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Quickly Launch Applications In Windows With JetStartYesterday

Is your Start Menu or Quick Launch bar cluttered with application shortcuts? JetStart is an awesome tool that offers a quick access with categorized Start Menu shortcuts, recently launched programs and system commands. It allows multiple ways to access your applications by categorizing them into five generic categories, either by selecting items from a recently used list or newly added programs or simply search them by keyword etc.

JetStart offers plenty of features to simplify the way you launch your application by offering a Toolbar that allows you to quickly access any Windows application and also let you organize shortcuts with drag and drop functionality.

You can launch multiple programs at once or activate programs even by assigning special hot keys and drag files from Toolbar to Desktop easily. You can also re-order buttons on your Taskbar, it lets you simply drag and drop any Taskbar button to the new location with your mouse.

Batch Change/Rename File Extensions In WindowsYesterday

Do you want to batch rename file extensions in one simple step? Changing each file extension separately can be a pain in some cases where you have to change extensions of more than 100 files. There are two methods of changing batch file extensions quickly.

Method 1: Command Line

Select the folder which has all the files who’s extension you would like to change. As an example I have made a folder named “test”, inside this folder I have placed four images in .jpg format. To change the extension of the files inside the folder, press Shift and right-click on the folder and select Open Command Window Here.

You will now see a Command Window with the current folderdirectory open. Now type the following command line,

ren *.(current extension name) *.(extension you want)

Since I want to change the extension from .jpg to .png, in my case the command line would be,

ren *.jpg *.png

How To Lock And Password Protect Folder In VistaNovember 29

Do you want to lock and password protect your important folders in Windows Vista? If you are an administrator and have multiple accounts set up in Vista, then you can block few important folders so that they can not be accessed by other users. Every time the blocked folder will be accessed, it will ask for administrator password. Therefore the folder will be locked permanently unless you don’t remove the lock yourself.

To lock a folder, right-click on that folder and select Properties. Now navigate to Security tab, and click Edit as shown in the screenshot below.

A new window will pop-up, now under “Group and User Names”, select the user from the list whom you want to deny access to a specific folder, now under “Permissions for Users” check the Deny checkbox next to Modify(all other checkbox will get ticked automatically) as shown in the screenshot below.

Firefox: Disable Automatic File Scanning After DownloadNovember 28

Firefox automatically scans the file after the download is complete which may cause exuberant amount of time in some low end computers. This function is vital to protect your computer from viruses, but you may find that it takes a lot more time in scanning if the file is huge. You can disable this feature if your antivirus is up to date and you don’t need Firefox to scan the file for you.

To disable this feature:

Type about:config in address bar and press Enter.

Click on “I will be careful, I promise!” button, now in the filter bar type,

 browser.download.manager.scanWhenDone

You will see a Boolean value set as true by default just like its shown in the screenshot below.

To change the value to false just double click on the entry and it would change itself automatically.

And you are done.  Enjoy !

Firefox: Refresh Web Page Directly From Server Without Clearing CacheNovember 28

Have you ever tried refreshing you webpage in Firefox and you experienced it displayed the cached version instead of downloading the page from the server? Mozilla Firefox is the most loved browser in the world and its not just the hatred towards Microsoft rather its the support of thousands of little add-ons and tweaks that make it the most customizable and secure browser. To further customize the way your browser behaves you can tweak Firefox to refresh the web page without clearing cache.

You may have experience this often that when you try to reload your webpage, Firefox sometimes shows the cached version instead of directly downloading the new content updated from the server. You can refresh instead of closing all the browser window by Pressing CTRL + F5, this way Firefox will directly request the data stream from the server instead of showing the cached version.

I hope this quick tips would make Firefox experience more seamless. Enjoy !