Modify the user agent string sent by Internet Explorer by editing the windows registry. Internet Explorer sends a user agent string containing information about the IE version, OS version and some other information. You can edit it to add your own personal touch or to personalize your visit to a webpage. An example for a user agent Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727) if you carefully look at this string you can find that MSIE 6.0 denotes Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 and Windows NT 5.1 shows the kernel version of a Windows XP operating System.Continue Reading…
Hide Last Logged in Username in Windows (Registry Tweak)
Windows displays the last logged in username in the login dialog box thinking it would be useful for the same person if he or she logs in again. But it might be a security or privacy issue for some. Letting others know you’ve logged in to a particular computer might be a privacy issue for you. Even if welcome screen is enabled just hitting Ctrl + Alt + Del twice will bring up the dialog box which displays the last login username. Hiding it is a simple matter of editing a registry value.Continue Reading…
Create a bootable Windows Vista/7 Installation Pen Drive
Maintaining optical installation discs (CD/DVD) is very difficult. They get scratched or your drive lens might become too old and dusty to read a CD/DVD. Taking a backup of your windows Vista/7 installation files on a CD or DVD might give you disk write errors or sometimes if everything goes perfectly one fine day when you try to install from that disc you might get an error stating some xyz.dll file is missing. But now you can create a windows Vista or 7 installation USB drive, boot from it directly and install your OS. With USB drive prices falling sharply it isn’t uncommon to see 4GB drive as the starting point. An added advantage is that installing from a USB drive is much faster than doing it from a DVD and you can also if you have lots of space in the drive additional files like drivers and essentials can be added.Continue Reading…
Change Registered To in Windows
For all those want your personal computer to be “personal” think again.If you bought a branded computer or got it assembled by someone else then most probably the owner of the computer is not you! no I don’t mean it literally just right click My Computer and go to properties. You’ll see some Jack and Jill’s name under the Registered To heading. Even if you desperately search the whole day to find that one option that will allow you to change the registered owner in windows you won’t find any. So the last option you might wonder is to reinstall windows. Don’t worry you don’t have to take that extreme step when you have a wonderful thing named windows registry to change your world. Just follow the steps carefully and you’ll regain your PC’s ownership.Continue Reading…
Add Command Prompt on Right Click
A registry tweak for command line warriors, even with the latest Windows AERO theme power users still prefer the command prompt to accomplish certain tasks. But navigating through folders and subfolders is painful especially if the folder names are long containing numbers and alphabets like a3f5a2ed3eea41ec9b2198da. Add a command prompt option to the context menu so that you can simply right click any folder select “Command Prompt” and the Command prompt opens with the specified folder as the working directory.Continue Reading…
Add Copy To and Move To in the Context Menu
This registry tweak adds great productivity to the Windows Operating System by reducing the number of clicks needed to copy or move the file. Usually when you want to copy a file to some other location what do you do? select the file, press Ctrl + C go to the destination and press Ctrl + P to paste the file. Or from the source you can select the file go to Edit -> Copy To Folder and select the location. But how cool it would be to get the options “Copy To” and “Move To” to the context menu when you right click a file or folder. Tweak your windows registry and brag among your friends on how you reduced the number of clicks.Continue Reading…
