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How to remove the text from the Desktop icon or create an unnamed icon?

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Desktop is the interface of Windows, which contain the icons, taskbar etc. that allow the user to interact with the computer to perform different operations. Usually the picture of icon represents its purpose so if you want your desktop looking very clean then you can remove the title under the desktop icons. May be you are thinking it is so easy, just go to rename option and set blank name or single spacebar entry but the problem is this, windows will not allow you to set blank name or name with single spacebar entry. Here interesting thing is this; window will allow you to use the ASCII code for a space, which is 0160.   First clear all the text from that icon. Now type the ASCII code, simply hold the Alt key, type the number 0160 from the number pad and release the Alt key then press Enter button to finish the process. Before    After   But if you want to remove the text of multiple icons, then repeat the ...

How to detect and delete the duplicate files on your computer?

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This utility program is used to search and delete the duplicate files and folder on your hard disk, so that operating system can access data more quickly and easily. You can search any kind of duplicate files on your computer, for example music, text and picture. You can scan files with same contents, folder, drives and hard disk with powerful search engine. When the scanning process is completed, you will see a list of actual files, list of duplicate files with size, creating time, access and write time then create free disk space by deleting duplicates. Duplicate File Detector has a very simple control panel to help the all level of users. You can scan almost any media CD/DVD, USB, external storage device, zip drive and network drive also. You can download this tool for any windows version. Download it and run the easy setup. click here to download Duplicate File Detector. After installation launch Duplicate File Detector, the first screen w...

How to open office 2007 files into Office 2003?

  This tip will help you to resolve the compatibility issues between the Office 2003 and Office 2007. Because all programs in office 2003 used the old file extensions for its different programs.  For example Word 2003 saved files with extension .doc, Excel 2003 with .xls and PowerPoint with .ppt. but on the other office 2007 used the new file extensions for its different programs.  For example Word 2007 saved files with extension .docx, Excel 2007 with .xlsx and PowerPoint with .pptx. Now the problem is that when you will try to open office 2007 files into office 2003 and you will not open the file due to compatibility issues between both office versions.  Microsoft provides a free compatibility pack to convert office 2007 documents to the office 2003 format. There are many third party free converter are available ...

Windows XP Blue Screen of Death STOP Codes

When Windows XP detects a problem from which it cannot recover, it displays Stop messages. These are text-mode error messages that report information about the condition. Stop messages, sometimes referred to as blue screens (BSoD), contain specific information that can help you diagnose and possibly resolve the problem detected by the Windows kernel. This list describes these messages and helps you understand and interpret them. This list is NOT exhaustive or meant to resolve EVERY error. This list of messages is a guide to individual messages and their possible causes and resolutions... Having a basic understanding of these error messages enables you to communicate with your technical support professional more effectively too. With all these Stop messages, you can pretty much assume someone else has encountered the problem before you. That is why tying in the error message into www.google.com , posting a notice for help on a relevant newsgroup and entering the stop code into the ...

Transform your Windows XP in Windows7 in few minutes

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         The Microsoft Release Candidate is already out and free to download. But still if you are one of those XP lovers like me who can’t stop using XP then you can try the Windows 7 kinda look for your XP.         Today I  found all in one Windows XP to Windows 7 transformation pack.By using which even a newbie can get the complete Windows 7 look without doing any extra work. It is as simple as installing a new software on your PC.   Windows 7 trasformation pack: With Windows 7 remix you can make your XP look like Windows 7 in just few clicks. It supports Windows XP, Windows 2003, Windows Media Center Edition and some other flavors of XP. Languages: Spanish English Will work with only 32 bit edition of Windows.   click to download Windows7 Remix

Retrieve data from partially working Hard Disk

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Many times the hard disk in your computer stops functioning properly after some years. Some part of it may become unreadable. Or you may delete some important data from yourhard disk accidentally. In such cases you can use this useful tool for retrieving your lost data. Recuva is a freeware which can recover objects/files on your computer which are deleted accidentally or by some virus or malware. It can also recover data from your partially corrupted hard disk.   The tool is very easy to use. It’s fully automatic , simply select the directory from which you want to retrieve the data. Rest of the work will be done by Recuva . It will show you all the data which is recoverable and then you can select the data which you want to retrieve. download here  

Recover data from damaged CD

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Recently when I was going through my collection of old cds, I saw that almost all of them have some scratches all over it and they have become mostly unreadable. I wanted to copy some data out of it but my pc was unable to read from the CD. I tried several softwares to recover the data from my CD and finally I came across this life saving free tool. CD Recovery Toolbox supports almost all kind of disks like CD, DVD, HD-DVD, Blu-ray disks etc. This tool actually works when it comes to recovering data from physically damaged CDs. So if you have any damaged CD or DVD and want to recover some data from it give this a try and I am sure you won’t regret. Recover data from scratched/damaged CD It’s a freeware and small in size. This tool allows you to copy the part which is not damaged. So if you are copying some song which is not readable this software can copy the song but the unreadable part will be missing. This can be useful because in Windows even if some small part is unreadab...

Make your PC speak whatever you type

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Now you can create your own text to speech converter software to make your computer speak whatever you type. I found this script on one Vietnamese site. It’s pretty cool. Just run this script and make it read any funny sentence. Copy the code given below in notepad and save it as (any_name ) . v bs . Make sure that you save it as .vbs   file. Dim message, sapi message=InputBox("What do you want me to say?","Speak to Me") Set sapi=CreateObject("sapi.spvoice") sapi.Speak message After making a vbs file just double click on that file and type anything you want in the textbox. ENJOY !!!!!!!!

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