You Are Viewing Tips and Tricks

The reason Counter Strike freezes when you have got IDM installed in your system is due to IEMonitor.exe ( which is used for browser integration )

Solution :

In Internet Download Manager, click Downloading -> Options -> General.

There, you have to uncheck the intergration for IE and IE based browsers and secondly, uncheck the “Run module for monitoring in IE-based browsers (MSN, Avant…)” and press Ok. <– This actually stops launching IEMonitor.exe and hence solves it all.

Gphone.exe virus .

This is one of the most frequent virus nowadays that infects your Gtalk and Yahoo messenger by sending automated messages to your friends list .Gphone virus basically is a .exe file which looks like a folder and it can take any name of any other folder .
(more…)

Remove Status messages in Y! Messenger

Google talk freezes when “show current music track”

At times when you use Gtalk with Winamp 5.5 version and set the current status in GTak to show current music track gtalk freezes. here is a solution to this problem.

Whenever you select the Show my current music track, Google talk either freezes or stops responding. This is actually a technical issue with Google talk or Winamp which is yet to be discovered but many users who have upgraded to Winamp 5.5 are facing this problem, so one of simple resolution for fixing this bug :

The solution is:

Step 1: Go to the root directory of Winamp where it is installed which is usually in C:Program FilesWinamp

Step 2: Select Tools->Folder Options->View (Tab) and uncheck the hide extensions for known file types and click Ok.

Step 3: Now create an empty file (Right click the mouse -> New -> Text document), so the default file would be like “New Text Document.txt”.

Step4: Rename the above file to “winamp.m3u” and save.

Step5: Close Winamp and Google Talk. Now open again and Your Show Current music track status should work

Type URL without mouse-click

Press Alt+D on keyboard.

This allows you to enter a URL without the mouse click.

This will be helpful for the laptop users who find it uneasy to use their touchpad every time they want to type a URL.

This is a trick by which you can make any icon invisible and can access it in the invisible state only ….. Its not altering the properties to hidden …… Here are the steps : 1. Locate the icon and then right click ….. go to properties …. then go to customize tab ….. there will be a transparent(invisible) icon as shown in the screenshot …. select it and click on Apply…..

2. Now rename the icon / folder

press ALT + 255 ………. (enter 255 from the right numpad with numlock off) …..

TADAA!!!!!

The default speed of the Start Menu is pretty slow, but you can fix that by editing a Registry Key. Fire up the Registry Editor and navigate to the following key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER Control Panel Desktop MenuShowDelay

By default, the value is 400. Change this to a smaller value, such as 0, to speed it up.

If this doesn’t work for some reason, then you might try the following: Navigate to Display Properties then Appearance then Effects and turn off the option titled Show menu shadow. You will get much better overall performance.

By default, the Windows XP Recycle Bin sits at the bottom right of the desktop, just above the tray notification area and system clock. If you’ve got many floating windows open, however, it’s possible to obscure the Recycle Bin and make it impossible to drag files and folders there for deletion. However, you can automatically hide all of those open windows during a drag operation. The first time it happened, I thought it was a fluke. But it’s not. Instead, it’s a cool hidden feature of XP.

Here’s how it works: Make sure a bunch of windows are open on the screen, with at least one of them hiding the Recycle Bin. Then, find a file or group of files you’d like to drag to the Recycle Bin. Pick up the files with the mouse and move them to the lower right of the screen. As you reach the bottom area of the screen, pass the mouse cursor over a blank area of the task bar, hover there for an instant, and the open windows all minimize, leaving the Recycle Bin available to accept the dragged files. Good stuff. This tip also works when windows are maximized, assuming the file(s) you want to delete are visible in one of the available windows.

Make any icon / folder on your desktop invisible

This is a trick by which you can make any icon invisible and can access it in the invisible state only ….. Its not altering the properties to hidden …… Here are the steps :

1. Locate the icon and then right click ….. go to properties …. then go to customize tab ….. there will be a transparent(invisible) icon as shown in the screenshot …. select it and click on Apply…..

2. Now rename the icon / folder

press ALT + 255 ………. (enter 255 from the right numpad with numlock off) …..

TADAA!!!!!