Microsoft closes windows 7 beta public downloads

In last many years after windows xp Microsoft has not seen much success in operating system segment but this time it looks that windows 7 is going to do the trick for them. In December last year they put beta of windows 7 for public download with a limit of 2.5 million users for the public beta, but later offered unlimited downloads due to popular demand, only to then see its servers wilt under the pressure.

And now the software giant put out a reminder late on Monday that those who wanted to play around with the beta, AKA build 7000, of its upcoming operating system had nearly run out of time to, at least officially, grab the download via Microsoft’s website. However, those who began downloading the beta but haven’t yet completed the process were granted a little extension – they have until 9am PST on 12 February to finish the download.

Though internet users can still download windows 7 beta from torrents like piratebay .

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Download latest high resolution windows 7 wallpapers

Almost everyone is familiar with the name Windows 7 (formerly known as Blackcomb and Vienna) which is the working name for the next major version of Microsoft Windows as the successor to Windows Vista.Here are some quality,high resolution wallpapers.They might not describe how Windows 7 is going to look like 3-4 years in future when it releases, but it is cool to put a wallpaper of OS coming 3-4 years later.

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Download Top 2007 Microsoft Office system templates Free

This post is about the most popular and rated Microsoft office 2007 templates.You can download them from Microsoft's official site after windows genuine validity test but some of them are free too means that they don't require you to be genuine windows user.

1.Nutrition

2.party invitation3.Personal account ledger


4.Presentation for report on country


5.Presentation for science fair project



6.E-mail message


7.Home inventory


8.IT governance deployment plan


9.Marketing project management database


10.Asset Tracking database


11.Back to school presentation


12.Contemporary blue design template


13.Cornell note taking method


14.Electronic business card



15.Electronic business card (Vineyard design)

For more templates visit Microsoft website.

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Microsoft Yahoo Google war, a dinosaur story

I found this nice pic about Microsoft,yahoo and Google (Yes Google too).I thought its worth sharing with you people.

Source

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How to repair and open corrupt & damaged word documents

Do you ever faced "Word cannot open the document", "The document name or path is not valid " or "Word cannot open the document: user does not have access privileges" like problems while dealing with Microsoft word documents.If you have to access data from a corrupt or damaged word documents then you can do that very easily by repairing those documents by using a freeware Repair My Word.

Repair My Word [Download] is a free data recovery program for Microsoft Word documents. It is designed to recover text from damaged or corrupt Word files that can not be open normally. The recovered text can then be saved as an error free Microsoft Word document. Repair My Word will allow you to obtain access to the contents of corrupt word documents. It will repair Microsoft Word 6.0, Word 95, 97, 2000, XP, and 2003 for Windows.It does not support word 2007 documents.

For repairing any corrupt word files , all you need is to open the corrupt or damaged file and review the recoverable text in the preview window and then save this text to a new error free Word file.Thats it.

Now you have recovered your data from damaged or corrupt Microsoft word file.

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windows Vista's new run commands,view complete list

Windows vista has some advanced features compared to previous windows versions.Run feature is also among that advanced features.The people who have used vista's run knows better about this.In vista you can access many utilities through run.Here is the complete list run commands of windows vista.

• Help Pane : helppane
• Color Management : colorcpl
• Computer Management Launcher : CompMgmtLauncher
• Control Panel : control
• Credential Backup and Restore Wizard : credwiz
• Defragment User Interface : dfrgui
• Driver Package Installer : dpinst
• DPI Scaling : dpiscaling
• DVD Player : dvdplay
• Display Adapter Troubleshooter : AdapterTroubleshooter
• Authorization Manager : azman.msc
• Bitlocker Wizard : bitlockerwizard
• Event Viewer : eventvwr
• Firewall Settings : FirewallSettings
• Firewall Control Panel : FirewallControlPanel
• Windows Firewall with Advanced Security : wf.msc
• Problem Reports and Solutions : wercon
• Windows Fax and Scan : wfs
• Windows Image Acquisition - wiaacmgr
• Windows Update Application Manager - wuapp
• Windows Standalong Update Manager - wusa
• Windows Shared Folder Management : fsmgmt.msc
• Snipping Tool : snippingtool
• Bitlocker Notifier : fvenotify
• Fax Cover Sheet Editor : fxscover
• iSCSI Initiator : iscsicpl
• Iexpress : iexpress
• Logoff from Vista : logoff
• Language Pack Installer : lpksetup
• Windows Mobility Center : mblctr
• Microsoft Sync Center : mobsync
• Microsoft Support Diagnostic Tool : msdt
• Remote Assistance : msra
• User Accounts : Netplwiz
• ODBC Data Source Administrator : odbcad32
• Optional Features Manager : optionalfeatures
• People Near Me : p2phost
• Performance Monitor : perfmon
• Presentation Settings : presentationsettings
• Printer Migration : PrintBrmUi
• Encryption File System : rekeywiz
• Windows Backup Utility : sdclt
• Accesibility Settings : sethc
• Windows Share Creation Wizard : shrpubw
• Software Licensing/Windows Activation : slui
• Sound Volume : sndvol
• Sound Recorder : soundrecorder
• Sticky Note : StikyNot
• Digitizer Calibration Tool : tabcal
• Trusted Platform Module : TpmInit
• System Properties : SystemPropertiesAdvanced
  System Properties (Hardware pre-selected) : SystemPropertiesHardware
• System Properties (Computer Name pre-selected) : SystemPropertiesComputerName
• System Properties (Performance pre-selected) : SystemPropertiesPerformance
• System Properties (Protection pre-selected) : SystemPropertiesProtection
• System Properties (Data Execution Prevention pre-selected) : SystemPropertiesDataExecutionPrevention
• System Properties (Remote pre-selected) : SystemPropertiesRemote

