Does your Windows computer take really long to start-up? Well, you are not alone with this problem but fortunately, you can get your Windows to start much faster without re-installing Windows or adding any new hardware. The logic is fairly simple. Your computer loads quite a few software programs and services during start-up (look at all the icons in your Windows System tray). If you can trim this list, your computer’s boot time will decrease.
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Does your Windows computer take really long to start-up? Well, you are not alone with this problem but fortunately, you can get your Windows to start much faster without re-installing Windows or adding any new hardware. The logic is fairly simple. Your computer loads quite a few software programs and services during start-up (look at all the icons in your Windows System tray). If you can trim this list, your computer’s boot time will decrease.
By default, Windows 7 build-in Notepad does not show the status bar. However, it is necessary at times to know basic statistics of the document like number of lines consumed and current column location. By doing a little tweaking in Windows Registry, you can easily make the status bar apparent in Notepad. In this post we will let you know how to enable the status bar of Notepad. This is useful for users who cannot enable Status Bar from View menu as shown in the screenshot below. Status bar can’t be enabled when Word Wrap is enabled.One thing that's always irritates about cleaning up and repairing systems, is the fact that the Windows Installer Service doesn't run in Safe Mode not by default, anyways. That means there's additional tinkering involved before you remove any number of annoying and useless applications and installing useful programs which require the Installer service to be running. There is a handy little application which solves this problem easily. It's called SafeMSI, and it's beautifully simple.
If you have lost your product key or CD key of Windows Os or Microsoft office.Then here is a solution to recover your Ms Office 2010 Product Key with ProduKey. Produkey is small freeware utility to extract the product keys of Microsoft Office 2003, Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Office 2010 as well as product keys of Windows 7, Vista, and XP with a single click. It works smoothly on Windows 7, Vista, XP, Exchange Server and SQL Server.A lot of people don’t like the new taskbar feature of Windows 7. Others prefer the old Vista taskbar over the Windows 7 taskbar. You can change Windows 7 taskbar to work like Vista taskbar. It takes some time before you get accustomed to your Windows 7 taskbar. But if you don’t have time to get used to the new version and want your computer to work the same way like before, here is a way to change Windows 7 taskbar to work like Vista.Modern operating systems still don’t make it easy for the average user to password protect a folder. Its not even about encrypting a folder, just a simple password to keep prying eyes out.A lot of families who share a computer and even share a single user account, and therefore they all have access to the same files. That makes it pretty easy for someone to accidentally overwrite another user’s files without much thought.
Keyboard shortcuts are something I’ve always try to make the most of, and doing so has served me well over the years. One thing that Windows has seemingly lacked was a way to let me make my own keyboard shortcuts, but with Clavier+ I am one step closer to eternal keyboard bliss.
What makes it so great? Well, for starters it is a system-wide keyboard shortcut application. That means it will work inside of any app. The other thing that really won me over was the fact that it takes up a mere 1.7MB of memory when running, which is so little that I don’t have to think twice about leaving it run in the background.
If you’re reading this site there is a pretty good chance that you already know how to use the ping and trace-route commands from the command prompt. If you only have to do these once in awhile I’m sure you don’t mind opening up the command prompt, but if you’re anything more than a casual pinger you may find the free PingMaster app to be useful.
PingMaster isn’t something that’s so great it will blow your mind. Instead it’s one of those utilities that will help keep your mind (and sanity) in tact… especially if you want an easy way to monitor site response times.
There are so many Windows programs can accessed through Run dialog box. For example Registry Editor, Group Policy, Command Prompt, etc.. For you who often work with Run command, perhaps accessed it more then ten times a day. It gonna be a long way when you should click Start then click on Run to display Run dialog window. So, to enable quick access to Run dialog window, there some ways you can use.
Windows 7 has new feature called action center. Action Center is a central place to view alerts and take actions that can help keep Windows running smoothly. Action Center lists important messages about security and maintenance settings that need your attention by giving a pop-up balloon tips. However, some people think that this pop-up balloon is very annoying and want to remove it.
