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Top 4 Windows 7 tips that you should know

Tony — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 07:56:42 +0000

Here I am listing some important tips and tricks that you should be knowing about windows 7.Lets start with some tips that will make your desktop more interesting and then move on to some tips that will improve your computers power efficiency. 1. How to use hidden international wall papers and themes? When you first install a windows 7 you are asked to select your country and language. Suppose if you select English (United States), then windows will install themes and wallpapers of that read more

How to Disable UAC Elevation Prompts from Windows 7 and Vista

Tony — Thu, 19 May 2011 09:34:25 +0000

Hey folks! I am not gonna dumb you with my “artistic” introduction this time Get to the point: 1. Type “Local Security Policy” in your Program Search field of the Windows Start 2. Go to Local Policies and then to Security Options 3. Find this thing: “User Account Control: Behavior of the elevation prompt for administrators in Admin Approval Mode” 4. Set it to “Elevate Without Prompting” Oh! Now that little mischievous kid wont tease you! Okay. Now read more

Free Anti Virus and Internet Security Softwares

Tony — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 10:23:53 +0000

Image Source This is really a hectic world we all live in – we cant say when there occurs an unexpected event – a black swan like the Tsunami and earth quake in Japan, like the Libyan civil war, like 9/11 of USA, like the dot com bubble of 2000 – we cant predict! This world and life around us keeps surprising us every moment Similar is the case with our computers and notebooks – we cant particularly say when will a virus or a malware or a freakin trojan attacks our read more

New software multiplies computers in schools

kannan — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 11:49:54 +0000

Getting on a computer at school often still requires a trip to the computer lab or competing for a couple of tired machines in the back of a classroom. But Microsoft and a handful of hardware partners are trying to seed schools with many more computing stations by getting single computers to power many more terminals. The concept, called shared resources computing, involves having a handful of stations draw their processing power from one traditional desktop PC, connecting through simple USB read more

Windows Phone 7

kannan — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 05:51:21 +0000

Microsoft announces new mobile phone software Windows Phone 7 at a mobile phone industry conference in Spain. Keeping in view the users’ complaints about the Mobile phone software’s bland interface, slow response time, and tediously repeated `clicking’ for performing tasks, the Windows Phone 7 has essentially been designed for anticipating the phone users’ needs – it can automatically tap into the carrier’s data network to display appointments, photos and read more

How To: Enable Blind Carbon Copy (BCC) Field In Windows Mail

Tony — Tue, 05 May 2009 01:36:34 +0000

The BCC (Blind Carbon Copy) field enables you to sent mail to multiple targets without the list of recipients being displayed.What this mean is the recipient will only see the address in the “To” field and will not see any others.Thus, BCC can be employed in sending emails in bulk.Some mail programs have the BCC field enabled already; others do not. Windows Mail is the free email client based on Outlook Express, that comes with the Windows Vista operating system. Windows Mail has read more

How To: Disable The NTFS File System Tracking Of Broken Shortcut Links In Windows

Tony — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 05:54:28 +0000

If a shortcut to a file breaks because the destination file has moved, then by default Windows operating system will attempt to automatically locate the shortcut destination by performing a search (this only applies to operating systems which use NTFS partitions like Windows XP or Vista).By a simple Windows registry tweak you can prevent the NTFS file system from tracking alternate paths for a broken shortcut link.The steps for this registry tweak is given below: Start Registry Editor in read more

How To: Convert A FireWire(IEEE 1394) Device To A Dynamic Disk Drive In Windows XP

Tony — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 16:07:42 +0000

FireWire is a high-speed serial technology that was invented by Apple Computer and was adopted by the IEEE(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) as a standard (IEEE-1394).FireWire is a cross-platform high-speed serial technology that can move very large amounts of data of data between computers and peripheral devices. This registry tweak allows you to convert an IEEE1394 (FireWire) external hard disk drive to a dynamic disk drive in Windows Vista or in XP. To convert an IEEE 1394 read more

How To: Uninstall Windows Vista On A Multiboot System With Windows XP

Tony — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 00:04:25 +0000

Microsoft has made un-installation of Windows Vista from a dual boot system is very simple.Actually you cannot uninstall Windows Vista from your computer like other software applications.However, you can alter the code that starts the operating system called the master boot code, and then remove Windows Vista from your dual boot system and return to the previous operating system Windows XP.Note that this trick is only applicable in a dual boot system contains both the Windows Vista and XP.You read more

How To: Fix Windows XP Stop Error “Stop 0×0000001E or KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED”

Tony — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 13:05:09 +0000

The Stop 0×1E message indicates that the Windows XP kernel detected an illegal or unknown processor instruction. The problems that cause Stop 0×1E messages share similarities with those that generate Stop 0xA errors in that they can be due to invalid memory and access violations. This default Windows XP error handler typically intercepts these problems if error-handling routines are not present in the code itself. Possible Resolutions For Windows Stop Error “Stop 0×0000001E or read more

How To: Set Processor Affinity To An Application(Or Process) In Windows Vista/XP

Tony — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:54:09 +0000

In Windows XP and Windows Vista, applications by default run on all available cores of the processor, if you have a dual or quad core processor, then you can set affinity to an application to control which core of the processor an application can use, in this way you can assign one application or a program to use only one processor while other application can run on other processor.Processor Affinity is the process by which particular tasks on the computer are scheduled and accomplished. A read more

How To: Automatically Delete Links To My Recent Documents

Tony — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 00:14:54 +0000

You might want to refresh ‘My Recent Documents’ or ‘Documents’ list in the Windows XP Start menu after every restart, as snoopers, who have access to your system could use these to monitor your computing. These links are a window to your accessed files, it even allows access to hidden files. Windows XP can automatically delete these for you when shutting down; here is how to do it. Go to the Windows XP Start menu and open the ‘Run’ dialog. Type ‘regedit’ in the dialog to read more