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Freeware Password Revealer 2008-03-01 17:53:13 -Tips-You probably don't keep track of every password you have used. You may just let Windows save your password for you. Sound familiar. What happens if you need that password and you can't remember it. All you can see is those ******* asterisks. Wouldn't you like to turn those asterisks into actual text. This program can be used for revealing passwords that are stored in text boxes that conceal the text behind asterisks, such as the ones in Dial-up Networking or Outlook Express.Choose any of these freeware to reveal your asterisks password.Download Kill Password
Download Militia Password Revealer Read more:Freeware
Delete the UNDELETABLE file with UNLOCKER 2008-03-01 02:59:32 -Tips-Download from ccollombGet rid of error message like Error deleting file or folder, cannot delete folder: it's being used by another person or programUnlocker application was designed to be a very useful Windows Explorer extension allowing users with a simple right-click on a file or folder to easily get rid of error message such as error deleting file or folder, cannot delete folder: it's being used by another person or program.Helps delete locked files with error messages like:· Cannot delete file: Access is denied· There has been a sharing violation.· The source or destination file may be in use.· The file is in use by another program or user.· Make sure the disk is not full or write-protected and that the file is not currently in use.
Customize your windows themes, visual styles 2008-03-01 02:55:42 -Tips-Tired of the standard Luna Windows XP theme? Is the Media Center Edition theme growing old? Why not patch the uxtheme.dll yourself? What does patching the uxtheme.dll do? Well my friend, it lets the average Joe computer user break away from the mundane and splurge in the new. A patched uxtheme.dll gives you the freedom to use un-signed custom visual style.You need to patch a small file named uxtheme.dll in Windows XP in order to load unsigned themes
and visual styles. Uxtheme multi patcher is a patch that will change your uxtheme.dll on Windows.Uxtheme Multi-patcher will allow you to use any 3rd party msstyle theme on Windows XP/SP1/SP2 or Windows Server 2003 (with Themes enabled) just by patching the uxtheme.dll (dynamic link library).Here is the link for Uxtheme Multi-patcher 5.5In
Customize Your Login Screen with LogonStudio 2008-02-28 03:42:42 -Tips- Windows only: Freeware application LogonStudio brings full login screen customization to your Windows XP or Vista PC. The app comes with several built-in login screens and images, but you can customize practically ever section of your login screen to your heart's content. LogonStudio is freeware, Windows only.Download LogonStudio here Read more:Login
How to unregister yahoo messenger mobile device? 2008-02-27 19:08:05 -Tips- How Do I Unregister My Mobile Device From Yahoo! Messenger?This is one of the most asked questions by Yahoo! msgr users...so I thought you may find this information helpful...You have two options.. You can disable the SMS messages for yahoo messenger only, or you can unregister your mobile device for all yahoo services.If you are wanting to disable the SMS from yahoo messenger only, then:1. Click on 'Messenger' then 'Preferences' (or CTRL + SHIFT + P)2. Click on the 'General' Tab3. Uncheck the box that says 'Always sign in to my mobile device when I exit messenger'If you would rather unregister your mobile device so you can't receive SMS for any yahoo services then:1. Go here: Sign in and where you see your registered mobile devices, click on 'delete'
Disabling File Sharing in P2P programs 2008-02-26 22:05:53 -Tips-While you download a file using P2P it will not only download the file but also will upload a portion of the downloaded file causing more bandwidth usage, thus slow down your internet network connection. Peer-to-peer file sharing software (like Kazaa) turn users' computers into servers that allow other users to connect to your computer and download any files you share. Many of the file sharing programs install with the file sharing feature enabled to use the maximum bandwidth available.When you disabling file sharing, you will still be able to download files and use other features of your P2P software. Disabling file sharing only limits the ability of other Internet users to download content you share. This will, in effect, slightly improve speed of Read more:Sharing
Usefull MS-DOS Commands For Easy Use 2008-02-26 21:41:52 -Tips-The commonly used commands in dos are listed here with a brief descriptionmd Creates a directory.MKDIR [drive:]pathMD [drive:]pathIf Command Extensions are enabled MKDIR changes as follows:MKDIR creates any intermediate directories in the path, if needed.For example, assume \a does not exist then: mkdir \a\b\c\dis the same as: mkdir \a chdir \a mkdir b chdir b mkdir c chdir c mkdir dwhich is what you would have to type if extensions were disabled.cdDisplays the name of or changes the current directory.CHDIR [/D] [drive:][path]CHDIR [..]CD [/D] [drive:][path]CD [..].. Specifies that you want to change to the parent directory.Type CD drive: to display the current directory in the specified drive.Type CD without parameters to display the current drive and directory.Use the /D switch t Read more:Commands
