Computer Tweaks

You might sometimes face this problem; whenever you connect your drives(hard drive/pen drive/ memory cards) to your PC it asks for formatting; it flashes a message of Access Denied. Many of our readers have asked this question. They want to know how to handle this situation. Sometimes you get a message when you connect your memory card "Your card is corrupted". Many a times you get a message like this; You have no choice left but to format it, BUT wait, there is one command promt technique that may be useful. A DOS command that checks your files, removes bad sectors and corrects the disk to make it usable. Step1: Connect the device(drive)  to your PC Step2: Go to Command Promt (Start Menu -> Run -> Type "CMD" Press Enter) (In Command Promt)   Step3: type "chkdsk drivename: /r" press enter (@ the place of drive name type the drive name of you r Card) eg: chkdsk E: /r  Step4: Press Y to continue you will start see...

We have seen many Open Source or Freeware Applications competing with Paid apps of course in terms of qualities. It's not true that all free apps are of no use . There are many free apps that are very powerful and as worthy as to use them daily. Here I am listing a few such free apps. You might be knowing many of them (but everyone is not as clever as you). NotePad++ NotePad++ is a free and open source text editor. If you feel notepad is too limited, then NotePad++ is what you need. This small program can be opened as fast as your good old NotePad, but with tons of extra features. Multi-tab, Syntax Highlighting, and support for Regular Expression Search/Replace are three nice feature included in this program. Web site: http://notepad-plus-plus.org . 7-Zip 7-Zip is a free and open source file compression utility. The user interface is little bit outdated, but it is one of the best alternative to Winzip. Most common compression file format...

  We all have faced this problem while using Facebook chat, it shows online friends along with many offline friends. Whenever we open chat we want to see only online friends, right? But Facebook chat doesn't do so.    If you want to show only online friends in Facebook chat you can use Facebook Chat Fix extension of Google Chrome, Go to this link  (using Google Chrome) and click on "ADD TO CHROME" button. That's it, you are done! Now you will see only online friends in Facebook Chat (while browsing in Google Chrome).

Windows 8 Developers Edition was a hit, and on 29th Feb,2012 Windows launched Windows 8 Consumer Preview with more than 1000 changes. Windows application store is up and running with a handful of free Metro apps available to play around with. A lot of improvements have been made to memory usage, boot process, power management and hardware supports.  If you want to give a try, download your copy of Windows 8 Consumer Preview from the following: English 64-bit (x64): Download (3.3 GB) 32-bit (x86): Download (2.5 GB) Product Key: DNJXJ-7XBW8-2378T-X22TX-BKG7J Go to official download page for other languages: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/iso As this build of Windows 8 is still in beta stage and as such may contain bugs that can cause stability problem when running some applications. This release is intended to be used for testing purpose only and will be expired on January 16, 2013. The final commercial version of Wind...

  So many times we accidently delete some important files, pictures or videos. Sometimes we loose files because of unexpected system failure  ( ultimately causing system format). We can get our deleted files back using Recovery Softwares/Utilities.  Even though a file was deleted there is a good chance that contents of the file are still around.  When a file is deleted the contents of the file are not removed. Only a pointer to the file in the file system table is deleted.   It is very important to immediately stop writing to the storage device that previously contained your files/pictures so that the old file contents are not overwritten.  For example, don’t take any more pictures with your digital camera because new pictures will overwrite the deleted files. HOW TO RECOVER DELETED FILES???? Step1: You will need to use a utility to recover your lost files. I like to use a free ut...

Looking for a job, searching for a divorce lawyer, researching a medical condition or commenting on sensitive political issues that you don’t want anyone to know about? Or maybe you’re using a public network in a hotel or coffee shop. How do you keep others from seeing your browsing history or tracking what you’re doing on the Web? When considering web “privacy,” there are two pieces that matter. The first is anonymity: how to keep people from knowing what sites you’re visiting. The second is privacy: how to keep people from accessing the information you send. Depending on your circumstances, you may care about protecting one or both of these pieces. Protecting your browsing history on your personal computer is easy. Each of the major browsers has a “private browsing” mode that deletes cookies, temporary Internet files and browsing history after you close the window so others with access to your PC won’t be able to see what sites you visited. Chrome – Click ...