Windows XP
Create System Restore Points Quickly using Script in Windows Vista and Windows XP
You can create System Restore Points quickly using a WMI script. Here is a script that helps you create a System Restore point in a single click. This script works in Windows Vista and Windows XP Systems.
16May2008 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
How to set Firefox Portable as the default browser in Windows XP
Mozilla Firefox®, Portable Edition is the popular Mozilla Firefox web browser bundled with a PortableApps.com Launcher as a portable app, so you can take your bookmarks, extensions and saved passwords with you. Mozilla Firefox Portable Edition can be copied to a thumb drive so that you can use it where ever you go. Mozilla Firefox®, [...]
15May2008 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Add Copy To and Move To to the right-click menu in Vista
The Copy To Folder and Move To Folder options found in the Edit menu in Windows Explorer help you move or copy a file or folder easily to a different location. This functionality can also be added to the right-click menu in Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Vista, similar to Send To X PowerToy [...]
14May2008 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Speed up the Send To menu in Windows
Whenever I right-click a file or folder and click Send To, it takes 5 seconds for the Send To menu to popup. This list used to come up in a second or so. What is happening under the hood?
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Add “Copy as Path” option to the context menu in Windows XP
Windows Vista already includes the useful Copy as Path option in the context menu, which helps you quickly copy the complete path of the selected file or folder to the Clipboard. Earlier, we added the Add to Quick Launch and Open file location options to the context menu in Windows XP, as in Windows Vista. [...]
10May2008 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Add “Open file location” to the context menu for shortcuts in Windows XP
Windows Vista comes with the Open file location context menu item for shortcuts, which help you quickly open the target folder of a shortcut. In Windows XP, it takes four mouse clicks to accomplish the task. To open the target folder of a shortcut in Windows XP, you need to right-click on the shortcut file, [...]
9May2008 | admin | 2 comments | Continued
Error “Windows cannot open the User Accounts control panel” when opening User Accounts
User accounts missing from the Welcome Screen, and login can only be possible by pressing the CTRL+ALT+DEL keys twice and typing the credentials in the Classic logon prompt. Also, the following error message appears when opening the User Accounts applet:
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How to terminate and restart Explorer.exe process cleanly
To restart Explorer in order to test a registry setting without a reboot, we usually terminate explorer.exe process using Task Manager. The Task Manager method is like forcibly killing the process instead of terminating it cleanly.
25Apr2008 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Add the “Open with Notepad” context menu option for all file types
There are situations where you need to open plain-text files (where the file type is not registered in your system, or the file has NO extension at all) using Notepad or any other text editor. Usually, you use the Open With dialog and select Notepad from the list. If Notepad is not available in the [...]
24Apr2008 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
Fix RSS feed update problems by resetting the feeds database in Internet Explorer 7
I faced the feed synchronization problem in Internet Explorer 7 in my Windows Vista PC. The Refresh All command from the Feeds explorer dialog in Internet Explorer did nothing. And manually refreshing the feeds using the msfeedssync command-line did not help either. Using Process Explorer, I could see the msfeedssync.exe process running for a second [...]
21Apr2008 | admin | 0 comments | Continued