Category: Misc

It really is a horrible situation when one tries to open a folder and it says that access is denied and the folder is not accessible. This situation is usually encountered in NTFS file system and when the ownership of the folder is discurbed. There are several ways when the ownership of a folder or…

Windows XP plays a nice tune when installing itself on your PC. (Now how many of you even knew this). The problem is that unless your system has pre installed sound enabled, chances are that you may have never even heard it. Well now you can hear what you have been missing. Navigate your way…

One of the many benefits the NTFS file system over others is that it uses a compression technology thats very efficient and transparent. One just has to enable the compression on a drive or folder in an NTFS drive and it works seamlessly without disturbing the user.

I’ve been eyeing for this for ages .. and finally it has come out. It is, as they say, the world’s first true real time search engine. Your PC becomes the search engine and you’ll see the results that would normally not appear in any other search engine and they are highly relevant to your…

Usually when my explorer.exe encounters a problem, it forces all the open explorer windows to close too. This causes a lot of frustration in some cases. This is due to the fact that by default only one instance of explorer handles all the tasks e.g., the desktop, start menu, opening files and folders etc. So…

I’m writing this tutorial on request of a valuable regular reader of Technodigits. Situation: I am an administrator of a small company with 20 computers. I’m getting my internet services through a DSL connection. I’m using Microsoft technologies; hence, my server is Windows 2003 Server. I want to distribute internet to all the computers through…

Here are five cool tricks of Internet Explorer that will hopefully enhance your browsing experience. 1-Quickly access domain of an e-mail address This is a cool tweak by which you can quickly and easily access the domain of an email address. For example, if you want to access the domain of

GHacks has quite a cool tip for speeding up Windows. Windows stores the temp folder in the same drive where it is installed by default. You can change the temp folder location to improve the performance of Windows. To change the location of temp folder, create a new folder in any other drive except for…

Microsoft has released their security updates for July 2007. Critical: • MS07-036 – addresses a vulnerability in Microsoft Office Excel (KB 936542) • MS07-039 – addresses a vulnerability in Microsoft Windows (KB 926122) • MS07-040 – addresses a vulnerability in the .NET Framework (KB 931212) Important: • MS07-037 – addresses a vulnerability in

VLC player is a media player like Windows Media Player. It is highly portable, cross platform and streaming server. It is available for more than a dozen operating systems including Windows, Linux, Mac OS, BSD etc. It supports a huge amount of audio and video formats including MPEG, DivX, mp3, ogg, DVD, VCD, FLV etc.…