Shut down / Restart your Computer, the geek way!

Here are a few old ways to shut down/restart your computer, the geek way! Windows XP: Press windows key and then press "U" twice to shutdown Press Windows key then U and R to restart Press Windows key and L twice to logoff Windows Vista/Windows 7 Press Windows key and then press "Right arrow" thrice and U to shut down Press Windows key and then press right arrow thrice and R to restart Press Windows key then press right arrow thrice and...

Microsoft has warned its users of a fake antivirus software called Security Essentials 2010. As the original blog post by Microsoft's David Wood goes, Well, it had to happen eventually. One of the oldest tricks used by rogue antivirus products is to use a similar name as, or have a similar look and feel to, legitimate security software. It’s been commonplace for them to mimic the Windows Security Center. So it was inevitable that the day would ...

At times you might want to restore a previous version of Windows, that you had installed before you installed Windows 7. This article explains just that. Windows.old folder is created when you install a new version of windows over an older version. It basically consists of all the data in the root of your partition which had windows installed,  before you installed Windows 7. It might be quiet large in size. So make sure that your windows par...

Recently I had a chance of reading an article that said that Windows 7 was susceptible to almost 80% of viruses out there. This made me think about ways in which we can protect the operating system and eventually lead to writing this article. According to me the best weapon we have against the attacks of these unwanted programs is common sense. As long as we use it the right way along with the right software we can stay safe. So here are a few s...

Even after the release of windows 7 there might be a few that still use vista. This is for them 1) Turn off unwanted animations. To do this click start menu. In the search box type “sysdm.cpl”( without quotes) and click continue when prompted by UAC. Click the advanced tab and under performance click settings. In the visual effects tab uncheck the options that are unnecessary. (more...)...

Dual booting is not a very hard task. But it requires a bit of prerequisite knowledge and if not done with care can lead to disaster. This guide assumes that you already have windows vista installed. 1. Boot with Windows Xp cd and wait till it loads necessary files. 2. Then select the volume in which you want to install Xp (choose a different drive than the one with vista installed. If you don’t have two volumes you can use vista’s built in d...