Restore your Show Desktop icon in Quick Launch Bar

I think many of you might accidentally deleted the Show Desktop icon in the quick launch bar. I also did accidentally deleted the Show Desktop icon at quick launch bar. Which made me to go for a long time search. I found out many ways to recreate or restore this Show Desktop icon in quick launch bar again but who wants to get invovle in writing complex code or do experiment with the registry settings. Although I did but, I think you guys are more intrested in end result. So I think you'd probably prefer a downloadable file instead. Here is the simple downlable link for your Show Desktop Icon.

Download Show Desktop Icon for Windows XP

Once you download and unzip it. Drag and Drop this icon to your Quick Launch tray.

But if you want a proper code for it, write back and will post the entire code for you.

Federer and Sharapova

This post can be said something completely out of syllabus. But sometimes something different is always acceptable. Isn't it?? To be Frank, I was was not able to prevent myself form posting this clip which can be regarded as the amazing piece of editing. Just watch this video at one go(If u have slow speed connection then let it buffer first).


Found this video online...i know Federer is already with Mirka but hey I think its funny how the creater of this video wanted to play the song your beautiful by James blunt and making Federer go for Mariaenjoy!

Disable the Autoplay feature of USB drives

'Hey I never explore(open) that Flash Drive I just mounted it when I came to know about the virus it holds in it than how come my PC got infected'. :-P

But who know about the executable Infection which starts their action as soon as they are mounted. They dont need to be executed. They are executed Automatically. But if you disable the Autoplay feature of USB drives, then there are lesser chances of the virus spreading.

A tool which can perform such a function is TWEAK UI. Download it from here and install it.

Run the program. Now you can disable the Autoplay feature of the removable drives as shown above. By following the above steps, you can keep your USB drives clean. If there are any other methods which you use, then share it with me through comments.

Color your Windows Folder

Rainbow Folders is an easy to use small program thal allows you to change the color of the icon which represents the default Windows Folder . It is also resource free as its size is only 370 Kb .

Apart from coloring your folders , this can perform 2 additional tasks . You can even set an extra warning with the colorized folder which will be displayed when someone tries to delete the folder . You can also setup an “optional text” to be displayed when someone puts the cursor above the folder . Using this you can easily diffrentiate between your diffrent folders by coloring them diffrently .

download here.

Lock Folders without using any Software

Generally we use different software like FOLDER LOCK to lock our folder for privacy purpose. However you can achieve same almost the same thing without the use of any software. This trick will make your folder to change into control panel, not only the icon but also if you try to open it control panel will open for you and your data will remain hidden. And this will happen only when you want it to happen. Here is what you need to do:

1. Suppose you have a directory F:\games which you want to lock.
2. Open the notepad and type the following :
   ren games games.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}
3. Save the following with the “.bat” extension , this file should be kept in the same drive in which the folder exists and will be used for locking the folder so give a suitable name such as lock.bat
4. Now open a new file in notepad and type the following ren games.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D} games
   This file will be used to unlock the folder , name it as “unlock.bat” . You can use any other name but use the .bat extension.
5. This file will be used to unlock the folder , name it as “unlock.bat” . You can use any other name but use the .bat extension.
6. Both the files should be in the directory in which the folder exists . Double click the “lock.bat” to lock the folder . the folder will change its icon to that of control panel and anyone who opens the folder will see the control panel contents.
7. Double Click ”unlock.bat” and you will get your original folder .
8. For further security you can save both the files anywhere else and copy them only when you need to lock or unlock.
9. For more security use name like 'Control Panel' for the folder you want to hide so that icon looks more realistic.

Hope you ike it. Specially my fellow mate who badly wanted me to post something related to this.

Make your Google Talk Status always Idle

Have you ever wanted to be online on Google Talk and at the same time appear idle to your friends? Google Talk does not provide built-in functionality to allow you to control your idle status in the same time use your PC but by installing a simple program called gAlwaysIdle you can be always idle as well as never idle to other Google Talk users.
Once you have installed the program, right click on Google Talk on the Taskbar and you will be able to see three new options- Normal Idle, Always Idle and Never Idle.

If you select Always Idle, then your Google Talk status will always be idle, similarly if you select Never Idle you will be online all the time. If you would like to deactivate gAlwaysIdle, just select Normal Idle. Please note that this program does not work so well in Windows Vista for me. But you can always give it a try. :)

gAlwaysIdle download link:

http://www.galwaysidle.com/download.html

So isn't it the simplest way to fake your friend with your idle status. ;-)

Tweak Firefox and IE for Faster Browsing

SpeedUp Firefox Browsing:
Scroll down and look for the entries below and alter entries as follows:

1. Set “network.http.pipelining” To “true”
2. Set “network.http.proxy.pipelining” To “true”
3. Set “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” to any number say 25. This settings decides how many concurrent requests/connections the browser can make to a server, Please keep in mind that using a high value can trigger flood control limits on some servers and you can be denied access to the website.
4. Right-click and select New-> Integer. Name the new value “nglayout.initialpaint.delay” and set value to “0". This value decides the amount of time the firefox waits before it acts on information it receives and displays it.

Without this tweak the browser will make one request to a web page at a time, When you enable pipelining it will make several requests at once, which speeds up page loading time.

SpeedUp Internet Explorer Browsing:

1. Download this Registry tweak file and double click to Execute.
2. Restart I.E and its done.

SpeedUp Internet Explorer Startup:
Here is how to do it:

1. Find your Internet Explorer shortcut, right click it and choose Properties.
2. Click the Shortcut tab.
3. Add suffix -nohome in the target field, it should look like this: "C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe" -nohome.
4. Click Apply.
5. Restart Internet Explorer, and see the difference.

Note: Work only if you open IE from this particular tweaked shortcut.