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O ver the last week or so, the buzz over the blogosphere is about a mysterious functionality discovered , unearthed , excavated within Windows 7 operating system called God Mode ! When I saw the tweets going viral on Twitter, the name implied much more powerful and potentially devious capabilities, as seen in most games these days. Instead, I found out that the “God Mode” folder for Windows 7 supplies just a tidy place to find nearly everything you can do within the Windows Control Panel. Note : If you already know about Windows 7 God Mode, you can skip this post. I don’t have anything special to add here, this article is only for those who aren’t aware of Win 7 God mode . How to Enable GoD Mode in Windows 7? To access the special capabilities of the God Mode folder, create a new folder anywhere on your Windows 7 computer and name it: GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C} Once renamed, the icon will change to a control panel looking icon, and when opened you w...

I am very sure that many a times when you try to open, delete or move a file or a folder, you get an error message saying it is already in use. Even after trying to close all the programs which you think might be using the file, it still throws up an error saying – Cannot delete file: It is being used by another person or program. Close any programs that might be using the file and try again.

N ote: This is a pretty old trick. So many of you might be knowing this already. But some are still unaware of this, hence I thought of letting them know. I am very sure that many a times when you try to open, delete or move a file or a folder, you get an error message saying it is already in use. Even after trying to close all the programs which you think might be using the file, it still throws up an error saying – “ Cannot delete file: It is being used by another person or program. Close any programs that might be using the file and try again. ”

A ny USB drive can suffer data loss due to several reasons like – Bad sector infected USB storage media result in data loss. Corrupted music files due to system failure. Damaged images/photos because of power surges. Recover data when pen drive is formatted accidentally . Files/folders erasure even after using (Shift+Del) keys! Virus generated data loss. Software related problem. DiskDigger USB Drive data recovery Software easily recovers all types of deleted data files including digital (image, pictures, photo, video clips) or music files (mp3, mp4, midi, wav etc). Beside the software retrieves documents like word document file, xls, DAT or .ppt file etc. USB Drive Data Recovery Software supports all major branded USB drives like Transcend, Sony, Kingmax, Kingston, Jet flash, Super Media, Super Flash, Apacer, AVB etc. Even the files/folders with long names can be recovered easily. DiskDigger can be used to recover data from any internal or extern...

M any of you must have encountered situations where in you need to copy/retrieve data from those DVD’s and CD’s which are scratched. If so you might have received an error message stating that the file could not be copied because it is corrupt, but there might still be hope if you really need to access the contents. Copy Cat 2.0 is a free application designed for recovering files from media that has been partially damaged. As long as you can see the file in Windows Explorer this program can attempt to copy it over. What makes this special is that when it comes across an unreadable area it will skip over it and try to copy the remaining portion of the file. Windows Explorer, on the other hand, will stop copying the file once it receives an error. The great thing about the program is that it works for more than just CD’s or DVD’s. You can actually use it with hard drives, USB drives, floppy disks, and just about anything else you can store data on. Get Copy Cat 2.0 f...

E ver encountered Damaged ZIP files? I am sure each and everyone of you has experienced getting an error like “ Cannot open file: it does not appear to be a valid archive ” when trying to open a Zip-compressed file. If you regularly download compressed files off the Internet, then you must have seen this error many times. This error comes when the compressed file is damaged or corrupted. I have tried repairing such archives with the built in WinZip repair tool, but that has never helped me. DiskInternals ZIP Repair helps repair zip structure and extract the contents of a damage or corrupted archive.

E very month I fear the day when the mailman brings the bills, and the one bill I fear the most is the electrical bill . This is the one that usually emptied my pocket, and for that reason I started looking towards ways to reduce the power drain in my house. Apart from the usual things: fridge, microwave, TV and others, the biggest power drainer is my PC.