Speed up your computer

1. Increase virtual memory Virtual memory is the space your computer uses when it's short of RAM (Random Access Memory), which is the memory used when running programs like Office Suites. And here are the steps to reset your virtual memory: · Open MyComputer on your desktop · On the left pane, click view system information, then windows will open up system properties dialog box. · Click Advanced Tab · On the Performance Area, click Settings · Once, you will see performance option dialog box. · Click Advanced tab, and find the virtual memory area and click change · Here, you can change the pagination file by changing the size of the...

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How To Make a Folder Shortcut ?

Just like the title above, I will give you easy tips to make folder shortcut. Do you have a folder that you want to access it fast whenever you want? The only solution for it, is make a shortcut for that folder which known as folder shortcut. Here we go: 1. Go to My Computer or Windows Explorer and find the folder you want to access quickly later. 2. If you have found the folder you want to instant access, then right click on the folder, point to Send to and select Desktop 3. Now, go to desktop and right click on the sent folder, and select Properties 4. Click Shortcut Tab and look for “Shortcut Key” row, on the empty box next to it you...

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Add New Item to Send To Menu

When you right-click a file name or a thumbnail in Microsoft Windows XP, you see a shortcut menu for that file. One of the items on the menu is Send To, which enables you to quickly e-mail a file, copy it to your desktop, or copy it to a floppy disk. Sometimes what you really want to do is to save a copy of the file to a specific folder on your computer. If you have a folder where you frequently place files, you can add that folder’s name to the list of locations on the Send To menu. This can save you the time of opening another Windows Explorer window and copying the file from one folder to another. For example, you could create a My Pictures...

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Virus Explained

What is the definition of computer virus exactly? Well, a computer virus is a program, a block of executable codes, which attach itself to, overwrite or otherwise replace another program in order to reproduce itself without a knowledge of a PC user. There are many different types of computer virus: Boot sector virus, file virus, direct action virus, Multi partition virus, Polymorphic virus, Stealth virus, and Macro virus. 1. Boot sector Virus This type of virus is a common virus; duplicate itself by oppressing the boot sector. So that when the computer is booting, the virus will be automatically executed in the computer’s memory. 2. File...

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View previously open folder after shutdown

Sometimes you want to access certain folders on your computer regularly, but if you have to always open those folder every time you turn on your computer, obviously it takes so much times. So, you can set them re-open automatically every time you turn on your computer. Here is the tip: Open My Computer Click Tools and then select Folder Option 3. If you can’t find the Folder Option on the Tools menu, just read the article about Recover Folder Option. 4. If you have clicked it, select View Tabs. 5. Look at the Advanced Setting area, scroll down to bottom and then give checkpoint on the Restore previous folder windows at logon,...

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Speed up your Internet Connection Speed

For you who have internet connection on your pc or laptop, it is annoying if your internet connection run too slow. By making a little change on your Windows XP system configuration, you are able to increase the connection speed of your internet. So let’s make a little change on your system configuration: Click Start-Run Type gpedit.msc and then click OK Take a look on the left pane, expand the administrative Templates folder, and then Network, and next QoS Packet Schedule folder On the right pane, double click on Limit reservable bandwith Check the Enabled box and then change the Bandwith limit to 40%...

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Windows Registry Tricks

It's been a long time for me did not share any computer tricks in here. Recently mytheory only focus on SERP or SEO content. And for an intermezzo, i would like to give you some computer tricks and i'm going to talk about Registry Tricks. Check it out! ::. Backup Registry Before doing some of these tricks you better backup your Registry first. How to backup Registry? emm,it's pretty easy actually,simply go to Regedit (click start-Run-type 'regedit' - click OK), click File-Export and save it anywhere (but don't forget where you save it) and you can name it anything you want ::. Registry Edit I will tell you some useful...

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Rename your XP start Button text

Did you know that you can change your XP start button text? commonly it labeled as Start, but if you doing some tweaks on it you can labeled it by your own. Maybe some of you have known the way of change the XP start button text by tweaking registry point of your machine and i believed that that's a time consuming and too risky. Therefore this time i share you this StartBtn Renamer which allow you change your XP start button text easily in one click! All you have to do is simple, first download the StartBtn Renamer and fill the new label textbox with everyword you want which will be labeled on your XP start button and then simply clik Rename...

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Tree Style Tabs Extension from Firefox

Bored with your conventional horizontal tabs existing in your browser? If u are starting to get bored with that, maybe you should try to stumble upon this extension. Tree Style Tabs extension which turns your tabs into tree format that will change the way you surf the internet. ::. Tree Style Tabs If u are using Vista as your OS, you should be familiar with Tree Style format. Basically, Tree style tabs in firefox has nearly same principle with tree style format used in Vista. It allows you to have an overview of your directory structure and navigate from one place to another easily. Its hierarchical structure makes it easier to see how...

