We use computer for many hours on daily basis but most of the we are using the desktop computer in office,University and home.But when we get tired it is very difficult to sit on chair to use the desktop computer.

At that time laptop is a perfect solution we can use it in bed,kitchen,sofa or anywhere we want.Getting a nice laptop with good feature isn’t a very easy job as the prices of laptops are higher as compare to desktop.Some companies have introduced some nice laptops with 15.6″ of LED crystal display and Intel Core i3 these laptops are great for daily computing and the good thing is that their prices are also very reasonable, infact i say they are very cheap in prices.Some of them are listed below in this post.

1) Dell Inspiron N5010 N5110

Reason for putting Dell Inspiron N5010 on top is dell is the best brand in laptop and desktop and i m using the same laptop and i am having a very good time with it.It’s specs are really very nice in a good prices.Specs are,

Specifications
-Intel Core i3-380M Processor (2.53GHz, 3MB Cache)
-4GB Shared Dual Channel DDR3 SDRAM Memory at 1333MHz (2 DIMMs)
-640GB 5400RPM SATA Hard Drive; 8X DVD+/-RW Drive
-15.6-inch Widescreen HD (1366×768) glossy WLED display with TrueLife Panel
-Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit); Intel Centrino Wireless-N 1000

Price

$603

2) Probook 4530S

Work, meet, play. Create, stream, watch, listen, and do more on this durable, stylish notebook. This versatile, secure HP ProBook boasts a 15.6-inch diagonal HD display sure to make an impression in and out of the office.

Specifications
-4 GB RAM
-320 GB Hard Disk 7200rpms Sata 2
-Windows Home Premium 7 (64 bit)
-Super Multi Dvd/Cd Writer with LightScribe Technology
-HD Webcam with Core i3 i3-2310M 2.10 GHz and 15.6 Inch Screen

Price

$498

3) Sony VAIO VPC-EE42FX/BJ

A perfect mix of performance and style, the slim, lightweight Sony VAIO EE laptop in matte black (model EE42FX/BJ) combines a contemporary design with excellent mobile computing power in one affordable package. And with the power of dual-core AMD Athlon II processor combined with Microsoft Office Starter 2010, you have everything you need within reach to power through daily tasks and enjoy your media wherever you are.

Specifications
-AMD Athon Dual-Core Mobile Processor (2.30GB)
-Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
-15.5″ LED (1366×768) widescreen display
-4GB of RAM & 500GB Serial ATA HDD
-ATI Mobility Radeon dedicated graphics

Price

$584

Toshiba Satellite L755-S5271

Offering plenty of mobile computing power plus room to multitask, study, and play, the Toshiba Satellite L755 (model L755-S5271) offers a generous 15.6-inch display that’s great for doing more things at once–handling business at home or in the field, watching movies or playing online RPG games. And its high-gloss Fusion Finish in Matrix Silver will be sure to raise a few eyebrows.

It’s powered by a second-generation Intel Core i3 dual-core processor (“Sandy Bridge”), which provides breakthrough digital media management, content creation, and 3D gaming capabilities. And you’ll enjoy a rich set of new features for a stunning and seamless visual PC experience with no additional hardware.

Specifications
-Intel Core i3-2310M Processor 2.1 GHz, 3MB L3 Cache
-Configured with 4GB DDR3 1333MHz (max 8GB)
-640GB (5400 RPM); Serial ATA hard disk drive with TOSHIBA Hard Drive Impact Sensor (3D sensor)
-15.6″ diagonal widescreen TruBrite TFT display at 1366 x 768 native resolution (HD)
-Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit with a 6 cell/48Wh Lithium Ion battery pack; Battery Life (measured by MobileMark 2007): 5 hours, 42 minutes

Price

$499

ASUS A53E-XA2

Powered by the Intel® Core™ 2 Duo T6500 processor the 15.6-inch K50Ij-XA1notebook transcends your mobility at an unbelievable value. This versatile notebook is designed with a scratch-resistant Infusion design to keep it looking new day after day. Along with a compact style, the K5oIj-XA1takes you further with ASUS Power4Gear that lets you instantly select from a host of preset power profiles for high performance or battery savings.
ASUS Palm-Proof technology enhances the multi-touch trackpad by ensuring the cursor doesn’t accidentally reposition if your palm unintentionally grazes the trackpad when typing. Its brilliant 15.6-inch HD displaylets you indulge with clear visuals and HD cinema.

The K50Ij-XA1also boasts a smudge-resistant palm rest, 4GB DDR3 system memory, 0.3 megapixel webcam, 500GB hard drive, high-speed wireless N connectivity, and Windows 7 Home Premium.

Specifications
-Intel Dual Core T6500 CPU; 4GB of DDR2 SDRAM, 2 slots, 4GB Max
-500GB Hard Drive (5400 RPM); Intel HD Graphics; Super Multi DVD Drive
-15.6-Inch HD Display (1366×768); 0.3MP Webcam; VGA Out; Wireless 802.11bgn; 4 USB 2.0 Ports
-Windows 7 Home Premium (64 bit) Operating System; 3-in-1 Card Reader (SD/MMC/MS)
-1 Year Accidental Damage Warranty and 1 Year Standard Warranty Included

Price

$399

Acer AS5253-BZ684

Sporting a classy design along with everything you need to fit your mobile lifestyle, Acer Aspire 5253 notebook PC (model AS5253-BZ684) meets your daily computing needs with excellent processor performance and impressive graphics–perfect for e-mailing, surfing the web, enjoying HD video playback, and more. It combines a 15.6-inch high-def display–providing ample space for opening multiple windows and digital entertainment–with a new AMD E-Series processor for enhanced graphics performance and excellent multitasking.

Specifications
-The Aspire AS5253 Notebook sports a classy design along with the lastest in VISION technology for fast display and browsing of rich web content, and responsive, energy–efficient performance for the software of today and tomorrow!
-Enjoy cinematic brilliance on the 15.6″ HD widescreen CineCrystal™ LED LCD display with a true 16:9 aspect ratio while the HDMI port lets you watch HD video from your PC on an -HDTV through a single cable connection eliminating the maze of cabling.
-The new AMD Dual-Core Processor E-350 with VISION Technology enriches what you see, share and create so your digital life is more vibrant.
-Windows 7 Home Premium makes the things you do every day easier and with Office Starter 2010, experience new ways to deliver your best work! Complete your PC. Buy full-featured -Microsoft Office 2010.
-Always be connected to your friends, email and favorite websites with 802.11b/g/n WiFi CERTIFIED wireless connectivity and Gigabit Ethernet LAN.

Price

$579

Lenovo G560 Series 0679AKU

The Lenovo G560 notebook is an affordable notebook that doesn’t compromise on the basics. It delivers outstanding performance for everyday tasks, thanks to the Intel CoreTM i3 processor, 4GB of memory and spacious storage for images, music and videos. It also features OneKey Rescue System, a convenient tool which makes data backup and recovery quick and easy. Plus, Lenovo Energy Management 5.0 helps to protect the longterm life of the battery by preventing unnecessary recharges, and uses advanced energysaving technology to increase time spent away from the wall outlet. All in all, the Lenovo G560 is more than the average affordable notebook. And, it’s from Lenovo, makers of the awardwinning ThinkPad .

Specifications
-4 GB RAM
-500 GB Hard Disk 7200rpms Sata 2
-Windows Home Premium 7 (64 bit)
-Super Multi Dvd/Cd Writer with LightScribe Technology
-HD Webcam with Core i3 i3-2310M 2.10 GHz and 15.6 Inch Screen

Price

$549

Note : Prices are taken from Amazon, so they may differ from prices of different stores.

