Save Time with Computer, Use Windows Shortcuts

If you are not a computer expert (like me, a simple common man), you might be doing your computer work, like surfing & other works by a lengthier process, like writing www, .com, going to start button & then going to My Computer, Folders etc. You can save a lot of time by using Windows Shortcuts.
Here are some common Windows Shortcuts to speed up your work & save time:
Press F1- Windows Help will open.
Press F5- Webpage will be Refreshed.
Press Ctrl & C together to copy a  selected item.
Press Ctrl & V together to Paste a  selected item.
Press Ctrl & X together to cut a selected item.

Some very useful shortcuts:
Press Ctrl & Esc button together to open START window.
Press Ctrl & Tab to scroll different webpages. Normally when you open more than one window in a browser, you minimize one window to see other window/webpage. By this Windows Shortcut, i.e. by keep pressing Ctrl & then clicking Tab button you can view your multiple windows.
Press Alt & F4 together to  close a window.
To rename a File/Folder just Press F2.
When you delete a file or folder, it is sent to Recycle Bin & ultimately the space of your computer is not freed. If you want to delete a File/Folder permanently without sending it to Recycle bin, Press Shift & Delete together.
If you are Playing a Game or watching a Movie in Full Screen, just click the Windows Logo button on your key board, to show the Task bar, then you can close the program or shift to other window. It is also helpful in shutting down the system when the game or Movie is hanged & you can't see the Task Bar to shut down the computer or close the program.
Now Two of my Favourite Windows Shortcuts to save time & speed up your Work:
Press Windows Logo & E button simultaneously to go to My Computer directly, to see your Files, Partition.
When you open a webpage in a browser (IE, Firefox etc), you write the www. then webpage name & then .com. Now try this: Just write the website name without writing www. & .com words & click Ctrl & Enter together. The word www. & .com will be automatically written in browser. For example if you want to go to http://www.microsoft.com  just write microsoft & Press Ctrl  & Enter button together, see no need to write http:// www. or .com  :-)
This is applicable only for .com websites.

For Other Windows Shortcuts, go to support.microsoft.com or click here

How To Know the Details of a WEBSITE by WHOIS, Stop Internet Crime

Few posts earlier, I mentioned about reporting about Internet Crime to IC3( see previous post). But the very important part for reporting about an Internet Crime is to Know the Details of a Website, who is the Adminstrator, his contact address etc.You can know all the details of a Website by "WHOIS" ( Who is??). WHOIS is a query used for knowing the databse details of a website i.e IP Address (Internet Protocol Address-> It is a number assigned to your Internet Service by your Internet Service Provider ISP), domain name ( e.g. wegatalk.com is a domain name, registered with a web hosting service), Date of Registration, Address, Contact number, date of expiry of the domain etc. Literally WHOIS can give you all the Details of a Website or a domain. Let's for example see the WHOIS details of site http://www.astitv.org/

The above screen shot is just half of the whois information, but you can easily see the name of Registrant, Date of creation of Website, Address, Phone Number, email address, so many valuable informations.

The WHOIS information can assist the Law Enforcing Authorities in investigation & enforcing national &a international Laws. For example if a site is doing some unlawful activities, like terrorism, Internet Crime, racisist activities, child abuse. Fraud etc, they can be tackled by their WHOIS information.

There are many services, that gives WHOIS information FREE of cost. Some of them are: http://www.whois.net/

http://whois.ws/ ( This site also Tracks your IP address)

http://whois.domaintools.com/

http://www.internic.net/

 http://tools.whois.net (This site also gives WHOIS information by IP Address).

Just go to any website mentioned above & write the name of website, whose WHOIS, you want to know, in the search box & hit enter--> you will get all the WHOIS information. Hope You will see the WHOIS, to know the Details of  a Website before entering that site or dealing financially with that site.

One Can Hide it's WHOIS by paying to it's Webhosting services.

Hiding WHOIS indicates, that the owner does not want a transparent behaviour & it looks fishy.

Enjoy &  keep reading & be Careful on Internet, Stop Internet Crime.

