Control Panel:
appwiz.cpl – Starts Add or Remove Programmes
control – Starts the Control Panel
control desktop – Opens Display Properties
control folders – Opens Folder Options
control fonts – Opens Fonts
control mouse – Opens Mouse Settings
control netconnections – Opens Network Connections
control schedtasks – Opens Schedules Tasks
control userpasswords – Opens User Accounts
firewall.cpl – Starts Windows Firewall
mmsys.cpl – Starts Sound and Audio Device Properties
netsetup.cpl – Starts Network Setup Wizard
powercfg.cpl – Starts Power Options Properties
sysdm.cpl – Opens Systems Properties
wuaucpl.cpl – Starts Windows Updates

Administration:
ciadv.msc – Opens Indexing Service
compmgmt.msc – Opens Computer Management
devmgmt.msc – Opens Device Manager
diskmgmt.msc – Opens Disk Management
eventvwr.msc – Opens Event Viewer
fsmgmt.msc – Opens Shared Folder Management
gpedit.msc – Starts Group Policy Editor
ntmsmgr.msc – Opens Removable Storage Management
perfmon.msc – Opens Performance Monitor
secpol.msc – Opens Security Policies
services.msc – Opens Service management

Utilities:
chkdsk – Runs Check Disk (Ex: chkdsk C:)
clipbrd – Opens Clipboard Viewer
cmd – Starts a Command Prompt Window
diskpart – Runs Microsoft Disk Partitioning Tool
drwtsn32 – Runs Dr.Watson Debugger
dxdiag – Runs DirectX Diagnostic Tool
eudcedit – Starts Private Character Editor
fsquirt – Runs Bluetooth Transfer Wizard
logoff – Logs Off User from Windows
msconfig – Starts System Configuration Utility
mstsc – Starts Remote Desktop Connection
osk – Starts On Screen Keyboard
packager – Opens Packager
regedit – Starts Registry Editor
shutdown – Runs Windows Shutdown Command
taskmgr – Runs Task Manager
tourstart – Starts Windows Tour

• Click on the Start menu button and type regedit in the Start menu search box and press Enter. For XP users select Run from the Start Menu and type regedit in the Run dialog box and press enter.

• This will open the registry editor.

• Now browse to the key
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers

• Once you are there right click on the right pane and select New and then Key.

• Type in {a2a9545d-a0c2-42b4-9708-a0b2badd77c8} and press Enter.

• Once this is done, close the registry and restart your computer for the changes to take place.

Now, to pin a folder to the Start Menu, press and hold the Shift key and then right-click a folder. The Pin to Start Menu entry will appear in the context menu.

Voila! You can now pin your folders to the Start menu too!

Note: If you want to undo this trick just delete the key {a2a9545d-a0c2-42b4-9708-a0b2badd77c8} from the registry. This tip will not work if you are using the classic start menu.

Help at hand: If you don’t want to go through all the tedious work of editing the registry, download PinFolderToStartMenu.zip and run Pin.reg to automatically insert the values. To undo or delete the created key run the file UndoPin.reg.

Orkut is one of social networking sites owned by Google. Though it’s only popular in Brazil and India, but for some reason, Alexa says Orkut is the 9th most visited site in Ireland.

One thing which I have been annoyed of lately is the Google Ads shown by Google in the community homepage as this one.

But applying this trick you can free yourself from these ads in a cool place like Orkut.

Trick:

First and foremost requirement of this trick is that you should be using Mozilla Firefox. This Open Source piece of software is best software I’ve ever came across.

Fire your Firefox and proceed to this addon link -> AdBlock Plus. According to their developers

“Ever been annoyed by all those ads and banners on the internet that often take longer to download than everything else on the page? Install Adblock Plus now and get rid of them.”

Click “Add to Firefox” and install the addon for your browser. Next step is restart your browser. Now everyone must be thinking how this can be called a trick when it comes to just installing a simple addon. Wait!!!

Whenever you want to block an ad, just right click it and click “AdBlock Image”. But clicking all the ads inside Orkut is an impossible task because for that you have to search each and every community. But ever noticed that what is common with all these ads, their command format is

http://www.orkut.com/AdsIframe.aspx?xxxxxxx

This page is responsible for generating the Adsense code and placement of ads on pages.

Follow the next step and block all the Google ads. Right click any Google ads and click “Adblock Image”. A box will popup and just enter “http://www.orkut.co.in/AdsIframe.aspx” . Bingo !!! You will blocked that main page which generates the ads.

This way you can block all the ads in Orkut. Liked the trick, I’ll be waiting for your precious comments.

Insert line breaks - If you want to have a message that spans multiple paragraphs, just hold shift and hit enter. You can add as many new lines as you want to create.

Bold Text - To write something bold, you can use an asterisk before and after the word, like *Hello* .

Italic Text - To use italics, use an underscore before an after the word, like _hello_ .

Switch windows - Hitting tab will cycle through open windows. It will select minimized conversations, to expand them just hit enter. If you just want to cycle through IM’s and don’t care about the buddy list, control-tab will do that and will automatically expand a minimized conversation if you settle on one.

Invitation Tips - You don’t need to say Yes or No when someone wants to add you as a friend; you can simply ignore it, the request will go away. (On the other hand, someone with whom you chat often will automatically turn to be your friend, unless you disable this in the options). ]

Show Hyperlinks – You can show your homepage or blog URL simply by entering the it in your away message (at the top of the main window). It will automatically turn to a link visible to others.

A message can be 32767 characters long.

For low speed connections logging in to gmail could becomes an irritating task.
You must have experienced gmail login problem especially on a dial up connection. Login in to gmail is comparatively slower because of its rich user interface, because of that sometimes the gmail login screens gives an error.
And in orkut also sometimes the login box does not appears and says “connection timed out” or “server not responding” kind of messages.

Following are some tips and tricks to login into gmail faster even with low speed internet connections.

Gmail login tricks

- Use HTML version of gmail instead of standard version. You can access to gmail’s HTML version directly from this url
http://mail.google.com/mail/h/

- Also try gmail mobile version
It is very lo-fi version of gmail but the speed of logging in really fast, it is opening instantly on my system. The mobile version of gmail login page is simple, fast and furious. So no more gmail login problems now.
http://m.gmail.com