Tag Archives: Tips

Firefox 3 beta gulping down I/O resources – simple solution

By Ajith | Published: June 12, 2008

Ever since FireFox 3 beta was released it caused more problems than it actually solved. With addons not working, history clearing problems and even installation issues its time for a change. The new issue is with I/O resource consumption by FF. Actually it is not new. I had noticed earlier on that “C:Documents and SettingsAjithLocal [...]

Posted in Software | Also tagged Answer, Error, Firefox | 1 Comment

How to open unknown files – without extension

By Ajith | Published: May 25, 2008

There are times when we are not quiet sure which program could be used to open a file. Worst case scenario is when the file doesn’t have an extension. Here are some ways in which you can recognize/open such files. Try the extension at an online file extension archive. Use a Universal File viwer to [...]

Posted in Software | Also tagged Answer, File, Trick, Windows | 4 Comments

Browser hogging CPU when taking wordpress write post page!

By Ajith | Published: May 13, 2008

Does anybody notice the rising CPU usage of your browser when you are at the create post page (Tiny MCE) of your self hosted WordPress blog? Previously when I was using Firefox the CPU usage rose to 50 percent and FF was running fast like a snail. I thought it was because of problems with [...]

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Admin, Blog, Error, Wordpress | 5 Comments

How to prevent access to select drives using Registry

By Ajith | Published: May 1, 2008

How do you prevent others from accessing data from some drives!? Using the Windows registry you can not only prevent them from accessing your data, but also throw and error message right on their face while they try to do it.

Posted in Windows | Also tagged Registry, Trick | 4 Comments

Correction to the list files and folders from a directory to a file

By Ajith | Published: April 7, 2008

I think you all remember OKTHEN, the one who told us all an easy way to list files and folders in a directory into a file through a context menu. He posted it as a comment. Well last day he commented on the post to correct some mistakes in the comment. Here is his new [...]

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Speeding up your boot process – Windows

By Ajith | Published: March 17, 2008

Microsoft Configuration wizard is one tool you can use to improve your systems boot time. This tip utilizes the msconfig utility. 1. Go to Start»Run(WIN+R) and type “msconfig” , the Microsoft System Configuration Utility will pop up. 2. Select the “STARTUP” tab. This will show you a list of programs that will automatically start when [...]

Posted in Windows | Also tagged Free, Tutorial | 1 Comment

PC on steroids, Improve your systems perfomance – start of series

By Ajith | Published: March 5, 2008

This is the first among a series of post in which I will tell you many tips on how to make your System perform faster. The post frequency in this Series will be one post ( tip ) per week. So check out my other posts on all other days. Being the first in the [...]

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Find all recently used Wallpapers from your Registry

By Ajith | Published: March 4, 2008

Windows saves the list of wallpapers ever used on the system in a registry Key. HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersion ExplorerWallpaperMRU All those Registry Binary values here are the address to the images you used as wallpapers. The last part in this binary makes no sense to me but I think this i information about the dimensions and style [...]

Posted in Windows | Also tagged Image, Registry, Wallpaper | Leave a comment

What to do when you can’t log-in to blogger

By Ajith | Published: February 23, 2008

Some times Blogger will show a “server was encountering a problem” message when you try to login and will give you an error code and say that an engineer had been notified. There are some things you can try to login to blogger when such an error occurs. If Blogger home page won’t load or [...]

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Blog, Error, Web | 2 Comments

Clear the most recently run commands in Run Box from Registry

By Ajith | Published: February 22, 2008

Windows has got the habit of saving almost anything you got your hands on, like recent run list, , recent files etc.. Although some of these may be useful most of them are not. The recent RUN list, mentioned above, is saved in the . (The recent Run list is useful but this is an [...]

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