All PC Tips

CTRL+B : To make the words bold.
CTRL+I : To italicize the words
CTRL+U: To underline the words
CTRL+DEL: To delete the word on the right of the cursor
CTRL+BACKSPACE:  To delete the word on the left of the cursor 
CTRL+SHIFT+SPACEBAR: To create equal spacing. 
CTRL+C:  To copy the selected text  
CTRL+X:  To cut the selected text 
CTRL+V:  To paste the copied or cut text. 
CTRL+ALT+V:  To paste special  
CTRL+SHIFT+< : To reduce the font size 
CTRL+SHIFT+>: To increase the font size 
CTRL+[ : To reduce the font size
CTRL+]:  To increase the font size 
CTRL+HYPHEN:  To create continuous hiphen 
CTRL+SPACEBAR: To remove paragraph or character formatting 
CTRL+SHIFT+V: To paste the previously used format 
CTRL+Z : To undo the last action 
CTRL+Y:  To redo the last action that was undone. 
CTRL+SHIFT+G: To bring the word count dialog box. 
CTRL+L:  To align text to the left 
CTRL+E:  To centralize the text 
CTRL+R: To alogin the text to the right of the screen. 
CTRL+M:  To make the paragraph or the selected text in the margin.
CTRL+1:  To make the spacing between lines as 1 
CTRL+5:  To make the spacing between lines as 1.5 
CTRL+2:  To make the spacing between lines as double 
F7: :  To check spelling and grammer 
SHIFT+F7 : : To show thesaurus options 
CTRL+SPACE : To enable/disable auto correct 
CTRL+SHIFT+8:  To show/hide hidden characters.

Ninite is an all in one installer. Imagine you just installed a new OS in your computer. You will then need to install all the applications one by one. You can either do it one by one or use Ninite to pick all the software you want to install and let Ninite handle the installation. It will just run in the background and install all the selected applications with default settings. Even if your computer is not new you can still find a few applications from the list and install with ease.

Yes it is that easy. It is available at http://ninite.com/

Ubuntu linux portable edition was one of the most popular downloads in year 2009. Ubuntu portable version can be downloaded from http://sourceforge.net/projects/portableubuntu/. The popularity is due to the reason that this version can be used within Windows Desktop.

AdAware is one of the popular anti spyware programs. Recently it launched version 8.1.1. IT works on Windows XP, Vista and Windows 2000. It only needs 98198 Kb space to function. Harddisk space of 100MN and processor speed higher than 600 MHz. Last week its website announced that so far there has been more than 400 million downloads. It is provided by http://www.lavasoft.com/.  You can download the free version from http://www.lavasoft.com/products/ad_aware_free.php

Many companies provide freeware and open source applications that can be downloaded freely on the internet. We find them from other friends or while browsing the internet. Then we download and install in our computers. But usually we forget about them after one or two months and stop using them.

After a few years, our computers are full of such ‘so called useful’ programs which we use very rarely. Sometimes when we uninstall them, they leave a few registries and files which are no longer useful. Therefore we need a special program to remove them and also to review other installed programs and uninstall those that we no longer use.

Doing this will increase the performance of the computer and increase the speed. ‘Absolute Uninstaller’ does just that. Even though this does similar job of ‘Add/Remove’ programs, it is more effective in uninstalling. Such as removing related registries, related desktop icons, start menu entries etc. It also searches for related files that belong to the application and removes them.  You can find the ‘Absolute Uninstaller’ at http://www.glarysoft.com 

You may also find other freeware applications there that might be of help.

Recuva is a free file recovery software that can be downloaded from http://www.piriform.com/recuva.

Has your computer crashed? Have you lost some files? Have you by mistake deleted some important files. Have you emptied the recycle bin accidentally and lost some important files? Then Recuva can be of help to you. If on the other hand you want to safely delete the file permanently that should not be recovered anymore, Recuva can be of help again.

Features of Recuva are as follows:

• Undelete files on your computer
• Recovery from damaged or formatted disks
• Recover deleted emails
• Recover deleted iPod music
• Restore unsaved Word documents
• Deep Scan
• Securely delete files you want to erase forever
• Portable version
• Full Windows OS support and many languages

Super Anti Spyware Online Safe Scan helps to remove Spyware, Adware, Malware, Trojans, KeyLoggers, Dialers, Hi-Jackers, and Worms from your computer. It is a free application that can be downloaded from http://www.superantispyware.com/onlinescan.html. You can just copy it to your flash drive and carry it with you if you need to scan many computers. This software is free for personal use and there is a licensed version for corporate use.

Malware programs and spyware programs that spy on your computer can be easily scanned and removed using this software. One of the advantages of this software is that it provides automatic update of the spyware definition updates. So when there is a new spyware program detected it is added to the scan list.

Easiclean is another registry cleaner software. This utility has the following features.

• Finds invalid registry entries —-> deleting them speeds up your computer!
• Finds duplicate files —-> deleting them will free disk space!
• Finds all unnecessary files like backups, temps etc. —-> deleting them will free disk space!
• Finds all invalid shortcuts —-> deleting them will free disk space and increase usability!
• Manage programs starting at Windows startup! —-> who knows, you might even catch a virus before it gets serious!
• Manage Windows add/remove software listing!
• Easily remove Internet Explorer’s temporary Internet files, history and cookies!

You can download this free program at http://personal.inet.fi/business/toniarts/ecleane.htm.

CCleaner is a program that can be used to clean unwanted and unused files from your computer with relative ease. It deletes the temporary files, cookies, unused data files among others thus freeing up space in your computer and increasing efficiency.

CCleaner also has a registry cleaner function which searches and looks for missing and broken links in your registry and cleans them. By doing these things you can increase the speed of your computer and improve performance. You can download the free CCleaner at http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner.

The free CCleaner has also a portable version. Which means you dont have to install it in your computer to use it. You can just copy the portable version of this software in a thumb drive and directly run it from your thumb drive. You can download the portable version of CCleaner from http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/download/portable

In a word document a feature that is used frequently is to count the number of words in the document. If you are one of those who use this feature quite often, then you can add this feature in the toolbar so that you can just click a button to automatically display the number of words in the open document. Follow these steps to add this feature to your toolbar.

1. Right click on any toolbar in Word 2003
2. Select ‘Word Count’ option in the shortcut menu that appears.
3. A new toolbar as shown in the red circle above will be opened.
4. You can drag and drop this toolbar wherever you want to place it.
5. You ca click ‘Recount’ button to recount the words.