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Music Desktop Accessories for Microsoft Windows Vista and Windows 7

2009-08-20T23:02:00.000-07:00

Are you a music fan who wants an simple way to get the music you adulation with a simple appliance on your desktop? Today we accompany you a account of some of the acknowledgment music themed desktop accessories for Microsoft windows Vista and Windows 7.

UnsignedBandWeb.com Radio

Check out new artists and bands arising on the music arena with the UnsignedBandWeb.com gadget. It allows you to ascendancy playback, volume, and songs. You can can aces from a advanced array of music genres including Ska, Rock, Rap, and abundant more.

iTunes Accessory Gadget

This air-conditioned apparatus allows you to ascendancy playback of advance and added settings in iTunes after accepting to accessible up the absolute iTunes application.

ChroniX MetalRadio

If you’re a fan of abundant metal, one of the coolest online metal stations is ChroniX Radio. This accessible apparatus lets you beck and ascendancy playback of their three channels-Aggression, Metal, and Grit-where anniversary has a altered acidity of harder bedrock and metal.

Media Player Gadget

This ties into your Windows Media Player library and allows you to calmly seek it. It aswell will affectation anthology artwork, clue information, and accord you visualizations if arena a song. It is a lot easier to cross than aperture the abounding WMP application.

If you are a fan of Music and desktop accessories you ability wish to accord these a try. We would like to apperceive about some of your admired Windows Desktop Accessories just leave a animadversion below.

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How to repair Microsoft Computer

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How to repair Microsoft Computer

2009-08-17T20:25:00.000-07:00

Computer repair abilities are a awful admired commodity, both in the computer-repair business and in accepted appointment situations. While there are few concrete differences amid brands, software can be a altered story. Microsoft's proprietary operating systems and software crave the abstraction of specific materials, as against to the added accepted advice that governs accouterments support. If you accept never attempted to apprentice computer adjustment before, this adviser should accord you some accessible tips to forward you on your way.

Step 1

Familiarize yourself with computer-related jargon. Learning to anticipate locations and problems if they are declared will advice you to abetment with aliment even if you are not physically abutting to the computer that requires repairs. It will advice you apprentice to call problems and locations after application their names. If you accept to adjustment computers for others, this accomplishment will be advantageous if your chump is not as accustomed with computer analogue as you may be.

Step 2

Create a claimed library of advertence materials. If you acquisition a band-aid to a problem, address it down, save it on your harder drive, bookmark it or highlight it. Some problems will not crop up as generally as others, and you may overlook the solution. Keeping a advertence library will acquiesce you to accomplish aliment added bound and cost-effectively.

Step 3

Find schematics. Computer makers use altered designs for their products; already a computer has been opened, you may acquisition an alien layout. Schematics are accessible if you accomplish aliment that crave disassembly. Schematics are sometimes referred to as "service manuals."

Step 4

Watch others work. If you accompany a computer in for repairs, it never hurts to ask the artisan if you may watch the artisan work. Most technicians will accept abstruse tricks over the years that accomplish aliment easier and abate all-embracing turnaround time.

Step 5

Practice authoritative repairs. Resale shops accept become accomplished places to attending for earlier computers and parts. For a adequately low price, a computer can be purchased that may or may not work. These are agitating for adjustment convenance and assuming diagnostics. Already you accept the computer running, you can even re-donate it or accumulate it for added study.

Step 6

Familiarize yourself with software. Microsoft's proprietary software curve accept had abounding books accounting about them; they are usually accessible at libraries or for acquirement at bookstores. Computer adjustment technicians will appointment abounding altered software versions, some of which are not produced any longer. It is absurd to become an able on every section of software available, but the essentials are absolutely the Microsoft Appointment Suite, all versions of Microsoft Windows, and Internet browsers and email clients, such as Internet Explorer and Microsoft Outlook.

Step 7

Purchase accessories and absorb time and money on able certifications, if you are austere about computer repair. Microsoft offers several altered certifications for technicians in assorted areas; CompTIA offers several accepted certifications that are not brand-related. The A+ (A plus) certification, which covers accepted computer adjustment and software support, is advised an capital acceptance for a able technicians.
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How to uninstall or delete IE 8 from Microsoft windows 7

2009-08-06T02:02:00.000-07:00

A lot of Microsoft Windows xp users out there animosity Internet Explorer abundant that just application a altered browser is not enough, they wish it gone. Although there is not a way to absolutely uninstall it, let’s yield a attending at how to attenuate IE 8 in Windows 7 so you won’t accept to accord with it anymore.

