Any ordinary USB memory device can do a lot more than you probably thought it could. It can carry programs, encryption and even a full installation of Windows XP! Here is our tenlist for the coolest things you can do with a USB thumb drive:

Take your programs with you
We all know how frustrating it is when we take your files to another computer just to discover that the software required to read the files is not installed.
Here’s the simplest solution – take your programs with you – on your …

We all know how annoying it is when we search Google for something and the result we are looking for leads to a password protected forum or site. You have to register to view content, but who likes doing that?

Fortunately there is a solution to our problem. All we have to do is make the website believe that you are Googlebot. It’s surprisingly easy and here’s how to do it.

This is a guest post by James Ricketts from www.Instant-Registry-Fixes.org
Introduction to Registry Problems
Since their introduction a few decades back, computers have
become a very important part of our lives. From students to scientists, everybody depends on computers to perform their tasks. As we become more dependent on computers, it becomes that much more important to keep them error-free.

As we continue to work on our PC, install and uninstall programs, browse the Internet and work with various applications installed on it, a lot of unwanted data gets on to our computer. Additionally, …

There is a severe security risk in Firefox, that most people aren’t even aware of. All the passwords stored or “remembered” in the browser are accessible to anyone who happens to get on their computer (both physically or with hacking tools). Just try this in Firefox:

Go to Tools -> Options and select the Security tab.
Press the Show Passwords button in the middle-right of the window.
You should now see a list of sites and your usernames stored. Press Show Passwords again.

See what I mean? Anyone who has access to your …

Going to sell your hard drive? Deleting personal files from a memory stick? Don’t believe it when Windows says that with one click, the file is deleted. In the real world, it takes a lot more to actually delete a file.
This sounds a little strange, but when deleting a file, it isn’t actually deleted. This means that when you delete a file, your system hides it and tells itself that the file can be overwritten. The data still stays on the hard drive. But now the computer knows that new …

This is a good idea if you want to save both desktop and hard drive space.
To remove the Recycle bin from your desktop, go to Start > Run and type gpedit.msc
Go to User Configuration > Administrative templates > Desktop > Remove Recycle bin icon from desktop
Enable it and reboot or type gpupdate.exe into the run box to apply changes.
If you want to completely remove the Recycle Bin, go to Start > Run and type regedit.
Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\BitBucket/C and open NukeOnDelete. Change the value to “1″ and reboot.
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