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Windows 7 Tip: Selecting Multiple files with Mouse only

2009-11-12T08:55:00.000+05:30

Normally in Explorer, while selecting (non-continuous) multiple files we use combination of ctrl+mouse to select them. By non-continuous,I mean files which are not together else we can just drag our mouse to multi-select. Now Windows 7 has an option where you can select multiple files ONLY with the mouse. For this it provides a checkbox. To enable this feature open Explorer, click on Organize >

Visual Studio 2010 countdown widget in Silverlight

2009-11-01T10:21:00.000+05:30

.NET Devhammer has come up with a nice Visual Studio 2010 Countdown Widget in Silverlight. I have just put this widget on my blog, if you also want to put it on your blog or site, just add the following code to your page or blog: 1:

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Windows 7 Launch Party in your City

2009-10-31T08:52:00.000+05:30

As you know Windows 7 had a Global Launch on 22nd Oct. and all are too excited about it. Many of you want to know more about this New Operating System. MeraWindows invites you to the Community launch party in your City. Look out for the community party in your city and the dates below and register for the event- (Click to enlarge) Get the venue for the party in your city and more details

Get Windows 7 Full-color Product Guide E-book for FREE !

2009-10-27T18:15:00.000+05:30

The Windows 7 Product Guide provides a detailed look at the many new and improved features in Windows 7. This official guide is designed as an accurate source of information that can help you to understand how Windows 7 Simplifies Everyday Tasks, Works the Way You Want, and Makes New Things Possible. The guide is also designed to provide IT Professionals with information about how to Make People

Windows 7 helps Bangalore Airport to reduce costs, enhance Productivity

2009-10-19T08:53:00.000+05:30

Bangalore, the IT capital of India now has an international airport on par with global standards. The Bangalore International Airport Limited (BIAL) has earned the city of Bengaluru the unique distinction of becoming the regional hub for South India. BIAL is committed to establishing the new Bengaluru International Airport as India’s leading airport in terms of quality and efficiency and

9 Touch Gestures in Windows 7 for Multi-touch Magic

2009-10-14T10:35:00.000+05:30

The Touch Gestures are the basic actions you use to interact with Windows or an application using touch. If you have a touch-enabled monitor and Windows 7 installed, then virtually any program that works with Windows responds to your touch. These Gestures are built into the core of Windows, they are designed to work with all applications, even ones that were never designed with touch in mind. So

Creating Time-Lapse Videos with Windows Live Movie Maker

2009-10-02T12:02:00.000+05:30

Do you want to make a time-lapse video that will show an event happening in a long time and you will time-lapse to show it in a short duration. For example the following video shows Jade building an airplane from Lego’s which will take long time but you want to time-lapse and show the complete process in a jiffy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIzEKFjtwIg Another example of such

Booting Windows 7 in 10 seconds flat !

2009-10-02T08:45:00.001+05:30

How about booting Windows 7 in 10 seconds, yes, 10 seconds Flat !! Just see the video to believe it. “A company called Phoenix debuted new BIOS technology that allows Windows 7 to boot up from black screen to desktop in only 10 seconds. Called "Instant Boot BIOS," the Phoenix BIOS uses new UEFI technology to power on several system devices at once instead of one-by-one.” “The company demoed

Microsoft Security Essentials available now

2009-09-29T20:30:00.000+05:30

Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) is out of beta and have been released now. Get it from here : http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/ I am upgrading my beta version of MSE, a detailed post will be soon followed.

Kylie shares even more Good News about Windows 7

2009-09-26T07:05:00.000+05:30

Continuing with the ‘Good News’ series of Ads on Windows 7, here’s another one- Kylie's Conversations The happy words just keep on coming as Kylie creates another slideshow to share even more good news about Windows 7 with her friends.

How to access and try Microsoft Office Web Apps Tech Preview

2009-09-18T10:50:00.000+05:30

You all must have heard about the launch of Microsoft Office Web Apps as it was announce yesterday Office comes to Windows Live – starting today . And now must be eager to try them out. If you were already in Microsoft Office 2010 Tech Preview program launched some months back then you can access the new Office Web Apps*. Else you can sign up here now. Now if you are one of those who have

New Keyboard shortcuts in Hotmail Wave4 M1, including those to match Yahoo, Gmail

2009-09-16T22:26:00.000+05:30

As said in my earlier post ‘New features coming to Hotmail Wave4 M1 release’ about various updates Hotmail Wave4 M1 will be getting, here’s a complete list of new keyboard shortcuts introduced in Hotmail Wave4 M1 release including shortcuts to match both Yahoo and Gmail. These updates have started to roll out and will be done in stages, so these options may not be seen for all users at present.

New features coming to Hotmail Wave4 M1 release

2009-09-16T22:00:00.000+05:30

Lots of new features is coming to the Windows Live Hotmail Wave4 M1 release. These updates have started on August 31st, and will be rolled out in stages over the coming weeks and will be completed all over by September end. This has been posted by a Microsoft employee at the Windows Live Solution Center. But I haven’t heard anyone getting these updates yet. Here’s the complete list as posted at

Kylie is Happy- First ‘Good News’ series of Windows 7 Ads

2009-09-11T07:00:00.000+05:30

You must be familiar with Kylie as she had appeared earlier also on Windows commercial Kylie, Age 4 1/2 . Now she’s featured in First ‘Good News’ series of Ads. Kylie has found a lot of happy words on her dad's computer. And it just so happens they're all about Windows 7.