Cool Photo Effects to your "PICTURE", Make it Flow in Water

Want to add Cool Photo Effects to your "PICTURE"? Here is one anonther site, where you can add cool effects to your "PICTURE". The fotline.com & it's related websites like pfect, wavyeffects will edit your "PICTURE" to Cool Photo Effects, like Water effects, Bouncing effects, Wavy effects, Flying effects, Shaking effects, Dancing effects & many more....
See the Water effects below

The original picture below

Just go to fotline.com, upload your "PICTURE", & give the effects.
After the Photo Effects, right click on the picture & save it on your computer, to use it anywhere you want.
For more COOL, FUNNY, SEXY, MONALISA effects to your picture, see my previous post

Problem with Screen Brightness?? Dim in Battery Power? Go to BIOS

How To Adjust Laptop's Brightness, When It is Not Responding.
I had recently faced a problem in my Laptop's Brightness. My Laptop setting by default is, that in Battery Power, the Brightness is automatically reduced or dimmed, to save battery power. If I had to increase the brightness ( both on Battery or A/c Power mode), the simplest way was ,keep pressing Fn (Function) & with another finger Up button till my desired Screen Brightness. The same thing I do to dim or reduce the Brightness of my Laptop, to save energy or increase the working time of my Laptop. Recently I faced a problem that the Screen Brightness of my Laptop was not responding to Fn + Up or Fn + Down arrow button. So what was happening was quite irritating. Whenever the power comes , the panel brightness become full, that is brightest & whenever the Laptop runs on Battery, the Laptop's Screen Brightness become very dim that is to lowest. I was not able to see properly to my laptops desktop in daylight.
All these happened due to worm infection to my Laptop, that reduced the brightness to lowest level. Adjusting the screen brightness, by control panel did not work at all.
If you are facing the problem of this kind or even not facing, you can adjust your Screen Brightness by modifying BIOS Setup. BIOS is Basic Input Output System. It contains all the information about your system & the setings, that is adjusted through Factory or Inbuilt settings.
HOW TO OPEN BIOS SETUP or SETUP:
Restart your Computer--> keep pressing F12 ( or see for which F button is for BIOS/Setup)--> BIOS SETUP will open.

How to Adjust Brightness:
Go to Video option in BIOS by pressing DOWN arrow button on the right side of your keyboard--> Brightness option will drop down, click it--> Brightness Adjustment will be seen on right side--> Adjust it as you desire--> save it & exit setup--> DONE.

See in above picture( not the actual screen shot, I made it in Paint :-), but the actual screen looks almost same) , the factory default setting of my Laptop Screen Brightness is 3. You can adjust it to your desired level, to Full, to enjoy the full Brightness, even in Battery Power.
If you miscued or missed the Video button in BIOS SETUP, you can always go back by pressing ESC button.
** Imp: For going to BIOS you have to quicly press F12, as it is shown for a millisecond, or else you have to again restart your Laptop. The best way is keep pressing F12 as soon as it restarts.
ENJOY & keep reading.

Send Larger Files in Email, upto 2GB with Dropsend

Previously I wrote about HJ Split to send your Larger Files in Email by splitting. If you want to send larger files there are many options & one of them is Dropsend.com, but again I am saying that email is better, if the files are personal & important .

The Dropsend.com allows you to send files upto 2GB to any email address. The recipient will recieve a link to download that file. It has got Free versions to Buisness Class versions. You have to sign up first with your valid email, to Dropsend.com. The maximum size of file, that you can send is 2GB & you can do 5 sends per month. Also there is 250 MB of Online storage for you. The maximum number of users allowed for your file is just ONE, in Free version. see the screen shots below. click on picture to see enlarge view.

The another Great thing about Dropsend is that there is no requirement of installing any softwares. Signup with your account & get going :-)
With the DropSend Direct, you can send Larger Files direct from your desktop.The Dropsend Direct has Resume facility, so if due to any reason the File download is interrupted, you can resume from the interrupted part, without the need to restart the whole download again.
GO to Installation page of Dropsend Direct:

So Friends!! send your large videos, MP3 files, JPEG pictures, just anything with Dropsend.

