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  • View all Video files preview in thumbnails

    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…

  • How to change icons of file types

    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…

  • What to do when your mouse or keyboard stops working?

    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.

  • Blog Statistics For February 2008

    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…

  • Things that Orkut users are unaware of

    No, I am not going to talk about how much money Orkut Buyukkokten is making every time anyone scraps anyone or by what time he is going to be the richest person in this world. I am going to talk about things that are always in front of many Orkut users but no one talked…

  • Where was the author? I am here.

    Where was the author? err… Who is the author? Hello, I am the author of this blog. Head over to the About Me page to know more about me. Coming back to the question, Where I was in February? I was damn busy. No I wasn’t helping Intel to develop a gigacore processor (heh), I…

  • How to safely remove your USB drive when Safely Remove Hardware icon disappears from the system tray

    Many times it might have happened with you that Safely remove hardware icon disappears from the system tray and you are unable to safely remove your USB/Pen drive. Pulling out the USB/Pen drive is not recommended in such a case as it might prove to be harmful for the life of your USB/Pen drive. There…