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Windows Vista

Windows Vista RTM support ends today

April 14, 2010

If you are still on Windows Vista RTM (ahem!) then it is recommended you upgrade to Windows Vista SP2 or better still, Windows 7. That’s because Microsoft officially ends support for Vista RTM as of today. We have repeatedly said that Microsoft follows their product life-cycle very strictly and the end of support to Vista [...]

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Dream Desktop – a unique wallpaper manager!

March 21, 2010

There are lot of wallpaper managing software available on the internet today. Mostly all of them have pretty much similar functionality like maintaining a list of wallpapers and changing them at regular intervals. Today we have featured a slightly different wallpaper managing software – Dream Desktop. Dream desktop is different in a sense that the [...]

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How to: Disable file delete confirmation dialog in Windows

March 1, 2010

Beginner Quick-tip Confirmation dialog boxes in Windows are like the best thing after sliced bread just because they give you a ‘second chance’. However, if you are smart enough and consider yourself as the ‘one who can do no wrong’, you might want to turn off confirmation dialog boxes that appear when you delete a [...]

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Microsoft ends support for Windows 2000, XP SP2 and Vista RTM

February 25, 2010

According to the Microsoft Support Lifecycle policy and the End of Support page at Microsoft, this comes as a reminder to all the users of Windows 2000, XP SP2 and Vista RTM that the software giant is going to end its support for the aging OSes. Back in 2008, Microsoft declared the exact dates when [...]

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Desktop Currency Converter: ‘Coz you don’t know when you’ll need it!

January 24, 2010

I wish to keep this short and sweet. So, without an intro paragraph (which you don’t read anyway ), here goes. Desktop Currency Converter is well, a currency converter (duh!) with some decent features. It is a small widget-like app that stays on your desktop and converts the amount inputted in one currency to the [...]

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Stop users from running specific applications in Windows

January 20, 2010

As a security measure, there are times when you need to stop access to certain programs to other users. In Windows, using the Local Group Policy Editor, you can specify which all programs you want to prevent from running. This is very useful if you are administering an Internet lab in school and colleges or [...]

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Animated Startmenu for Windows

January 8, 2010

deviantART is full of crazy people doing all the awesomeness don’t know since when. One such deviantART user, oO-MrHigh-Oo made a small utility called ‘Startmenu Animation’ that gives a nice 3D animation to the Startmenu in Windows XP, Vista and 7. Basically that’s all it does. But it deserves a post because the way it [...]

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Fishbowl brings Facebook on your desktop

November 20, 2009

Today’s technological scenario is all about integration and making every task simpler and every information easily accessible. Well, similar are the thoughts of UXLabs at Microsoft. They have created a very sleek Facebook client application that brings the complete Facebook experience right on your Windows desktop – Fishbowl. Although in a ‘trial’ (beta) stage, Fishbowl [...]

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Microsoft Pivot: Bringing visual search to life

November 20, 2009

In PDC ‘09, Microsoft unveiled a prototype called Pivot, created by Microsoft Live Labs that claims to revolutionize the way we search the web by introducing a new dimension called ‘visual search’. Redmond company explains that Pivot lets users experience the web in a more subtle and ‘visual’ way, instead of series of pages. Powerful, [...]

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100+ free games from Microsoft

November 13, 2009

Instead of exploring new things all the time, sometimes I dig into what I have already got and I always come up with something new. Very few of us might know that Microsoft also offers lots of free games to its users. ‘The Games’ section in Windows Vista and Windows 7 is often listed in [...]

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