If you dislike the new Windows Vista shutdown menu, you are probably in the majority. An alternative option is to create icons that will let you shut down, lock, or restart your computer without having to mess with that stupid popup menu. Of course, Windows 7 makes the shutdown menu a lot better, but if [...]
If you have a dual boot system and often switch back and forth from Vista to XP, you’ve probably already been annoyed with the fact that you have to wait until the boot menu comes up and choose the right OS… and half the time you step away and it ends up booting into the [...]
If you are just running a home computer for gaming or something unimportant, you might not want to have to log in every single time you reboot your computer. There’s an easy tweak that will let you autologin. First, we’ll need to get to the Advanced User Accounts Control Panel to get to this setting. [...]
Have you ever tried going through all of the menus required to delete the Recent Items in the XP Start Menu? It takes forever, especially when you want to hide whatever you shouldn’t have been doing. As usual, there’s a simpler way to do it. You can either manually open the shell folder and clear [...]
The solution comes through a small utility written by one of the Desktop Sidebar programmers (an alternate sidebar with loads of modules). Just so we’re clear, this utility does the same thing as a right-click on the desktop and toggling the “Show Desktop Icons” item. Setting Up the Shortcut The first thing you’ll need to do [...]
Have you ever wanted to be able to just hit a hotkey that tells Windows to switch from High Performance down to Power Saver? Sure, you can use the tray icon, but since we like to customize things there’s always another way. Thanks to our great forum member ScottW for coming up with this idea. [...]
Have you ever copied something to the clipboard that you don’t want to leave there in case somebody else is going to use your computer? Sure, you can copy something else to the clipboard real quick, but can’t you just make a shortcut or hotkey to clear it? And of course you can, with the [...]
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If you are a Windows Vista user then you are very likely to be familiar with the Base Score.This score is calculated based on the computer’s hardware and software configuration.This score act’s as a rating to your PC.If you have a too low base score then don’t worry.Hacking Windows Vista’s so called Base Score is [...]
Once you obtain this IP address it is necessary to trace it back to it’s source. So in this post I will show you how to trace any IP address back to it’s source. In fact tracing an IP address is very simple and easy than we think. There exists many websites through which you [...]
There is a loop hole in Nokia mobile phone using which you can send fake SMS messages. i.e you can send a SMS to your friend by changing the from address to some random e-mail address. Nokia has a feature called SMS e-mail This feature is used to send e-mail by SMS. You network operator [...]
China mobile Internet thru GPRS i got hold of a china mobile in a couple of days, so i did find some useful downloads and some serious solution for connecting internet thru china mobile via gprs on pc open> control panel> phone and modem options> modems> select your chinese phone modem> properties> advanced> extra settings – in [...]
NOTE: THIS DOES NOT WORK WITH VISTA SP1. IF YOU ATTEMPT THIS IN SP1, YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO BOOT YOUR COMPUTER. If you are a desktop customization kinda guy, one of the first things you’ll want to figure out is how to create a customized boot logo. There’s a little utility that you [...]
The quickest way to lock your computer screen is to just use the Win+L keyboard shortcut. Some people prefer to use the mouse to lock the workstation, however, or would just like to have both options. Here’s how to easily create a shortcut to lock Windows Vista, although this should work on Windows XP as well. [...]
Most of us like me love to keep the icons and some files in the desktop for quick access but ironically I love a clean desktop too. But there is a simple tweak without any additional tool to get the best of both worlds, you can hide the desktop icons & files and create a [...]
Instead of re-typing long, painful error messages whenever you are trying to Google for a solution, did you know you can simply use Ctrl+C to copy the text of the message to the clipboard? If you want to test this out for yourself, just open Windows Explorer and type an incorrect drive letter into the address [...]
There are many times that you’ll need to ask somebody for help. They always seem to ask you to type things into the command prompt and then tell them the results… but how do you copy that text to the clipboard so you can email it to them? I had always thought this was universally [...]
How often have you opened an Open dialog and wished you could just quickly paste in the path of the file you are already looking at in Windows Explorer? Well… now you can, in Windows Vista. All you have to do is hold down the shift key, and right-click the file: Choose the Copy as [...]
If you like to build batch files to automate cleanup on your computer, you’ll probably want to include at least one of these commands in your batch script. You can automate any one of the functions on the Internet Explorer 7 Delete Browsing History dialog. Here’s the dialog that you are probably used to seeing: [...]
We have already dealt with the password recovery of windows in our othe sections and the users have replied it as a good post. Now i’am here before you to give you yet another trick for the same..This one is a bit complicated when compared to the earlier post..I recomend you people who have not [...]
