Disable Colored Tabs in Internet Explorer 9

Internet Explorer 9 supports tab-groups. When you choose to open a link in a new tab, the new tab is grouped together with the existing tab. Each tab group in the Internet Explorer is assigned a random color. By looking at the color of the opened tabs you can see which tabs belong to the same tab-group. If you do not like this colored tab groups, then you can disable the tabbed grouping (the colored tabs) in Internet Explorer.

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Play Golf Game inside Google Chrome Browser

If you are bored working on your computer all day long, then you can relax your mind by playing a little game of golf right inside your browser. You can install the Mini Golf extension in your Google Chrome web browser and start playing the golf game anytime you want. The golf game starts by clicking on a ball like icon on the Chrome toolbar. If you click on the icon again, the game is closed and you can go back to work.

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Disable Send To Menu in Windows Vista

When you right click on an item (like a file or folder) in Windows Explorer, you are shown a context-menu. One sub-menu of this right-click menu is the Send To which is extremely useful to copy a file over a device or a special folder. All you have to do is right-click over a file and choose Send To and then the device name or folder name shown. But if you want, you can disable this Send To in Windows Vista.

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Delete Stubborn Files Easily with FileASSASIN

Sometimes some files get locked because they are opened by other programs and become impossible to delete. There are also many cases when some malicious program (malware) puts such files on your system and lock them in such a way that you cannot delete them. If you try to delete them, you get many kinds of errors like the file is in use by another program or user.

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Enable Saving Tabs Dialog on Exit in Firefox 4

In Firefox version 3.x when you closed the Firefox browser with many tabs open, you were shown the ‘Saving Tabs dialog’ asking you if you want to save the tabs. If you chose to save the tabs, those tabs were opened next time you started Firefox. But starting in Firefox version 4.x this feature is disabled. If you close the Firefox window, all tabs are closed and not opened the next time. This is irritating. If you want, you can enable the Save Tabs dialogs on exit.

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Enable Displaying of Mixed Content in Internet Explorer 9

Some web sites allow you to access it using the secure connection (HTTPS), yet show both the secure (HTTPS) and insecure (HTTP) content. If you access such a web site using the Microsoft Internet Explorer web browser, you might get a warning prompt – only secure content is displayed. This is because that web site is showing mixed content. You have to choose to display mixed content each time you visit such a site. If you want you can enable displaying of the mixed content permanently.

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Easily Exit and Restart Explorer.exe in Windows 7

If you have made changes to your Windows Registry so that it requires you to log off and log back on, but you do not want to log off, then you can just kill explorer.exe process and restart it. This way the current user section of the Registry is loaded again along with the changes that you made. Although you can kill explorer.exe using the Task Manager, but there is a hidden option in Windows 7 to exit explorer.exe safely.

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