Manipulate Your Images with GIMP

Say, you have taken lots of photos using your digital camera and now you want to do some post-editing or manipulation to the photos. Adobe Photoshop can be your best choice, but it cost you money. We can get something similar for FREE.  You can signup an account in Adobe and use the free Photoshop Express to edit your photos. However, you will need to upload your photos to its server before you can edit it. If you just want to edit the color and contrast or some basic editing of an image, you would rather use the light-weight yet powerful IrfanView.

Paint.NET is another good alternative, however the .NET already suggested it is for Windows. Therefore, GIMP is the open source software that you may want to try it out (if you are not using Windows).

Delete Undeletable Files in Windows

Here is a scenario. When you want to delete a file or folder in your Windows, it is "undeletable". No matter how many times you delete, you always get an error message that looks something like this: (note: z is a folder)

Or other error messages such as:

• Cannot delete file: Access is denied
• There has been a sharing violation.
• The source or destination file may be in use.
• The file is in use by another program or user.
• Make sure the disk is not full or write-protected and that the file is not currently in use.

This is very irritating and normally we have to reboot our system before we can successfully remove that particular file or folder. No worries, you can now delete those unwanted files or folders in seconds!

End Not Responding Task Automatically in Windows XP

Sometimes an application will "hang" and stop working. In Ubuntu Linux, there's a feature called
. With this feature, the not responding application will quit within clicks. In Windows, to quit a not responding application, you will have to go to the Windows Task Manager (Ctrl + Alt + Del) to "End Task".



Sometimes, it takes even longer time than expected to end a not responding application, which is really very annoying. Now, you can make the not responding application end itself automatically (in Windows XP) by editting the Windows registry.

Know The Windows Error Codes

Sometimes it's really annoying to get error codes when using Microsoft Windows, yet we don't know what do those error codes actually mean. The easiest way is to get connected to the Internet, and Google for the meaning of the error codes for troubleshooting.

What if you don't have an Internet connection while having such error codes appear in your operating system? Now, you can straight away get to know what do the error codes mean by using the Error Messages For Windows 2.9.

It's a very light weight program which enables you to instantly check for Microsoft Windows error codes.

There's a list of error codes with the error messages along side.