Task Scheduler in Windows is perhaps one of the most under utilized tools that I have known so far.Knowing it can make using Windows more fun and of course more interesting. Windows Vista and it’s UAC prevents applications from running without admin privileges. Although UAC can be disabled,many times it is not feasible for running …
In my earlier post on security features in Windows Vista,I had described how to turn off User Account Control. What if we want to run applications with normal user rights but only need the command prompt to be launched with elevated administrator rights? There are two ways that I have come across to launch command …
When installing service pack 1 under Windows Vista,a way of uninstalling is also embedded by default should you at any later point of time need to remove the service pack. What if we no longer need to uninstall service pack,the setup files in this case can be safely removed thereby freeing up disk space in …
As the music collection on your hard drive increases,chances are there will be a lot of duplicate songs within the same playlist. How do we go about trimming the music collection and find out which songs are duplicates or repeated? Itunes helps in this regard.If we have a playlist in itunes,there is a nifty feature …
It is possible to spawn a command prompt referencing a specific folder only in Windows Vista.What this means is if we want to open a command prompt that has the path of the specific folder we wish,we can do that which is quite cool. To do this : 1. Select any folder whose path needs …
Windows Mail in Vista provides an in-built drag and drop functionality which makes it possible to simply drag text from any open document and drop it in any folder within Windows Mail except the outbox. Let’s take a quick tour on how to do this : 1. Launch Windows Mail (Start > Run > winmail.exe) …
An old hack but is still useful to remove Windows Messenger from Windows XP. By default,it can’t be removed from XP but we can do it by changing a few attributes. Windows Messenger doesn’t show up by default as below : First,we need to make the Windows Messenger component visible in Add/Remove Windows components.To do …
Recently I decided to try using Windows Mail client for a change. So I configured POP/SMTP settings in Windows mail client and also enabled POP in Gmail account settings.It worked and email started flowing in Windows Mail but composing new emails became a pain as none of the contacts present in Gmail were setup by …
Here is a registry hack useful for XP machines that are used in lobby or for some display purposes that use internet explorer. Let’s take a look at how to always run Internet Explorer 6 in full mode: 1. Open registry editor (Start>Run>regedt32.exe) 2. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER>Console, find ‘fullscreen‘ change the value from 0 to …
Suppose we need to find out quickly what all sub directories with their files are under a directory without going to Windows explorer to do that or even using the dir command.Is it possible? Yes indeed.We can find out the details from the beloved command prompt using the “tree”. This command comes in handy when …