How to Integrate Folders as Menus into Quick Launch Bar of Windows
The extendable Quick-Launch bar offers direct access to important programs. However, more the number of applications is added to it, the more confusing it gets. The time advantage is lost in the effort spent on searching for the right program. Set aside My Computer as an independent task bar on the desktop. By integrating the […]
How to Use Old USB Hardware Devices with No Drivers Support with Windows 7 / Vista
If you have very old USB Hardware devices like scanner, printer, etc., which are working fine, but for which there are no Vista and Windows 7 drivers any more. You don’t need to buy a new one and can easily use your old USB devices, for which there are no latest drivers for Windows 7 […]
Save Storage Space by Limiting Shadow Copies in Windows
We always will run short of Storage space, no matter how huge hard disk may be. There are a lot of ways to get wasted memory by deleting unnecessary files without having to forego important functions. For instance, Vista regularly creates shadow copies, which are used to recover the system or to access older file […]
How to Open Unknown File Types in Notepad by default
Whenever you double click on a file of unknown type, Windows normally asks for the program it should open this file. It is not a safe practice to open these files of unknown types as they may harm your computer. A registry change can configure Windows to open unknown file types in Notepad by default, […]
Easy Way to Capture Screenshots of Desired Windows or Entire Screen in Vista
Previous versions of windows allowed a user to capture screen shots of Desktop by hitting the [PrtScrn] key. This was quiet disquieting as it had limited options to further manipulate the image. To overcome this problem, Windows Vista has introduced the Snipping Tool. Using this tool, one can easily capture screenshots of the desired window, […]
Get Vista’s Productivity Features In XP with Simple Add-Ons.
If you don’t want to move to Vista, and still have an urge to try some of its features, you can do it in the form of standalone add-on programs for Windows XP that can give you close to the entire Vista experience. Vista is an eye candy provided your computer got the resources. Without […]
How To Hike your Vista Experience Rating
The Windows Experience Rating is sort of like a system performance gauging system that you only find in Vista. While many complain that it’s flawed and unfair at times, there’s a way to fool Vista. Basically, we change the performance figures in the XML that holds the scores for each of the subsystems. To see […]
How to Use Any Type of Gadget On Vista’s Sidebar
Vista Sidebar is a very essential feature which is used mainly for fast accessing of a lot of applications. But there are only a limited number of gadgets available for it. Here is a way to convert Google gadgets or almost any type of Gadgets and use them on your Vista Sidebar. You can transform […]
How to Rearrange The Elements Of Your Desktop Settings
The elements present in the desktop settings can be rearranged by a simple method. This method of making the cosmetic modifications to the Desktop Settings is by editing the Shell32.dll file, present in the SYSTEM32 directory (usually C:\Windows\System32). This file can be edited by Resource Hacker. Make sure that you backup the Shell32.dll file, because […]
Windows RUN Commands you may not know
Here are some Windows RUN Commands which can be used to start applications from the RUN. In windows XP or Vista Run can be invoked either by selecting it from the START menu or by Pressing Windows key + R. You can try these commands to simplify your computing experience and also to run different […]
The Best Free CD / DVD / Blu-Ray burning software for XP and Vista
There are many Burning software which will perform your required operations. Every one of them have their own problems and out of them the best one will be ImgBurn. It is a lightweight CD / DVD / HD DVD / Blu-ray burning application that everyone should have in their toolkit. It supports Unicode folder/file names, […]