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Windows: Image Thumbnail Different from Actual Image – Solution

Hiroshi — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 23:16:45 +0000

I was saving few images from my HTC to my PC and the ‘explorer mode’ was of ‘thumbnails’ while I observed the duplicated thumbnails. I clicked and checked the images and found different images with same thumbnail. The actual images were all different but few images were showing thumbnails like of their neighbors. Clearly something [...]

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Windows XP Registry TWEAK – Faster Boot-UP

Justin — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 18:32:48 +0000

This is a Windows XP Tweak video tutorial. Make Windows XP bootup faster with a quick registry tweak. The StartupDelay Controls the time delay after a system startup before Indexing Service. This tweak does not disable anything, it just removes the unnecessary wait time. Navigate and expand in the registry. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\ContentIndex Change the Decimal value [...]

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Hidden Windows XP Tricks

Hiroshi — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 22:20:26 +0000

Windows XP is a much better experience it you customize it according to your personal usage needs. There are many Tips and Tricks involving registry edits or tweaking some options a bit to get Windows work smarter and faster in an efficient manner. Here are very essential tips every Windows user should know to get [...]

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Download Visual Taskbar Tips for XP

Hiroshi — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 21:38:18 +0000

If you see carefully, at above screenshot, you will observe Windows XP tooltop for taskbar items with and without visual detail. You can enable Windows vista style thumbnail tooltip for items minimized in taskbar for Windows XP using Visual Task Tip. Visual Task Tips is a lightweight shell enhancement utility. It provides thumbnail preview image [...]

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Transform Windows XP into Linux Ubuntu

Hiroshi — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 03:46:26 +0000

Transform Windows XP into Ubuntu. There is no single installer for this one. But yet these tools in combination can give Windows XP, look of Ubuntu. The good thing about having a package with all these elements, categorized in several different folders, is that you can choose what to install and what to leave unchanged. [...]

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How to Change Recycle Bin Name

Hiroshi — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:26:44 +0000

Best part about windows is; you can change, customize or modify whatever you like to. Cool. eh! For now lets see how we can change windows desktop Recycle Bin icon’s name. We can do it via registry editor by changing a value. Go to start Click Run write regedit Hit Enter Registry editor will be [...]

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Show Desktop icon Missing in Quick Launch

Hiroshi — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 19:44:12 +0000

If you have accidentally deleted the show desktop icon in your quick launch toolbar, then you can restore it from the following place: C:\Documents and Settings\Username\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch Where C:\ is your Windows drive. If unfortunately, you can’t find the quick launch file from the above location, then you can create the shortcut yourself [...]

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Run Any Program From Run Menu

Hiroshi — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 19:14:06 +0000

One of the things I love to have in my Windows machine is the ability to run all my softwares from the Run menu. It’s fun and time saving. I just have to remember the names of the programs that I want to run from the Run menu. For example, I rename the Mozilla Firefox [...]

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Show/Hide Drives in My Computer

Hiroshi — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 19:10:47 +0000

There are times when you might want to hide one or more of your windows drives because of security reasons (children getting up on the system and messing up everything or if the computer is in use by multiple people). For theses reasons, you would just prefer to hide your data in a safe place and [...]

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