Netbooks are becoming popular day by day because of their small size and reliable performance.With a netbook we can do most of our daily tasks which we normally  do on a laptop or notebook.Some of the well know netbooks are Sony Vaio Netbook,Acer Aspire One,Asus Eee PC and Dell Mini 10.

I have read many reviews,seen videos,Pictures and prices of different netbooks.After doing research on netbooks.I have found that Dell Mini 10 Netbook is better as compare to any netbook in the sense of features,prices and look.

You must have the following questions in your mind.

Should i get a netbook or not ?

How well will netbook perform with its too small size ?

The answer is very simple and mentioned below.

You should buy a netbook because netbook is leightweight,easy to use and easy to take anywhere with you and it has got everything you will need.It will costs you about $300 – $350 the performance of netbook is really awesome it can run almost everything you will need except of heavy games and softwares like Visual studio and Adobe CS 3.

Well netbooks are little sensitive as compare to notebook or laptops and the resources of netbooks is also limited too.Therefore i am gonna list down 10 Tips for Using Netbook and Optimizing its Performance.

1) Keep in mind it is a small netbook.

Before started using a netbook always keep in mind that this is a small netbook not a big size desktop computer or laptop.Therefore use it with a little care.

2) Donot use netbook as a primary computer.

Although netbook can be used for several hours but you shouldn’t use it as a primary computer because it is designed for small and medium tasks.

3) Donot use antivirus.(Use Ccleaner Instead)

Please don’t start laughing on my this point.I know not using an antivirus is dangerous and can harm your netbook.But the reason behind my this point is that antivirus is a resource consuming software and netbook has limited resources so antivirus can slow down your netbook.If you wanna use antivirus than use but you should disable its auto protect so it won’t scan every program on launch.

You can also use Ccleaner for clearing internet cache and temp files which is also another source of viruses.

4) Close down unnecessary Services.

One of the main reason behind resource consumption is backgroud services.You can free some resources on your netbook by closing some unnecessary Services.To close any service.Lauch task manager by pressing ctrl – alt – delete and then click on task manager then click on services.Right click on the services you wanna close and click end task.

5) Check CPU and Memory Usage.

Checking CPU and Memory usage on the regular interval can give you a quick look on how much your processor and memory are being used and if you see that processor usage is 100% then there must a service which is causing this so close down that service.

If the available ram is low than you can increase the performance of your netbook by increasing the pagefile size.

6) Donot install Games and heavy softwares.

Netbook is not designed for playing games or using softwares like visual studio.It is designed for browsing,messaging,blogging,chatting and other office work.So always refrain from installing games or heavy software on netbook.

7) Try to use Linux.

As all of us know that linux is more secure as compare to windows therefore using linux rather than windows on netbook is a better approach.I mentioned earlier that netbook is designed for small and medium tasks.Most of the peoples install windows for playing games and using software which can’t be run on linux and netbook is not designed for playing games or using heavy software.

Linux has got all the softwares required for blogging,browsing,chatting,listening songs and watching videos.So install linux on netbooks and have fun with secure OS.

Keep your files and folders organized.

I have seen that most of the computer users (Normally non-techies) donot manage files and folder on their computer and this is also another reason of decreased computer performance and unstable windows.So always keep your files and folders manage.

Create a separate partion for your data rather than using C drive or the Drive in which OS is installed.Before installing a software first create a folder with the name of software and then install software on that folder.

9) Adjust Windows XP for best Performance.

Default theme of windows XP is resource consuming.It will be better if you use a classic theme and adjust windows xp for best performance it will disable all the effect (Who needs effects in a netbook).To Adjust windows xp for better performance following the steps given below.

• Right Click on my computer > Go to properties > Click on advanced tab > Click on settings button below the performance text > Select adjust for best performance > Click Apply and OK.

10) Donot Press Keys Hardly.

Keys of netbooks are little sensitive so pressing them hardly can cause internal damage to them.Most of the peoples are used to press keys little hardly on their desktop computer and laptop there it will be little difficult for them to manage in start so avoid pressing keys hardly.

You must have heard about the spliting and merging softwares for rar files and exe files.spliting and merging softwares give us the ability to Split and Merge big files so that files can be easily shared on any filehosting like rapidshare.Recently i came accross a software PDF Split and Merge which has the ability to Split and Merge PDF Documents.

PDF Split and Merge is an easy to use tool to merge and split pdf documents. Console and GUI versions are available. The GUI is written in Java Swing and it provides functions to select files and set options. It’s made over the iText library.

Download : PDF Split and Merge

In the market of Tablet PC fujitsu is step ahead as compare to other companies producing Tablet PCs.Fujitsu has recently introduced its latest 8.9 inch LifeBook P1630 Tablet PC.With its feather-light weight, innovative bi-directional hinge, and versatile touch screen display, the LifeBook P1630 notebook is one of the most compelling mobile computing products on the market today.

This latest Tablet PC has everything OK except one bad thing that the Price for this tablet PC is $2,354.This price is really too high for most of the peoples.

Specifications of LifeBook P1630 Tablet PC.

•    Intel® Core™ 2 Duo Processor Ultra Low Voltage SU9300 (1.20 GHz, 3 MB L2 cache, 800 MHz FSB)
•    Genuine Windows® Vista Business (SP1)
•    Microsoft® Office OneNote® 20071
•    8.9″ WXGA touch screen display
•    1 GB DDR2 667 SDRAM memory
•    80 GB S-ATA, 5400 rpm hard drive2
•    Multinational3 56K4 V.92 modem and Gigabit Ethernet LAN
•    Atheros XSPAN® Wireless LAN (802.11a/b/g/draft-n)
•    Bluetooth wireless
•    TPM and Fingerprint Sensor
•    Digital microphone and Webcam
•    High-Capacity Main battery: Lithium ion (6-cell, 10.8V, 5200 mAh)
•    Three-year International Limited Warranty
•    M-code FPCM21873

Buy : LifeBook P1630 Tablet PC

Vista transformation pack is always a useful set of softwares to change look and feel of windows XP into vista because currently not all the peoples have such a good PC to install and run windows vista i personally used the previous version of vista transformation pack on my old PC and it was good. Now vista transformation pack 9 has released with some more security enhancements and features lots of bugs are also fixed on this version.

New 3rd part applications include:

ViSplore – Vista Glass explorer simulator
Vista Drive Icon - adding free space percentage in your drive icon like Vista explorer
Vista Rainbar – Lightweight Vista sidebar based on Rainmeter that even consume less resources than real Vista Sidebar

Download : Vista Transformation Pack 9

If we compare the look and feel of MAC OS X with windows mac really wins the race with its well designed dock,taskbar and wallpaper also and just because of the cool look of MAC OS X i was also thinking to install MAC OS X on another partition of my system.Then i thought  that windows xp should be transformed into the look of MAC OS X and i tried search for softwares to complete this task.While searching i came across a cool software FlyakiteOSX.

FlyakiteOSX completely changes the look of windows XP into MAC OS X it even also changes the startup screen,icons,theme and everything to MAC Os X.It also adds the cool visual styles while minimizing and maximinzing windows.I really suprised with the results the installation was simple too.

FlyakiteOSX is a transformation pack. It will transform the look of an ordinary Windows XP+ system to resemble the look of Mac OS X. The installer simply automates the process of replacing critical system files, setting registry tweaks, and installing extras such as cursors, sounds, visual styles, etc. FlyakiteOSX DOES NOT contain any spyware or ad-ware of any kind. All files needed for FlyakiteOSX are stored in the Windows directory in a folder named ‘FlyakiteOSX’ that is hidden by default. All registry values for FlyakiteOSX are written to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\FlyakiteOSX.

