Remove Shadows From Desktop Icons in Windows

Remove Shadows From Desktop Icons in Windows 1) Press Win + Pause. 2) Click on Advanced system settings in the task pane. 3) Click on Settin...

Reopen Closed Folders And Applications

Reopen Closed Folders And Applications How To Use: Run the tool and it will start in the system tray. Click on its icon to open the Settings...

Tweak Windows 7/Vista Games To Cheat & More

Tweak Windows 7 Vista Games To Cheat & More How To Use: Run the tool. Select the games in which you want to enable the extra options. Cl...

Hide and Unhide Folder Options Missing

Hide and Unhide Folder Options Missing Open Run and then type "gpedit.msc". Now goto User Configuration > Administrative templa...

Make Non Deletable and Readable Folders

Make Non Deletable and Readable Folders By holding down alt, then typing numbers on the number pad (right of the keyboard) you can cr...

Change Windows Restriction for any Program

Change Windows Restriction for any Program You can add and delete Windows features in this Key shown below.  Zero is Off and the val...

Add and Remove startup programs in Windows

Add and Remove startup programs in Windows To add or remove programs in the Registry 1.Open Regedit  Start-->Run-->regedit ...

Lock your personal folder

Lock your personal folder Suppose you want to lock the folder movies in d: which has the path D:\movies. In the same drive create a...

Load Your Menu Faster

Load Your Menu Faster Go to Start then Run Type 'Regedit' then click 'Ok' Find "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop...

How do you choose a good password?

How do you choose a good password? 1. Don't use words that can be found in any dictionary of any language 2. Develop a mnemonic for reme...

Disable CD Auto Run in Windows

Disable CD Auto Run in Windows 1. First go to: "Start --> Run" 2. Type "regedit" with out quotes 3. Navigate to HKEY_...

Add a program to the right click menu

Add a program to the right click menu 1. First go to: "Start --> Run" 2. Type "regedit" with out quotes 3. Navigate t...

Use middle button in the Mouse for easy work

Use middle button in the Mouse for easy work 1. Close the tab in the Web browser by clicking the middle button of the mouse on the tab. It w...

Use Hidden International Wallpapers and Themes

Use Hidden International Wallpapers and Themes When you first install Windows 7, it asks for your language, time and currency. Based on your...

Get a Power Efficiency Report in Windows

Get a Power Efficiency Report in Windows Have a laptop and want to get more battery life out of it? Windows 7 includes a hidden built-in too...

Shake Your Desktop Free of Clutter

Shake Your Desktop Free of Clutter If you frequently run multiple programs simultaneously, your desktop can get extremely cluttered. This ca...

iPad Tips: Use Spotlight to Find Things

Use Spotlight to Find Things Spotlight is the search screen that you access by hitting the Home button  when you are on the first screen of ...

iPad Tips: Add Two More Apps in Dock

Add Two More Apps in Dock There are four default apps in your dock at the bottom of the iPad screen. But  you can actually add two more. As ...

iPad Tips: Easy and Quick Mute

Easy/Quick Mute Unlike the iPhone, there's no dedicated mute switch on the iPad. There you are,  in the back row of a funeral just mindi...

iPad Tips: Shut Down Your iPad For Real

Shut Down Your iPad For Real When you press the power button on the iPad it really just turns off the screen.  That‘s why it comes on so fas...

How to Trace an IP Address

How to Trace an IP Address What they're doing is tracing the Internet Protocol (IP) address of the bad guy. Whenever you go online, your...

Create a bootable CD or DVD with or without floppy

Create a bootable CD or DVD with or without floppy With the CD-ROM available on almost every computer nowaday, floppy drives become a histor...

Computer Hope chat

1 Introduction 2 What's happening in chat 3 Rules 4 Questions and answers 5 Chat definitions 6 Online help 7 Back to Computer Hope  In...

Perform a Disk Defragmentation

Perform a Disk Defragmentation Windows isn’t very efficient when it comes to storing files. It actually splits them up, depositing them into...

Empty the Recycle Bin

Empty the Recycle Bin When you click “delete” on a file or a program, it doesn’t go away for good – not immediately, anyway. Instead, it sit...

Remove Unneeded Programs

Remove Unneeded Programs Like many people, you probably download and try out many different programs each month. How many of them do you act...

Remove Unneeded Files

Remove Unneeded Files Every time you log on to the Internet or otherwise use your computer, temporary files are generated. They are usually ...

Clean Your Computer’s Windows Registry

Clean Your Computer’s Windows Registry The biggest cause of slow, sluggish PC performance is errors and problems within its Windows registry...