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If you are going to install windows from USB Flash drive, you'll need a USB Flash drive with a minimum capacity of 4GB and an ISO image of the Windows version you are going to install.  Format your USB Flash drive Download and install  Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool Locate the ISO image of windows Select USB device Choose your flash drive and click Begin copying The process may take little time to complete After the copying is finished, you can see the files on the flash drive as you would if you opened the installation disc. Now you can start the installation on any computer that allows you to boot from a USB drive. Update (2015/08/13) This method works with all variations of windows 10.

Firefox released the Firefox 6 recently. Since it is a major version upgrade, some of the Plugins, Add-ons and Extensions went incompatible. Google Toolbar for Firefox is one of them. Google Toolbar is one of my favorite extensions for Firefox, and I frequently use it for bookmarking pages. However, since my Firefox automatically upgraded to version 6, the Google Toolbar vanished from its place.I wanted Google Toolbar to compatible with Firefox 5 and Firefox 6.I found a solution for that after few Google search sessions. It is now working perfectly like before and all the features are kept. Here is my solution.

The Visual Studio 2010 Help-About dialog box and the Splash Screen show Registered Username and Registered Organization as Microsoft. This could cause problem when you create a new project. The projects create an AssemblyInfo file to save the information about the Owner and the Company. This might show Microsoft as the company and you wanted to get your company name. Splash Screen

64bit Checker is a small tool that will show you what version of Windows is installed on your computer, is it 64bit or 32bit version of Windows and is your processor capable of running 64bit operating systems. Features Shows if your computer is running a 32bit or 64bit version of Windows Detects whether your processor supports a 64bit operating systems (if you are not sure that you can install 64bit operating system on your computer) Copy report information to clipboard, or save in text or html file Download

Here's how you crack the password protected Microsoft Word file: Open the document and do a "Save As..." specifying Rich Text Format (RTF). It'll end up being called something.rtf. Open the RTF file by double-clicking on it. It should look identical to the original Word file. Save the RTF file with a new name as a Microsoft Word format document. Open the new word document and select “Stop Protection” That's all there is to it. You've sidestepped the read-only lock on the file.

Windows 7 has added a lot of new features, some of them you can see, but some you can’t even see it. Here is one small trick you can do with your Windows 7 laptop. We all know that over time, your lithium ion battery will not charge to its full potential as when it’s new. But how much less is the battery charging ? Well in Windows 7 you can find out how much battery you are actually getting from your 3-cell or 6-cell or even 9-cell battery. Not the number says on the back of the battery, but the real number from the it. Start command prompt in Administrator mode (right click->Run as Administrator) Then type "powercfg -energy" now just wait for some time and Windows will collect all the data and monitor your system after it’s done, you should now see something like this. Notice that it generate an energy report in HTML format (by default) to the following directory. Go to the directory and open up the file. Skip everything and scr...

Do you have two or more computers ? Do you use them constantly ? Well if you do then I’m going to show you how you can control them with only one keyboard and mouse without any additional cables or hardware. The basic requirements are that both machine need to be access to a local network. What you need to do is download this tool called Synergy it’s a free open source, that works on both PC and Mac. Configure The Server First you need to setup the server that is the computer that you are using with the keyboard and mouse Choose "Share this computer’s keyboard and mouse" and click "Configure … " Under configure this can be little tricky. First click the "+" under Screens, be sure to have both name of the host computer and the computer that you want to gain access. Now go under "Links" click "+" what you want to do is tell the program the physical location of the two computer that you are connecting with. Tell it w...

I recently installed Visual Studio 2010.when I’m going to open a project which was developed from VS 2010 in VS 2008 I was getting an error. So I thought of finding a way to solve my problem. Here is the solution 1. Open the .sln file corresponding to the Project to be converted with Notepad 2. Locate the following line: Microsoft Visual Studio Solution File, Format Version 11.00 Replace 11.00 with 10.00 3. Locate the following line: # Visual Studio 10 Replace 2010 with 2008 Save the File 4. Delete the .cache files existing in the following paths: obj/debug obj/release 5. Open the project with Visual Studio 2008 6. Build the project with Visual Studio 2008

You create a table of contents by choosing the heading styles — for example, Heading 1, Heading 2, and Heading 3 — that you want to include in the table of contents. Microsoft Office Word searches for headings that match the style that you chose, formats and indents the entry text according to the heading style, and then inserts the table of contents into the document. Microsoft Office Word 2007 provides a gallery of automatic table of contents styles. Mark the table of contents entries, and then click the table of contents style that you want from the gallery of options. Office Word 2007 automatically creates the table of contents from the headings that you marked.   Mark entries for a table of contents Select the heading to which you want to apply a heading style. On the Home tab, in the Styles group, click the style that you want.   Mark individual text entries Select the text that you want to include in your table of contents. On the Refere...

Windows 7 introduced the new Sensors and Location platform that would let Windows automatically respond to environmental changes sensed by light, orientation sensors, or GPS chips.  This makes your computer more aware of its surroundings and change itself accordingly.  The location platform is especially interesting, as it brings the potential of automatic location based search and maps to your PC.  Unfortunately, most laptops today are not equipped with GPS chips.  Thanks to Geosense, however, you can still use the location platform. Geosense uses IP lookup, Wi-Fi and Cell tower triangulation, and more to find your location as accurately as possible. Geosense lists itself as a sensor in the Windows Sensors and Locations, so once you’ve installed it, all location-aware applications and services will be able to pickup your location from it.  Please note that Geosense only works on Windows 7 Home Premium and higher, as Windows 7 Starter doesn’t include the Sen...

