Posts under ‘Windows XP’

Microsoft Applications on Apple iPhone-Boon or Bane?

What happened to the Apple team anyway? Earlier they used to bombard the Windows OS, used to ridicule the Microsoft Applications and now, they are agreeing to windows applications to access the iPhone. Way to go down Apple!! So, whats the news anyway? Do we need to get to run MS Office on iPhone? No [...]

Microsoft postpones the Cremation Date of Windows XP, Hallelujah

Microsoft today announced that it is going to extend the date from which Windows XP would be unavailable to the general public and vendors. Previously Microsoft announced that it would detest the sales and support of Windows XP from Jan 31st, 2009, but now the date has been extended to May 30, 2009. So, what [...]

Differences “Size” and “Size on Disk” in a file’s Properties

Say we created a notepad file which contains just the letters HI and save it. Now, go to that file, right click on it and click “Properties”. Check the “Size” and “Size on disk” for this particular file. The file has two characters namely ‘H’ and ‘I’ which occupy 1 byte each,so totally 2 bytes [...]

Dell Charges $150 extra for Windows XP,If you Hate Windows Vista

Its quite sure that most of the Windows Operating Systems users hate to migrate from Windows XP to Windows Vista. Ever since Windows XP has been shelved off from sales people have been going to extreme edges to get their copies of XP. As it is pretty obvious that Dell has charged people upto $50 if [...]

Know The True Power of Right Click and Context Menu

Realize the true power of the right click in Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/Vista. Unleash the potential by configuring and tweaking the operating system.

Send upto 2GB attachments using Microsoft OutLook

Yeah, this is tried and perfectly possible. Only catch is, we would never try to send a 2GB file for attachment anyway. But, we can never tell the requirements, how and when they may change. Came across a minuscule application that sends the files through your Microsoft Outlook 2003 ranging from MBs to GigaBytes. The [...]

Disable Error Reporting When Program Crashes in Windows XP

Want to get rid of the error reporting dialog box that Windows XP so promptly displays when some application crashes? Here is a perfect solution for this. Now, XP does not have a chance to again ask you seriously whether you want to report why a program has crashed on your computer. Follow these simple [...]

How to Get TimeStamp in MS Word Documents

This is a neat and very easy trick which would help you a lot when you are working on MS Office Documents. To insert time , you need to go to the ‘Insert’ menu and then choose ‘Date and Time’. Then in order to keep the time updated, you have to choose the option ‘Update [...]

Disable Low Disk Space Warnings in Windows XP

Annoyed of the little pop-ups which remind you of the ever decreasing disk space. Even though, sometimes this is quite useful, at times, this becomes a nuisance when you are busily doing something important and this little popup grabs your attention. Most of the times you would be pretty much aware of the low space [...]

2 Simple Steps To Make You Look Super Geek

Your friends and colleagues would never treat you the same after you perform this trick on them. That’s for sure. You would surely look super cool when it comes to computers when you master this small tricky notes. So, lets move ahead with a simple 2 step tutorial to start your applications faster than holding [...]