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How Change your Hotmail Theme

 

Just like Gmail themes, Microsoft also now offers cool and attractive themes for Hotmail mailbox. So now we can tweak Hotmail/live.com mailbox to make little bit sweeter.

 1. Login into your favorite Hotmail account.

2. Have look at the Top right corner of your window you can see Options Menu.

3. Click on option Menu you can see language and theme options

4. Now as you move your cursor over the themes shown you should find that your screen actually changes to match.

For more themes click on more theme you can see standard and Dynamic themes of Microsoft.

I think my blog readers will enjoy this new cool features of Hotmail

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Posted by Chandrashekhar - February 15, 2010 at 10:27 am

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Trick to Download Images From Right Click Disabled Webpages

Generally some webmasters disable the right click menu on their blog or websites to prevent copying images from their websites.We can easily break those barrier by adapting several tricks.Some of them are screen capture,javascript disabling,extracting url from HTML source etc..

Method 1:

When you are in right click disabled page you can use Print Screen Button (prtScr) on your keyboard then paste it on your favorite image editors like paint, MS office picture manger then save the picture etc. Or you can use some free screen capture software’s.  

Method 2:

Read the image URL from the HTML source of the web page and then save the image using your download manager.

Method 3:

All the above methods work but some time geeky, so we can adopt another method that is it’s called “drag-n-drop. In this method point your mouse pointer over the image, press and hold the left click button and drag that image either to browser address bar or to comment section or somewhere on desktop. That’s it. This method really comes handy when the web page is opened in a window

Method 4:

If you are using Internet Explorer 6, 7, 8

  1. Go to “Tools”->”Internet Options”
  2. Click on “Security” tab.
  3. Click “Custom Level”
  4. Scroll down to the “scripting” section.
  5. Set “Active Scripting” to “disable” (Active scripts are programs written in JavaScript)
  6. Click “Ok”. Restart your internet browser.

Note: This will disable the JavaScript from being rendered by your Internet Explorer .So right click disabling script doesn’t load

 For Firefox browser, these are the steps (maybe be vary depending on the version).

  1. Go to “Tools” -> “Options”
  2. Click “Web Features”
  3. Deselect enable JavaScript

Method 5:

Alternatively, you can also use this method to re-enable the website right click function.Enter the JavaScript code below inside your browser’s address bar.

 javascript:void(document.oncontextmenu=null   [source]

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Posted by Chandrashekhar - February 11, 2010 at 11:27 am

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Control your Windows PC through your Mobile-PuppetMaster

Do you have a PowerPoint presentation to give? Do you thinking off Remote Controller, here is one cool application that allows you the freedom of a remote controller. It’ll show you, your slide notes as you go even the actual slides themselves! Only the requirement is your mobile phone. PuppetMaster is an interesting application that turns your cell phone into a universal remote controller for Windows PC. This cool application works using Bluetooth technology to allow you to control your computer from a short range.

 Some time you may want to skip the song from your bed that is currently playing through iTunes or Windows Media Player Just a click on your mobile phone and you’re on to the next song and also you can browse or search songs by name or artist.

 If you having good hand with VBScript or JavaScript, you can customize PuppetMaster to perform just about any action you wish. Apart from this you can use the built-in scripts, as well as configure your own keymaps or file-open actions to provide a wide range of functionality.

Requirement and Support

A Bluetooth device and a COM connection to the phone, Symbian Series 60 phone with Bluetooth support, Symbian UIQ phone with Bluetooth support. (* Preliminary support) Microsoft Smartphone , Microsoft PocketPC 2003,· Java enabled phone that supports the Bluetooth API. · Sony Ericsson T68, T68i, T610, T630, K700i or Z1010.

