Vista Tips

The first one is called Snipping Tool. It takes all of the trouble out of the old Print Screen button. Gone are the days of copying - pasting - cropping to get a screen capture. Start Menu / All Programs / Accessories / Snipping Tool. 

The second one is to do with the Quick Launch bar. You can use the Windows key + # to quickly open shorcuts located in the quick launch.

Unlocker v1.8.7

 
Ever had such an annoying message given by Windows?

 

It has many other flavors:

[*]Cannot delete file: Access is denied.

[*]There has been a sharing violation.

[*]The source or destination file may be in use.

[*]The file is in use by another program or user.

[*]Make sure the disk is not full or write-protected and that the file is not currently in use.

Unlocker is the solution!

1. Simply right click the folder or file and select Unlocker.

2. If the folder or file is locked, a window listing of lockers will appear

3. Simply select the lockers and click Unlock and you are done!

Similar programs and why Unlocker is better

Of course I only compare here the unlocking features. Process Explorer and Take Control are very good programs featuring much more things than just unlocking folders. The goal of this list is not at all to pretend Unlocker is better but instead to provide a list of all other alternative programs in case you have some difficulties with Unlocker.


New update Unlocker V 1.8.7 -released - May/01/2008

[*]Fixed bug: Unlocker should not create event logs anymore.
[*]Fixed bug: Unlocker should not take minutes to close on certain configurations anymore.
[*]Fixed bug: Unlocker should not lock DLLs not used by Unlocker anymore.
[*]Fixed bug: Fixed potential driver bug.
[*]Fixed bug: Miscellaneous handle leaks.
[*]Improved behavior: Improved deleting/renaming/moving files such as C:\WINDOWS\system32\Macromed\Flash\Flash9e.ocx for example.
[*]Improved behavior: When right-clicking files or folders and selecting Unlocker, those are automatically deselected. It helps with movie files and removable drives.
[*]Improved UI: Icon looks correct now on Windows Vista.
[*]Promotional feature: Added fully optional shortcuts to eBay during the installation. Simply untick "eBay shortcuts" in the choose components page during install if you do not wish to have those.

Homepage and more info here

Download it from here

Cheers. :)

Power off your, and LAN computers. Prank + useful

Guys, isnt it awesome if you can switch off your friends computer sitting in front of your computer? try this small software:

Poweroff 3.0

Its awesome

Some info:

Poweroff is a small program that allows you to control the power state of your pc.

It can power off, shutdown or reboot your pc, log you off, lock your workstation, go to standby or hibernation mode and even wake up another pc.

All actions can be done locally or on a remote pc (if they are running poweroff).

The action can be performed immediately or scheduled, by using a built-in scheduler.

All actions and options can be controlled by command line options. This way, you can easily integrate poweroff in your batch files.

It should run on Windows 95/98/Me/NT4.0/2000/XP, each with its own limitations. Beware that I haven’t tested the program on these operating systems, but in theory it should work on all of them….

Full source code is included!