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[How-To] Get default Registry values

Playing with the Windows Registry is always a risk prone job. Often, the advisory from many professionals is to take a backup of your registry before changing the values.
In this How-To guide, i will explain the process of getting the default values from Windows registry.
This tutorial will be a good tool for those who often [...]

Recovering Hard Deleted Items in Outlook 2003.

We talked about Recovering Permanently Deleted emails from Outlook 2003 in the previous post. However, if you have deleted your mail items the hard way, i.e. by pressing SHIFT+DEL the mail is not sent to the Deleted Items folder and therefore the previous trick fails.
By default the Recover Deleted Items functionality is only [...]

How to disable Windows Low Disk Space Warning in One line.

I can bet on it… You also must have faced this annoying Low Disk Space Warning. Although there are many a tools available for this, i thought of getting you something from the net which can be of much better use.

While trying to get a better solution to do so, i found Downloadsquad and thought [...]

Why does Windows have a registry?

Leo Notenboom of Ask-Leo.com has come up with a wonderful article on ” Why does Windows have a registry?”.
In this article, Leo has explained the basic issues and the features which have been addressed using the registry mechanism of Microsoft Windows.
Some of key points listed by Leo are:

Separation of “machine” settings from “user” settings.

Support for [...]

Use your wristwatch as a compass

Hold a watch with 12 o’clock at left.
Move your arm so the hour hand points at the sun.
The spot halfway between the hour hand and the 12 is south.
Source: Wired