Click on the Start Menu and go to Control Panel and change the View by class to Large or Small icons again from the Control Panel account go into Programs and Features.

In the Programs and Appearance window click on the “Turn Windows appearance on or off” hotlink on the larboard duke side.

The Microsoft Windows Appearance awning opens up and actuality you wish to uncheck the box next to Internet Explorer 8.

You will get a acceptance box if you uncheck it adage it may affect added Windows features. It will if you don’t accept addition browser installed but contrarily aggregate that usually opens in IE will accessible in your absence browser.

After acceptance you wish to about-face it off click OK.

You will get a advance notification while Windows turns off IE 8.

When aggregate is angry off you will charge to restart your system.

After advancing aback from the restart you will apprehension Internet Explorer 8 is no best there. Anything you had affiliated to IE will be associated with addition browser if you accept one installed. It will aswell no best arise in the Set Absence Programs section.

If you go to the Accessible With account in Explorer you will see an all-encompassing Internet Browser support figure that will accessible up whatever is your absence browser.

This doesn’t absolutely abolish all traces of Internet Explorer 8 as added programs and processes await on its apprehension engine. This will absolutely get it off your way if accomplishing your circadian accretion tasks.

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How to Detect and Repair Applications In Microsoft Office 2007

2009-07-30T23:36:00.000-07:00

How abounding times accept you had a Microsoft windows Office appliance blast or lock up your system? The affliction culprits assume to be Microsoft Outlook and Access for me.

At my abode we are active Microsoft Office 2003 and if a blast or botheration occurs it agency crumbling time hunting down the problem, accomplishing a adjustment installation, or accomplishing a complete uninstall/reinstall of the office suite.

Windows Office 2007 has a new affection (which replaces ascertain and repair) which allows you to analyze and adjustment problems if they action in your circadian tasks. The analytic account will analysis the Microsoft Windows system accident log, harder drive, memory, appliance compatibility, adapted account packs, and Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology (SMART) if your harder drive supports it. I apperceive it sounds like a lot, but let me appearance you how simple this is to run.

Start \ Programs \ Microsoft Office \ Microsoft Office Tools \ Microsoft Office Diagnostics

The Microsoft Office Diagnostics burst awning will open. Click Continue.

Next you are presented with the Start Diagnostics Awning assuming you what is traveling to be arrested and the cachet of anniversary diagnostic. If you are accessible click Run Diagnostics.

While the Diagnostics run you will see the cachet confined as anniversary tests completes. If it’s complete hit Continue.

You will get a bound detail of what was fixed. In this archetype all 5 analytic tests ran and one botheration was articular and fixed. If you ok with that just abutting out and you are done. If you wish to get added advice click on “Detailed results”.

When you attending abutting at the abundant advice in this archetype you can see there was a botheration with the accession and this apparatus automatically anchored it.

Unfortunately for an ambassador or ability user this account ‘as is’ does not affectation specific after-effects However if you are in a bustle and charge your applications up and active to accomplishment your plan Microsoft Office Diagnostics works great!

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How to Turn Off Desktop Email Notifications in Outlook

2009-07-24T02:30:00.000-07:00

Email notifications are a abundant way to accumulate tabs on important admission messages. However, if you get hundreds of emails a day it can be a aberration click on the notifications every time they pop up, arresting your workflow and affecting your productivity.

You may acquisition yourself crumbling a lot of time blockage email support throughout the day and apprehensive why none of your projects were completed. If the desktop notifications are confusing you we can artlessly about-face them off.

With Microsoft Outlook accessible click on Tools \ Options and again the E-mail Options button.

Now in the E-mail Options window click on the Advanced E-mail Options button.

Now uncheck the box next to “Display a New Mail Desktop Alert” and while at it you ability at able-bodied uncheck “Play a Sound” too, again just click OK and abutting out of the actual windows.

Another affair to point out is if you click on the Desktop Active Settings button you can change the continuance of the active and aswell the transparency. When you appear in to about-face the alerts aback on you ability wish to agreement with these.

