Color your Folder

iColorFolder allows to customize the color of every WindowsXP folder

Organise your files more easily

With iColorFolder, give some color to WindowsXP folders.
With just a right-click, colorize your folders, and discover
a new intuitive way to classify your files. A quick view is
now enough to identify the folder you are looking for !

Classify your folders by Family

You can now classify your folders by Family. Red is an Important
folder, Orange is Urgent, Green is Familial... Choose the attributions
that you like, so you'll never delete an important folder by error.

A fast and light tool

iColorFolder is a very light soft, that doesn't stay in memory. It uses a native
functionnality of WindowsXP to be more efficient. Discover it's simplicity : with a
single right-click on a folder you colorize it ; the necessary and only the necessary. iColorFolder is proudly an Open-Source program.

Fully skinnable

iColorFolder is bundled with three apparences : the default apparence of WindowsXP
folders, a Mac OS X skin and a Snow.E2 skin. If your system is already
customized with shellpacks like WinOSX, you'll keep the same folder apparence. You can find other skins on the Web or even
easily create one yourself.

Some images tells more than a thousand word

You'll find in the Screenshots Section some
images describing iColorFolder and presenting it's functionalities. Try it ! If you
didn't like it, you can uninstall it fully and quickly.

Download :
http://www.badongo.net/file/1914847

Win Disk XP ~ Freeware

WinDiskXP is another powerful product developed
by WEWARE which is designed for making emulate physical disks and emulate
CD on Windows. Based on the vitual driver technology of FileDisk, WinDiskXP
makes encryption disk secure and protect your data from stolen effectively.

WinDiskXP makes an emulate physical disk just as any other disk. You can
use it as usual disk, storing any files (e.g. documents or pictures and
movies),and opening these files directly from the emulate disk. You can
even install application on it.

What is WinDiskXP good for you? It makes emulate disked based on files.All
of your data writen to the emulate disk are storen into the file. So you
can create a emulate disk very conveniently and doesn't need to change your
hard disk partition.

What's more, you can create a encryption emulate disk yourself. When data
are written to the encryption disk, they will automatically be encrypted
and stored on the file. Nobody else can access to the data in encryption
disk without your password

Download :
http://rapidshare.com/files/30720458/WinDiskXP.exe

How to Upgrade Operating System?

Operating System is essential for a computer to function. The Operating system (for example Windows) get updated very often and newer versions are launched at specified intervals. Windows for instance has many versions from windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000 and XP. The latest and widely used version is XP. By upgrading your Windows Operating System to the latest version enables you to use many latest applications. Computer will function more efficiently. For example users of Windows 98 can consider upgrading to Windows XP.

The price of the FULL version of the new OS will be high. But the upgrade version of the new version will be cheaper. You can buy these Upgrade CDs at a cheaper price and upgrade the OS in your computer.

Things to do before Upgrade:

Before you upgrade your OS, find out whether the hardware that you use in your computer will support the new OS. Always, for newer OS versions you will need a computer with higher processing power. Some older hardware devices may not function in the new OS. Even some older applications may not function in the new Operating System.

First take a list of all the hardware connected to your computer. The CPU speed, RAM size, Hard Disk free space are some of the details you need to check and see if these are sufficient for the newer OS. You can find the minimum hardware requirements for the new OS from the vendor’s website.

Generally while upgrading your OS there will not be any problems. However to be on the safe side, take a backup of your important data and copy it into a CD.

Upgrading the OS:

Once you insert the ‘Upgrade CD’ into the CDROM, the upgradation process will start automatically. Now choose ‘Upgrade’ option instead of ‘Fresh Install’ when it prompts.

While upgrading it prompt and ask you regarding the ‘File System’ to choose. It is better to use the same file system as you have been using all along instead of choosing a new file system.

For example, in a Windows 98 Computer, the file system you are using may be FAT16 or FAT32. When you upgrade to Windows XP, it will ask you whether you want to switch to NTFS file system. There is no doubt that the NTFS is a better file system but if you switch to this NTFS then you can never switch back to FAT 16 or FAT32 again. Therefore use the existing file system.

Things to do after upgrading OS:

After the upgrade process is over, check and see every individual application whether it works. If any of them doesn’t work then uninstall the application properly and reinstall them. If you cannot re install then get help from the application vendor’s website.

Also check and see if all the hardware devices function properly. If any of the hardware device does not function after upgrade then install the appropriate driver for the hardware. Get help from the manufacturer’s website.

Some old hardware maynot be supported in the new OS if that is the case then buy and upgrade your hardware device to the latest.

Tutorial to Hide visited websites from others

We search for lots of information on the internet. But it is not necessary that others know about this. Whenever you visit any website this information is captured and stored in your computer in the form of ‘cache’, ‘cookie’, ‘history’, and ‘windows registry’. There is a danger due to this. Whoever uses the same computer after you have used can find out which websites you have been visiting. If you have a personal computer that no one else will ever use, then you don’t have to worry much about this. But if your home or office computer is shared then you better clear this history. In this tutorial let us see how to completely remove the recently visited websites from your computer.

Cache Folder
Every time you visit a website, every browser has the functionality to store the images, websites, urls etc in your hard disk somewhere in the temporary folders. This is useful to save bandwidth. When you visit the same website again, instead of downloading all the images again, the browser will retrieve them from the temporary folders from your hard disks and therefore increasing the speed and saving internet bandwidth. So when you finish browsing you can clear these temporary folders. This temporary folder is usually referred to as Cache. The exact location of this folder will differ based on the browser you are using. For instance if you use Internet explorer then this cache is located in the ‘Temporary Internet Files’ folder under your c:\Windows folder.
You can either delete from this folder or you can delete it from your browser. Goto Tools-> Internet Options. Under the General tab click ‘Delete Files’ button.

