I have seen a number of technical articles and newsgroup stating that Windows always reserves 20 percent of the available internet bandwidth for their own purposes and QoS. They also describe techniques to get that back and improve internet connection speed. But, according to Microsoft, these claims are absolutely incorrect. Here's the full story...

Gmail doesn't recognize dots (.) as characters within a username. Google Ignores "." in Google Account Username At A Time Of Login and Also At Time Of Creating New Account. This way, you can add and remove dots to your username and change your email id. May be some of you do not believe, but this is a very interesting Fact. Read full story here...

You shouldn't forget to lock your PC, even when leaving for a short while. 'Log Off' and 'Lock' are different things. This article describes how to quickly lock your computer running windows OS. Also few other useful Windows logo shortcut keys that you can use and save time...

In Windows 7 file/folder modification is not not allowed for users other then the owner of file or folder. You might have faced problems related to ownership. Manually taking ownership of files or folders in Windows 7 or Vista is a multistep lengthy task. Here is a single step solution of this problem.

A few lines of simple HTML code made Internet Explorer to hang-up. It crashes every single version of IE, from IE6 even up to the latest Internet Explorer 9. If you want to try this, just copy-paste this code in notepad and save with .html extension.

If you don't have Office 2007 or 2010 installed and want to view any media content such as images or videos embedded with the Word(DOCX), Powerpoint(PPTX) or Excel(XLSX) document then don't worry. Here's a very simple method.

We know so many methods to hide a file. But the trick I am going to explain below is an amazing one. Using this trick, you can hide any type of file behind another one. No one ever thinks about a file as having to the ability to hide other files.

Here we will use Windows security settings to temporarily lock out the account for xx minutes whenever the wrong password is entered x times. This will prevent the hacker from being able to repeatedly guess your password by making it a longer time job.

Rather than take the several steps involved in going to Start-Turn Off Computer, some prefer to have a shortcut on the desktop to accomplish the task in one operation...[includes Shut Down, Log Off, Restart etc.]

If you have forgotten your administrator password for Windows, worry not - you don't have to do a fresh install of Windows. You can use a Ubuntu Linux live CD or live USB to reset the password. This tutorial will show you how to do that, step by step...

Many times we wish to reinstall OS but we can't due to failure of CD/DVD media or something else. However any USB drive can be used for installing Windows OS by making it bootable. The method is very simple and you can do it yourself...

AeroTweak, 1 MB utility software allows you to change about 50 different system parameters that affect user interface, performance and system security. Program does not require installation and...