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Entries from March 2008

Hibernation - Enabling and Benefits [Explained]

March 21st, 2008 1 Comment

It seems that you are new here. You may want to sign up for e-mail updates or subscribe to my RSS feeds. Thanks for visiting!What is the most obvious thing that even a noob can do on a computer? Well, Shutdown & Restart can be called as the answer other than powering ON. Keeping [...]

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How to cut parts of a audio file

March 20th, 2008 1 Comment

Ever liked a part of a song that you wish you could cut that out or ever wished to compile your music with selected parts from different tracks? Earlier preparing for a dance competition, we were required to cut parts of different songs so that we can compile a song according to our needs. Upon [...]

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Batch Files - Repeat certain tasks with a click

March 19th, 2008 10 Comments

Batch file is a file which holds a list of commands or instructions that are executed once the batch file is executed. Basically the commands are DOS commands that are executed as if they were executed one by one on the command prompt. Batch files are of great help when you need to repeat a [...]

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View all Video files preview in thumbnails

March 18th, 2008 12 Comments

You must have noticed that when thumbnail view is enabled in explorer, video files are shown as frames that shows the first frame of the video but unfortunately it is not enabled for every video format but there is a simple registry tweak that you can apply to make it working for other video formats [...]

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How to change icons of file types

March 17th, 2008 No Comments

You must have seen that whenever you associate files to open with a particular program, icons of those file types are changed by that program. Considering the case of media players, they impose their own icons on the file types making it difficult to distinguish when there are lots of files of different formats in [...]

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What to do when your mouse or keyboard stops working?

March 13th, 2008 17 Comments

Getting a working mouse or keyboard is the best option but what if you need to do something urgently. Lets take a look at both the cases one by one. We are not going to use any third party application but just windows built in tools to achieve the goal.

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Blog Statistics For February 2008

March 10th, 2008 5 Comments

I know I am 10 days late in publishing the stats for the month of February, I was busy in inter college dance competition but still I am going to publish it as I got the highest hits in this month. If you like the content of this blog, don’t forget to subscribe to the [...]

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