Archive for the ‘Windows 7’ Category
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Windows 7 SP 1 to arrive in July
by Nithin Ramesh on Jun 8th, 2010
Microsoft has announced that Windows 7 SP1 Beta will release this July. Bob Muglia, President of Microsoft's server and tools business gave out the details yesterday during the opening of Tech-Ed Conference. Like last time, Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 will have a combined single installer. The SP1 will be a minor update for Windows 7 with no new features. It will include all the previously released hot fixes and a few new one...Read More » Tags
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Filed under: Tips, Tricks & HowTo's, Windows 7
Remove unnecessary entries from search bar in Windows 7
by Nithin Ramesh on May 10th, 2010Windows 7 usually saves the searches that you enter in Explorer and offers them while typing. Over time this can become a bit confusing. You can delete them either fully or just a few entries. To delete a few entries mouse over that entry and press delete button. If you have a really long list, then deleting everything in this way might not be possible. The following trick involves editing registry. So please backup your registry by File>Expo...Read More » Tags
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Filed under: Windows 7, Windows Phone
Windows Phone Metro UI comes to Windows 7
by Nithin Ramesh on Mar 28th, 2010A guy called fediaFedia from devianArt has created a Windows phone 7 Series like UI for Windows 7. It is a very vibrant and colourful theme. It displays rainmeter widgets as live tiles showing infos such as date,time,cpu temperature etc. It is not ready yet, but it sure looks promising. UPDATE : It is now available for download from here....Read More » Tags
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Details about Service Pack 1 for Windows 7 surfaces
by Nithin Ramesh on Mar 19th, 2010Microsoft has finally spoken about the first service pack of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008. As expected, SP1 will not bring groundbreaking changes, but will include all the previously released hotfixes plus a new Remote Desktop client that takes advantage of RemoteFX introduced in the server-side with SP1 for Windows Server 2008 R2. For Windows Server 2008 service pack 1 will be a big deal. Sp1 will introduce two new desktop virtualization...Read More » Tags
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Filed under: Featured, Windows 7, Windows Vista
Shut down / Restart your Computer, the geek way!
by Nithin Ramesh on Mar 6th, 2010
Here are a few old ways to shut down/restart your computer, the geek way! Windows XP: Press windows key and then press "U" twice to shutdown Press Windows key then U and R to restart Press Windows key and L twice to logoff Windows Vista/Windows 7 Press Windows key and then press "Right arrow" thrice and U to shut down Press Windows key and then press right arrow thrice and R to restart Press Windows key then press right arrow thrice and...Read More » Tags
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Filed under: Windows 7
Download Spring theme for Windows 7
by Nithin Ramesh on Mar 4th, 2010To celebrate the arrival of spring season, Microsoft has added a new theme called "Czech Spring" to its Personalization Gallery. Czech Spring contains some amazing wallpapers to spruce up your desktop. So go ahead and download the theme for free from here. Note that they are for Windows 7 only. You might also want to check out The Wild and Back to Nature, two themes released by Windows Blog....Read More » Tags
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Filed under: Security, Windows 7, Windows Vista
Beware of fake "Security Essentials 2010"!
by Nithin Ramesh on Feb 26th, 2010Microsoft has warned its users of a fake antivirus software called Security Essentials 2010. As the original blog post by Microsoft's David Wood goes, Well, it had to happen eventually. One of the oldest tricks used by rogue antivirus products is to use a similar name as, or have a similar look and feel to, legitimate security software. It’s been commonplace for them to mimic the Windows Security Center. So it was inevitable that the day would ...Read More » Tags
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Filed under: Windows 7
Install Windows 7 from a phone
by Nithin Ramesh on Feb 12th, 2010Yesterday I came across this excellent video and couldn't resist sharing it here .In this video Microsoft's James O'Neil shows how to install Windows 7 from a phone or to be precise a Windows phone. Windows 7 can already be installed in many ways from traditional DVDs to USB sticks. Remember the controversy regarding the open source code in the Windows 7 USB install tool ?Anyways lets stop talking and start watching. (more...)...Read More » Tags
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The Wild & Back to Nature – Two Windows 7 themes by Windows Blog
by Nithin Ramesh on Jan 16th, 2010We are glad to announce the release of two new Windows 7 themes by Windows Blog. The first one is called The Wild and consists of 11 high definition wallpapers with Savanna sound scheme and default windows colour. Second one is called Back to Nature. It also consists of 11 wallpapers and has the sound scheme "Raga". [caption id="attachment_434" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="The Wild"][/caption] (more...)...Read More » Tags
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Filed under: Tips, Tricks & HowTo's, Windows 7, Windows Vista
Restoring a previous version of windows on a windows 7 pc using windows.old folder
by Nithin Ramesh on Jan 15th, 2010At times you might want to restore a previous version of Windows, that you had installed before you installed Windows 7. This article explains just that. Windows.old folder is created when you install a new version of windows over an older version. It basically consists of all the data in the root of your partition which had windows installed, before you installed Windows 7. It might be quiet large in size. So make sure that your windows par...Read More » Tags
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