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.


A Quick way to print a Document

There are many ways to prints a document, but you can print a document quickly if you put a shortcut to the printer on your desktop and drag a document icon to it, no need to open file for printing just drag a file to printer icon and get your print.

To do this, first click Start button, Settings, then Printers ( first make sure you installed your printer driver). When the Printers window opens, hold down Ctrl and drag the printer icon to your system desktop.

Now you can drag a document icon and drop it in printer icon on your desktop. Here you will get a print quickly and with out open a file.

Friday, August 29, 2008

What is a Web Accelerator ?

Today a special tip for those who are still using any slow dial-up internet connection due to unavailability of any broadband connection in their area. The Web Accelerator application designed to provide the full acceleration for your routine web sites browsing. With the help of Web Accelerator you can browse your internet 4 to 6 times faster than normal dial-up connection. Basically this services compressing the website text data, images and heavy graphics to open or download this data with high speed. This technique is more useful for static websites and for email applications but don't accelerate with secure and downloading audio or video files. Some good web accelerator retains your system cache to reuse websites with faster speed and can also block windows pop-up. If you are using FTP sites and downloading any program using dial-up, then web accelerator is not for you. There are various web accelerator software are free available on internet, visit and download it to enjoy your connection.

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

How to save favorite Web Pages on Your PC?






How to save favorite Web Pages on Your PC


Today tip will help you to save any webpage on your disk in proper way. Many times you find a webpage, which want to view or read when you are not connected to the internet. It’s happened to you dozens of times in a month. Here I have solution to this problem, almost all web browsers allow you to save any webpage to your computer and when you can enjoy those pages whenever you want. There are many options in web browser to save your favorite web pages.

First open your favorite web page then go to File menu in web browser to save that page. In File menu choose Save as option here. You should browse to any folder where you want to save that webpage and choose the proper format to save it in.


This option saves the webpage in its regular HTML format. With this format, Internet Explorer saves all the graphics of that webpage only in one folder.


Web Archive, Single file (*.mht)

Using this option, the explorer saves the webpage in a single file in a zipped format which is known as Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension HTML. There are no folders creating with this technique and it save all the graphics of webpage in only one file. If you don’t want to use the code of HTML, this format is better to save any file because this option saves all the files in a single file.



Webpage, HTML only (*.htm, *. html)

With this option you can save only the HTML portion of the webpage, with this option you can save webpage without any graphics. For the next time when you will try to open the page which you have saved though it might be difficult to read because graphics are normally use to hold the pieces of webpage together. If you want to reuse the HTML in a webpage you want to create then choose this option.

Text File (*.txt)

You can save a webpage as text format (text only) with using this option. If you want to save only text from a page and you do not want about the pictures then this is good option for you.


When you want to read that saved page, open your browser and go to File menu and then browse to that folder where you have saved that pages.



Tuesday, August 26, 2008

How to speed up Internet Explorer 7?




Today tip will help you to increase the speed of Internet Explorer 6 to Internet Explorer 7 by modifying the maximum number of connections per server. This should allocate the additional bandwidth and reasonably improve internet browsing performance. Using registry editor, you can implement this task in all windows versions with minimum effort. 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.

Follow the given steps to increase the explorer speed:

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.



HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\InternetSettings

Here in right side panel, locate the values called "MaxConnectionsPerServer" and "MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server".


If these values are not present then in right side panel, right-click to create new DWORD value with the name "MaxConnectionsPerServer" and "MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server" then assign number 6 in value data for both keys.


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

Monday, August 25, 2008

Using Run Command in window


Go to Start Button and open Run then type the given command to run windows programs with name.

Run Commands

  • appwiz.cpl -- Used to run Add/Remove wizard

  • Calc --Calculator

  • Cfgwiz32 --ISDN Configuration Wizard

  • Charmap --Character Map

  • Chkdisk --Repair damaged files

  • Cleanmgr --Cleans up hard drives

  • Clipbrd --Windows Clipboard viewer

  • Cmd --Opens a new Command Window

  • Control mouse --Used to control mouse properties

  • Control --Displays Control Panel


  • Dcomcnfg --DCOM user security

  • Debug --Assembly language programming tool

  • Defrag --Defragmentation tool

  • Drwatson --Records programs crash & snapshots

  • Dxdiag --DirectX Diagnostic Utility

  • Explorer --Windows Explorer

  • Fontview --Graphical font viewer

  • Fsmgmt.msc -- Used to open shared folders

  • Firewall.cpl -- Used to configure windows firewall

  • Ftp -ftp.exe program

  • Hostname --Returns Computer's name

  • Hdwwiz.cpl -- Used to run Add Hardware wizard

  • Ipconfig --Displays IP configuration for all network adapters

  • Logoff -- Used to logoff the computer

  • MMC --Microsoft Management Console

  • Msconfig --Configuration to edit startup files

  • Mstsc -- Used to access remote desktop

  • Mrc -- Malicious Software Removal Tool

  • Msinfo32 --Microsoft System Information Utility

  • Nbtstat --Displays stats and current connections using NetBIOS over TCP/IP

  • Netstat --Displays all active network connections

  • Nslookup--Returns your local DNS server

  • Osk ---Used to access on screen keyboard

  • Perfmon.msc -- Used to configure the performance of Monitor.