Twitter is a developing popular social network.so everybody would like to communicate through twitter.If we have a way to connect twitter with our blog it will be easy for our followers.So lets see how we can do it. Step 1 Add HTML/JavaScript Page Element Step 2 Add this code segment to it. <center><a href=http://twitter.com/ yourusername ><img width="142" src=" http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/7093/twitterbutton0108.png " height="48" title="Follow Me"/></a> </center> Change yourusername with your twitter id Step 3 Save it.that’s all.

This is very important sometimes.Because we can use this to open our favourite applications instantly.After the hacking done this is what you get as the output I think now you know what I'm talking about.ok lets start to do it. Step 1:Browse to the Registry Key Just type regedit in your vista search box to open the registry. Browse for this key. HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Background\shell Step 2: Create the Menu Item Key Name To complete this step we’ll need to create a new key, the name of which is exactly what is going to show up on the desktop menu. Right-click on the “shell” key, and then choose New \ Key from the menu. Give the new key the name that you want to show up on the desktop context menu. For this example I’ll be using Notepad. Step 3: Create the Command Key Next you’ll need to create the command key that will actually hold the command used to launch the application. Right-click on the new Notepad key, and then choose New \ Ke...

One of the important widgets in a blog is of course a search box you may leave the archive widget , but do not miss a search box . With increasing number of posts, it is of course not possible for your readers to find a post from the never ending list in your blog archive, in that case only a search box can help them to find what they want. According to my own blog statistics, out of every 500 page impressions at least 50 impressions belong to internal blog search. In case you want to display the search box in the Header region, just like BloggerStop, follow these instructions: Log in to Blogger -> Layout -> Edit HTML and mark the ' Expand Widget Templates ' box. Now find (CTRL+F) this: #header { ..... ..... ..... } And immediately BELOW/AFTER it, paste this code: #header .searchbox { text-align:$endSide; // $endSide = Right & $startSide = Left margin: 25px; // Distance from right or left side } Now search these lines: <div class=...

Have you encountered the error 'CREATE DATABASE Permission denied in database 'master'' even though you are logged into Windows Vista with administrator privileges. Reason for the error : Windows Vista users that are members of the Windows Administrators group are not automatically granted permission to connect to SQL Server, and they are not automatically granted administrative privileges. Resolution: Grant rights to the administrator. Follow these steps: Step 1: Go to Start > All Programs > Microsoft SQL Server 2005 > Configuration Tools > SQL Server Surface Area Configuration. Step 2: Click on 'Add New Administrator'. Step 3: In the 'SQL Server User Provisioning on Vista' dialog box, look out for the 'Member of the SqlServer SysAdmin role ' in the 'Available Privileges' box. Transfer it to the 'Privileges that will be granted to' box. Click Ok. Note: You will be able to see 'Add New Administrator...

After few tries i found how to create the animated label cloud for blogger.So i thought sharing what i found This can be done using few easy steps Step 1: Goto Dashboard > Layout > Edit HTML Step 2: Find the Code Below <b:section class='sidebar' id='sidebar' preferred='yes'> Step 3: Paste the below code immediately after above line <b:widget id='Label99' locked='false' title='Labels' type='Label'> <b:includable id='main'> <b:if cond='data:title'> <h2><data:title/></h2> </b:if> <div class='widget-content'> <script src='http://halotemplates.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-cumulus-example/swfobject.js' type='text/javascript'/> <div id='flashcontent'>Blogumulus by <a href='http://www.roytanck.com/'>Roy Tanck</a> and <a href='http://www.bloggerbuster.com'>Amanda...

Mac is always known for its study of beauty . Be it their ultra slim laptops or cool operating Systems. Windows on the other hand has mostly lagged behind. The statement does feel a little aged when I write this with Windows 7 installed on my system. What windows has still not given up is the task bar and when compared to Mac's dock it still looks…well, ugly. Not that I can live without it, since I have always been on Windows, it seems outrageous to even auto-hide the task bar. But since I also love the way desktop looks in Mac, I have installed Rocket dock to gain that look. Its a tool that will create a Mac-style dock on your desktop. You can insert your desktop shortcuts into this dock and your minimized windows would show in it as well. Here is how my desktop looked after installing RocketDock : Its very customizable, you can delete the existing icons, add new, change the visual style of the dock, its position and so much more. This is how it looks when you hover yo...

Type sysdm.cpl into the start menu search box   2.  Click on the "Change" button to rename the computer, which will pop up this dialog Now you can finally change the name of the computer. You could also change the name of the workgroup to something more descriptive as well. You'll have to reboot after you make this change.

Download these files first Open it in WinRar, 7Zip, or something. Open "Windows XP Keygen.exe", select Windows XP Pro VLK and press the "Generate" button. Copy the generated key. Open "keyfinder.exe". There you see the key Windows XP is using right now. In the keyfinder, go to the "Change Windows key" in the Option menu. Copy the key you generated with the keygen into the "CD Key" box in the keyfinder. Open "wga-fix.exe". After, restart your computer. Now your windows is 100% G enuine After

Viewing the Secret Items These are the default items that you should see on the Send To menu when you right-click on a file: Hold down the Shift key while right-clicking on the icon, and then try the Send To menu… all sorts of extra options! If you want any of those to show up normally without holding down the Shift key, you can create shortcuts in the Send To folder. Just type the following into the location bar: shell:sendto And then drag shortcuts to your preferred folders into this folder. I've found that using custom shortcuts in the Send To menu can be very handy

i found this vdo tutorial when i waz googling for "how to create a vmware for fedora 10".I thought this will help others also.enjoy