Category: Windows

  • How To Restore Previously Open Folders On System startup in Windows

    Recently Loki asked me about the problem that the folders which are not closed on system shutdown automatically show up while starting the system again. Here is his question: And what about the issue with all the folders you don’t close yourself upon system shut down (you simply press Shut Down and look like Windows…

  • 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.

  • Manage All The Network Settings From One Place

    If you are a laptop user and you use the internet at different places like the office and at home etc, then it is a headache to change the network settings again and again. Usually there are different network settings in the office and at home. NetSetMan comes to rescue in this situation. NetSetMan is…

  • Get Free TuneUp Utilities 2007 Full Version

    A few days back Abdullah had written an article about TuneUpUtilities 2009. It’s a pretty good tool to fine tune your system. There was a promotion going on for Vnunet users. I thought I should share it with my readers also. In this promotion, you get a copy of TuneUpUtilities 2007 with the serial key…

  • Windows Task Manager Alternatives

    Chiranjib, our regular reader, was asking me continuously to suggest some alternatives to the default Windows system tools that are usually disabled in case of a virus attack. So I thought I would just write about all the tools I know which are helpful in troubleshooting a system. It will be a series of articles,…

  • 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…

  • How To Remove W32.sillyFDC Virus

    Yesterday a friend of my came to my desk and asked me to copy some pictures. I inserted his USB flash drive and woosh — Virus alert says my Antivirus. For more information about which antivirus I use, please see this article. I wrote down the virus name and went to his computer to see…

  • Cannot View SHTML File From Your Computer Locally

    SHTML is an extension for web pages that contain server side includes meaning that the content can be inserted dynamically in the web pages. Prior to Windows XP, viewing of SHTML pages locally was enabled by default. But Windows XP does not enable the viewing of SHTML pages by default. So if you try to…

  • Cannot Drag/Drop Icons Or Files On Desktop Or In Windows Explorer

    While I was working on a new network of a new company, after installing and configuring all the Server and Client Windows Operating systems, I noticed that there was one system with Windows XP on which I couldn’t drag/drop icons or files on the desktop. It was just like hung. I googled for a solution…

  • Share Your Computer With Your Google Talk Friends

    It’s really cool thing when we’re able to share all our system resources with our trusted friends. For example if we want to share some file or you want a folder to be synchronized across all the friend’s systems so that all the friends can work together and they have the current copy of all…