History
All the browsers also store the urls of every website you visit. This is used to show the address of the site on the ‘Address Bar’ when you start typing the first few letters of the websited address, the browser will take from the history and prompt you for the full address. This makes your job easier so that you need not type the full address every time. But if you want to hide the sites you visit then you have to remove this history also. Internet explorer stores this history in a folder called ‘History’ under c:\Windows folder.

Or you can delete history from your browser. Goto Tools-> Internet OPtions. Select the ‘General’ tab and click on ‘Clear History’ button. In the confirmation dialog box select ‘OK’. This will clear your history.

Cookies
Whenever you visit websites, some information about you and some information about that website is stored in your computer’s hard disk. When you visit the same site again, the information stored in this cookie file will be read to identify you. This is especially useful for sites that can personlize the site for you and displays messages such as ‘welcome your_name’ etc. But this cookie also stores the name of the site you visit so you should also delete these cookies if you want to hide the sites you visited.

To delete cookies, goto Tools->Internet Options. And click on ‘Delete Cookies’ button. Or you can choose the security tab and click on ‘Custom Level’ button to disable or enable cookies.

Registry
Another place in which the websites you visited are stored is the windows registry. It is not advisible to modify registries if you are not sure how to use them. Only those who are confident and willing to take risk should touch the registry. Click on ‘Start->Run’ and type ‘regedit’ and press enter. The windows registry will open. Now click on ‘Edit->find’ and type ‘URL History’. In the right hand side you can see a list of website addresses that you visited. You can select them one by one and delete them. programs, viruses and hackers.

Facilities of Clipboard in MS Office

MS-Office clipboard is used to copy and past the text, pictures and graphics. The copy of the text or picture is getting stored in clipboard. We can past that in any windows application. When coping any text it will overwrite that previous text. What can we do for copy more than on text in MS-Office? Answer this please.

It’s totally different from clipboard in windows operating system.

In MS-Office all the application software contains office clipboard. We will see the facility in this. If work based on cut, copy, paste command. We can store 24 items in this clipboard. While trying to copy the 25th item in the clipboard it will replace the first item from the clipboard.

Due to the following option the menu will automatically open.

1. When you cut or copy more than 2 items in a program
2. In a same program copy one text and past after that copy a text.
3. When you past the same item twice.

When office clipboard started the icon is displayed in the left side of status bar. To show the number of text you can go to edit menu and active it. In that it shows more facilities. To get that facility put tick mark in the facility.

1. To display the clipboard automatically. (No need to go edit menu)
2. When we press the Ctrl + c twice, it shows clipboard.
3. To get the facility even though it does not display.
4. To display the icon in the task bar.
5. To show the copy clipboard it display the status of copied item.

When we active Office clipboard in on office program it does not show other office program. The items are in office clipboard until the entire office programs are closed. Or we can delete it by clicking delete in the menu. We can delete the item selected from text. We can paste or delete the file by left click the item. If we press delete it will delete the item. If we select the past it will paste the item where the cursor is placed. If we paste all, it will paste all the items to the document.

Now a question arises in your mind. What is the difference between both the clipboards? Lets see the answer. While you pasting the items continuously in office clipboard the last item will store in operating system clipboard. When we delete all files in office clipboard the item in OS clipboard also get erased. When you are using (CTRL + V) and paste command it will paste content from operating system clipboard.

10 Firefox Tricks

i recently wrote about opening a firefox within a firefox. curious about chrome urls i did some reseaerch and came up with a list of 10 urls that will make your browser do some funky things.
chrome://browser/content/browser.xul
Opens another Firefox, inside a tab in the the existing Firefox window.
chrome://browser/content/preferences/preferences.xul
Opens the Options dialog box inside the Firefox tab.
chrome://browser/content/bookmarks/bookmarksPanel.xul
Opens the “Book Marks Manager” inside a tab in the Firefox window
chrome://browser/content/history/history-panel.xul
Opens the History Panel in the Firefox tab
chrome://mozapps/content/extensions/extensions.xul?type=extensions
Opens the Extensions window in the current tab.
chrome://browser/content/preferences/cookies.xul
Opens the “cookies window” inside a tab in the Firefox window.
chrome://browser/content/preferences/sanitize.xul
Opens the “Clear Private Data” window inside the current tab.
chrome://browser/content/aboutDialog.xul
Opens the About Firefox Dialog box inside the Firefox tab.
chrome://browser/content/credits.xhtml
A scrolling list of names.
chrome://global/content/alerts/alert.xul
Dancing Firefox. press ctrl + w to exit

How To Increase Your Internet Speed By 20%

If you use Windows XP Professional then it is possible to squeeze an extra 20% out of your internet connection. By default

Windows XP Pro holds back 20% of your Internet speed for various services like windows update and spyware checks.

If you want to tap into this locked speed then make the following changes:

1. Go to Start-> Run-> and type gpedit.msc
2. Expand the Administrative Templates branch
3. Expand the Network tab
4. Highlight QoS Packet Scheduler
5. Click on Limit Reservable Bandwidth and check the ‘enabled’ box
6. Then Change the Bandwidth limit % to 0 %

Once you’ve done this click apply and restart your PC. After rebooting you should see a noticeable improvement in your net speed.