Tech Tips

How to access your BIOS setup

Some of the basic and highly critical settings can be changed in BIOS. BIOS is a small program which doesn’t depend on the operating system like Windows or Linux. Procedure to access the BIOS depends on the computer models (or, mother boards). Following list features the most common computer models for which procedure to access [...]

Optimize Wordpress for speed and resources

With an experience of running a number of sites/blogs running on Wordpress, I feel like sharing some of the issues I have experienced.
Wordpress if one of the simplest content management system (cms) available. It is easy to install, deploy, and modify when compared to other GPL cms like Joomla, Drupal etc. With a huge user [...]

Shortcut keys and Tips and Tricks in Internet explorer (IE)

List of short-cut keys for Internet explorer:
CTRL+A: Select all
CTRL+C: Copy
CTRL+X: Cut
CTRL+V: Paste
CTRL+F: Find
CTRL+E: Search
CTRL+W: Close window
CTRL+N: New browser window
CTRL+R: Refresh web page
CTRL+O: new location – esc to close
CTRL+D: quickly save a Web page to your Favorites list
CTRL+I: Favorites
CTRL+P: Print the page
CTRL+H: History
CTRL+tab: goto URL Address field
Alt+Spacebar+X: Window Maximize
Alt+Spacebar+R: Window Restore
Alt+Spacebar+N: Window Minimize
Home key: beginning of [...]

Accessing NTFS “protected” private folders

My computer just went dead and instead of repairing it I moved the hard disk to another system. Till then I never realized that the document folders was encrypted in the NTFS system.
It was the most annoying thing and I cursed NTFS over FAT system and all the stuffs. Well, it was not that hard [...]

How To Uninstall Office 2007 Beta Manually

If you are one of those who installed MS Office 2007 Beta and couldn’t uninstall it at all. Here is a solution for you. (You can curse MS again before you apply it, they deserve it!!)

Right-click on My Computer and choose Manage
Expand “Services and Applications and then select Services
In the right pane, stop the [...]

Want to use Yahoo Mail with keyboard ?

Using internet emails with keyboard is fun. You can try these keys to do different functions in Yahoo Mail.
Note: To use these shortcuts you have to upgrade the Yahoo Mail to new version.
m – check mail
Shift+m – check all mail
Ctrl+\ – close current tab
n – new message
Shift+n – new message in its own window
r – [...]

Want to use Gmail with keyboard ?

Do you want to use Gmail with keyboard ? Yahoo also has started offering this functionality.
Please comment if I have missed some key strokes!
Here is a list of shortcuts while using gmail.
c – compose a new mail
/ – puts your cursor in the search box
k – move to newer conversation
j – Move to older conversation
n [...]

Hide/Unhide Logon Names

If you have made an user for yourself that you don’t want to show to everybody when they switch on your computer. Here is how you do the hiding / unhiding of Login names

Start Regedit
Go to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows NT \ CurrentVersion \ Winlogon \ SpecialAccounts \ UserList
Add a DWORD with [...]

System Performance Enhancement

If you have GBs of memory but the system performance is still sluggish. You can increase your system performance by having the core system kept in memory.
This works only if you have 512 megs or more of memory.
Here is how you do it:

 Start Regedit
Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Session Manager\Memory Management\DisablePagingExecutive

Set the value to be 1
Reboot [...]