Today while we were attending our lab, we were asked to open control panel for some purpose. One of my friend’s laptop was not showing control panel in start menu. If your control panel is also missing from start menu, you can restore it using the following steps.
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Today I was checking my PC for unwanted files and programs. I found many unknown file types. When I tried to open that files, Windows gave me an error saying “Windows cannot open this file”. I immediately searched over internet and found an free and useful tool to easily recognize unknown file types.
OpenWith.org provides detailed information about most file extensions. It helps you to open the files on your computer that you don’t know how to open? For almost any file on your computer, the OpenWith.org Desktop Tool will tell you what type of file it is, and show you free programs that will open the file. It will even download them for you. You can find various tools to open any file over internet that will cost you a lot. But there are usually free softwares available you just don’t know about.[...]
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Many Windows users including me face a common problem of downloading and installing device drivers every time they reinstall their Windows. It is very difficult to find essential drivers every time. So here is a cool application to backup all the drivers before formatting drive or reinstalling Windows.
DriverBackup is a free tool to create backup of drivers. It copies all the installed drivers on your computer which you can use later.[...]
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A lot of processes keep running in task manager. A normal user don’t know which of them are required and which are not. Unwanted processes slow down your computer by consuming CPU memory. To kill these unwanted processes you must be aware of these processes otherwise you can kill a essential system process which will crash your computer. Here is a online tool which contain data base of such running processes.
exeLibrary is a database of executable programs. It has information about a large number of executable programs. If you look at your task manager, you can see a number of running processes. You can find information about each process from exeLibrary and then you can easily decide whether to remove it or not.[...]
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Sometime when we try to delete a certain folder in Windows it gives a error message like this :[...]
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Most of the times, we are not able to find drivers for some hardware components installed on our PC because we don’t have any information about them like hardware name, hardware version etc. To sort out this problem, you can use this handy application HWiNFO32.
HWiNFO32 is professional hardware information and diagnostic tool supporting latest components, industry technologies and standards. HWiNFO32 is designed to collect and present the maximum amount of information possible about computer’s hardware which makes them suitable for users searching for driver updates, computer manufacturers, system integrators and technical experts as well. Retrieved information is presented in a logical and easily understandable form and can be exported into various types of reports.[...]
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Sometimes Windows dll files cause numerous errors when they are missing or damaged or while installing a software also, you need some dll files which are either lost or damaged in your PC. So here’s a quick solution for this problem.
Just visit DllDump which contains thousands of free dll files and search for your missing dll file. You can find almost any dll file here. Every file on this site is available for free.[...]
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That’s all. Isn’t it easy ?
Today i’m sharing a little trick with you to restore deleted files from Recycle Bin to some other location. You can simply restore the file to its original location by right clicking on the file but if you want to restore it to some other location, then follow these two steps :
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You might have seen that it is not possible to install themes directly in Windows XP. You need some software to install themes. So here are two methods of installing themes in Windows XP.
1. First method is by using UXtheme patcher. It is a simple method. First of all download and install UXtheme patcher. You can download UXtheme patcher from here. Now download any theme and unzip it to C:\WINDOWS\Resources\Themes. Now right click on Desktop > Properties > Appearance and Choose your theme and apply. That’s all.[...]
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That’s it. If you face any problem, Please leave a comment here.[...] 
If you have forgotten your Administrator’s password in Windows XP, then no need to worry about it as I am sharing a quick and easy method to reset it with you today. It is a common problem for all of us and not a serious case. Just follow the steps given below :
User name : administrator
Password :
Keep password section as blank, dont type anything in it.
net[space]user[space]your user name[space]new password
and press enter.
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