In Windows Vista, if User Account Control (UAC) is not disabled, there will be occasional need to open an elevated command prompt window with full administrator rights. When an elevated command prompt is opened, it will normally go to \Windows\System32\ folder by default. Windows Vista has built-in hidden function to show open command prompt or command window here to the contextual menu of the folder […]
Lazy to type “CMD” or pressing any keyboard keys just to elevate the opened command prompt window with full administrator credentials and privileges mode? The following registry hack for Windows Vista will allow you to open an elevated command window by simply right click on Computer (formerly known as My Computer in Windows XP) icon at Start Menu or Desktop, and select Run Command Prompt […]
Mozilla Firefox is quite a useful, powerful and full-featured web browser for net users who don’t really like the Internet Explorer series. Developed by Mozilla Corporation, Firefox is quite commonly used by net users nowadays. It features all the useful tools to facilitate you on net browsing such as tabbed browsing, incremental find, Live Bookmarking, Pop-up blocking, spell checker, integrated Google search function, etc. Besides […]
When we browse the internet, we very often come across some interactive and creative Adobe Flash files or Adobe Flash files. The animation files have caught our eyes and you are very keen to download it for safekeeping. How to download flash files such as flash videos, flash movies or flash games? Well, one of the easiest ways to download flash files is via FlashGet […]
Sometimes due to our carelessness, we might accidentally delete some important digital photos. That might be the only copy of your important and memorable photos such as your wedding or graduation photos, travel snapshots, naked photos of your boyfriend when he was three, etc. Is there any way to recover your digital photos or are there any recovery tools to rectify your carelessness and get […]
For Windows users who love to play around and mess with the registry, RegSeeker is a freeware utiltiy that will surely be your best companion. RegSeeker is a powerful registry cleaner. It’s also a powerful registry management tool that can display various informations such as startup entries, several histories items (URLs, recent documents, and even index.dat files), installed applications with their uninstall information, color schemes, […]
The computer will automatically keep track of every move we make: the websites we visited, the programs executed, the files opened, etc. These tracks will compromise the security of your system and pose possible threats to your system. To clear, delete and strike out these tracks and to ensure your computer’s privacy, you can try out this freeware, Advanced Privacy Cleaner 1.1.
ConCon Retriever is a simple software tool that allows users easy access to MSN Messenger or Windows Live Messenger contents and items, which include smilies, custom emoticons, emotions, Display Picture (aka avatar or user tile), messenger background, wink, Deluxe Display Picture (mood, meego or muggin) and dynamic background. With ConCon Retriever, all these contents can be downloaded, backed up or copied to local disk and […]
Recently there was an issue with Microsoft Office Excel 2007 that showed a strange symptom during the multiplication calculation. The multiplication formula will show the wrong value when the resultant’s range fall around 65535 and 65536. I wonder how these were discovered as the chance of seeing the problem is like hitting a lottery. Now the new patch has just been released officially by Microsoft […]
CurrPorts is a small utility that displays the list of all currently opened TCP/IP and UDP ports on your local computer system. For each port in the list, users can also view information about which is the process that opened the port. The detailed information that is displayed including the process name, full path of the process, version information of the process (product name, file […]
Have you ever thought of what is the differences between Sleep and Hibernate options provided by Windows Vista shutdown function? Both commands provide a easy and quick way to leave your computer in existing last state and come back to work on it at exactly the same state later without waiting too long to system to restore itself. However, fundamentally there are significant different between […]
Do you get a little boring and sleepy looking at the same icon images and styles for the many shortcuts everyday? Another way to further beautify Windows Vista and make the visual appearance more lively and interesting is by personalize and change the graphic image of the icons on your desktop, Windows Explorer folder view, or Start Menu.
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