If you don’t want to move to Vista, and still have an urge to try some of its features, you can do it in the form of standalone add-on programs for Windows XP that can give you close to the entire Vista experience. Vista is an eye candy provided your computer got the resources. Without [...]
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Get Vista’s Productivity Features In XP with Simple Add-Ons.
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How To Lock Your Computer With USB Drive
Tired of people starting your computer when you are not around and messing up custom settings? Wouldn’t it be cool if you could lock your computer by just removing your USB stick from it? I’ll show you how you can use your USB stick, Flash Drive or Pen Drive what ever you call it to lock [...]
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How to Sort Menus Alphabetically in Windows XP
In Windows XP the programs in the START menu is arranged without any specific order. You can make them arranged in the alphabetical order by a simple registry tweak. In order to perform this, here is the procedure:
Start the Registry editor: Start > Run > regedit > [Enter].
Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MenuOrderRight click on the MenuOrder folder, [...]
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Windows RUN Commands you may not know
Here are some Windows RUN Commands which can be used to start applications from the RUN. In windows XP or Vista Run can be invoked either by selecting it from the START menu or by Pressing Windows key + R. You can try these commands to simplify your computing experience and also to run different [...]
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Make your own Fonts from your Handwriting
Fonts may just seem a fancy at first, but when you think about it, we’ve all seen the impact a good font can make (and the negative impact a bad one can). Do you think you have good handwriting? If you do—or even if you don’t—how cool is the idea of creating a font from [...]
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Boot Into XP Using A USB Flash Drive!
Booting into Windows XP can be done through USB drive. This can be useful if you are getting any booting errors and also if you don’t have that bootable cd or cd drive available. This involves a simple process which will copy down the files required for booting into the USB drive and then operating [...]
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How to create windows XP live CD in 15 mins
Microsoft Windows XP live CD is the best way to boot into the Operating System without installation into the computer. By using this XP Live CD you can use XP and its features without actually installing them. This sounds cool, right? Creating a Live CD is not a big problem. It just involves adding of [...]
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How to delete history in windows media player
Windows Media Player which is in built with Windows OS plays most of the formats but if you want to delete the history of your windows media player to prevent others knowing about what you have been listening or watching. It can be done by a simple trick through which you can clear your recent [...]
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Share Firefox Between Windows and Linux
Dual-booters rejoice! Now you don’t have to worry about losing your settings between operating systems. If you dual-boot Linux and Windows, you will know the pain of not being able to access the same settings and data for Firefox and Thunderbird under both OSes. If all your e-mail in Thunderbird is configured for the Windows [...]
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The Best Free CD / DVD / Blu-Ray burning software for XP and Vista
There are many Burning software which will perform your required operations. Every one of them have their own problems and out of them the best one will be ImgBurn. It is a lightweight CD / DVD / HD DVD / Blu-ray burning application that everyone should have in their toolkit.
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How to Create an XP CD that requires no driver installation!
The Windows XP CD is used to format the system. Whenever you do this you will have to install extra drivers to make it up and working for other applications. So in order to make it easy we can make a create a Windows XP installation CD that requires no driver installation.
The steps required to [...]
