You have installed your favorite addons in Mozilla Firefox and you have bookmarked dozens of web sites you like and cannot live without. But now you have to reformat your PC for some reason, or you got a new PC and want to transfer the settings to the new computer. What are you going to do ? You can use MozBackup tool to backup and restore your Mozilla Firefox settings.
Read moreAccess bookmarks from anywhere
You have bookmarked dozens of web sites but you can access these bookmarks only from your own PC. What if you are at a friend’s house or away from your home enjoying vacations? How would you access your favorite sites that you bookmarked? One solution is to make a free homepage and put the links of your bookmarked web sites on it. But it needs a little knowledge of HTML. If you do not want to go into coding and making a web page, then you can use any of the following bookmarking services.
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Run programs with reduced access rights
If you use your Windows XP computer using the administrator level account, it may be risky. The reason is that if while browsing the internet or checking emails
Read moreWindows 7 hotkeys for Windows XP
Windows 7 has many useful hotkeys for working your way around open windows. These features are not available in older versions of Windows. But you can use these hotkeys in Windows XP and Vista too. All you have to do is download an application to your desktop and run it.
Read moreEnable thumbnail preview for all tabs in Firefox
Windows 7 shows thumbnails preview of all windows of same kind (actually same windows class). But Firefox, by default, does not allow this for all sites open in its different tabs. By default, Firefox shows only one thumbnail of the presently visible tab. But a using little tweak you can make it show thumbnails of all the sites open in different tabs as follows.
Read moreDisable Google Buzz
Google introduced its social networking service – Google Buzz in the second week of February 2010. Google Buzz is available from right inside the Google Mail. Many users have raised concerns over Google Buzz’s privacy problems. If you have started to use Google Buzz but now want to disable it, then you can do so easily as follows.
Read moreChanging and moving Documents folder
In Windows Vista, you have a shortcut in the side panel of Start Menu labeled Documents. When you click on it a folder opens up. Normally this folder is %userprofile%Documents which expands to C:Users[username]Documents folder for most of the users, where [username] is your login username for Windows Vista. But you can change this to be any folder of your like.
Read moreUsing Check Disk in Windows 7
Windows Check Disk can be used to diagnose and repair hard disk and file system problems. These kinds of problems may arise after continuous use of the hard disk or when the operating system is not shut down properly like in the case of a power failure etc.
Read moreCustomizing Documents library in Windows 7
In Windows 7, you have a shortcut in the side panel of Start Menu labeled Documents. When you click on it a folder opens up. Normally this folder is %userprofile%Documents which expands to C:Users[username]Documents folder for most of the users, where [username] is your login username for Windows 7.
Read moreOpening .HLP files in Windows 7
Microsoft has dropped support for legacy help files with .HLP file extension in support for newer .CHM files. As a result, you cannot open the .HLP files on Windows 7. If you double click on an .HLP file in Windows 7, you would see an Open with… dialog instead of the actual help file.
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