Monday, September 15, 2008

How to translate a word or phrase into other languages?


Dear friends before this tip I have brought many useful and interesting tips for you. Today tips will help you to translate a single word or phrase of one language to other language using MS Word.

Sometimes you have problems to translate any word or a phrase into foreign languages. But when you read this tip then you don't need to be a linguist expert to translate a word or phrase into other languages or vice versa. You should thanks to Microsoft Word for its surprising Translate feature because MS Word can translate one language phrase to others language automatically.

MS Word can translate a word more rapidly than any third party language translator. You can translate a word or short phrase very easily using this option but if you are going for a long phrase then the MS Word translation skills are not much better than any translation software.

Follow the given steps to use built-in MS Word translation feature:

First of all open your word document that you want to translate then go to Tools menu and then click on Translate option.

Now a translate pane will appear on the right side of your document.

Here type any new text or choose Current selection or Entire document options to translate your opened word document content into other language.

Now under the "Look up in dictionary" area, Choose that language in which you want to translate that word e.g. English into French. Here click on Go and then result of translation will appear in Result box.

Monday, September 8, 2008

How to Create Your Own Keyboard Shortcuts keys in MS Word?





Today tip will help you to create your own keyboard shortcuts keys in MS Word. Before reading this tip, may be you are using only the default shortcuts keys which are available in MS Word application. You can select any specific key combination that you want to use to perform a particular task.

If you are not an expert user then you can take many clicks and lot of menus navigations to perform a basic task. With shortcut keys, you can speed up your working pace without lifting your hands on the keys; otherwise require a conventional mouse to select menus and buttons options. You can create your own keyboard shortcuts for every word command. For example, if you are using Word Count feature constantly then you can assign any key combination like Alt+Z to run Word Count command.

Follow the given steps to create your own shortcuts keys for your favorite command:

First click on Start button, go to Program then click on Microsoft Word to run the word page.


Now go to Tools menu and click on Customize option

Here a small dialog box will appear with title Customize, now click on “Keyboard…” button

Now again a small dialog box with title Customize Keyboard, the list of all the categories of commands with appear on the left side of the dialog box. You should click on the category that contains the command which you want to assign a shortcut keyboard.

Choose the command you want to assign a keyboard combination on the right side of the customize keyboard dialog box and then click the key you want to create shortcut.

Now click on Assign button to final the shortcuts key combination then close it.

And then whenever you type the keyboard combination, word will work according to that command you have assigned this shortcut.



Wednesday, September 3, 2008

How to increase the Browsing and Downloading speed in Windows Vista?


With windows Vista you have noticed the slow internet speed. 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 the normal speed.
Follow the given steps to increase the Vista browsing speed:
First go to Advance tab in Internet Explorer and turn off the TLS (Transport Layer Security) encryption option. Here to fix problem with some secure pages turn on the SSL 2.0 (Secure Sockets Layer) feature and click Ok button to close it.


Follow the major fix for this problem



In windows Vista, the TCP autotuning feature is enabled by default. Some web servers do not respond properly to this feature, so it appears that some sites open with very slow speed.
To use this feature, you will need to be logged into your computer with administrative rights.
First click on Start button and type CMD in Run option then press Enter.
At Command Prompt, type the following command and press enter.
netsh interface tcp set global autotuninglevel= disabled
This command will disable the TCP autotuning feature. Now close the command Prompt and restart your computer after any changes to go into effect.
You can easily restore these setting by typing the following command at Command Prompt.
netsh interface tcp set global autotuninglevel= normalNow close the command Prompt and again restart your computer after any changes to go into effect

How you Export and Import Registry File Before Editing ?

Today an important tip about the back up of your system Registry. Make sure before modifying your system Registry about its backup because Registry contains all information how your system runs. This backup will help you to restore Registry in case any problem occurs after modifying.


You can backup the whole Registry and also Registry subkeys.Click Start Button then type regedit in Run box and click Ok button. Here you can export the whole Registry or you can locate the required subkeys that contain the information that you want to edit.
Go to File menu option then click on Export option for backup and save it with on any your system drive with .reg extension and you can restore this backup going File menu using import option

What is Network?

A network or communication network is a system of interconnected communication devices that can communicate with one another and share information. Therefore computer network can be defined as:

A system in which more than one computers or large number of computers are interconnected together, communicate freely with one another and share information is called computer network.

A network can be internal to an organization or span the world by connecting itself to the internet. In computer network, network operating system is used that controls and co-ordinates the activities of computers that are connected to the network. The example of these operating systems are: windows NT, UNIX, and Novell etc.

Types of Network
Networks are of three types. These are:
Local Area Network (LAN)
Wide Area Network (WAN)
Metropolitan Area Network (MAN)

Local Area Network
A local area network is a network system in which computers are interconnected in a limited geographical area, such as network of computers in college computer laboratory or network of computers in office building etc.

Wide Area Network
A wide area network is a network system that covers a large geographical area such as different cities of country or different countries of the world. In WAN telephone lines, satellites, microwave, fiber optic etc. are used as transmission media.

Metropolitan Area Network
A Metropolitan area Network is a network system that covers area of a single city. Usually, MAN connects more than one LANS in a city or town and covers a smaller geographical area than a WAN. The cable television, telephone companies or local corporations use MAN.

Monday, September 1, 2008

How to restrict user's to access shutdown button?

This tip is very interesting for home and some small office users, who wants to restrict user's ability to shutdown their computer. You can hide the Shutdown button from the Start menu using registry editor and also restrict access to shutdown, if a user clicks on Ctrl+Alt+Del.

Follow the given steps to hide system shutdown button from start menu:

  • To use this feature, you will need to be logged into your computer with

administrative rights.

  • Click Start button and type regedit in Run option then press Enter for next.

  • Here locate the location to:

  • HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion \Policies\Explorer


  • Here in right side panel, right click to create a new DWORD value with name NoClose.

  • Now assign number 1 to its value data box.

  • Now close the registry editor and restart your computer after any changes to go into effect.

  • But next time, if you want to unhide the shutdown button then simply change the value data box to 0 or delete this DWORD item.

  • Again close the registry editor and restart your computer after any changes to go into effect.

How you can add a Shortcut Key to Your Internet Connection?


This basic and common way to dial the internet connection using giving path:

  • Click on Start Button > sittings then click on Network and dial-up connections option, here you can dial your internet connection.

  • Another way to dial your internet connection if you have a shortcut to your internet connection on your desktop. Simply boot your system and dial your internet connection from your desktop shortcut.


  • A new cool tip to dial internet connection with out using the mouse, simply add a shortcut key that will allow you to do this. Just right-click on your Internet connection and go to Properties option. Click in the Shortcut Key box and then press a key combination that you would like to use here like (Ctrl-Alt-I). When you have a combination you like, click OK. Next time no need to use mouse to run your internet connection simply use this shortcut from your keyboard, you can just press your shortcut key combination (Ctrl-Alt-I) to launch your Internet connection.