This is the final post of our series of 15 posts (one post everyday) about Tips and Tricks to make your Windows experience more satisfactory and comfortable. You can subscribe to our RSS Feed or daily e-mail updates for latest content. Keep checking back this space to know about useful Windows Tips and Tricks.

Here’s the today’s tweak.

How to Rename Multiple Files or Folders in Windows Explorer?

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It is very common bug in Windows that it hangs up sometimes while working. The same problem is encountered with Internet Explorer. Its really painful to restart the system every time the explorer hangs. This problem could be overcome with Explorestart.

Explorestart is a free utility from NirSoft that simply restart explorer and Internet explorer. When you run this tool, all the instances of explorer (explorer.exe) and Internet Explorer.

Download Explorestart.

A few days back I was away to a distant place for some personal work. There I felt like writing some posts for Technotraits, so I went to a cafe(as i had not taken my laptop along-with ). I had once read somewhere about the key-loggers, the software that run on a computer in the background and stores your passwords. I was afraid that key-loggers could be installed on the computer that i was about to use. This thought was making my worries worse.

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In few days, you’ll experience more personalized results whenever you search on Google. The results will be customized based on your location, your recent searches on Google and your past Web History if you are signed in to Google.

These new features will be rolled out in coming days, as said by Official Google Blog.

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Fotoflexer claims itself to be the worlds most advanced online image editor. When I gave it a shot, I found it to be somewhat true. There are many online image editors but this one provides you with loads of options to choose from and it is very easy to use. It provides almost every option that a normal user can think of. Some of its best features include (more…)

It was expected to be released in early august but it has arrived early. Firefox 3.1 is nicknamed as Shiretoko. The release note says that current users of Mozilla Firefox should not use Shiretoko Alpha 1 but I have found it to be stable. One of the most eye catching features that has been added is the new tab switching interface which  allows for page thumbnails to be browsed when switching. The other major feature is the enhancements to the syntax used for searching in the Smart Location Bar.

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A laptop for just $10??? Yes its true, India is developing a laptop worth $10 after creating worlds cheapest car. The news was confirmed by the Indian Minister of Human Resource Development D. Purandeswari in New Delhi on Tuesday. The laptop will target higher education applications. The research for this project is being carried out at Indian Institute of Science (IIS), Bangalore and the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras. A few years back Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) introduced a $100 laptop for students, which is still the cheapest laptop in the world but (more…)

In the world of ipods and iphones where multitouch technology rules, here comes a technology that really gives a new meaning to “Look and Feel”. This time also like many times before the technology is invented by a Japanese researcher. This might look a bit weird here in the picture above, but it will be totally different when it hit the markets in the coming years. The technology is very simple from the users point of view that is you just have to (more…)

This is the fourteenth post of our series of 15 posts about Tips and Tricks to make your Windows experience more satisfactory and comfortable. You can subscribe to our RSS Feed or daily e-mail updates for latest content. Keep checking back this space to know about useful Windows Tips and Tricks.

Here’s the today’s tweak.

How to Clean Up Windows Start Menu?

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Google Maps today rolled out its new and redesigned interface which is much more easier to use than earlier version. The new design focuses more on the Search function and the tabs underneath the search bar are removed. Removing tabs has made interface more easy to use and less confusing.

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