How to run untrusted programs in Windows? – Part I

run programs safe Virus, Malwares, Worms or Trojans have become common these days as one can find them in softwares, email attachments, scripts from the web, pirated softwares and keygen etc. One has to trust Anti-virus programs mostly to find and delete them but sometimes it doesn’t happen in the way we think and the computer gets infected. No Anti-Virus system is fool proof. Sometimes programmers and users who use pirate programs try to run keygen and others which are 99.9% unsafe and highly untrusted. I have been contemplating with this problem for quite sometime and have come back with few solutions which I have found through Internet.

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August 28th, 2009 | Leave a Comment

How to merge contacts in Gmail?

Merging contacts in Gmail Duplicate contacts in email is a big problem always and I have been facing this in Gmail for a long time and I wanted Google to address this issue one or the other day. The day has come and Google has give options to users to select all the contact details for the contact person to merge. This merging becomes very important after Google introducing Google Sync a tool for iPhone, BlackBerry or for any Windows Mobile devices which syncs your Google Contacts and Calendar to it. So it is better to keep your contacts without duplicates in your Gmail or your Google contacts in your iPhones or any other smart phone before using Google Sync.

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February 12th, 2009 | Leave a Comment

How to recover VSS Admin password?

vss-2005 Visual Source Safe popularly known as VSS is one of the most widely used source control and configuration management system across the IT industry, educational and in other organizations. It is so vital and critical for any organization that is using this and a losing Admin password to manage VSS will be really frustrating. I am planning to pen down how to do this safely without screwing up things that gets you axed.

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January 2nd, 2009 | 2 Comments

How to create DVD rips?

dvd-rips Most of us have come across DVD rips across Internet in forums, torrents etc with greater clarity along with greater compression though it is mostly considered as illegal. Most of the DVD rips comes in 700MB and 1.4 GB mostly but most of us are unaware of the technique or tools used to create the same. There are lot of free and commercial tools available in the Internet to do the job but AutoGK (Auto Gordian Knot) is the best one I can think off which is generally used as DivX / XviD backup utility.

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December 5th, 2008 | Leave a Comment

How to create tables in Microsoft Word using just the Keyboard?

word_table Most of the Internet users must be familiar about creating tables in Microsoft word and its not a tough job too. The usual way to create table in Word is just by using ‘Tables and Borders’ button or by using the ‘Insert Table’ button. Today I am gonna show some technique without using any menu from Microsoft Word and draw the table just by using the keyboard.

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October 19th, 2008 | 8 Comments