Category: Misc

  • Cannot Right Click Desktop or in Windows Explorer

    If you are having troubles with the context menu (right click menu), right clicking on the desktop doesnot do anything then most probably you have your group policies set to not displaying the context menu in windows explorer. You can change it in two ways. One from the group policy editor and one from the…

  • Math symbols used in computers

    I’ve always been confused about the math symbols used in computers .. so here’s the symbols for my ease and your knowledge..  prefix    symbol  power kilo       k          10^3 mega    M         10^6 giga      G          10^9 tera       T          10^12

  • “Print Screen” your videos

    Sometimes when we print screen and there is video playing on the screen, the video part of the print screen gets black when saved. Now how should we print screen a video? There are two ways of doing this. One is for capturing only the video part and the other is for capturing the whole…

  • How to say “No to All”

    Just a quick tip about copying or replacing files.. Whenever you have to copy or replace something and Windows just keeps on asking if you want to replace the duplicate file or not, the dialog box has only four options available: 1-Yes 2-Yes to All 3-No 4-Cancel

  • Disguise your folders to Recycle Bin

    arjunsasidharan has a very cool trick here. If you want to disguise your folder as recycle bin, you can use this trick and this will change your folder icon to a recycle bin icon. So here’s what goes on: Rename any folder with the extension

  • Show or Hide Drives in My Computer

    There are times when I want to hide one or more of my Windows drives because of security reasons (children getting up on the system and messing up everything or if the computer is in use by multiple people). For theses reasons, I would just prefer to hide my data in a safe place ..…

  • Log Your System Activities with SimpleActivityLogger

    Want to record your system activity in Windows? Want to know about who uses your system and for how much time? SimpleActivityLogger is the software for you. SimpleActivityLogger is a small software (about 250 KB) which records the following system events: System Startup & Shutdown User Logon & Logoff Console Lock &

  • Scandoo – The Safe Web

    While surfing the web, I found out this cool website. Scandoo is a web security technology which scans the search results from google, yahoo and msn (Live) for security threats and tells the users if the webpage is safe or not. The Scandoo toolbar is also available for IE 7 and Firefox. Here are some…

  • Make good use of your Computer Accessories

    Don’t throw your old computer accessories .. Make them useful like the flower set made from the keyboard components.

  • 5 useful Windows XP tricks

    You know that feeling you get when your friends or family see you do something on your computer that they’ve never seen before? If you haven’t had this opportunity, here’s where you start. If you have, then you know that you’re feeling like the world’s coolest power-user when this happens. Knowledge is power! Here are…