Online Photo Editing Sites 2008-02-26 21:35:30 -Tips-Many sites offer Online Photo
editing, it is very easy to use and very useful. to do simple editing in images we can use these sites. first you have to upload your image to that site and do the editing you want and then download it to your computer. some of good online image editor sites are listed belowPIXENATEPHIXRCREATING ONLINE Read more:Sites
Remove Security Alerts From System Tray 2008-02-26 07:43:24 -Tips-Are you bored of alerting that your automatic update is turned of or anitvirus program is not installed or out of date, everytime windows start up? It can be removes easily with the few following steps1. Goto Start > Control Panel > Security Center.In the left pane, click the Change the way Security Center alerts me link, located at the end of the column. In the new window that pops up, uncheck everything or what you don't want. Read more:System
Download Free Music from Social Music Service 2008-02-24 21:38:56 -Tips-Download
Free Music
Zilla HereFree music zilla, the first tool specialized for social music downloading, enables you download free music from IMEEM™, Last.fm™, Pandora™, Myspace, eSnips™, Mog™, iJigg™, Radio.blog.club™ and almost all social music services.Free music zilla, the first tool specialized for social music downloading, enables you download free mp3/music/song from imeem,last.fm,pandora,myspace and almost all social music services. Free Music Zilla - enables you to get free music from the huge music libraries in social music service. It's easy to operate and a really hear-and-get tool, from which you can obtain unlimited mount of mp3/music/songs.Example Start Free Music Zilla and open your favorite browser and point it to myspace.com. Once there open a b Read more:Social
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Free Portable Programs for Your Thumbdrive 2008-02-23 18:41:38 -Tips-Now you can carry your favorite computer programs along with all of your bookmarks, settings, email and more with you. Use them on any Windows computer. All without leaving any personal data behind.Now you can have many popular application like mozzila firefox, thunderbird, 7 zip, audacity, open office, abi word, vlc palyer and even Mac operating system in your thumb drive.To download these and a lot more portable application, visit portableapps.com Read more:Portable
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Keyboard Shortcuts 2008-02-23 18:27:37 -Tips-Click Here to find out the useful keyboard shortcuts Read more:Shortcuts
Google guide 2008-02-23 18:22:18 -Tips-Find out secrets about google search tips here Read more:Google
How To Enlarge Images Without Loosing Quality or Pixelated 2008-02-23 17:51:48 -Tips- Have you ever tried enlarging an image and then it became blur?Image files are divided into two major categories: vector images and bitmap images. Vector images are built of lines and curves, called vectors which also include information about their position and colors used. Because vector images are made of vectors, when modifying an image you actually change the properties of the vectors, properties that include color and position. So, you can resize, reshape, edit, and change the vector images many times without loosing their quality. JPG and GIF are bitmap images and you can vectorize them so they can be scaled or enlarged while maintaining it’s quality. There is a website called Vector Magic which offers free online auto-tracer service to converts bitmap images to vector imag Read more:Images
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Change the text in Internet Explorers title bar to anything you want 2008-02-23 17:40:16 -Tips-In regedit navigate to this key: HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftInternet
ExplorerMain change the value of the string "Window Title" to whatever you want on the title bar of Internet Explorer - to have no title except the title of the web pages you are browsing do not enter anything
for a value. Read more:Change
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Easy sendto menu modification 2008-02-23 17:31:00 -Tips-first open - X:\Documents and Settings\username\SendTo (it is hidden) where X is your drive letter and username is your username make and delete shortcuts to folders and devices at will
Remove the Recycle Bin from the Desktop 2008-02-23 17:22:31 -Tips-If you don't use the Recycle
Bin to store deleted files , you can get rid of its desktop icon all together. Run Regedit and go to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/explorer/Desktop
/NameSpace Click on the "Recycle Bin
" string in the right hand pane. Hit Del, click OK.
