Kill Vista's explorer.exe in 3 clicks

The usual way of terminating the explorer process is through the Task manager. Rt-Click taskbar > Task manager > Process Tab > Right Click explorer.exe > End Process.

But Vista actually offers you a faster way to do it ... in 3 clicks !


Click Start button > Hold down Ctrl+Shift & Right Click on empty area in the Start Menu > Click "Exit Explorer".

To re-start it, you will have to do so as usual through the Task Manager. Click Ctrl+Alt+Delete and select Star Task Manager or press Ctrl+Shift+Esc. Then launch explorer.exe manually.

Modify Color Selection of Default Theme

Open registry by going to Start then Run. Entering regedit, navigate to [HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ThemeManager] and locate the key "ColorName".
Right Click on it and select modify its value from "NormalColor" to "Metallic"
Click Ok, and exit regedit and restart your computer. 

Removing Multiple Boot Screens:
If you are getting unwanted multiple boot screen
Then Follow these Steps.
1> Right Click on My Computer
2>Select Properties
3>Select Advanced Tab
4>Select Settings In the Startup & Recovery Section(3rd grp)
5>Select the operating system which u want.
6>And Click OK.
7>Further again press the setting and click on Edit.
8>It will open boot.ini File.
Now u can delete those o/s which you don't want to be displayed.

Note: For deleting operating systems from boot.ini file, keep it mind that you can't
delete that o/s which is selected by default there. Before
making any changes make a copy of boot.ini file.

A cool paint trick

A cool paint trick!
1>Open Paint
2>Select Air brush. Fill two three colours in a small area
3>Select free form select and select the area where you have put the colours from air brush
4>Press shift, and move ur mouse keeping shift pressed.
Check ouA cool paint trick!t the effect..

Double your uTorrent Speed!! Get Double Speed

After trying all the methods available in the internet i was failed to increase uTorrent download speed maybe 1-2kb which is not worth of effort. But lucky me i got a great trick to double your uTorrent speed and this really works. Give it a try i am sure you will not be unhappy.

uTorrent: uTorrent is a software that lets you download files from multiple other people at once. Torrent technology is often faster than other forms of downloading since each user gives different parts of the same file to everyone else downloading the file. To increase the speed more just you need to do a few steps.

To start/perform this trick you have to download and install a software. Find the link below:






Download Cheat Engine 6.1

Your anti-virus may give warning just ignore that or you may have to turn off your anti-virus to download/installthis software.

Install it.


Current/Before Trick uTorrent Speed:

Now run Cheat Engine and uTorrent both.

In Cheat Engine you will find one computer icon.

Click on this and now you will find one process list select uTorrent from the process list and Click open.

Now again click the computer icon and select the uTorrent process and
under open you will get one option "Attach debugger to process". Click on it.

Now you will get one confirmation box. Click yes.

Now on Cheat Engine check the option "Enable Speedhack".
You will get speed box. Make it 0.5 . Click Apply.

Now Check your speed. It just increased to double.

11 Free Photo Editors At Your Choice

Not so many years ago, we had to excuse ourselves for the red eyes, vampire style, everybody had in their photos. Do you remember how we had to wait in front of a great cathedral, in order to take a photo without embarrassing tourist heads at the bottom? Photo editors were then expensive, so not everybody afforded one. The situation changed lately, with more and more open source programs and other freeware things made available online. I’m presenting you a few choices of free photo editors which can help you improve your pictures and make them look more stylish:

1. GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program)

GIMP is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages, and their official site contains a lot of tutorials and a list of books.

What you can do with GIMP (these are only a few of its capabilities):

• Change the size of an image
• Make jpegs smaller
• Crop images
• Transform images: flip, rotate, apply a perspective
• Remove red eyes (there’s a special tool only for that)
• Transform your photo into a pen and ink watercolor like image
• Make simple animations

2. PhotoPlus 6
Offered by FreeSerifSoftware, PhotoPlus 6 is an easy to use photo editor, with a nice interface. It has a number of built in functions which will make it very convenient for people who don’t know anything about photography editing:
Creative tools for enhancing your images: paintbrush, airbrush, clone, smudge and erase, plus adjustable brush settings (size, shape, softness and fade).

