Windows needs your permistion to continue - if this annoy you in your Vista

I don’t know if you like this or not and I will not explain if it is good or bad, however Vista is shoing us from time to time this dialog box:


It is very healthy to disable it, especially for the guys that have a patience to open the some files or applications.

Talking about Control Panel, to disable that message you always receive you will need to go to Control Panel > User Accounts and Family Safety > User accounts (if you will copy "Control Panel\User Accounts and Family Safety\User Accounts" in your address bar of your windows explorer window you will get there and if you'll use the quick find from the start menu by typing "user" you will get there).
And here we have a magic link Turn User Account Control on or off (it is one of the options with the little shield at the left). If you will press it you will be asked again by windows for your permission to do this task (and hopefully it will be the last time)

A reboot will be needed after for the magic to happen or at least a log off from Windows.

Show desktop in your quick launch bar of your Windows

How can we delete the show desktop icon from the quick launch? It is easy, just right click on it and press Delete or just drag it into Recycle Bin. The question is why would you delete it? A reason could be that you use more the keyboard and to reach the desktop you just press Win+M (this one is like pressing the minimize button for every opened window) or Win+D (in this case is just like pressing the Show Desktop icon - it will show the desktop and on the next Win+D you will get back to your window). Another reason is the space that you think should be filled with more useful application and not with this useless icon.
Now you get tired of the keyboard, or just tired, or just lazy, or you just bought a wireless mouse that you can use as a remote from the bed from which you have a decent distance to the table, and you want to see the desktop, but you will get annoyed to minimize all 10 windows that you have opened with the pictures and your email, and your task list, and a movie, and you need now desperately the show desktop icon, and you want it back. The steps are described in this Microsoft knowledge base article (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/190355):
1. Click Start , click Run, type notepad, and then click OK.
2. In Notepad, type the following text on individual lines:
[Shell]
Command=2
IconFile=explorer.exe,3
[Taskbar]
Command=ToggleDesktop
3. On the File menu, click Save As, and then save the file to your desktop as Show Desktop.scf. To keep the right file extension you should use the All files on the Save as type field. If the file was well named you will see the right icon on the desktop (I mean the icon of Show desktop).
4. Now just drag it on the quick launch

Widows user can copy files faster with TeraCopy

I don't now the etymology of the name of this application, but it is easy to guess. Tera, i think, comes from the the amount of data that could be managed with the help of this utility, and copy comes from the feature it provides.
So.. the application can help you to copy much faster the files from one hard drive to another, to make this process in several times by put it on hold and continue it when you want, integrate with the shell. Very useful when Windows wants more space on a drive (you know that Low disk space message), and the time is always important, so the delay in the work process because of copying files.
You can find this product on codesector page ,I think I'll try it too.

You need help with your huge office dek

... and you need to play a bit to let the office stress go away. For that ThinkGeek comes with a sloution: "Tiny Forklift Does Your Bidding!" - they say about a little toy that makes some things for you.
See  how it works in the ThikGeek article (see images and a little movie).

Convert your png to an icon

I earlier presented a site - in an other post -  that can convert all kind of images to other kind of images (and not images only), but there's no option to convert it to an .ico file if you want to use it for an application. And if you want to do it quick and you have to use the Internet only - it is not hard to remember a URL like this: www.ConvertIcon.com. But you need a /png file for that.

Now - do we have advantages? Yes it is free and it do something, it is easy to find.

Do we have alternatives? A lot, but the thing I'm using is IrfanView, a tiny application tat let you save an image in any format you like (including .ico). Ant this tool is free too and do his work much better than the ConvertIcon site.

Flying alarm - new enemy to your morning sleep

Your alarm clock was good at his time, he was your enemy when you are getting up from the bed. But now, you just get up, stop it, and you go to bad again - just for 10 more minutes, you say. You even put it somewhere on a table witch is far from the bed, but this is not a problem, you just make those three steps to that table, turn the clock off and return to the bed.

And now you could get an other enemy to your morning sleep, and this is harder to kill, you have to find it first, because it flies away all the time, and his noise is hard to support. So you have to really get up. And maybe later you'll use the soap with caffeine.

See about this alarm clock, and his wings, at Think Geek. The image above is a metaphoric presentations of the idea, the real one looks different.

Getting home idea

a nice idea from Tricks of the Trade:If you need a ride home after a wild night out, walk into a pizza parlor that delivers and order a pie to be sent to your house. Then ask if you can get a lift to your house

It's easyer to wake up in the morning

Waking up and making coffee... and these are several minutes when you are sleeping on the feet? Now you have Shower Shock, the original, caffeinated soap. Your body will "drink" the coffee through your skin.It Works 'cause it been tested!

Shower Shock is an all vegetable based glycerine soap which does *not* contain any harsh ingredients like ethanol, diethanolamine, polyethylene glycol or cocyl isethionate. Scented with peppermint oil and infused with caffeine anhydrous, each bar of Shower shock contains approximately 12 servings/showers per 4 ounce bar with 200 milligrams of caffeine per serving.

Have a nice wake ups!

Decrapify you computer

PC Decrapifier - a funny name for an application, a funny word too.

What does this mead? It is the process you need to take for removing unnecessary programs that are installed on you computer. Most of the times it is very useful on new laptops or workstations that comes with a lot of junk stuff. There's an application that could help you to uninstall lots of these unnecessary stuff (like trial versions of some programs, some toolbars in your browser, some unknown/unwanted utilities).

This program you could find free at PC Decrapifier team that created it. It should be very helpful.

Time is not the same

The time is not the same in the whole world, an we all know it. It is a different time in Washington and in London, or Ulan-Bator, and most of the time we don't need to realize that, but sometimes we do. Let's say that a friend of yours went abroad, or in to the other end of the country, or your boss sent you to the far away kingdom, or your brother is on holidays in Ethiopia, and you started to talk with some of them on a instant messaging program, or voice call program, and he tells you "Good morning!" at five o'clock in the afternoon. Then you start to ask yourself what time is it there (especially when it is your boss and you don't want to ask his time, you should add/subtract hours), but your head don't respond to your question. When you have a problem you solve it, you could create a table with your and theirs hours (me : 7 - boss : 11, bro' : 3 ...), or make your application, use something that exists already. I am lousy and I choose the las one. I found a MS TimeZone application that is very useful.

It looks like that when it is installed and runs in your system tray. And to perform this first step (the installation step), go here. The second step is to set your locations in options (right click on the tray icon) and your locations could be like this: To create your custom named locations just go in the Option dialog box to the add button under the Available locations list.

More informations about this application you can find here.
Or maybe you want a screen saver with time zones: here's a screen saver.
You could choose a less user friendly interface but mybe with some more power (i dont't realy know about it) by using this app.
One more thing: all these applications here are free, an work for windows.

Your Windows show a "Low disk space" warning again!?

Sometimes you get tired of these warnings, and this is one that most of the people will gladly disable. But for that you need to go editing registry of your operating system. On the Downloadsquad website you'll find the line below like an alternative to registrar editing. Just copy the line and paste it in a command prompt. (To open a command prompt you need to type cmd in Run dialog box, to show this dialog box type Window key + R).

 

regini HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer "NoLowDiskSpaceChecks" = REG_DWORD 1

But this warning i find sometimes useful. I start to download a little bigger file, and may be I do not have enough space on the disk, and this warning will make me find some space before the downloading process is finished or download the file on a different drive. So it is your choice to disable the warning. I didn't do it on my computer, because it shows not so often, and it still appears useful to me.