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Logging into Administrator account without Administrator privileges

Vikas — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:45:29 +0000

Sometime back, I posted a way to reset or change Administrator’s password and use it as a way to login to Administrator’s account in Windows XP. That trick had two drawbacks, first you must have Administrator’s privileges to change password, and second the Administrator will know someone has accessed his account since the password will [...]

Switching Tasks with DExposE2

Vikas — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:35:47 +0000

Sometime before I wrote about the Task Switcher XP which is quite a handy tool for visually switching programs, and provides more options for the programs. DExposE2 is another great tool which mimics the Expose of Mac OS X. This is the best alternative which you can get for it. You can minimize all the applications [...]

Search and Download Movie Subtitles From Your Desktop

Vikas — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:31:56 +0000

Finding movie subtitles can become as easy as pie if you’re using Sublight. It is a utility which enable you to search movie subtitles and download them to your computer from your desktop. It is quite easy to use and it can search for movie subtitles based on many criteria. It can automatically search for movie [...]

Gain Hard Disk Space by Deleting Duplicate Files

Vikas — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:28:53 +0000

It is very common to have more than one hard disk installed on one computer and have thousand of files. I myself have 3 hard disks and my desktop is a real mess. Even if I move songs to a separate disk, movies to another, and games to another and tried to find and delete [...]

3D Desktop for Windows

Vikas — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:33:26 +0000

I found many 3D desktop but they were eating system resources like there’s no tomorrow (512MB RAM that’s too much). While looking for a cool 3D desktop which doesn’t hogs the system, I came across only one application, Manotate. The RAM usage for this application was under 10MB even when I had over 10 applications [...]

Here’s how to know dead links for Rapidshare.com

Vikas — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:19:13 +0000

The following trick will allow you to check and verify Rapidshare.com links by simply looking at the links. This trick helps in finding dead links before you even try to download them from Rapidshare. It quickly finds if all the download links posted on any web page are still working and all files exist on [...]

Faster file access in NTFS

Vikas — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 17:08:26 +0000

Most of people today use NTFS file system since it offers a lot more security and features than FAT32 file system. NTFS reduces the number of times the disk is needed to be access and also minimizes the time needed to find a file. The file access time in when using NTFS can be further [...]