  • Ping --Sends data to a specified host/IP

  • Powercfg.cpl -- Used to configure power option

  • Regedit --Registry Editor

  • Regwiz -- Registration wizard

  • Sfc /scannow -- System File Checker

  • Sndrec32 --Sound Recorder

  • Shutdown -- Used to shutdown the windows

  • Spider -- Used to open spider solitaire card game

  • Sfc / scannow -- Used to run system file checker utility.

  • Sndvol32 --Volume control for soundcard

  • Sysedit -- Edit system startup files

  • Taskmgr --Task manager

  • Telephon.cpl -- Used to configure modem options.

  • Telnet --Telnet program

  • Tracert --Traces and displays all paths required to reach an internet host

  • Winchat -- Used to chat with Microsoft

  • Wmplayer -- Used to run Windows Media player

  • Wab -- Used to open Windows address Book.

  • WinWord -- Used to open Microsoft word

  • Winipcfg --Displays IP configuration

  • Winver -- Used to check Windows Version

  • Wupdmgr --Takes you to Microsoft Windows Update

  • Write -- Used to open WordPad

Saturday, August 23, 2008

How to Customize Your Browser Toolbar?


How to Customize Your Browser Toolbar?



You can customize your system web browser toolbar according to your need. There are many toolbar buttons you never used. You can add some mostly used buttons for example "Paste" or "Print Preview" in your browser toolbar or remove with same option.

If you are using Internet Explorer then right click on the empty area of the toolbar and select the option "Customize". Here you will find a list of options in left and right panel, if you want to add any toolbar button then simply highlight it from the left panel and click on the "Add" button. But if you want to remove any toolbar button then first highlight it from the right panel and click on the "Remove" button.


You can also change the order that buttons appear by moving them up and down from the list.


Friday, August 22, 2008

How to increase your Laptop Battery's Life?




ear friends you have read many interesting tips from my site and I think you have gained more knowledge from them. Now I have a more interesting tip to increase your Laptop's battery life. There is no matter, laptop manufactures gives you the guarantee about the battery that how long it works. The battery of laptop always stops working very early at some stage in essential research, just like when you are watching a DVD movie.

Follow the few steps to increase the laptop battery’s life:

Lower the backlighting on your screen.

The screen of your Laptop takes up significant amount of power and you do not require its maximum brightness. You should have to check your system and decrease the screen brightness it to a comfortable point.


Stop your wireless signal when you are not using.

After turning off your Laptop can save max. 20 minutes of your laptop's battery time because WiFi can use a considerable quantity of power. By right clicking you can stop your WiFi signal when you are not using.


Manage the correct power scheme in XP

Windows XP contain a number of predetermined power plans, which control settings like how rapidly your laptop turns off and when your screen saver boots in. You can change your laptop power scheme by choosing Control Panel > Power Options. For max. Battery life from the "Power scheme" chooses the option "Max. Battery" and decline the list. There are good choices for you just like "Low Power Mode" and Portable /Laptop. They don't conserve as much power as Max Battery. After selecting a power scheme you click Ok button to finish the process.

Thursday, August 21, 2008




How to insert YouTube movies into PowerPoint slides?



You can insert the YouTube movies into your PowerPoint slides to express your idea or better way to communicate something. You can convey these ideas in more effective ways, if you are using movie files with your simple slides.

Follow the given steps to add YouTube movies into PowerPoint slides:

First of all download the YouTube.com movies and then save on your computer hard drive. Mostly movies are available in flash video file format on YouTube site. You can convert also the downloaded movies from YouTube into any common format, for example, windows media video file (wmv), windows video file (avi) and movie file (mpeg).

First of all open the presentation in which you want to insert movie file.

Now click on "Movies and Sounds" option from the Insert" menu and choose the option "Movie from File".

Now select your movie that you want to insert into slide and click on Ok button.

Here now you are asked "Do you want your movie to play automatically in the slide show? If not, it will play when you click it."

Recommend choosing Ok button to play automatically even if you want the movie to play when clicked.

Finally save your PowerPoint presentation and run it for test.