How to dualboot windows xp and windows 7

Now many laptops are being shipped with windows 7 os.Some of the users may still want to  use the  trusted windowsxp.So iam gonna teachu how to install xp on a system preinstalled with windows7.To install windows xp to  dual boot with windows7 we require either an empty partition or you can create an new partition yourself by shrinking free space present in  a drive.If you have a windows7 preinstalled system with many drives then you can select any drive to install xp.Some of the  laptops are shipped only with only one partition,to install winxp on such systems you have to shrink some amount of available free disk space into new partition .Let me tell you how to do that
Open your start menu now type partition in search programs and files box.Now click on Create and format harddisk partition

The disk management window opens now  now click on your c drive and select shrink partition

Now a window fires out querying how much of free disk space is available.You will be shown the total size of the disk,amount of free space available to shrink

Now give the amount of space required for ur new drive and click on shrink button.
After shrinking you will be displayed with raw partition   now right click on it and select New simple volume.

 
New simple volume wizard starts up  confirming again for simple volume in mb,then it assign a drive letter .Now under Format partition section NTFS is selected by default leave it,also give the volume label name ,check the quick format box.

Click on next after the format is completed you will see the new healthy volume with ur volume label.
thats it a new partition is created .Now boot your system with windowxp bootable cd .Select the newly created volume for installing xp after installing you can see that your system starts with windows xp this is bcoz the xp bootloader overwritten windows 7 bootloader.Dont panic now use the software called EasyBcd 1.72 and click on Writembr and see the magic .Restart your computer now you can see both operating systems

Download the software by clicking here EasyBcd 1.72 .

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WinCdEmu:Alternative to deamon tools

Many of us have the habit of storing CD/DVD as images in our system.This is a good practice in two ways.(1)It reduces the overhead on CD/DVD drive(2)Access will be faster.There is a popular tool to handle these images called Deamon-tools.There is another  lighter version, simple  tool called   WinCdEmu .A very simple yet handy one-click CD/DVD emulator for Win32/Win64 platforms. Supports ISO, CUE, IMG, BIN, NRG, MDF/MDS, CCD and RAW formats.
Download this tool here  WinCdEmu .

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Use speccy to know your system configuration

Many of us have a PC in our home but dont know its configuration.This tutorial is for noobs as well as advanced users.You can know about ur system configuration in many ways.One of the simple ways to do it is fire up the msdos window.Type the command systeminfo it displays  your system configuration.But it doesnot display additional information like the manufacturer of the equipment.To solve this there is a nice cool free tool called Speccy which will give you detailed information on every piece of hardware in your computer. Including CPU, Motherboard, RAM, Graphics Cards, Hard Disks, Optical Drives, Audio support. Additionally Speccy adds the temperatures of your different components, so you can easily see if there's a problem.Check this screenshot

This tool will be extremely useful when u wanna sell ur system and u have to give the system .
specifications to the buyer and viceversa.
Download this software from here Speccy

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Securely delete your data using eraser

This is an extremely useful tool to completely wipe out your sensitive data. you have a digital camera using which you have taken photos of your friends or family members.Some friend of urs asked your memory card to take some snapshots.Then you will format your memory card and give it to your friend to protect your privacy but with tools like photorec any thirdperson can extract the deleted photos and use it for illegal purposes.In a situation like this Eraser comes to our help it allows you to completely remove sensitive data from your hard drive or memory card by overwriting it several times with carefully selected patterns.
Download this tool from here eraser download

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Comodo time machine :replacement to windows system restore and settings

In simple terms Comodo time machine is windows time machine.After installing any software if you have any compatability problems associated with it.Then this software comes handy.After installing  the software it reboots ur system and takes snapshot of the entire system.

Using the icon present in the taskbar you can take snapshots or restore the system to a previous state.

If you delete any files accidentally it searches for individual snapshots to restore the system.It also offers advanced options such as automatic creation of snapshots.
Just google it and download the software

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Enhance google chrome with speed dial

Whenever you click on a new page tab in google chrome you can see a window comprising most frequently  used websites.You can view these pages either as thumbnails or as coloumns.But google doesnt offer us to custmize this page.Using a small extension called Speed dial you can customize this page with your own set of themes,create visual bookmarks ,reorder the bookmarks as u like.
Click on the above link to download this extension.

As u can see this extension has 483 ratings which means it is simply superb.The cool thing about this extension is that you can have google search box in new tab also which ofcourse is not available in default google chrome .Clicking  on options lets you to Change number of rows,number of Coloumns,
Assign a background image,display search box,display bookmarks bar........

You can change the background image by placing url in the box provided.

You can add a visual thumbnail by right clicking on the icon present at the end of the url box and select Add current page.

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Tips to enhance your Youtube experience

Watch high quality videos:- You can watch high quality videos either by using the button pointed by arrow mark.

