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Five Lesser Known But Useful Free Softwares

Windows OS’ users have got a lot of softwares to do any task; be it reading Books, listening music etc. Also, the most popular among them are the free ones. Most users have either iTunes, Winamp or Foobar for music, Firefox or Chrome for browsing. Undoubtedly, these free softwares are very useful and therefore very popular. However, there also exists a large pool of softwares that aren’t yet famous but nevertheless useful. In this post, I list 5 of such softwares and briefly discuss them.

Get Windows 7 features in Vista and XP

We all love shortcuts, be it in traveling or our mobile or our computer and and Windows 7 brings a bunch of new ones to the party. For example, you can press Windows-Space to make all your open windows transparent or Windows-Home to minimize all windows except the one you’re using. Well Satish, that sounds Continue reading

Some useful windows xp shortcuts

Shortcuts always save time, be it on the road or on your computer. Here are a few windows xp shortcuts that will help you save your time. I hope you find them useful. Windows Explorer 1. F2: Rename object – Forget right clicking a file or folder to find Rename option, Just select any file Continue reading

Copying data from DOS / console mode program screens

If you’re still using DOS or console mode (also refereed to as character mode) programs that doesn’t provide a way to export data, you maybe looking for a way to capture what’s displayed on such programs. This is how you can do it. Start a DOS box or a Command Prompt (DOS box) inside Windows. Continue reading

Ever thought of tweaking NOTEPAD??

Most of us use Notepad for some or the other purpose…some advanced users may do their stuff in NoteTab Pro,etc. This l’il tweak will remove the hassles of using the menu(which i found to be very irritating while using Find, Replace, etc). It actually removes the menubar! OK! Before proceeding, BACKUP YOUR NOTEPAD (Its present Continue reading

Recover Windows MBR using Ubuntu LIVE CD

If you want to restore Windows Bootloader and for some reason cannot use the windows installation cd, there is a simple way to do it: NOTE: make sure you have internet working. 1) Boot with Ubuntu Live CD or Linux Mint Live CD 2) On the terminal: sudo apt-get install ms-sys then ms-sys –mbr /dev/hdX Continue reading