SafeGuard Plus

To minimize Outlook to a stylish icon in the Windows system tray: Click on the Outlook icon in the system tray with the right mouse button. Select Hide When Minimized from the menu. Here after, when you minimize Outlook it should get minimized to the system tray instead of the task bar.. Double-click on the Outlook system tray icon to open Outlook again.

Super Easy!!!!1 Open Task Manager. ( Ctrl + Shift + Escape - Keyboard shortcut) Open the Processes Tab and there you can find the computer uptime.

Windows 7 comes with a security feature BitLocker. It helps you to Password protect your Pendrive and USB Drive.You can protect Pen drive and usb drives using a password that you can set yourself. During the encryption process, Windows 7 installs a special reader on the USB drive. When you connect the USB drive to a computer running XP or Vista, the password will be asked and you are ready to go as the data is safe and secure. To set up password on a pen drive : Insert a USB drive, and go to Control Panel > Bit Locker Drive Encryption. Then enable the the Bitlockker protection for this pendrive. Some Initialisation work will be done. BitLocker To Go will prompt for a password which you can use to unlock the drive later. BitLocker To Go will prompt you to store a recovery key that helps unlock your drive in case you forget your password. Recovery Key can be saved in a file . After this The encryption [process will begin and there you go!! Your Pen drive data is now Password protec...

How do I get into Safe mode in Windows? For Windows 7 and Windows Vista and Windows Xp Users : To get into the Safe Mode, As the computer is booting press and hold "F8 Key". I prefer tapping the key continuously. The "Windows Advanced Options Menu" will turn up.   Use arrow keys   to move to "Safe Mode" and press your Enter key. Simple !!!!!  

If you want a message to be displayed to the user every time they login to windows, you can do it easily by following the below simple registry trick. Super easy. A pop up message will appear every time while logging in. Here is how you do it: ·          Open the registry Editor. (Press, Win +R and type “ regedit ”). ·          Navigate to the registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System.   ·          In the Right Side pane open LegalNoticeCaption . In the value text box, enter the text which you want as the title which will be shown in the Title bar of the Pop Up. ·          Next open LegalNoticeText and in the value textbox enter the message to be shown in the pop up. Note that the message will be shown with the title and the message which you typed in the values of the tw...

When you work with multiple monitors, you can move windows from one monitor to another in Windows 7 using the below Short cut. Win key + Shift + left arrow or Win key + Shift + Right arrow to move windows from one monitor to another. 

This works for Windows 7, Vista and Xp. Got to Run Dialog and type "Winver", without the double quotes. you will get a Dialog stating the Windows version you are using. 

Clip is a command used to Copy   contents of the out put from the command prompt into the clipboard.   Example : The command DIR Will List all the ditrectories in the Location you are pointing to in the command Prompt. If you want to copy the output type the command as DIR | CLIP. You will not find any output being displayed in the command Prompt, but the contents will get copied into the Clipboard. Just Open the Notepad and paste. There you go !

It’s a pretty easy task. Piece of cake. Click Start> Settings >ControlPanel. Open the Fonts icon. Within the Fonts window you will be able to view each of the currently installed fonts as well as install new fonts. To install a font, click the File menu and select Install New Font . Locate the directory of the fonts you wish to install. Highlight the fonts you wish to install and click ok.

Fuck the Mouse. It's too cumbersome to snap windows by dragging the Screen to snap them. Use the following simple shortcuts: Win + Right Arrow Key = Snap in right side of the Screen. Win + Left  Arrow Key = Snap in Left side of the Screen. Win + Up Arrow Key = Maximize. Win + Down Arrow Key = Minimise / Snap out. Works in Windows Home Basic TOO!!!!!

Win + number key > opens the corresponding icon on the taskbar from left to right. If Explorer is your First Icon after start menu, then Win + 1 Opens Explorer. Win +Tab cycles through all open windows . Its fun to Play with this time to time.  Only works above Windows Home Premium. Win +E opens Explorer. Win > opens the Start menu. Win +D Shows Desktop. Win +L locks your screen. Win +F opens the Search window.

The  Problem solve recorder in windows can be used to record your Computer Problems. It takes screen shots and Depicts the events too such as Right Mouse Click, Left Mouse Click etc.. To Use Problem Solve Recorder (PSR) Open Run and Type PSR. A dialog Box appears and then, you will know what to do. The recorded file is saved as a Zip file and opens in Internet Explorer.

Use the Short cut Win + P to connect to a projector.

The windows client Google Talk client does not have a feature for invisibility yet. So, if you ever want to sign in as invisible, you can make use of the web based Google talk which comes along with Gmail. Log in to Gmail and on the left you can find a link which enables you to sign in into Chat. After signing in, you can set yourself as invisible. When you are in the invisible mode, you wont appear online on your friend’s Google talk friends list.

I have been looking online and I did find a lot of themes for windows which made a transformation from Windows Xp to vista. But many were slowing down the pc. The best one would be vista Inspirat ultimate. It has nice features and has full options for disabling any feature if not needed and best of all, it takes very few resources and the PC won't even appear slowing down. So, if you are trying out a windows vista theme for Xp, then try Vista Inspirat Ultimate. Google for it and you can download it.

Sometimes softwares while installing may throw windows installer errors. Mostly these errors can be resolved by following the following steps. Start > run and then type the below, msiexec /regserver  and click  ok. then open the run dialog box again and type: msiexec /unreg and click the ok button.

We shall discuss what is overburning first. Overburning is the process by which a disc can be burned more than the capacity of it . Certain cd's (700mb) are sometimes allowed to be burned for only for say 692mb by cd burning softwares . Of course you can override the burning limit and this is called over burning . Various cd  and dvd burning softwares allow overburning but the default setting has to be overridden. Let us see how overburning can be done using nero : Open nero express and open the more button and select configure. In the properties window select the express features tab and then check the enable dvd over burning and enter the maximum size to overburn.(do not give a very high value the deault is 4500mb,just equate it to nearly 4.7gb)

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/

Every time you will have to type a website addresses in your address bar you can easily auto complete the WWW. and the .com part ending by using this trick. Type the core of the web address, for example say Google, and then instead of clicking enter directly, hold the control (ctrl) keyboard button, and you will find that the WWW. and the .com part is auto filled by the browser and you will be taken to that page.

When there are multiple windows open, it might be better for us to switch between them for easy navigation, instead of using the task bar. So, the easy solution is to use the ALT + Tab key combination to navigate between the recently opened windows easily. Just press ALT + Tab in the keyboard and a small splash screen will pop up , you can hold the ALT button and then multiple press the Tab key for navigating between the recently opened pages. You can release the keys key when you point the desired window. This trick also holds well in a lot of Linux machines. For windows vista, use the Win key instead of the ALT key.