We all are accustomed to opening up Task manager atleast a few times every day to shutdown un-responding tasks, or to checkup on which programs are eating up a lot of memory. But i don’t like bashing my keyboard’s Ctrl+Alt+Del keys every now and then. I’m sure you’ll love this tiny little app called Task Killer, forget Ctrl+Alt+Del.
Nowadays most people have more the one email account, usually just about enough to handle. As i write I have around 6+ email accounts ranging from service providers like Yahoo, Gmail( i got two of those), Hotmail also known as Windows Live mail, besides my website email…etc,etc. An easy way is to use Outlook or an email client like Thunderbird to manage all your accounts from one place as it makes archiving and managing much easier then opening windows after windows to check each email account.
Do you know that a hidden option allows using “Command prompt” when you right click on a directory via the menu rather then running it from RUN.
Here’s is a cool registry trick that gets its going. But make sure you backup your registry before embarking on it. I’ll show you how it’s done step by step. But you can always use the ready made reg file at the bottom.
Step-By-Step Method:
Type regedit.exe into the Start\Run dialog, and then navigate to the following registry key:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell
Now right click on “shell” and choose the New Key option:
If you download Abode Acrobat Reader 8 and try to install it on your Vista machine it could be that you’ll encounter the following message:
If you do get the error message you can fix it with the workaround below.
First, download the Adobe Reader installer from the Adobe website. When you are prompted to run or save the file, choose save. Save the file to your desktop.
On the Desktop, right-click the AdbeRdr80_en_US file and then choose Properties.
Click the Compatibility tab.
You’d know that most of the shortcuts and programs when right clicked shows the “Pin to Start menu” context. However this isn’t possible for the folders. Most of the visitors of my blog are die-hard music, games etc fans and they would access these folders frequently, which usually leads to making shortcuts on the desktop, leading to more clutter on the already crowded desktop. Wouldn’t a simple option to pin the folder to the start menu come handy. Here are the steps which works both on Windows Xp and Vista.
“Pin to start menu” is not available for folder by default
I’m a avid instant messaging fan, be it yahoo messenger or google talk. Also i have multiple ids of gmail and yahoo for either personal and professional reasons. But you can’t run all ids at once on a single computer. Either you use different browsers to run the web versions of gtalk or yahoo web messenger or signin and signout using different ids. Another solution is using meebo. But most of these tips doesn’t gives you complete control over the functionalities. Lets try some full proof solution.
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