After the launch of Apple ipad, war of Tablets has begun.Giant companies are now keen to introduce their tablets ASAP.Yesterday at Computex Microsoft introduces tablet OS concept.Microsoft is bringing Windows 7 to the tablet, a “compartmentalized version of Windows 7 that can be embedded at the hardware level.”

Windows Embedded Compact 7 will have embedded support for silver light,flash player 10 and a browser (obviously IE).Touchscreen will be multi touch supporting panning and pinch to zoom.This was just a show of how much windows 7 is capable and microsoft is relying on other hardware manufacturers to make tablet devices which can support Windows 7.Microsoft only seems to be supplying the underlying builds that will go out to manufacturers.

Via : Engadget

The performance of Windows 7 may be slow due to number of reasons, but there are many ways by which you can increase Windows 7 Performance. Here are some tips by which you can Optimize Windows 7 for Better Performance.

1) Turn off Hibernate:
Hiberfil.sys file is located in your windows drive and Windows 7 uses Hiberfil.sys to store a copy of the system memory on the hard disk when the hybrid sleep setting is turned on. If you don’t use hibernate or for Better performance, you should turn off Hibernate. To Turn off Hibernate, Click Start, and then type ‘cmd’ in the Start Search Box. At the command prompt, type ‘powercfg.exe /hibernate off’, and then press ENTER.
Turning off Hibernation will increase you windows 7 performance and you will also get some free space on windows drive.

2) Run Less Programs at startup:
Some programs start themselves automatically when you start Windows 7. Too many of these programs opening at the same time can slow down Windows 7 Performance. To increase Windows 7 performance, delete unnecessary startup programs.

3) Increase Pagefile.sys Size:
Windows 7 uses a paging file for virtual memory called Pagefile.sys. This file is created during Windows 7 Setup and is always located in the root directory. If you increase size of Pagefile.sys, then performance of Windows 7 will increase. The best size of Pagefile.sys is your RAM x 1.5.

4) Keep Visual Effects Turn Off:
You can also increase Windows 7 performance by turning off visual effects. To do that, right click my computer then click properties and then click ‘Advance system settings’. In ‘Advance system settings’ dialogue select ‘Advance’ tab then click ‘Settings’. Now click ‘Adjust for best performance’ and click ‘OK’.

5) Delete Unnecessary Files:
If you reduce the number of unnecessary files on your hard disk it will also help Windows 7 to run faster. Unnecessary Files includes temporary files, Recycle Bin , and a number of system files and other items that you no longer need.

6) Fix Registry Errors:
If you have any Error in you Windows 7 registry or unnecessary registry entries, it will also affect Windows 7 performance. If you installed a program in Windows 7 and later want to uninstall it, always use the programs uninstaller to uninstall the program. Don’t directly delete Program from you hard disk because if you do so, it will only delete the program from hard disk not it’s registry entries and these registry entries will affect Windows 7 Performance.
For Fixing registry errors or deleting unnecessary registry entries you can use registry cleaner software’s like CCleaner etc.

7) Use Anti-Virus Program:
If your Windows 7 Performance is slow, it’s possible that it’s infected with a virus or spyware. The best way to deal with viruses is to prevent them in the first place. Always run Anti-Virus software and keep it up to date.

Disable User Account Control(UAC):
By default User Account Control(UAC) is on in Windows 7. If UAC is on, then it will stop many actions like Installation of New Programs, change of setting etc. and Display a dialogue asking you to confirm your actions. If you Turn it off, then it will not annoy you. To Turn User Account Control(UAC) off, Control Panel on desktop then click ‘User Accounts and Family Safety’ and then ‘User Account’. Now Click on ‘Change User Account Control Settings’. User Account Control Settings dialogue will Open. Slide the slider bar to the lowest value (Never Notify), then click ‘OK’.

Image resizing and editing are the most comon tasks we do on daily basis.Although windows has mspaint software installed by default.But if you have ever used it, you must have noticed that it lacks several tools which we need.Another problem of using MSpaint is that, whenever you save image to another format (e.g. bmp to jpg) there will be massive color loss and image will become almost useless.

There are some free photo editors available to download which are Free Alternates to MSPaint.We can use them for doing daily photo editing,resizing and converting tasks.Most of these free photo editing softwares also have batch process, which we can use to do a same task for multiple images.

1) Gimp

GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.

It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc.

GIMP is expandable and extensible. It is designed to be augmented with plug-ins and extensions to do just about anything. The advanced scripting interface allows everything from the simplest task to the most complex image manipulation procedures to be easily scripted.

2) Paint.net

Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows. It  features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. An active and growing online community provides friendly help,  tutorials, and plugins.

3) Mypaint

MyPaint is a fast and easy open-source graphics application for digital painters. It lets you focus on the art instead of the program. You work on your canvas with minimum distractions, bringing up the interface only when you need it.

