We live in a big world with many great countries, many great sites, and many great attractions. However, work sometimes put us in a place where the greatest attraction is the time clock.
If you are working in an environment that uses Windows 7, you can still see some of the coolest sites right there from your desktop. To do this, you will need to unlock Windows 7’s hidden themes.
You may have noticed that Windows 7 has a default country theme. For example, the Windows 7 that I bought has a United States theme listed under Aero Themes. But, it also has several other country themes stored in hidden files. Here is how you can access them.
What’s much better reminding and sensational than the countdown of a Rocket launch ticking backwards, in the similar fashion you can have yourself notified of events to come and appointments and deadlines that you have to meet using this Desktop utility software called Timeleft.
Now, no more head scratching over missing drivers, and looking on internet to download All drivers from various driver websites and your computers supplier be it Dell, HP, Compaq, Acer or anyone else. It happens most of the time that you cant find drivers for your Wi Fi card, Audio or Display even on the manufacturers website. Well then, forget your woes because the good guys at Device Doctor have made a free utility software that is extremely easy to use and will update/ Install all your drivers at one go .
Easily get rid of all the unwanted items from your MSCONFIG startup items menu that stay there even after you have deselected them , using this small utility software which automatically cleans up startup entries from msconfig ( Microsft configuration Utility ) .
Trying to reconnect your internet connection with some batch script or command line code then , yes you have a saviour the RASDIAL utility, which can easily connect or disconnect your Dial up modem or a PPPOE broadband connection. It works in both XP and Vista
just go to your command line or inside your batch script add these
Suppose you have a Internet connection named BSNL with username- vivekz and password- secret123 .
Now to Disconnect from it use,
rasdial BSNL /disconnect
To connect to Internet through BSNL connection type in
rasdial BSNL vivekz secret123
ie. rasdial <connection name> <username> <password>
Hope that helped you out as I was stuck with the same issue and I was using the rather general purpose nircmd utility for it .
We all know that windows has a lot of Download accelerators for it, but same is not true with Linux and Mac , although their are alternatives like Kget and wget in Linux , but still they are not that effective as they can not be integrated with Firefox, do not have multi-threaded download feature etc.
wxDownload Fast (also known as wxDFast) is an open source download manager. It is multi-platform and builds on Windows(2k,XP), Linux and Mac OS X. Besides that, it is a multi-threaded download manager. This means that it can split a file into several pieces and download the pieces simultaneously.