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Add Windows Right Click Access with Shell Tools

Right Click button play important role in your computer. For example, if you want to copy paste files, you simply right click on the file you want to copy and select copy. Not only copy paste functionality does The Right click button on your mouse provide, but there are some other important access, such as launching Antivirus program or even display the properties of some files or folder as well. And recently, i found this interesting and pretty useful program that let you add right click functionality in Windows. This one called Shell Tools .... Shell Tools is a collection of free Windows shell extensions and utilities. This package contains...

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Drastically Speed Up Any Computer In 5 Steps

I have been working on computers for years and have put together a simple 5 step process for speeding up pretty much any windows based computer in just a matter of minutes. These procedures are perfectly safe and will not harm your computer or cause you to lose any data. Step 1: Cleanup your hard drive. This is number one for a reason folks. So many people just do not cleanup their hard drive and that can really degrade your pc performance. You can goto My Computer, Drive C, Properties, and then click on disk cleanup. You can also download the freeware utility Ccleaner. This free program will cleanup all kinds of useless junk off your pc. Step...

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Make business cards in MS Word

You can quickly create attractive and professional business cards in two ways using Word: * Use ready-made business card templates from the Microsoft Office Online Templates Web site. * Create your own business cards from scratch with the Envelopes and Labels dialog box.Choose the right paperYou can either have a professional printer print your business cards or you can purchase paper and print them yourself at home. For home printing, Avery® is a popular do-it-yourself brand and provides standard business card paper: 2" X 3.5" cards on 8 1/2" X 11" heavyweight cardstock sheets. The tiny perforations in the sheets allow you to separate your...

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How to merge rar files with Winrar

You have several rar files (file1.rar, file2.rar, file3.rar) you downloaded from internet and now you have to merge them into one file. First all that files must be in one folder. Do right click on file1.rar and go to Extract here. Chose folder what you like and extract. If you get pop up while extracting, like this:that means you need password to merge files. Go to that page where you downloaded part rar files and you will see password the...

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Gmail - How to add contact in group

You need to add some email adress (contact) in your Gmail group (eg friends). And that contact is only in suggested contacts and you don't see Group menu on right side in Gmail. You need first add that suggested contact to My contacts or into Most contacted. Go to Suggested contacts, check particular check-box infront that e-mail adress and click Move to my contacts on right. Now, go to My contacts, check box by adress, click Groups menu right, and Add to group you wa...

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How to email a group of contacts in Gmail

Another interesting and useful Gmail option is possibility to email a group of contacts . And that you can do on this way. Go to "Contacts". Than click on Group you would like to e-mail. On "Select" click "All". Or select just contacts you want to email. When contacts are selected, on right side just click "Email". Gmail will automatically redirect you to new message with field "To" filled. That's if you would like to everyone who receive this message see who else you mailed message. If you don't want that, copy addresses from "To" field to "Bcc" field and after that, leave just one address in "To". Than you can write Subject and message body...

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Get Backlinks to Your Website

How to Get Backlinks to Your WebsiteYour website’s page rank is dependent on a number of factors. Having “backlinks,” links to your website from other websites or blogs, will give your website a significant boost. Backlinks are the links that direct traffic to your web site from someone else’s site. The quality of the backlink is judged by the popularity and relevancy of the site from which it originates. Each backlink that exists can give more credibility to your website. Therefore, the more quality backlinks that exist to your site, the higher page ranking it will reach in the search engines.Paying for backlinks could end up costing you a fortune,...

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What is my IP address

You would like to know what is your IP address when you are connected on the Internet? You can get your answer on several different ways.You can go to whatismyipaddress.com and you'll see your IP and where are you on Google map. But if you need more information you can go to Start - Run, than type CMD and press ENTER. There, just type"ipconfig/all" (without quotes) and press ENTER. You will get more than IP address, you'll see full profile of your connection like on image bell...

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Edit PDFs for free

Free PDF EditorThis is one completely free and simple PDF editing and creating software, it can help you to create your pdf documents by yourself in minutes.No need any complex setting and knowledge about PDF format, handy and easy to use very much, specially for beginners.Free PDF Editor comes with a very intuitive GUI that is easy to understand even for the beginner users.It is one WYSIWYG PDF builder, what you see is what you get, and you can insert text, image and shape, then drop, resize and move these PDF elements with your mouse.Download and know more here http://www.freepdfeditor.net/PDF Printer PDF Printer 2009 is a comprehensive and...

