How to create Shutdown and reboot icon

To create a shortcut icon to shutdown and reboot on your desktop.

1] Shutdown icon

1. Right click on your desktop.
2. Select New->Shortcut.
3. In the location filed type this ’shutdown -s -t 00′ (Without quotes).
4. Click next give a name of your choice and finish.

2] Reboot icon

Follow the same procedure but replace the earlier command with this one
’shutdown -r -t 00′. (Without quotes).

How to Download Free Books and Magazines as PDF Files from Google Book Search?

Google Book Search is a free online books and magazines catalogue from Google that allows you to search the full text of books and magazines that Google scans, OCRs, and store in its digital database. There is almost no way for you to download any books or magazines from Google Book Search site because Google has put several restrictions to prevent users from downloading and saving pages.

Well, as I said, there is almost no way to download books and magazines, but does not means no way at all. There is one method to download the books and magazines.Google Book Downloader is a lightweight freeware utility for Windows that allows you to download and save book as PDF file format from Google Book Search to your local file system.

How to Use Google Book Downloader?

First, you need to download the Google Book Downloader zip file. After complete download, extract the zip file and run the mgbs.exe executable file to launch the application. On the main window of Google Book Downloader, you need to enter the book code of the book that you would like to download. How to get the book code? Now, let say you have a book that you want to download from Google Book Search.

Not only books, you can also download your favorite magazines and save it as PDF file from Google Book Search. Just follow the same procedures above.

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Delete Old Windows Files Automatically with Auto Delete

File deletion can be automated to a certain extend. Take the cache of an Internet browser for example. It can be set to be automatically deleted whenever the browser closes. Or the temporary files of a computer system. They too can be deleted during system shutdown.

Auto Delete (via Shell City) by Dario Volaric is a similar tool for Windows. The main difference is that it will run at system startup or when the user executes it manually. Another difference is that it will only delete files in the directory if they are older than the age specified by the user. The time frame ranges from 1 day to 1 year.

The user can include subfolders automatically, select if the files should be moved into the recycle or if a status window should be shown during the deletion.

The software program will automatically close after the job has ended. The main limitation of it is that it can only process one target folder. It is also unlikely that the software developer will update the program anytime soon because the last update dates back to 2005.

Do you know of a similar application that can delete files if they are older than x? Let us know in the comments.

Opening odf files with Microsoft Word

 Open Document Format is an open standard file format OpenOffice.org and others use. File Extensions include .odt(text), .ods(spreadsheet), and .odp(presentation). By default Microsoft Office does not recognise these file formats. However it is possible to open and edit these files after installing a pluggin from Sum Microsystems.

For office 2003 users

If you have Microsoft Office 2003, simply download and install the Sun ODF Plugin should just work.You can download the Sun ODF Plugin from here.

For office 2007 users

1. First you need to Install Service Pack 1 for Microsoft Office 2007.
2. Install Sun ODF Plugin for Microsoft Office.
3. Open ODT document via File > Open, or by double-clicking the ODT file and when prompted for the application to open it with, choose Word.

If you don’t have administrator privileges to install software, you can try an online converter such as Zamzar or Media Convert. You can also upload ODT documents to Google Docs or Zoho Writer.

If you want to open ODT documents locally but want to stay away from MS Office, try the lightweight, cross-platform Abiword or the full-blown suite of OpenOffice.org.