Is FlyakiteOSX Safe?
Yes. FlyakiteOSX contains no spyware or adware installed. Millions of users have downloaded this software pack into their own operating system without problems. In any case you found out FlyakiteOSX is not suitable for you, you can remove it anytime you want.

What Requirements are needed to Install?
To install FlyakiteOSX, you need the following operating systems:-
- Windows XP (Home, Pro, RTM, SP1, SP2, Corporate)
- Windows 2003 (Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter, Web, RTM, SP1)
- Windows Media Center Edition (2003, 2004, 2005)
- All Language Versions
- Does NOT work with 64 bit versions of Windows!

Download : FlyakiteOSX

Recently i had alook on a screenshot of MAC OS X leopard one of its feature i liked very much is its dockers which allows us to quickly and easily open programs and it also gives a new look to the desktop.Then i Search for the MAC OS X like object docker for windows and i came across RK Launcher.A great looking object docker for windows if you compare RK Launcher with MAC OS X docker it is almost same.

RK Launcher gives a new stunning look to your desktop and RK Launcher is fully customizable.You can choose the location for the docker(top,bottom,left or right).

RK Launcher is a free application that will allow the user to have a visually pleasing bar at the side of the screen that is used to quickly launch shortcuts. With support for themes, PNG’s and ICO’s and with smooth amazing animations, RK Launcher is a  versatile and great taskbar replacement.

Features

Taskbar
Minimized windows will normally be shown on the Windows Taskbar. RK Launcher provides an
eye-pleasing replacement for the taskbar: whenever a window is minimized, it will automatically
be placed on the shortcutsbar and will be represented by a small image of the contents of this
window. This way, the user will quickly see which windows are minimized.

New Applications
It’s always hard to track newly installed applications: where did they go? To solve this problem,
RK Launcher will automatically place a shortcut on the launcher when an application is started
for the first time.

Customization
All parts of RK Launcher can be fully customized. From the number of icons that gets zoomed on
mouseover to the background and icons; the user can set it all as he likes. With support for
themes, users can exchange their favourite looks and change the look of the launcher with one click.

Download : RK Docker

Use of portable apps is increasing day by day because they provide us with the ease of use these apps anywhere by just pluging in the USB without any installation.In this post i have made a list of over 80 portable and free apps.Installation is very easy and after installation you will have load of free softwares in your USB Stick.You will also have a application PStart which will run as autorun and will show you the list of all portable apps in your USB sticks when you will plug the USB stick .

Requirements:
512MB USB Flash drive (You can delete files to make it fit on a smaller drive)
Windows (All of these program need Windows)
WinXP Service Pack 2 (For the Autorun feature to work)
Admin Rights (For TrueCrypt functionality)
If you already have TrueCrypt installed on your system, it must be version 4.1.

Initial Setup
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Warning: Backup your current USB drive!
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Delete everything from your current USB drive.
Extract USBApps.zip to your USB drive.
Explore your USB drive.
Setup an encrypted partition to secure sensitive files.
Double click on TrueCrypt.
Click “Create Volume” button to start TrueCrypt Volume Creation Wizard.
Click “Next” at the first screen (this will create a standard TrueCrypt volume).
In Volume Location, type “X:\files.tc” Where X: is the volume letter for your thumbdrive and then click Next. (i.e. If your thumbdrive is mounted as the G: drive, type G:\files.tc)
Select your Encryption Options and then click Next. (If you don’t know what to do, just accept the defaults)
Input a Volume Size. This has to be smaller than the remaing free space on your thumbdrive.
Select a Volume Password. (Make sure it is a STRONG password that you won’t forget)
On the Volume Format screen, leave the defaults and select Format.
When it is done, it will tell you. Just click OK and then Exit.
Create a folder on your C: drive called USBBackup (if you want to use the backup feature).

Usage
If you have Windows XP Service Pack 2, when you insert your drive into a USB port, it will prompt you for a password. This password is the one you specified when you created the TrueCrypt volume during the initial setup. If you enter the password correctly, it will mount your encrypted volume as the Q: drive. (Make sure you dismount the volume before you unplug your drive)
To access the advanced features of this flash drive setup, right click on the drive in the the My Computer window.
TrueCrypt Mount – This will attempt to mount the encrypted volume you created as the Q: drive. This is included in case Autorun is turned off or you don’t have WinXP SP2.
TrueCrypt Backup – This will backup your Q: drive (if you have it mounted) to C:\USBBackup.
TrueCrypt Dismount All – This will dismount any and all encrypted volumes.
TrueCrypt Start – If you want to manually mount or dismount encrypted volumes.
PStart – Launches PStart (see below)
Explore – If you want to browse the contents of your flash drive.

Extra Security
If you want to be a little more cautios, you can run some of the apps from the encrypted partition you created. This will allow you to store favorites and profile settings in the encrypted files.tc you created above. To do this follow these steps:
Make sure your files.tc has been mounted to the Q: drive. If it isn’t, right click on your flash drive in Explorer and select TrueCrypt Mount and mount the partition.
Make sure PStart is not running.
Move the folder called PortableApps from the root of your flash drive to the Q: drive.
Rename PStart.xml to PStartBackup.xml.
Rename PStartSecure.xml to PStart.xml.
Now when you want to launch the portable versions of Firefox, Gaim, Opera, OpenOffice, FileZilla, Thunderbird, Sunbird, AbiWord or NVU, you must have your encrypted Q: drive mounted.

Now the list of portable apps starts

Productivity

AcroPad
AcroPAD is a simple Notepad-like program with PDF production capability. Handy for quick generation of simple PDF documents.

EssentialPIM
EssentialPIM functions as a scheduler, contact manager, and outliner. Data can be imported from MS Outlook/Outlook Express, and exported to HTML, RTF, CSV, and TXT. All data can be password-protected and the database file encrypted using 128-bit Rijndael.

Foxit PDF Reader
Foxit PDF Reader is a small, fast PDF viewer with Eastern Asian language support.

MyLife Organized
This personal task outliner will help you to organize your goals, projects and tasks into a tree. The to-do list with actions that require immediate attention will be generated. It has Pocket PC version and can be synced with Outlook and MindManager.

PDFproducer
PDFproducer is a small utility that converts plain text into PDF documents. It does not require Acrobat to be installed on the system, since it does not uses any component of Acrobat to produce PDF files. You have a choice of 3 page sizes, different orientation as well as up to 3 fonts.

Portable OpenOffice
OpenOffice is a full-featured office suite that is compatible with all major office suites. It comes with Impress for presentations, Draw for diagrams, Calc for spreadsheets and the Writer word processor. Portable OpenOffice is a special build of OpenOffice that is optimized for use on a USB key drive. It has some specially-selected optimizations to make it perform faster and extend the life of your USB key as well as a specialized launcher that will allow you to launch it from the directory of your choice.

Portable Sunbird
Mozilla Sunbird is a calendar client that supports the creation of scheduled events and the ability to get an overview of events on a particular day, week or month. The calendar can be shared by publishing it to a WebDAV-capable server. Portable Sunbird is a special build of Mozilla Sunbird that is optimized for use on a USB key drive. It has some specially-selected optimizations to make it perform faster and extend the life of your USB key as well as a specialized launcher that will allow most of your favorite extensions to work as you switch computers.

PSPad
PSPad is a great text editor with syntax highlighting, hex editing, HTML tidying, built-in diff etc.

TextMe
TextMe is a drag-and-drop notes database. It is handy as a quick note jotting space or to copy text notes over from other documents or websites. TextMe currently only supports plain text notes.