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Related:How to Deploy Windows 7 to Windows XP Mode

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Posted by Chandrashekhar - February 10, 2010 at 10:07 am

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Trick to Enable Hidden Admin Account in Windows Vista and Windows7

In Windows7 and Windows vista default Administrator account is created during installation, and disabled by default for security purposes.So if you want to enable it for troubleshooting or to get rid of the UAC prompts while tweaking your system. So here I’ll describe a few methods to enable / activate the hidden Administrator account in Windows Vista and 7

 Method: 1

1. Right-click on My Computer icon on Desktop and select “Manage“, it’ll open “Computer Management” window. (You can also open it by giving “compmgmt.msc” command in RUN dialog box or Start menu Search box).

2. Navigate to “Local Users and Groups -> Users“. In right-side pane double-click on “Administrator” account. It’ll open its Properties. Deselect “Account is disabled” option and Apply it.

 

Method: 2

1. Type “secpol.msc” in RUN dialog box or Start menu search box, it’ll open “Local Security Policy” window.

2. Navigate to “Local Policies -> Security Options“.

3. Double-click on first option “Accounts: Administrator account status” and select “Enabled” and click on apply.

Method: 3

1. Click on “Start button -> All Programs -> Accessories“. Right-click on “Command Prompt” and select “Run as Administrator“. If you are prompted to enter password, enter the password and continue. You can also open Command Prompt in Administrator mode by typing “cmd” in Start menu Search box and press “Ctrl+Shift+Enter“.

2. Now provide following command: net user administrator /active: yes

 3. Now the Administrator account will be enabled. If you want to disable it again, simply replace “yes” with “no” in above command.

 NOTE: Never activate the hidden Administrator account until required. It’s better to use other general accounts for better security. 

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Posted by Chandrashekhar - February 9, 2010 at 10:03 am

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Password Protect Your Thumbdrive-USB Safeguard

USB Safeguard is a small portable software to encrypt and protect data with a password on your pen drives using the AES 256 bits encryption technology.We can Simply drag and drop files and folders to quickly protect sensitive documents, and then enter password to encrypt and decrypt the file,Another interesting feature is it not only encrypts your files, it also provides “Safe Internet Browsing” feature to surf safe on web and it removes all Internet traces like history, typed URLs,passwords stored in form data and etc. It has built in file shredder – i.e. wiping the contents of the original pre-encrypted file, and more.
So USB safeguard is very handy with you in an Internet cafe´s or at work.

Features :

  • Almost Runs with all USB thumbdrive
  • Installation is not necessary
  • Provides easy drag & drop feature for files
  • Built in file shredder
  • Secure your data if your pen drive is lost
  • Supports FAT16, FAT32 and NTFS file system
  • 100% portable

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Posted by Chandrashekhar - February 6, 2010 at 5:02 am

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Steps to Fix Printer Spooler SubSystem App Error.

You may experience any of the following symptoms on your Windows XP-based computer.Generally you can see Printer Spooler Subsystem Error while accessing the printer and Fax Folder,sometime during printing,sometime when you try to start the Print Spooler service.
The Error message is like this
Spooler subsystem app has encountered a problem and needs to close.
This issue may occur if a third-party printer driver or a third-party service that is installed prevents you from adding printers, or if the third-party printer driver or the third-party service affects the functionality of a newly installed printer.

To fix this problem automatically, click the Fix this problem link.
Then click Run in the File Download dialog box, and follow the steps in this wizard.

Note The Fix it solution can be run in either Light mode or Full mode.Light mode makes changes to the spooler that should not require you to make any additional changes. Full mode will restore the print spooler to default settings and require that you reinstall your printers.

You can verify that the print spooler service is running. To do this, follow these steps:
  1. Click Start, right-click My Computer, and then click Manage.
  2. Expand Services and Applications, and then click Services.
  3. In the details pane, right-click the Print Spooler service, and then click Start (if it is stopped).
  4. Exit Computer Management.
If you want to manually remove this error message visit Microsoft Support page

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Posted by Chandrashekhar - January 25, 2010 at 9:47 am

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Steps to Upgrade Office 2007 to Office 2010

The recently released Office 2010 beta provides an sweet option to upgrade your existing version of Office 2007 to Office 2010.You can either upgarde or go for fresh installation.And also Customize option is provides a neat option to set your current version of Microsoft Office alongwith Office 2010 Beta.