Saving Flash files from websites 2008-02-23 10:33:14 -Tips-Visit the webpage (here i’m using , just for an example)Select Source( View > Source )Now it would show up the HTML code for the site.Now click CTRL+F buttons together or go to the Edit menu and select Find( Edit > Find )In the search bar type swf and click find.It will take you to something similar to EMBED xsrc=”abcd.swf”Now select the file path. Example if it is EMBED xsrc=”/files
/flash/abcd.swf” , copy the entire file path starting from the forward slash(/)Now goto the address bar and paste the path next to the end of the current address.It wouldd look like - www.anyweb.com/files/flash/abcd.swfNow click go or hit Enter and the same flash file will load for you but without the HTML - only the file.Goto File > Save as and save the file in a safe place. This may not work w Read more:Saving
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Chat with robots 2008-02-23 04:12:40 -Tips-Now you can chatting with robot and it is absolutely free of cost. It is really fun chatting with them, they often surprise you with their intelligence. Sometimes they can even make fun of you.Visit this site to chat with the robot.Other site ALICE chatOther site Oliverbot Read more:robots
Speed up Mozilla Firefox 2008-02-23 03:52:25 -Tips-If you are a user of mozilla firefox, then you must have experienced that it takes too much time in startup. Now you can make your firefox to open “instantly” by using this small peice of software which is named Firefox
Preloader. It loads parts of Mozilla
Firefox into main memory before it is used, it improves the speed of the startup time.Download Firefox Preloader Read more:Speed
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Run Multiple Instances of Yahoo Messenger 2008-02-23 03:47:51 -Tips-You can run multiple yahoo messenger with different ids at the same time. Just follow the steps. Download this file - A plug-in By Sahil The plugin will be unzipped in your c:/programfiles/yahoo/messenger/plugins/Please unzip in different directory if your yahoo messenger’s installation directory is different, but it works in most of the cases. Click start then runWrite regedit, press enterGoto “HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Yahoo
\Pager\Test”Create a DWORD registry value named “Plural” by right clicking the right hand side window.Double click the new DWORD entry and set the value to 1 Now you remain online with two or more different yahoo ids at the same time. How to use this plugin ?This is a very useful plugin. You can install it by clicking“action” and then “load te Read more:Multiple
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Removing Programs listed from the Control Panel’s Add/Remove Programs 2008-02-23 03:42:46 -Tips-If you remove an installed program and its files by deleting the files, it may still show up in the Add/Remove programs list through the control panel. In order to remove it from the list (so you don’t need to re-install in order to just remove it again). Start the Registry Editor by clicking RUN from start menu and entering ‘regedit’ without quotes.Open HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE / SOFTWARE / Microsoft / Windows / CurrentVersion / UninstallDelete any programs from the list.This will only delete them from the list, not delete the actual programs. Only programs designed for Windows95 will show up here in the first place. Read more:Programs
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Saving youtube videos 2008-02-23 03:38:57 -Tips-Haven’t you always wanted to save those video files on Youtube / Google videos
and metacafe?It’s truly boring/tiring to save those url’s for your favourite videos, and everytime copy-pasting it to see them. Here’s an easy way to get out of the loop and start saving the video streams into your hard disk. Install this small firefox extensionhere Read more:Saving
Search Rapidshare with Rapidshare Search Engines 2008-02-22 18:35:09 -Tips-Search
