Windows 7 SP 1 to arrive in July

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...

Windows 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...

A 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....

Microsoft 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...

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...

To 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....

Microsoft 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 ...

Yesterday 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...)...

We 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...)...

At 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...