Microsoft has released a free theme tool for Windows7 and other versions Windows called Windows Experience Pack. Windows Experience pack is a cloud application and it produces an executable with Windows7 and Windows live messenger customization package according to user preferences. Once downloaded and executed, the customization package will offer customers the possibility of saving the avatar locally and choose Bing as the default search engine and MSN as the default home page. For users that don’t have Microsoft’s IM client, the package is designed to also download and install Windows Live Messenger.
With the Windows Experience Pack, you are able create an alter-ego of yourself in a specific destination – a beach, mountain, safari, or city. When you create your alter-ego, you create a fully customized avatar for that destination that becomes a part of a Windows Live Messenger and Windows 7 theme for your PC. You’ll also be able to download a .jpg image of your avatar to share, print, or use as your icon on social networks. Windows Experience Pack is capable of creating a Windows 7 theme complete with a desktop background, out of a plethora of wallpapers, a screensaver, and an avatar which can be personalized and bundled with pictures of end users.
For a specific destination you pick, the following Windows Live Messenger elements are created for you to use in Messenger for your alter-ego:
- 1 static Display Picture
- Up to 4 Dynamic Display Pictures
- A Wink
- 7 new Emoticons
- A new Messenger Scene
For Windows 7, you are given the choice between 3 desktop backgrounds for your destination and a screensaver featuring multiple photos from your destination.
The Windows Experience Pack was created and optimized for Windows 7, but it can be downloaded and used on PCs running Windows XP or Windows Vista too (although performance and features may vary).
Windows XP SP3 users reported that CA Antivirus falsely identified Windows XP system files and placing them in quarantine. Windows XP home office and small business users have reported the following files were affected.
c:\windows\system32\net.exe
c:\windows\system32\netsh.exe
c:\windows\system32\reg.exe
The CA advisory reads:
CA Internet Security Suite users should restore affected files from quarantine using the GUI. CA Threat Manager customers should search local hard drives for files with the extension .AVB and manually rename to their original file extension by removing the appended text on the original file name.
This is a false positive due to CA Anti-Virus Update # 6604 and has been corrected with CA Anti-Virus Update # 6606 or later.
Please update the CA Internet Security Suite software to avoid getting these alerts again.
Once the product updates are over you would need to restore quarantined items by following the article below:
View/ Delete/ Restore Files Quarantined by CA Anti-Virus
Windows7 will have a Windows XP mode, XPM is built on the next generation Microsoft Virtual PC 7 product line, which requires processor-based virtualization support (Intel and AMD) to be present and enabled on the underlying PC. To run Windows XP in Windows7, users needs a fully licensed copy of Windows XP with Service Pack 3 (SP3). It will be made available, for free, to users of Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise, and Ultimate editions via a download from the Microsoft web site.
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Microsoft has confirmed that the next version of Microsoft Office system called ”Office 14” can be run on old Windows XP systems. Microsoft might be considering that most of the big enterprises will go for Wundows7 upgrade or not. So if Office 14 run of Windows XP systems that gives Microsoft another to way to sell their next version of Office system.
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Malware authors of Kardphisher , now changed the Trojan in such a way that it mimics the Windows XP activation interface. This new Trojan collects credit card, personal information including SSN and other information form the client computer that is being enter by the consumer. Malware authors has made significant improvements over the Trojan user interface, it looks like a real Windows XP Activation Wizard. This new malware application not allow users to close the application unless and until the users enters the credit card information, built in credit card and E-Mail validation and displaying the current product key of windows XP makes this application more legitimate.
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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
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To find Cookies folder on Windows Vista system click Start, type
C:\Users\Lincoln\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Cookies\Low,
and then press Enter. That should take you to the real Cookies folder. Once you’ve found it, you can make it easily accessible:
To Access Cookies folder in Windows XP just type “Cookies” in run window.
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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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.
Creating special characters in Windows XP is very easy. Just follow these steps and you will be able to create special characters in Windows XP.
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Renaming multiple files in Windows XP is supported by Windows XP it self. Don’t look for any free utility or software for renaming multiple files. Windows Explorer makes renaming multiple files very easy. You can also use windows command prompt to rename multiple files.
First, select the group of files that you want to rename. Next, right-click the first files in the group and choose the Rename command from the shortcut menu. Then simply type in a new name. As you do, you’ll need to append the number 1 in parenthesis to the end of the filename. When you press [Enter], each of the selected files will be renamed with the new name, and the number in the parenthesis will be sequentially incremented, as shown in.
