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Many times I was asked about Windows XP service pack 3 by other DW reader. Being Linux user I hardly ever needed any XP service pack for my machine. Anyway for those running Windows XP, new Service Pack is out there. This SP3 is release candidate and may not be stable but this means final Continue reading

Many new windows applications requires latest version of Microsoft .NET framework which is version 3.5 at the time of of writing of this post. If you go to Microsoft download center, then by default you will get live installer of approximately 2-3 MB’s while complete .NET framework Continue reading

[Note: This is reformatted version of Paras Munots' work] Having programs run when windows boots slows down the boot process! There are two ways to disable programs that may be in your startup (like icq messanger, nokia PC suite, etc) A. msconfig Way [easy way] The easiest is to do the Continue reading

If you are using a system with Windows XP and Windows Vista and also use Firefox on both installations then you may find it annoying to manually synchronize profile settings like Bookmarks, Extensions, Passwords, History, Cookies, Preferences, etc between two Firefox installations! It may be the Continue reading

How many time you wished you could have nice file copying feature in your windows! Following is short list of problems I feel windows built-in copy feature suffers from: Multiple copy starts same time, resulting in higher defragmentation (or you have to wait till first completes, before Continue reading

While mounting windows partition in linux is a common thing, vice-versa is not easy as Microsoft does not provide support for other operating systems’ filesystem! But poor guy (Bill) can’t stop us from getting what we want! So here comes solution in the form of an Installable Continue reading

This one by the Amit Agarwal whose Digital Inspiration inspires many bloggers like me! This really made me laugh as I am the one who always on Apple side when it comes to Mac v/s Windows! Amit says in his post Apple Mocks Windows Vista Wow Campaign, “The Wow Starts Now” - Microsoft is Continue reading

Here are steps to increase or decrease the priority of any process on Windows XP/2000 machine! Press CTRL+SHIFT+ESC or CTRL+ALT+DEL Go to the second tab called Processes, right click on one of the active processes, you will see the Set Priority option. (as shown in following Continue reading

If you ever encountered above error, i.e. “Registry editing has been disabled by your administrator” on Windows XP or any other Windows NT Operating system, this may help you! I have encountered the above error while patching registry. Even regedit command was not working! Here is a Continue reading

In this post I’m writing about some Windows NT 5.x series (i.e. windows 2000/XP/2003) hack which I have gathered from various sources! Well due to lack of time I could not try all of the following hacks; but again whether a particular hack should work or not depends on security of that Continue reading