Oh crap! You deleted a file a few days ago that you just realized you still need! And on top of that you already emptied out your Recycle Bin, so there's nothing there! Well basically, Windows has nothing built-in that will help you recover your deleted file. However, thanks to the way Windows works, when you delete a file or even empty it from your recycle bin, Windows does not actually DELETE the file off the hard drive, it simply deletes the reference to the file.
For example, when you go to a library to find a book, you usually go to the index catalog and find the aisle number for your book. If you delete the index that tells you which aisle that book is located at, the book is still there, but no one may ever find it again! That's the same way deleting works in Windows, the index to that file is deleted, but not the file itself. But of course, this now means that Windows can use that space to write other files when the time arises! It counts that space as free space, so you have to hope that Windows has not already written over that section!
The program that can help you recover your deleted files is Recuva (to be pronounced as Recover). It's from the same people who wrote CCleaner, which is a great program to delete temporary files and clean out your registry. I scanned my C drive and it found 5495 files in about 30 seconds!!! Pretty damn fast!!! You can also filter the contents by typing in the name of the file or extension in the Find box.
Source: http://www.ghacks.net/2007/03/23/recover-accidentally-deleted-files/
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How to configure your Google search preferences & search within results
I've been searching the Internet using Google for years now and yet I have never bothered to set my Search Preferences until TODAY! Quite late considering some of the options are actually quite useful! This post is inspired by the fac that I was trying to perform a search within a set of search results and could not figure out how to do it in Google for about 10 minutes! So without further adeiu, here's how to setup your search options.
First off, when you are on the main Google page, you'll see a couple of links off to the right of the search box, namely Advanced Search, Preferences, and Language Tools. Click on Preferences.
Now you'll get the list of Global Preferences that you can configure:
1. Interface Language - This refers to which language you would like to use for all the interface items. Let's say you change it to Hindi, then the Google search buttons and text will all be written in Hindi. However, the search results themsevles are not in Hindi nor are the sponsored links down the right side, only the "Google" parts of the page.
2. Search Language - If you're only interested in seeing pages written in a particular language, then check "Search only for pages written in these languages" and check the languages. This can be useful if you're looking for a very specific site and you know it's written in Spanish, let's say, but you keep getting a bunch of English written web sites when you perform a search.
3. Safe Search Filtering - This is one of those settings for those naughty people who "need" to have their search results unadulterated! Right! If you want to block explicit text and images from search results, choose Strict Filtering. Moderate Filtering is by default and blocks X-Rated images, but not text.
4. Number of Results - Up to now, nothing was really very useful for me, but I hate only having 10 results per page, so I quickly changed that value to something more reasonable like 50! Why click next 5 times, when you can see everything on one page
5. Results Window - This option is also very useful if you are one of those people who finds themselves constantly right-clicking on a search result and choosing "Open in New Window"! It's just easier to set the option here and whenever you click on a result, it'll pop up a new window! Nice and easy!
Finally, go ahead and save your preferences by clicking the button at the bottom right. Another useful feature that you might have seen before is the ability to search within a set of results from another search, a search within search type of thing. I couldn't figure out how to do this in Google for almost 10 minutes and I'm not sure why it's not a much more obvious option because I use it occasionaly.
Anyway, first perform a search on whatever you like, let's say the word "cars". Now you'll get back about 401,000,000 results and maybe you want to now search within this set to find "modified engines" or something. So in order to do that, you need to scroll all the way down to the bottom of the page and you'll see the normal Google search box with a few links below it. One of the links is named "Search within results". Note this option is not visible anywhere for the search box at the top of the page.
First off, when you are on the main Google page, you'll see a couple of links off to the right of the search box, namely Advanced Search, Preferences, and Language Tools. Click on Preferences.
Now you'll get the list of Global Preferences that you can configure:
1. Interface Language - This refers to which language you would like to use for all the interface items. Let's say you change it to Hindi, then the Google search buttons and text will all be written in Hindi. However, the search results themsevles are not in Hindi nor are the sponsored links down the right side, only the "Google" parts of the page.
2. Search Language - If you're only interested in seeing pages written in a particular language, then check "Search only for pages written in these languages" and check the languages. This can be useful if you're looking for a very specific site and you know it's written in Spanish, let's say, but you keep getting a bunch of English written web sites when you perform a search.
3. Safe Search Filtering - This is one of those settings for those naughty people who "need" to have their search results unadulterated! Right! If you want to block explicit text and images from search results, choose Strict Filtering. Moderate Filtering is by default and blocks X-Rated images, but not text.
