Windows 7 tweaks Change Documents Path

Lets discuss some basic Windows7 tweaks. Changing Documents path. That's quite useful if you have two or more partitions you can move all user files to one partition and keep the Windows partition free of user files. Also it will be a good way to protect your files in any case something happened to windows7 as well as easy to take backups.

Changing Documents path is quite simple but bit different from Windows XP or Windows Vista.
1. Right Click on Documents folder. You can right click on Documents folder in start menu.
2. It is bit different to other Windows versions.
3. Click on the Include a folder and select the new path. This is something new in Windows7. You can select more than one folder for Documents folder. In Windows7 Documents folder acts as a virtual folder.
4. You can delete the default folders by right click on the folder and select remove.

5. Then right click on the main folder and select set as default location to save.

It is simple and but bit more advanced than Windows XP or Windows Vista.

Windows7 Task Bar Hacks

This is the first post posted from Windows7. I thought of starting from the task bar as it is one of the place you frequently use in Windows Operating System (OS). Many says Windows7 task bar is user friendly and way better than the Windows Vista task bar. I agree with that. It always stays clean even after opening so many applications. It give more ways to access your programs as well as files without much problem while keeping all the previous (Windows XP and Vista) functions that you used before.
Windows 7 Task bar can be divide into two parts just like all the other Windows task bars.
Left Hand Side - Start Button and the Quick Launch button and open windows.
Right Hand Side - Notification area with Show desktop.
You can see lot of improvement from left hand side comparing the Windows Vista. Beside the Start button by default you can see three icons for Internet Explorer, Library Folder and Windows Media Player that acts like quick launch buttons.
To add any other frequently used program by drag and dropping the the short cut to the task bar from desktop or any other folder.To delete these buttons from right click on the task bar button you want to remove and click Unpin this Program from taskbar.Also you can see the recently/frequently opened files by right click on the task bar button. Or by holding the mouse on the button and move the cursor upwards.All the open programs will go under each bottom and moving the mouse over each button will show the open windows. You can switch between the the windows or close them.

Clicking on the bottom will minimise and maximise the open windows or open new instance if there is no open program.

Pretty much in Windows7 you can handle all the windows functions from the taskbar buttons.

Right hand side of the taskbar is same as old except for having a dark grey area after the clock which will show desktop as you click on it.
Task bar properties can be accessed by right click on the task bar and click on the properties. It give the options to
Lock the taskbar
Auto hide taskbar
Use smal icon
Taskbar location of your screen
Customise which notification icons appear in the notification area.

So far I am enjoying the Windows7 and will update with Windows7 hacks and tricks as we come cross. You can always add up more.

FireFox 3.5 Still I can see your saved passwords

These are couple of tricks you can play with if you are luck you can see your friends saved password in FireFox (even in FireFox 3.5). I do not think it is just a security issue but if your computer is shared with others it can be. However, there ways to stop this.

Open up the FireFox, go to Tools then click on Options and under security click Saved Password button. Window will pop up with all the saved password in FireFox. Still you cannot see the password. There is a button called Show Passwords at the bottom of the window. Click on that and you can see the URL, user name and password. Do you need anything else?

This is in default settings. So how many of you use a master password for FireFox? I am sure you might have done save password in your FireFox most of the time. If so apply a master password so other will not have access to your saved password list.

This is quite simple but other who have access to your computer can grab your password for facebook, hotmail, gmail or any other account easily. This works for pretty much all the FireFox versions without any problem.

FireFox 3.5 Tweaks

Everyone is excited about FireFox 3.5. Even though you cannot see major change from outside they have worked hard to get thing in real shape by making it really faster and add some missing items from FireFox3.0.

Google Chrome is giving the maximum area for the web page than any other web browser. You can get a similar web browsing experience from FireFox3.5.

Right click on the Toolbar and select Customize and you can drag and drop all the components from other toolbars (Navigation Toolbar and Bookmark Toolbar) to the first tool bar. Then you can go to View and then to Tools bars and un-select Navigation Toolbar and Bookmark Toolbar.I would like to make the status bar disappear as well but it would be a bad idea as you cannot see the links where they heading to before you click.

DownloadSquad has come up with a cool FireFox3.5 Tweak that will keep your FireFox open even after the last tab was close.

Type about:config into the location bar and you will get a warning and always you click on I'll be careful I promise! and you will get all the FireFox configuration settings there. Copy and paste browser.tabs.closeWindowWithLastTab on Filter and double click on browser.tabs.closeWindowWithLastTab to make it false. Your FireFox will not close just because you close your last tab.

Another feature of FireFox3.5 is that it allows you to move your Tabs between FireFox windows.

Hope you are enjoying FireFox3.5 and you are always welcome to share your FireFox3.5 tweaks with us.

How to Speedup Your Web - Google Secret revealed

Google web pages loads really fast. What is the secret behind it? Official Google Webmaster blog revealed the tools they use to optimise the web pages that will help them improve the loading speed. If you are looking for hacks tricks and tweaks to speed up your web site this will be the tool for you.

Page Speed and Firebug are the two secret tools now available for anyone to download and add to FireFox Add-on list. It is quite simple and east to use tool. 

Page Speed provides you the optimised images that can be used in your website or blog and gives suggestions on optimising JavaScript and CSS files. 

Web Performance Best Practices gives out all the methods you can be used to make your web page load faster. 

Following is the result given by Page Speed for CrazzyCool. I will be busy optimising the blog and I am sure you will find this Google Secret tools interesting. Do not forget to share your experience with us.