Are you in a habit of keeping your desktop so clustered that at the time of need you couldn’t find the right thing at the right moment? It can happen with anybody. If you are downloading many things from the Internet or if you are installing so many softwares everyday, in a long run your desktop will look like a graveyard – a common place for many (dead) files that are seldom used. Desktop is meant to keep shortcuts of all the files that you frequently use but people use their desktop like a dustbin, when you don’t know where to keep files, just ram them into desktop. Real bad way to use your computer. But let’s not go deep into what is good or bad instead just concentrate on how to organize and reinvent your desktop. Continue Reading →

Which is your favorite Anti Virus application? As far as I am concerned it’s ESET NOD32 but if you had asked me this question few months back, definitely I would have been in a state of dilemma while answering it. It took me quite a bit of time to figure which Anti-virus is best suited to me. During this whole process of identifying the best, I ran across hell lot of antivirus applications, tried each one of those and finally ended up with frequent install-uninstall process. But then I found that even though you have uninstalled your antivirus through Windows Add/Remove utitlity, yet there are few files and registry entries that remain and are left untouched. Now the question is how to remove those? Continue Reading →

Well, the topic of this article says it all. How will you protect your important and personal files from possible theft? Apparently there are many things in life which we don’t want to share with anybody – be it a childhood secret or a small word file in your computer system that holds all your secrets (I am assuming that you believe in writing personal diary like me). But whatever the reason may be, everyone has in one way or other something personal in their computer which certainly is not intended to be shared among others. If you have installed any file lock utility and you believe that your (so..) personal files are safe and secure, I must say THINK AGAIN. Continue Reading →

Just think that you need something very important to download, you searched many websites, forums and after digging the internet deep, you finally found the download links but they happen to be through Rapidshare. That means first you have to wait for few minutes before your download starts, second you can’t download more than 1 file simultaneously and last but not the least, download speed is dead slow. Now the question is how to overcome this? Continue Reading →

There are times when you feel Windows Task Manager is not sufficient to track any particular troublesome process. It happens when suddenly your system starts to behave indifferently and you begin investigating the convicted process. You end up with one and only solution – reboot the system. But what if you in middle of something very important and suddenly your machine stops responding? Continue Reading →

I am sure many times you must have came across a situation wherein you are running out of disk space and desperately want to delete few unused files and folders. But the problem comes when your hard disk size is so huge that you can’t even think about opening all the folders one by one to check the content and delete them. It’s not realistic. To overcome this, I am going to review two simple utilities through which you can reduce your considerable amount of effort. Continue Reading →

Microsoft every now and then comes up with few strange things difficult to understand by many. One of those “strange things” is Explorer Title’s bar made empty in Vista and now in Windows 7 as well. In Windows XP, Explorer Bar always shows window titles. For example, when you open My Computer, Explorer should show title as “My Computer” but this feature was not there in Vista and now in Windows 7 too Explorer is left as blank.

Aerobar helps you to get around this problem. Aerobar is a simple and easy to use freeware utility through which you can view title in Explorer’s titles bars when it is Active. It works both in Vista and Windows 7 as well. Continue Reading →

Many times you have tried searching for files and folders in your computer using windows in-built search. But have you ever thought that you can in fact search your computer the same way you search Internet through Google? Yes, it is possible. Continue Reading →