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)…

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

Most of us connect our XBox 360 to internet using a router via normal ethernet cable. But what if you’re having only a usb broadband dongle? This device sadly can’t just be put into one of the three USB ports on the Xbox 360. So you will definitely need a computer or a laptop with a ethernet port and a ethernet cable for this device to work and get…

Since more than a year now, I am using Flashnote, the simplest, lightest and easy to use note taking app I have ever come across and importantly this wonderful app for windows is absolutely free. After installing flashnote, you can open the app by pressing “Alt+S” (default shortcut key) write anything there and press escape to close the app. You need not waste time opening a new file, saving it,…

As you might know there are many tools which convert Microsoft documents into pdf formats and we have discussed about it before. But what about the tool which does the other way around.

Portable document format or PDF was created by Adobe systems for document exchange. This format is independent of the application software, hardware and operating system. So the PDF files will never loose its dimension unlike the DOC…

About a month ago, I installed Windows 7 on my computer and enjoyed it a lot. There are many useful features in it. I specially, loved the option to pin/unpin items from taskbar. Now, while using my windows XP PC I am feeling really uncomfortable and chaotic to see the traditional task bar of windows XP. So, here is a simple and free utility – ViGlance for…

In my previous post I have said How To Add Background Image For Pendrive. Now lets see a similar hack of setting background image for a folder in Xp.

Here are 2 simple methods,

Method 1:

Just download and install Windowpaper XP v2.0 Beta 2
Run the application.
It is highly custamizable appz you can set image,Change folder Icon,Text colour.

That’s it!!! Simple way to set the image.

Method 2:

Click Start–>Run
Type cmd and…

Most of us backup our on-line or off-line transaction details in our hard disks for future use. And if the information contained in those files is very sensitive,then we have the option to lock the document with a password so that only the users who know the password can access the file. But what happens if we forget the password to those files we had backed up few months…