Windows Tips and Tricks

Internet explorer 9 has already become one of the favoured browsers among Windows users. But Internet Explorer 9 only works on Windows 7 or Windows Vista and not on Windows XP or any older version of Windows. Its because Internet Explorer 9 uses Direct2D for hardware acceleration which is not available on Windows XP. But don’t worry you can still use Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP. But if you are running Windows XP on a virtual machine, you might have noticed that your system doesn’t show any updates for the existing Internet Explorer 6. Well here is a workaround for that.

Even though Windows Vista has now been more or less replaced by its successor Windows 7, there are some people who use Vista as their operating system. If you are a user of Windows Vista, you must have come across the issue when the computer hangs while applying Computer Settings in the login process. This issue is also seen in Windows Server 2008. But with a quick hotfix, you can easily solve the issue.

Computer is a device that is prone to any form of danger attacks from any angles. In fact, computer can get infected with viruses and Trojans horse from any area which is unknown to its owner at many times.

There are some programs and software on your computer that you cannot live without. Be it your favorite browser, your music software or any other software related to your profession; there are always a couple of them that you use everyday. Wouldn’t you like to open up such programs at startup without firing them up one by one once you start your computer? Well here is a simple trick to choose programs that you would like to kick start automatically after your computer starts.

Who wouldn’t want to use a faster PC. Sometimes, we get so annoyed with our computers when they take minutes after minutes to boot up. Wouldn’t you want your computer to boot faster without doing much? Here is a registry trick that can considerably lower the startup time of your computer.

Bought a new computer recently and migrated all your old data there? If you already have a user profile with user data on your older PC, you might want to copy that as well to the new computer. On Windows XP, you can easily copy user profile data from your older computer to the newer computer.

Microsoft Office is by far the best word processing application out there. Microsoft Word has a plethora of options for embellishing your document. Word also lets you write text in a different direction. But do you know that while editing rotated text, the icons for paragraph tools also get rotated?

Windows has an inbuilt defragmentation tool and there are plenty of other commercial defragmentation software as well. Running defragmentation regularly in a couple of weeks or months considerably enhances the speed of your system. But sometimes you may forget or even worse, you gradually give up the habit. But thanks to Windows 7 that automatically defrags your hard disk by default.

There is an issue with custom permalink structures in Wordpress which don’t happen to work on localhost on default settings. Here is how you can use custom permalinks issue in Wordpress when testing it on localhost.

The cache in your CPU is used to reduce the time to access the memory. While buying a computer, a general customer would just look at the specs like RAM, Hard Disk, Processor etc. but leave out on the cache memory because many people don’t know of its importance. While buying a desktop or a [...]