Category: Tips and Tweaks

  • How To Format USB Drive With NTFS File System

    The advantage of NTFS file system is that it is fast and it has got security options. But the problem is that usually the USB drives are small enough that NTFS is not recommended for them. But nowadays the USB drives are coming with larger sizes. So it’s better to format a drive as NTFS…

  • Four Ways To Insert/Eject CD-ROM Tray In Windows

    Most of the time the desktop PCs are located under the tables or in locations where we can’t get our hands easily. The most frequently used item from the desktop PC itself is the CD-ROM drive which has to be opened and closed by pressing the button on the CD-ROM. This is not convenient for…

  • How To Find Old Versions Of Software

    There are times when we want to stick with the old software to which we are used to. We just don’t want to go for those newer ones which are more fancy and rather take up more resources from our system’s limited horsepower and they provide us with functionality which we don’t need. So we…

  • Six Ways To Backup Windows Registry

    Sometime back, Abdullah wrote about how to backup your registry. I was also in the process of writing the same article but Abdullah was faster than me :-). So I abandoned my article. But today I was searching in my drafts and I found out the article again. Actually there are several methods to backup…

  • 5 Ways To Change Password Of Users In Windows XP

    Chiranjib asked about how to change the passwords of users in Windows XP. I just researched and found out five ways to change the password of users in Windows XP. I’m explaining every way one by one. If you know any other interesting way, please let me know through comments. Using Ctrl Alt Delete This…

  • Check Disk (chkdsk) Runs Every Time Windows Starts

    Sometimes it happens that disk check always starts to check the file system on one or more drives for consistency. If any key is pressed, the disk checking is aborted. Actually this is because some data structure of the drive or some file is corrupted which can not be recovered and check disk is always…

  • New Opera 9.5 Features

    One of the largest updates to Opera in quite a while. The whole look and feel was revamped a bit and it’ll be a little bit of a shock to old users. I haven’t had time to test and check out some of the new features, but I think 9.50 is mostly an attempt to…

  • How To Eject USB Devices Safely

    When ejecting a USB device, you may get the following error message: The device ‘generic volume’cannot be stopped right now. Try stopping the device again later. This error usually comes because some files from the USB device are being used or open by some running process. You can’t eject the device until you close all…

  • How To Enable or Disable Thumbs.db In Windows

    Thumbs.db is a database file which stores the thumbnails of all pictures and videos in a folder so that Windows doesn’t have to create the thumbnails every time the folder is opened. I don’t use the thumbnails view most of the time as I’m not dealing with pictures all the time. So I prefer to…

  • Diagnose Your Network Problems In Windows XP

    The computers which are on the network counter a lot of network problems from time to time. Windows Vista has a cool function of diagnosing the network problems automatically and informing about the possible causes. Windows XP also includes a network diagnostics utility which is hidden. So you have to digg in Windows system folders…