Majority of us open command prompt by going to Start> Run but here’s an easy way to start it. You can add an option in the right click menu in Windows explorer to start command prompt. Here’s how you do it:
Sometimes when there are many people who use the same pc, you would like to hide certain stuff from them especially if they are kids or maybe non geeky users. They usually mess up installed programs files, documents, and other stuff. So the best way to prevent such problems is to hide drives from appearing in My Computer. Here’s a quick and easy tutorial to do so:
Don’t like to adjust your system volume by going to taskbar or settings? Here’s a simple way for lazy people like me. You need to have a mouse with scroller in order to do this, well most of us do have. There’s a free utility known as Volumouse. Using this little softy you can adjust your system volume by just moving scrolling your mouse scroller up and down.
You might have come across several utilities which allow you to mount ISO, MDF, etc files into virtual drives. Today, I’m going to speak about yet another utility known as Pismo File Mount which allows users to mount files on to virtual drives. So what’s so special about this software that makes it different from others? Well, you can even mount ZIP files into a virtual drive! Pretty cool isn’t it?
If you like to download and try out different fonts in your pc you might get bugged with the fonts installation process in Windows. The default way to install new fonts in Windows is to click on the Font entry in the Windows Control Panel and to select Install New Font from the File menu. But I usually install new fonts by dragging and dropping them into Fonts in Control Panel. I feel it’s pretty convenient. Well, if you have saved fonts in different locations then it will certainly take a lot of time to install new fonts.
Bored of same old static desktop wallpaper? I guess it’s time to get it into life. So, how about setting a screensaver as your desktop wallpaper? Good idea isn’t it? By default there’s no such option to set a screensaver as wallpaper in XP. But don’t worry, there’s a software known as Vital Desktop which does the job. Here’s how you do it:
Sometimes if your children use a lot of computer you might want to restrict their windows logon hours so that they have control over their computer usage and concentrate on studies. Well, it’s not just children, you might also like to control any users logon hours on your pc. You can do this either by using a software or by a simple windows command. If you wanna go the software way then you gotta pay. So, let’s go the easy way, i.e. by a simple windows command. Here’s how you do it:
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: