Mouseless Browsing Using Firefox

If you are good with you Keyboard, then Sometimes you must have felt to make shortcuts for everything and just not to use mouse at all. We know hoe it feels to take hands off the keyboard.
Well at least there is a way to browse the Internet without using the mouse at all. This is made possible by using Firefox and its tools.

Here’s What you need to do.

1. Open Firefox and go to Tools –> Options –> Advanced –> General.
2. Now in the general tab, second line would say “Search for text when i start typing”.



3. Click that box, and click on ok.
4. Now see the difference, you now just need to type the link you wanna go onto, you start typing that and it will be highlighted on your screen, you need to press enter to go to that link.

This is surely going to bring a broad smile on your face.

Customized Icons for Drives

Bored of your plain and uninterestingly looking icons of your drive? How can you make a private by just looking at it. Well, one of the ways is to give the drives your name. Another way is to give it a customized icon, or even your photo. Now, how is that possible? Here is easy tweak that will take you through the process of placing these icons for your drive. This same tweak will work for Flash drives, and Disks. Here are the steps you need to follow.

1. Choose any image and convert it into an “ICO” file.
2. Download this new “ICO” file and place it in the drive you want to assign this image to.
3. Now, open notepad, and type the following commands
   

   
   [autorun]
   ICON=filename.ico

4. Save this file as autorun.inf, and make this file and image as hidden.
5. You can hide this file by going into properties, and then selecting the Hidden box.
6. Reboot your computer and you will see the new icons into effect.

Thats it, Wasn’t it simple?It was. Do try this, and i am sure you will find a new PC

Does Your Drive Not Open on Double Click

One of our readers Sandeep mailed me and asked a question. “Whenever I double click on my D drive, it does not open. It shows me a find window and i am not able to access it. I am not able to access any type of data, What can be done.”
On Further probing, I came to know that whenever he double clicks, Find window opens up, and this was no result of a Virus attack, it was just playing with the Folder Options, which resulted in this situation.
He was able to see the “Find” option as the main option in bold, and also able to open drives through right click options. When I checked it, I saw that the Registry gets edited when we do the changes as Manish did.
Here is the solution to Manish’s Problem

1. Go to Start –> Run, Type Regedit
2. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Drive\shell
3. In the Right pane, Change the Only value there “Default” to “None“

This Solved the issue. If you are facing this problem too, you can try this and thus get your problem solved.

Changing Extension of Multiple Files

Suppose in case you have 100 video files, that too in a different formats and you want to change it to one common format, what’s the best thing you will do?
You will go in to folder options and untick “Hide extensions for known file types” and then change the extensions one by one?
Well if this is what you are going to do then i have a much simpler way of doing it.

Here’s what you need to do.

1. Go to start –> Run –> Cmd (for Xp) or Command (for 98).
2. Now on the command prompt, go onto the folder where all these videos are, or where your data is(like “d:\videos>”).
3. Type in “ren *.* *.mpeg” without quotes. Its just an example on how to rename files. You can select any valid extension and all the files will be renamed in a very little time.

Try this and you are going to love it.