A Quick Way To Check Drives In Windows

It may happen at times that Windows crashes or there is a power failure which causes disk drives to lose data (doesn’t happen frequently fortunately). There is a quick way to check whether a select drive or a set of drives are ok after a crash or an abnormal Windows restart. This is done through …

A Reliable Codec Pack For Windows

It can be time consuming as well as frustrating to search for a suitable codec when trying to play any multimedia file in Windows especially if the codec is not a very popular one. Here is a free and very detailed codec pack which you can download and use for free. Shark007’s codec pack supports …

Batch Files In Windows 7

In case you have made a batch file in Windows 7,you might have noticed that it doesn’t really work as it should right off the bat. Here is what I am saying : Suppose a simple batch file that pings a website continuously is made (ping.bat) in this case : (If you want to learn …

Understanding the wildcards

Wildcards can be pretty helpful when doing some basic tasks either from the Windows GUI or the beloved command prompt. Let’s take a look at the frequently used wildcard * for doing some simple but effective stuff. For understanding purposes,I have created a folder called textfiles in C: with the following files : apples.txt,oranges.txt,bananas.txt,applejuice.txt,orangejuice.txt.bananajuice.txt Let’s …

Create And Edit Files Without Using A Mouse

>Ever wondered how to create files without using a single click of mouse? Chances are if you have been familiar with command prompt,you may know this. Example : Let’s make a simple text file named hello.txt,save it and list it contents – all of this without using a mouse. Here is how : 1.Launch command …

FTP Transfer Made Easy

You might have often experienced that the built in file manager provided by the web hosts can be slow as well as bit complex to navigate. Filezilla is a free and extremely simple ftp application which can upload/download files to and fro local and remote host as well as edit files-all of this very quickly …

How To Share A Root Drive In Vista

>Before Vista it was possible to share the root drive with a $ sign like C$,D$ and so on but the advanced sharing in Vista and later versions doesn’t really require that. In order to directly share a root drive (a root drive is the drive referenced directly without any specific folder or file in …

How To View Detailed System Info With A Click

Here is a simple way by which the entire detailed system information can be viewed with just a click. To do this,we just need to make a desktop shortcut pointing to system info. Here is how : 1.Right click on desktop and select New > Shortcut. 2.In the path for shortcut,type : C:WindowsSystem32msinfo32.exe 3.Click Next and …

Get Licensed Software For Free And Legally

Just a quick post in case you always wanted to download full version software for free and legally. Giveaway of the day is where stuff is given out within a specified time limit,do check it out and download the free apps. Applications available there are perfectly legal and full version (customer support or free upgrades …

Recover Forgotten Web Passwords Through Firefox

It is possible to recover forgotten passwords for different websites through Firefox provided they were allowed to be remembered in the first place. To recover forgotten passwords through Mozilla Firefox : 1.In Firefox select Tools >Options and select Security tab. Make sure that Remember passwords for sites is selected so that login to different websites …