cool tips

Here is a cool tip to choose the sounds for each windows event, you can get these sounds files using windows special sound folders but you can add sounds from any third source.

First Click on Start button, Control Panel and then Click the Sounds and audio devices icon.
Click on sounds option , select it and then click Browse button.
After clicking browse option you will go c:\WINNT > Media or Sounds folder (windows default sounds folder), but you can add sounds here from any third source.
Simply locate here the sound file you want to associate with the selected event and double-click it.
Now you can play this sound file in preview to observe if your like the sound file or not.
Click OK, and then Click OK again to close the dialog box.
You can control your mouse pointer with keyboard keys in all windows versions. When your mouse stops working, you can enable this keyboard feature to complete your important work. This keyboard mouse can performs all tasks same like a normal mouse.
Follow the given steps to activate the keyboard mouse:
To edit this feature, first you should log onto your computer with administrative rights.
To activate this feature, press Alt+Shift+NumLock keys at once and you will receive a small MouseKey box.

To keep MouseKeys on, click on Ok button or click on cancel button to cancel MouseKeys box.
Click on Settings button, if you want to adjust the mouse cursor detail settings.

Here a new dialog box will appear with the title “Settings for MouseKeys", now you can manage all mouse settings for example mouse cursor speed, acceleration and some other features.
Now using Numeric keypad, you can move your mouse pointer. The controls are:
1,2,3,4,6,7,8 and 9 keys are used to move the mouse cursor into different directions.
Key 5 is used as mouse click button.
Insert key used to hold down mouse button.
+ Sign used to double click on any object.
Delete button used to release the mouse.
Click on NumLock button to disable this keyboard mouse feature




Today an interesting tip about some names which windows has reserved. You can say there are some restricted words that cannot be assigned to name of files and folders. If you create a folder on your desktop and try to rename it with name “con” (or others reserved words) then the message will be appear in windows 2000 “Cannot rename New Folder: A file with the name you specified already exists. Specify a different filename” or “Cannot create or replace file: The filename you specified is invalid or too long. Specify a different filename”.

In windows XP when you try to rename a folder with reserved word then it automatically reverts the folder back to its original name.

You can give surprise to your friends with this interesting tip and show them this trick with that restricted words
The following are reserved names, which cannot be assigned to a folder or file (normally):
CON
PRN
AUX
NUL
COM1
COM2
COM3
COM4
COM5
COM6
COM7
COM8
COM9
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