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New Windows Live Released for Windows based Phones

If you are a Windows based cellphone user then here is some good news for you, in case you missed it. The new version of Windows Live has been released for the Windows phones.

The new version 11.1 has been released on the 22nd day of this month with the features of:
•    Windows Live Messenger
•    Hotmail
•    [...]

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Make all windows but the active one transparent with TransOther

You can add some styles while working on the Windows using a free and small tool called TransOther.

What this tool does is it makes all the background windows (currently opened windows) transparent while the presently used window will appear very much solid and usual. This is very much clear with the pic above.

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Sumatra PDF Reader: Alternate PDF Viewer for Windows

If you have been using Adobe Reader for a good time now then you must have known that it is a heavy software that requires good memory to keep running properly and display the PDF files accurately.

But despite of sufficient memory Adobe not always displays the files properly so if it is also the case [...]

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Things to do to Keep Windows Fast

After few days and managing my time I am finally able to post an article today that will guide you in keeping your copy of Windows safe and fast.
There are many points one can think of to keep their copy of Windows run fast and some are listed below but if you also any other [...]

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Auto Size Windows Dropped in a Zone

Here is a small but pretty cool tool for today. The tool is called ZoneSize and what it does is it resizes all your opened windows automatically according to the size of the zones specified by you. The image below will tell you the complete story.

Just run the tool and either create your own zones [...]

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Alarm Clock for Windows

Wouldn’t it have been great if Windows also possessed an Alarm Clock that notified us at a specific time with a notification message?

Microsoft has lacked this feature and I wonder why they didn’t put it in Windows. But to make things easier there have been developed third party application to provide this functionality into Windows.

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[Solved] Computer Restarts while Booting

This problem has bugged me for a long time now and it developed into a serious one yesterday due to which I was not even able to update Tech Salsa.
However I solved this problem myself today and since then it is working absolutely fine without any restarting problems.
Causes of this problem:
1.    The first thing to [...]

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Detect and Protect Against Autorun.inf Virus in USB Drive

Almost all of us have come across this Autorun.inf virus file that infects our system from the USB drive. Autorun.inf is a file that contains instructions or commands of how the virus should be executed to infect Windows.

Thus protection against Autorun.inf is as important as it is against any virus. But it is quite difficult [...]

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Detect and Find Windows Services Running in the Background

Windows make use of lots of services to run properly, thus figuring out which process belong to Windows and which not, is a bit difficult task.
For every function in Windows there is a service linked to it which you can see for yourself by typing services.msc in the Run box. This will open the Services [...]

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Hide a Drive or Partition with TweakUI in Windows

One of our readers wanted to know how to hide any drive or partition in Windows? Well if you also want to hide yours or just wish to fool someone, then this can be easily done.
The advantage of hiding a disk drive is that this method not only hide your data but also make it [...]

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Add Open in New Window Option to Right Click Context Menu of Folders and Drives

What you do to open a drive or a folder in a new window? I guess open My Computer again and open the required drive/folder there. But with this trick you can add the option “Open in New Window” to the right click menu of the drive or a folder in Windows.

XP has this feature [...]

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Super Fast Shutdown: Shut Down Windows in 5 seconds

If you have a habit of running lot of programs in system memory then your computer must be taking longer to either shutdown or restart the computer. It is because Windows terminates all the processes that are running in the background before shutdown.

You must have noticed that pressing the Power button for some time shuts [...]

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