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[11 Feb 2010 | 7 Comments | ]
What is the Hardware Requirement to display Aero Effect

ShareThis is a part of Question and Answer series, one of my reader asked me that he is not able to see Aero effects in his Windows 7. He asked me that if there is an special Hardware requirement to see Aero Effect in Windows 7. He is using Windows 7 Home basic.
For those who don’t know what Aero is – in simple language Aero is the glass look that you see in Windows 7.
The reason he is not able to see Aero effects is becuase the version of Windows …

How to Recipies, Windows 7 »

[11 Feb 2010 | 5 Comments | ]

ShareYesterday I posted a trick on how to auto login into an account without providing user-name and password (i.e. autologin), but it seems like that trick doesn’t worked for Windows 7 Professional version. So today I came across a workaround for Windows 7 Professional users so that they can auto-login too without using any 3rd party software.
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The workaround involves tweaking registry, so it would be better if …

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[10 Feb 2010 | 2 Comments | ]
How To Auto login into my user account in Windows 7

ShareNote: The following trick works for Windows XP also, I haven’t checked it on Windows Vista but it should work on Vista too.
If you want to AutoLogin into you user account than follow the given below steps.-
1. Press Win + R (Run dilog box will open)

2. In Run dialog box copy paste control userpasswords2 and press enter.
3. Now User Accounts Window will appear

4. Click on the name of the user name (Mad Geek in my case) which you want to set for autologin.
5. Once you have selected your username …

Windows 7 »

[10 Feb 2010 | No Comment | ]

1033 is the locale identifier for “English (United States)”, whose hexadecimal value is 0×0409. Locale identifier tells about the the language that is used in a particular region. The purpose of the document is to help developers who are defining NLS services (sorting, time/date formatting, and keyboards/IMEs) for locales that do not yet have native support in Windows to avoid conflict.

E-Books, Windows 7 »

[3 Feb 2010 | No Comment | ]
Windows 7 Shortcuts eBook

ShareThis eBook comprises of more than 200 keyboard shortcuts containing almost all the keyboard shortcuts that are available in Windows 7 and its default programs like Paint, WordPad, MS Office, Calculator, Help, Media Player, Media Center, Windows Journal, Internet Explorer, etc…
The book has been written by my friend Nitin Agrawal and published by The Windows Club. Also take a look at 10 best computer related ebooks.
The eBook is bookmarks-ready, both in PDF and XPS format, with a fully linked content index.

The eBook is pretty exhaustive and the topics covered include:

What …

Customization, Featured, Windows 7 »

[17 Jan 2010 | 2 Comments | ]
Download Glow Air Visual Style for Windows 7

Sharewe have reviewed some cool Windows 7 themes previously in beingpc now its time for a new visualstyle that catches my attention.
Glow Air Visual Style is created by kAtz93, it is really a nice visualstyle you should like to have. Just cleck on the image below to see the larger screen shot and then you will know what am i talking about.

New Features

New Office 14-like Window Frames
Taskbar improved from Win7 Blend’s
New Jumplist
New Shellstyle
Cool Start buttons

Included in the pack

Glow Air Visual Style with uxtheme patch

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