Keyboard Shortcuts for Internet Browsers

Online Browsing has become a part of our life. To browser online, we use different browsers like IE, Chrome, FF, Opera, Safari etc. Most of the browsers support some common shortcuts to make our browsing fast and easy. 

Now I am gonna suggest you some useful browsing shortcuts: 


A1t + left arrow - Back to the previous page. 
Alt + Backspace - Back to the previous page. 
Alt + Right Arrow - Go to the forward page. 
F5 - Reload the current page
Esc - Stop loading a page. 
Ctrl + Enter - to visit www.google.com you can just type google and press Ctrl+Enter. www  
                        and .com will be automatically typed
Ctrl + N - Open new browsing window. 
Ctrl + P - Print the current page. 
Ctrl + T -Open a new Tab. 
Ctrl + Tab - Switch between the Tabs. 
Space bar - Scroll down the page. 
Shift + Space bar - Scroll Up the page. 
Alt + Down Arrow - Show all visited web addresses. 
Alt + D -  Highlight current web address at the address bar. 
Ctrl + L - Highlight current web address at the address bar. 
Ctrl + J - Show download box. 

Install Windows 7 from a USB Drive!

If you have no DVD Rom on your computer, or it gets damaged in that case you can't setup windows in your PC. This is too boring. Or if you have a notebook then you face the same problem. But nothing to be worried about. There is another way to install windows on your PC. You can set it up by USB Flash Drive (Pen Drive). 

If you have a 4 GB (or higher) USB drive then follow the steps below:

1.    Format Your USB/ Pen Drive

Insert your USB in the PC and don't forget to back up your important data stored on that USB drive. Now format the Drive as the Picture shows: 

Now open command prompt. Remember command prompt must be run as Administrator. You can go to the program menu then make a right click on command prompt and select run as administrator (Be sure that your windows partition is installed on C Drive)

Now you will see the Command Prompt window on your screen. 

Type Diskpart press enter. Now you will see another screen will open. 

Type List Disk to view all the active disks as the image shows: 

Now type the following commands at a time.

Select Disk # (Locate your USB Disk and write the number it instead of #. Example: Select Disk 6)

Clean

Create Partition Primary

Select Partition 1

Active

Format FS=NTFS  (Note: This may take a considerable amount of time. Don't Worry)

Assign (Gives the USB drive a Windows volume and next available drive letter, which you should write     down. In our case, drive “L” was assigned)

Exit (Quits the DiskPart tool)

2.    Turn the USB Disk into a Bootable Device

Insert the Windows 7 DVD into your DVD Drive, and open it to view the files that it contains. Press Ctrl + A to copy all files of the DVD to a folder on your Desktop. Name the folder as Windows 7. 

Now back to the Command Prompt windows that is running as Administrator.  Using the “CD” command, find your way to the folder where you extracted the ISO files. Your command line path should look something like “C:\Users\username\Desktop\Windows 7\”.

Type the following commands: 

CD Boot (This gets you into the “boot” directory)

Bootsect.exe /nt60 L: (where ‘L’ is the drive letter assigned to your USB key from the previous step)

Note: If you’re currently running 32-bit version of Windows 7, Bootsect will only work if you use the files from the 32-bit Windows 7 install disc. The Bootsect executable from the 64-bit version will not run in 32-bit Vista.

3.    Load the USB Disk Up with the Install Files

 

Copy all of the extracted ISO files into the USB drive. You don’t need to do this from the command prompt. Just copy the files from the “Windows 7” folder that was created in the desktop and paste them into the USB Disk.

Your USB Disk is now fully ready drive! Plug it in your System. Enter the BIOS (typically with F1, F2, F12 or Del) to temporarily change the boot order to allow booting from the USB key.

Make sure your 1st boot is USB Device and 2nd boot is Hard Disk. 

Now restart your PC and you will see the message on the screen like that: Press any key to boot from USB. 

Hopefully, you will be able to install windows 7 by USB Device from now. Good Luck. 

Get your PC Information by Speccy

Often we need to view the information of PC. A very simple technique for this purpose is- simply make a right click on My Computer and hit on properties. Then we can see some basic information about PC.

More advanced option is- Windows Key + Run, type dxdiag and hit ok. It will show information about Mother board, Graphics, Audio Driver etc.

But Speccy will give you something more that you can't see by Windows. With speccy you can see information regarding almost everything of your PC. It will show you the following information:

• Processor brand and model
• Hard drive size and speed  
• Amount of memory (RAM)   
• Graphics card  
• Operating system

Most surprisingly, you will be able to see your computer's heat! You can see the temperature of your Hard Disk, Main Board and Processor. 

To download speccy, click here. 

How to create PDF file?

Often we need to convert a word, excel or any other file into PDF format. This is done through a virtual printer. When a virtual printer (that creates PDF file) is installed in your system then you can see it in your print option.

In this post I will tell about do PDF. It is a powerful tool to convert several files (DOC, DOCX, DJVU, XLS, XLSX, XPS, PPT, PPTX, DOT, EML, VSD, PUB, PUBX, MPP, WPD, OpenOffice, DWG, HTML, TXT, PNG, JPEG, GIF, TIFF and many others) into PDF format.

Steps for creating PDF file:
1. Download and install doPDF from here.
2. Open a program (ie. MS Word) from which you wanna create PDF.
3. Open your desired file for conversion purpose.
4. Go to the print option by pressing Ctrl + P.
5. Select the doPDF printer from the Print dialogue box.
6. Now you will see the doPDF dialogue box on you screen.
7. Now select the location on which you want your PDF file to keep and hit OK button.

Now you have all done. Your brand new PDF file may open directly. If not then go to the file location you selected and open it through PDF viewer.

What is PDF file?

The very first thing you need to know what is PDF. PDF stands for Portable Document Format. A PDF file can be read anywhere just by using PDF viewer. To view PDF file, there are several programs available over the net. The most interesting thing is that the almost all PDF viewers are free of charge!! 

The two widely used PDF viewers are: Adobe Reader and Foxit Reader. 

Which one should I use? Good question. 

You can use any of the two. If your disk space is low, then use Foxit Reader. But if you have more disk space use Adobe Reader. With adobe reader you will find some more options. Nothing else. 

You can convert your file into PDF from several program. For example, you can convert a file into PDF from MS Word, Excel, Power Point and so many. When you convert a PDF file into word, then you can use it in a computer where MS Office Program is not installed. In that case, you need a PDF viewer.

Click here to know how to create PDF file.