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...

HP has released two new videos featuring the new HP Slate. For those who don't know, the "Slate" is a tablet PC from HP that runs Windows 7. The new video shows HP Slate using Adobe Air apps like flash ( that its opponent iPad lacks). So here are the videos ...

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...)...

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...

Microsoft has issued a new KB article about a problem that causes the Explorer to crash and restart when you try to connect Wireless LAN from the tray icon and an error message is stored in the application log. Log Name: Application Source: Application Error Event ID: 1000 Task Category: (100) (more...)...

Dual booting is not a very hard task. But it requires a bit of prerequisite knowledge and if not done with care can lead to disaster. This guide assumes that you already have windows vista installed. 1. Boot with Windows Xp cd and wait till it loads necessary files. 2. Then select the volume in which you want to install Xp (choose a different drive than the one with vista installed. If you don’t have two volumes you can use vista’s built in d...

This is a review that I wrote for my old blog on August 12, 2009 and is based on Windows 7 RC As I am having a vacation I have a lot of free time these days. So I decided to utilize it by doing a comparison of windows 7 with my good old buddy windows Xp. This comparison focuses on Windows 7 RC. One thing I didn’t like about Windows Vista was that I couldn’t play a lot of old games which I liked. That remains true for Windows 7 as well. But it...