Microsoft Answers- now for Windows Live

2009-08-28T06:20:00.000+05:30

If you have any queries related to Windows Live and needs help or just want to help others by solving Windows Live related queries, you now have recently launched Microsoft Answers for Windows Live Here you can ask your doubts and also get involved in the community answering others queries. At present its having following categories - Family Safety Photo Gallery, Movie Maker, & FrameIt

Tip: Using png format images in Windows Live Writer

2009-08-24T23:30:00.000+05:30

This is a small tip related to use of transparent .png format images with Windows Live Writer. As PNG support transparency, a transparent PNG is background-independent. Suppose you have a transparent PNG image and want to put it on your blog using Windows Live Writer and you insert it and it looks as shown below. This has a black background with it. This black background is due to the ‘

Windows Live Mail Updates

2009-08-24T14:15:00.000+05:30

Recently a new ver of Windows Live Movie Maker was released and was out of beta. And along with it updates to Windows Live Essentials thus updating all Windows Live Essentials Apps which also includes Windows Live Mail were released. Let us see what are the issues in Windows Live Mail that have been updated. -- I had this problem in Windows Live Mail where one closes the app will appear to

Windows 7 Silverlight based Countdown timer

2009-08-19T18:45:00.000+05:30

Few days back I had posted about the third party Windows 7 Countdown Gadget which can posted on ones blog or site. And I also had put it on my blog. But it could not be put on Windows Live Spaces based blog as it rejects scripts. Now our MVP colleague Vikram Pendse has created a Windows 7 General Availability (GA) Countdown timer based on Silverlight. And the good thing is , it can also be put on

Bing Homepage image Tips

2009-08-18T21:00:00.000+05:30

Bing apart from providing smart search results neatly arranged in categories, also brings a stunning image daily as homepage. And this image is different for different countries. At present a sets of countries shows different images. After reading this post Welcome home on Bing community, I also thought of making a related blog post. Let us see some of the tips related to Bing Homepage: * Save

Why you should use IE8?

2009-08-15T19:45:00.000+05:30

Just now, while I was on twitter, I received a tweet saying “Now, This is serious.. online banking fraud! http://bit.ly/W8WD4 ‘, So out of curiosity I followed that link to the blog post. It was, as it said, was about a phishing site. The post was Now this is serious!!! by Arnab Mitra on his blog Intelligent Marketing . In the post the author Arnab Mitra described his experience about Online

Bing joins in India’s Independence Day Celebrations

2009-08-15T09:35:00.000+05:30

Today, 15th Aug. is India’s Independence Day. India became free from British Rule on 15th Aug. 1947. Whole country is in Celebration mood and to add to the joy, Bing has added colors in the celebration by providing this Home Page today: http://www.bing.com/?mkt=en-GB (Now for India region also http://www.bing.com/ , check ‘EDIT’ at bottom) (Click on the Image for Enlarged view ) The image

Microsoft Virtual TechDays

2009-08-14T06:55:00.000+05:30

Get ready for Online Technical Trainings which you can attend from your cozy confines of your work-desks and deep dive into latest Microsoft Technologies and products. This is the 6th Ed. of Microsoft’s Virtual TechDays - India’s premier online event. This will be held from Aug. 19-21, 2009. (10:00AM- 7:00PM IST )(GMT+5:30) Register Now http://www.virtualtechdays.com/ Because There’s always

Microsoft Clubhouse Choice Award Results Announced !!

2009-08-11T21:00:00.001+05:30

Earlier I had posted about the Nominations for the Microsoft Clubhouse Choice Award and had requested all of you to vote for me as I was also nominated in one of the categories. And now its the Results Time !! Marcus- Windows Community Manger on the Community Clubhouse Spaces has posted the Winners list - Announcing the Clubhouse Choice Award Winners I’m happy to say that I have won in my

Add Windows 7 Countdown gadget to your blog, desktop

2009-08-11T13:50:00.000+05:30

As you know Windows 7 has already RTM’d and is also available to MSDN/TechNet Subscribers since Aug 6th but Windows 7 will be in retail stores and shipping on new PCs starting October 22nd. So how about a Countdown Widget of Windows 7 for it Public Launch? I had to search for a nice third party widget as official widget which can be put on blog/site was not there. Although one can find gadgets on

Windows 7 Upgrade Chart

2009-08-06T16:10:00.000+05:30

Here’s a chart which provides at a glance view of which current version of Windows can be upgraded to which version of Windows 7. This chart was provided by Microsoft when asked by Walt Mossberg. Thanks Microsoft , thanks Walt ! Please note that, only the green box saying ‘In-place Upgrade’ will upgrade keeping all your files,settings, programs as it is been in the current Windows version. (