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Amaze your firends by displaying your name after time in taskbar

7. July 2008

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Amaze your firends by displaying your name after time in taskbar

This trick will add your name in place of AM and PM beside time and make you feel proud among your group of friends. Go to  Start -> Control Panel -> Regional and Language option -> Customize (beside English US) -> Go to TIME tab -> Change AM symbol and PM symbol from AM and PM [...]

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Modify Windows start button to display System time

3. July 2008

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Modify Windows start button to display System time

Download StartClock form the following url and run StartClock http://startclock.osnn.net/files This cool freeware will replace the word start with the system time. This tiny piece of code comes with startclock.ini file for making configuration changes such as 12 hour clock with seconds 24hour clock ,load program at start up, refresh rate (Be careful with this number smaller [...]

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Security : Clear Data written in page file before shutdown

28. June 2008

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As an added security precaution it is possible to clear all data that has been written to the page file so it cannot be retrieved. The downside to this tweak is that it may substantially increase shutdown time depending on the amount of data in the page file. [Start] –> [Run] –> Type Regedit –> Press [...]

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Modifying the Internet and Media Player Key On a multimedia Keyboards

26. June 2008

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If you dont like the shortcuts on your multimedia keyboard jsut because they launch the default programs given by windows then here is a way to change them. Internet key Open the Registry Editor and navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\AppKey\7 Right-click in the right column and create a new String called ShellExecute Set the value as the application path, for example, [...]

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