I recently stumbled on a new tech blog and the first post which I read was totally unique. You might have faced the situations where you mouse stops working. In such cases some special keyboard shortcuts can truly be very helpful.

One such keyboard shortcut is Shift and F10 keys when pressed together. This will act like right click with your mouse!

So next time even if your mouse gives up you will have access to right click menu.

More:

• Keyboard Shortcuts For Faster Gmail Surfing
• Hide The Icon Text In Windows Vista
• Firefox Tip: Select Any Tab Using Keyboard Keys

Does the above cable look like a flash drive? At least I would ignore it if I come across it. This is why I think this is the best method to hide your flash drive. Give it a look which will confuse everyone!

Click here to read the procedure but if the process looks somewhat lengthy for you then better use Cobra golf material to play golf and relax your brain.

Reading wikipedia articles is ok, but it becomes a real headache when it comes to copying the complete article on MS word (don’t you create your school projects using wikipedia?) One has to delete all the internal links from the word doc and that is irritating, specially when you aren’t ready to waste your precious hours on those silly projects.

Wikipedia has a simple tip for you. Check the wikipedia sidebar. Below the search box you will find the toolbar box. In it look for Printable version. What? I still need to tell you what you have to do? Click on it and enjoy reading the link free wikipedia.

Ever downloaded a Chinese ebook? Many times it happens that you end up downloading some ebook which might be of interest to you but the language is what your mother didn’t teach you. This is the time when you might feel the need to use this tip to convert that ebook into the language you prefer using Google Translation.

Follow these easy steps:

• Find any online document uploading service (like Zoho Viewer and Slideshare) and upload your ebook in any one of them.
• This uploading service will provide you with a unique URL for the PDF file which you will upload. Copy that URL in the place provided in Google Translation and voila! You have the html version of the ebook ready.

Did you like the tip? Check our famous list of 15 smashing file converters.

Well, as your windows installation grow older and older the system boot time and the system shutdown speed increases and at times this is really very irritating. Recently when my friend grumbled at me saying that I am a computer engineer and still I do not know how to increase his computer’s shutdown speed then I had to Google the stuff and here are the results.

NOTE: Methods below require changes in your registry so better back up your registry by creating a restore point before implementing the methods show below.

To open registry in Vista press the Windows key, type regedit, and press Enter; in XP, click Start > Run, type regedit, and press Enter.

Method 1:

In the left pane of the registry window navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER / Control Panel / desktop (or Desktop). Now in the right pane find the key WaitToKillAppTimeout and change its value to 2000 (this is milliseconds) if you are actually in a hurry or else something higher if you want them to take some time before they are dead.

Here you can let the system wait a little before the hung application is killed. Search for the key HungAppTimeout in the same right pane and change its value to 2000 (or whatever time in milliseconds you want the application to take before it is killed).

Making these changes in HKEY_USERS / .DEFAULT / Control Panel / Desktop path will add the changes to every users profile and not just yours

Method 2:

In same registry path shown above in right pane check the key AutoEndTasks and change the value to 1. Now go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE / SYSTEM / CurrentControlSet / Control and change the value of key WaitToKillServiceTimeout to 1000 and click ok.

Your system should show some improvements in shutdown speed.