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How to Stop Annoying Balloon Tips in the Windows Notification Area ?

No one likes the annoying balloon tips which often comes in our windows operating system.

There is a very easy way to get rid of them.

Here is the procedure for disabling these balloon tips:

  1. Go to Start > Run, enter regedit, (start the registry editor)
  2. Search for the key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced
  3. See the DWORD value EnableBalloonTips in the registry editor right pane
    • If it is available, give it hexadecimal value of 0 (zero) by double clicking on it.
    • If you don’t see this key, create a new DWORD value, and name it as EnableBalloonTips. Now give it hexadecimal value of 0 by double clicking on it.

    Stop Those Annoying Balloon Tips in the Notification Area of Windows

  4. Hit the OK button and close the regedit – registry editor.

From now onwards, you won’t get the annoying balloon tips.

Enjoy!

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Select, Copy And Paste Text In Cmd/Command Prompt

Most of the times we want to copy, paste on the command prompt, but there is no shortcut working on it like CTRL+C and so on.

But here is the simplest way to select, copy and paste from/to the windows command prompt.

Follow the procedure described below.

  1. Open the Windows Command Prompt.
  2. Perform a Right click on the command prompt window’s title bar, and hit the properties option.Select, Copy And Paste Text In Cmd/Command Prompt
  3. Now select the QuickEdit Mode option.Select, Copy And Paste Text In Cmd/Command Prompt
  4. Hit OK, a confirm dialog will appear. Select Save properties for future windows with same title option, and hit the OK button.Select, Copy And Paste Text In Cmd/Command Prompt

It will enable the command prompt Quick-Edit mode.

Now, the way to select, copy and paste from a quick edit mode enabled command prompt window is explained below:

To copy something from the command prompt, just use the pointer to select the text (just like you’re selecting the text from a Word Page), and perform a right click or hit the Enter button thereafter. It will copy the selected text.

Select, Copy And Paste Text In Cmd/Command Prompt

Now, to paste anything into command prompt, just perform a right click on the location in command prompt where you want the text to be pasted.

Enjoy!

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All about Windows God Mode

As the title of this article signifies, you can become GOD of your Windows Operating System, by activating the Windows GOD Mode on your Windows Vista (32 bit) or higher versions like, Windows 7 and Server 2008 (32 bit) Operating Systems.

Here is the procedure for activating the Windows GOD Mode on your PC.

  1. First of all, create a new folder on your computer (e.g. on the desktop area)
  2. Name it as, GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}

Right after renaming the folder, the icon for this will convert to the Windows GOD Mode icon. Now open Windows GOD Mode, by double clicking on that icon. You will get a screen just as shown below in the picture,

All About Windows God Mode
Now you can perform any task as you’re the GOD of your computer.

Notice – Please do not try it on Windows Vista (64 bit Edition), otherwise your windows explorer will get into a never ending crash loop. If you have gone into the never ending crash loop, then just delete that folder (which you just created) using command prompt.

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How to Work in Safe Mode with Normal Screen Resolution in Windows XP and Vista ?

Whenever we get into some problem with our PC/Computer/Laptop, our first step is to troubleshoot the problem by booting Windows in the Safe Mode.

But unfortunately, the graphics are not displayed correctly in the Windows Safe Mode, the main thing which irritates us is the Screen Resolution, which automatically gets set at 800 x 600.

So are there any tips to start Windows Safe Mode in the Normal Resolution?

Yes, of course, there is a way to do that, where your color profile and screen resolution will be same as of the normal.

The procedure is described below,

  1. Click on the Personalize option (if you’re using Windows Vista)  or on the Properties option (if you’re using Windows XP)
    after right clicking on your desktop
  2. Choose the Settings tab (Vista) or Display Settings tab (XP) and select the appropriate Screen Resolution
  3. Now hit the Advanced link button, and click on OK without modifying anything. The dialog box for Monitor Settings confirm the change. Click on Yes to save the newly applied settings

Now you have permanently changed the display colors and the screen resolution for the safe mode as well.

Enjoy!

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How to Set Winamp Skins on VLC Media Players ?

VLC media player is obviously a superb multimedia player, due to its capability and features, but its default skin/theme doesn’t look much better as its features do.

So here is a solution from which one can easily use winamp classic skin onto the VLC media player:

Launch the VLC Player and go to Settings > Switch Interface > Skins 2, as displayed in the below picture

How to Apply Winamp Skins on VLC Media Player

This skin looks a little modern.

How to Apply Winamp Skins on VLC Media Player

Choose Select Skin (by right clicking on to the empty space in the player window), and hit on Open Skin.

How to Apply Winamp Skins on VLC Media Player

Now go to to the location-folder where the winamp classic themes are placed on your PC, and select an appropriate skin

How to Apply Winamp Skins on VLC Media PlayerNow the VLC Media Player will have a brand new look. You can adopt the same procedure to select different skins.

How to Apply Winamp Skins on VLC Media Player

However, the new VLC skin will remain until the player is restarted, if you do so, the newly set skin will reset to default one. So to keep the settings permanent, you will have to follow below steps:

  1. Launch the VLC Media Player
  2. Visit Settings > Preferences. (In older versions visit Menu > Tools > Preferences)
  3. In the Preferences section, click onto the Main Interface > Skins button
  4. Click on Advanced Options
  5. Save all settings

How to Apply Winamp Skins on VLC Media Player

PS: To search the winamp classic skins,

  1. Visit classic.winamp.com/skins website
  2. Look up for your desired skin there
  3. Moreover, hit onto the Classic Skins (While performing the search) How to Apply Winamp Skins on VLC Media Player
  4. Then Select and download the desired skin and enjoy using it,
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How to easily reach a directory in windows using command prompt

Most of the times it looks annoying when we want to reach to some folder directly (in windows) by using the Windows Command Prompt, and writing CD Folder, again and again.

Open Command Prompt at a Particular Folder Directly from the Folders Context Menu

I have got a very simple solution for it.

For doing so, you will have to paste the below lines as it is, into the notepad, and save it as cmd.reg on the desktop preferably.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTDirectoryshellCommand]
@=”Open with Command Prompt”
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTDirectoryshellCommandcommand]
@=”cmd.exe \”%1\””

After saving it, launch the saved file (by double clicking on it), so that the settings written in the file could be sent to the registry file. Now when you perform a right click onto any directory, it will show an extra option by the name Open With Command Prompt.

Enjoy!