How to Create a List of Files and Folders in a Directory

We have several files and folders in our computers. Sometimes we may require a list of files and folders in a particular directory. Looking for each file and folder and listing them isn’t easy. But there’s an easy way to generate or create a list of files and folders in a location. Here’s how you do it:

Quickly Create New Folders

Sometimes when we create multiple folders it consumes a lot of time as Windows doesn’t provide any shortcut key to create a new folder quickly. But don’t worry people, I’m going to explain two ways through which you can create multiple folders easily and quickly. The first one is by creating a quick launch icon to create a new folder; the second one is by using a software.

How to Install Windows Vista or XP on PSP

Here’s an awesome trick to get Windows Vista or Xp on your PSP. Now you might be wondering how’s that possible. Well, it’s just a flash program known as PSPWXP that is made to run on your PSP and not the real Windows Vista or XP which you install on your pc.

How to Right Click Defragment a Drive in XP and Vista

Here’s a short useful tutorial which will help you to add a defragment option to the right click menu. It’s pretty useful as whenever you feel like defragmenting a particular drive you can do it instantly by right clicking on it and selecting defragment instead of starting defragmenter and selecting the drive to defragment. Here’s how you get it done:

How to Make a Folder or File Super Hidden in Vista and XP

There are a few files in both windows XP and Vista which are super hidden. Such files cannot be viewed by changing the hide folder option to view all hidden files. I had previously written an article on viewing super hidden files over here. You can check it if you want to view super hidden files. Well, if we can view them can we make any file/ folder super hidden? Well, yes.

Create and Manage Keyboard Shortcuts to different Applications

Creating keyboard shortcuts to various programs in windows is pretty easy. To do so, we right click on the shortcut, go to properties and change the shortcut key. But doing this for every application is a bit time consuming and difficult to manage. If you have many apps with shortcuts you might end up forgetting the shortcut keys.

I came across awesome software- Keyboard Shortcuts which not only allows you to create keyboard shortcuts to applications but also allows you to manage them with ease. The program is hardly 500KB in size and is freely available.

How to use Custom Visual Styles in Windows XP SP3 using Modified Uxtheme.dll

Most of us like to change visual styles, we usually do it by changing the uxtheme.dll file and then applying different themes. But if you are using Windows XP SP3 (service pack3) then you need to use a different version of Uxtheme.dll. The previous uxtheme.dll doesn’t work with SP3. You need to download the uxtheme patcher in order to install new visual styles in XP SP3.

How to Lock and Hide Folders without using any Software

We usually lock folders using softwares but have you ever wondered that you can lock a folder without actually using a software? Well, if you haven’t it is possible and pretty easy too. The idea behind it is simple, here’s how you do it:

1. Firstly open Notepad and paste the following code:

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