ReadersZone » Windows http://readerszone.com Technology,Security,Software Review Tue, 10 Apr 2012 04:04:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Windows MultiPoint Server 2010 : Share One Computer Using Multiple Screens http://readerszone.com/windows/share-one-computer-using-multiple-screens.html http://readerszone.com/windows/share-one-computer-using-multiple-screens.html#comments Thu, 25 Feb 2010 03:23:38 +0000 Ajay Pathak http://readerszone.com/windows/windows-multipoint-server-2010-share-one-computer-using-multiple-screens.html Windows MultiPoint Server 2010 Microsoft announced the release of Windows MultiPoint Server 2010. Windows MultiPoint Server 2010 allows multiple users to simultaneously share one computer using multiple screens. Each user individually controls his or her own station with an independent and familiar Windows computing experience. Windows MultiPoint Server 2010 is now globally available to OEMs and will be rolling out to Microsoft academic volume licensing customers on March 1. In addition, Microsoft is announcing new partnerships that create a strong global ecosystem of hardware companies that give customers a breadth of choices to buy and use Windows MultiPoint Server solutions.

Anthony Salcito, vice president of worldwide education at Microsoft Said,

We heard clearly from our customers in education that to help fulfill the amazing promise of technology in the classroom, they needed access to affordable computing that was easy to manage and use. That’s why we developed Windows MultiPoint Server — a solution that meets these needs and delivers an up-to-date, trusted Windows experience.

Bill Rust, research director at Gartner Inc Said,

Shared resource computing can multiply the number of student workstations available to schools, delivering more value while staying within the same budget. Teachers can better align computing resources with instructional strategies while deploying fewer fully configured computers and reducing workstation support liabilities.

NComputing also offer similar kind of solutions to schools and academic institutions using Linux and Windows operating system. NComputing will also incorporate MultiPoint Server across its product lineup. Hewlett-Packard, ThinGlobal, Tritton and Wyse also plan to build products based on the software.

Software vendors, such as AB Consulting, LanSchool Technologies and NetSupport Ltd., will also be developing applications that extend the Windows MultiPoint platform and provide teachers and students with access to classroom management and other education-focused technology.

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How to use Presentation Companion?

Download and install Presentation Companion

Operating Instructions
Do the following to control the presentation on your laptop from your Windows phone.

On the Laptop

  1. Open the PowerPoint file you plan to present.
  2. On the Office Ribbon Add-in tab, click Start Presentation Companion. 

On the Phone

  1. Copy the PowerPoint file to the Windows® phone using e-mail, Bluetooth, or a storage card.
  2. Open the PowerPoint file.
  3. On the menu, tap Presentation Companion .
  4. When the Bluetooth wizard opens, follow the instructions to connect to your laptop.

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Windows XP Mode in Windows7 will address compatibility issues that come with Windows Vista and finally Windows Vista users go for Windows XP downgrade options. Windows XP mode is not available in Windows7 beta version it is expected in Windows7 RC1 or it may come with final version of Windows7.

Microsoft Posting on Windows Blog

Windows XP Mode is specifically designed to help small businesses move to Windows 7. Windows XP Mode provides you with the flexibility to run many older productivity applications on a Windows 7 based PC.

All you need to do is to install suitable applications directly in Windows XP Mode which is a virtual Windows XP environment running under Windows Virtual PC. The applications will be published to the Windows 7 desktop and then you can run them directly from Windows 7.

Windows XP Mode and Windows Virtual PC are best experienced on your new Windows 7 PC. We will be soon releasing the beta of Windows XP Mode and Windows Virtual PC for Windows 7 Professional and Windows 7 Ultimate.

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Disable AutoRun In Windows Vista

  1. Click Start VistaStartButton Collapse this imageExpand this image,type Gpedit.msc in the Start Search box, and then press ENTER. Collapse this imageExpand this image SecurityShield If you are prompted for an administrator password or for a confirmation, type the password, or click Allow.
  2. Under Computer Configuration, expand Administrative Templates, expand Windows Components, and then click Autoplay Policies.
  3. In the Details pane, double-click Turn off Autoplay.
  4. Click Enabled, and then select All drives in the Turn off Autoplay on box to disable Autorun on all drives.
  5. Restart the computer.

Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, and Windows 2000

  1. Click Start, click Run, type Gpedit.msc in the Open box, and then click OK.
  2. Under Computer Configuration, expand Administrative Templates, and then click System.
  3. In the Settings pane, right-click Turn off Autoplay, and then click Properties.
    Note In Windows 2000, the policy setting is named Disable Autoplay.
  4. Click Enabled, and then select All drives in the Turn off Autoplay box to disable Autorun on all drives.
  5. Click OK to close the Turn off Autoplay Properties dialog box.
  6. Restart the computer.

