Category: Windows

  • Download Internet Explorer 8 RC1 – Direct Links

    A few days back Internet Explorer 8 RC 1 has been released. RC 1 means “Release Candidate 1” which means that the product is ready for normal users to test. It may contain minor bugs. It’s features include the following: Get things done faster with Accelerators View driving directions, translate words, email your discoveries on…

  • Three Great Alternatives To Microsoft Outlook

    I have been using Microsoft Outlook for a long time but I am not very comfortable with it’s response time with the IMAP mails. It’s very slow and hangs in the way. So I started to search for other good alternative desktop email clients to Microsoft Outlook. I discovered many but liked only three of…

  • Get Registry Mechanic 7 One Year License Free

    PC Tools Registry Mechanic is a great tool for cleaning and maintaining the registry. It uses a very efficient algorithm in finding and identifying the problems in the registry. With Registry Mechanic you can safely clean, repair and optimize the Windows registry with a few simple mouse clicks! Problems with the Windows® registry are a…

  • Download Yahoo Messenger 9 Full Installer

    Nowadays many software vendors are giving the download as partial download. This means that first you have to download an initial version of the product which will then download the full product and automatically install it. I don’t like this approach as if something happens to the operating system or if the product becomes corrupted…

  • How To Remove Flashy.exe Virus

    A reader of Technize asked me about how to remove flashy.exe virus. First of all let’s see what exactly is flashy.exe. It’s a type of backdoor trojan for Windows Platform that tries to take control of the infected system. It runs a telnet server on the infected computer. It also changes the administrator password to…

  • Create Shortcuts In Windows With Advanced Options

    Usually I create shortcuts to my applications and programs by right clicking and selecting Create Shortcut or if I want the shortcut to be placed on the desktop, I right click the app and select Send To Desktop. In this way I never get a chance to edit advanced properties about the shortcut. For example,…

  • 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…

  • Monitor Does not Turn on After Resuming from Standby in Windows

    Following is the question asked by harikrishna in Technize Forums: sir iam having one probelm in my laptop that is after it is going to the standby state it is not again coming to the actual state so whenever it go to standby mode iam shutdown the system by using battery every time battery is…

  • 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…