When you install Windows 7, you get an option to set your country, timezone, language, etc. Based on your choices, Windows installs some default wallpapers and themes on your hard drive. But those are not the only ones present! You see, Windows 7 comes with 5 theme packs for different English speaking countries: United[.....]

Looks like the month of October is a sad month for the world of computers. Earlier this month, Steve Jobs, co-founder, CEO and Chairman of Apple Inc, passed away after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. Steve was largely hailed as a man who revolutionized the world of technology, bringing it to the highly[.....]

There is a simple way to hide a folder in Windows XP by editing it’s Properties and selecting ‘Hidden’. But the folder is visible when the View Hidden Files option is turned on. In this post, I’ll tell you how to hide your folders even with the option turned on! It starts with renaming[.....]

This is a Windows XP hack. Be careful or it’ll make you feel really suicidal. Using the content of this post, you can easily change the password of any user account on your XP installation. No need to know previous passwords. You need an admin account for this, limited accounts don’t get this privilege[.....]

After the immense success and popularity of the latest Windows Operating System, Windows 7, Microsoft is working on bringing it’s predecessor, Windows Vista, on par with it. It has recently released DirectX 11 for Vista, so users (mostly gamers) do not have to upgrade to Windows 7 just to make use of their more[.....]

The official beta version of Chrome OS is available for download from a Google based site. The version is 0.4.223 beta.

I recently received Service Pack 2 in the mail this morning, shaking my head at why I don’t use Ubuntu, but nonetheless downloading the 343.9 MB package. I don’t understand why us Windows users have to download enormous files that have a couple of bug fixes. I may as well be downloading an MMORPG[.....]

The Linux distro Fedora is about to get upgraded. This time to version 11, codenamed Leonidas. I like to use Fedora, and I dual-boot with it on a laptop, along with Ubuntu. Looking at the release notes, a handful of features are going to released, including KDE 4.2.2, improved support for desktop effects in[.....]

Vista boots slowly. Everyone knows that. But not everyone knows there is an easy way to speed it up if you have a multiple core processor. I’ll show you how in this blog post. You will need Administrative Access. First, click on the Start orb, search for ‘run’ in the search box, and then[.....]