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Microsoft releases Windows updates and security patches regularly and when ever the system gets updated Windows puts up a nag screen that keeps on prompting you to restart the computer. In Windows the updates come into effect or some get installed during shutdown or restart only and hence it is necessary to restart the computer [...]

If you happened to install the Windows 7 beta version 6801 there are many features like new taskbar, gestures, panning and Desktop slide show that are locked as they are unfinished features. But you if you would like to unlock them there is a tool called Blue Badge Tool which can unlock these features for [...]

Blu-Ray is the popular high definition video format that is currently being adopted by the video industry as all the new and old movie titles are now available in Blu-Ray format. The Blu-Ray titles are expensive when compared to their normal DVD counterparts. And it makes lot of sense to backup your precious Blu-Ray disc [...]

There are many instances when we would like to join or merge a set of powerpoint presentations into a singe file, to do this you would have manually copy all the slides and create a new slide. Here is a quick and easy way to do this (Thanks Madhur) using a free software utility called [...]

We have already discussed the features of upcoming Windows 7 and also saw the screenshots of build 6933 and build 6780 now lets us look at the screenshots of Windows 7 Build 6936:

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For people who work with lot of network drives, mapping and unmapping network drives in Windows can be a bit time consuming. Also there is no network drive manager present in Windows for managing the network drives. Network Drive Mapper is a free tool that allows you map, unmap and manage network drives quickly and [...]

At my work place I have to many times work with large CSV files. The problem is that Microsoft Excel 2003 cannot handle a file that contains data more than 65,536 rows in a column and most of the time I end up working with CSV file that has got data more than 65,536 rows.
In [...]

In this post we shall discuss the installation of Ubuntu Linux 8.10 also known as Intrepid Ibex. Let us now get started.
Step 1:
First download the Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) ISO file from Ubuntu website. Now that you have the ISO burn it to a CD, using your favorite CD/DVD burning application. If you don’t wish [...]