In the pre-Vista days, copying a file or folder path to the clip-board involved 5 steps. You had to right-click on the file or folder, select Properties, highlight the path, right-click again, and select Copy. That’s way too many steps for a task as simple as copying a path.
In Vista you have a much [...]

Recently my friend and I launched a website called Gconnect.in. It is basically meant to be a community website for the officers of Government of India.
Incidentally, the Sixth Pay Commission recommendations were announced within a day or two of the launch of GConnect. As soon as it was announced, another friend of ours had prepared [...]

If your computer has an NTFS partition, then there is a neat little trick to hide any file inside any other file. Unfortunately, this trick does not work on FAT32 formatted drive.
As an example let’s see how you can hide the solitaire file (sol.exe) inside a text file.
Let’s start by assuming that you are [...]

System Restore is one of the best features introduced in Windows XP. Sometimes your computer may behave strangely after you install a new application. Even uninstalling the application may not bring your computer back to normal. However, if you know how to use System Restore, you can bring your computer back to the original state [...]

Ever come across an Excel file that you can open and view but if you wanted to edit it, you can’t, since it is has been protected? And when you try to unprotect, it asks for a password.

Here are a couple of ways to overcome the situation. While, you may not be able to make [...]

The most infamous error message in Windows is the Blue Screen Of Death. It’s so well-known that it has crept into the vernacular: “Aw, man! I was almost finished with my term paper when I got blue- screened!” The phenomenon is also known by its acronym, BSOD.
The conditions that cause a blue screen have [...]