How to Set a Video as Wall Paper of Desktop

Now even videos can be set as a wallpaper of your desktops. This will be cool as the video will be played on the screen while you work on your desktop. This can be done by following a simple procedure using VLC media player. The steps to be followed are as follows..
1. Install VLC media [...]

October 10th, 2008 | 3 Comments

12 Simple Ways to Optimize Windows Vista for Best Performance

Computers will get slower and slower with the time. There are many reasons for this like fragmentation of hard disks,lot of useless installed programs etc. Whatever the cause may be, there are a lot of ways to help speed up Windows and make your PC work better - even without upgrading your hardware. Here are [...]

October 7th, 2008 | 1 Comment

How to Speed Up Booting Time of Windows XP or Vista

Booting Time always annoys many people, especially when it takes ages to get into your operating system. This can be tweaked to speed up booting time in XP and Vista. It involves a simple procedure involving small tricks. To do this, Follow the following steps..
 
1. Open notepad.exe, type "del c:\windows\prefetch\ntosboot-*.* /q" (without the quotes) & [...]

October 6th, 2008 | 8 Comments

Simple way to Change your IP Address Quickly

Changing IP address often involves some third party software or some serious procedures. IP address is the only thing which identifies your computer in the internet. This can be changed at will and can be done by following some simple steps. This will be helpful for Anonymous surfing or when you are downloading a file [...]

October 5th, 2008 | 4 Comments

Refine Google Search Results with Smart Words

Google Search is being used by everyone who uses Internet. The results you get for a particular Search Query may not be what you are looking for. So Here are some Tips to Refine your Google Search to get the filtered results of a particular search query, the way you want. Here are a list [...]

October 2nd, 2008 | Leave a Comment

6 Best Ways to Open & Convert DOCX Files

DOCX format is the special format for Microsoft Office 2007. These files cannot be opened directly by Microsoft Office 2003 or earlier versions? generally DOC format is used in those versions. Here are 6 ways which will help you to open the docx files quickly and easily. I will update the list regularly. You too [...]

September 24th, 2008 | Leave a Comment

How To Get Rid Of The Notification :“Unread Email Messages”

Some messages or notifications on Windows XP and Vista are so annoying. One of them is this "Unread Email Message " . This is often displayed on the Welcome Screen, and Here’s how to get rid of it :
 

Start the Registry Editor: Start > Run > regedit > [Enter]

 

Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion

 

Right-click on the CurrentVersion key [...]

September 20th, 2008 | 2 Comments

How to Know - Who Stumbled Your Post

Stumble Upon Traffic is always very good and it will be cool to know who Stumbled your post so that you can thank them. Here is a simple small Javascript that you can use with just one click and check if the current page your are viewing is stumbled by someone. You can also know [...]

September 19th, 2008 | 2 Comments

How to Gain Access to System Volume Information of System Restore

If you use System Restore, you must have noticed the System Volume Information folders in the root of each of your drives. This folder stores the files used by System Restore. Their sizes can sometime balloon to gigabytes, because System Restore doesn’t delete your older restore points when creating a new one. Moreover, every time [...]

September 18th, 2008 | Leave a Comment

How To Customize the Windows Command Prompt

The typical grey-on-black theme can get boring. There are a few changes that can be made to the command prompt to look a little friendlier.You can even make transparent command prompt. The prompt itself can be customized, which by default displays C:\ or the path you’re currently on. They are as explained below :

The prompt [...]

September 14th, 2008 | 1 Comment

PC's Place |Subscribe to RSS Feed|Design by Blog Oh! Blog