Apr 27th, 2008 | how to tutorials, tips & tricks, windows hacks | 2 Comments
I have been using winamp from a long time as a music player, it is I think the best player which is free also, but initially when I use winamp for the first time I found a issue in it.
Let me tell you how does it happen.
I used to enqueue some songs from different directory locations ,and issue arises when accidentally I double click on any .mp3 file due to which all the playlist which I collected in winamp got evaded in seconds and the only songs which remain there is that on which I have accidentally double clicked. It may have happened to you some time if you have used winamp.
Let’s see why this happens and how can we correct it.
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Apr 20th, 2008 | how to tutorials, tips & tricks | 4 Comments
Recently I came across a cool web application called PicLens, after reading a an article on TechnoSpot.net
What is PicLens?
PicLens is a browser extension or add on which instantly transforms your browser into a full-screen, 3D experience for enjoying photos and videos across the web.
In other words it a different way to view pictures on web specially the 3d experience and the navigation power it provides is awesome. ( as shown in the image below)
PicLens can be used to view photo’s on various image sharing sites like Flickr, FaceBook, Google Images, Picasa Web Albums etc. It supports almost all the famous browsers including FireFox , Safari , Internet Explorer etc.
After experiencing Piclens I was curious to see the images stored on my hard disk and got to know that PicLens does not support it. 
Then I tried some tweaks to open pictures on my hard disk with piclens, and suddenly one of them works, I was able to view the pictures in folder on my hard disk with piclens.
Let’s see how can you do it. I made this work on firefox
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Feb 17th, 2008 | how to tutorials, tips & tricks, xp hacks | No Comments
Are you annoyed by the restart prompt which appears every time you update windows.
In order to configure no auto reboot settings for windows XP Professional and Home your windows must have service pack2 installed.
But the to remove auto reboot for windows XP home and Professional are different.
For Windows XP Professional
1. Open Start >> Run and type gpedit.msc (group policy editor) and press Enter
2. Navigate to the following path
Local Computer Policy\Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\ Windows Components\Windows Update
3. Double click "No auto-restart for schedule Automatic Updates installations" and select to enable this setting.
4. Restart windows.
For Windows XP Home Edition
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Feb 13th, 2008 | how to tutorials, tips & tricks, windows hacks | No Comments
In case of outlook 2007 when you configure your gmail account with automatic pop3 configuration the problem of auto filtering of your mails received is done by outlook.
But this auto filtering most of the times does not function correctly which results in non junk mails or clean mails are mark as junk and outlook moves them automatically to junk folder.
You can simply fix the wrong filtering as follows:
1. Open Microsoft Outlook 2007
2. Open File Menu >> Tools >> select Options.
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Feb 8th, 2008 | vista hacks, how to tutorials, tips & tricks | No Comments
Aero effect is one of the amazing effect in windows vista , if you have desktop window manager clubbed with your windows vista edition you can enjoy the aero effect in vista.
What is DWM?
DWM (Desktop Window Manager ) previously known as Desktop Compositing Engine or DCE) is a compositing window manager, introduced with Windows Vista, that enables the Windows Aero user interface. DWM requires graphics cards supporting DirectX 9.0 and Shader Model 2.0.
But if your graphic card does not support directX 9.0 and Shader Model Technology, you may not be able to run aero effect.
But you can still run aero with your unsupported graphic card with TweakVista
Let’s see how can you run aero effect then.
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Feb 7th, 2008 | how to tutorials, tips & tricks, xp hacks | 1 Comment
By default auto login feature got disabled in windows when ever you create any other account in windows XP other than default administrator acoount.
What is AutoLogon?
When a user got logged in windows XP without entering username and password. Don’t you think this could be more convenient when logging to windows?
Note: When you turn on autologon in Windows XP becomes more convenient, but turning this setting on can pose a security risk, but still if you want to do it.
Let’s see how you turn this setting on.
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