Computer Tweaks

Charts are very important, we need them many times to emphasis the importance of data. It is easy to create charts in Microsoft Excel  You will need to have some data where you want your chart to be based example: now you will need to go to the Insert Tool bar you will get this bar displayed: Select the table where you have the data en select the type of chart you need: for example I selected the bars one and I got this:

Windows XP comes with a builtin CD-copy feature that not many people are aware of. Although almost everyone has his/her favorite CD-copy software to stick with, it is still good to know about this CDR feature from Windows XP. You will find it very useful when you come to another PC that doesn't have a CD-copy software, and you can't just install your favorite software to it. With this feature, you can write data or MP3 files to a CD/DVD. Step I : You need to enable the CD-R feature on Windows XP From Desktop, double-click on " My Computer ". Right-click on the CD Drive and select " Properties "           3. Select the tab " Recording " then select the option " Enable CD recording on this drive " and select " Fastest " for the write speed.           5.  Click " OK ".     6.  Your CD Drive is now configured with built-in CD Recording feature enabled.  St...

Windows Defender is the anti-malware application of Windows, of course provides real-time protection against malware If you have a reliable anti-malware application that you prefer to use, disabling this feature can free up system resources 1. Click on the Start menu 2. Select All Programs, 3. Click “Windows Defender” 4. Click on Tools 5. Click Options (under Administrator options) 6. Uncheck  "Use Windows Defender check box" 5. Click Save.

Frequent computer users and mostly programmers very often need to execute some dos/shell commands. The problem is, when a command prompt window is launched, the default path is normally the system path or the user profile's path. The users will then have to do all the "cd" commands to change the directories to the path they want. This trick shows you how to add an option called "Command Prompt" when you right-click on a folder in Windows. With this option, a Command Prompt Window will be launched and its current directory will be the path to the folder you've selected. Here's what you'll get:   How to Do it??? You can either edit your registry   OR   download the registry file and apply it on your computer. Method I. Manually edit the registry: Start   >   Run Enter " regedit " and hit Enter Expand to " HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Folder\shell " Right-click on " shell " and sele...

Shortcut Key Short Key Description Alt + (double-click) Open Properties dialog of selected item. Alt + Enter Opens properties window of selected item. Alt + Esc Switch Between open tasks available on the taskbar. Alt + F4 Close the top (focused) window. Alt + Tab Switch between open windows. Alt + Tab + Shift Switch between open windows, backward. Ctrl + Alt + Delete (or Del) Bring up the Windows Task Manager, or reboot computer. Ctrl + Esc Bring up the Windows Start menu. Ctrl + '+' ('+' key on the keypad) Autofit the widths of all columns (if available) in current window. Ctrl + F4 Close sub window/tab. Ctrl + Tab Switch between existing tabs (within a window). Ctrl + Tab + Shift Switch between existing tabs (within a window), backward F1 ...