Cool Techie Tips 2: Changing Disc Drive Letters

Here’s the second part of the cool techie tips.  These are another real cool, amazing tweaks which you can do with your PC.  I narrow it down and added picture, for techie moron like me.  

If you want to change the letters assigned to your fixed or removable drives:

1. Right Click on My Computer
2. Select Manage
3. Select Disk Management
4. Select the Fixed Disk you want to change or the Removable Drive
5. Right click
6. Select Change Drive Letter and Path
7. Click on the Edit button (or Change Button in some cases)
8. Enter in the letter you want to use (or select in Drop Down box)

Watch out for the next cool techie tips.

Cool Techie Tips 1: Make Your Folders Invisible

    I’m not really a techie-geeky type but I’m quite really amazed of what other can do to their PC’s.  Here are some of the real cool and amazing things you can with your PC. By the way, I didn’t discover it I just found it in Convergence Forums (one of my favorite hangout in the Net).  I narrow it down with less technical term, for techie moron like me.  Here’s the first part of the cool techie tips.

1. Right Click on the desktop. Make a new folder. (or right click on an existing folder and click Rename)
2. Now rename the folder with a space. You have to hold ALT key on your keyboard and type 0160.
3. Now you have a folder without a name.
4. Right click on the Folder
5. Click Properties
6. Click Customize tab.
7. Click on Change icon button.
8. Scroll a bit, you should find some empty spaces. Click on any one of them.
9. Click ok

You have now an invisible folder.  To find the folder press CTRL + A.