4) Tuxpaint

Tux Paint is a free, award-winning drawing program for children ages 3 to 12 (for example, preschool and K-6). It combines an easy-to-use interface, fun sound effects, and an encouraging cartoon mascot who guides children as they use the program.

5) Paint.COM

RealWorld Paint.COM can display images using any zoom factor and always shows 100% accurate preview of the drawn shape. Tooltips are displayed throughout the user interface to explain meaning of controls.

After a geometric shape is added to an image, control handles appear and users can further adjust the shape. New points can be added to poly-lines, curves and polygons by dragging a handle of an edge.

RealWorld Paint.COM allows you to edit pictures with layers and assign effects to every layer. A layer can have for example a bevel effect active giving all shapes a 3D look and feel.

6) Photo Pos Lite

Photo Pos Lite provides many of the same tools for photo editing and retouching that other programs do. However, this program nudges slightly ahead of similar competition with its layout.

7) mtPaint

mtPaint is a painting program which Mark Tyler developed from scratch so he could easily create pixel art and manipulate digital photos.
It uses the GTK+ toolkit (version 1 or 2) and runs on PC’s via the GNU/Linux or Windows operating systems. Due to its efficient design it can run on older PC hardware (e.g. a 200MHz CPU and 16MB of free RAM).

mtPaint is free software, which means you are able to freely use, modify and distribute it according to the GNU General Public License.

HeliosPaint

HeliosPaint is a feature-rich, easy-to-use and powerful paint program for editing photos, drawings and icons. It runs on Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS X, Linux and Unix.

Many times we face this problem when  we forget or lost Windows password or somebody had changed the password of our system. In such a situation either we have to install windows again or find a solution to reset the password so that we can log into Windows easily. In this post, I will show you how you can reset the password on Windows easily with the help of your Flash Drive without reformatting or reinstalling your system.. In this post I will use a Flash Drive of 2 GB. Below are the steps to reset Windows password using bootable USB Flash Drive.

Step1. Download a free demo version of Windows Password Key 8.0

http://www.lostwindowspassword.com/downloads/Windows_Password_Key_Demo.exe

Step2. Run the downloaded file to install Windows Password Key 8.0. You can install Windows Password Key 8.0 on any PC you have access to.

Step3.Windows Start menu – From your Microsoft Windows Start Programs menu, select Windows Password Key | Windows Password Key 8.0.exe. . Windows Password Key 8.0 will be launched automatically.

Step4. Create a bootable USB Flash Drive

4.1 You can click “Browse” to browse Windows Password Key 8.0 image file. The file is usually located as the default.

4.2 Select “USB Flash Drive” and insert your USB into a USB port on the computer, specify the USB Flash Drive from the pull-down list.

4.3 Click “burn” button.

4.4 Windows Password Key extracts the ISO image and copies the necessary files on a USB Flash Drive

4.4: Put in your newly created USB Flash Drive and remove your Windows password:

1. Insert newly created USB Flash Drive and reboot your computer.

2. It’s necessary to change your computer’s setup to make it boot from the USB Flash Drive.

a. pres ‘F2‘ or ‘Delete‘ or “F10” to enter your BIOS setup.

b. Looking for a tab or menu relating to booting in the BIOS setup software’s opening screen. In this example, it’s simply called “BOOT,” and can be accessed by using the tab and/or arrow keys to highlight the word “BOOT” on the menu bar. Once there, hit enter, and you’ll see a submenu that’s specific to how the PC boots.

c. Using the tab and/or arrow keys,select “Hard Disk Drives“, and hit “Enter”.

d. Select the “1st Drive“, hit “Enter”.

e. Select the “USB: your USB brand”, in the example it is “USB: Kingston DTG(2G)”, and hit “Enter” to Set the USB Flash drive as the first bootable option.

f. When you’re done with the BIOS setup program, using the tab and/or arrow keys to navigate to the EXIT menu, select the option for saving the changes you just made, and then reboot. (In many BIOSes, a special key–often the F10 key–will save, exit, and reboot in one step.) . When your computer restarts, it will boot from the USB flash drive.

3. When the USB Flash Drive boots, you’ll see Windows Password Key 8.0 initializing (see screen shot below). If so, you can continue to the next step.

4. Choose the Windows installation to be processed:

5. Choose the user whose password you want to reset by typing it’s number and pressing ‘ENTER’.

6. Type ‘y’ followed by ‘ENTER’ to reset the password.

7. After you confirm the resetting of the password. Windows Password Key 8.0 asks: ‘Reset password for another account? (y/n)’. Type ‘y’ to reset password for another account, or ‘n’ if you are finished and want to exit. Remove the Windows Password Key 8.0 bootable CD/DVD and restart your PC. Now you are able to log into your computer without a password!

