Change the Default Opening Folder in Windows Explorer

By default, Windows Explorer opens showing the My Documents folder. To change the default setting so that all top-level drives and folders are shown.

Follow these steps:

· Click Start > Programs > Accessories, then right-click Windows Explorer, and click Properties.

· Under Target field, which reads %SystemRoot%\explorer.exe, add to make the lineread: %SystemRoot%\explorer.

Load Internet Explorer the Fastest Way Possible

Edit your link to start Internet Explorer to have -nohome after it.

For Example:

"C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\IEXPLORE.EXE"-nohome

This will load internet explorer very fast because it does not load a web page while it is loading. If you want to go to your homepage after it is loaded, just click on the home button.

customize IE Toolbar

Does your web browser toolbar include buttons you never need? Do you want to remove those buttons? Or maybe you want to add some buttons for commonly used functions such as Full Screen or Print Preview?

Here is trick to customize internet explorer's toolbar, just follow these steps:

1) Open internet explorer.

2) Right click an empty area of the toolbar at the top of your browser.

3) Select Customize and then add or remove options.

4) Now in customize toolbar's window, you'll find a list of options you can add on the left and ones currently there that you can remove on the right.

5) To add a button simply highlight it on the left-hand list and click the Add button.

6) To remove a button, highlight it on the right-side list and click Remove.

You can also change the order that buttons appear by moving them up and down the list.

Increase Your Cable Modem or DSL Speed in XP

This tweak is for broad band cable connections on stand alone machines with WinXP professional version - might work on Home version also. It may also work with networked machines as well This tweak assumes that you have let WinXP create a connection on install for your cable modem/NIC combination and that your connection has tcp/ip - QoS - file and print sharing and client for Microsoft networks , only, installed. It also assumes that WinXP will detect your NIC and has in-box drivers for it. If it doesn't do not try this.

· In the "My Network Places" properties (right-click on the desktop icon and choose properties ), highlight the connection then at the menu bar choose "Advanced" then "Advanced Settings". Uncheck the two boxes in the lower half for the bindings for File and Printer sharing and Client for MS networks. Click OK.

· From the Windows XP CD in the support directory from the support cab, extract the file netcap.exe and place it in a directory on your hard drive or even in the root of your C:\ drive.

· Next, open up a command prompt window and change directories to where you put

netcap.exe. then type "netcap/?".

It will list some commands that are available for netcap and a netmon driver will be installed. At the bottom you will see your adapters. You should see two of them if using a 3Com card. One will be for LAN and the other will be for WAN something or other. · Next type "netcap/Remove". This will remove the netmon driver.

· Open up Control Panel->System->Dev Man and look at your network adapters. You should now see two of them and one will have a yellow ! on it. Right-click on the one without the yellow ! and choose uninstall. YES! You are uninstalling your network adapter, continue with the uninstall. Do not restart yet.

· Check your connection properties to make sure that no connection exists. If you get a wizard just cancel out of it.

Now re-start the machine.

· After re-start go to your connection properties again and you should have a new connection called "Local area connection 2". Highlight the connection, then at the menu

bar choose "Advanced" then "Advanced Settings". Uncheck the two boxes in the lower half

for the bindings for File and Printer sharing and Client for MS networks. Click OK.

· Choose connection properties and uncheck the "QOS" box.

· Re-start the machine.

After restart enjoy the increased responsiveness of IE, faster page loading, and a connection speed boost.

Why it works, it seems that windows XP, in its zeal to make sure every base is covered installs two separate versions of the NIC card. One you do not normally see in any properties. Remember the "netcap/?" command above showing two different adapters? The LAN one is the one you see. The invisible one loads everything down and its like your running two separate cards together, sharing a connection among two cards, this method breaks this "bond" and allows the NIC to run un-hindered.

clear the search box on google.com

To clear the search box on google.com or the history of any text box in internet explorer:

Select "Internet Options" from the Internet Explorer "Tools" menu.

Select the "Content" tab at the top of the "Internet Options" window.

In the "Personal information" section at the bottom, click the "AutoComplete" button.

On the AutoComplete Settings window, click on the "Clear Forms" button.

You will get a window asking you to confirm clearing the history.

Click "OK", and you're done.

Increase the Browsing and Downloading speed in Windows Vista

In window vista the web browsing and downloading speed is very slow as compare to previous versions of windows. You can open the same sites in windows XP and server 2003 with much better speed. Here are steps to increase internet speed in window vista using browser internet explorer. Just follow these steps:




1). Open Internet Explorer.

2). Go to tools and then internet options.

3). Now in internet options window go to Advance tab.

4). Scroll down in settings to find use SSL 2.0 to turn on SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) and tick on it and remove tick from Use TLS 1.0 to turn off TLS(Transport Layer Security.


5). Click OK.
Its done.

Now web browsing speed should be much better than before.

Use Browser as Calculator:

While surfing if you need to calculate some figure then no need to open calculator in window. You can do simple calculation easily in browser. It is done by simple javascript, which is described below. You just need to write that script in address bar and press enter. answer would display immediately in an dialog box.

javascript: alert(calculation part);

for example 

calculate 6+5 

write javascript: alert(6+5); in address bar and press enter.
answer displyed in dialog box as shown below.

calculate 6*5-2
write javascript: alert(6*5-2); in address bar and press enter.


You can use +, -, *, /, % and can perform calculation easily without open windows calculator.

Customize ur IE's titlebar

-Click Start > Run > Type gpedit.msc

-Click User Configuration > Windows Setting > Internet Explorer Maintenance > Browser User Interface

-Double click on Browser Title Click on Customize Title Bars.

-Change the text to what whatever you want Click then click Ok

Enable Right click on Websites which had disabled it

Lots of web sites have disabled the right click function of the mouse button...which disables all functionalities like: Copy, Paste, Open in new tab, Open in new Window etc.. It's really very annoying. But you need not to worry, now you can enable right click on those websites, It's very easy to change this setting in Internet Explorer, Just follow these steps:

1) Click Tools -> Internet Options.

2) In Internet settings window, Click on Security tab.

3) Then Click on Custom Level button.

4) In Security settings window, Scroll down to the Scripting section.

5) Set Active Scripting to disable.

6) Click Ok a couple of times.

you can also turn it enable anytime to disable right click on those sites by following same procedure..

Filter Web Surfing - Remove Ads, scripts and animation from websites

Most of websites displays lots of advertisement banners, pop up ads, animation etc. If you don't like these ads n all then you can remove all these undesirable things.


 









Webwasher is a proxy server application which allows user to filter out undesirable content that user specify, including ads, animations, scripts and more. It provides user a basic interface, made up of basic checkboxes with a few option windows. Click in front of check boxes which you want to filter out.

Pop-ups, misdirected URLs, large images, scripts, and animations can be easily set to not display. It also crush cookies. It can also be used to block some websites. It provides user a secure and safe search.

Webwasher is freely available on internet for personal use. However, you need to purchase it for using in enterprise(bussiness purpose).

Click here to Download

Shake your Browser - Cool Computer Tricks

Here is a computer prank to shake internet explorer.. Try it just paste this in address bar of Internet Explorer and press enter.

javascript:function Shw(n) {if (self.moveBy) {for (i = 35; i > 0; i--) {for (j = n; j > 0; j--) {self.moveBy(1,i);self.moveBy(i,0);self.moveBy(0,-i);self.moveBy(-i,0); } } }} Shw(6)

Enjoy shaking of it.. Its safe and will stop shaking in some seconds.