Category | Windows

Power-scrolling with your wheeled mouse

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: , , ,

Lupo PenSuite - A must-have collection of portable applications

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: , , , ,

How to enter special characters not available on your keyboard

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: , , ,

How to shutdown Windows almost instantly

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: , , , , ,

Recover wasted disk space by reducing Recycle Bin storage space

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: , , ,

Want to know what that file is? Check out whatisthatfile.com

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: , ,

How to create an Admin account from a guest account in Windows XP

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: , , ,

  • Recent Comments:

  • Advertise Here