Easily remember folders with Rainbow Folders

Imagine if you could set different color to different folders to select the one you want from a huge pile of folders. Rainbow Folders is a freeware which allows you to set custom colors to various any folder. You can easily color any folders to any color you want.

It will easily speed up your navigation among thousands of folders located on your hard drive. You could mark important folders as red, working folders as blue, music folders as well green. However, my color sense isn't that good.

Once a folder is colored, it is visible in every Explorer window, every open/save dialog and in every folder selection tree as seen in many programs. You can also set a custom tooltip to be displayed with the folder every time the mouse comes in focus. And it does works with Windows Vista as well.

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Using Gmail as a Drive in Windows

Gmail recently increased their storage space to a massive 4GB. This of course is nothing compared to the current storage capacity of the hard disk drives, but what if you could use Gmail as an online data storage facility? For an online storage facility, it can do wonders.
Most of the companies offering online storage charge some fees for their facility, and Gmail also offers a massive 400 Gigabytes of storage which would cost $500 per year. But most users like me will be happy to use that massive 4GB of online storage facility for free. You can even save your important files and backups on Gmail.

You can use the Gmail Drive Extension (which of course is a freeware) to use Gmail as a drive in Windows and instantly store and retrieve files from your Gmail account like it was a normal drive on your Windows.

I use it to backup important data, not as my main backup location but a secondary one. All files that are stored on the drive are accessible on the Gmail website as well which means it is also possible to store files that you work with on different computers.

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Set XP To Automatic Logon

Despite the fact that it is a huge security risk, many folks prefer to have it set so that Windows will auto log them in (without asking for a PW). This guide is for those who want to set Windows to auto log them in.

Click ,

then

Type CONTROL USERPASSWORDS2 then click

Select the user/users to which you want to be able to autologon, and uncheck Users Must Enter A User Name and Password To Use This Computer

Click Apply, then You will have to type in the current password.

Then Reboot and the computer should now autolog you on. (Note: for XP Home Edition, don’t select to auto login as the Built In Administrator , you will get restriction errors)

Ensure Hard Drive Set At Max Speed

Are Your Hard Drive(s) transferring data at their maximum speed? Here is how to check...

First Go to your device manager (Start, then run then type devmgmt.msc)

Then look for your IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers and click on the plus sign to expand it

Then double click on your Primary IDE Controller (also sometimes called Standard IDE Controller)

Click on the Advanced Settings Tab and verify that it is set to DMA Mode if Available

If it is set to PIO only, change it to DMA Mode if Available.

Repeat this for your Secondary IDE Controller