Tomahawk PDF+
Tomahawk is a full-featured word processor for RTF, TXT and other file formats, with built-in PDF export capability.

xint
xint (pronounced “zint”) is an alternative to Windows notepad, with dozens of useful functions. The focus is on efficiency and performance and thus there are no toolbars, redundant dialogs, or other uneccesary components. Most of the functions are accessible via hotkeys, and extra formatting options are also availible through a convenient floating menu (screenshot) that is activated also via hotkeys or the system menu to wherever your cursor happens to be. Make extracting html content from a textfile, or alternately, saving only the html easy. Turn tab space delimited text files into comma delimited files, or, vice-a-versa. xint does the standard find and replace much quicker then with regular notepad. Another thing that is of great convenience, is “Twofish” encryption. Use “Twofish”, a military-strength 160-bit encryption algoritm to securely hide sensitive data.

Internet

FileZilla
FileZilla is a fast and reliable FTP and SFTP client. It includes a site manager and supports uploads/downloads queue, keepalive, timeout detection, SOCKS 4/5 and HTTP 1.1 proxy etc.

HydraIRC
HydraIRC is an IRC client that supports DCC chat and file transfers, connecting to multiple servers, dockable floating tabbed windows, autohiding windows, DLL plugins, channel monitoring, message logs, event viewer, themes, color schemes, buddy groups, audible and visual notifications , regexp highlighting, favorites and more.

OperaUSB
Opera is a fast and secure web browser that features pop-up blocking, tabbed browsing, integrated searches, built-in email and RSS client etc. OperaUSB is a portable package for Opera that does not write to the registry nor leave any data on the guest machine where it is run.

Portable Firefox
Mozilla Firefox is an web browser that includes popup blocking, tabbed browsing, smart search and built-in download manager. Portable Firefox is a special build of Mozilla Firefox that is optimized for use on a USB key drive. It has some specially-selected optimizations to make it perform faster and extend the life of your USB key as well as a specialized launcher that will allow most of your favorite extensions to work as you switch computers.

Portable Gaim
Gaim is a multi-protocol instant messaging client. It is compatible with AIM and ICQ (Oscar protocol), MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, IRC, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu, SILC, GroupWise Messenger, and Zephyr networks. Gaim users can log in to multiple accounts on multiple networks simultaneously. It also supports many native features of the various networks, such as file transfer, away messages, typing notification, and MSN window closing notification.

Portable NVU
Nvu is a web authoring system (like FrontPage or DreamWeaver) that features WYSIWYG editing of web pages, integrated file management via FTP and tabbed editing that makes working on multiple pages a snap. It includes support for forms, tables, and templates. Portable NVU is a special build of NVU that is optimized for use on a USB key drive. It has some specially-selected optimizations to make it perform faster and extend the life of your USB key as well as a specialized launcher that will allow most of your favorite extensions to work as you switch computers.

Portable Thunderbird
Mozilla Thunderbird is an email client with SMTP, POP3, IMAP4, NNTP and RSS support. It comes with advanced message filtering, Bayesian spam detector and built-in spell checker, Portable Thunderbird is a special build of Mozilla Thunderbird that is optimized for use on a USB key drive. It has some specially-selected optimizations to make it perform faster and extend the life of your USB key as well as a specialized launcher that will allow most of your favorite extensions to work as you switch computers.

Uniform Server
The Uniform Server is a complete web development system on the move. It contains Apache, PHP, MySQL and Perl. There are additional plugins that you can download at the website that will extend the system with FTP server and Java servlet support. It also includes MediaWiki preinstalled and configured.
Utilities

A43
A43 is a file manager with integrated text editor, zip/unzip functions, file search and dual-pane view.

Angry IP Scanner
Angry IP scanner is a very fast IP scanner. It can ping a range of IP addresses to check if they are alive, then optionally resolve hostnames, scan ports, etc. It is useful for network administrators to monitor and manage their networks.

a-squared HiJackFree
a-squared HiJackFree allows you to view and edit the configured autoruns, list explorer/browser add-ons, look at installed services, view all currently opened ports, and list all running processes. It helps in the detection and removal of all types of spyware, adware, trojans and worms.

BruteBenchmark
BruteBenchmark checks the performance of your CPU, video card and hard disk. It computes a score for each quickly, and you can use it to compare against other entries in the database.

CurrPorts
CurrPorts displays the list of all currently opened TCP/IP and UDP ports on your local computer. For each port in the list, information about the process that opened the port is also displayed, including the process name, full path of the process, version information of the process (product name, file description, and so on), the time that the process was created, and the user that created it.

DiskView
DiskView shows you a graphical map of your disk. It allows you to determine where a file is located or, by clicking on a cluster, see which file occupies it. You can double-click to get more information about a file to which a cluster is allocated.

Explore2fs
Explore2fs is an explorer-type application for browsing Linux ex2fs filesystems under Windows.

Filemon
FileMon monitors and displays file system activity on a system in real-time. Its advanced capabilities make it a powerful tool for exploring the way Windows works, seeing how applications use the files and DLLs, or tracking down problems in system or application file configurations. Filemon’s timestamping feature will show you precisely when every open, read, write or delete, happens, and its status column tells you the outcome.

FolderSize
FolderSize scans a selected drive or folder and reports the size of all the subfolders. The result can be viewed in bytes, percentage of total space or as a bar graph

freeCommander
freeCommander is a dual-pane file manager which is more powerful than Windows Explorer. It has a built-in file viewer to view files in hex, binary, text or image format. It has built-in archive handling ability for ZIP (read, write), CAB (read, write) and RAR (read). It supports calculation of folder size, folder comparison/synchronization, file search and filtering etc.

GenControl
GenControl is a simple desktop remote control program for Windows 2000 or Windows NT networks. It allows the authorised administrator to remotely control the desktop of another machine over a Windows-based network with any additional software installed on that machine.

hddhealth
HDD Health monitors hard disks from the system tray using Self Monitoring and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T), and alerts you of impending failure.

HDDlife
HDDlife constantly monitors the health of your hard drives at regular intervals and informs you about the results of these checks. The current version supports only IDE and Serial ATA disks with standard controllers, while external, RAID and SCSI controllers are not supported.

HotKeyz
HotKeyz allows you to define hotkeys for executing other application, It features default hotkeys for minimizing, maximizing, restoring or closing the active window. Launch your default e-mail window to compose a new email. Control your WinAmp 2.x without it being focused. Define memo type text and with a hotkey paste your text into your e-mails, documents etc. You can also paste special characters or the current date and time. Open and close your CD-Rom(s). Power off, shutdown, logoff or reboot your PC with a hotkey press. Start your screen saver, hide or unhide your desktop, taskbar or any desktop with a hotkey.

HoverIP
HoverIP contains an integrated set of network tools, including nslookup, ping, trcaeroute and a port scanner.

LC ISO Creator
LC ISO Creator creates ISO files from CD/DVD-ROM, which is a great way to backup or archive your CD/DVD-ROM discs.

MultiRes
MultiRes works very much like a 32-bit version of the venerable Microsoft QuickRes 16-bit applet for Windows 95, with administrative scripting facilities and extended capabilities to handle refresh rates and multiple monitors. Supported resolution and refresh rates are accessible from the command-line or from a simple menu that pops up from the system tray. An optional timed confirmation prompt – enabled by default in the program About box – ensures that any changes you make can be reversed safely, without fuss.

NetStumbler
NetStumbler allows you to detect Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) using 802.11b, 802.11a and 802.11g. You can use it to verify that your network is set up the way you intended, find locations with poor coverage in your WLAN, detect other networks that might be causing interference with your network etc.

