Articles categorized under Windows

Deleting a Virtual Hard Disk [Windows 7]

25 November 2009

My previous post should have helped you learn to create Virtual Hard Disk Drives. Now if you don’t find the use of a Virtual Drive you created, you can easily remove it. Here’s how. Before you proceed, be sure to take a backup of files you have in your virtual HDD. (if needed) Open Disk [...]

Create Virtual Hard Disks [Windows 7]

24 November 2009

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Have you ever wished you had an extra Disk Drive to set aside your documents, files, etc.? This is one of the new features of Windows 7, that helps you create Virtual Disk Drives, similar to your Hard Disk drives. If you are not a Windows 7 user, you can always use TrueCrypt, a freeware [...]

Create Shortcut to ‘All Users’ view in Task Manager [Windows 7]

18 November 2009

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When you open the Task Manager in Windows 7, you’ll only be presented with processes that run under your user account, even if you are an administrator. The process list includes few System processes. And you’ll have to click the ‘Show processes from all users’ button every time to view all running processes and that’s [...]

Make System Restore use Less Drive Space [Windows 7]

18 November 2009

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System Restore is a part of your Windows Operating System that was debuted in Windows Millenium and helps recovering your files and settings from previous copies. But this can eat up your drive space, similar to Dr.Watson. If it eats up way too much of your hard disk space, here’s the solution for it. Tweaking [...]

Add ‘Open with Notepad’ to Context Menu

17 November 2009

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When I come across files with unknown extension, I prefer to open it with Notepad. The same when it comes to files like PHP, HTML, CSS and the likes. Adding a context menu option, to open with notepad, helps you quickly open up files without having to go through the long ‘Open with’ way, obviously [...]

Guide : Playing Movies with Subtitles

1 September 2009

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A solution to fetch subtitles and to make them work on WMP or VLC

Registry Editing disabled by Administrator

30 August 2009

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A solution to the common problem faced by many

Force Shutdown or Restart from Command Line

17 June 2009

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If you’ve been using the power button to force shutdown your PC, try this Command Line trick to Force Shutdown and to Force Restart your PC. This Command Line trick allows you to specify normal Shutdown/Restart or if you want to Force Shutdown/Restart and also allows you to specify the time to wait before Force [...]

Setting up a Simple LAN Connection between 2 PCs

13 June 2009

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To create a simple LAN connection between two PCs/Laptops, the only hardware requisite is an Ethernet Crossover Cable. Ethernet Crossover Cables are easily available in the market. You can buy one online starting from $1 or you can go for a branded one from Belkin (available at buy.com) for $3. Places your can buy Crossover [...]