Recently we have posted a small trick about How to add any item to windows startup via Send To menu. Today we have come up with an idea on How to add any item to quick launch via Send To menu.
This post is about adding some frequent used programs to your quick launch quickly via Send To menu, we all know we can add any item to system tray just by dragging the program to the quick launch bar. Implementing this trick is quite easy.
Let’s see how can you implement this trick.
It happens many time in Windows Vista and Xp, when explorer freezes and goes not responded state.
Explorestart is a free utility from NirSoft that simply restart explorer and internet explorer, If you run this tool, all the instances of explorer (explorer.exe) and Internet Explorer (iexplore.exe)
I must say windows is becoming more venerable to various attacks day by day, I am saying this because apart from being a author at TechnixUpdate.com, I am also one of the troublefixer at TroubleFixers.com – All about fixing computer troubles
A normal way out to restore some damage on your system is using windows system restore, but if you try to create system restore it will run a wizard which will require time.
Yesterday, I found a cool utility called Single Click Restore Point – SCRP which lets you create a restore point with a single click on your windows system and require zero configuration from the user side.
Let’s see how can we use SCRP tool.
There are numerous ways to download youtube videos but most of the methods either require downloading software or some user script to be installed at the user end.
At the end using the software or the user script becomes tedious for a layman user, but there can be a simple way out also to download any youtube videos.
You can simply download any youtube video just by clicking a bookmark in firefox or opera
It involves a simple link which you need to make a bookmark in the toolbar by dragging the link to the bookmarks toolbar.
Most of use computers in such an environment that sometime when we leave our computer ideal, we need to make sure that it is locked.
I have seen people normally by press three keys Ctrl+Alt+Del altogether and then press Lock Computer button.
So, locking a computer will require both of your hands on the keyboard (shown in the image below) although some people can do it with one hand only.
Another shortcut in windows to lock your workstation is by pressing window key + L key which is much faster than the previous one.
But there is one more way to lock your workstation which is again more faster than these two mentioned.
Let’s see the third method to Lock your windows workstation instantly
If you ever want to transfer some very confidential data of yours, you can do it so smartly with a freeware SteganoG which lets you hide any kind of data in images.
What is SteganoG?
SteganoG stores confidential data of all types into a bitmap image apparently remains unchanged. It is provides a powerful compression and image quality will also allow you to store large amounts of data.
As seen in the screenshot above you need to browse the bitmap image file and also locate the data file to hide and click the Hide button.
Some other features of SteganoG includes
You may have felt the need sometime to minimize an application in windows to system tray to save some space on your taskbar, but you can’t as there is no option in windows to minimize any open application in windows to do it.
TrayIt is a light and free application which lets you minimize almost all the application on windows to minimize them to system tray.
TrayIt! saves the space on the Taskbar. Each application which applies TrayIt creates a small icon in the System Tray. (System Tray area is located near the System Clock).
When any application’s window is minimized the icon of the application appears in the system tray. You can double click the application icon in the system tray to maximize it again.
Microsoft word is the mostly used out of all the Microsoft office 2007 applications, but I have seen people some times in a situation when they were cursing Microsoft Word 2007.
It happens when you have saved some important document while using microsoft word 2007 with .docx extension and taken that file some where else where office 2003 or any version later than office 2007 is installed and you cannot open .docx files.
As .docx is the new file format recognised only by office 2007, and office 2003 or later versions of office cannot open .docx word document files.
What is .docx?
It is the default file extension for saving documents in word 2007. These docx documents are essentially a bunch of zipped XML documents
Let’s see how can you change the default file save format to .doc which is widely supported in the backward version of office 2007.