Now Microsoft Outlook email support is accessible and gets those TPS Reports completed after getting distracted.
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How to get Classic Start Menu in Microsoft windows 7

2009-07-21T23:20:00.000-07:00

Like the new Start Menu in Microsoft Windows 7, but ambition that you could accept the Classic Menu too? Now you can accept both with Classic Menu.

Classic menu in Windows 7 “Before and after”

Here is a quick attending at the absence Start Menu in our Windows 7. Time to get that Classic Menu!

Double Click the Classic Menu exe book to get things started. The install action for Classic Menu is quick and straightforward.

After finishing the installation, you will see a bulletin window that will say that Classic Menu is traveling to basis your Start Menu. While it is indexing, you will see the afterward window assuming the advance of the indexing process.

Once it has accomplished indexing, you will charge to log off and again log aback into your User Account.

After logging aback in, go into the Start Menu to locate the Classic Menu folder. Appropriate Click on the “Show Classic Menu” adjustment and baddest “Pin to Taskbar”. Once you do that, there is your new Classic Menu Start Button appropriate next to the aboriginal one (you fabricated charge to move it to the larboard in your taskbar).

Hiding the Aboriginal Windows 7 Start Button

If you adjudge that you alone wish to accept your new Classic Menu Start Button display, you can adumbrate the aboriginal with a nice little affairs alleged Start Killer.

Run the Start Killer exe book and let the affairs automatically start afterwards the accession is finished. Just one start button to accord with now (nice!).

To accomplish assertive that Start Killer runs every time you start Windows, appropriate Click on the taskbar figure and baddest “Settings”. Accomplish assertive that “Load on arrangement startup” is selected. Microsoft help and support will be provided if you face any technical problem.

A quick analysis on startup programs application CCleaner shows the aggregate is set to accept annihilation but Classic Menu advantage anniversary time you start Windows 7.

Enjoy your new Classic Start Menu!

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Make windows 7 taskbar look and work like Windows xp or vista

2009-07-15T22:43:00.000-07:00

The individual a lot of arresting change in Microsoft Windows 7 is the new dock style taskbar, which shows icons instead of buttons, with all appliance windows accumulated aural a individual button. I m absolutely assertive that the actual aboriginal catechism abounding humans will accept is How do I about-face it off, and this commodity will appearance you how.

For those that haven’t already apprehend our advantage of the Windows 7 Beta, this is what the new taskbar looks like

Changing the Windows 7 Taskbar to Microsoft windows xp /Vista Style

To backslide aback to the earlier style, the aboriginal affairs you will charge to do is right-click on any accessible breadth of the taskbar and accept Backdrop from the menu.

From the Taskbar buttons drop-down menu, you’ll wish to accept, Never combine, which will accomplish every window appearance up as a abstracted button on the taskbar, or you could accept Combine if taskbar is full, which does just like it says.

Now you should see the buttons appearance up with argument labels like you are apparently acclimated to but in the Windows 7 style.

If you chose the small icons checkbox in the backdrop screen, the taskbar will in fact compress down to attending actual agnate to Vista.

The alone botheration is that the pinned icons are still sitting on the taskbar, which isn’t the aforementioned as Vista or XP, but you can calmly abolish all of them by right-clicking and allotments unpin these affairs from taskbar.

And now the taskbar looks and works actual analogously to Microsoft Windows Vista.

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Automatically Move Daily Emails to Specific Folders in Outlook

2009-07-09T02:38:00.000-07:00

If you subscribe to some regular email newsletters they can bound ample up an inbox. Your ability wish to save them to apprehend or advertence them after some time. Keeping these emails in specific folders is a acceptable way to accumulate organized. Today we will share a trick of how to create a rule in Outlook to automatically abode consistently accustomed email letters in accurately assigned folders.

First appropriate click on the email you wish to move to automatically move to a folder and select create rule in Microsoft outlook emails.

This will accessible up the Actualize Aphorism awning so we can accept the altitude for this email. Depending aloft how you accept your mail set up (Exchange, Gmail, etc) will actuate what to baddest for the conditions. Most of the time I set the aphorism by sender to one of my email addresses. Also, you can add beheld and complete notifications. After you accept called the altitude the next affair to click is “Move the account to folder”.

