Windows Tips and Tricks

19 July 2011 ~ 0 Comment

Paragraph icons get rotated while editing rotated text in Word

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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?

06 May 2011 ~ 3 Comments

With Windows 7 you don’t need to manually defrag your drives

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.

01 March 2011 ~ 6 Comments

Fix custom permalinks structure in WordPress on a localhost setup

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.

05 February 2011 ~ 0 Comment

How to find out the cache memory of your computer’s processor

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 [...]

13 December 2010 ~ 3 Comments

How to keep the desktop icons from rearranging themselves on Windows

On Windows, you can easily rearrange icons by moving them around. People prefer to have the icons that are frequently used towards the top. But some may hate the whole idea of rearranging icons with mouse drags. Sometimes, it can be a predicament too. For example you have a Zip file on your desktop and while arranging icons, if you happen to drag another icon onto the zip, the file gets zipped into the same Zip archive. This can be annoying and happens many a times. Here’s a trick that will keep the desktop icons from rearranging themselves on Windows.

29 November 2010 ~ 0 Comment

Get Microsoft Support via Twitter in English, French, German, and other languages

Despite being the most popular operating system in the world, there are a lot of issues with Windows. Things keep getting screwed up from time to time like. Well you can rely on Microsoft Help to get quick solutions of your problems via Twitter.

12 March 2009 ~ 0 Comment

Show shutdown menu on pressing Power button in Windows

The easiest shortcut for shutting down a Windows system is pressing the power button. But pressing it will directly shut down the computer without asking you to either turn it off, log off or Restart. Well you would ask me “Hey, why would you need that?” But suppose you press it by mistake while pressing the Print screen button? If that is the case, then you might put yourself into big trouble. You can open the shutdown menu instead when the Power button is pressed. Here’s how you do it.

15 November 2008 ~ 6 Comments

Windows Vista Sidebar Tricks

The sidebar is one of those killer features of Windows Vista which many people crave for. Here are some cool Windows Vista Sidebar Tricks.

14 November 2008 ~ 6 Comments

Useful Run Commands

Run commands help you launch applications very easily without having to click several times in a row.

08 November 2008 ~ 0 Comment

Some thing that may annoy you in Windows XP

Prevent password expiration for your username: After using Windows XP for a couple of time, you might have come across a message saying-“Your password will expire in 14 days. Do you want to change it now?”. You can overcome this problem.