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Category: Tips n Tricks

  • Disable USB Autorun to Save PC from USB Viruses

    Pen drives are very common these days. Everybody has them for their daily data transfer needs and since these are connected to different computers very often, they become a easy carrier of malicious codes (virus, trojans, spywares etc). How viruses spread from USB/Thumb/Pen drive? Whenever a USB drive is plugged into a infected computer, virus…

  • Hibernation – Enabling and Benefits [Explained]

    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 the noobs aside, have you ever used Standby feature? Many of your might give affirmative replies but do you know there is another state in…

  • How to cut parts of a audio file

    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…

  • Batch Files – Repeat certain tasks with a click

    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…

  • 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.