Yoou can also add &fmt=18 to the URl in the addressbar.This increase the resolution by 480*360,video at a rate of 512 kbps and audio at a rate of 44.1khz .
Change the background:- You can add backgrounds to your youtube channel by visiting http://backgroundtube.com

Watch Youtube videos as bouncing balls:-
Have u ever wondered that we can watch  youtube videos as bouncing balls.As soon as you click any video thumbnail on that page.A black screen opens showing related videos as small bouncing balls . click this link

http://www.youtube.com/warp_speed
Shortcut                                                 function
spacebar                                                 play/pause video
Right Arrow                                           Fast forward
Left arrow                                              Rewind
UP arrow                                                Increase volume
DOWN arrow key                                 Decrease volume
[f]                                                            Full screen  

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Blogger cheatsheet

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Master your brain improve your cognitive skills using Lumosity

Human body is a biological machine which wears out as the age progress.We do lot lot of excercises to make our body stay in topnotch condition.But we dont give due importance to excercise our brain.As a result we are forgetting our daily to-do lists.We have come to stage where we cannot recollect what happened one hour ago,students fail to recollect lessons taught just one hour ago.Doing brain excercise improve blood circulation to our brain and helps us to improve Cognitive skills which inturn help you to accomplish your goals.Now the most important question is who will teach How to do Brain excersies?? Though there are many brain excercise guides available on the internet my sincere advise to my readers is please dive into a site called Lumosity and register there for free am sure this real time interactive brain excercise improves our cognitive skill besides providing fun.I urge students especially children stop playing video games start playing lumosity games.Did i say games?? yes Lumosity is a unique site which helps us to improve our cognitive skills by playing games .Iam not here to promote this site but i experimented with this site  and found it very useful see the screenshot

 Enough of theory lets see some screen shots.

This genre of games enhances your memory.

These genre of games improves ur concentration.

This set of games improves ur problem solving capabilities.

This set of games helps to improve ur vocabulary skills .
After playing each game the results will be evaluated and u can see the BPI

Thanku readers for having patience to come upto here

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Photorec the ultimate tool for recovering damaged|lost multimedia files

This is a must have   recover deleted photos tool for all computer users.This software recovers all types of files  from  hard disks, CD-ROMs, memory cards (Compact Flash, Memory Stick, SecureDigital/SD, SmartMedia, Microdrive, MMC, etc.), USB memory drives, DD raw image, EnCase E01 image, etc..This tool is a specialist in recovering lost or accidentally deleted photos from all types of memory cards even from Ipod.Is it not a good news for all of us.This tool is a boon to photographers who often format their mmc cards.This cool tool supports all platforms such as
    *  DOS/Win9x
    * Windows NT 4/2000/XP/2003/Vista
    * Linux
    * FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD
    * Sun Solaris
    * Mac OS X
While other recovery softwares rely on file systems.This software doesnot rely on file systems to recover hence it can recover data even the file system is completely damaged.let us understand how any recovering tool works Any file system stores data in clusters or datablocks in continous locations.When a file is deleted the metainformation about the file such as file name,date, time,size are lost but the data is still present on the system until is overwritten so there is a good chance to recover lost data .
Download this tool from here Photorec .After downloading the file extract to anywhere you like .Since mine is windows system ill show you how to recover in windows.Navigate to the folder where You have extracted locate the photorec_win.exe file now right click on it and run as administrator 

Now the command line interface opens up, from the list of disks select the disk you wish to recover.Here i have chosen my pendrive to recover

Next it asks to select the filesystem ,since this makes its work easier

  Again press enter key to display the memory device

Depending on the type file system select ext2/ext3 for ext file system,for remaining file systems select other since mine is a fat32 system i have selected other option and pressed enter.
Next it asks for the space to be analyzed whether free space to be analyzed or whole .Here there is a small logic according to photorec free space means the are which is made free by accidentaly deleting files.So i opted for free space option .
In the next step it asks where to save the recovered files give the location other than from which you are recovering files

It does the remaining job .Sorry friends for posting such a long post .But this post has got high level of importance thanku for ur patience so that you came this long .
Hurray see my recovered photos

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How to make restrictions in windows xp using registry editor

You can perform all the below hacks using Regedit (Registry editor).You can invoke this by typing Regedit in Windows Run dialog box click here to get a detailed tutorial on Registry by me All about Registry .
How to disable right click in windows xp:In windows xp you can disable right click on desktop to prevent creation of newfolders,shortcuts,briefcase etc.
After opening Regedit dive into
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Policies 
In the right side pane create a new Dword called NoViewContextMenu and assign it 1

Just restart the system to see the magic..........
How to Disable beep sounds in windows xp:
After opening regedit navigate to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ControlPanel\Sound  .On the right side pane you can see a string called Beep.Modify its value to NO. If u cannot locate Beep create a string with name beep and assign it No

How to Disable New option in right click context menu:

Navigate to the key

  HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Background\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers

Now delete the New subkey .

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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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