How To Enable Aero Glass in Windows Virtual PC

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You may miss the Aero Glass look, if you are using Windows 7 on virtual machine as you can utmost achieve the Aero Basic look. But if you are running Windows 7 virtual machines on Windows Virtual PC, then there is a simple way to activate the Aero Glass experience. Follow these simple steps to activate Aero Glass in Windows 7 virtual machines running on Windows Virtual PC.

First, install Windows 7 in your virtual machine, or if you have already done installing, click on the Tools menu and select Install Integration Components.

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Filed Under: Tips and Tricks, Windows, Windows 7

Common Windows Run Commands

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To quickly access applications and hidden configuration settings in Windows, the best option is to use the Run command, [ Windows Key ] + [ R ]. Below you will find complete list of commands that you have to type in the Run command dialog box and press [ Enter ] to access. This is the first part.

Note: You may not find all commands working in all Windows versions. Some commands works only in the latest version of Windows, i.e. Windows Vista/7. Some commands will only work if the software or function is installed. [Read more...]

Filed Under: Microsoft Office, Tips and Tricks, Vista, Windows, Windows 7

Use Quick Restore Maker to Create a System Restore Point in 1-click

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The Windows Club has launched a very useful tool named as Quick Restore Maker. As the name suggests the main function of this utility is to create a system restore point by just clicking a button in Windows Vista and Windows 7.

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Filed Under: Tips and Tricks, Utilities, Vista, Windows, Windows 7

TagScanner Renames MP3/OGG Files, ID3 Tags and More

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Do you have lots and lots of MP3/OGG files? As your music library grows it becomes more and more hard to find that particular song which you want to listen now. This is because all your music files are having odd tags like unknown song, unknown artist etc. Most MP3 music players use tags and if your tags aren’t in order, then you aren’t getting the most out of your player. TagScanner searches through your MP3s and automatically tags them, renames your files, downloads album art, and even retrieves lyrics. [Read more...]

Filed Under: Audio/Video, Windows

Download Firefox 3.5.7 and Firefox 3.0.17

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Mozilla has recently updated Firefox 3.5 to version 3.5.7. Firefox 3.5.7 and Firefox 3.0.17 are designed as security and stability updates for the open source browser. Usually, Mozilla makes a point of offering security and stability refreshes for Firefox 3.5 and Firefox 3.0 in tandem, and the latest updates are no exception to this rule.

At the time of writing, the official announcement is still to be made about the updates, but Firefox updates are now officially available for download and you can also download from the various download channels like Softpedia. You can download the latest version from them too or wait for the official announcement. [Read more...]

Filed Under: Apple, Browsers, Firefox, Internet, Linux, News and Updates, Windows

WordPress 2.9.1 Released

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WordPress 2.9 has now been updated to 2.9.1. This upgrade will take care of many bugs that were found in the earlier version. Some of the bugs that were found in 2.9 and which are taken care of in the latest version 2.9.1 are as follows:

  • could not be converted to UTF-8 / WordPress should cache failed feed fetches so as to avoid overloading feed sources
  • cron stopped working with standard configuration
  • '$wpdb' typo in wp-admin/maint/repair.php causing table prefix not to appear
  • Upload Handling. Use is_numeric instead of ctype_digit.
  • Need confirmation/undo/something for media delete

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Filed Under: News and Updates, Security

View/Disable/Enable/Delete Windows Startup Program List With WhatInStartup

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Programs that are starting up with Windows System startup affects PC boot time. So it becomes very important to have less number of programs in the Windows startup program list. A regularly optimized startup program list can easily cut PC boot up time, reduce memory and resource load.

You can change the list of applications to start and leave the ones that need more memory at the end of the list so that OS components would load first by applying delay time between loading applications, or you can just use a startup manager and remove or disable unwanted startup entries.

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Filed Under: Software Review, Tips and Tricks, Utilities, Vista, Windows, Windows 7

Fix Common Windows 7 Errors with 7 Quick Fix

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Earlier we have written about XP Quick Fix Plus for fixing errors in Windows XP. The same developer has come up with 7 Quick Fix for quickly fixing Windows 7 errors.

7 Quick Fix is a very useful utility for Windows 7 users to quickly fix Windows 7 errors caused by viruses or other malicious things. 7 Quick Fix offers 21 common Windows 7 fixes while being only 472 KB in size. It is completely portable and you can carry it around in your USB Flash drive. [Read more...]

Filed Under: Troubleshoot, Utilities, Windows, Windows 7