How to view Docx files ?
Yesterday, i received a file via email from my friend. I was surprised to see the file’s extension, it was .docx. As far as i remember i didn’t encounter .docx extension before.
If you encounter a file with a extension that you never encountered before then you need to check out How to open files that have unusual file extensions
I tried opening it on Microsoft Word 2003. I didn’t succeed in that. I then started searching on google and found out that .docx is Microsoft Word 2007 file extension. I finally found several ways to open Docx files.
How to open Docx File?
Free Virtual Desktop Manager for Windows - Microsoft
Sysinternals team from Microsoft has released a tool for windows called Desktops.
Microsoft Virtual Desktop Manager - 4 Virtual Desktops
Using this tool you can have four virtual desktops at the same time. You can have multiple applications running and arrange related programs/applications in one desktop window. multimedia and chat applications on another virtual desktop window. This will make managing your desktop easy.
The software runs in your Windows taskbar. And you can very easily switch from one virtual desktop to another by pressing the keyboard shortcut or through your mouse.
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How to Extend Desktop to LCD/Monitor/TV?
How many of you know that you can extend your desktop on to your Monitor or TV or LCD.
If you have Television or extra monitor lying around at your home, you can use it along with your PC/Laptop to get extra desktop space. Having a second monitor allows you to extend your desktop and have a lot of extra usable space.
Why do you want to extend your desktop?
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How to Delete files permanently from HDD
Even though i empty my trash, there is the possibility of someone retrieving some of the information because it is still lurking somewhere on my hard drive. If this is true, why can’t I go to that particular place, see what’s there and delete it myself anytime I wish?
This is an old story but it’s worth telling again for those who don’t know it. Put simply: When you delete a file from your computer (and it needn’t be Windows, this is common to every type of PC), that file doesn’t “go away.” Rather, to save wear and tear on your hard drive and to simplify the operation, your computer just eliminates the record of where the file began. Think of your PC as containing a giant “shopping list” of all the files on its hard drive. Delete the canned peaches off that shopping list and the store doesn’t actually get rid of the peaches. It just “forgets” that they are there. The space allocated to the peaches remains there until the store needs the space for something else.
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Desktop Linux hurts Microsoft
Linux has kept a big chunk of the server business out of Microsoft’s hands. But in 2008, Linux will hurt Microsoft on the desktop. Here’s how.
A new computing platform
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Thanks to Moore’s Law and evolving application needs, a new computing platform arrives every 10 years. Mainframes in the ’50s, minicomputers in the ’60s, PCs in the ’70s, microcontrollers in the ’80s, PDAs and cell phones in the ’90s and now sub-$400 - soon to be sub-$300 notebooks.
Small and light enough to be carried everywhere, these sub-notes provide Internet access, PDA functionality and basic mail and document creation functionality at a rock-bottom price. Asustek is expected to build 1,000,000 Eee sub-notes in Q1 ‘08 alone. Asustek’s competitors are just getting warmed up.
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