Windows 7 has a new feature called Sticky Notes. They are software version of paper sticker Post It notes which come in many colors. You can use them as a reminder for important events, meetings or tasks. You can paste them all over your Windows 7 desktop.
Read moreDelete a user account in Windows 7
If you do not need a user account anymore, then you can either disable it or you can delete it. If you might want to delete that account from your computer, you will have the option to delete all the files associated with that account. You may also delete the account but keep the related files. This article tells you how to delete a user account in Windows 7. Only an administrator can delete or disable user accounts.
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Using Mailinator for fake email address
Every next web site now wants you to register using your email address before you can post your comments. Some web sites want you to put in your email address before you can download. Although, most of these sites do not sell your email addresses to spammers but a tiny fraction of them do. Now, you can use Mailinator.com to have a temporary disposable and fake email address.
Read moreModify Access Permissions Using SubInAcl
Windows Vista and 7 both have a command line tool takeown to change the file or folder ownership. Using this command line tool, an administrator can change the ownership of a file or folder to a user or a group of users. But there is no such command line tool in Windows XP. Microsoft has made available a downloadable tool called SubInAcl which does all this and much more.
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How to Backup and Restore Firefox Profile with MozBackup
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.
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