Technix Update – Page 93 – Computer Tips and Tricks from a Tech Freak

Hide your desktop icons in a double click with hide icons

Post author By abhishek
Post date September 20, 2024
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Desktop with icons

Desktop without icons

Out of 10 people around 7 will always have a cluttered desktop in windows with lots of usefull and not usefull icons this I can say as per my experience from the time, I have been using computers for 5 years.

Even they know it looks very cluttered but they are used to using it although we have already posted on how can you clean your cluttered desktop automatically. But most of the computer users are much used to the large number of shortcuts they create on their desktop.

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Password Protect your Confidential information with steganos locknote

Post author By abhishek
Post date September 19, 2024
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Did you ever think of storing the all your passwords or other confidential information in a file? But before you can do that, the most important question which comes to your mind is how will you be able to protect that file.

Steganos LockNote is a Freeware which comes handy in this situation. It will change the way you work with confidential notes.

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It allows you to encrypt and decrypt any note in a simple and independent way which can be unlocked any time, any where with a correct password.

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Make desktop icons background colour as transparent in windows xp and vista

Post author By abhishek
Post date September 19, 2024
19 Comments on Make desktop icons background colour as transparent in windows xp and vista

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 ).

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Access special Folders in windows with freeware special Folders View

Post author By abhishek
Post date September 19, 2024
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There has been large number of special folders in windows and we keep accessing these folders from different locations. When I say Special Folders, I mean folders like My documents , Startup , Temporary Internet Files etc.

We cannot access all these special folders are scattered over the operating system drive and some times they are so deep in terms of the directory structure which a normal user cannot remember easily.

But a cool freeware called Special Folders View makes it possible to list all these special folders in one go. ( as shown in the image below )

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As shown in the image above, Special Folders View displays the list of all the special folders in which you just need to double click over a special folder path entry to open it in windows explorer.

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Remove, customize arrow over the shortcuts with vista shortcuts overlay manager

Post author By abhishek
Post date September 19, 2024
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Yet, again like Windows XP, Windows vista also have a shortcut arrow on each and every shortcut you create and you cannot remove it or modify just through a registry hack.

I have been searching it for days but could not find out a way to do it manually through some registry tweak then, last night I found a cool utility called Vista Shortcuts Overlay Manager.

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As seen in the image above you can easily select different radio buttons which says arrow , light arrow , custom arrow , no arrow.

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Download and Install some vista screensavers in windows xp

Post author By abhishek
Post date September 19, 2024
3 Comments on Download and Install some vista screensavers in windows xp

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 )

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How to Install these screensavers?

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Monitor rss Feeds with Symbolic rss Alert Application directly from your desktop

Post author By abhishek
Post date September 18, 2024
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Simbolic RSS Alert – It is a FREE simple application for monitoring RSS feeds. It is very light low memory consuming application which sits in your system tray and monitors different rss feeds which you specify.

The main purpose of the application is for users who don’t need a complete RSS application but would like to know when a couple of feeds have changed.

This application is really use full when you want to monitor some feeds like latest cool freeware’s released, new Microsoft products released or when you want to monitor some of the official google blogs like Google Reader Blog, Google Blog, etc which does not offer subscribe via email option.

Symbolic rss alert application allows you to customize the interval for checking for new updated feed items on the feeds which you specify ( as shown in the image below ).

As shown in the image above, I have set the time interval as 5 minutes in my case. Right click on the application icon in the system tray to play with the options and features.

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Remove Duplicate Files with free Easy duplicate finder

Post author By abhishek
Post date September 18, 2024
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I have been using computers for about 5 years now, till now my harddisk storage size has increased from 40gb to 160gb as the number of media files like songs movies , downloaded flv videos and other documents and files have increased a lot.

So, with the increasing number of files and documents leads to duplicate files and documents over the entire hard disk across different drives, but recently I found a cool FREE application called Easy Duplicate Finder which finds and remove duplicate files ( as shown in the image below ).

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Easy Duplicate Finder – It is a Finder is a free powerful tool that helps you to find and remove duplicate files on your PC.