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How to Increase the size of Taskbar Thumbnail preview in Windows 7

If you want to increase the size of Taskbar Thumbnail preview in Windows 7 than you have to be ready to mess up with your registry. This is how the default taskbar thumbnail preview looks. Increase the size of Taskbar Thumbnail preview Open Regedit (Press Win + R > type Regedit > press Enter) Navigate to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Explorer \ Taskband Create... 

Download Portable Opera 10.50 For Windows

Opera has came back with a bang, they have introduced their final version of Opera for windows i.e. Opera 10.50 with the tag line “The fastest browser on Earth” and there is a reason they said that. Like all other web browser they too added all latest and trending features like Private Browsing and a lot of Addons. In spite of these old features Opera has introduced some cool new features... 

Clean your junk files in one click with Quick Clean

While using computer from day to day you unknowingly add a lot of junk files in your system. Some of them are a result of surfing the Web, and others will be left by programs you use. For e.g. while surfing the Web you store a lot of cache files in your system, also when you install programs in your PC they add a lot of files like temporary file in your system. These junk files eats up a lot of space... 

Secure your FireFox by tweaking it manually

Lately I have unleashed the power of tweaking Firefox, these days I am just tweaking around Firefox, though I ‘ve just figured out how userChrome.css can be used to tweak/hack firefox, but I am still looking forward on other areas where I can tweak Firefox. In this tutorial I will show you how you can secure your stored password in firefox, by simply adding 2-3 lines in your userChrome.css file.... 

Advance Tweaking: Firefox Menus

Last time we see how to tweak Firefox Context Menu to Hide menu items from  right click context menu. Today we will go a little further with that and will see some more advance tweaks that we can use to tweak/optimize firefox or at least use use to make your Geek friend crack Nuts. In last post we have used ID’s to hide menus, but it seems really difficult and time consuming as we have to look... 

Tweaking: Edit Firefox Context Menu

You can customize Firefox menu by using 3rd party tools but if you want to tweak menus yourself than the following tutorial is for you. You can tweak your menus using userChrome.css file. userChrome.css is a CSS file that can be used to change the way Mozilla Firefox interface look. But to edit it you need to locate it first. For Windows XP users: C:\Documents and Settings\<Windows login/user name>\Application... 

What does a Beep says?

Whenever you start your computer you always heard a Beep, do you ever tried to figure out what does it mean? or if it means something or not? The pattern of beeps whether its the number of beeps or the length of those beeps will give you an indication of the actual problem. Its a distress signal from the computer in a Morse code like pattern. Unless you have a diagnostic card to tell you more about... 

How To: Recover your lost Windows product key

If you’ve lost your product key, then this would be difficult to recover it by searching for it at your registry. To help you out of this condition now there is a program which provides System Summary of Information and Customizes your Windows 7, Windows Vista and XP’s Logo and Information easily using the new OEM Logo Bitmap Browser and yeah shows your lost product key too. Bitmap Browser... 

Free ebook: Understanding Microsoft Virtualization Solutions

Here it is! Mitch Tulloch has updated his free ebook of last year; it’s now updated for Windows Server 2008 R2. You can now download Understanding Microsoft Virtualization Solutions, From the Desktop to the Datacenter in XPS format here and in PDF format here. It has Six chapters adding up to 466 pages. It is must recommended book for IT professionals and admins.  Read More →

Gmail Facebook integration

Adds facebook messages directly into Gmail, just like Google Buzz Checkout some more Google Extenssions that you may like This alpha release of the Gmail Facebook integration extension will allow to see your friends’ facebook notifications. Currently quite a number of things still need work, but the basic integration is working properly. Oh and, the notifications are currently hosted on 000webhost...