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How to reinstall the task manager in Windows Using the INF files

The task manager might end up in a bad shape at times due to virus attacks, so it is sometimes recommended to reinstall the task manager. To reinstall the task manager: Go to c:\Windows\Inf folder. If you are not sure in which drive your windows folder is, you can also go to the inf folder by the following way, Open the run (win + r) dialog and copy this %systemroot%\inf and paste it in the run dialog and hit enter. Then find the file called mstask.inf and then right click it and select Install. You will be prompted to insert your windows Xp CD. Once you insert the Reinstallation is done.

How to login to a website automatically using Firefox 3.0

It might be good if some of our favourite sites login automatically when we open it. You can login to a website automatically by keeping its cookie permanently in your browser. But this is safe only for a protected user account and not for a shared computer. Open Firefox and then go to Tools > Options. Go to the privacy tab and then, under the cookies click the exceptions button. Then enter the URL of the sites for which you want to store the cookies permanently. From now whenever you go to that site you will be logged in automatically unless you delete the cookies in your browser( by using the clear private data).

How to disable the right click context menu in the desktop in Windows Xp

Open the registry editor (Start > run > regedit) Navigate to the following node in the registry editor: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer Now create a registry DWORD entry named NoViewContextMenu and set its value to 1. Restart your computer. To reverse the effect, change the value to 0 or delete the entry.

Release a locked file in Windows Xp using unlocker

Many times you might have confronted with a error message in windows saying that the file is in use and cannot be deleted, and to check whether the file is in use and all that. This software called unlocker can be used to unlock all the resources which hold up a file. Just install the software from here: Right click the file which you want to unlock and the click unlocker. A new window will open giving out all the possible executables using that file, you can terminate these processes to unlock the resource, but beware of this, You do it at your won risk. you can download Unlocker and get the details from here: http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/

Why is this blog for?

This blog I write here is written for the basic users of computers, though certain posts may seem advanced, majority of the posts here are concentrated only for the basic computer users. There are tons of sites for giving out advanced suggestions, so I write in here of simpler problems which may seem very much simple but complicated for very basic users. Even though certain posts might seem highly obvious to be written like I said, this blog is for the basic users. So this is why this blog exists and if you have any suggestions please let me know. Thanks for reading.

How to resize a picture using HTML

You can make use of the img tag to resize a picture using HTML. Just give the width and height to which you want to reduce your picture to in a browser. Note that, the original dimensions of the picture won’t change; the picture will only be adjusted and displayed to the dimensions you have specified in the img tag. Eg: <img src=”the URL of the image here” width =”200px” height = “200px” /> So no matter whatever the image size is, it will be shown in the height and width you specify.