Archive for the ‘How To’ Category

So you thought Notepad to be very innocent?

Thursday, August 21st, 2008

Notepad

“Notepad, a very simple built-in text editor in Windows. We can create, edit and save text files with its help.” This is what most of us think about this hidden master that can perform many roles in addition to just being a simple text editor.

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27 Applications You Never Thought of Starting From Run Dialog

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

Windows-run-dialog Besides Keyboard Shortcuts, using Run dialog box(windows+R) in windows to start applications/windows utilities is another great way to increase productivity by saving time. You might be familiar with commands like regedit, gpedit.msc, explorer but here we list down 27 applications you might not have thought could be started from Run Dialog box.

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How to speed up Vista with the help of a USB key

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

Add memory to Vista with help of a memory key

Ever thought of increasing your Vista powered PC’s primary memory without adding RAM chips to it? Sounds weird, but it’s possible to increase RAM of a Vista powered PC with the help of USB key drive!!

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11 Most Useful XP Tips and Tricks

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

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Even after the launch of Windows Vista,  Windows XP is still very popular Operating System worldwide. There are probably hundreds of tips and tricks for Windows XP but most of them have nothing to do with a common user. So I have listed 11 tips which can prove to be extremely beneficial for users.

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Let your RAM take more breadth. Unrun unnecessary Win processes

Monday, August 11th, 2008

There are many Windows processes that keep running in the background, consume up the RAM thus making RAM unavailable for newer processes. The result is that your PC has to perform swapping in order to make RAM available for new application programs to run. This is the case when your RAM is around 512MB. A simple setting can help your computer avoid this. Simply avoid those processes that start up when Windows starts. One of those is the Windows Messenger, which is switched on by default whether you use it or not.

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Is being a left hander multiplying your surfing pains?

Saturday, August 9th, 2008

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Isn’t it something like the right handers are always at an unfair advantage over the left handers?? It has been observed that almost all the gadgets and PC peripherals are designed to suit a right hander. All the new gadgets, including the most commonly used peripheral devices like keyboard and mouse, are designed to suit right handers. This post is all about bettering the Windows’ experience for the left handers. Learn how to tweak windows to suit you better( if you are a left hander).

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2 ways to Disinfect your Infected Pen Drive

Friday, August 8th, 2008

As Pen Drives viruses are quite popular these days, it sometimes happens that neither the virus in the pen drive gets deleted even after showing hidden files in Windows Explorer nor it lets format the pen drive using normal Format Pen Drive option in  Windows Explorer.

Usually the virus sits in pen drive and runs automatically when you attach the pen drive and will prevent anything from running which may remove it.

But there are two ways which i found to get rid of this problem. Forget about Antivirus, most pen drive viruses are not caught by Anti Virus softwares.

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Quick Office 2007 tip: Add Random Data to Documents

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

MS Office 07To create a business document, you often need text to create the design and layout of documents. But sometimes, the data to be put into the document is not ready or you haven’t thought about it yet.  In these cases, to create a design you can use some inbuilt functionality of MS Office 07 to add random data to your document.

Here’s how to do that for MS Word 2007 and Excel 2007:

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15 steps to a better Windows Experience

Friday, August 1st, 2008

2 weeks back, we started a series of 15 posts about tips and tricks for Windows to make it more usable. Here’s the complete list of 15 different tweaks fro Windows XP that make your Windows experience more satisfying.

1. Add Folders to Send To Context Menu:

Remember that Send To context menu when you right click any folder or file in your Explorer. It lists a few locations by default so that you can directly copy files or folders to specified locations. In case, you use one particular folder to keep a copy of your important files or folders, wouldn’t it be nice to have that folder in Send To context menu.

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Windows Tweaks - Part 15 - Rename Multiple Files or Folders

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

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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