Category: Misc

  • Opera vs. Firefox vs. Internet Explorer – Photographic Comparison

    This is really funny .. see the photographic comparison of all the three top browsers. The Internet explorer makes me go nuts.

  • Turn Off The Annoying Security Warning Balloon In Windows XP

    Windows XP SP2 includes a security center which makes sure that your Windows system is up-to-date and a firewall and an antivirus is running all the time to ensure security. But the annoying things is that when we opt not a run an antivirus or a firewall for sometime or we don’t want Windows update to clog our Internet connection,…

  • Someone Is Stealing Your Paypal Account, Beware!!

    Note: “Please do not follow the links on this article” Today I got an email from Paypal that someone had tried to access my paypal account from a foreign location and I should login to verify that I was the original user of the account and all my resources were in tact.  Here’s an excerpt…

  • Tweak Your Windows With XDN Tweaker

    There are many tweaking tools available for Windows XP. Today I came across a tweaking tool for Windows XP which is a little different from the traditional tweakers. What does XDN Tweaker do? Control Panel You can create a Windows

  • Avoid Inserting A CD When Installing Windows Components

    It’s always frustrating when we want to install a Windows component and Windows asks to insert the Windows CD-ROM. Here’s the trick to stop Windows asking for a CD-ROM. If you have some space in your hard drive, then you can copy the i386 folder located in the Windows CD-ROM and then change the path…

  • Change The Background Of Windows Explorer

    Create a text file named desktop.ini. in the folder where you need to change the background. You may find a hidden file in that folder too with the name desktop.ini. If present open that file and add the following code at the end [{BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}] IconArea_Image=complete path to the image file for example:

  • Clear System Memory Occasionally To Speed Up Your Computer

    Running multiple applications simultaneously for long periods leads to a gradual decrease in system performance over time. Often the only option is a restart. Even if you close the application in the Task Manager, the tasks/threads associated with the application are not released completely, depleting the system?s memory resources making the system unstable and sluggish.…

  • And — Zimbra Goes To Yahoo

    I’ve been using Zimbra for about six months or so. It has been a pleasant experience with Zimbra. It worked well with little problems. One thing that I have been facing is that its interface is very heavy and its not suitable for dialup connections. Its heavy when it’s loading but when it’s loaded, it’s…

  • The Best Email Client – DreamMail

    I don’t like outlook express as it isn’t good at retrieving mail from my yahoo and other web based accounts except hotmail.. Recently I was looking for an email client that could do everything for me .. at least what I wanted. And I came across this email client–DreamMail–It seems to be the best from…

  • See The Size Of Every Folder In Windows

    Its always annoying for me to go to properties of each folder if I want to see its total size. While surfing sourceforge.net, I came across this handy little software which integrates right into Windows Explorer completely transparently and when installed, shows the total size and the total no. of objects in each folder. Downloading