Now browse the folder area you wish the email to be beatific to or actualize a new one.

Click OK in the Actualize Aphorism window again OK on the afterward acceptance chat box. That’s it, now all circadian emails will be beatific to a specific folder.

This is just one of abounding accessible rules you can actualize in Microsoft Outlook to break organized.

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How To Scan and Remove Malicious Viruses

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How To Scan and Remove Malicious Viruses

2009-07-06T22:52:00.000-07:00

Every so often, we apprehend about a new and abhorrent virus overextension beyond the internet, infecting millions of Windows computers. Today we’ll appearance you to accomplish abolish those threats and (hopefully) anticipate them from accident in the future.

Whenever a beginning happens, you should yield the afterward steps:

1. Run the Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool.

2. Run the McAfee Stinger Apparatus (optional)

3. Make sure you are application Adapted Anti-Virus Software.

4. Make sure Windows Updates are turned on.

5. Get Notified for Microsoft Security Alerts.

We aren’t talking about approved viruses… your anti-virus software can handle those. We’re talking about the abhorrent bacilli that will blast your computer, abduct your information, annul the pictures of your kids – and could cause your computer to be accidentally controlled by a spammer. Bad stuff, but they can usually be prevented.

Run the Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool

The aboriginal footfall in audition and removing abhorrent bacilli and worms from your computer is to run Microsoft’s own Malicious Software Removal Apparatus – it’s not a backup for anti-virus, but it’s the best way to get rid of some of the affliction offenders, like the accepted Conficker worm.

To run the tool, you artlessly charge to download the book from Microsoft and run it. There’s no installer required.

If you were affected, the apparatus would abolish the virus and active you. Back we’re thankfully safe, we got the affable account that no Malicious software was detected. You can bang the “View abundant after-effects of the scan” to see added information.

By scrolling down in the list, you can acquisition the accepted blackmail and accomplish sure that you are not infected.

The apparatus should be adapted automatically through Windows Update, but you can consistently just download it anon as well. This is an important apparatus to accumulate around.

Download the Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Apparatus from microsoft.com

Run the McAfee Stinger Apparatus (optional)

Another apparatus is the McAfee Stinger tool, which is a freeware apparatus that removes alone the affliction bacilli from your computer. You can analysis to accomplish sure that Stinger can abolish the accepted virus botheration by blockage the Account Bacilli dialog… accomplish sure you accept the latest adaptation of Stinger afore you use it.

Simply hit the Browse Now button to do a abounding browse of your computer, but be warned that this will yield a continued while.

Once it’s done, you should get a address with the amount of apple-pie files.

It’s a simple and rather animal tool, but it does the job. It’s still not a backup for absolute anti-virus though.

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Make sure you are application Adapted Anti-Virus Software

This is one of the a lot of important accomplish in befitting yourself safe. You charge to accomplish sure that your anti-virus software is enabled and appropriately working! Here’s a quick account of what you should do:

1. Make sure your virus analogue updates are automatically updated.

2. Make sure that real-time scanning is enabled.

3. Run a abounding browse (optional but useful)

If you aren’t sure what anti-virus software to use and don’t accept money to spend, you can try out AVG Free edition, or you can yield a attending at the big account of anti-virus software we activated with Windows 7.

Make sure Windows Updates are turned on

Now we access t a lot of important step: authoritative sure that Windows is absolutely patched and Windows Updates is enabled. You can’t assure yourself adjoin worms and hackers if you are active a woefully age-old adaptation of Windows that isn’t patched. It just won’t work.

Open up Windows Updates, accomplish sure to bang “Check for updates” and install every security application they recommend. Then bang the Change settings link…

And accomplish sure you accept it set to analysis for updates automatically, and installing updates automatically isn’t a bad option. Just remember, if you are active an un-patched system, you are abrogation yourself accessible for all sorts of bad things.

Get Notified for Microsoft Security Alerts

If you absolutely wish to accomplish sure you are secure, you can assurance up for alerts from Microsoft whenever there is an important application that needs to be installed. You can aswell analysis the accepted security bulletins at any time by visiting their security account home page.

Subscribe to Microsoft Security Alerts by Email or RSS

Latest Microsoft Security Account Home Page

How to Make Sure the Patch is installed?

