Time is money so they say! You can win some time when you use the run command in Windows! The run option of Start menu can be used to run a program or to open a document directly. So how do you do this?? For example: If you want to open Notepad you simply click on Start button to open Run and type the programs shortcut name to open it directly.. So in this case you type notepad and you’ll see that it will open immediately! Here below you can see some programs shortcut names. If you have some… Continue reading here »»

Do you want to convert & download YouTube videos really fast and quickly?! This site allows you convert a Flash Video / FLV file (YouTube’s videos,etc) to MPEG4 (AVI/MOV/MP4/MP3/3GP) file online!

How does this work?! Well, It’s really simple! Just copy & paste the web address from Youtube into the url bar, hit the Start button, wait a sec and it converts the .flv file for you. Then all you have to do is click download and you will have an .avi formatted and ready to download to your computer!

So easy, a baby could do it!!… Continue reading here »»

Did you knew that you can increase / decrease the size of the Recycle Bin in Windows? On default the recycle bin size it’s set on 10% of the drive size, but if you delete a larger size file accidentally, you can’t retrieve this file from Recycle bin, so you see, this is why you should use the maximum storage size of the Recycle bin. But how do you change this?? It’s very simple!

1. Right click on the Recycle Bin icon on the Desktop of your computer then go to Properties.
2. Adjust the slider bar in the center

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As the size of hard drives increase, more people are using partitions to separate and store groups of files. XP uses the C:\Program Files directory as the default base directory into which new programs are installed. However, you can change the default installation drive and / or directory by using a registry hack.

1. Start
2. Run
3. Type regedit
4. Go to this directory:
   

   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion

5. Look for the value named ProgramFilesDir. by default,this value will be C:\Program Files.
6. Edit the value to any valid drive or folder and XP will use that new location as the default installation directory

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If your working with a lot of pictures then you probably have a huge collection of pictures. But do you know if you have some duplicate images? You probably don’t know, but you might have it! Duplicate images often find their way into collections, even commercial stock collections. Now you can clean them of duplicates and near duplicates. Search a folder (including subfolders) for duplicate and near duplicate images. Match all images or restrict match to same size or same aspect ratio. Dup Detector creates a data file by opening and reading image pixel data for each image in… Continue reading here »»

GMail Drive is a Shell Namespace Extension that creates a virtual filesystem around your Google Mail account, allowing you to use Gmail as a storage medium.

GMail Drive creates a virtual filesystem on top of your Google Gmail account and enables you to save and retrieve files stored on your Gmail account directly from inside Windows Explorer. GMail Drive literally adds a new drive to your computer under the My Computer folder, where you can create new folders, copy and drag’n’drop files to.

Ever since Google started to offer users a Gmail e-mail account, which includes storage space of… Continue reading here »»

All the products in Microsoft Office 2007 have new file types and extensions based on the new XML file formats in the 2007 Microsoft Office system. The new file name extensions are based on the previous extensions, with the addition of a character to differentiate between macro-enabled and macro-free files. For example, a .docx extension indicates a macro-free file, and a .docm extension indicates a macro-enabled file. In case you wonder what the new file name extensions are you can check the Microsoft website by clicking here.

In case your working with Microsoft Office 2007 you probably know that Office 2007 uses another extensions in this version like .docx for Word! Each time when you save a file it wouldn’t open in any previous version of Office! To resolve this problem, microsoft provides Office Compatibility Pack which enables users to open,edit and save files using the file formats new to Word, Excel, PowerPoint 2007. It can also be used with MS Office Word Viewer 2003, Excel Viewer 2003, and PowerPoint Viewer 2003.

Download: Office Compatibility Pack
Source: IT Tech Talk