Sunday, January 3, 2010

Windows 7 Aero

Microsoft shipped windows 7 with touch screen supporting features.Windows Aero is one of them, though it was present in Win vista Microsoft got it revamped with many interesting features in windows 7. Lets take a sneak peek into those features.
Aero peek: If you wonder what is this just over your mouse on any taskbar icon it shows a thumbnail preview of the running program .See the picture below.

1)Aero shake: I have already mentioned about this feature in my previous posts check here Aero shake .
2)Aero Snap:When you drag any active window  to the left or right side of your desktop it gets snapped occupying half of the screen on the coressponding side you dragged it

 You can also windows shortcuts to do this .Hold windows key and press left arrow key to snap the current window into left half .Hold windows key and press Right arrow key to snap the current window into right half .
3)Flip 3d  effect click this link Flip3d .This effect is an enhancement to alt+tab function.You can have this effect by holding ctrl+windows key and pressing tab or scrolling your mouse wheel.
4)Maximised windows still retain thier transparency  .
5)It is now possible to turn off windows shadows.
All the above features work only if you are using windows Aero themes.
Do disable Windows Aero right click on the desktop and choose personalize option,scroll down until you see normal themes select them thats it Aero feature will be disabled.
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Disable Error reporting in windows 7

Error reporting is a service offered by Microsoft to solve user problems and design their software better to perform well by developing service packs and patches.They gather information from the users all around the globe and take necessary actions to serve us better.By default this service is enabled.However this service may look annoying to some users.Now am going to tell two wayshow to disable this feature in windows 7.
Method 1
Launch start menu type Problem reporting settings 

Now select Choose how to report problems 

 Now click on never check for solutions

But my advice is to leave it enabled to help microsoft serve us better.
Method 2
Now am going to use Gpedit (Group policy editor) but this is not available in windows home .
You can type gpedit.msc either in Run dialog box or in Start menu search.



In the Local Group Editor Window dive into User configuration\Administrative Templates\Window Components\Windows Error Reporting 

 Change the setting from not configured to enabled.

Thats it enjoy
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God mode in windows 7



God mode is creating folder from which you can control all the options present in your Win7 system.God mode is also referred as Master control panel.The trick to create Masterontrolpanel is very simple.Create a folder on your desktop and rename it with Master Control Panel.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C} 
Now see the magic double click on the Master Control Panel icon. now let me tell how does this work .Windows uses GUID (Globally Unique Identifier) for every single object and when you created with GUID then windows checks in the registry for corresponding GUID in HKCR\CLSID and launches the coressponding application.See for yourself
in this picture

You can also use Guids to create


My Computer: {20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}


Network Connections: {7007ACC7-3202-11D1-AAD2-00805FC1270E}


User Accounts: {60632754-c523-4b62-b45c-4172da012619}


Recycle Bin: {645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}


Libraries:  {031E4825-7B94-4dc3-B131-E946B44C8DD5}
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phish or no phish identify fake | phising pages


Web is full of roses and thorns,in the present cyberage as number of people depending on net increasing Cybercrime is also increasing.One of the most common methods of cybercrime is social engineering where hackers chat with us nicely ,get all information about us finally kick us into their fakepage nets.Many of the present net users cannot distinguish the differnence between a Fakepage and a original page.To overcome this Versign  a company best known for SSL certificates developed a site called https://www.phish-no-phish.com/ .This site let us hone our skills in detecting the differences between a  phising site and a original site.
See the screens




I sincerely advise my readers to dive into the site and stay safe.
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