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First version of Internet giants

These are some images of first or very initial versions of Todays internet giants .They might seems to be funny and very unrealistic if seen in todays context but at that time they were the future of todays internet.They are the one which changed and modified our perception about the future of internet.Lets have a look at them.

Google in 1998: MSN in 1996:


Wikipedia in 2001:

Yahoo in 1996:


Youtube in 2001:

Blogger in 1999:


Facebook in 2001:


Live.com in 1998:

Microsoft in 1996:

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Redirect your SPECIAL folders to another location

First of all you might be interested in knowing what are special folders, Special folders are those folders used by Windows to store the data related to its users. These folders includes My Documents, My Pictures, and Favorites folders, among many others such as Desktop.

You may want to redirect special folders for a variety of reasons.

The first is to redirect the My Documents folder to a different drive. For example, you may redirect My Documents to drive D so you can reinstall Windows XP on drive C without losing your documents.

The second scenario is when users have a network and want to access their documents from more than one computer. In that case, you can redirect both their My Documents and Favorites folders to a network location so they have access to them from anywhere.

The table shown below displays the special folders that Windows XP creates after an installation and their default paths.

The first column contains each folder's internal name as Windows XP and other programs know it. The second column contains each folder's default path, which almost always starts with %USERPROFILE%, making these folders part of each user's profile folder.

Changing the Special folder's path to another drive's location

Let see how can we do this. Fire up the Registry Editor and find this key "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders". This is the key where Windows XP stores the location of per-user special folders. Now all you have to do is change the path for the folder that you want to have on some other drive or path.

For Example, if you want the My Documents folder of all the users to be on "E:\All Users\". Simply change the path of the Personal to "E:\All Users\%USERNAME%\My Documents". Now when Windows XP reboots, the document's path for all of the users will be E:\All Users\UserName\My Documents where 'UserName' is the name of the user.

Changing the Special folder's path to a Network Location

Just change the path to something like "\\Server\All Users\%USERNAME%\My Documents" where the Server is the Server, All Users is the folder where you want to place the documents.

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Reapir windows vista's "BOOTMGR is missing problem"

If your system is booting from Microsoft windows vista,Then you might get the "BOOTMGR is missing" error which actually comes as the reason of many problems like another operating system and hardware issues (This is common to me) as whenever you insert any other hard disk into your system or many other unknown issues causes this problem.

After getting this problem you just stuck to this screen constantly displaying BOOTMGR is missing press ctrl+alt+del to restart.

Since this problem comes at the booting phase so you even can't fight with the system by changing few setting because you simply don't have access to those settings.Now if you want to fix this error without reinstalling the windows operating system then simply follow theses simple steps.

1.Insert your Microsoft's windows vista CD/DVD into system and click next
2.now choose "repair your computer"
3.The process will automatically attempt to find your Vista installation directory after finishing this click next
4.choose a recovery tool->>startup repair.Now the installation process will try to repair the system, and then prompt for you to reboot.
5.Just for the info you could use Command Prompt option instead, and use the following command to fix the boot options only: bootrec /fixboot

Now just restart your system,your windows vista will start working

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Google uses Microsofts technology for its popular application

Yes it true.I am not sure about how many applications of Google are developed using Microsoft's technology but do you know that Google's social networking web site Orkut.com is powered by Microsoft technology? We just learnt that Orkut is powered by its rival company's ASP.NET technology. All the page URLs of Orkut ends with the extension .aspx, which is file extension of Microsoft ASP.NET web pages.

you can see this in the links provided below for orkut.

• Home page: http://www.orkut.com/Home.aspx
• Edit profile: http://www.orkut.com/EditSummary.aspx
• Scrapbook: http://www.orkut.com/Scrapbook.aspx

Well this is not an offense to use rival's technology but usually people don't expect this for a such popular application Google is dependent over Microsoft.Microsoft has at least one point to smile.

Related:

• How to hack orkut accounts

• How to remove "Orkut is banned you fool.." virus

• How to access blocked sites

• How to access orkut from facebook

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Top 5+ free alternative to Microsoft Office

For a very very long time Microsoft's many products like windows,web browser,media player, Office suits etc. have enjoyed monopoly in their segment but after the Internet evolution almost each of them is facing a very hard competition .This is because their alternatives are either freewares or less priced compared to them.

Here in this post we are limiting our self to the alternatives of Microsoft's Office pack.People had worked on Microsoft Office for years so some of you might not feel comfortable initially on other software because changes are always not comfortable but afterwards you would love them.

