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Download Windows XP Theme for Windows 7

Tuesday, September 15th, 2009

How many of you love Windows XP look and feel? I don’t know about you. But, i am one of them who still love Windows XP Look and Feel.

This is for those XP Lovers those who miss the look and feel of XP in Windows 7. The default blue theme which comes with Windows XP is called Luna. This Luna theme can be applied to Windows 7. Once applied, you can get the same look and feel of Windows XP in Windows 7.

Satukoro from DeviantArt has ported Windows XP theme, Luna, to the latest version of Windows, 7!

Windows XP Theme for Windows 7 Screenshot

Download Windows XP Luna theme for Windows 7

Download Windows XP Theme for Windows 7

Download Windows XP Luna Theme for Windows 7

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15.09.2009 Microsoft 11 Comments

Aero Glass look and feel for Mozilla Firefox 3.7 Under Windows Vista & 7

Monday, July 27th, 2009

Guys here is a good news for all Mozilla Firefox fanatics. Firefox 3.7 will now have a Aero Glass look under Windows Vista and Windows 7. If you have used IE 8, you would know what Aero Glass makes your browser look.

The Aero Glass look can be seen in Firefox 3.7 because, it will support Aero theme for Firefox under Windows XP, Vista and 7.

Following screenshot is from Mozilla Wiki

Windows Vista and 7 (Aero) look on Firefox 3.7 Browser

Windows Vista and Windows 7 (Aero) Firefox 3.7

I am waiting for it. I hope you too will now wait for it…

[Via Vishal]

27.07.2009 Browsers 4 Comments

Disable unwanted Services in Windows XP to improve the performance

Wednesday, March 4th, 2009

What is Windows Service

A Windows service is like any other program in start up folder which starts when Windows is booted and runs in the background as long as PC is restarted/shutdown. Each service in windows handles some work. For ex: Spooler service is used to handle print jobs. But, what if you don’t have a printer? It is better to disable that service.Windows XP

I always wanted my PC to be fast and responsive. Due to this, I started finding out some of the services that are running and which are not needed. If you also want to disable unwanted services in Windows XP to improve the performance then continue reading…

To start/stop or enable/disable the services.
– Go to Start > Run and type msconfig and hit Enter.
– After services window is opened, click on the Services tab.
– Here you will see all the services registered under your Windows XP machine.
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04.03.2009 Microsoft, TipsNTricks 10 Comments

How to Kill Tasks from Command Prompt

Monday, February 23rd, 2009

Few days back, my laptop with Windows XP OS started giving problems. Moreover, i was unable to open the Task Manager. I rely on Task Manager to kill the non responding processes.

I started searching for other ways to Kill the Tasks (with out Task Manager). After a while, i found an alternative solution which works on Windows XP operating system. You can view all the processes running on your system via command prompt and kill them!

Kill Tasks or Processes from Command Prompt

  1. Open Command Prompt via Start -> Run… and type cmd and hit Enter.
  2. After Command prompt is opened, type “tasklist”
  3. Check below the list of processes or task running on my Laptop. Each row has process name and PID number.
    Kill Tasks from Command Prompt
  4. Note down the PID number of the Process you want to kill. For ex: PID number : 716, Process Name : GoogleUpdate.exe
  5. To kill the process or task, Type “tskill” (without the quotes) then space and the PID number.
    For ex: c:\> tskill 718
  6. The above command will kill the Process with PID number 718

In this way, you could kill the process or do lots of other things from command prompt that you can do with Task Manager.

Hope you liked this trick. If you have any other tricks. Do share by leaving a comment!

23.02.2009 How-To, Microsoft, TipsNTricks 19 Comments

Free Virtual Desktop Manager for Windows – Microsoft

Monday, August 25th, 2008

Sysinternals team from Microsoft has released a tool for windows called Desktops.

Microsoft Virtual Desktop Manager - 4 Virtual 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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25.08.2008 Microsoft, Utilities 8 Comments