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Tips Basket is a free resource, which stores categorized solutions for enhancing the total computing experience of a user. Users can find all sorts of Tips, Tricks, Tweaks, How-to's, Shortcuts etc which can alter your normal computer into a customized power rig.

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#1
HOW TO CHANGE THE INTERNET EXPLORER TITLE TEXT
The Default Title text of the Internet Explorer can be changed to the text of your desire by following the below given steps.... [Read More]The Default Title text of the Internet Explorer can be changed to the text of your desire by following the below given steps.
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HOW TO PASSWORD PROTECT THE SINGLE USER MODE IN LINUX
One of the very compromising situation arising with a Linux box with a slack physical security – easy access to anyone to the linux box - is one ... [Read More]One of the very compromising situation arising with a Linux box with a slack physical security – easy access to anyone to the linux box - is one were a malicious user boots into an un protected single user mode and changes your root password. This can be prevented by making your linux machine to ask for the root password even when the system is made to boot into single user mode. The below given tip lets you achieve this goal.
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HOW TO PROTECT THE LILO BOOT LOADER IN LINUX WITH A PASSWORD
You can configure LILO to ask for a password before any arguments are added from the LILO boot: prompt by adding a password entry in to the globa... [Read More]You can configure LILO to ask for a password before any arguments are added from the LILO boot: prompt by adding a password entry in to the global section of the LILO configuration file. This can prevent casual users from booting into the single mode from the LILO boot: prompt.
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HOW TO PROTECT THE GRUB BOOT LOADER IN LINUX WITH A PASSWORD
You can prevent access to the GRUB console and prevent anyone from making changes to the configuration parameters by using the below given tip. I... [Read More]You can prevent access to the GRUB console and prevent anyone from making changes to the configuration parameters by using the below given tip. It enables you to set a password for the GRUB boot parameter editor.
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HOW TO RECOVER FROM A ROOT PASSWORD LOSS IN A LINUX MACHINE USING A LIVE LINUX CD.
This tip will help you to reset the root password in a Linux machine using a Live Linux distribution like Knoppix. ... [Read More]This tip will help you to reset the root password in a Linux machine using a Live Linux distribution like Knoppix.
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HOW TO RECOVER FROM A ROOT PASSWORD LOSS IN A LINUX MACHINE IF YOU ARE USING GRUB AS THE BOOT LOADER.
This tip will help you to reset the root password in a Linux machine. This tip is relevant only if you are using GRUB as your boot loader. ... [Read More]This tip will help you to reset the root password in a Linux machine. This tip is relevant only if you are using GRUB as your boot loader.
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HOW TO RECOVER FROM A ROOT PASSWORD LOSS IN A LINUX MACHINE IF YOU ARE USING LILO AS THE BOOT LOADER.
This tip will help you to reset the root password in a Linux machine. This tip is relevant only if you are using LILO as your boot loader. ... [Read More]This tip will help you to reset the root password in a Linux machine. This tip is relevant only if you are using LILO as your boot loader.
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#8
HOW TO ADD SAFE MODE BOOT OPTION AND RECOVERY CONSOLE TO WINDOWS XP BOOT MENU
This tip will show you how to add a menu entry in the Windows XP Boot Menu, for booting into safe mode. This can be useful if you don’t want to p... [Read More]This tip will show you how to add a menu entry in the Windows XP Boot Menu, for booting into safe mode. This can be useful if you don’t want to press the F8 Key every time you want to boot into the Windows Safe Mode.
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HOW TO CHANGE THE WAY FIREFOX RENDERS A WEB PAGE TO MAKE IT LOAD THE PAGE A BIT MORE FASTER INITIALLY
Mozilla renders web pages in an incrementing fashion. i.e. the browser displays what has been received of a page before the entire thing is downl... [Read More]Mozilla renders web pages in an incrementing fashion. i.e. the browser displays what has been received of a page before the entire thing is downloaded. In the initial stages of the download of a web page, Mozilla waits for a short interval of time before rendering it. The following tweak can let you control this interval to make web pages load a bit faster. This is controlled by the Initial Paint Delay Preference settings – which is not available by default – and changing this can give the impression that the page loads faster.
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HOW TO FIX THE MISSING STATUS BAR IN INTERNET EXPLORER
The Status Bar in Internet Explorer is a useful information area and it shows the current status of a page retrieval and info regarding the URL t... [Read More]The Status Bar in Internet Explorer is a useful information area and it shows the current status of a page retrieval and info regarding the URL to which the browser is currently communicating. Despite enabling the Status Bar menu item from the View menu, Internet Explorer sometimes will show an annoying behavior of missing Status Bar. In order to fix this problem follow the below given tip
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