Icons Not Displaying Correctly

Are you facing any of the below problems:

• Icons Not Displaying Correctly
• How To Rebuild Icon Cache
• Distorted Icons Display
• Icon Not Appearing For A Particular File Extension Type.

In order to fix all of the above mentioned you will need to force Windows XP, Windows Vista or Windows 7 to rebuild the icon cache.

Manual Method To Rebuild Icon Cache:
1. Firstly you will need to show hidden files and folders

2. Now, open windows explorer and navigate to

For Vista and Windows 7

C:\Users\(You Vista User Name)\AppData\Local

For Windows XP

C:\Documents and Settings\(Your User Name)\Local Settings)\Application Data

3. Delete the file named Iconcache.db

4. now close all the process and restart your computer, at the time logging in windows will automatically re create the Iconcache.db file.

Automatically Method To Rebuild Icon Cache

There is one free utility called Icon Refresh which automatically deletes and let widows to recreate the icon cache to fix all the problems.

Download Icon Refresh

The Simplest App for Capturing Screenshots (Portable)

If you are looking for a screen capture utility for Windows that’s super easy to use and doesn’t require installation (so you can easily carry it around on a USB Flash drive), check out Screensnapr.

You press the hotkey (the default is Ctrl+1), drag the mouse to select some rectangular area of your desktop screen and voilà!

The URL of the captured screenshot image will get copied on to your clipboard that you can drop in an email message or post it anywhere on the web.

ScreenSnapr can also upload captures to your own FTP server. And if you work with multiple monitors, you can configure the utility to capture an image of both screens at once or each one separately.

ScreenSnapr.com – The utility is compatible with Windows 7 as well and it weighs just a little more than 100kb.

Virus Effect Remover

Virus infection is one such big issue for a layman computer user as it any virus infection may result in loss and corruption of important data. Even when a virus is removed form your computer by the antivirus installed on your computer the infections and other damages caused by the virus may still remain.

The infections which remains after virus removal includes invisible folder options in windows explorer, task manager still disabled, registry editing disabled and some autorun.inf files created by the virus in the root drive of each partition. In this article we will share the methods to repair such damages.

Virus Effect remover comes to rescue in such a situation as it allows you remove al most all the virus infections caused by different types of viruses, you can do a lot more with this free tool on virus infected computer, to remove the virus also it could be of great help.

Some Key Features and Functionalities include the following in virus effect remover

1. You can scan suspicious services
2. Kill virus process with this tool

3. Fix Disabled Task Manager and Registry Editing

4. Launch MSconfig

5. System File Checker

6. Show Suspicious Files

7. Enable the disabled Run prompt

Some process can be added to the blacklist so that they cannot be executed anymore, this setting could be required for the identified virus process

New Features of Firefox 3.5

This screencast video has a great overview of all the new features that are part of Firefox 3.5.

Remote Control your Windows PC with Email or SMS

It’s a long weekend and you’re happy because you’ll get to spend the next three days with your family. You left the office in an excited mood but as the cab was approaching home, you suddenly realized that you forgot to shut down the Office PC. Oops!

So what do you do? Drive back to Office? Well that’s not required - just take out your cell phone or switch on the laptop at home, send an email (or an SMS or a tweet) and that will instantly lock your Office workstation.

There’s no magic here, it’s the power of TweetMyPC utility that lets you remote control your computer from a mobile phone or any other Internet connected computer.The installation steps and commands related are all clearly stated in TweetMyPC.

It works like this. You first install the free TweetMyPC utility on any Windows PC and associate your Twitter account. The app will silently monitor your Twitter stream every minute for any desktop commands and if it finds one, will act upon it immediately. The initial version of TweetMyPC was limited to basic shutdown and restart commands, however the current v2 has a far more robust set of commands, enabling a far more useful way of getting your PC to carry out certain tasks especially when you’re AFK (Away From Keyboard).

Get Invisible in Google Talk at Desktop with Prism

Google Talk was launched on August 24, 2005. Since then it lacked in features such as Invisibility mode, Video Chat, etc which other competitors like Yahoo Messenger supported. Google has surely added these features in past year but only to its online versions of Gtalk i.e. Gmail and the desktop version is lacking behind.

Google also have a beta version which is based on Adobe Flash and is having a sky of errors. Using the Google Talk Labs Edition gets impossible at times and most users un-install it. Google seems to be slow at desktop development of Gtalk. So we came up with the following solution for invisibility in Google Talk.

In order to use invisibility at desktop, here is a short tutorial which lets you run the online version of Gtalk on your desktop.

First step is to download Prism, a product in development by Mozilla Group which integrates web applications with the desktop, allowing web applications to be launched from the desktop and configured independently of the default web browser.

Note: This trick will only work on all Windows OS as currently Prism runs only on it.

Second step is to run the prism and configure and create a Prism app (basically a Prism shortcut) and specify the Google Talk Gadget URL in it.

The Step by Step Guide:

1. Download Mozilla Prism.
2. Install the Prism.
3. Run Prism, a window will open. Paste this link ( http://talkgadget.google.com/talkgadget/popout ) in the URL field.
4. Give it a name as “Google Talk Gadget”.
5. Configure other options as per your need as where do you want to place its shortcuts. Prism creates a shortcut for every app you create. Make sure you place atleast create one shortcut.
6. Run the shortcut you just created.
7. Re-size the window to look like a messenger by using Drag button in the bottom right of the window.

I found this as an effective way to remain offline while staying at your desktop and without launching your heavy browser. Though you get invisibility in Gtalk at your desktop but there is still a flaw in this trick. It doesn’t notify you when a contact comes online or goes offline. Also when someone sends a message, the window in Taskbar never blinks and so you have to keep a check at this window in order to know if you have got any message. So basically you get no notifications by this method. If you have any better way than this, do drop a comment below.

Run Any File of Any Format in Windows Media Player

Windows Media Player is one of the best media players for Windows OS but many people avoid using it as their main player because it supports very few formats as Microsoft ships it with Windows without much codec’s built-in. But now you can play just any file of any format in Windows Media Player by just installing a small package. Though Windows Media Player has been ignored by many but I still prefer using WMP because of its strong integration with Windows and other apps. And now you can also bypass the limitation of playing limited formats by installing a small package known as K-Lite Codec package, so you get another reason to love Windows Media Player.

Download K-Lite Codec Package

K-Lite Codec Package has different variants to suit everyone’s need from Basic to Mega and a special Corporate Edition. To find the one that best suits you, visit the CodecGuide site to download the one of your need.