Layer Effects: by using the layer manager, you’ll make changes to your images without affecting the originals.

Digital Darkroom: this function allows you to adjust brightness, contrast, sharpness, color hue, saturation and will also help you remove the annoying red eyes.

The Deform tool: rotate, resize, skew, reshape and add perspective to any selection or layer.

Text: add your editable, deformable text to images and further enhance it with drop shadows and bevel effects (if you are a fan of these effects).

Animation: you can create animated GIFs

Web Images: you can divide images into individual sections that can be clicked on to link to other web pages and websites, just like text hyperlinks. PhotoPlus 6 creates also the HTML code you need to insert to have your web page working.

Export Optimizer: you can simultaneously view up to four previews that display the relationship between image file size and quality, making it easy to decide how to save and export images for every purpose.

Quick Shapes: big range of speech bubbles, starbursts and spirals, all customizable.

3. VicMan’s Photo Editor

Using Photoshop compatible filters, VicMan’s Photo Editor is a good choice if you think that at a later stage, you’ll want to go into professional details and tricks. The software offers a wide range of filters and effects, handy tools for color selection and management, and even the possibility to create caricatures, or to refine your images using gamma correction tools.

Amongst the effects you can apply to an image (or to a part of it at your choice) there are: Twirl, Seawave, Fingerprints, Fish Eye, or built-in distortions like skew, slant, twist, slice or dice.

4. Adobe Photoshop Album Starter Edition 3.2

Both photo organizer and editor, Adobe Photoshop Album Starter Edition offers all the functions required for fixing the flaws of your photos. Using its organizer features, you can find any photo in a snap with automatic organization that lets you view all of your digital photos in one place using a familiar calendar view. However, this would not be my choice of software, because of its aggresivity: I did not pay too much attention at installation, and I have activated a feature which attempts to collect and organize picture files from any CD of USB key I insert into my computer. Not being able to spot at once how to deactivate this thing, I uninstalled the whole application, because I want to be the one who decides when and where and how to import pictures into my computer (which is quite old and has limited storage capacities).

5. Picasa

Free photo editor and organizer from Google, Picasa offers pretty much the same function as other free photo editors do, plus the capability to share your photos with others through email, prints andon the web. Picasa’s Basic Fixes are buttons which allow you to crop, remove red eye, or fix the contrast and colour. 12 new visual effects are available, plus, you can fine-tune your photos with Picasa’s EXIF display. This window shows you all the camera data that is stored in a picture’s original file – such as camera model, date the photo was taken, even if a flash was used. The EXIF display also has a RGB histogram, a real-time graph that shows the intensity of colours in your picture and how they change when you make edits in Picasa.

6. Paint.net

Open source and free, Paint.net has all features of a good photo editor. Many special effects are included, from blurring, sharpening, red-eye removal, distortion, to noise and embossing are. The 3D Rotate/Zoom effect makes it very easy to add perspective and tilting. Paint.NET includes a curve tool for drawing splines or Bezier curves, a Gradient tool, the popular Magic Wand for selecting regions of similar color and the Clone Stamp, which allows you to duplicate areas of an image at your choice (this is how you can get rid of electricity wires on your beautiful skies, for example).

7. MyImager.com

The difference between this photo editor and the previously presented ones is that myImager is an online tool. This means you don’t have to download and install anything on your computer, in order to get your photos fixed. It has a lot of predefined effects which you can apply to your pictures, but I found it rather uncomfortable, because when I did my first wrong move, it took me some time to figure out how to undo it (it’s simple after you see where the button is). Besides, all those moving advertising banners managed to distract me. However, I see myImager.com suitable for situations in which I cannot use my own computer, such as from hotel lobbys or from internet cafes. If you want to blog about yout travels while you are taking them, this is a good choice to get your photos adjusted before you publish them on your blog. The maximum size of the photo files is 500kB.

8. Auto-Photo-Editor
This is a shareware software for your batch photo editing converter. It allows you to convert multiple photo/image files at the click of a button. You can batch resize, rotate, stamp text on your images and convert format to others. You can set up your computer to run the batch file on a schedule and leave the routine image processing tasks to Auto Photo Editor. This is very useful for people who like to send their photos by email and see themselves in the situation to work hours to reduce the size of those photos one by one.

Auto Phto Editor works only with Windows 98/ME/2K/2K3/XP/Vista. If after the trial period you decide to buy it, the basic version costs $49.59, which the PRO version costs $69.95.

9. IrfanView
IrfanView is a very fast, small, and compact freeware (for non-commercial use) graphic viewer for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista. Some of its features are:

• Slideshow (save slideshow as EXE/SCR or burn it to CD)
• Show EXIF/IPTC/Comment text in Slideshow/Fullscreen etc.
• Support for Adobe Photoshop Filters
• Fast directory view (moving through directory)
• Batch conversion (with image processing)
• Multipage TIF editing
• File search
• Email option
• Multimedia player
• Print option
• Change color depth
• Scan (batch scan) support
• Photo editing and effects (sharpen, blur, Adobe 8BF, Filter Factory, Filters Unlimited, etc.)
• Capturing
• Extract icons from EXE/DLL/ICLs
• Lossless JPG rotation
• Many hotkeys
• Many command line options
• Many PlugIns
• Only one EXE-File, no DLLs, no Shareware messages like “I Agree” or “Evaluation expired”
• No registry changes without user action/permission

10. PhotoFiltre Studio
PhotoFiltre Studio is an image retouching program which allows you to do simple or advanced adjustments to an image and apply a vast range of filters on it. The toolbar, giving you access to the standard filters with just a few clicks, makes PhotoFiltre Studio quite intuitive and easy to use. PhotoFiltre Studio also has layer manager (with Alpha channel), advanced brushes, nozzles (or tubes), red eye corrector, batch module and lot of other tools.

11. Cellsea

This is an online photo editor which lets you edit pictures with the file size up to 10MB. Very easy to use, providing a tabs-based menu, Cellsea has all it takes to fix your photos and share them with your friends (the email send and the Flickr upload built-in options save you precious time).

Whatever you choose, if you think that later on you could advance to professional photo editing, it would be better to buy your professional photo editing software from the very beginning. Do you know why? Because once you get used to the menus of a particular software, you’ll find it very difficult to accomodate with the new ones. This happened to me when I switched from Macromedia Fireworks to Photoshop: although basic commands are the same, the differences are enough to drive me crazy. I wish I started directly with Photoshop (if you can’t afford it, you could consider Photoshop Elements, which costs less than $200).

How To Remove Unwanted Items From Your Photos

You love photography. You could drive for hours, you could wake up at 5 o’clock in the morning, you could walk through swamps, only for the sake of taking a great landscape photo.

What if your best shots are spoiled by those ugly electric cables which seem to be everywhere? What if naughty tourists move unpredictably, spoiling your so long prepared picture?

There are remedies for removing unwanted items from your photos. One of them is a tool called Clone Stamp, which is built in many photo editors. I’m showing you now how it works in Adobe Fireworks, but the process is similar for all photo editors which include the function.

This is the initial photo:

I’m bothered by the electric wire in the upper left corner and by those people gathering the rubbish. I’ll show you now how to get rid of the wire with the clone stamp tool (or Rubber Stamp Tool).

1. From the Tools floating menu, select Rubber Stamp Tool (see the arrow on the next picture).

2. On your photo, click on the sky, close to the wire we want to get rid of.

3. Now move the cursor horizontally and click on the wire. You’ll see a small section of the wire disappearing. Click again, a bit higher, and again. You’ll see that the tool copies the sky pattern corresponding to the first click, over the wire (see the area marked with red in the next photo):

4. Repeat the operation for the entire wire. You can choose whatever pattern you like from the clouds, in such a way that it matches the neighbouring clouds. This is the final result:

5. If you are not satisfied with the result, you can apply a blur to that former-wire area. I liked my result, so I didn’t feel the need to do this.