Guest Post by : Mark

The website geeksmack.net confirmed that Windows 7 RTM is coming on 13th July.Neowin.net is also reporting that “sources close to the company, who wish to remain anonymous, have confirmed that Windows 7 is indeed set to RTM on July 13.” But still there is no official confirmation.

The Last leaked of Windows 7 is Build 7267.The tag of the build is 7267.0.win7_rtm.090629-1900.

Microsoft Windows 7 Team is in the process of testing RTM candidate builds to ensure that all bugs have been removed from the OS to make it smooth and bug-free release as possible.

Microsoft has announced that Windows 7 will be available on 22 October in stores.

Rather than sending the text files in email it is always good to convert text files to pdf as pdf files look good and easy to view.You cannot convert text files to pdf without using any software.You can use adobe acrobat to complete this task but acrobat is really a resource consuming program and takes lots of space in HD.

It would be better to use a small utility which is free and takes minimum resources.Zilla TXT to PDF Converter allows users to set Page Size, Font, Author and Keywords information etc.You will simply need to add the source TXT files and choose the destination folder.

Conversion process is also really really easy.You can add a single file or a whole folder that contains bunch of files and then press Start converting button to convert into pdf then with in some seconds you will have the converted files.It is easy,isn’t it.

Free version of Zilla TXT to PDF can only convert text files.If you upgrade to the paid version you can convert the following files.

Convert PDF to Word

Convert PDF to RTF

Convert PDF toTXT

Convert PDF to BMP

Convert PDF to GIF

Convert PDF to JPG

Convert PDF to TIF

Convert PDF to PNG

Convert PDF to HTML

Convert PDF to SWF

Download : Zilla TXT To PDF Converter

Before somedays i wrote a post Microsoft Security Essentials Beta (Morro) will be available on June 23 .Now the time has come and Microsoft Security Essentials Beta 1.0 is available to download for beta testers.To download and try Microsoft Security Essentials Beta 1.0 you will need to login in with your Windows Live ID.

What is Microsoft Security Essentials

You’re too busy to spend a lot of time worrying about protecting your PC. With Microsoft Security Essentials Beta, you get high-quality protection against viruses and spyware, including Trojans, worms and other malicious software. And best of all, there are no costs or annoying subscriptions to keep track of.

If you are thinking about the system requirements of Microsoft Security Essentials Beta than you donot need to worry because Microsoft Security Essentials is lightweight antivirus,antispyware and antimalware.System requirements for Microsoft Security Essentials is given below.

Minimum system requirements for Microsoft Security Essentials Beta

Hard Disk is one of the main component of your computer without Hard Disk the computer is nothing.Everything is stored on Hard Disk.Have you ever thought about monitoring the performance of your hard disk.e.g. Temperature of Hard Disk,Read Write Rate and so on.

By using any software dedicated for monitoring Hard Disk Performance you can even not only monitor the performance of Hard Disk but you will get  all other info about your Hard Disk e.g. Serial Number,Volume Info,From how much time Hard Disk is being used and lots of other info which you even won’t have in mind.

Active@ Hard Disk Monitor is a freeware disk utility that checks and monitors the status of your hard drives to help prevent data loss. The system is based on the Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T.). This software monitors hard disk parameters such as Temperature, Head Flying Height and Spin-Up Time and notifies a user when a critical condition occurs. Disk Monitor also displays hard disk information, current S.M.A.R.T. attributes and the overall status of the hard disk’s health. Advanced disk scan allows you to detect bad sectors on a disk surface. The software can be launched automatically at Windows startup and monitor the system in the background. The temperature of selected hard disks is displayed through a system tray icon.

Main Features:
- Hard Disk performance monitoring and control
- Based on Self Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology (or S.M.A.R.T.)
- Able to scan and display bad sectors on a disk’s surface.
- Displays current S.M.A.R.T. attributes
- Can be launched automatically at Windows startup and monitor the
HDD(s) in the background
- Provides standard hard disk information such as Serial/Model Number,
Number of cylinders, and so on.
- Sends an email or a popup notification automatically if critical
conditions appear.
- Includes System Tray icon temperature status
- Can generate event log and S.M.A.R.T reports
- The software has an easy to use user interface

Active@ Hard Disk Monitor is not a free software but it has a free version available in which some features are disable but believe me you won’t need those features until n unless you are a system or network admin.

Download : Active@ Hard Disk Monitor

As you know, Microsoft has announced that Windows 7 will be available on 22 October in stores.But another Windows 7 build has leaked named build 7229.To Download Windows 7 Build 7229 search “Download Windows 7 Build 7229″ On Google.

This Build name is 7229.0.090604-1901.This may be last build before RTM.Microsoft also planned to Release Windows 7 RTM by the end of July.

Via http://www.neowin.net/news/main/09/06/11/windows-7-build-7229-leaked-2