Hiding the Windows Live Messenger icon
If you use Windows Live Messenger a lot, you’ll have noticed that the icon now resides on the taskbar, where you can easily change status and quickly send an IM to someone. If you prefer to keep Windows Live Messenger in the system tray, where it’s been for previous releases, just close Windows Live Messenger, edit the shortcut properties and set the application to run in Windows Vista compatibility mode.

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Often times we have to deal with CRC errors when unzipping files zipped using WinRar. CRC error means the file is damaged or, if password protected, the password used is incorrect.

Winrar Recovery Tool Box is a software used to recover files with CRC error problems. Apart from recovering password protected files, this tool also does recover damaged/corrupted .rar files.

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Sounds too good to be true ? Isn’t it?

Well it is not !  Type “OK” between the WWW. and youtube and you can download the youtube videos in flash format immediately without any delay. For Eg:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtZYz_8hA88&feature=sub

to dowload the video from the link above you just add the OK word to the link as follows:

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1. Windows key + Left: docks current window to the left side of the screen.
2. Windows key + Right: docks current window to the right side of the screen.
3. Windows key + Up: maximizes and/or restores foreground window.
4. Windows key + Down: minimizes active window.
5. If you want a more Vista-esque taskbar rather than the superbar (why anyone would revert is beyond me), right-click the Taskbar, go to Properties, check the ‘Use small icons’ option, then change the “Taskbar Buttons” option to ‘Never combine.’
6. Windows 7 now burns ISO files themselves instead of making users grapple with third-party applications.
7. For those lucky people with a multi-monitor setup, Windows + SHIFT + Left (or Right) will shift a window from monitor to monitor.
8. Gone is the “Add Font” dialog. It’s been replaced with a much nicer system. Download a font and double-click it (you’ll be greeted with the familar font window, but you should notice it now has a ‘Install’ button).
9. Windows 7 now includes Gabriola. This is an elaborate display typeface that takes advantage of OpenType layout to create a variety of stylistic sets.
10. If you press Windows + 1, it will create a new instance of the first icon in the task bar. This is handy if you do a lot of coding and need to open several instances of a program.
11. If you right-click on a Taskbar icon, it brings up the much talked about Jump List. However, the same can be done by clicking with the left mouse button and dragging the icon “out” (so to speak). This was specifically designed for touch-enabled computers, such as your ly HP TouchSmart PC.
12. To run a program as an Administrator, it’s now as easy as holding CTRL + SHIFT when you open the application.
13. With Windows 7, you can now create a ‘System Repair Disc.’ This is a CD bootable version of Windows 7 that includes the command prompt and a suite of system tools. Very handy for those really tough spots (which, with this still in beta, could be just around the corner). To get to this, simply open the Start Menu and type: “system repair disc” in the search field.

It has been commonly observed that user accounts are easily compromised through phishing schemes, trojans and spywares. As a starting point, the following steps are recommended:-

• Avoid sharing your username, password and personal information secret and better chane your password regularly. Use a password combination (with a minimum password length of atleast 8 characters) with an uppercase, lowercase, a digit and some special characters making it much harder for someone to guess your password.
• Never paste a URL or a javascript when logged into orkut regardless of what it claims to do. Never click on links in emails that claims to be from Gmail or Orkut.
• Don’t enter your Google Account username and password on sites other than orkut.com and other Google networks sites.
• Sign out when you are done: Don’t forget to click the Logout link at the top of the page when you’re done with using orkut. This should be strictly followed when using a orkut from a shared computer.

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If we are honest, many of us love shopping. For many it could be the grocery store, it could be the clothing store, or it could even be online. Where ever it is, it often hurts our budgets and makes it easy to spend more then we have. We can increase our standard of living by curbing our spending and saving our money. This way we are careful to buy only what we really need or really want and we save tons of clutter space in out house.

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Here are some of my favorite tips and tricks for Word 97/2000/2002(Office XP)/2003, organized into three sections: The basics, Advanced tips, and Things you don’t have to do.

1. Learn to use Undo – Make a mistake? Press [Ctrl]Z or choose Undo from the Edit menu right away. Keep pressing [Ctrl]Z to backtrack through and undo the most recent editing changes you’ve made.

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There has been many occations when i had wished i could recover deleted data from Pen drives, but found it impossible due to lack of tools. Recently i chanced upon a few softwares which is quite handy when it comes to recovering deleted data from pen drives.

Quick Recovery for Pen Drive

This tool is one of the best rated data recovery softwares currently available in the market to recover deleted data files from a pen drive. It does the data recovery in 3 steps:

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