Archive for the 'Windows' Category

Battery Tracker for Windows Vista

Battery Tracker is free software that allows you to get as much information about your laptops battery under Windows Vista. The program gives you the following information about your laptop’s battery and various features of Windows Vista:
1. Laptop Manufacturer and Laptop Model
2. DWM support and DWM status
3. Brightness Control support status
4. Sidebar and displays your [...]

Window Vista Quick Tip: Enable or Disable Hibernation From Command Line

In Windows Vista turning ON and OFF the hibernation involves navigating to Control panel > Power Options > Power Plan, which I believe is little tedious to do. You can enable or disable Hibernate function from the command line which  is much easier and faster. Here is how to do it:
1. Open the command line [...]

Free Software: Vista4Experts for Tweaking Windows Vista

Vista4Experts is a free tool that can help you disable some of Windows Vista’s annoying security features. It can disable some of the security features like security center notifications, User Account Control dialogs, automatic Windows Defender scans, automatic update installations and etc. So if you are annoyed with some of the Vista’s security features then [...]

Windows Vista: How to Change Monitors timeout from Command line

Windows Vista users can use change your monitors timeout from with in command line. This would very useful if you quickly want to change your monitors timeout without accessing the control panel.
I use this feature particularly when using Skype, watching movies and when I am writing a post as I really get annoyed [...]

Windows: How to Recover Closed Applications

Many times you would be in a situation where you have accidentally closed a application and regret of doing that owing to the fact that you cannot recover them unless you reopen them manually. If you reopen them manually then there are chances that you have lost the unsaved data. There is a small freeware [...]

Windows Vista: How to Individually Control Applications Volume to Speakers

You may be using many multimedia applications regularly for listening music, watching movies , for making VOIP calls and etc but sometimes you feel if you could control them all these applications volume from place. So here is how you can do this.
How to Individually Control Applications Volume to Speakers in Windows Vista
1. [...]

Windows XP: Get Vista like Drive Icons

Windows Vista has got a neat feature where it displays graphically the amount of free space in your drives icon. Windows XP lacks this feature but the good news is that this can be done in Windows XP if you install the freeware application called Vista Drive Icon.
Once you install this software then you will [...]

Windows: How to Set Windows XP as default Operating System from Windows Vista

If you plan to setup a dual boot computer comprising of Windows XP and Windows Vista then Vista get set as the default operating system in the boot option. But some readers wanted Windows XP to be their default operating system. So in this post let us discuss this.
How to Set Windows XP as [...]