So, your technically naive wife just deleted all your important files accidentally or moved it somewhere else or renamed it and you are having trouble finding your stuff , then it would be good to try some recovery software first and then also take proper care that such incident is not repeated in future .
No more right clicking on every folder and checking properties to find the size of a Folder in Windows Xp, with this small tool which runs as a service you can view size of each folder right inside your explorer window if you have the details view enabled.
It saved me GB’s of hard disk space and hope it works for you the same way , although there are various other tools to do the same , but this one is the easiest and most seamless in it’s operation
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 .
Image resizing is not present in the default picture and fax viewer of windows Vista/Xp so people have to look for alternatives, earlier in XP this could easily be done using Image resize Power toy but vista has no such toy for it so Sourceforge comes to rescue and here is a small software that will add the functionality to resize single or multiple images from right inside Vista/Xp explorer using right click .
How elated would you feel if you could launch your applications quickly and you could name them in your own shorter alphabets , I hope that sounds lucrative and yes it is possible by either using this small registry hack or by using the nifty application cited below you could make your work a hell lot of easier , you can launch Photoshop by typing "ps" at run or you can launch your Need for speed game by just typing "nfs" .
