Archive for June 2009
Remove Recent Searches
Few days back we discussed about the way to delete Google search history. It’s all about your privacy and now we are going to tell you how to remove the Recent Search Items on your local machine. Sometime, we don’t want to leave any proof about the items we had searched for specially on public computers like college lab, cyber cafe etc. For example, see the image below, where just by typing “m” it’s displaying all items searched starting with the letter “m”
Enable Task Manager from Registry
Sometime, due to some malware or virus disable the Task Manager option and we can’t open it. Even the key combination CTRL+ALT+DEL fails. In such cases you can enable it easily from registry.
[1] Go to Start Menu -> Run and on the Run dialog write down “REGEDIT” (without quotes) to open Registry Editor.
Manually Remove Windows Service
By default hundreds of Windows services started soon after we start our system. But, most of these services are not quite essential and simply use system resources like physical RAM, processor. You can stop and remove these services manually and quite easily.
[1] First go to Start Menu -> Control Panel -> Administrative Tools
[2] Here double click on Services icon to get the list of services
[3] On the Services window you can arrange services in order of Starup and you will get all automatically stated services. Continue Reading “Manually Remove Windows Service” »
How to Boot from a USB Flash drive
After the death of floppy drive, now USB flash drives are quite popular among computer users basically to carry files but do you know that that you can also boot your system with USB Flash drives ? as with these flash drives, It will be really helpful to recover important files if our PC crashes. Earlier, we had already discussed about linux USB drive boot which can boot directly from USB flash drive. Now, we are going to tell you how to run XP SP2 from USB flash drive (this method can be used to boot vista and windows 7 and other operating systems too using flash drive).
Before continuing be sure about following points
Spam on Hubpages
Hubpages which is often compared with squidoo and which has often said that they have better quality and spam control as compared to squidoo seems to be getting filled with spam pages now. There are tons of pages related to India (and created by Indians of course) which contains nothing but spam keywords and phrases.
It seems people use google trends to find what is currently hot and quickly create a page on hubpage with nothing on it but some repeated words along with images and may be some download link and due to strength of root domain, these pages rank very easily. Here is one such page.
How to Delete Google search history
Google keeps track of our searches thorough profile, session and cookie management and sometimes we don’t want to leave any traces and footprints of our search queries, specially on shared computers. So if you want to delete google search history, here are few options -
Avoid Eye fatigue due to Computer Screen
If you are like me, who wears glasses and works all the time in front of computer, the chances are, after working for long hours, you must have started feeling eye fatigue, heaviness, redness and even water coming out from it. This happens if your eyes get too dry, specially if you are working on those age old CRT monitors (which you should have thrown out of window by now). LCD are very cheap nowadays and you should look to move on to them.
Anyway LCD or no LCD, for those who work in front of computer screen for a long time should follow few basic things to avoid eye fatigue. Often we overlook these simple things which can be really harmful in later time.
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How to Extend Life of Laptop Battery
Few days back I had written an article on how you can clean your laptop screen. here is another article on laptop maintenance. I will try to write more such articles in the coming days too.
So normally laptop batteries have lifetime of 2-3 years and after that they start showing signs of aging and you may have to change them. A 9 cell battery which gives backup of 4-5 hours don’t come cheap so instead of looking to have new set of batteries every few years, you may look to follow these simple steps to extend the life of laptop battery. Continue Reading “How to Extend Life of Laptop Battery” »
Retrieve Lost Windows login Password
It’s really frustrating if you lost the password for your Windows system or you change it and not able to remember the new password, which happened to me couple of times. For non techie people,there is no option but to reinstall the whole operating system as they don’t know any other option to recover the lost windows login password. But there are ways using which you can retrieve the lost windows login password without installing Windows. Just follow these steps -
1> Enter your Windows XP CD the boot your PC. Remember to change the boot sequence at BIOS and set CD as the first option
How to Type Special Symbols
While building websites and working on web, I often needs to type special symbols and characters which are not on the keyboard and to type them, I often had to use ALT key. So if you are looking for to type special symbols and characters on your computer and are wondering how to do it, this post is for you.
In general computer systems with English language use a character set popularly with is known as US ASCII or ASCII. Currently a default character set ISO 1 has introduced that can display special characters for different region. These character sets comes as an encoded set in table with a positive number associated with each character. You can use these characters with a modifier key but it is quite important to use the proper font in order to display a particular character. These characters are like this ☻♥♦♣♠•◘○◙♂♀♪♫☼►◄