Wonder why Microsoft is so evil… DreamScene is a pretty useless feature apart form the eye candy that comes with a motion desktop or video animated desktop wallpaper nothing extravagant. Now why should i dish out $40o odd for Windows Vista Ultimate just some eye candy.

No need to buy Windows Vista Ultimate here is a cool alternative to adding video to your desktop background without hogging system resources and memory. It will work in any Windows Vista version and Windows Xp. Here’s how it goes.

As you would know its a pain in the ass when it comes to defraging all hard drives at the same time in Windows XP, as the Disk Defragment utility in Windows Xp doesn’t have any option to defrag all the drives at once.

But a simple batch file trick can get over this problem and defragment all of the drives, one after the other.

The disk defrag utility in Windows XP can be called from the command line with the following syntax:

Not everyone likes to upgrade to a new OS every couple of years. Same thing is happening with people using Windows XP resisting the temptation of upgrading to Windows Vista. But still many of us who don’t want to upgrade to Vista would love to have few of the cool looking Aero features. One of the coolest and my favorite Vista features is the thumbnails previews of the windows that comes when you hover your mouse over the taskbar. Now with a tiny application you can get them in XP as well.

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

Ever wonder how to improve Windows XP… there are lots of ways to improve productivity, performance and other hidden things. Here are some useful tips that will help you work a tad faster.

Enabling NumLock on by Default

This hack will let you enable NumLocks by default for each user:

1. Start Regedit
2. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Keyboard\InitialKeyboardIndicators
3. Change the value from 0 to 2
4. Turn Numlock on manually
5. Log off and back on again.
6. For all users, make the same change to HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Keyboard\InitialKeyboardIndicators

Changing the Internet Explorer Title

Apple nowadays tries to bundles its music management software iTunes to every possible gadget they are making…. be it iPhone, iPod, the Mac. Just like Microsoft does with the WMP and Internet explorer.

But we never get a mention of Apple dragged to courts due to anti-trust, monopolistic litigations. Not everybody loves everything about Apple, same goes for their iTunes that comes bundled with iPod. I don’t prefer iTunes mostly because I’m a Winamp addict since god knows when! Favoritism is a different issue altogether, we can discuss about that later.

The crappiest browser Internet Explorer 7 only lets you download two files simultaneously. Another annoying limitation for anyone who downloads quite a lot. But a simple registry tweak will let you get over this limitation. Be sure to backup your registry as registry editing can do whole lot bad for your PC rather then good.

1) Click on the Start Orb and type regedit in the Search Bar.

2) Once you are in the registry editor, navigate to the following key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings

3) Right click in the empty space, and create a new DWord (32-bit) value by choosing
New > DWord Value . Name it: