Best greasemonkey tricks for facebook

1. facebook colour changer   :Gives the option of changing the facebook colour scheme to anything you want using a colour selector.  

2. Auto-Colorizer: Colors Facebook: Adds an awesome color scheme to facebook based on your photo of your friend . 

3. Remove Facebook Ads : This script removes the advertisements from facebook. This script is cross-browser (Gecko, Opera, Safari, Chrome) .

4. Facebook fixer :   This single script does many things like bigger profile pictures and photos, easier viewing of albums, links to download videos,Google Calendar integration and several other features.

Windows messenger for facebook

     With this messenger we can directly chat with our friends right from the desktop.
This is the final and the official version release by facebook
 

Download the official version here

How to back up registry in windows 7?

    The registry is the database that contains all the configuration options and settings for the Windows OS. Most of the virus directly attack the registry . Also some time we ourselves try to tamper with the registry. So it is were necessary to back up the registry.

Follow the following steps

Step 1 : Press 'windows+r' . Type 'regedit' .Press enter.

  
Step 2 : Select Computer at the top as shown.

Step3 : Now File -->Export. Give a filenamre 'backup' . Save it.

Thus we have backup of registry.


To restore the registry

Step 1 : Press 'windows+r' . Type 'regedit' .Press enter.

Step2 : Now File -->Import . And import the 'backup' file saved above

How to decrease youtube vedio quality for slower connection ?

Do you have a very slow  internet connection and want to play youtube video uninterrupted? Here is a method (using mobile youtube video ),but the quality reduce to a great extend .

Step 1 : First search the video you want to play  here .....

Step 2 : Now right click the video and open it in new tab.Copy the link which looks like rtsp://v3.cache1.c.youtube.com/CjYLE.................

Step 3 : Now start VLC media player . Press Ctrl+s --> Network.Paste the copied link press play. It starts playing.(but quality is low since it is mobile video)

How to download vedios from youtube ?

    The title may seem little misleading.A better way to say is How to save the videos just viewed.  Its simple just see the video on youtube and if you like it just save it on hard disk.

Step 1 : Download VideoCacheView with install/uninstall support . here..

Step 2 : Now view your video on youtube.

Step 3 : After that open the software (without closing youtube in browser).Save the Flv file seen the software by right clicking  -->  Copy Selected Files to .........

   This method is applicable to most of the videos playing sites . You can play the .flv videos in VLC media player.

How to speed up windows 7?..

Few basic steps which are normally ignored by people like me , can easily boost the performance in windows like

1.  Uninstall unwanted software which are not used by you any more. For this press Windows>control panel>uninstall a program ..... remove the unwanted software

2.  Ensure that you have a good anti-virus software loaded on your computer like Avast,Kaspersky AntiVirus. This will ensure that no malware or spyware gets planted in your system which slows down the system. 

3.Remove unwanted files, like temp files, downloaded program files, recycle bin, etc.

Few more steps apart  from basic steps are 

Step 1:Remove the unwanted sound effects.

For this follow the steps

• Press windows. Type 'mmsys.cpl sounds' in search box.Press enter.A window appears as shown 

•  Press Sounds tab.
• In Sound Scheme: set No Sounds (or you can disable the unwanted sounds from Program Events).
• You can also disable 'Play Windows Startup sound ' if needed.  

 Step 2:Remove unwanted visual effects. 
For this follow the steps

•  Press windows. Type 'sysdm.cpl' in search box.Press enter.
•  A window pops up.Select advance tab .Under that select performance setting.

•  In 'Visual Effects' tab select 'Adjust for best performance'. 

  

 

• click apply and ok.

 Steps 3 : Adjust Power settings for best performance.
For this follow the steps

• Press windows. Type 'powercfg.cpl' search box.Press enter.
• Select 'High Performance' (since we are interested in speeding up and not concerned with power consumption).

Step 4: Certian  programs  automatically run when Windows starts and keep running in the background consuming precious system memory. To stop them follow the following steps

• Press windows. Type 'msconfig' search box.Press enter.

• A window 'System Configuration ' pops .
• Select the 'Startup' tab.
   

 

• Now uncheck the programs not needed.

If you like the tutorial do comment.Suggestion highly accepted.

How to hide a file/folder in windows 7?(Disable the Folder option)

This is a continuation of my previous post  'How to hide a file/folder  in windows 7?', which was a very basic method for hiding files/folders in windows . But their is a drawback with this method ,this files can be easily seen if we select show hidden files,folders and drive . A slightly lengthy method but more affective way is as follows

• First follow the procedure of previous post

• Now disable the Folder Options from registry so that no one can unhide them.For this follow the steps

•     Press 'Windows+R' . Run window appears.Type regedit and enter. Following window appears

•  Now browse down to 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\Policies\Explorer'.

•  Right click in the window select New>DWORD (32 bit) Value as shown.

•  Name it as NoFolderOptions and set its value to 1.

• Restart the pc for registry to reinitialize . Thus folder option is disabled.(check it)...

How to Re-initialize Registry Without Rebooting Windows?

    When ever we make changes to the registry we have to reboot the system so that new settings come into play this is very frustrating to avoid this we can use following steps:


Method I:

After  making the changes in registry.Use the following step to re-initialize registry without rebooting

• Open task manager by CTRL+SHIFT+ESC
•  Locate explorer.exe.

•  Click 'End Process'
• click on File–>New Task 
• Type ‘explorer.exe‘ to start new instance of windows explorer.

 Method II:
 
After  making the changes in registry.Use the following step to re-initialize registry without rebooting

• Press 'Windows+R' . Run window appears.Type cmd and enter.

•  Type the command 'taskkill /F /IM explorer.exe'. Press enter.
•  Type the command 'explorer' .Press enter.

How to hide a file/folder in windows 7?

The most basic way to do this is as follows

Step 1 : Press windows. Type 'Folder Options' search box.Press enter.
Step 2 : Select View. In Advanced settings select Don't show hidden files,folders,or drives. Click apply and enter.

Step 3 : Now Right click on the file/folder , go to properties.
Step 4 : Select Hidden in the Attributes. The file get hided .


For a better method Read this......

How to partition Hard disk in windows 7?

Step 1 : Press windows and enter 'diskmgmt.msc' Press enter

Step 2: Right click on the drive to be shrink  as shown. Click on shrink volume.A window will appear specifiy the volume to be partition. press enter.

Step 3: The volume get shrink and empty space appears . Now we have to create new drive . 

 Step 4:Right click on the empty space created ,click 'new volume.Specify the volume size,press enter. Specify the drive letter ,press enter.Keep the rest as default press enter. The new drive will be created.

Thus we have sucessfully partition the drive.