Tech Tips
How to access your BIOS setup
By admin at 22 February, 2010, 11:12 pm
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 [...]
Read More >>Optimize WordPress for speed and resources
By admin at 19 January, 2010, 10:13 am
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 [...]
Read More >>Shortcut keys and Tips and Tricks in Internet explorer (IE)
By dt at 13 December, 2008, 10:17 pm
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: [...]
Read More >>Accessing NTFS “protected” private folders
By admin at 20 October, 2008, 5:46 pm
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 [...]
Read More >>How To Uninstall Office 2007 Beta Manually
By admin at 25 April, 2008, 7:04 pm
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, [...]
Read More >>Want to use Yahoo Mail with keyboard ?
By admin at 25 April, 2008, 6:46 pm
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 [...]
Read More >>Want to use Gmail with keyboard ?
By admin at 25 April, 2008, 6:42 pm
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 [...]
Read More >>Hide/Unhide Logon Names
By admin at 25 April, 2008, 6:38 pm
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 [...]
Read More >>System Performance Enhancement
By admin at 25 April, 2008, 6:35 pm
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 [...]
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