PC Wizard 2005
PC Wziard 2005 is designed for the detection, analysis and benchmarking of hardware. It is able to detect a large scale of system components and supports the latest technologies and standards. This tool is periodically updated (usually once per month) in order to provide most accurate results.

Process Explorer
Process Explorer is an advanced task manager. It is an indispensable tool for both beginners and power users. I use it all the time to kill tasks that refuse to be killed, or find what which processes are still holding on to a particular file or DLL so it refuses to be deleted.

PuTTY
PuTTY is a free SSH, Telnet and Rlogin client for 32-bit Windows systems. It supports the SSH2 protocol.

RegMon
Regmon is a registry monitoring utility that will show you which applications are accessing your registry, which keys they are accessing, and the registry data that they are reading and writing – all in real-time. This advanced utility takes you one step beyond what static registry tools can do, to let you see and understand exactly how programs use the registry.

Restoration
Restoration helps undelete files that were deleted accidentally by mistake. It even work with removable media such as CF or SF cards. You can scan for all files that could be recovered, or filter the results by entering a search term or extension. This program also has a secure wipe feature that makes it impossible to restore deleted files.

SilentNight Micro CD Burner
SilentNight Micro CD Burner is a tiny CD burner that lets you select the folder you want to burn to CD, with optional wildcard-based filtering. It supports long file names (Joliet filesystem) multi-session CDs, audio CDs from MP3/WAV files, Burn Proof/Just Link support etc.

SIW
SIW is single-EXE wonder gathers detailed information about your system, such as motherboard, BIOS, CPU, devices, memory, video, drivers, ports, printers etc. It is also a real-time monitor for CPU, memory, pagefile usage, network connections, network traffic etc.

SpaceMonger
SpaceMonger is a tool for keeping track of the free space on your computer. Each file or folder on a given drive is displayed in a box in the main window whose size is a relative comparison to all the other files in your system.

ssmanager
Screensaver Manager provides various options for activating/deactivating the screensaver. For example, the screensaver could be activated when the mouse cursor is placed at the upper left corner of the screen. It could also be activated by hitting a hotkey. In addition, the screensaver could be disabled when there is a high CPU load to prevent CPU cycles from being used up by the screensave.

TCPView
TCPView gives a detailed listing of all TCP and UDP endpoints on your system, including the local and remote addresses and state of TCP connections. On Windows NT, 2000 and XP TCPView also reports the name of the process that owns the endpoint. TCPView provides a more informative and conveniently presented subset of the Netstat program that ships with Windows.

UnicEdit
UnicEdit is a Notepad-replacement with fantastic Unicode support. It converts between UTF-8, UTF-16, UCS-2, UCS-4, as well as ANSI or multibyte with various code pages. In addition, it shows you the full Unicode name of each character in the status line. No other tool I have come across offers you the same level of flexibility for performing code conversion!

VirtualDrives
Virtual Drives Manager is a tool for defining virtual drives in your filesystem. Virtual drives are symbolic links that points to existing directories on your filesystem. This is essentially a graphical version of subst.exe.

VNC Viewer
VNC Viewer enables you to remote control any machine running VNC Server.

WHD
WHD allows you to view and edit the contents of any file in hex or decimal.

Wild Replace
WildReplace is a search and replace tool that lets you search for files on your disks and presents the results in a folder tree. You can search for files with special attributes (Read-Only, System, Archive, etc.), or files that contain a matching phrase (works with both Text and Binary files). WildReplace can also replace text on files, create backups of modified files, delete files that match your search criteria or move all matching files to a new location while preserving the same folder structure.

XVI32
XVI32 is a hex editor with large file capability, built-in scripting, data inspector, fast search-and-replace function and many other features specific to manipulating files in hex mode.

Multimedia

FastStone Image Viewer
FastStone Image Viewer is an image browser, viewer, editor and converter that supports resizing, renaming, cropping, color adjustments, watermarks, EXIF support, lossless JPEG transitions, drop shadow effects, image frames, scanner support, histogram and more. It also includes a built-in slideshow with 60+ transitional effects. It supports all major graphic formats including BMP, JPEG, JPEG 2000, GIF, PNG, PCX, TIFF, WMF, ICO and TGA.

FSResizer
FastStone Photo Resizer is a batch image converter/resizer that enables users to convert, rename, resize, crop, rotate, change color depth, add text and watermarks to many images at one go.

Fusion Media Player
Fusion is a small media player that plays DVD, DIVX, XVID, MPEG, WMV, MP3, WMA, WAV or MID, with skin and visualization plugin support. It also supports recording of streaming content directly to the harddisk.

GSpot
Simply drag-and-drop any AVI file to the GSpot window, and GSpot will determine which audio and video codecs are required to play the file, as well as whether these codecs are installed on your system.

IrfanView
IrfanView is a image viewer with support for a large number of image, audio and video formats, including animated GIF, multi-page TIFF and multiple ICO files. It also supports creation of panaroma images, editing of multi-page TIFF files, as well as lossless JPEG rotation.

Media Player Classic
Media Player Classic looks like Windows Media Player V6.x, but it is not a me-too application. Beneath its classic look lies an extremely powerful media player. You can configure keyboard commands, configure/reorder/disable codecs/filters etc. And it is one of those rare media players that provides native support for Unicode, so you will be able to load music or video files with Japanese, Chinese or Korean filenames easily, and view them in the playlist.

mp4UI
mp4UI is a utility for viewing and creating MP4 files. MP4 files are ISO compliant MPEG-4 streams with AAC audio. You are able to edit file/track properties and metadata, as well as import/export individual audio/video tracks.

Pixia
Pixia is a powerful graphics editor with a unique user interface. When learning Pixia, it’s easier to discard everything you know about Photoshop or Paintshop, and start from scratch with the tutorials and help files.

SharpControl
SharpControl sharpens images using an algorithm that is different from most mainstream graphics applications. It reads and writes JPEG and uncompressed TIFF files. It also allows batch processing of images.

SilentNight MP3
SilentNight MP3/CD Player is a multimedia player that supports playback of the following filetypes: .mp3, .ogg, .wav, .wma, .mo3, .xm, .mod, .s3m, .it, .mtm, .mp2, .mp1, audio CD, and Internet radio streams. There is also a CD-ripper that ripps files directly to MP3 format, convertions between MP3-WAV, WAV-MP3. You can also edit MP3 tags with the built-in tag editor, and record Internet radio streams, or from any other input line supported by your soundcard. The player has an equalizer, and you can also regulate pitch, samplerate, tempo, flanger, echo, rotate, and adjust CD-ROM speed.

STOIK Capturer
Stoik Capturer captures video from your DV camcorder directly to AVI or WMV. It is able to split capture file automatically by size. You can also output DV AVI to your DV camcorder with the help of this program.

VirtualDub
VirtualDub is a video capture/processing utility. It lacks the editing power of a general-purpose editor such as Adobe Premiere, but is great for video capture and transcoding via third-party video codecs. It can also read MPEG-1 video files.

VLC
VLC (initially VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, …) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.

WinDV
WinDV is a small utility for capturing videos from DV device (camcorder) into AVI-files and for recording AVI-files into DV device via FireWire (IEEE 1394) interface. Capturing is very reliable thanks to use of large buffer queue. Timestamps recorded on DV tape by camcorder can be used to automatically split captured video into multiple files. During transmitting to DV, several AVI-files can be joined together to form final video recording.

winLAME
winLAME is an encoder for WAV, MP3 and OGG. It lets you set up the encoding process with an easy-to-use wizard-style user interface, with support for batch processing of multiple audio files.

