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Add Custom Items To Desktop and My Computer Context Menu
Recently, I’ve shown you How To Add “Restart Explorer” Shortcut in Windows 7 Desktop Context Menu to fix some explorer.exe problems. But what if you want to add any other shortcut to the desktop context menu? Maybe more commands like “Restart Explorer”, or maybe other apps you use really frequently….
How To Add “Restart Explorer” Shortcut in Windows 7 Desktop Context Menu
Sometimes Windows Explorer hangs and stops working properly. Restarting Explorer.exe is probably the simple solution for this. There are some methods that you can restart windows explorer, some users just restart the whole computer to get it fixed while the only thing that needs restarting is Explorer.exe.There are many methods…
[Trick] Create Shortcut To Lock Your Computer in One Click!
![[Trick] Create Shortcut To Lock Your Computer in One Click!](http://www.tipsotricks.com/wp-content/themes/tipsOtricks/timthumb.php?src=http://www.tipsotricks.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/pic1.jpg&h=140&w=140&a=t&zc=1)
If you often leave your computer while doing work, then locking your computer is offcourse more convenient than put it on standby or logging off. This trick will create a desktop shortcut, which can lock your computer instantly when clicked. Right click on an empty area of the desktop and…
[Trick] Change Windows 7 Experience Index Score to (Max) 7.9
![[Trick] Change Windows 7 Experience Index Score to (Max) 7.9](http://www.tipsotricks.com/wp-content/themes/tipsOtricks/timthumb.php?src=http://www.tipsotricks.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/windows-7-index-score.jpg&h=140&w=140&a=t&zc=1)
Its amazing that relatively newer machines and laptops have very low Windows Experience Index score. Its generally around from 3.0 to 4.0 (from a highest of 7.9) which is obviously very low score compare to the fastest machines we have today. So if you want to increase the Windows Experience…
How To Display Your Name in Windows 7 Taskbar Clock
Windows operating system allows to configure the various formats of time, Regional Language, Date and Currency. Today I’m going to tell you a little trick through which you can display your name or any other text you like in windows task bar clock. You can set the different names for…
Hide Recycle Bin Icon From Desktop in 2 Clicks! [Registry Hack]
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In windows we can customize every thing we want from desktop background to windows themes, changing windows folder icons to hide/unhide the desktop folders. You can hide My Computer, My Documents, My Network and Internet Explorer icons very easily. Simply right click the icons and choose delete, all your icons…
[Trick] Create a Text-to-Audio Converter Using Notepad
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There are so many code snippets are avaialble to create lots of interesting applications using default windows notepad. The biggest flexibility is that it allow to save the file in any format no matter what text or code is written at notepad. Here we have another notepad code snippet that…
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