Firefox has a cool little easter egg, just type in about:robots in the address bar & you will find robots greeting you with a special message. The title of the page reads Gort! Klaatu barada nikto!, wondering what it means. According to wikipedia Gort! Klaatu barada nikto! originates from the Cold War-era science fiction film The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951). In the film, the phrase, Klaatu barada nikto, was used by Helen Benson to stop the robot Gort from destroying the Earth. Klaatu is the name of the humanoid alien protagonist in the film. Here is a quick view of the page..

Gone the days when we used Floppy Drives. They are rarely seen on home PC’s, but operating systems such Windows XP & Vista still support Floppy Drives. You might feel irritated when you see a floppy drive icon in My Computer under Windows Vista. Here is a simple trick to hide this icon.

Open the registry editor by typing regedit in the Run Window. Goto HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer. If this key doesn’t exist, create it. Then create or modify a 32-bit DWORD key named NoDrives & assign it a value of 1.

For this you need a small software known as Resource Hacker
You can download the latest version here

How to Chat with yourself

In your Browser address bar just type:
gtalk:chat?jid=youremail@gmail.com

Change youremail with your own email, now you can send, recieve messages, & you can see what you are typing.

Desktop Icons for GTalk Contacts

Right click on the Desktop select New>Shortcut & type this:

gtalk:chat?jid=email@gmail.com

Please replace email with the email of your contact.

If you like to call your friends just replace chat with call.

The telecommunication networking systems have been advanced and accessible for every ordinary person with the invention of internet phone. The internet users are using the advanced tools of voip for the fastest and cheapest worldwide communication with different people. The internet phone system of skipe is very advanced and latest networking system to connect the people via latest techniques of internet voip.

You may have noticed that everytime you open My Computer to browse folders there is a small delay. This is because Windows XP automatically searches for network files and printers when Windows explorer is opened. To stop Windows XP from doing this follow the instructions below.

1. Open My Computer

2. Click on Tools menu

3. Click on Folder Options

4. Click on the View tab.

5. Uncheck the “Automatically search for network folders and printers check box”

6. Click Apply

7. Click Ok

Reboot your computer

Try it, you will see a significant increase in speed.

Thanks to Vivek Yadav for this Tip
 

I wasted lot of time in searching this tweak for Windows XP. Here I am sharing this tweak with you.This might be useful to you.

You can do this in the following steps-
1.Goto Start->Run.Enter regedit.
2.Backup your Registry first.This is a very important step.If your registry gets corrupted you can use this Backup to restore it.
3.Find the following key HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell & make a new key called Command Prompt.
4.Within this key create another key called command.
5.Now go to the right panel and modify the default with : Cmd.exe /k cd “%1
or you can copy the following code into a Text Editor such as Notepad.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\Command Prompt]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\Command Prompt\command]
@=”Cmd.exe /k cd \”%1\”"

& save this file with a .reg extension.Double Click on this file & Merge this file into Registy.

This is a small trick i like to share it with you.

In a command window you can use the TAB key as “complete” key - like in unix/linux.

Example:
Start a cmd window and go to root (c:\)
type cd - hit TAB key - and you will now scroll the directories, also hidden ones.

Try: cd doc - hit TAB key - You get up “Documents and Settings” - hit enter. in Documents and Settings type cd and hit key several time - and you will scroll through the names of the directories - also the hidden ones.