Windows

Google chrome DNS Issue

Post last modified:February 7, 2014
Post category:Windows
Post author:Manikandan

Google Chrome is one of the fastest browser.In google chrome The DNS prefetching feature is used to load web pages faster.But it cause some problem for most users. Sometime users get a error message

“The webpage at http://www.somedomainorwebsitenameabc.com might be temporarily down or it may have moved

permanently to a new web address. Here are some suggestions: Reload this web page later.”

To solve this issue follow these steps.

1.Open Google Chrome.

2.Click Spanner icon located on the right side of the browser.

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Free Photoshop alternatives for Windows

Post last modified:February 7, 2014
Post category:Windows
Post author:Manikandan

Adobe Photoshop is a commercial bitmap and image manipulational program developed and published by Adobe Systems. It is the current and primary market leader in this field. Though it is the best, it is also one of the most expensive programs to buy. Luckily, there are quite a few free alternatives to Photoshop.

1.GIMP

GIMP is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.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.It is designed to be augmented with plug-ins and extensions to do just about anything. The advanced scripting interface allows everything from the simplest task to the most complex image manipulation procedures to be easily scripted.GIMP is written and developed under X11 on UNIX platforms. But basically the same code also runs on MS Windows and Mac OS X.

2.Paint.NET

Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows. It features an intuitive and

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How to change icons for removable (flash) drives

Post last modified:February 7, 2014
Post category:Windows
Post author:Manikandan

1.Open your notepad and type these lines [Autorun] icon=youriconname.ico here youriconname is the name of the .icon file. And save as autorun.inf to your root of the removable drive. 2.Also Move the icon file to your root of the removable…

How to change Drive icons in windows xp

Post last modified:February 7, 2014
Post category:Windows
Post author:Manikandan

Please create a restore points before any changes. 1.Open Registry Editor. To open registry editor, Click Start and Run and type “regedit” press enter. 2.Find following: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE -> SOFTWARE -> Microsoft -> Windows -> CurrentVersion -> Explorer 3.Right click in…

How to change Drive letters in windows xp

Post last modified:February 7, 2014
Post category:Windows
Post author:Manikandan

1.Right click Mycomputer and select Manage 2.Double click Storage on the right side of the window. 3.And double click Disk Management(Local) Right click the drive you want to change and then select Change drive letter. Thats all