There are many software in the market that might be useful to keep your files and folder secured by hiding them. But you may not like to use software to hide files and folders. This article describes about the command for hiding a folder using command prompt. See also: A handy and secured way to [...]
Earlier I wrote about how to recover deleted file from your hard disk. But today I am introducing the opposite task. I hope this article will serve a different taste. If we want to delete a file permanently then we all may have a miss concept that using Shift+Del key we can delete the file [...]
There are many articles about the process of changing the name of start menu button in Windows XP on internet. I have noticed that there are some myth that the name of the start menu button in Windows XP must be of 5 character as “start” is of 5 character, but I did not find [...]
Windows 7 is the upcoming operating system from Microsoft. This latest version of Microsoft Windows will be released on 22 nd October 2009 .Windows 7 has some new desktop property.You can get this new desktop property in your Windows XP. If you have Windows XP and want to enjoy with windows 7 desktop property then [...]
If you are so frustrated by the slow performance of Windows XP then increase your XP speed by a simple tweak. Actually by default settings windows XP scan shared file for schedule task and enable printers on the network computer. For this reason it delay 30 second when you want to view shared files through [...]
Have you imagined that your laptop is in your pocket? All the necessary software may be available every time, every where! Suppose you are in a Cybercafe and you want to edit some photos in Photoshop. But in that computer Photoshop application is not available. See Also: How to install Windows Xp from USB flash [...]
You might have installed Vista, Windows 7 from a USB drive. But how to install Windows XP from USB drive? It is not that easy as you did for the later version of Windows. To make the process succesful, we need to go for some advanced setup phases as the Windows XP does not have [...]
You have to install the Windows XP first and then the service pack (sp2,sp3) in your PC. It is little bit laborious to install the service pack after each re installation of Windows XP. There are some Windows XP Installation Cd which is along with the service pack 2. But Now Microsoft has released the [...]
Generally the computer viruses are just like real-life biological viruses. We know that the biological viruses reproduces rapidly and its main motto is to spread in man to man. In the same way the computer viruses work, they tend to go around from PC to PC and sometimes after some months or years they return [...]
Here I am going to discuss how to remove virus manually from your computer . Some time your computer behave just like old two-wheeler which has a defected engine, takes more time to start, can’t take loads. The same symptoms are seen in your computer. For your computer, the possible reason to slow down it [...]
Most of the users face speed problem with their Computer. The computer works fine after a fresh installation of the Operating System. But day by day the computer becomes slow. You can speed up your computer without any third party tools. Using the windows feature you can speed up your computer. Tip: Identify The Services [...]
Well friends. I don’t want to describe my past experience of searching any file or folder in Windows XP, especially when I’m in hurry. It was so frustrating and time-consuming .Then I searched out the local drive search engine “Everything” from Voidtools. It is a free file search utility from Voidtools that instantly searches everything [...]
Here in Tech Tips Geek, we are in business of making thing as easy as possible. Some time it becomes very boring to copy or move some files or folders to any specific location of your hard drive in Windows XP. At first, you have to copy or cut the folder, navigate to the specific [...]
Some time when we open the windows task manager, we see number of processes like svchost.exe are running. But we don’t know what are they. At first we discuss about what is svchost.exe. According to Microsoft “svchost.exe is a generic host process name for services that run from dynamic link-library(dll)”. The svchost.exe was introduced in [...]
If you work in command prompt often, then one thing should always bore you. You have to change the directory by typing the syntax in command line. If the directory location is so deep in the explorer tree then it is always a hassle. But a simple registry tweak lets you to open the directory [...]