Read More about How to correct "disable Autorun registry key" enforcement in Windows

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Here is the top ten:
1. Britney Spears
2. WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment)
3. Barack Obama
4. Miley Cyrus
5. RuneScape
6. Jessica Alba
7. Naruto
8. Lindsay Lohan
9. Angelina Jolie
10. American Idol

Google’s most popular searches are not available, but Google’s most popular product searches are available. Moreover to that ask.com has also released the top 10 searches on its search engine.The top mobile searches are either for social networks such as MySpace & Facebook, or searches for local information like Craigslist, movies and weather. One suprising thing is none of the top mobile search terms were related to the recent U.S. elections.

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]]> http://readerszone.com/google/top-10-search-for-2008.html/feed 2 Vista Start Menu : Best Replacement For Windows Start Menu http://readerszone.com/software/vista-start-menu-best-replacement-for-windows-start-menu.html http://readerszone.com/software/vista-start-menu-best-replacement-for-windows-start-menu.html#comments Sun, 23 Nov 2008 08:40:00 +0000 Ajay Pathak http://readerszone.com/software/vista-start-menu-best-replacement-for-windows-start-menu.html Vista Start Menu- Best Alternative to Classical Windows Start Menu Vista Start Menu is the best replacement classical Windows XP Start Menu . Vista Start Menu enables you to access all available applications and files on your hard drive in just one or two clicks. Vista Start Menu is fully compatible with Windows Vista, Windows XP and all other modern Windows platforms. Let’s have a look some of the advantage of Vista Start Menu over other Windows Start Menu

  • Advantages Over the Windows XP Start Menu: Vista Start Menu offers a way to search programs and applications directly from Start Menu but Windows XP Start Menu does not offer this functionality but Vista Start Menu offers this by Simply start typing its name in the command line and Vista Start Menu offers you a list of related search results. Vista Start Menu is fully integrated with Google Desktop Search and Windows Desktop Search.
  • Advantages Over the Windows Vista Start Menu: Vista Start Menu offers a way to add or remove items from your drop-down menu list.  With this application there is very little or no need to access your desktop so Vista users can use their entire screen to quickly access the contents of hard drive via the menu. Easily switch between users, shutdown computer simply by pressing the keyboard’s Windows key and choosing the button corresponding to the desired action. Large, easily-accessible buttons, recognizable icons, and detailed descriptions all make it easier and more convenient to work with Vista Start Menu over the standard Windows Vista menu.
  • Vista Start Menu user interface can be easily customize according to your requirement. With the Vista Start Menu interface you can effortlessly add or remove menu items, fully control tabs, select skins, change font size and more. Integrated command line with Vista Start Menu allows you to search through your applications and files – and even the internet – just by pressing the required keys. Vista Start Menu handles the search and provides you with a list of the results. Programs installed within the past week will be automatically color highlighted for easier recognition.

Menu customization

  • One-Click Program Launch: To start an application in the standard Windows menu, first you need to find the program’s folder, then choose the main file in the sub-menu, and then launch the program itself. Vista Start Menu streamlines this process by automatically searching through the list of programs in the Start menu and identifying the main file. To start the desired program, you simply need to click on its icon. You can enable this feature by selecting the checkbox next to One-Click Launch in the Wizard Menu.

One-click launch

Overall Vista Start Menu looks like a better replacement for Classical Windows Start Menu but Vista Start Menu has to work in the process of indexing information, For a fully loaded 250 GB hard disk takes  a sufficient amount of time to index all information. I have tested this application with Windows Vista Ultimate and Windows XP Professional.

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Windows Embedded Standard Toolkits will be available by end of November 2008. The evaluation version of Windows® Embedded Standard will be available for download from windows embedded website

Thanks to Abhishek Kant

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Amazon EC2 running Windows Server or SQL Server provides an ideal environment for deploying ASP.NET web sites, high performance computing clusters, media transcoding solutions, and many other Windows-based applications. By choosing Amazon EC2 as the deployment environment for your Windows-based applications, you will be able to take advantage of Amazon’s proven scalability and reliability, as well as the cost-effective, pay-as-you-go pricing model offered by Amazon Web Services.

