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How to change Gmail theme

If you want to change your Gmail theme please follow below steps.

Step 1: Sign in to Gmail and Click the gear icon in the upper right and select settings.

Step 2: Now go to the Themes Tab and Select theme or select your own color scheme as you want.

image: themes

How to make a computer faster: Remove spyware

in Faster computer, security essentials, software, spyware remover

Spyware collects personal details without any permission. When you browsing internet sometimes you enter to user names and password to websites, there spyware can put you and your confidential information and in addition to privacy concerns, spyware can hamper your system's performance. To fight spyware, you might want to spyware remover tool.

Microsoft Security Essentials is one of spyware removal tool offered by microsoft. It is also help guard your system from viruses, spyware, adware, and malware and its includes automatic updates to help keep your system protected from emerging threats.

Download Microsoft Security Essentials

Note that, your PC must run Genuine Windows to install Microsoft Security Essentials.

Google Chrome Keyboard Shortcuts

in Chrome, Chrome shortcuts

If you want to work easily with shortcuts key, this is the List of keyboard shortcuts for Chrome. Note that, some shortcuts are work with other browsers.

Ctrl+F - Quickly opens the Find form

Ctrl+T - Quickly opens a new tab

Ctrl+Shift+Del - Quickly opens Clear browsing data window

Shift+Esc - Quickly opens Chrome’s task manager

Alt+Home - Quickly opens homepage in active tab

Ctrl+Enter - Quickly Adds www and .com to the web address automatically

Ctrl+Shift+V - Quickly Copy Clipboard contents without formatting

How to make your computer run faster: Disk Defragment

in Defragment, Faster computer

If you want to increase your system performance this is the best tool for do it. When files are fragmented, the system must search the hard disk as a file is opened and the response time can be significantly longer.

Disk Defragmenter sometimes called Defrag, is a Windows utility tool that merges fragmented files and folders on your systems's disk so that each take up a single space on the disk. With your files stored in orderly end to end, reading and writing to the disk speeds up.

Best time for run Disk Defragmenter

When you add a large number of files of your system.
When your system free disk space totals 15 percent or less.
When you install new programs or a new version of the Windows operating system to your system.

Steps:

Step 1: Click start, select All Programs, now go to Accessories, select System Tools, and then click Disk Defragmenter.

Step 2: Select the drives that you need to defragment In the Disk Defragmenter dialog box, and then click the Analyze disk button. After completed the disk analyze, the defragment tool allow to you defrag the drive.

Step 3: Now click the Defragment disk button to defragment the selected drive or drives. If you want to monitor the process you can monitor it In the Current status area, under the Progress column.

Step 4: After the defragmentation is complete, you can check the results.

Google Unit Converter and Calculator

in calculator, unit converter

Google search engine act as Unit Converter and Calculator, If you want to do some conversion follow the below format and search it.

example: 145 meters in inches

Image: example1.

Try: 1000km in miles

If you want to do some calculation follow the below format.

example: 456*25+98/5

Image: example2.

How to Attach an Executable (exe file) in Gmail

in exe file attach, Gmail

Sometimes you want to attach .exe file with your email. But in practically, you can’t attach an executable file like a normal file. There you got some error message. So to overcome this issue, follow the below steps.

Step 1: Firstly go to Folder option and select View tab. After that, navigate Hide extension for known file types and Clear the tick . Then Apply and Click OK.

Image: Folder options .

Step 2: Now rename the file without an exe extension (setup.exe rename as setup). Then compress it by using any compression utility software.

After these steps you can attach your executable file without any problems.

How to customize the Power Button

in Power Button, Windows 7

Image: Taskbar and start menu properties.

If you are want to customize the Power Button or change the default Shutdown button to Restart, follow the below steps.

Step 1: Right click on Start and Select Properties.

Step 2: Choose the Power button action as you want.

How to speed up your internet connection using Firefox

in Firefox, pipelining settings, speed internet

If you use broadband connection for internet browsing, you can make Web browsing even faster in Firefox by using this "pipelining" setting. Usually the browser make one request to a web page at a time but when you enable pipelining setting it will make several at once and it can speed up page browsing. Follow the below steps for set up pipelining settings.

Steps:

Step 1: Firstly open firefox and type "about:config" in the Firefox address bar and hit enter.

Step 2: Navigate to "network.http.keep-alive". If it’s value false and then double click that line and change it to "true".

Step 3: Set "network.http.version" to "1.1".

Step 4: Set "network.http.pipelining" to "true".

Step 5: Set "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to "true".

Step 6: Finally, Set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to "8" by double clicking it.

How to create PDF file using Microsoft Office 2007

in create pdf, word to pdf

This is the easy way to freely convert your Ms Word, Ms Excel or Ms PowerPoint documents file in to pdf file without any trouble by using Microsoft Office Add-in.

Step 1: Click here to Download 2007 Microsoft Office Add-in (Credit to Microsoft)

Step 2: Install SaveAsPDF.exe

Step 3: Open the Word file which is you want to convert into pdf and check the Save As menu, there you can see, PDF or XPS and then select PDF or XPS.