This tips are for you who think the action center is not very important and want to remove it from tray icon Windows 7. To remove action center from tray icon Windows 7 follow these steps:
Most of application put their icon on the desktop when they have installed on our computer. When we have installed a lot of applications, our desktop have a lot of icon too. It makes we can see the wallpaper anymore. Some of us might be remove some of them to make extra space in your desktop. But, before you start to removing some icon on your desktop, there is a trick that we can use to make some extra space on our desktop. You can change the desktop icon size to smaller size. By resizing the desktop icon to smaller size, our desktop can hold more icons on it.
Sometimes, we often empty the recycle bin to get more space in our hard drive. To empty the recycle bin we usually right clicking on the recycle bin and select Empty Recycle bin. I think most of you have been familiar with this way. But, did you that there is another way to empty recycle bin? You can empty he recycle bin by right clicking on a drive and select empty recycle bin.
How it works? We will create a new context menu on our drives which functioned to empty the recycle bin. This context menu will appears on all drives on the PC when we right click on it. To create the context menu, we should add new keys on the registry.
How it works? We will create a new context menu on our drives which functioned to empty the recycle bin. This context menu will appears on all drives on the PC when we right click on it. To create the context menu, we should add new keys on the registry.
On this article, i will show how to create shutdown, reboot and log off icon on your desktop. By creating those icon, you have an alternative way to shutdown, reboot, and log off your computer. How it works? Windows has a program called SHUTDOWN.EXE. The function of this program is to turn off your computer. Not only to turn off the computer, shutdown.exe also used to bring the computer in standby mode or log off an active user. Therefore, to create shutdown, reboot and log off icon on your desktop, we will use this program.
I’m sure all Windows users know how important is to create System Restore points and how it could help us when trouble hits our computer.
To create a System Restore point, usually we have to go through all the way from the Start Menu to Accessories and from there to System Tools where we find the System Restore tool. And even after that we have to go through a few more clicks.
The official 7 Up theme is now up for download. You can download 7 Up theme from Microsoft.
Microsoft has been updating the official Windows 7 themes gallery with lots of cool new themes since the launch of Windows 7.
The first thing that Windows 7 users would notice is that they can no longer change their start menu to a classic start menu. We could still do that on Vista but Microsoft has decided to remove it once and for all starting from Windows 7. Microsoft made a right move on that because a lot of times I had to first ask the person that I am helping if he/she is using the classic or standard start menu.
1. Classic Shell
Classic Shell is free and takes up only 1.3MB of memory. It changes the Windows 7 start menu to classic and it looks exactly the same like what you see in XP. You can navigate around the classic start menu with the arrow keys and also hitting any of the first letter brings you to the menu. Other than that, it also adds a toolbar like in XP.
Classic Shell is free and takes up only 1.3MB of memory. It changes the Windows 7 start menu to classic and it looks exactly the same like what you see in XP. You can navigate around the classic start menu with the arrow keys and also hitting any of the first letter brings you to the menu. Other than that, it also adds a toolbar like in XP.
2. Seven Classic Start
It takes up a whopping 10MB from your memory and it only replaces the Windows 7 start menu to look like the classic one. This software cost $24.95 just for this feature alone. You can use the arrow keys to navigate around the start menu but it won’t bring you to the menu if you hit the first letter on your keyboard.
[ Download Seven Classic Start ]
It takes up a whopping 10MB from your memory and it only replaces the Windows 7 start menu to look like the classic one. This software cost $24.95 just for this feature alone. You can use the arrow keys to navigate around the start menu but it won’t bring you to the menu if you hit the first letter on your keyboard.
[ Download Seven Classic Start ]
3. Classic Windows Start Menu
This is another free software that can turn Windows 7 start menu to classic. There is no setup and all you need to do is just run the executable file. Takes up 2.5MB of memory. It is possible to navigate around the Start Menu with arrow keys and also first letter from keyboard. Tested the latest beta version and it turns the menu into green color (new visual appearance).
[ Download Classic Windows Start Menu ]
This is another free software that can turn Windows 7 start menu to classic. There is no setup and all you need to do is just run the executable file. Takes up 2.5MB of memory. It is possible to navigate around the Start Menu with arrow keys and also first letter from keyboard. Tested the latest beta version and it turns the menu into green color (new visual appearance).
