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Three-clock Configuration in System Time

Windows can display up to three additional clocks and time in other time zones. Viewing can be done by hovering or pointing to the taskbars clock. Lets dig into the topic from Windows to registry.    To add, click ‘Change date and time settings…’ and configure those clocks located at additional Clocks Tab. For each clock, click to check ‘Show this clock’. Select a time zone from the drop-down list, type a name up to 15 characters, and then click OK. Editing Additional Clocks using Windows Registry Use the start search, type “regedit” and go to the path below: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\TimeDate\AdditionalClocks\1 HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\TimeDate\AdditionalClocks\2 Data Value Type   DisplayName String Value any name Enable DWORD Value 1 or 0 TzRegKeyName String Va...

Displaying the Run Option in Start Menu

Start Menu Run option is not included as default feature in newer version of Windows. Probably the designers  is comfortable and want to popularize the Start Search feature. Anyway, how to re-enable the option is easy… Right Click the Taskbar > Properties > Start Menu Tab and Click “Customize…” button Then, Click to check “Run command” to enable the option… Using the Registry to Enable “Run…” item in Start Menu You can also enable the option using Windows Registry if everything seems goes wrong e.g. the Taskbar hangs So, open your Windows Registry (Win logo key + R) and type “Regedit” and go to the registry folder below HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced Once you reach the folder, right-click > New > DWORD (32-bit) Value and use the value name “ Start_ShowRun ” and data as 1 as shown above. Finally, Restart your computer afterwards… That’s it!

Quick Tip: HTML Printing using command prompt

If you have a long website information to print everyday. Here’s the command that you can execute. HTML Printing via command line rundll32.exe mshtml.dll,PrintHTML " filename " Example rundll32.exe mshtml.dll,PrintHTML "H:\study\formatparagraph3.html"   Enjoy!!!

Google Analytics Visitors Reports

Google Analytics is a service that generates visitors website statistics. The tool made it easy for non-specialist and experts to practice performance focused analysis. New vs Returning   This visitor report gives you a quick view at the ratio of people who had never been to your site to returning visitors by number of visits and its percentage. You can look at the relative economic impact of new vs returning visitors by viewing the Ecommerce statistics and adding advanced segments for New and Returning Visitors. When you segment the report this way, you get side-by-side statistics for things like overall revenue, the number of transactions, and the average value of each transaction for each population. Frequency & Recency   This reports gives you a quick look at the user interest in your site from the view of how frequently visitors return to your site within a time frame. The data are calculated per unique visitor. Location   ...

Theming Settings: Appearance and Desktop Wallpapers

Another way to access and enable themes in Windows 7 and above… This tip is usually not being use everyday and usually for everyday geek computing only. rundll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL desk.cpl desk,@Themes /Action:OpenTheme /file: Filename You can create a shortcut for the syntax above for applying windows themes. There are many free themes available at microsoft and all you need to do is to visit the site and choose any theme that you want. rundll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL desk.cpl desk,@Themes /Action:OpenTheme /file: " C:\Users\User\Downloads\Ice.themepack " Cool?! Thanks for reading the article!

Quick Tip: Connect to Network Window

Connect or reconnect to available wireless networks, wired, dial-up and VPN connection that you can connect to. What if you can’t find or click the Connect To Window? All you need to do is to run the command below: rundll32.exe van.dll,RunVAN Happy New Year!