Category: tips & tricks

By default windows does not allow to opened applications and windows listed in taskbar to rearrange and shuffle to change the position. But there is a free application named taskbar shuffle which lets you reorder the taskbar items.

Taskix is another free application which solves the same purpose of moving taskbar opened items, allows you to reorder the taskbar tabs and change their positions in taskbar.

More over this small program provides more functionality other than just moving the taskbar opened applications and windows.

It happens many time when you were listening to your favourite songs on your computer and suddenly some one just enters your room, you need to mute the sound instantly or it could some another reason for you to mute the sound immediately.

Today, we will tell you all the ways to mute the sound of your computer instantly, it could done be either with a small software or with some simple scripts you can place on your desktop or even with some keyboard hotkey shortcut.

There has been different methods with different operating system like windows xp, vista and windows 7

Let’s start discussing all of them one by one

One of the annoying things in vista while creating a shortcut on desktop is firstly it add a arrow to the shortcut and a shortcut text at the end of the shortcut name.

Shortcuts without shortcut text

Shortcuts with shortcut text

As shown in the image above when ever you create a desktop shortcut in vista it will add the shortcut text after the name of the shortcut as a suffix. We has already written about how can you remove the shortcut arrow on the shortcuts in vista.

Today we will tell you how to avoid appending of shortcut text on shortcut through a simple registry hack.

Asciimilator is a free application which lets you convert any bitmap to cool looking html files that use ASCII characters to represent the bitmap pixels.

It uses a combination of black and white color to give the over all contrast of the original picture being converted.