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How To Clean Up Open With List In Windows Explorer

Amit Sharma — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 07:02:43 +0000

Sometime the Open with list of Windows gets cluttered with some unwanted programs or Windows applications, which you might want to remove from the menu, but was not able to find the solution lately. But, there’s a solution to remove the Open with list via a Registry hack, but novice users may not find that [...]

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Customize Windows Desktop Right-Click Context Menu: Add Applications

Tanmay — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 04:26:21 +0000

Windows has several options to quickly access any application. You can create desktop shortcut for the application, pin the shortcut to the taskbar etc. Even you can create separate run commands for your frequently used applications. Right-click context menu is another feature in Windows which helps you to move easily in the windows system. This [...]

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Registry Hack: Add Copy the Content item to Context Menu in Windows 7

Tanmay — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 16:05:24 +0000

Right-clicking is one of the obvious activity to navigate into your Windows 7 widely. By default there are some useful shortcuts are included in the right-click context menu. But you can add more options there to organize things at your finger tip by playing with your registry. Copying the content of a file from the [...]

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Disable Autoplay and Notification Balloons in Windows XP

Tanmay — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 14:31:23 +0000

Sometimes the “Autoplay” feature of the audio CDs and USB drives annoys us to a great extent. Suppose after you return back home after a tiresome day at your office and wish to relax for a while by connecting your external hard drive to your computer and it starts on the Autoplay feature each time [...]

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Erase & Restore Map Network Drive Option in Windows XP/Vista

Tanmay — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 06:31:29 +0000

Mapping a computer onto another one eases the network or file sharing between the two devices. This process is made easier to increase accessibility to the users by introducing a “Map Network Drive” option in Windows. The process of mapping two devices involves wireless or wired connectivity between the two devices such that they recognize [...]

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Change Windows 7 Logon Screen Background & Button Set

Tanmay — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 07:05:21 +0000

Among the wide variety of operating systems in use today, Windows 7 has occupied a very trustworthy position in the view of the users all round the planet. The main reason behind the success of this operating system lies in virtue of its huge facilities and user friendliness. The topic discussed here further boosts the [...]

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Create Backup and Restore Windows Registry From Backup Point

Tanmay — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 04:18:07 +0000

The Windows Registry is a very sophisticated and delicate part of the Windows operating system. The registry settings determine the process in which the operating system carries out its different tasks. Any misguided action taken on the registry pose a potential threat of crippling the core of the operating system, since it forms a sincerely [...]

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How to Operate User Account Control(UAC) in Windows 7

Tanmay — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 12:58:08 +0000

Using Microsoft Windows XP over a prolonged period of time may provoke some computer critics to say that Windows XP is no more secure. Microsoft, as always, in order to upgrade to better security, takes a look at the security issue in Windows 7 more deeply. User Account Control security policy was introduced in Windows [...]

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Enhance Windows 7 Right Click Menu Adding “Open With Notepad” and “Take Ownership”

Tanmay — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 11:42:09 +0000

Here, in Tech-Tips-Geek we are in a mission of making complicated things as simple as possible. In Windows 7 many features had been added, considering the importance of user convenience. But here the magic continues with Windows Operating System. You can make Windows more simple to use as your need. Today I’m going to introduce [...]

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3 Ways to Boost up the Browsing Speed of Internet Explorer 8

Tanmay — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 18:12:18 +0000

Sorry!! the content of the post has been deleted unfortunately. We shall be back with the content shortly. Update: Well friends! We are really sorry for delaying to update this article. Finally we’ve written about speeding up the Internet Explorer 8 in details. Please visit 5 Ways to Speed Up Browsing in Internet Explorer 8 [...]

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Reduce the Time of Shutting Down in Windows XP

Tanmay — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 01:41:30 +0000

Windows XP is by far one of the most commonly used operating systems even today. The main reason behind this success of XP is its user friendliness and flexibility towards almost all applications round the globe. It supports almost each and every software and due to all these features it has its immense success today. [...]

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Lock Task Bar Permanently in Windows

Tanmay — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 10:37:13 +0000

More often than never, some frustrating circumstances may arise. You spend a lot of your precious moments to add some of your most favorite programs to the start menu. Besides, you have pinned some of your personal important applications to the Start Menu and locked it. [ Related: Lock Down Your PC With Your USB [...]

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5 Ways to Re-enable Registry Editor When Disabled By Virus

Tanmay — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:01:13 +0000

We have already discussed how to re-enable task manager and other problems that can be solved by using the Windows Registry Editor. Now, users may experience a serious dilemma if the Registry Editor itself is disabled. This can be due to a Trojan, virus, spyware or a Malware infection to your system. Whenever this occurs, [...]

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How to Re-enable Task Manager When Disabled by Virus

Tanmay — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:43:42 +0000

Many virus and Trojans in the network are infecting your computer and they modify the system files. The most common Trojans rewrite the system files or the registry file to disable some mandatory services of your computer. Suppose your computer is infected by virus and you want to remove the virus manually from your computer. [...]

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Automatically Close The Non responding Programs in Windows XP

Tanmay — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:00:00 +0000

What will you do when any program becomes non-responding? Obviously you would terminate the program from task manager. Usually you will open task manager by Alt+Ctrl+Del, wait for an endless time and manually abort the program which is not responding. Actually it becomes very irritating as it makes us wait for a long time. But [...]

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Uninstall Useless Windows Components

Tanmay — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:53:11 +0000

So many useless program installed in your PC may slow down your computer. You should uninstall those to get rid from them. Well, it is quite easy to uninstall any program from the Add/Remove Program option under Control Panel.But if the the program is not present in the List under Add/Remove Program then how you [...]

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Clean Up Your Computer with Final Uninstaller

Tanmay — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:32:26 +0000

Do you know what happens after an unsuccessful installation of any program? Several unwanted program files are left in your PC and registry even if you uninstall some programs. Those useless files or registry entries slow downs the computer performance and block unnecessarily the disk spaces. Frequently installation and un-installation process may effect your system [...]

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Change Windows XP Start Menu Button Name As Your Choice

Tanmay — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:31:41 +0000

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 [...]

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Some Important Steps To Remove Virus Manually From Your Computer

Tanmay — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 08:54:21 +0000

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 [...]

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Add Send To And Move To Options In Right Click Menu In Windows Xp

Tanmay — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 08:38:57 +0000

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 [...]

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