Compression tools like 7Zip,Winzip, Winrar are commonly used to reduce the file size and to bind multiple file in one compressed file.
You can extract 7z, ZIP, RAR, GZIP, BZIP2, TAR, GZIP, ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, DEB, DMG, HFS, ISO, LZH, LZMA, MSI, NSIS, RPM, UDF, WIM, XAR and Z files by following the [...]
Microsoft NetMeeting is hidden component of Windows you need to initialize its setup to use it, to configure NetMeeting follow the steps given below.
You can create user accounts separate for each person that will be using your computer. This will allow each Windows user to have their own settings, documents folder, visual style, wallpaper and so on. So separate account for every computer user is much better idea and you can do this simple from command line. To [...]
There is nothing special to find what was the date when you installed Windows on your computer or may be there is some case you want to find. However, if you want to find out original installation date of Windows operating system on a PC then here is a simple process to do that.
ISO file is a single file that contains the complete image of a CD or DVD disc. Those ISO image files are most commonly used to transfer CD or DVD images over the internet.
In this guide I will be showing you how to mount an ISO image in a virtual drive to extract data or [...]
Windows 7 comes with a great feature called HomeGroup that makes sharing between windows 7 machines very easy. We have already written on sharing files and printers between Windows 7 based computers here:
How to Share Files and Printers between Windows 7 Based Computers with HomeGroup
Unfortunately, HomeGroup feature is not compatible with Windows XP and Vista. [...]
Whenever you do your work on any file in you PC, your operating system keeps record of all your activities like when you created, modified or accessed a file. The date of creation, date of view and date of document modification are persistently added to the properties of the file. One can easily see it [...]
If you are the only one who uses your computer or you just use it for gaming or something not that important, so you might not want to have to log in every time you boot your computer.
By default Windows 7 needs a password to log in to protect your PC from unauthorized access. But you can turn off Windows Native Password Protection [...]
By default in Windows 7, Vista and XP OS has Cut and Copy option available in the windows explorer right click menu. To increase your working speed you can customize this menu by adding Copy To / Move To option. To do that you need some registry modifications.
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1- Copy this 645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E
2- Go to Start Menu > Run write regedit hit enter
3- Press Ctrl + F, paste what you have copied in step 1
4- Double click on Default key on the right side & enter new name of your choice
5- Press Ok
Hold Ctrl key and click on each open programs button on the taskbar, Once you have selected the program buttons that you want to close right click on one of selected button and select Close Group.
When you are working on computer and you need to restart due to any reason the most irritating thing is to open all the folders and windows again, after the restart. There is and option in Windows operating system this problem. let’s see how to do this.
When we delete any file or folder in Microsoft Windows it shows a confirmation dialog with message “Are you sure you want to delete“. You can skip this confirmation message [...]
Remove Start button form taskbar. Start Killer is a free utility that removes the Start button from your taskbar and give you additional space on taskbar.
A Windows Messenger that comes with the Microsoft Windows XP as a Windows Component. It always appears on the status bar and remains in the Windows even you have download and installed new MSN Messenger, to remove this default messenger permanently form windows do that follow steps
In Windows xp the autorun option on cd/dvd is enabled by default, most of the viruses, worms etc spread using this option. To make your computer safe from those virus or worms disable the autorun option for CV, DVD and USB drive.
To rename multiple files in Windows, here is a very tiny quick tip for windows users.
If you want to rename more than one files at once you need to do the following steps:
In the Windows XP Start Menu screenshot below, you can see a User name ‘Knight‘ in the top left corner. In this post you are going to learn how to remove that User name from start menu in Windows XP.
BTW – I wonder why one would wish that user name to disappear! Even then If [...]