Category: Misc

I recommend that every single Windows user should have the Recovery Console installed on their system startup. I wonder why Microsoft have not included it by default as it is very useful if Windows crashes and refuses to start. Anyways, you can install recovery console by yourself with the help of following steps: Insert the…

If you have accidentally deleted the show desktop icon in your quick launch toolbar, then you can restore it from the following place: C:\Documents and Settings\Username\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch Where C:\ is your Windows drive. If unfortunately, you can’t find the quick launch file from the above location, then you can create the shortcut yourself…

And I forgot it ………… I was about to delete a folder which had many sub folders and files. I remembered that rm was the command to do it but it was asking me about every single file if I wanted to delete that file. It was frustrating enough and then I opened up my…

One of the things I love about my Linux machine is that I can logon as a restricted user and whenever there is an application that needs administrative previllages, it prompts me for the root password. While Windows requires logging in as an administrative user to do all this. However, there is a trick that…

When you type any command in the command prompt in Windows, it says that it can’t recognize the command you’ve typed. There are two possibilities: First that you have typed the command incorrectly. Check your spellings. Second that you have actually typed the command correctly but it is not in the directories where command prompt…

There are six boot modes in Linux meaning that there are six ways to initialize your Linux box. The modes and their properties are: Mode 0: Halt (Shutdown) Mode 1: Single user mode Mode 2: Not yet implemented Mode 3: Full multi-user command line mode Mode 4: Not used. Mode 5: Full multi-user Graphical User…

Sometimes when you repair your local area connection from the local area connection status window, you find out that your DNS cache could not be cleared and whatever you do, the cache will not clear up. So here’s the cool way of doing it.. Open your command prompt and type the following command: C:\>net stop…

There will be times when you want to rename multiple files and folders together. Renaming each item separately will be a whole mess. So here is a cool technique for renaming multiple items together. There are two ways of doing it: one involving the mouse and the other with the keyboard only. So here it…

While working with Zimbra collaboration suite, I figured out today that I needed to increase the attachment size limit of the message to send larger messages. The default attachment size limit is 10MB. Even if the attachment is a little less than 10MB, it won’t send the same error that the maximum message size is…

One of the problems I face when in GUI linux is that all the folder windows open seperately .. I was looking for a solution for this and found out this cool technique.. Whenever you open a folder within the folder windows, press