So now we get appropriate down to it… how do you apperceive if you are accessible to one of the security holes? As an example, we’ll attending at the security aperture that leaves you accessible to the Conficker worm: Vulnerability in Server Service Could Allow Remote Code Execution. If you attending through the account of downloads, you’ll see the accurate application for your system.

If Windows amend says that you are up to date, you can analysis for a accurate application by beat on “View amend history” on the left-hand side.

This will yield you to a continued account of every amend that has been installed. Attending through the list, and you should see the amend mentioned in the security bulletin… for me, it was KB958644 for x64-based systems, back I’m active 64-bit Vista.

At the actual atomic it’s a abatement to apperceive that you aren’t vulnerable… to the accepted worm, at least.

Conclusion

These accomplish are capital in attention your computer from hackers, worms, spywares and viruses, but they aren’t the alone important keys to safety. You should still abide acute and use accepted sense: don’t download files from untrusted sources, use a firewall, and accomplish sure your email provider scans for bacilli afore you accessible attachments.

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Lock and hide files without using software apps

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Lock and hide files without using software apps

2009-06-16T00:38:00.000-07:00

It’s different from Invisible as well hidden folder in Microsoft windows xp....here you need to have a password with which you can open your folder.

Here is the Code:

cls

@ECHO OFF

title Folder Locker

if EXIST "Control Panel.{21EC2020- 3AEA-1069- A2DD-08002B30309 D}" goto UNLOCK

if NOT EXIST Locker goto MDLOCKER

:CONFIRM

echo Are you sure u want to Lock the folder(Y/N)

set/p "cho=>"

if %cho%==Y goto LOCK

if %cho%==y goto LOCK

if %cho%==n goto END

if %cho%==N goto END

echo Invalid choice.

goto CONFIRM

:LOCK

ren Locker "Control Panel.{21EC2020- 3AEA-1069- A2DD-08002B30309 D}"

attrib +h +s "Control Panel.{21EC2020- 3AEA-1069- A2DD-08002B30309 D}"

echo Folder locked

goto End

:UNLOCK

echo stuff by satish

echo Enter password to Unlock folder

set/p "pass=>"

if NOT %pass%==TYPE UR PASSWORD HERE goto FAIL

attrib -h -s "Control Panel.{21EC2020- 3AEA-1069- A2DD-08002B30309 D}"

ren "Control Panel.{21EC2020- 3AEA-1069- A2DD-08002B30309 D}" Locker

echo Folder Unlocked successfully

goto End

:FAIL

echo Invalid password

goto end

:MDLOCKER

md Locker

echo Locker created successfully

goto End

:End

Instructions:

1) Copy the code above in a note pad and give it a name - name.bat (that is with the extension of .bat).

Replace name with anything you want.

Save the "*.bat" file where you want your locked (and not visible) folder on your pc.

Note-- In the code where it says "TYPE UR PASSWORD HERE" - type your desired password (no quotes ").

Your password can only contain letters and numerals - e.g. 0-9 and A-Z. Can use Caps but No symbols

2) A batch file will be created where you have saved.

Now double click on it, A folder with the name locker will be created in the same folder where the batch file is saved.

3) Now add the files you want to be locked in that folder.

4) Double click on the batch file.

It will ask about locking the folder.

Type (yes).

The folder will be locked and hidden.

5) To unlock, double-click on batch file again and enter the password in the new window opened.

6) The password can be changed by anybody if they find this ".bat" file!

So, make sure that you the name is not so obvious and put this in some place not so obvious.

Not very many people will be looking for a .bat file.

If still you are unable to do this, give us a call on 1800602586 or visit http://www.iyogi.net.au for any kind of technical help and support.

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Display Hidden Folders in XP

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Display Hidden Folders in XP

2009-06-09T01:32:00.000-07:00

By default, Microsoft Windows XP keeps important system files and folders hidden to keep people from deleting files they shouldn't.

To view hidden files, open Control Panel and double-click on Folder Options.Click on the View tab, and then click the radio button for "Show hidden files and folders".

After that when you go back into explorer you will see additional folders you were not able to see previously.

For those who want to tweak and hack on Windows XP, looking closer at this list you will see a checkmark next to "Hide protected operating system files".

To show protected system files, just uncheck this box and a warning confirmation dialog box will appear. Click Yes to verify and you will then have access to system files and folders.

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