Google now has come with a new feature called Call phone, which allows users to make calls to mobiles or landlines all over the world from your Gmail account. Gmail before only had video and voice chat support between two PCs but now you can make a call to the other person’s phone from Gmail. … Read more
In Laptops we can see battery icon(also known as power icon) on the taskbar which indicates the amount of battery charged or the amount of time the laptop can run without external power source. A snapshot of this icon is shown on the left. If you don’t see this battery icon in the task bar … Read more
We can change the the width of the taskbar by dragging the taskbar towards the other side of the desktop window. We can do this only if the taskbar is not in locked state. We can check or change the taskbar lock status by right clicking on the taskbar. Just clicking on ‘Lock the taskbar’ … Read more
We can configure which applications need to be started when a user logs in to the system. This can be done using msconfig tool. Some applications like Yahoo messenger, Google talk, Windows live messenger, Office communicator when installed will have default configuration to start automatically when users log in. Using the below steps we can … Read more
In Windows XP, the My documents folder of a user normally points to the location [Systemdrive]:Documents and SettingsusernameMy documents. If the system drive (which is usually C:) becomes full and there is no free space available further to store more documents, then we can move the my documents folder to another drive. This post explains … Read more
In Windows 7 we can change the screen saver as per the below steps. Windows 7 also allows to select photos to be displayed in a screen saver. Windows XP does not have this feature. Click on Start button and select Control Panel It opens a new window showing all Control panel items. Make sure … Read more
Start menu settings can be configured using registry keys. These registry can be found in the path HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerAdvanced The registry values under this node are listed below in detail. To add My computer icon to Start Menu: Set the registry value Start_ShowMyComputer to 1. If this is set to 0 My computer won’t be displayed … Read more
If you want to query the Windows OS version from a batch file or from a program then you can Windows registry. Windows Registry stores all the details like OS name, Service pack number, Version name etc. It also points to the source location from where the OS is installed. All this data is stored … Read more
I have been using Windows 7 OS since the time it was released and I never have had felt so good about Windows 7 till I have got to know about this tip. If you have two laptops or PCs at home and have one LAN internet connection with out wireless router then this one … Read more
Remote desktop is one of the popular features of Windows OS. It allows users to connect to a remote machine and perform all tasks that can be done on a local computer. Below are some frequently asked questions about Remote desktop.What is terminal services?Terminal services is just another name for remote desktop but it’s mostly … Read more