Step1: Run the set up file from the Office 2010 installation CD or the exe file 
Step2:Accept the terms of the license agreement and click continue.
Step3:In this step you will have two options, one to upgrade the current version or to customize the install. If you select Upgrade from this option, then your older version of Office will be replaced with the new Office 2010 beta.
Selecting Customize allows you to set your current version of Microsoft Office to coexist with Office 2010 Beta.
Step4:Click on install with the option selected by you. Office 2010 Beta software will no longer function after October 31, 2010, If you had selected Upgrade to Office 2010 Beta directly instead of Customize to set the Beta to co-exist with your original Microsoft Office version during installation, you will need to manually reinstall your old version of MS-Word after beta expires.

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Posted by Chandrashekhar - January 21, 2010 at 9:31 am

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Tips to Create Windows 7 Univarsal Disk-Remove Versions

Generally in Windows XP there are several editions in market like home edition,student edition,professional edition etc.Some time installation is frustrating for users due to different version of installation disc.Microsoft fixed this issue in windows vista by offering single disc to all versions of vista operating system.

But in Windows 7 Microsoft again revert back old system i.e different discs to different versions of windows like home,business,Ultimate.So we can overcome this issue by editing or removing ei.cfg file.
After removing ei.cfg file we can able to seen list of all versions of windows7 during installation in a single disk,(just like windows vista),So we can directly select and install which verison of windows is we need at present.
To edit ei.cfg file there is special tool,by which we can easily edit or remove ei.cfg file and repack the iso image.Now you can burn this Windows 7 Universal iso image to disk,to proceed.
Download ei.cfg Removal Utility

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Posted by Chandrashekhar - January 20, 2010 at 10:11 am

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WinWGet Portable Download Manager-Genuine

WinWGet is a Portable is a light weight WinWGet download manager comes as a portable application package
Unique Features of WinWget
1.It is a Absolutely Free Portable Software
2.WinWGet is using the most powerful Wget as a backbone.

3.It supports both windows and linux
4. Supports Special Threaded jobs, Monitors Clipboard for URL’s (or new URL’s only), capable of resume for download, Mozilla integration is inbuilt , you can do job exports into HTML file.
5.Download and Installation is very easy

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Posted by Chandrashekhar - January 19, 2010 at 10:11 am

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Easy Trick to Enable or disable a device from the command line

Here is a cool trick that allows you to enable / disable a device from Windows XP from command line.
Now I am showing example to enable or disable Ethernet Card or Network Card by the help of command line. 

Step 1:Install Devcon
1.You can download Devcon Command Line Utility from Microsoft website here
2. Unpack the downloaded devcon utility file.
3. Copy \i386\devcon.exe to c:\windows\system32
4. Locate the device that you want : in the command prompt type: devcon find * 

Step2 Display all the devices in the system

In the command prompt type devcon find *> list.txt To get the list in a file.
For example, my network card Accton appears as:  c:\>devcon find *VEN_10EC
PCI\VEN_10EC&DEV_1211&SUBSYS_12111113&REV_10\3&13C0B0C5&0&48: Accton EN1207D Series PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter #2

1 matching device(s) found. 

You can verify is it  unique:
Type c:\>devcon find *VEN_1113 Hit enter
PCI\VEN_1113&DEV_1211&SUBSYS_12111113&REV_10\3&13C0B0C5&0&48: Accton EN1207D Series PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter #2
1 matching device(s) found. 


You must be sure that “VEN_10EC” means a single network card.
 

Step 3 :How to Enable/disable the device

devcon enable *VEN_10EC
devcon disable *VEN_10EC 

This allows you to enable / disable your network card.Similar way you can try for other devices.If you find difficulty leave a comment here.
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Posted by Chandrashekhar - January 18, 2010 at 11:30 am

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