XnView
XnView is an image viewer and converter that supports more than 400 graphics format. It has tons of options you can tweak. My favorite is to enable caching so that thumbnails are cached in a temp folder of my choice (unlike some image viewers that insist on writing the cache file to every image folder that you access).

Security

CyberShredder
CyberShredder erases confidential files from your computer permanently. Normal file deletion will remove a file’s directory entry and allocation table information. The actual disk clusters that contained the file’s data remains intact on your hard disk and can be recovered later. CyberShredder overwrites the space occupied from a file with random data and erases the file, so an unerase utility will never be able to recover it. It has three different methods of deleting files including the NSA approved seven-pass file deletion method.

eXpress CheckSum Calculator
eXpress CheckSum Calculator is great for verifying the integrity of files downloaded from the Internet. Similar utilities install new shell menus and/or tabs, which I dislike, because experience have shown that badly written shell utilities will make Windows Explorer less stable. Why sacrifice system stability when you can use small, simple utilities like these instead?

KeePass
KeePass is a password manager that helps you manage your passwords in a secure way. You can put all your passwords in one database, which is locked with one master key or a key-disk. So you only have to remember one single master password to unlock the whole database. The databases are encrypted using the best and most secure encryption algorithms currently known (AES and Twofish).

Omziff
Omziff is an encryption utility that uses various cryptographic algorithms to encrypt and decrypt textual files. These algorithms include: Blowfish, Cast128, Gost, IDEA, Misty1, Rijndael, and Twofish. It also generates random passwords, splits files, and offers simple file shredding.

privyCrypt
privyCrypt is a small program that is designed for encrypting email before transmission across networks. It relies on a shared private key for encryption/decryption.

Rootkit Revealer
RootkitRevealer is a rootkit detection utility. It detects registry and filesystem API discrepancies that may indicate the presence of a user-mode or kernel-mode rootkit.

TrueCrypt
TrueCrypt creates virtual encrypted disks within a file and mount it as a real disk. It can also encrypt an entire hard disk partition or a device, such as USB memory stick, floppy disk, etc. It supports a full range of encryption algorithms, including AES-256, Blowfish (448-bit key), CAST5, Serpent (256-bit key), Triple DES, and Twofish (256-bit key).

Games

Babble Deluxe
Babble Deluxe is a puzzle game. The game board contains 25 random letters arranged in a 5 x 5 grid. The goal of the game is to find as many words as possible within the time limit. You can play alone for the highest score or play against one of the computer players.

Bricks
Bricks2000 is a tetris clone. Throughout the game, various types of “bricks” fall from the top to the bottom of the playing area. When the bricks form a solid row of blocks across the playing area, that row vanishes.

Defendguin
Defendguin is a clone of the arcade game “Defender”, but with a Linux theme. Your mission is to defend little penguinoids from being captured and mutated.

FSPacman
FastStone Pacman is a PacMan-clone. It features a 3D look-and-feel, funny sound effects (screaming, laughing, burping, sighing and applauding) and customizable background MIDI music and much more. Evil viruses are chasing and cooperating to corner you. You are trying to clear the red beans on the maze and keeping away from those viruses. You are running for the gold beans to gain the power to destroy the viruses or you are using the bullets to fight back. Finally you break through their encirclement, clear up all the beans in the maze and win the game. Smart viruses are going to make your mission full of adventures.

Gem Drop X
Gem Drop X is a fast-paced puzzle game where it’s your job to clear the screen of gems before they squash you. You’re at the bottom, they’re at the top, and they keep coming! You grab gems (up to 10) of the same color and use them to knock more gems off the screen. Match 3 or more of the same color in a column and they explode. Any adjacent gems of the same color also explode, causing a chain reaction that might cover the entire screen. The more gems that disappear with one shot, the higher the score you get.

Mega Mario
Mega Mario is a Super Mario Bros clone. It features everything in the original game, but now comes with better graphics, higher resolution, smoother movement and new levels.

vectoroids
Vectoroids is a clone of the classic arcade game “Asteroids” by Atari. Your objective is to maneuver a space ship within a field of asteroids, and shoot them into smaller and smaller pieces, eventually destroying them completely.

XO
XO is a computer rendition of the clas[/code]sic board game "Renju". Pit your skills against a computer opponent by being the first to put 5 pieces in a horizontal, vertical or diagonal row.

Download:

http://rapidshare.com/files/8359998/PortApps.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/8365091/PortApps.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/8367517/PortApps.part3.rar

Windows shortcuts are always useful.It saves tons of our time and also gives us ease of use.You must have some shortcuts in your mind but there are lots of shortcuts about which you don’t know.In this post i have listed lots of windows shortcut which will make your life more easy.

Run Commands:

compmgmt.msc – Computer management
devmgmt.msc – Device manager
diskmgmt.msc – Disk management
dfrg.msc – Disk defrag
eventvwr.msc – Event viewer
fsmgmt.msc – Shared folders
gpedit.msc – Group policies
lusrmgr.msc – Local users and groups
perfmon.msc – Performance monitor
rsop.msc – Resultant set of policies
secpol.msc – Local security settings
services.msc – Various Services
msconfig – System Configuration Utility
regedit – Registry Editor
msinfo32 _ System Information
sysedit _ System Edit
win.ini _ windows loading information(also system.ini)
winver _ Shows current version of windows
mailto: _ Opens default email client
command _ Opens command prompt

Run Commands to access the control panel:
Add/Remove Programs control appwiz.cpl
Date/Time Properties control timedate.cpl
Display Properties control desk.cpl
FindFast control findfast.cpl
Fonts Folder control fonts
Internet Properties control inetcpl.cpl
Keyboard Properties control main.cpl keyboard
Mouse Properties control main.cpl
Multimedia Properties control mmsys.cpl
Network Properties control netcpl.cpl
Password Properties control password.cpl
Printers Folder control printers
Sound Properties control mmsys.cpl sounds
System Properties control sysdm.cpl

