Sleep and Hibernate in Windows

Windows provides some power saving modes.The different options are.

• Sleep
• Hibernate

Sleep Mode

Its also called as the standby mode. Sleep mode is a power saving mode, a Windows machine can be brought to sleep mode by clicking the Sleep button from the start menu.

In the sleep mode the power for the non-essential components are turned off. All the data in the RAM is still kept in the internal memory itself.  The system can be revoked from the sleep mode very quickly. The system will considerably reduce the power consumption in the sleep mode, Still it would be using some power. So we cant completely cut off the power during the sleep mode.

If you would be away from your system for sometime. If you don't want your system to use full power and you want to quickly resume the work you were doing, In that case its best to go with the Sleep mode.

Hibernate

Hibernate mode can be activated by clicking the hibernate button from the start menu. Hibernate mode is a full power saving mode, that means in hibernate mode the system would be using zero power. 

Before going to the hibernate mode the Windows will save all the open and running application to Hard Disk and then shuts down the system. When you switch on your system back from the hibernate mode it will take more time for the system to start as it needs to restart your system. Once your system is started windows will resume the files and applications as you left them.

If you are away from your system for long time and if you want to resume the system as you left with zero power usage. Go for Hibernate mode.

TweakUI

TweakUI is another desktop enhancement to help you control the appearance of Windows, change the location of default folders and so much more.

TweakUI screenshot

Windows Live Photo Gallery

Windows Live Photo Gallery Live Gallery has a wonderful photo stitching feature for making panoramas.

For advanced photo editing, use

Windows Live Photo Gallery screenshot

GIMP

GIMP is a free and open-source image editing software. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc.
GIMP is totally a free image editing software worth trying for simple image editing tasks.

GIMP screenshot

Paint.NET

Paint.NET It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools.

Paint.NET screenshot

ThunderBird

ThunderBird can be used if you like checking and replying to your web email from the desktop. It also allow you to check multiple Emails and apply filters to the incoming mail.

ThunderBird screenshot

MyUninstaller

MyUninstaller will help you remove software that do show up in Windows Add Remove control panel.

MyUninstaller screenshot

CCleaner

CCleaner with automatically find and remove all the unnecessary temp files from your computer reclaiming valuable hard drive space. It also clears all the junk from Windows registry so your system runs faster.

CCleaner Screenshot

HandBrake

HandBrake is an open source, cross platform application which extracts the movie clips and MP3 music from DVD’s also used to export your DVD’s to portable players like iPods.

The newer versions of HandBrake has many new changes and revisions.
Good news for the HandBrake users-HandBrake has released a new version 0.9.9. Listed below are the few new features that has been incorporated in the latest release.

• Subtitle support for Blu-Ray(PGS)
• Additional new video framerates
• Allow the selection of higher audio bitrates where appropriate
• Better audio remix support
• It Also has an updated built-in presets

HandBrake screenshot

Microsoft SyncToy

Microsoft SyncToy gives you a visual interface for synchronizing file folders between computers and external drives.

Microsoft SyncToy Screenshot

Copernic Desktop

Copernic Desktop is excellent software for finding emails, documents, photos and other multimedia files on your computer.

Copernic Desktop Screenshot

VirtualDub

If you are looking for an advanced video editing tool you can use VirtualDub.

VirtualDub it is a video capture and processing utility. VirtualDub has batch-processing capabilities for processing large numbers of files, which you can extend with third-party video filters. It also got a number of filters like video rotation, can create videos from image sequences, splits the videos and can extract sound from the video tracks.

VirtualDub screenshot

Comodo

Comodo software provide firewall program to your computer to stop spyware programs from connecting to websites secretly and for blocking any Internet intruders.

Comodo screenshot

ZoneAlarm

ZoneAlarm Firewall Free has got a quieter and most effective, and it is considered as an excellent tool for replacing the adequate default Windows firewall with a stronger option that includes better outbound protection, antiphishing guards, and ZoneAlarm's behavioral detection network.

ZoneAlarm screenshot

VLC Media Player

VLC media player that is light-weight and supports almost everything including DVDs and Flash Videos that you have downloaded from YouTube.

VLC Media Player screenshot

K-Lite Codec

K-Lite Codec with this you must be able to play all the popular movie formats even some of the rare formats.

K-Lite Codec screenshot

Video Guide to Installing Windows XP

let me tell you one thing, by formatting your system you will loose every data. So you ensure that you have backed up all the important data so that you can avoid accidental lose of data.Below you can see a video tutorial showing how to format and reinstall your windows. so just watch it and learn to install your windows XP by yourselves.

Keyboard shortcuts

I will provide you some keyboard shortcuts which i hope would be helpful to you.

Windows system key combinations

• F1: Help
• CTRL+ESC: Open Start menu
• ALT+TAB: Switch between open programs
• ALT+F4: Quit program
• SHIFT+DELETE: Delete item permanently

Windows program key combinations

• CTRL+C: Copy
• CTRL+X: Cut
• CTRL+V: Paste
• CTRL+Z: Undo
• CTRL+B: Bold
• CTRL+U: Underline
• CTRL+I: Italic

General keyboard-only commands

• F1: Starts Windows Help
• F10: Activates menu bar options
• SHIFT+F10 Opens a shortcut menu for the selected item (this is the same as right-clicking an object
• CTRL+ESC: Opens the Start menu (use the ARROW keys to select an item)
• CTRL+ESC or ESC: Selects the Start button (press TAB to select the taskbar, or press SHIFT+F10 for a context menu)
• ALT+DOWN ARROW: Opens a drop-down list box
• ALT+TAB: Switch to another running program (hold down the ALT key and then press the TAB key to view the task-switching window)
• SHIFT: Press and hold down the SHIFT key while you insert a CD-ROM to bypass the automatic-run feature
• ALT+SPACE: Displays the main window's System menu (from the System menu, you can restore, move, resize, minimize, maximize, or close the window)
• ALT+- (ALT+hyphen): Displays the Multiple Document Interface (MDI) child window's System menu (from the MDI child window's System menu, you can restore, move, resize, minimize, maximize, or close the child window)
• CTRL+TAB: Switch to the next child window of a Multiple Document Interface (MDI) program
• ALT+underlined letter in menu: Opens the menu
• ALT+F4: Closes the current window
• CTRL+F4: Closes the current Multiple Document Interface (MDI) window
• ALT+F6: Switch between multiple windows in the same program (for example, when the Notepad Find dialog box is displayed, ALT+F6 switches between the Find dialog box and the main Notepad window)

Transform XP to Vista 1.2

License: Free
Hey are u bored seeing same XP desktop??...So if you want to give your computer a modern Vista look, there is a perfect solution. The Xp to Vista transform includes: Yahoo widgets : a lot of small and beautiful assistants. This widgets include CPU temperature measurement to simple yahoo games. It also provides u an attractive vista start-up.

System Requirements:

Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 Server/Vista

U Torrent

U Torrent is now used by millions of people worldwide. Its due to the minute CPU usage and extensive download details. you can download a vast collection of movies, softwares, games and lot more using this this simple peer to peer software. Its actually so simple to use this software. First of all just download this software, link given below.

Save utorrent.exe file to your computer and then double click on that exe file and install. so you have finished installing your u torrent.

You have just finished installing the utorrent software. Now you can log on to various torrent sites and download whatever you want.

few sites i recommend are. Just search with the keywords and download.

1. torrentz
2. bitenova
3. mininova
4. btjunkie
5. thepiratebay