Category: Tips and Tweaks

  • Amaze Your Friends With These Simple Windows Tricks

    Trick1: An Indian discovered that nobody can create a folder with the name CON in Windows.. At Microsoft the whole Team couldn’t answer why this happened! Try yourself now. Try to create a new folder and rename it as “CON”. It will not accept the name and the previous name will appear again. I tried…

  • How To Make Multiple Home Pages In Internet Explorer

    There are some website which I visit daily in the morning. It’s always a headache to open new tabs and type out all the web addresses daily. Opera has a very good function of saving the last open tabs automatically but the problem with it is that I want to open my default tabs every…

  • 4 Ways To Shutdown/Restart The System At A Specific Time In Windows

    If you are a network administrator of a company and the company policy enforces that all the systems should be shutdown before leaving. It’s always a headache to go to each and every system to see whether it has been turned off properly or somebody has forgotten to turn off. And even sometimes we need…

  • 3 Ways To Know The System Information In Windows

    There are a lot of ways to check the system information in Windows. One of the most common and most basic is to right click My Computer and go to properties. It will show you the basic information about the system. If we need to know a bit of detailed system about our system, the…

  • How To Know System Uptime In Windows

    So want to figure out how long it has been since you started your PC? There are a zillion softwares which will tell you about this but I’m going to tell you what we can do staying within Windows, no third party software installation. So here’s how it goes.

  • Boot From USB Drives Easily Without BIOS Support

    It has always been a hassle to boot the system from other than the already installed hard drive or the CD ROM. With the latest hardware and software improvements, some of the old hardware like motherboards don’t support booting from the modern hardware like the USB drives. PLoP is a software which can boot the…

  • Download All Your Stuff Bypassing Internet Restrictions

    Most of the companies and educational institutions forbid certain types of files to be downloaded. For example, most of the institutions block mp3 files or even zip files so that the bandwidth can be used only for the desired purposes. But people like to download their documents and songs while they are at work. The…

  • How To Download Embeded/Streaming Videos (All Sites Including Youtube)

    I had to do some research and I needed some videos which I had found on youtube and other social sites like google videos etc. As I didn’t have internet at my home, I needed to download all the videos in order to see them offline. I was searching for a comprehensive solution which could…

  • Rename Multiple Files At Once – Changing The Extensions

    Previously I had posted about Bitdefender renaming the files with .bd.ren extension. Many people have asked me that my solution is working perfectly fine but the problem is that lots n lots of files have been renamed by Bitdefender. So it’s almost impossible to rename them back to original one by one. Here I’m describing…

  • Search Directly From Firefox Address Bar

    It’s always good to have common resource for doing multiple tasks. Most of the people who search alot got to the search engine’s website for example http://www.google.com and then enter the search term. This leads to the results page. Or the other way round is having a toolbar for the same purpose. This is a…