The Geek Spotlight

Windows Keyboard Shortcuts Getting used to using your keyboard exclusively and leaving your mouse behind will make you much more efficient at performing any task on any Windows system. I use the following keyboard shortcuts every day:

Beep codes error details Standard Original IBM POST Error Codes 1 short beep System is OK 2 short beeps POST Error – error code shown on screen No beep Power supply or system board problem Continuous beep Power supply, system board, or keyboard problem Repeating short beeps Power supply or system board problem 1 long, 1 short beep System board problem 1 long, 2 short beeps Display adapter problem (MDA, CGA) 1 long, 3 short beeps Display adapter problem (EGA) 3 long beeps 3270 keyboard card

Do calculations with Command Prompt The command processor 'cmd.exe' comes with a mini-calculator that can perform simple arithmetic on 32-bit signed integers:

Enable or disable USB port or device USB Devices are portable enough to carry the data from one computer to another , It is always risky to enable USB ports of computers in large organizations , data center and cyber cafes since it can be the gateway for virus and malwares. 

Steve Jobs: A Timeline Here's a recap of the major events in the life of Steve Jobs, Apple's co-founder who died Wednesday.

Move To Folder for all Files and Folders from right click This setting allows you to assign any file on your computer a new right-click menu (context menu) entry. This entry is named “ Move To Folder… ” which is copy current selected files to any folder directly from Right click menu..

Copy To Folder for all Files and Folders  from right click This setting allows you to create a new right-click menu (context menu) entry called “ Copy To Folder” which is copy current selected file/files to any folder directly from Right click menu..

How to assign your desired folder on Right click -> Send to? Whenever you attach a removable disk and want to copy files to it, you have option either 1.        You select the required files and do a CTRL+C, open the removable disk and do a CTRL+V (Or) 2.        You select the required files right click on it and choose “ Send To ” option. There you find the name of removable disk and you simply send the items to it.  How will it be if we can find our own desired folder in which we keep most of our files in “ Send To ” option?

When you switch your PC or laptop to hibernate mode, you are turning your computer off but everything you had up last while the computer was on is saved. So when you turn your machine back on at later time, the system will load your last work, i.e., it will restore the state it was in before it went to hibernate. As we all know when we restart our system, all the data that was present in RAM are wiped out, how exactly does this hibernate mode loads your last work? Let's see the concept behind hibernation in this post.