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 …
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 …
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 …
Windows Vista comes with some really neat features and systems diagnostics report is one of them. Periodic monitoring of system helps us in determining it’s bottlenecks and resolving potential problems that it might face. Reliability and Performance Monitor in Windows Vista gives us a neat detailed view of our system – its potential bottlenecks and …
In one of my earlier posts,I had described the way to backup registry through the system state data backup. Let us take a look on how to go about if we only need to backup registry and nothing else. 1.Open registry editor (Start>Run>regedt32). 2.We will export the current registry settings and save it as a …
User Account Control is a new security feature in Windows Vista to prevent execution of unauthorized applications. If tired of annoying popups that seem to come when you try to run any application in Vista,it means UAC is in charge of your access. I will show two ways to disable UAC in Windows Vista -the …