Command Prompt:
ANSI.SYS Defines functions that change display graphics, control cursor movement, and reassign keys.
APPEND Causes MS-DOS to look in other directories when editing a file or running a command.
ARP Displays, adds, and removes arp information from network devices.
ASSIGN Assign a drive letter to an alternate letter.
ASSOC View the file associations.
AT Schedule a time to execute commands or programs.
ATMADM Lists connections and addresses seen by Windows ATM call manager.
ATTRIB Display and change file attributes.
BATCH Recovery console command that executes a series of commands in a file.
BOOTCFG Recovery console command that allows a user to view, modify, and rebuild the boot.ini
BREAK Enable / disable CTRL + C feature.
CACLS View and modify file ACL’s.
CALL Calls a batch file from another batch file.
CD Changes directories.
CHCP Supplement the International keyboard and character set information.
CHDIR Changes directories.
CHKDSK Check the hard disk drive running FAT for errors.
CHKNTFS Check the hard disk drive running NTFS for errors.
CHOICE Specify a listing of multiple options within a batch file.
CLS Clears the screen.
CMD Opens the command interpreter.
COLOR Easily change the foreground and background color of the MS-DOS window.
COMP Compares files.
COMPACT Compresses and uncompress files.
CONTROL Open control panel icons from the MS-DOS prompt.
CONVERT Convert FAT to NTFS.
COPY Copy one or more files to an alternate location.
CTTY Change the computers input/output devices.
DATE View or change the systems date.
DEBUG Debug utility to create assembly programs to modify hardware settings.
DEFRAG Re-arrange the hard disk drive to help with loading programs.
DEL Deletes one or more files.
DELETE Recovery console command that deletes a file.
DELTREE Deletes one or more files and/or directories.
DIR List the contents of one or more directory.
DISABLE Recovery console command that disables Windows system services or drivers.
DISKCOMP Compare a disk with another disk.
DISKCOPY Copy the contents of one disk and place them on another disk.
DOSKEY Command to view and execute commands that have been run in the past.
DOSSHELL A GUI to help with early MS-DOS users.
DRIVPARM Enables overwrite of original device drivers.
ECHO Displays messages and enables and disables echo.
EDIT View and edit files.
EDLIN View and edit files.
EMM386 Load extended Memory Manager.
ENABLE Recovery console command to enable a disable service or driver.
ENDLOCAL Stops the localization of the environment changes enabled by the setlocal command.
ERASE Erase files from computer.
EXIT Exit from the command interpreter.
EXPAND Expand a M*cros*ft Windows file back to it’s original format.
EXTRACT Extract files from the M*cros*ft Windows cabinets.
FASTHELP Displays a listing of MS-DOS commands and information about them.
FC Compare files.
FDISK Utility used to create partitions on the hard disk drive.
FIND Search for text within a file.
FINDSTR Searches for a string of text within a file.
FIXBOOT Writes a new boot sector.
FIXMBR Writes a new boot record to a disk drive.
FOR Boolean used in batch files.
FORMAT Command to erase and prepare a disk drive.
FTP Command to connect and operate on a FTP server.
FTYPE Displays or modifies file types used in file extension associations.
GOTO Moves a batch file to a specific label or location.
GRAFTABL Show extended characters in graphics mode.
HELP Display a listing of commands and brief explanation.
IF Allows for batch files to perform conditional processing.
IFSHLP.SYS 32-bit file manager.
IPCONFIG Network command to view network adapter settings and assigned values.
KEYB Change layout of keyboard.
LABEL Change the label of a disk drive.
LH Load a device driver in to high memory.
LISTSVC Recovery console command that displays the services and drivers.
LOADFIX Load a program above the first 64k.
LOADHIGH Load a device driver in to high memory.
LOCK Lock the hard disk drive.
LOGON Recovery console command to list installations and enable administrator login.
MAP Displays the device name of a drive.
MD Command to create a new directory.
MEM Display memory on system.
MKDIR Command to create a new directory.
MODE Modify the port or display settings.
MORE Display one page at a time.
MOVE Move one or more files from one directory to another directory.
MSAV Early M*cros*ft Virus scanner.
MSD Diagnostics utility.
MSCDEX Utility used to load and provide access to the CD-ROM.
NBTSTAT Displays protocol statistics and current TCP/IP connections using NBT
NET Update, fix, or view the network or network settings
NETSH Configure dynamic and static network information from MS-DOS.
NETSTAT Display the TCP/IP network protocol statistics and information.
NLSFUNC Load country specific information.
NSLOOKUP Look up an IP address of a domain or host on a network.
PATH View and modify the computers path location.
PATHPING View and locate locations of network latency.
PAUSE Command used in batch files to stop the processing of a command.
PING Test / send information to another network computer or network device.
POPD Changes to the directory or network path stored by the pushd command.
POWER Conserve power with computer portables.
PRINT Prints data to a printer port.
PROMPT View and change the MS-DOS prompt.
PUSHD Stores a directory or network path in memory so it can be returned to at any time.
QBASIC Open the QBasic.
RD Removes an empty directory.
REN Renames a file or directory.
RENAME Renames a file or directory.
RMDIR Removes an empty directory.
ROUTE View and configure windows network route tables.
RUNAS Enables a user to execute a program on another computer.
SCANDISK Run the scandisk utility.
SCANREG Scan registry and recover registry from errors.
SET Change one variable or string to another.
SETLOCAL Enables local environments to be changed without affecting anything else.
SETVER Change MS-DOS version to trick older MS-DOS programs.
SHARE Installs support for file sharing and locking capabilities.
SHIFT Changes the position of replaceable parameters in a batch program.
SHUTDOWN Shutdown the computer from the MS-DOS prompt.
SMARTDRV Create a disk cache in conventional memory or extended memory.
SORT Sorts the input and displays the output to the screen.
START Start a separate window in Windows from the MS-DOS prompt.
SUBST Substitute a folder on your computer for another drive letter.
SWITCHES Remove add functions from MS-DOS.
SYS Transfer system files to disk drive.
TELNET Telnet to another computer / device from the prompt.
TIME View or modify the system time.
TITLE Change the title of their MS-DOS window.
TRACERT Visually view a network packets route across a network.
TREE View a visual tree of the hard disk drive.
TYPE Display the contents of a file.
UNDELETE Undelete a file that has been deleted.
UNFORMAT Unformat a hard disk drive.
UNLOCK Unlock a disk drive.
VER Display the version information.
VERIFY Enables or disables the feature to determine if files have been written properly.
VOL Displays the volume information about the designated drive.
XCOPY Copy multiple files, directories, and/or drives from one location to another.
TRUENAME When placed before a file, will display the whole directory in which it exists
TASKKILL It allows you to kill those unneeded or locked up applications

Windows XP Shortcuts:
ALT+- (ALT+hyphen) Displays the Multiple Document Interface (MDI) child window’s System menu
ALT+ENTER View properties for the selected item
ALT+ESC Cycle through items in the order they were opened
ALT+F4 Close the active item, or quit the active program
ALT+SPACEBAR Display the System menu for the active window
ALT+TAB Switch between open items
ALT+Underlined letter Display the corresponding menu
BACKSPACE View the folder one level up in My Computer or Windows Explorer
CTRL+A Select all
CTRL+B Bold
CTRL+C Copy
CTRL+I Italics
CTRL+O Open an item
CTRL+U Underline
CTRL+V Paste
CTRL+X Cut
CTRL+Z Undo
CTRL+F4 Close the active document
CTRL while dragging Copy selected item
CTRL+SHIFT while dragging Create shortcut to selected iteM
CTRL+RIGHT ARROW Move the insertion point to the beginning of the next word
CTRL+LEFT ARROW Move the insertion point to the beginning of the previous word
CTRL+DOWN ARROW Move the insertion point to the beginning of the next paragraph
CTRL+UP ARROW Move the insertion point to the beginning of the previous paragraph
SHIFT+DELETE Delete selected item permanently without placing the item in the Recycle Bin
ESC Cancel the current task
F1 Displays Help
F2 Rename selected item
F3 Search for a file or folder
F4 Display the Address bar list in My Computer or Windows Explorer
F5 Refresh the active window
F6 Cycle through screen elements in a window or on the desktop
F10 Activate the menu bar in the active program
SHIFT+F10 Display the shortcut menu for the selected item
CTRL+ESC Display the Start menu
SHIFT+CTRL+ESC Launches Task Manager
SHIFT when you insert a CD Prevent the CD from automatically playing
WIN Display or hide the Start menu
WIN+BREAK Display the System Properties dialog box
WIN+D Minimizes all Windows and shows the Desktop
WIN+E Open Windows Explorer
WIN+F Search for a file or folder
WIN+F+CTRL Search for computers
WIN+L Locks the desktop
WIN+M Minimize or restore all windows
WIN+R Open the Run dialog box
WIN+TAB Switch between open items

