Category: Tips and Tricks

GrooveWalrus is a freeware utility specially developed for the Windows Operating System, which allows the windows users to listen songs from Last.fm and Grooveshark website(s) from their desktop.

GrooveWalrus brings both Grooveshark and Last.fm to our very own computer/laptop. One could search either by the artist name or can directly stream the songs using the player itself.

One can also create his own playlists, using the same.

The interface of GrooveWalrus is very much user friendly. And the other great feature of it is the support for the plugins, which provides better listening experience. Moreover, you can also view the lyrics in the same software, while you are listening to the music. Here’s the example for it

The other good feature of this software is the web remote management, means, you can control this desktop/laptop player by using any remote computer/laptop connected to the Internet.

When the malware enters your PC it makes the malicious files invisible, and change their properties set to hidden and thereafter disables Tools > Folder Options link, and such that you won’t be able to make them visible.

But here is the procedure to enable the Folder Options again :

1. Launch the registry editor (Start > Run and write regedit and hit Enter)
2. If the registry editor is not disabled then go directly to the step 3, then its window will be opened but if it doesn’t gets opened, please read here to enable the registry editor.
3. Go to the below keys 1 by 1,
   HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows/Current Version/Policies/Explorer
   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Windows/Current Version/Policies/Explorer
   
   then look for the DWORD value by the name NoFolderOptions. If the value exists then delete it.

You can cross-check it, in Tools > Folder Options.

Please speak your experiences.

The are many types of computer viruses, which are built to disable the registry editing. This is just due to the reason that they are attaching themselves to the startup of windows and don’t want you to change their way to working.

Sometimes the system administrators are also disabling the registry editing to keep their computer safe from unauthorized changes, and they don’t want you to surpass their preferences by simply editing some keys in the windows registry files.

Then what will you do if you are getting the error like, Registry editing has been disabled by your administrator

Solution:

Just visit Start > Run, write the below code, and hit Enter,

REG add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System /v DisableRegistryTools /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f

But if the Run button doesn’t exist in the your windows operating system – start menu, then just hit the windows key + R and Run dialog box will be shown to you. 🙂

Enjoy!

Earlier you might have read the list of online text to speech converters, they are good if you want to listen the files in mp3 format. But if you want a small piece of text to be converted into sound/speech, then those website gets out of mind.

You know, you can make your own Text to Speech Converter within a few seconds?

Just Open the notepad, and paste the following code in it,

Dim message, sapi
message=InputBox(“What do you want me to say?”,”Text To Voice”)
Set sapi=CreateObject(“sapi.spvoice”)
sapi.Speak message

Now save that text file with some name for example, TipsRing-Text-2-Speech-Converter.vbs and you’re done. Now open the software by double clicking on it (where you saved that file), and from now onwards, whenever there is some need to convert text to speech, you can open your own text to speech converter.

Type some text in the provided box and hit OK. You will get the sound for the text you entered.

This Text To Voice converter has been tested on Windows XP, Vista and 7.

Isn’t it cool! Why not share your opinion in the form of comment!