There are very few tools, I guess, that look for text inside the archived files too, and one such tool is LookDisk. LookDisk is a small freeware tool, weighing around 10 MB. It has many good features. Overall, it’s a fully packed tool for searching something on your computer, which a normal Windows Explorer search won’t yield you.

Let me dive right into the features of this tool. I am going to list out only the features that are not present in, or different from other search tools available.

• First, as I told you above, it can search even files inside archives, for text.
• There are two tabs. One called “Search parameters” and the other “Ext parameters” for any kind of search – Be it a search for duplicate files, or general search. You can save the parameters that you choose for a particular search.
• Search for multiple file names or exclude multiple file names.
• You can exclude files with certain extensions, even archives.
• You can also search for top 10 largest files in a drive or a folder.

These are some of the prominent and unique features in this tool. As far as I know, there are not much tools that have all the general features along with these additional features. So, I can say that this is a fully packed search tool for Windows.

Also, if you are searching for a tool that would only search within compressed files, then you can do that right from your computer.

How to Search for Compressed Files in Windows 7 search

First, open any folder. Click on “Organize” button on the top-left corner. Go to “Folder and Search options”. There, under the search tab, select “Include compressed files (ZIP,CAB..). That’s it.

You can now search even inside compressed files. However, this might slow down the search a little bit.

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Do you know any other tool worth mentioning? Then, please let me know through the comments form below.

uTorrent is one of the most popular and most used torrent client. In this post, I am going to show you how to limit the rate of  download or upload for a particular download.

• Select the torrent download for which you want to limit the download/upload rate.
• Right-Click on it and select “Properties” option.
• In the dialog box opened, under the “Bandwidth Settings” change the maximum download rate and upload rate as you desire.
• If you want to change it back to default, replace the rate by 0.

That’s it. You can now browse the web while the torrent is downloading.

One good scenario I can think of, right now where this can be of immense help is, while you are editing a document in one window, say Window 1, by comparing it with an other document in Window 2. With this tool, you need not select the Window 2, to scroll everytime. You can keep the Window 1 active while scrolling through the Window 2.

Or another situation is, when you are watching a movie and reading a document. You can scroll through the document, without selecting the document window. That’s useful, right?

Okay, now about this tool, all you need to do is download it from the internet. It downloads a zip file, which contains a .exe file. There is no need of isntallation. It’s a 20KB file that runs directly on your computer without any installation. You can  hide this tool in the tray, so that it will not disturb you while working. You can also disable it when you don’t want by checking the “Disable Always-Wheel” check box.

So, what do you think of this tool? How can this be useful to you? Share with us through comments here!

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There are many reasons for invalid shortcuts:

• Sometimes when you uninstall software on your computer, even though the software is uninstalled successfully, it leaves some shortcuts that were created behind in your computer. These shortcuts do not work as the main software is uninstalled and hence becomes an invalid shortcut. So, it’s better to use tools like Revo Uninstaller while uninstalling software.
• When you abort an installation before it is completed, the shortcuts that were installed become invalid.
• Or, when you move a file or a folder to a different location, the shortcut to that file or folder becomes invalid as it still points to the earlier location.

So, here is the solution. A simple, small, freeware tool called Bad Shortcut Killer.

This tool finds all the invalid shortcuts present in your desktop and start menu and lists them. You can select or deselect the shortcuts by checking or unchecking the checkbox beside each shortcut. After selecting the shortcuts that you want to delete click on the “Delete Selected Shortcuts” to delete them all. Or else, if you want to check what’s wrong with those shortcuts, you can folow the link to each shortcut.

However,  it lacks some important features. First one, it searches only in desktop and start menu. Even though most of the times, you find invalid shortcuts there, it would have been better if  it could search the whole computer.

Secondly, the shortcuts listed have only the location of the shortcut. If it was hyper-linked, so that user could directly click on it to find the shortcut it would be more user-friendly.

Overall, nice tool to keep your desktop clean.

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Personas Rotator is a Firefox addon that changes the personas automatically frequently. So, your browser can now wear different personas automatically without a single drop of sweat from you.

The Personas Rotator is an addon which changes the personas at a particular frequency. By default, it is kept at 60 seconds, which you can change in the options. The addon selects the perosnas from all categories by default. But, you can select anyone you want in the options menu.

For this addon to work, you must have another extension installed on your Firefox browser called “Personas Plus”. This can also be downloaded from the Firefox addons site. However, there would be no need of this as the Personas Rotator addon automatically prompts you to install it.

Bonus Tip:  How To Enable Autofilling In URL Bars In Firefox (Like In Chrome)

Go ahead and try this amazing addon for Firefox. I am sure you will like it. And also, do you know any addon similar to this for Google Chrome? Do share your comments here. They add great value to this post!

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So What’s the trick??

The trick is very simple. Just go to the “View” options. There, while changing the option to thumbnail. just hold SHIFT and BAM! the filenames are gone and only thumbnails are left.

If you ever want to get it back to the normal, again hold SHIFT and click on the thumbnail option.

Note: If you are already in the thumbnail option, change the option and again reselect it.

This is a inbuilt feature in the XP Operating System. To get this into action you have to do a little change in the power option in your system. At first,

1. Right-click on any empty space on the desktop, and go to “Properties”.
2. Then, navigate to the “Screen Saver” tab.
3. Click on the “Power Options”, that is present in the right-bottom of the dialog box.
4. Select the “Advanced” tab. You can see the option that “When I press the power button on the computer”.
5. Select the function you want and the job is done.

You can now directly press the “Power” button on the computer and the desired function is done.

Maybe this service is there in 3D in Google Earth, but that does not give you the deep look on the planet’s surface. Google, just like maps for earth has also a service in which you can explore the two hot topics in space, Mars and Moon. This is also just like the maps you have seen for Google earth. While you surf through the map it gives you information about the human discoveries about the planet like,  in moon, where did the Apollo 11 landed?, Where did Neil Armstrong land? etc. in a very efficient way. Check this out for sure…

Remove the close button from tabs:

You can remove the close buttons on hte right side of the tabs which is frustrating sometimes that you close them while moving from one tab to another. Type “about:config” (without inverts) in the address bar (where you type the address like www.google.com). You will get a screen of preferences. In that, using the Quick Find, type in “close”. You will get the list. Look for “Show Close Buttons” and uncheck it. Your work is done. Restart Opera. You wont see the close buttons any more on the tab.

Close Tabs by Double-clicking on them:

If you are tired of clicking on the small close tab button or right-clicking in the tabs, then here is is a simple tweak that helps you to change the option. As I said earlier go to preference editor. Again search for “close”. Now look for “Double Click to Close Tab” option and uncheck it. Save the changes. Restart. Your work is done.

Remove The Default Browser Dialog Box That Appears At Start:

This is a very good trick to make Opera open up faster. The default browser setup dialog box that apperas at the start makes the browser to load a lot slower. You can stop that box from coming. You can do this in the same preference editor as I had told earlier. In that search for “default browser”. You will get a option named “Show Default browser dialog”. Uncheck this. Restart Opera and you can see that there wont be any prompt for amking the browser default and there will be a considerable increase in speed.

Strikethrough opened link:

In the Preferences Editor, search as “strike”. You will get two branches “Link” and “Visited Link”. Check the strike-through option and restart frefox. The next time you visit a link you will see that the visited link is stroked off.