One of the leading companies in cloud based computing, Ghost Inc better known as Global Hosted Operating SysTem has hundreds of thousands of users worldwide, making use of this free service to host their files online and access them using an online operating system that can be accessed from any browser, anywhere! Early morning, i received an email from them stating that Ghost would be shutting down its free service. The news came as a shock for me as i have been using their service for more than a year now.

Command Prompt is used to interact with your operating system. Being a non-graphical interface, it doesn’t have user friendly features and looks, but with a bit of customization you can make it slightly better.

1) Enable Copy Paste Option:

a) Open command prompt and left click on the top corner of the dialog box that opened.

b) Go to Properties.

c) You will see four tabs in the window that opens. In the Options…

This article highlights a security vulnerability that has been detected in Microsoft windows NT-based operating systems. The security vulnerability was first discussed on December 27,2005 and attacks followed 24 hours later. Let us take you through about how to safeguard your computer against a potential spy-ware attack.

The vulnerability is found in your system32 folder, and the file concerned is gdi32.dll. The gdi32.dll is a dynamic link library for the windows…

Your Windows Operating System does come with different ways to turn it off or restart. Whether you shutdown, restart or log off, the file that is responsible for this is shutdown.exe in the system32 directory of your Windows installation. We will now learn to play with shutdown.exe giving it different parameters To do this, we’ll be keying in shutdown.exe in the RUN command window (available from Start >> Run)…

For all the Geeks out there who swear by open source technology , you have a friend in Ubuntu ! Yep , thats right ! Ubuntu , famous for being the most user friendly Linux based operating system , is compiling their second round of developer week ! The Ubuntu Opportunistic developer conference has been slated to be held from 1st-6th March 2010 , the details for which can be found on Ubuntu`s Home page .

A simple trick which will help you to hide files and folders in windows Operating system without using any software.

Here is an application which helps you clean up your Windows Operation system and keep it in top shape. nCleaner is perfect if you want to customize things like advanced system and advanced application cleaning system.

The nCleaner website makes claims that it end up tweaking and cleaning up to 2GB space on the hard disk due to using its features like memory management, System resource monitor, Tweak manager along with…

Almost everyone is aware of the Aero feature in Windows. You can use it with Windows Vista and Windows 7, but unfortunately this is not available with the Home Basic version of Vista and Windows 7. There are many manual hacks available for making tweaks to make Aero available.

I came across this software Aero Enabler on the internet which does exactly the same but without you needing to look up…

Most of our desktops are in a mess. Its mostly because its the most accessible area of our computer. We tend to put in all our downloads, WinRAR extracts, notes, etc. Most of us use these files just once! Except maybe My computer and the Browser.

Here an awesome piece of software which helps to clean your desktop, its called Desktop Teleporter.

You just have to specify…

If you buy a car often we are allowed to take a test drive. I wonder why no such option exists for software applications and more importantly Operating Systems. But here is a website from Microsoft which allows you to test drive Windows 7 through your browser thanks to their virtual labs. It allows me to use many features in Windows 7 remotely on a live virtual machine.

Ideally meant to…