Step 4: Finally click publish.

How to restore your Nokia phone

in nokia, Nokia factory setting, restore nokia

Lot of mobile users face many problem of mobile phone hanging while they are on a call due to many reasons. Restore the phone can help sometimes resolve it. Note that, before the restore phone, you should take the back up of data stored in the your phone, because it will be auto deleted your store data.

If you have Symbian60 v1 based phones such as Nokia 7650, 3650 or N gage models, these two key sequences can be entered in the same way you dial a phone number for restore the phone.

*#7780# for normal reset (themes, video, photos, 3rd party applications,and music files are not delete)
*#7370# for deep reset (completely format phone memory)

If you have on the latest S60 phones, you can try a Deep Reset, using the following steps.

Step 1: Firstly Turn off the phone and remove your sim and data card.

Step 2: Now press the green/talk, 3 and* three keys simultaneously and turn on the phone. Wait for the onscreen Format message, and then release the three keys.

Nokia Secret Codes

in nokia, Nokia secret code

*#92702689# - There you can find some of the below information .

Mobile phone Serial Number
Mobile phone manufacture Year and month
Mobile phone purchase date (if any)
Mobile phone last repair date (if any)
Mobile phone life time counter

*#06# - To check mobile phone IMEI number

*#0000# - To check mobile phone software version

*#2820# - Mobile phone bluetooth device address

*#746025625# - Mobile phone sim clock allowed status

*#7328748263373738# - Mobile phone resets security code (Default security code -12345)

*#62209526# - Mobile phone MAC address of the WLAN adapter

*#67705646# - To clear the Mobile phone operator logo

How to delete your Yahoo! Mail account

in yahoo, yahoo mail

If you delete your Yahoo Mail account, you also drop your Yahoo GeoCities page, your Hotjobs profile and your My Yahoo settings, likewise other data in services enclose to the Yahoo empire. Note that If you are registered paying services such as Yahoo Mail Plus , it is also probably to cancel these first to avoid unexpected payments.

Also make sure and tell your friends or contacts when you are going to terminate your Yahoo Mail account because also be aware that people will still be can to send messages to your terminated Yahoo Mail account for 90 days without getting a any delivery error massage while you cannot log in to your account to see them.

Click here for the read more about how to delete your yahoo account at about.com article.

How to delete your old Gmail account

in Gmail, Gmail settings

If you decide that you don't need your Gmail address and delete, here's how you can delete your Google Account.

Step 1: Firstly logon Gmail and click the gear icon in the upper right corner of Gmail, and then go to Mail settings, and open the Accounts and Import tab.

Step 2: Now Click Other Google Account settings in the "Change account settings" section and then click the Products tab on the left hand side.

Step 3: After that click Edit under "Your products" and click Remove Gmail permanently.

How to block Facebook on Internet Explorer

in block website, internet explorer

If you want to block Facebook browsing, these are the steps to do it by using your internet explorer.

Step 1: Open the Internet Explorer and click on Tools menu.
Step 2: Now select Internet Options.
Step 3: Click on the Content tab.
Step 4: Then click the Enable button.
Step 5: Go to the Approved Sites tab.

Step 6: Now type the websit url under the Allow this website heading as www.facebook.com.

Step 7: click Never and then OK.

Image: content adviser.

Step 8: After that, type and confirm your new password in the appeared window.

Step 9: Finlay go to the General tab and make sure to select users can see websites that have no ratings.

Step 10: Click OK.

How to make your computer run faster: Free up disk space

in disk cleanup, Faster computer

Using Disk Cleanup tool you can free up space on your hard disk to improve the performance of your system. This tool can identifies files that you can safely delete and its allow you to select whether you want to delete.

You can use disk cleanup tool for below activities:

To remove the temporary Internet files.
To delete downloaded program files.
To empty the Recycle Bin.
To remove Windows temporary files.
To delete optional Windows components that you haven't use.

Steps:

Step 1: Click Start, select All Programs, and go to Accessories, now click System Tools, and then click Disk Cleanup. Note that, if a number of drives are available, you have to select which drive you need to clean.

Step 2: After complete the calculation part Clear the tick of the check boxes for files which you don't need to delete, and then click OK button.

Step 3: Now click Yes to confirm that you need to delete the selected files.

How to create a bootable Windows 7 USB flash drive

in Windows 7, Windows 7 usb

Today USB flash drive has replaced old storage medium like floppy, CDs and DVDs. An also USB drives have high storage capacity and significantly faster than disc media. Therefore, installing something like Windows 7 by using flash drive much faster than DVD. This is the steps for create a bootable Windows 7 USB flash drive easily. For this we need at least 4GB USB flash drive and a copy of the Windows 7 ISO/disc.

Steps:

Step 1: Firstly download Microsoft offers, Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool from here and install it.

Image: Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool setup .

Step 2: After installed, double-click the desktop icon to open Windows 7 USB/DVD Download tool and browse your Windows 7 ISO file (tool only accepts .ISO images)