1. Google Docs - Google Docs is probably your best bet against the monopoly of Microsoft office. Assuming you a decent Internet connection, Google Docs includes a web-based Word Processor, Spreadsheet application, and a Presentation app. Best of all its free.

2.Zoho- Zoho is another great online office productivity suite. It features a word processor, spreadsheet and presentation apps, but also includes online project management, CRM solutions, web conferencing, online database with reports, online planner, group chat, wiki, and lots more. Every things online!Only thing you need is a decent connection.

3. OpenOffice - OpenOffice.org is a free and open source office suite, including word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, vector drawing and database management. It is available for many different platforms, including Microsoft Windows, Unix-like systems with the X Window System including GNU/Linux, BSD, Solaris and Mac OS X.

4. Thinkfree - ThinkFree Office is another application suite comprised of word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation graphics software-all usable online and off. Thinkfree also has advanced collaboration features such that users can share, edit, and contribute their ideas remotely.













5.StarOffice - StarOffice 8 is a full-featured office suite that contains a word processor, a spreadsheet tool, applications for presentations, databases, math formulas and drawing. It has support for most Microsoft Office formats (except for the formats introduced in Office 2007), but it can also export documents as PDF out of the box. The software normally costs $70, but it’s available for free in Google Pack.

6.Ajax Write: ajaxWrite is a web-based word processor that can read and write Microsoft Word and other standard document formats. Simply point your favorite browser to ajaxwrite.com and in seconds a full-featured program will be available for you to open, edit, print and save. Best part its free.

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For better speed try windows vista service pack 1

When Microsoft launched windows vista it was supposed to be a big success but rather than creating landmarks it even remains unable to touch to sale records of windows xp , the previous version of windows.It was a great setback for Microsoft.They do every thing they can do to promote vista, they even announced the closure of windows xp from early 2008 but later they had to extend its date.

What was major reason of failure of Microsoft's windows vista? I would suggest it should be speed as normal users developed a negative approach towards this operating system by getting negative reviews about the slower speed of vista even on high configuration systems.

So now it seems that Microsoft's has got the right nerve and it can be felt by working on windows vista service pack 1.Here are some of the noticeable changes I found in my system after installing Windows Vista SP1 RC :

1. Start-up and shutdown of Vista is now much quicker. My laptop is now shutting down in less than half the time it earlier used.
2. Checking for Windows updates now takes 1/4th the time it earlier used to take.
3. Time taken for moving or copying files across partitions has decreased.
4. Extracting and creating zip files is faster now.
5. On an overall basis, Windows Vista is more responsive now.

These are just some of the improvements I have noticed. You can find a more complete list of what is included in Service Pack1 here.Now Microsoft would be hoping for a boost in sale of vista.

Download [vista service pack 1]

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1000+ Keyboard short cuts for windows,Mac,web browsers and top web services

I tried to write some important key board shortcuts but i found them very large in comparison to a blog post so i decided to provide their link in this post.enjoy them.

1.This is a list of the most common keyboard shortcuts in Firefox, and the equivalents in Internet Explorer and Opera.

2.List of Mac OS X keyboard shortcuts

3.List of the keyboard shortcuts that are available in Windows XP

4.Powerpoint keyboard tutorials

5.Google calender keyboard short cuts

6.Gmail keyboard short cuts

7.Yahoo mail keyboard short cuts

8.Google Docs & Spreadsheets keyboard short cuts

9.Google reader keyboard short cuts

10.Wikipedia keyboard short cuts

11.Blogger keyboard short cuts

12.Remember the milk keyboard short cuts

13.pandora keyboard short cuts

14.MSN keyboard short cuts

15.AIM Mail keyboard shortcuts

16.Windows vista keyboard short cuts

17.orkut keyboard short cuts

Since the orkut keyboard are very few,so i am mentioning them here also

* Home: Ctrl + Shift + H
* Scrapbook: Ctrl + Shift + S
* Communities: Ctrl + Shift + C
* Friends: Ctrl + Shift + F
* Edit Profile: Ctrl + Shift + E

18.adobe Photoshop keyboard short cuts

19.Google desktop keyboard short cuts

*Ctrl + Alt + G or Windows + G : Focus the cursor in the search box of Google Desktop Deskbar, Sidebar, or Floating Deskbar.

*Shift twice :hide or display undocked gadgets, and to bring any hidden gadget to the front of your screen.

*Ctrl twice :Instantly make the search box appear.

I hope i will continue to update this list as i found new links for key board short cuts.Please provide me some feedback about these sources.

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How to run vista incompatible applications

There are tons of applications that are still incompatible with windows vista but compatible with windows xp.Though the number of this kind of applications have reduced a lot but still they are in large quantity.

This kind of applications can be executed and their compatibility issue can be resolved by the use of vista itself means the vista provides such kind of feature.





For doing this, right click on the .exe file of the application which is incompatible with windows vista and then select properties.Go to compatible tab ,check the box against Run the program in compatibility mode for and then select the right operating system from the list with which the application was compatible.Also check the box against Run the program as administrator.




Now your application will be executed on windows vista using that operating systems system 32 properties.

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