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Disable Error reporting in Microsoft Windows

If you are fed up with the error reporting messages every time any program crashes then here are the few steps that will deactivate this error reporting service completely from your system. See snapshots of the process below.

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Posted by: Gaurav on Friday, May 9th, 2008

Display Warning/Error message on Windows Startup

Here is a cool trick to show a legal notice at system start up like ” You are using pirated version of Windows”.

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Posted by: Gaurav on Friday, January 4th, 2008

Notepad as Diary

If you have habit of writing entries on day to day or time basis then carefully read this trick to append date & time with notepad file.
Here goes the trick:

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Posted by: Gaurav on Tuesday, January 1st, 2008

How to make Firefox remember all passwords?

Firefox always prompts to remember passwords for most of the sites.But if you deal with banking or some official restricted sites or even Yahoo Mail then you have seen that no such prompt message pop up.

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Posted by: Gaurav on Wednesday, December 12th, 2007

How to remove NewFolder.exe virus

Few days back I got this newfolder.exe (a hidden folder) virus, also known as Sohanad W32.HLLW.Ssdx in my Mp3 player may be while transferring data from a college’s computer.And then through Mp3 player to my laptop and it automatically disabled Task Manager, Registry Editor, Folder Options, Run in start menu.

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Posted by: Gaurav on Friday, December 7th, 2007

How to crack password in asterisk form

Here is a cool trick to know password written in asterisk form.There are softwares that decode the password in asterisk form but for that you have to copy/paste password in their interface unit. Moreover there are various websites which doesn’t allow copy/paste option in password box.

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Posted by: Gaurav on Tuesday, December 4th, 2007

Windows prank video

Here is a cool windows prank that makes all icons on desktop not to work. Developed by Break.com staff this video can definitely act as security feature for your system.
I apply this to my computer and hid the tool bar so that when someone tries to use it when I am away […]

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Posted by: Gaurav on Sunday, December 2nd, 2007

Windows shortcuts

Below is the list of most common and useful windows shortcuts and there applications. Click Start > Run… then type the keywords to open their respective programs upon pressing Enter:

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Posted by: Gaurav on Monday, November 12th, 2007

CAPS ———-> lowercase in Microsoft Word

While typing on Word, I found a very cool trick to convert CAPS in lowercase letters ( it’s not working in Notepad).
First of all highlight the words you want to convert and then press shift and F3 simultaneously .

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Posted by: Gaurav on Saturday, November 10th, 2007

ATM crashed by Windows

The picture says it all!!!

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Posted by: Gaurav on Sunday, October 7th, 2007