If you still haven’t upgraded to the Windows 7 beta editions and are waiting for the official release on 22 October, you can try out this really cool windows 7 sidebar for XP. This windows 7 sidebar for XP is similar to that of Windows Vista or Windows 7.
Even if you are a Windows Vista user, you can still try out this windows 7 sidebar as the developer claims that this sidebar is uses 50% less PC resources and is faster than the original Windows Vista sidebar.
A lot of my friends ask me if there is an application which can resize hard drive partition in Windows and today I went on a look out to find the best free software out there which could create or resize hard drive partition easily.
Partition Wizard is free software which manages your hard drive partition and enables you to create, delete, format or resize any hard drive partition you want easily. You can easily resize partition or use the free space on a partition to create a new hard drive partition.
Although the release of Windows 7 is expected on 22 October but if you have upgraded to the latest version of Windows, but there are softwares or application which are not supported by Windows 7 yet, so can consider using the xp mode in windows 7.
XP mode in windows 7 enables you to create a virtually parallel operating system to Windows 7 and does not changes your initial operating which in this case is Windows 7.
Few days back, Google rolled out its browser Google Chrome’s Theme Gallery. There are currently 29 themes offered to download from the theme gallery page.
Not all of the themes on the Google Chrome theme gallery are cool but most of them do add beauty to your Google Chrome browser, some of my favorite ones were Late Night, Glossy Blue and Dots.
Windows XP has been around for so many years and many tips and tricks exists, and today i thought of combining all the windows xp tips i ever came across and got around 20 awesome windows xp tips for you guys. Lets start with them.
1. 3 trusty shortcut keys:
Ctrl + Z – To undo any action you did accidentally.
Ctrl + X – Cut files or text.
Ctrl + C – Copy files or text.
Ctrl + V – Paste files or text you have cut or copied earlier.
Earlier i told you guys on creating a pasword protected partition on our USB drive, while i was going through some blogs for checking out any cool updates, i found this awesome freeware called Secret Disk, which creates a password protected hard drive partition under My Computer.
The best part about this password protected partition which this software creates is, the partition remains invisible until you unlock it by providing the password.
I found this really cool application of a sort, which turns your usual windows XP taskbar to the new Windows 7. Lee-soft has come up with their really simple and small application of only 198kb and in a few click, the simple application works like magic on windows xp and the best part about this simple application is, it doesn’t even need an installation. Double-click on an icon and it works amazing.
Features:
- This Windows 7 taskbar, displays only the icons 48 x 48 icon of the application you are currently using rather than the old version which displays the full name of the application and takes up alot of space. Something like this:
Windows 7 has been making news every single day and its beta editions are already out for trials. It is predicted that Windows 7 will be introduced to the world on 24th January 2009.
Till then if you have been following Windows 7 updates and wants to try it on your PC running on Windows Vista or XP, then today’s tutorial will help you dual boot your pre-existing OS plus Windows 7. It’ll help you adjust partitions your hard drive for the Windows 7 installation and will not dump any of your current settings of your PC.
To begin with trying out Windows 7, you will need to download a 2 GB Windows 7 installation file and burn it on a DVD.
You can get the 32-bit Version from Here. And 64-bit Version from Here.
Most of you guys out there have experienced this that when you try installing Windows XP on Vista, the installation fails telling you that an updated version of Windows is installed and then you have to format your hard drive to first remove the pre-existing Windows Vista so that you can install a fresh copy of Windows XP.
Well, I have the solution for you guys, with which you wont need any formatting of your hard drive or your data being lost. There is a tool i found called Virtual PC from Microsoft, with which you can easily install Windows XP on Windows Vista.
With this simple software, it creates a virtual environment within your Vista running PC, which means you wont need any creation of separate partition on your hard drive or format it for the installation.
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