[ Download Classic Windows Start Menu ]
4. CSMenu
This is free too but it takes up 12MB of memory. You cannot navigate around the start menu using keyboard as both arrow keys and hitting any letters won’t do a thing. During installation you have to be very careful or you will end up with an extra Ask toolbar on your web browser. I encountered a bug when selecting the Run from the start menu. An error window appeared with the message “when select run, i get a Microsoft .NET Framework error that says “Unhandled exception has occurred in your application. If you click Continue, the application will ignore this error and attempt to continue. If you click Quit, the application will close immediately. Object reference not set to an instance of an object.”
[ Download CSMenu ]
This is free too but it takes up 12MB of memory. You cannot navigate around the start menu using keyboard as both arrow keys and hitting any letters won’t do a thing. During installation you have to be very careful or you will end up with an extra Ask toolbar on your web browser. I encountered a bug when selecting the Run from the start menu. An error window appeared with the message “when select run, i get a Microsoft .NET Framework error that says “Unhandled exception has occurred in your application. If you click Continue, the application will ignore this error and attempt to continue. If you click Quit, the application will close immediately. Object reference not set to an instance of an object.”
[ Download CSMenu ]
5. Classic Start Menu
This is like the commercial version of the CSMenu above. It cost $19.99 and the program takes up 10MB of memory. It doesn’t look exactly like the original XP classic start menu. Arrow keys work but not the first letters. Run command didn’t crash like what happened on CSMenu.
[ Download Classic Start Menu ]
This is like the commercial version of the CSMenu above. It cost $19.99 and the program takes up 10MB of memory. It doesn’t look exactly like the original XP classic start menu. Arrow keys work but not the first letters. Run command didn’t crash like what happened on CSMenu.
[ Download Classic Start Menu ]
Windows 7 is the next upcoming OS from Microsoft. And for some reason, they are not letting out much details about this OS. So I don’t think we’ll be able to get our hands on it any time soon. But what if we get to enjoy its look and feel on Windows XP and Vista, eh? Since not much is known about the OS, this theme looks more like Windows Vista, but its nice to see some refreshing changes to the same old look. Before you jump to the Windows 7 theme for XP, Windows Vista users might also like to check out Windows 7 theme for Vista that I had posted later.
How To Install Windows 7 Theme In Window 7
- Download the Windows 7 theme from here.
- Install “UXTheme Multi-Patcher 6.0.exe” from “UX Theme Patcher” folder. Or download from here for XP SP3.
- Double-click “Windows 7 M1 VS.msstyles” in “ThemeWindows 7 M1 VS” folder to install and enjoy!
[Via MegaLeecher]
The Windows Live team is back on work and yes, the Windows Live Messenger 2010 is coming out soon and is in works too.
Neowin has posted some screen-shots of the upcoming Windows Live Messenger 2010. They are the first ones to appear online.
Neowin has posted some screen-shots of the upcoming Windows Live Messenger 2010. They are the first ones to appear online.
It looks like the 2010 version will bring some nice features that IM addicts and average users have been requesting for years. According to the screenshot, tabbed-browsing will be finally coming to WLM.
And for social network junkies, Windows Live Messenger will have in-built features and support for Twitter and Facebook – cool, isn’t it?
Now I can’t wait for the first beta version to come out and give it a spin!
Microsoft paid close attention to personalization in Windows 7, and shipped it with a gorgeous collection of desktop backgrounds and themes. Windows 7 also makes it easy for users to create their own personalized themes and then share it with other Windows 7 users. If you are still using an older version of Windows (like Windows XP or Vista), you don’t have to feel left behind because, with some simple tricks, you can enjoy all or part of what these Windows 7 themes have to offer.
Use Windows 7 Themes with XP and Vista
First, launch the official Windows 7 themes directory and download some of the themes you like to your Windows XP or Vista desktop.
These files have a unique .themepack extension which is just another zip format containing all of the elements of a theme including the background images, Aero glass colors, sounds, cursors, icons, screen savers, etc.
To use these files on an older version of Windows, you first need to extract them as only Windows 7 can natively understand the themepack format. You can either change the file extension of the Windows 7 theme file from .themepack to .cab and then extract the files with a right-click, or install the free 7-Zip utility as 7-Zip can automatically hand the themepack file format.
