Posted on 09 July 2008
Using your mouse scroll-wheel to scroll through a document or a web page is definitely more convenient than using the scroll bars. But if you have a mouse with a scroll wheel, there is another way of scrolling that is even more convenient than constantly rotating the scroll wheel. I call it power-scrolling.
Here is how [...]
Tags: computer mouse, power-scrolling, scrolling, Windows
Posted on 29 June 2008
Once in a while you come across an application or a utility that makes you wonder how you managed to get things done without it.
Lupo PenSuite is one such utility.
Lupo PenSuite is a portable collection of over 185 applications and tools. All the applications have been neatly categorized and can be started through the bundled [...]
Tags: flash drive, Lupo Pensuite, Portable applications, portable softwares, softwares for pendrive
Posted on 28 June 2008
Suppose you have to type out characters like ®, ©, £ etc or for that matter any character which has no key on a keyboard to directly enter them. How do you do that?
Characters like ®, © etc are called special characters. In Windows, each special character is associated with a 4 digit numeric number, [...]
Tags: Alt Key, character map, charmap, special characters
Posted on 23 June 2008
How often have you been frustrated by the ’speed’ with which Windows shuts down. It seems to take ages, especially when you are in a hurry.
If you normally shut down Windows from the ‘Turn Off Computer‘ on the Start menu, then here is an alternative that works almost like magic.
Tags: fast shut down, fast shutdown, shut down, shutdown, shutdown windows, Windows
Posted on 22 June 2008
By default, Windows reserves a whopping 10% of each drive volume for storing files you’ve deleted. But how often do you really need to recover a 50GB file from the Recycle Bin?
Most of the time all those extra space reserved for the recycle bin goes wasted. For example, for a 500GB drive, the default space [...]
Tags: Disk Space, Recycle Bin, Recycle Bin Properties, Recycle Bin Storage Space
Posted on 16 June 2008
If you come across an unknown file and want to know what that file is, you could either google it up or you could head straight to whatisthatfile.com.
Whatisthatfile is a database of information about files which you can search by the file name. You can enter a filename and see if this file is a [...]
Tags: unknown file, what's that file, whatisthatfile
Posted on 09 June 2008
First, let me make it clear that this post is only meant to be informative. Please do not misuse it. On the other hand, if you are an administrator, then this post could be useful to you in being wary of how your system could be compromised with a very simple trick.
Now here is how [...]
Tags: Admin Account, Hacking, Net User, Windows