Rapidshare using GoogleWhen we talk about search, Google can never be avoided. Yes, we can do Rapidshare search with the help of some tricky google queries too. So, what all you need to do is just put some standard search operators like inurl:pdf avi|wmv|mpg|nva inurl:mp3for example if you are searching for xyz software in zip format then Google,site:rapidshare.de inurl:zip xyz or site:rapidshare.com inurl:zip xyzBest Rapidshare Search Engines Ok, if you don’t want to use those complex looking operators, then you can use following search engines which are made specifically for doing rapidshare. There are hundreds of rapidshare search tools, here are some... funfail.comrapidshared.org.rapidsharer.orgrapidsharelinks.orgrapidsharefiles.netrapidsearch.orgrapidshare-search.commeg
Change the Windows User Password via Command Line 2008-03-12 03:46:08 -Tips- Are you an administrator on the Windows
operating system with multiple user accounts? Have you forgotten the password to one of those accounts and you are locked out? Then, provided you are the administrator, you can reset the password from the command line. To open the Windows command line, just go to your start menu then choose “run” (or press your Windows key and then press R). Then in the box that pops up, type cmd and press enter. In the black box that comes up, type net user then enter. This will give you a list of all your Windows accounts on that computer. To change the password for one of these accounts is very simple. Say the Windows account name is asks and you want to change the password to mypa$$word then you just need to type the following : net user asks mypa$$wor Read more:Change
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Protect your PC while Running Suspicious Programs 2008-03-12 00:18:22 -Tips-As a general rule of thumb, you should never download freeware apps unless it comes from a reputable source. Otherwise you could be letting yourself in for a whole lot of trouble if that cool little freeware app happens to contain malicious code. However if you MUST try out a new program which has come from dubious sources, you can use a Windows feature to protect your PC. When you have downloaded the program, don’t double-click to install it just yet. First, right-click on the program icon and choose “run as”. When the “run as” box comes up, you’ll see the following box aboveSelect “current user” and make sure the “protect my computer and data from unauthorized program activity” box is ticked. Then click OK. You can then do a limited installation of the program i Read more:Protect
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Ways to access ‘Must Sign Up to View’ Sites 2008-03-13 07:56:20 -Tips-BugMeNot helps you instantly get disposable logins details for huge number of popular websites that force you to register. In other words, it lets you bypass compulsory registration processes on thousands of websites. Ex: Say you clicked on a link that points to an article on some popular reviews or news website. Usually instead of landing straight on an article page you’re asked to signin or register. Maybe there is a good reason behind it, but what’s the point of signing up if that is your first and only visit to that website. Using BugMeNot, you can instantly access disposable login details and login to desired website without signing-up. It’s fast and convenient.Features: Firefox Extension: Add BugMeNot to your Firefox toolbar.Bugmenot Bookmarklet: Lookup disposable login Read more:Sites
Missing shut down button 2008-03-25 10:08:18 -Tips-Solution To enable the shut downbutton
in regedit[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\ Explorer] "NoClose"=dword:00000000(if the dword value is 00000001 double click in the right hand window where is says NoClose and change the 1 to a 0) Read more:Missing
Send SMS through email for FREE 2008-03-28 08:34:42 Over at del.icio.us, the buzz is all about rediscovering how to send SMS
messages from E-Mail clients. This may be an oldie, but it's sure a goodie, and well worth repeating. Here are the addresses for the top six US carriers. Substitute an actual phone number, send the e-mail and it will arrive as a text message.If you know the correct email address, sending SMS through email is simple.where phonenumber = your 10 digit phone numberMaxis: phonenumber@mail.maxis.net.myUS Cellular: phonenumber@email.uscc.netSunCom: phonenumber@tms.suncom.comPowertel: phonenumber@ptel.netAT&T: phonenumber@txt.att.netAlltel: phonenumber@message.alltel.comT-Mobile:phonenumber@tmomail.netVirgin Mobile:phonenumber@vmobl.com Cingular:phonenumber@cingularme.com Sprint:phonenumber@messaging.sprintpcs.comVerizon
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