From the category archives:

Windows XP

Windows Live Wave 4: No support for XP

April 23, 2010

Windows XP users, (sigh), you reading this? Don’t you think it’s about time you must leave the sinking boat and upgrade to a bigger, nicer boat – Windows 7? Well, sooner or later you’ll have to because Microsoft is really have no pity left for XP users now. First it was the official end-of-support for [...]

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Microsoft shows explicit signs to abandon XP

March 30, 2010

Microsoft was and is very clear in its product life-cycle theories and the company has always followed them quite strictly. Couple of years ago Microsoft declared to reduce (and eventually end) the support for the aging Windows XP. Then it started reducing the number of automatic & recommended updates and only provided crucial security patches [...]

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Vienna 5 transformation-pack for Windows 7

March 28, 2010

I still remember the time when the first Vista transformation pack was made available for XP and how I went so crazy to download a 31MB file on my dial-up connection. Well, Vista came and gone and even Windows 7 seems so 2009. We need something new, don’t we? So here it is – The [...]

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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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