Once extracted, your theme files will now be in a new folder that has the same name as your original themepack.
Aero Glass Border and Desktop Backgrounds
Now that you have all the required files, its time to activate the Windows 7 theme on your non-Windows 7 computer.
If your computer is running Windows Vista that supports Aero, simply double-click the .theme file that is present in the them folder you just extracted. This will set your windows border glass to the color of the Windows 7 theme and your wallpaper to the default background of the theme. However, this background picture will disappear when you reboot your computer, so you need to set that as a permanent background.
Windows XP does not support Aero glass, but you can still use the background images from downloaded Windows 7 theme on your XP desktop. You can find the backgrounds inside the theme-pack folder itself or in a sub-folder named Desktop-background. Pick any image, right click on it, and select “Set as Desktop Background.”
Windows 7 like Desktop Slide-shows for XP and Vista
Most Windows 7 themes consist of multiple background images and Windows 7 will automatically change your desktop background at periodic intervals using one of the images from the theme-pack. Windows Vista and XP do not support desktop slideshows, but you can easily bring that feature use the excellent and free John’s Background Switcher program.
To create a desktop slideshow, click the add button and choose “A folder on your computer.” Now select the Windows 7 theme folder that contains all the background images. The program allows lot of tweaking but you can skip that because the default settings are very similar to what you need for simulating Windows 7 behavior on your XP or Vista computer.
However, John’s Background Switcher by default shows the name of the image in the top right hand corner of the picture. To remove this, click the “More…” button that has a gear icon on it. Unchecked the box beside the 3rd entry which says “Show picture info on the top-right corner of the screen.” Now click Ok, and then click Ok in the main window, and your desktop slide show is all ready.
For RSS-enabled Windows 7 Themes
Some Windows 7 themes download images from the internet (via RSS feeds) when switching desktop backgrounds.
To know if the theme you are looking to port on your Vista or XP computer uses RSS or not, open the .theme file in a text editor like Notepad. Then search for the string “RssFeed” without the quotes. If you find that string, copy the link address of the RSS feed and, you can then use the “RSS photo feed” option in John’s Background Switcher program to create an RSS powered desktop slideshow on your XP or Vista machines.
Windows 7 Sounds, Cursor, Screen savers, etc.
Most Windows 7 themes only contain a glass color and desktop backgrounds. However, some may contain screen-savers, sounds, cursors, and icons as well. The good part is that you can use the elements on your Vista / XP theme as well.
Sounds - You can copy the sound files (.wav) to the default media folder (C:\Windows\Media), and if you have set the Windows 7 theme in Windows Vista as described above, it will automatically these sounds. Else, you will have to manually change your sounds from the Control Panel.
Icons - If the Windows 7 theme that you plan to use with XP or Vista contains a different set of desktop and system icons (.ico files), you may follow the directions below to apply them on your version of Windows:For Windows Vista – Right-click on the desktop, select Personalize and choose “Change Desktop Icons.” Select the items you which to change, click “Change Icons,” and browse to the location of new icons that are part of the Windows 7 theme.For Windows XP – Right-click on the desktop, select Properties and choose "Customize Desktop" under the Desktop tab. Select the items you wish to change, click “Change Icon,” and browse to the location of the icons from your theme.
To change icons of individual programs, simply right-click on the program shortcut on your desktop, select Properties, and click the button that says "Change Icon" in the Shortcut tab. Browse to the location of the icon extract from the Windows 7 theme and select the one you want to apply.
Screensavers – For using a Windows 7 screensaver inside XP or Vista, just copy the relevant screensaver files (.scr) into your Windows system folder usually located at C:\Windows\System32. Now, change your system screensaver using the usual method. Please remember that not all Windows 7 screensavers will work correctly on previous versions of Windows.
Cursors – You can copy the Windows 7 cursor files (.cur or .ani) to C:\Windows\Cursors on XP or Vista, and then apply the new set using the mouse settings under Control Panel. Use the [Control Panel\Cursors] of the .theme file (see example) to understand the default cursor mappings.
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