociallocker]

You can replace username with text of your choice that you want hear from your computer.

Now save it as greet.vbs on your desktop.

Step-3:

Copy the file(greet.vbs) to the following path:

For Windows XP:

C:\Documents and settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Startup

For later versions of Windows (Win-7,8,vista):

C:\Users\”username”\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start menu\Programs\Startup

Note: “username” indicates your systems username. And C: must be your system drive. The folder AppData is a hidden folder, so unhide this folder to access it.

Finally everything is set up. Now every time you switch on your PC you will be greeted by your PC.

Impress your friends with this cool trick and surprise them.

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