Windows 7 Twinkle Wish Theme Pack

 

 

Download this Twinkle Wish Theme pack for Windows 7 here. (10.1 MB )

(Source: Bink.nu)

How to access Office Web Apps ?

Office Web Apps makes it so easy to create, edit and share your documents online and many of you must have already tried earlier. But there were many who didn’t had access and couldn’t try it. Now everyone can access Office Web Apps. As MS Office 2010 beta is publically  available , anyone can try office Web apps as well.

For this first download and install MS Office 2010 beta . If you haven’t tried this you should, to see various improvements to MS Office with lots of new features.

Now create a Word, Excel or PowerPoint document and save it to SkyDrive from File > Share > Save to SkyDrive, a Free 25GB  storage service on Windows Live to store your docs.

It will ask you to sign-in with your Windows Live ID

So select a folder in SkyDrive, click on ‘Save As’ type a name of your doc and save. Now your doc is save in SkyDrive.

Now Click File > close.

Now from your IE browser goto http://skydrive.live.com and sign-in with your Windows Live ID. Select the folder where you had saved your doc. Click on the filename and select View.

So when you click on View, you will be prompted to read and accept the terms of use to Join the preview program of Microsoft Office Web Apps Technical Preview /Beta. Click on Accept.

Now you can access Office Web Apps and can create, share, edit  your docs online though in limited way as its still in beta.

 

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So try it out now, Office Web Apps has made so easy to create your Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote Online.

Does your PC supports Virtualization, Windows XP Mode ?

The virtualization support is available in processors that include a virtualization option specific processors with Intel Virtualization Technology (Intel VT) or AMD Virtualization (AMD-V) technology, or virtualization-capable processors from Via.

Suppose you wanted to run other operating systems that are supported for use with Windows Virtual PC from your present Windows OS then this Virtualization is needed.( Note that its not dual/multi booting of OS but you are running another OS from within your present Windows using Virtualization). Or If you are running Windows 7 and want to use Windows XP Mode to access a virtualized instance of Windows XP then also your PC should support Virtualization.

So how to check whether your PC supports it? For this there’s a Hardware-assisted virtualization (HAV) detection tool which checks if the computer processor supports HAV and if this setting is enabled in the BIOS. You can get this tool from the Microsoft Download Center. (HAV Detection Tool 180 KB, User Guide 881 KB)

When you run this tool and if your system does not support virtualization then it shows this result:

and if your system supports Virtualization but is not enabled in the BIOS, then you get this :

And this can be enabled from the BIOS and support Windows Virtual PC or Windows XP Mode on a supported Windows 7 edition.

If you have a computer that has a HAV capable processor and if this feature is enabled on the processor from the BIOS, then the following screen is shown:

And on such systems you can use Windows Virtual PC or Windows XP Mode on a supported Windows 7 edition

There  can be another case as, if you have a machine which has Intel Trusted Execution Technology (Intel TXT) enabled and *if* that setting interferes with the virtualization setting of your processor, then the following screen is shown:

For more details one can refer to the HAV Detection Tool - User Guide available from tool  download link.

There are many popular PCs equipped with dual and quad core processors running in your laptops and desktops does not support Virtualization, this I have noticed with many of the Intel range of processors. So even today if you are buying a new laptop , always check whether the processor inside supports Virtualization or not.

You can check this from Intel site : Processor Spec Finder.

Also you can check which of the Intel CPUs support this from http://ark.intel.com/VTList.aspx 

If you go to those Intel links given above, one can see even some of the Quad core Intel CPUs doesn’t support virtualization so while choosing your new PC be aware of such facts.

Also check for AMD processors specs here: http://products.amd.com/en-us/ 

For more details on Windows Virtual PC and Windows XP mode , you can check http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/

Windows 7 Tip: Selecting Multiple files with Mouse only

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 > Folder and search options > View tab > In Advanced settings, scroll down to Use check Boxes to select items and check it. Apply and OK.

Now in Explorer you have a check box to check and select multiple files with just the Mouse.

This is also applied to desktop items.

Visual Studio 2010 countdown widget in Silverlight

.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: <div id="silverlightControlHost">
   2:     <object data="data:application/x-silverlight-2," type="application/x-silverlight-2" width="190" height="180">
   3:        <param name="initparams" value="TargetDate=03/22/10" />
   4:        <param name="source" value="http://gdtest.members.winisp.net/ClientBin/SilverCountDown.xap"/>
   5:        <param name="onError" value="onSilverlightError" />
   6:        <param name="background" value="black" />
   7:        <param name="minRuntimeVersion" value="3.0.40624.0" />
   8:        <param name="autoUpgrade" value="true" />
   9:        <a href="http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=149156&v=3.0.40624.0" style="text-decoration:none">
  10:           <img src="http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=108181" alt="Get Microsoft Silverlight" style="border-style:none"/>
  11:       </a>
  12:   </object>
  13:   <iframe id="_sl_historyFrame" style="visibility:hidden;height:0px;width:0px;border:0px"></iframe>
  14: </div>

(Source: Countdown to Visual Studio 2010)