After quite sometime your Windows Xp normally tend to become slow. Mostly due to miscellaneous services that get installed with time, making your PC slow. But there is a cool registry trick that makes shutting down a breeze.
Did you know that Windows XP keeps a couple of values in its registry which determines how long to wait before shutting down open applications and services once the shutdown command has been given . All you need to change those values, here how its done.
Step 1
- Open regedit and goto ‘HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\’
- Select the ‘WaitToKillAppTimeout’ value.
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Gmail has a really cool feature, Gmail’s custom ‘From:’ feature lets you send messages that display another address. As i also have to deal with day to day emails coming to my website email, its really cumbersome to email from my hosting email application(buggy as hell).
- Log in to your Gmail account at mail.google.com.
- Now head over to the settings and open the Accounts tab.
- Under Send mail as, click Add another email address.
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Apart from the cool features that comes with Vista… even the scary ones. Vista is a really great looking OS, especially the taskbar thumbnail previews. Now what about the same feature for your Firefox’s tabs…la Opera tab thumbnails.
Well you could use the Tab Scope extension for a similar feature, with fully customizable options. Whenever you hover your mouse over a tab, a popup thumbnail preview of the page you’re browsing. One interesting thing is that, you could actually inside the thumbnail itself, all the links are clickable besides you can even use the scroll button inside the thumbnail.
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Nowadays we are accustomed to having different profiles or accounts for various services ranging from email, social networks, community websites. But you can only login to one account at a time for a specific service due to cookies.
Today I’m gono show you a Firefox plugin that lets you login to any number of accounts of the same service. CookiePie is a Firefox add-on that manages cookies on a per tab basis, letting you use multiple accounts from just a single browser.
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Actually this is a very simple tutorial to display background images for explorer toolbars. It might not a high profile trick, yet still you’d love the fun part. Scroll below to know how its done.
1. First navigate to ‘ HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar
2. Now create a new String Value by right-clicking in the right hand pane and selecting New > String
3. Name it “BackBitmapShell”.
4. Double-click on it and enter the path of the image you want to use as background image.
Note: Make sure the image that you gono insert is in .bmp format(bitmap).
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DVD43 is a free application which removes or unlock the copy protection scheme from the media(DVD) letting users to rip or copy content from it. Its similar to the shareware alternative AnyDVD but DVD43 is free!
After installation it runs in your system tray, and auto detects the encryption on the DVD when you insert it, automatically removing the encryption in most cases (the happy face turns green when it succeeds). Sometimes your DVD structure maybe be non standard, in those cases you can always use a copy program like DVD Copy, Nero Recode, Intervideo DVD Copy to copy the DVD’s contents.
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As you would know, due to security reasons Gmail prevents users from sending and receiving executable files (files with the extension “.exe”, “.dll”, “.ocx” or “.bat”). If you try to uploading these files, Gmail will send you an error message: “This is an executable file”. However you may try compressing the files into other formats such as “.zip”, “.tar”, “.tgz”, “.taz”, “.z” or “.gz”. But Gmail is smart enough to know there is an executable inside that compress file.
Now the question is how to send executable files with your Gmail account if you really need to do so? Here’s how its done.
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