Windows Media Player included with Windows 7 has no menu bar visible by default. This makes it very hard to open an individual file to play like we used to using File → Open. If you are frustrated without the menu bar like me, then you can make the menubar visible in Windows Media Player 12.
Read moreShow Games as menu in Start Menu of Windows 7
Windows 7 shows the Games category in the Start Menu. By default, you have to first open the Games folder and then choose a game to play. But you can turn the Games category into a menu to quickly run a game right from the Start Menu.
Read moreQuickly check new emails in your Gmail in Google Chrome
How many times you have to type in gmail.com in the location bar of you Chrome browser and then check your inbox? Bother no more. If you are already logged in one of your Google account sites (like Youtube), you can check new emails in the toolbar of Google Chrome browser easily.
Read moreExpand Youtube video to full window in Google Chrome
Youtube allows you to watch the videos in fullscreen by clicking on its fullscreen window button under the video. But what if you do not want to watch it fullscreen but full window of you browser? Google Chrome has an answer for you in form of an extension – Windows Expander for Youtube.
Read moreAutoZoom a web page in Google Chrome
Usually if you want to zoom a web page in Google Chrome, then you have to fiddle with hotkeys for zooming. But if you want to automatically zoom a web page based on the web browser window size and the size of your screen then you can use Zoomy.
Read moreBackup Mozilla Firefox preferences
In many of tips discussed on TrishTech.com, you have to manually configure settings in Mozilla Firefox by typing about:config in the Firefox location bar and fiddling with the settings. In one of these kind of adventures you may mess your Firefox settings, so it is a better idea to backup your Firefox preferences.
Read moreExit Explorer easily in Windows Vista
Sometimes when you want to kill Explorer.exe, you run and start Task Manager, find Explorer.exe and kill it. But there is a much easier way to terminate Explorer instances in Windows Vista. Here is how you can kill Explorer instances easily
Read moreFind out of DEP is enabled in Windows Vista
Data Execution Prevention (DEP) is a security feature included in Microsoft Windows that is intended to prevent an application or service from executing code from a non-executable memory region. This is useful in blocking many malicious programs and prevention from getting infected.
Read moreTurn off search index in Windows Vista
Windows Vista uses search index for searching the contents of your hard disk. This can significantly reduce the search time when you search for a file. But if a file is not indexed, and you try to search for it, then it will not display in the search results. You can turn off the search index so that you can search all the files on the hard disk.
Read moreView system information in Windows Vista
Did you want to find out about your computer system more? Windows Vista has an in-built tool, msinfo32, which can show you all the information including hardware, software, peripheral components etc. This is how you can run msinfo32 and view your system information.
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