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Drag and Drop Keyboard Shortcuts in Windows 7 [ Reader Tip ]

August 9, 2010

Danny, one of our readers, came up with some cool drag and drop keyboard shortcut combination for Windows 7 (and may be Vista and XP too). Here’s his comment on our killer keyboard shortcuts article: If the normal function of a drag & drop is to MOVE a file (e.g. between folders within the same [...]

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How to Analyze Hard Disk Space and View Folder Sizes in Windows

August 9, 2010

After a few months of using your computer, you might find that the free space in your hard disk partition has reduced significantly, thanks to all those files and folders you’ve stored. At this time, it’s a good idea to do a little maintenance and see which files are occupying most of the space so [...]

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Analyze Windows Blue Screen Errors with WhoCrashed

August 7, 2010

There are times when Windows hangs without warning, and the resulting error message is too complicated to understand. WhoCrashed is a simple application that tells you why the crash occurred, so you can fix the problem. Whenever Windows encounters a critical system error, it crashes and forces the user to restart the computer. Previously, these [...]

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How to Install and Use Gadgets for Windows XP

August 7, 2010

Desktop gadgets in Windows was introduced by Vista, and it is there in Windows 7 as well. By default the gadgets appear on the sidebar, but they can be dragged to anywhere on the screen. Both Vista and Windows 7 have several useful built-in gadgets like clocks, weather, RSS feed widget etc. But if you [...]

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The Ultimate Guide To Making Firefox Run Smoothly on Netbooks

August 6, 2010

When it comes to speed, Firefox has been traditionally behind rival browsers like Chrome, Opera and Safari. No, I’m not talking about ‘webpage rendering’ speed – which is what is causing all the browser flame wars these days (and in which Firefox loses spectacularly as well). What I’m talking about is the speed of the [...]

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How to Always Run a Program as Administrator in Windows 7

August 5, 2010

Security experts often advice users to use the account with lower privilege in order to prevent system from malware attacks and other risks. The Administrator account with highest privileges, which can control over the entire system, should be used only when necessary. In Windows, you’ll find that by default most of the programs run in [...]

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The Complete Guide to Securing Your Home Wireless Network

August 4, 2010

There were times when every house had only one computer and one internet connection, generally delivered through a phone modem. Today, things have changed. Often there are two or more computers in the same household, and often at least one of them is a laptop. If you want all of these computers to be internet-enabled, [...]

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How to Block Websites By Editing the HOSTS File in Windows

August 4, 2010

DNS, which stands for Domain Name System, can convert the elusive IPv4 or IPv6 addresses to meaningful names, and then translate the characters back to IP addresses. For example, when you want to visit a website, DNS will tell your web browser the real IP address of it, and then web browser will download the [...]

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Hotmail’s New Look Now Available to Everyone [ Quick Tip ]

August 4, 2010

Remember we talked about some cool features of Hotmail’s new version in our post 16 Awesome New Features Of Windows Live Hotmail You Need To Know ? Well, as Microsoft promised, it’s August and it is now available to everyone! If our article tempted you to check out the new Hotmail, it’s time you go [...]

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How To Restart Windows Explorer Manually to Avoid a System Restart

August 4, 2010

There are many instances where you need to reboot your PC.  It could be that you’ve installed updates, installed a new software or may be your computer just hung up. All this scenarios usually need a system restart. Though restarting the system is the most reliable way to make changes take effect, small issues (like [...]

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