Windows Explorer Shortcuts:
ALT+SPACEBAR – Display the current window’s system menu
SHIFT+F10 – Display the item’s context menu
CTRL+ESC – Display the Start menu
ALT+TAB – Switch to the window you last used
ALT+F4 – Close the current window or quit
CTRL+A – Select all items
CTRL+X – Cut selected item(s)
CTRL+C – Copy selected item(s)
CTRL+V – Paste item(s)
CTRL+Z – Undo last action
CTRL+(+) – Automatically resize the columns in the right hand pane
TAB – Move forward through options
ALT+RIGHT ARROW – Move forward to a previous view
ALT+LEFT ARROW – Move backward to a previous view
SHIFT+DELETE – Delete an item immediately
BACKSPACE – View the folder one level up
ALT+ENTER – View an item’s properties
F10 – Activate the menu bar in programs
F6 – Switch between left and right panes
F5 – Refresh window contents
F3 – Display Find application
F2 – Rename selected item

Internet Explorer Shortcuts:
CTRL+A – Select all items on the current page
CTRL+D – Add the current page to your Favorites
CTRL+E – Open the Search bar
CTRL+F – Find on this page
CTRL+H – Open the History bar
CTRL+I – Open the Favorites bar
CTRL+N – Open a new window
CTRL+O – Go to a new location
CTRL+P – Print the current page or active frame
CTRL+S – Save the current page
CTRL+W – Close current browser window
CTRL+ENTER – Adds the http://www. (url) .com
SHIFT+CLICK – Open link in new window
BACKSPACE – Go to the previous page
ALT+HOME – Go to your Home page
HOME – Move to the beginning of a document
TAB – Move forward through items on a page
END – Move to the end of a document
ESC – Stop downloading a page
F11 – Toggle full-screen view
F5 – Refresh the current page
F4 – Display list of typed addresses
F6 – Change Address bar and page focus
ALT+RIGHT ARROW – Go to the next page
SHIFT+CTRL+TAB – Move back between frames
SHIFT+F10 – Display a shortcut menu for a link
SHIFT+TAB – Move back through the items on a page
CTRL+TAB – Move forward between frames
CTRL+C – Copy selected items to the clipboard
CTRL+V – Insert contents of the clipboard
ENTER – Activate a selected link
HOME – Move to the beginning of a document
END – Move to the end of a document
F1 – Display Internet Explorer Help

1) DISABLE INDEXING SERVICES

Indexing Services is a small little program that uses large amounts of RAM and can often make a computer endlessly loud and noisy. This system process indexes and updates lists of all the files that are on your computer. It does this so that when you do a search for something on your computer, it will search faster by scanning the index lists. If you don’t search your computer often, or even if you do search often, this system service is completely unnecessary. To disable do the following:

1. Go to Start
2. Click Settings
3. Click Control Panel
4. Double-click Add/Remove Programs
5. Click the Add/Remove Window Components
6. Uncheck the Indexing services
7. Click Next

2) OPTIMISE DISPLAY SETTINGS

Windows XP can look sexy but displaying all the visual items can waste system resources. To optimise:

1.Go to Start
2. Click Settings
3. Click Control Panel
4. Click System
5. Click Advanced tab
6. In the Performance tab click Settings
7. Leave only the following ticked:
- Show shadows under menus
- Show shadows under mouse pointer
- Show translucent selection rectangle
- Use drop shadows for icons labels on the desktop
- Use visual styles on windows and buttons

3) DISABLE PERFORMANCE COUNTERS

Windows XP has a performance monitor utility which monitors several areas of your PC’s performance. These utilities take up system resources so disabling is a good idea.

To disable:

1. download and install the Extensible Performance Counter List(http://www.Mcft.com/windows2000/remove404.mspx)
2.Then select each counter in turn in the ‘Extensible performance counters’ window and clear the ‘performance counters enabled’ checkbox at the bottom.button below.

4) SPEEDUP FOLDER BROWSING

You may have noticed that everytime you open my computer to browse folders that there is a slight delay. This is because Windows XP automatically searches for network files and printers everytime you open Windows Explorer. To fix this and to increase browsing significantly:

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
8. Reboot your computer

5)IMPROVE MEMORY USAGE

Cacheman Improves the performance of your computer by optimizing the disk cache, memory and a number of other settings.

Once Installed:

1.Go to Show Wizard and select All
2.Run all the wizards by selecting Next or Finished until you are back to the main menu. Use the defaults unless you know exactly what you are doing.
3.Exit and Save Cacheman
4.Restart Windows

6)OPTIMISE YOUR INTERNET CONNECTION

There are lots of ways to do this but by far the easiest is to run TCP/IP Optimizer.

1. Download(http://www.speedguide.net/files/tcpoptimizer.exe) and install
2. Click the General Settings tab and select your Connection Speed (Kbps)
3. Click Network Adapter and choose the interface you use to connect to the Internet
4. Check Optimal Settings then Apply
5. Reboot

7)OPTIMISE YOUR PAGEFILE

If you give your pagefile a fixed size it saves the operating system from needing to resize the page file.

1. Right click on My Computer and select Properties
2. Select the Advanced tab
3. Under Performance choose the Settings button
4. Select the Advanced tab again and under Virtual Memory select Change
5. Highlight the drive containing your page file and make the initial Size of the file the same as the Maximum Size of the file.

Windows XP sizes the page file to about 1.5X the amount of actual physical memory by default. While this is good for systems with smaller amounts of memory (under 512MB) it is unlikely that a typical XP desktop system will ever need 1.5 X 512MB or more of virtual memory. If you have less than 512MB of memory, leave the page file at its default size. If you have 512MB or more, change the ratio to 1:1 page file size to physical memory size.

RUN BOOTVIS – IMPROVE BOOT TIMES download from(http://www.majorgeeks.com)
BootVis will significantly improve boot times

1. Download and Run
2. Select Trace
3. Select Next Boot and Driver Trace
4. A Trace Repetitions screen will appear, select Ok and Reboot
5. Upon reboot, BootVis will automatically start, analyze and log your system’s boot process. When it’s done, in the menu go to Trace and select Optimize System
6. Reboot.
7. When your machine has rebooted wait until you see the Optimizing System box appear. Be patient and wait for the process to complete

REMOVE THE DESKTOP PICTURE

Your desktop background consumes a fair amount of memory and can slow the loading time of your system. Removing it will improve performance.

1. Right click on Desktop and select Properties
2. Select the Desktop tab
3. In the Background window select None
4. Click Ok

9) DISABLE UNNECESSARY SERVICES

Because Windows XP has to be all things to all people it has many services running that take up system resources that you will never need. Below is a list of services that can be disabled on most machines:

Alerter
Clipbook
Computer Browser
Distributed Link Tracking Client
Fast User Switching
Help and Support – (If you use Windows Help and Support leave this enabled)
Human Interface Access Devices
Indexing Service
IPSEC Services
Messenger
Netmeeting Remote Desktop Sharing (disabled for extra security)
Portable Media Serial Number
Remote Desktop Help Session Manager (disabled for extra security)
Remote Procedure Call Locator
Remote Registry (disabled for extra security)
Remote Registry Service
Secondary Logon
Routing & Remote Access (disabled for extra security)
Server
SSDP Discovery Service – (Unplug n’ Pray will disable this)
Telnet
TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper
Upload Manager
Universal Plug and Play Device Host
Windows Time
Wireless Zero Configuration (Do not disable if you use a wireless network)
Workstation
To disable these services:

Go to Start and then Run and type “services.msc”
Doubleclick on the service you want to change
Change the startup type to ‘Disable”

10) TURN OFF SYSTEM RESTORE

System Restore can be a useful if your computer is having problems, however storing all the restore points can literally take up Gigabytes of space on your hard drive. To turn off System Restore:

Open Control Panel
Click on Performance and Maintenance
Click on System
Click on the System Restore tab
Tick ‘Turn off System Restore on All Drives’
Click ‘Ok’

Source: thetechpedia.com