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced in London today that the company will unveil its own "cloud operating system" at its big developer conference at the end of this month. According to The Register, Ballmer said:

We need a new operating system designed for the cloud and we will introduce one in about four weeks, we’ll even have a name to give you by then. But let’s just call it for the purposes of today ‘Windows Cloud’. Just like Windows Server looked a lot like Windows but with new properties, new characteristics and new features, so will Windows Cloud look a lot like Windows Server.If you talk to Google they’ll say it’s thin client computing but then they’ll issue a new browser that’s basically a big fat operating system designed to compete with Windows but running on top of it, Our big problem is there’s just no secret that gets kept in Microsoft. The guy in the office next door to somebody working on Midori is not supposed to know about Midori. The last thing we want is for somebody else to obsolete us, if we’re gonna get obseleted [sic] we better do it to ourselves

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]]> http://readerszone.com/microsoft/windows-coming-to-amazon-ec2.html/feed 0 Do you need to Update Windows drive drivers ? http://readerszone.com/windows/do-you-need-to-update-windows-drive-drivers.html http://readerszone.com/windows/do-you-need-to-update-windows-drive-drivers.html#comments Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:55:25 +0000 Jay Pathak http://readerszone.com/operating-system/windows/do-you-need-to-update-windows-drive-drivers.html It happens many times we lose Internet access when waking our system from sleep mode, the network icon shows ‘local only’, then normally we restart machine and restore the wireless link. So first you need to check the life of device driver for notebook’s wireless adapter, it may be older than the machine.

So now you will have to update driver, visit the notebook vendor’s site and get the latest version of the driver, download & update then restart machine. Now put machine on sleep mode for a longtime then wake it up and check at bottom-right corner indicate Internet connection.

For that you’ll have to chose correct way to update Window drive driver because wrong selection may be the cause, if anything happens unlikely.

Guideline for driver update

  • This may be the batter option for those, who are not able to get updated version of driver from the notebook vendors site for the appropriate update, get your driver from the PC vendor. System vendors often customize the drivers for their machine.

  • Update driver one at a time, if you try to load several driver at a time then it can create some problem and also bit tough to find-out which one is not supporting or creating problem.

  • Create the restore point, suppose if anything happens wrong during updating of the driver then it can protect from harm. Windows XP an Vista create a restore point before the new driver installation. For precaution set yourself via system restore with descriptive name in case you forget when and what exactly you updated. Roll Back Driver function under the Driver tab in the Device Manager Properties dialog box. Likewise, run the updates own installer rather than using Properties’ Update Driver button.

 

Windows Vista's Device Manager Properties dialog box

Mostly PC users can manage their software updates on their own, through vendors help. You can also update your Microsoft Office automatically via the Windows Update service, and other major applications offer similar auto-update functions. Likewise, Flash, QuickTime, and other media players can be set to update automatically.

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YouTube Help Center: In case of troubleshooting it is too quick to recommend that you un-install and then re-install the Adobe Flash Player (going through instructional video).everyone think that it is the simpler and surest way to cure all type of minor malfunction/glitches, but here I would start with the simpler steps the site suggests, like restart your browser, accessing the page using another browser then clear your browser cache.

Youtube Help Center

Here I recommend you to clear your browser cache it can cure a range of page loading woes. In Firefox, click Tools > Clear Private Data, check the “Cache” option and rest uncheck, and click the “Clear Private Data Now” button. In Internet Explorer, click Tools > Delete Browsing History, and click the “Delete files” button next to Temporary Internet Files

Adobe offers a Shockwave Player support FAQ site is specific to Windows XP and others that describe various error messages, along with info on troubleshooting topics.You’ll find the latest version of the Flash Player on the Adobe Download Center. The company’s Flash Support Center is intended for Flash developers.

Apple iTunes for Windows :Apple provides separate pages to troubleshoot iTune video on Windows Vista and windows XP/2000 . it contains “unexpected quits, freezes, and launch issues” on this page for Vista and this page for XP/2000

Apple QuickTime for Windows: If you see an animated QuickTime logo in bottom right corner on QuickTime Troubleshooting site it means Apple’s Media Player is installed and functioning.

QuickTime troubleshooting

Troubleshooting Windows Media Player 11: Microsoft’s has its own troubleshooting website for the media player .It contains separate section for Most Popular/Common Questions, Self Help Options, Technical Support Options, standard FAQ’s on playing DVD’s, ripping MP3′s and finding the installing codec’s.

In typical Microsoft fashion there is separate WMP FAQ page for Windows Vista and another troubleshooting page that focuses on problems when using the player in XP and for good measure a Knowledge-Base article is troubleshooting resources

Most of the company has its own support site that provide some pages to handle and cure the problems like installing QuickTime for Windows, to enable Flash content in QuickTime movies, to view streamed files behind a firewall, and diagnosing audio-playback problems (for iTunes also).

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