I have been juggling around for so many days in order to find the correct settings in Windows XP , so as to make the icons appear smooth with each and every desktop wallpaper. ( as shown in the image below ).
Icons With Background Colour
Icons Without Background Colour
Out of the above two which one do you like, your choice is up to you but most people like the second one ( icons without background colour ).
I was searching a way on how can we convert any screensaver of windows vista to make it work in win xp and I found some vista screensavers prorated for xp.
Windows vista offers some very cool screensavers like.. Aurora, Bubbles, Mystify, Ribbons.
Out of all these I like the bubble screensaver the most, all these screensavers looks awesome but the bubble screensaver is the best as it does not change the desktop background when it’s running. ( as shown in the image below )
( Click the image on the left to enlarge it )
How to Install these screensavers?
Recently, I was searching for a utility that can be used for using the windows clipboard more effectively for fast and easy copy paste of any text/image simply with a keyboard shortcut.
I found many application on web that solve the purpose but I don’t want to buy any application for this task, after a lot of googling I found lot of utilities like Yclipper , Clipboard History etc.
But still none of them were so much powerful in their freeware mode, then I found ClipX which is completely free.
What is ClipX?
Recently just by chance when, I was normally writing some new articles for troublefixers.com.
I opened run prompt to to test something, but accidentally make a typo by typing \ (backward slash) in run. I get a list of all the folders in the root directory which I can select to open just by pressing up and down arrow key (as shown in the image below).
This small windows tip applies to both windows XP and Vista can be very productive at times.
Tip: You can also read about our previous tip on run prompt on How To Run Your Favourite Software’s and Songs Directly From Run
It happens some time when you lost the password for a database microsoft access file.
As file is password protected so it will not open up without the correct password entered, in order to solve the problem you can simply use a free password revealing utility by nirsoft.net
It’s called Access PassView, the only limitation with this program is that it works for every password-protected mdb file that created with Microsoft Access 95/97/2000/XP.
I have already published one post on How to fix slow opening of my computer and delayed contents display here.
There are still some issues like connected network drives when you use office at your work place.
Like in my office when I login at my system at my work place, according to the user policy every user is connected to the network drives at the server location.
These connection to the network drives make my computer more slow at the time of opening.
Let see how can you disconnect network drives.
If you have ever downloaded any of the google products like picasa ,google screen saver etc, you may have googleupdater.exe running as a process in your system right now.
You can check by pressing "alt+ctrl+del" to open task manager and click the process tab.
What is googleupdater.exe?
GoogleUpdater.exe is a process which belongs to the Google.com’s range of Internet search facilities provided. This program is a non-essential , can be terminated unless suspected to be causing problems.
Do you know the fastest way to open a file location of any desktop shortcut? i.e the directory where that file is located.
The most simple method to do this is to right click on the shortcut and then select properties and click the open file location button.
But if you have noticed in vista this feature now comes integrated with windows vista itself(as shown in the image below).