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How to mount an ISO image in Windows Vista

The freeware utility from Microsoft to mount ISO Images doesn't work in Windows Vista. Thankfully there's another utility that does.The utility that we will use is called Virtual Clone Drive. This utility will let you mount .ISO, .CCD, .DVD, .IMG, .UDF and .BIN files. Download the utility and start the setup process.Select Yes or OK at the hardware prompt and continue. You might have to restart your computer. Now you should be able to mount any ISO image by just double-clicking on the file. Note: If you are going to reinstall this utility, make sure you uninstall it first, or you'll BSOD yourself repeatedly.This utility does not work on Windows...

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Advantages and Disadvantages of Internet

AdvantagesThe Internet provides many facilities to the people. The main advantages of Internet are discussed below.1. Sharing InformationYou can share information with other people around the world. The scientist or researchers can interact with each other to share knowledge and to get guidance etc. Sharing information through Internet is very easy, cheap and fast method.2. Collection of InformationA lot of information of different types is stored on the web server on the Internet. It means that billions websites contain different information in the form of text and pictures. You can easily collect information on every topic of the world. For...

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How to make folder private

If you are not the only user on your computer, you can make some forlders private and only when you log in with your username you can see them. This option is only available for folders included in your user profile.Folders in your user profile include My Documents and its subfolders, Desktop, Start Menu, Cookies, and Favorites. If you do not make these folders private, they are available to everyone who uses your computer.Open My Computer. Then, double-click the drive where Windows is installed (usually it's drive (C:), unless you have more than one drive on your computer). Double-click Documents and Settings folder.Open your user folder.Right-click...

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What is ISP?

ISP: It is a company that provides the Internet connections to the users. There are many ISP companies in each big city of each country of the world. You have to get an Internet connection from any ISP company of your local city to connect to the Internet.ISPs then connect to larger ISPs, and the largest ISPs maintain fiber-optic “backbones’ for an entire region. Backbones around the world are connected through fiber-optic lines, under Sea cables or satellite links. In this way, every computer on the Internet is connected to every -other computer on the Internet. The figure is shown below that shows how an Internet wor...

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The Brief History Of Internet

The Internet is the network of networks around the world. It is made up of thousands of smaller, national, regional, governmental, academic and commercial networks. It is a global network. Information can be communicated from one city (or country) to another through Internet. You can access information all over the work. More than two billion people around the world use the Internet daily for different purposes. For example, to communicate with other people around the world, access information and latest news around the world etc. The computers are the main components through which information can be electronically sent and received from one...

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Explained Virus Details

What is the definition of computer virus exactly? Well, a computer virus is a program, a block of executable codes, which attach itself to, overwrite or otherwise replace another program in order to reproduce itself without a knowledge of a PC user. There are many different types of computer virus: Boot sector virus, file virus, direct action virus, Multi partition virus, Polymorphic virus, Stealth virus, and Macro virus. 1. Boot sector Virus This type of virus is a common virus; duplicate itself by oppressing the boot sector. So that when the computer is booting, the virus will be automatically executed in the computer’s memory. 2. File Virus Attacking files which are executed by an operating system. Usually this kind of virus attack file that have .com or .exe extension. 3. Direct...

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DOS 6 point 22 internal commands

DOS 6.22 internal commands DOS (Disk Operating System) has 2 type of commands.Internal DOS Commands.External DOS Commands.In this article I am going to explain only DOS 6.22 internal commands. DOS 6.22 based on 3 files.Config.sysCommand.comIo.sysIf you have these 3 files then DOS will boot using these 3 files. These are called DOS 6.22 booting or boot files. All internal commands place in command.com file. Dot com extension is executable in DOS 6.22. here are few DOS internal commands list.Command Explanation and usageDIR This command is used to display the list of files in current directory or folder.TIMEThis command is used to display and change...

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The Intranet and The Extranet

IntranetAn organization network through which the files and messages are exchanged among the users of the organization only is called the Intranet. This type of network uses the same protocols as used in the Internet. But through Intranet the information cannot be exchanged out side the organization.ExtranetAn extranet is a network of multiple intranets. It means that intranets of different companies are connected together for the collaboration among the companies. On an extranet each connected company gives selected rights to the employees of one or more other companies to access its intran...

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How To Trace Mobile Numbers in India

(India Only)With rapid growth in mobile number subscribers in India and low call rates, most of calls we receive on our mobile are form other mobiles only. At the same time, to cater increasing userbase most operators come up with new series everyday which makes remembering a cell number increasingly hard. Also sometime we just want to trace a mobile number for reasons like unknown number in miss call list, to get hint of callers permanent location (sounds unlikely, I know…), etc.But if you have a look at this wiki page, you can certainly trace any mobile number upto the level of its mobile operator and state (or zone) that’s too using first...

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