How to hide drives in Windows 7

In Windows 7 versions other than Home,it is possible to do a lot of stuff using the good old group policy console (gpedit.msc) It is possible to completely hide drives from Windows explorer based on how settings are configured in local group policy editor. Suppose in this example D: drive needs to be hidden. (It …

Multiple email accounts in Gmail mobile

Gmail for mobile phones has a pretty low consumption of resources and is extremely light. In case you need to get it for your mobile phones here it is or directly enter the following link. Once installed on the phone,there exists the settings to add multiple Gmail accounts and switch inboxes all under the same app. …

How to enable telnet in Windows 7

Windows 7 by default doesn’t come with telnet server and client services as enabled. We need to enable them manually and that’s a good thing from security perspective. Here is how to enable Telnet in Windows 7. It is pretty much the same as enabling in Vista,please refer to my earlier post for Vista. 1.Go to …

Adding the Run feature in Windows 7 Start Menu

By default,the Start Menu in Windows 7 doesn’t have the Run option from where you can execute command line tasks or open applications. Here is how to enable it : Right click on Start Menu button (the round Windows button) and select Properties. Go to Start Menu tab and hit Customize. Scroll down and check …

Open many files at once in Windows 7

Windows 7 comes bundled with the cool PowerShell. It is better than the regular command prompt and provides greater degree of control and automation for system admins. Most of the work done in Powershell is through cmdlets (small built-in commands which access required objects and modify them). Here I will show you how to open …

Save the typing of full web addresses

How many times do we type http://somesitename.com or .org or .net and hit enter in the browser? Here are a few browser independent shortcut keys that can save time and avoid the every time typing of http:// and .com/.net/.org. Open the browser window and simply type the website name and simply press any of the …

How to add programs in Windows Firewall

Windows Vista comes with a pretty good firewall that can be configured easily. It may happen at times that a program that is installed can no longer download updates or connect to the internet because the Windows firewall no longer recognizes it(say after an update) or blocks it. To overcome this,we can manually add programs …

How to download you tube videos from Firefox

Mozilla Firefox has plenty of really useful add-ons and 1-click YouTube video downloader is one of them. Download the latest version from here which works with the new YouTube code (some previous YouTube downloader add-ons in Firefox have stopped working or have glitches after the site was changed). Select Add to Firefox to get it …