4. Number of Results - Up to now, nothing was really very useful for me, but I hate only having 10 results per page, so I quickly changed that value to something more reasonable like 50! Why click next 5 times, when you can see everything on one page
5. Results Window - This option is also very useful if you are one of those people who finds themselves constantly right-clicking on a search result and choosing "Open in New Window"! It's just easier to set the option here and whenever you click on a result, it'll pop up a new window! Nice and easy!
Finally, go ahead and save your preferences by clicking the button at the bottom right. Another useful feature that you might have seen before is the ability to search within a set of results from another search, a search within search type of thing. I couldn't figure out how to do this in Google for almost 10 minutes and I'm not sure why it's not a much more obvious option because I use it occasionaly.
Anyway, first perform a search on whatever you like, let's say the word "cars". Now you'll get back about 401,000,000 results and maybe you want to now search within this set to find "modified engines" or something. So in order to do that, you need to scroll all the way down to the bottom of the page and you'll see the normal Google search box with a few links below it. One of the links is named "Search within results". Note this option is not visible anywhere for the search box at the top of the page.
How to change the way your computer displays time
Are you a military person who's completely ingrained in understanding 17:34 rather than the simplistic 5:34 PM? Or maybe you simply want to get rid of AM and PM altogether considering you must be in one very scary place not to be able to figure out whether or not it's day time or night time while sitting at your computer! Personally, it saves me the space to stick in one more taskbar icon!
In order to change how the time is displayed on your computer, click on Start, Control Panel, and choose Regional and Language Options.
Next, on the dialog, click the Customize button underneath the Standards and formats section. Below that button, you'll also see an example of how each setting is currently configured for Number, Currency, Time, Short Date, and Long Date.
Finally, click the Time tab and you can now change the format in the Time Format textbox.
When you open it, however, it really is not very helpful since it pretty much looks the same except for the lowercase and uppercase letters. Here's the guide on how to set the time format:
The uppercase H or HH stands for 24-hour format, whereas the lower case h and hh means 12-hour format. The single h is if you do not want to display leading zeros for single digit hours and hh is if you want a leading zero.
So in our case if you want the time in 24-hour format, choose H:mm:ss. With the defaults, the minutes and seconds will also display leading zeros for single digit numbers, but you can simply delete one m and one s if you don't want those displayed either! Here are the rules if you want to type in your own time format:
Display time in a 24-hour format - Type uppercase H or HH for the hour
Display time in a 12-hour format - Type lowercase h or hh for the hour
Display leading zeros in single-digit hours - Type two characters, HH or hh
Suppress the display of leading zeros in single-digit hours, minutes, or seconds - Type a single uppercase H, or lowercase letter, such as h, m, or s
Display a single letter to indicate AM or PM - Type lowercase t
Display two letters to indicate AM or PM - Type lowercase tt
Display text - Type single quotation marks (') around text
If you noticed there is an option called Display text so that if you feel like having some fun, you can put in your own text!
Enjoy!
In order to change how the time is displayed on your computer, click on Start, Control Panel, and choose Regional and Language Options.
Next, on the dialog, click the Customize button underneath the Standards and formats section. Below that button, you'll also see an example of how each setting is currently configured for Number, Currency, Time, Short Date, and Long Date.
Finally, click the Time tab and you can now change the format in the Time Format textbox.
When you open it, however, it really is not very helpful since it pretty much looks the same except for the lowercase and uppercase letters. Here's the guide on how to set the time format:
The uppercase H or HH stands for 24-hour format, whereas the lower case h and hh means 12-hour format. The single h is if you do not want to display leading zeros for single digit hours and hh is if you want a leading zero.
So in our case if you want the time in 24-hour format, choose H:mm:ss. With the defaults, the minutes and seconds will also display leading zeros for single digit numbers, but you can simply delete one m and one s if you don't want those displayed either! Here are the rules if you want to type in your own time format:
Display time in a 24-hour format - Type uppercase H or HH for the hour
Display time in a 12-hour format - Type lowercase h or hh for the hour
Display leading zeros in single-digit hours - Type two characters, HH or hh
Suppress the display of leading zeros in single-digit hours, minutes, or seconds - Type a single uppercase H, or lowercase letter, such as h, m, or s
Display a single letter to indicate AM or PM - Type lowercase t
Display two letters to indicate AM or PM - Type lowercase tt
Display text - Type single quotation marks (') around text
If you noticed there is an option called Display text so that if you feel like having some fun, you can put in your own text!
Enjoy!
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