The FREE All in One Uninstaller, History Cleaner, Disk Cleaner, "Revo Uninstaller"

In the last article I gave a simple common man's solution, for uninstalling the programs, that you are Not Able To Uninstall, in Windows Normal Mode. This time I am sharing a FREE, Software certified by Softpedia.com with 5 star rating, applicable for Windows only.

Revo Uninstaller helps you to uninstall software and remove unwanted programs installed on your computer even if you have problems uninstalling and cannot uninstall them from "Windows Add or Remove Programs" control panel applet.

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Revo Uninstaller not only uninstalls a program/application easily, but it also gives 8 other useful applications with it.

Auto Start Manager - Stop programs that start automatically on Windows startup, speed up loading of Windows.
Windows Tools Manager - Handy and useful tools bundled with every version of Windows; easily find useful system tools and options.
Junk Files Cleaner - Find and remove unnecessary files from your computer, free up disk space and delete files you do not need.
Browsers History Cleaner - Erase web browser history, visited pages history and temporary internet files of Internet Explorer, Firefox, Netscape and Opera web browsers, free up a lot of disk space by deleting temporary internet files like temporary saved videos, temporary flash files, temporary pictures etc.
Office History Cleaner - Remove the history of most recently used files in MS Office, remove your tracks by deleting the list of last opened MS Office documents.
Windows History Cleaner - Remove the history of recently opened files, delete temporary files, remove usage tracks and other history items that are saved by Windows,  remove your tracks saved by Windows for a lot of operations.
Unrecoverable Delete Tool - Erase files and folders forever,  be sure that nobody could recover your files and folders after deleting.There are some programs that can undelete & recover your deleted files.
**Evidence Remover - Make sure already deleted files, folders and other data are unrecoverable; securely erase your data!

There is two special Feature in Revo Uninstaller called Hunter Mode & Drag & Drop Mode. To Uninstall a program simply Drag & drop the Program icon to Hunter Icon. The Hunter Mode will then find & uninstall that prgram whether, the icon is located on Desktop, Toolbar, System tray, or in Open Window Program. Just drag the icon of program to be uninstalled, to Hunter, rest it will do itself.
 Minimum system requirement for installinf Revo Uninstaller is Windows 2000, 64MB of RAM, 5 MB Free Disk space, 133 MHz Pentium Processor. The Revo Uninstaller is certified by www.softpedia.com with 5 Star rating, that it does not contain any Spyware, Adware or Viruses.
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Enjoy!! & keep Reading for More.

Not Able To Uninstall A Program, Use "SAFE MODE"

Many a times when a program contains virus, it is difficult to uninstall or remove that Program. You are NOT ABLE TO UNINSTALL, the program.When you try to uninstall the program, it will display wizzare messages, like "You don't have the Adminstrator Rights" to uninstall the program, or the DLL file is missing, msi file is missing etc. These programs actually contains viruses & decrease your system performance & steal your important information, through the hidden spyware or Trojan etc.
Here is again a simple common man's solution, when you are Not Able To Uninstall A Program-->The "USE OF SAFE MODE".
WIndows has an option to run the computer in a "SAFE MODE", in which, minimum of drivers & programs are run by the operating system. When you are not able to uninstall a program in normal mode of computer, you can choose the option of "SAFE MODE", in which these programs can be easily removed, or uninstalled.
How to run your computer in "SAFE MODE"??
Windows XP:
 Restart your computer--> press F8 when it is just starting--> select Windows Advanced Options --> when the Boot Menu appears--> select "Safe Mode". This will give you four safe mode option :
Safe Mode( Minmal), uses minimal set of devices & drivers to start Windows.
Safe Mode with Networking
Safe Mode with Command Promt.
Enable VGA Mode.
Select "SAFE MODE" (SAFE BOOT_OPTION=Minimal), if you just want to uninstall a program, or select networking or command option by Up or Down Arrow on your right side of key board .Click enter to start Windows (XP). Go to Control Panel & Uninstall the program that is causing trouble or the program, that after installation slowed down your system, or causing abnormal behaviour of computer.
Windows 7:
Do the same procedure--> restart--> press F8--> directly "SAFE MODE" options wil open. click enter to start the windows(Windows 7).
see the picture below,taken by my mobile sony ericsson k750i