Archive for the ‘Windows’ Category

Awesome keyboard shortcuts for MS Outlook #1

Sunday, September 7th, 2008

MS Office Outlook

Microsoft Outlook is a versatile component of the Microsoft Office for users to manage personal information and to communicate with others. It helps you in managing your email messages, appointments, contacts, and tasks, as well as making reminders and tracking activities. In this article, we will give  some useful keyboard shortcuts that will help you using outlook in a more easy, fast and quick way.

This is the first post in this series of articles for keyboard shortcuts:

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4 ways to safely remove USB key when “Safely Remove Hardware” icon is absent from system tray

Monday, September 1st, 2008

It happens at times when we need to unplug a USB key from our CPU but find the “Safely Remove Hardware” missing from the system tray. Another painful thing that we experience sometimes is to see the under shown message when we try to safely remove the hardware.
USB error message

Here we are listing a few tips on how to fix such irritating events:

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Some Rib-Tickling Funny Error Messages

Friday, August 22nd, 2008

error2Errors are generally very frustrating, but sometimes they can be funny too. I also encountered a very strange and funny error message while working on my pc. So I decided to find more of these rib tickling messages on the net and I really found some of these. Here’s the entire list

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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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10 Essential Portable Applications for your USB Drive

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

Portable Applications are the softwares that can be run directly from a portable device without requiring installation. These are quite useful if you travel a lot and need your softwares with you all the time. You can keep portable versions of your favorite softwares all the time with you on a USB drive and they can be run from any computer with a USB port.

Moreover, the greatest benefit of using portable applications is that none of the settings, history, data is kept on the host computer as everything is stored on the portable device.

We have compiled a list of 10 essential portable applications for your USB drive that will work on any Windows system.

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Wipe off remaining crap from Win registry after an unsuccesful uninstall

Friday, August 15th, 2008

An unsuccessful uninstall of a software from your computer can hamper your registry’s fine working. Whenever a software is uninstalled it could happen many times that all its entries are not deleted from Windows registry. These entries behave as malicious entries and confuse the OS, thus degrading OS performance. Here is a windows utility that cleans the remaining clutter from your Win registry to ensure its proper working.

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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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Get Vista like Start Menu on your XP

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

Some users find it very cool to experience Vista running on their XP systems. Some features like showing Vista like drive icons on XP make users feel very good. Another nifty Windows utility tweaks your XP Start Menu to look like Vista’s.

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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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