10 most popular Posts of the year 2008
As we are going to bid adieu to the year 2008, I decided to highlight some of the most popular articles from Techie Zone. I would like to wind up this year by highlighting what my readers liked most on this blog in the last year. So here goes a quick recap.
1. How to: Postpone Vista activation for a year
In vista the activation technique was modified and a cumbersome technology called Volume Licensing 2.0 which required to set up a “Key Management Service” (KMS). But it places a heavy burden to Corporate hence Microsoft developers invented a registry key (”skiprearm”) that helps to corporate IT administrators to reduce this burden. Brian Livingstone of windowssecrets has demonstrated this simple registry hack by exploiting the skiprearm and a simple command to extend the Vista Activation requirement to almost a year.
2. How to use Vista screen Saver in Windows XP
re you bored with the traditional built-in screen saver of Windows XP and you want to have the same stylish looking Vista screen saver in your XP box. Yes now you can use the Vista screen saver in to bring life to your XP desktop.The most popular Vista screen savers are Bubbles, Aurora, Mystify and Ribbons. So here I have provided these 4 screen savers for Vista. Just take a look of the Bubbles and Aurora screen saver.
3. Install Windows Media Player without WGA
WGA does not permit you to install media player 11 in Windows XP if your copy of XP has not been validated. If you still want to install WMP11, there are workaround ways to bypass and disable the WGA validation check during setup installation process.
4. How to permanently get rid of WGA validation
Microsoft released the Windows Genuine Advantage program for combatting piracy, but rather then serving the purpose it has become a headache for people who are using the genuine version of Windows XP and obviously to all non-genuine Windows XP users.
5. Enable DreamScene feature in Windows XP
I always want to play with my Windows XP ( I am also using Vista Ultimate as dual boot) and like to exploit different features. When I started using Windows Vista Ultimate, I was spelbound to see the DreamScene feature of Vista Ultimate. Suddenly an idea came into my mind why not have this Ultimate feature in Windows XP and here I will guide you how to perform this simple tricks in Windows XP.
You can say it nature’s fury or a human blunder in search for nature’s wealth. These collection of holes on our earth’s surface are not only huge but amazing. Most of these holes are diamond mines like Kimberly mines, Diavik mines etc. It reminds us of how tiny we are when we compare ourselves to these holes.
7. 10 best hoax e-mails of all time
Should it read 10 BEST or 10 WORST hoax e-mail of all time??If you have an e-mail account then you must be familiar with emails like Bill Gates sharing his fortune, Microsoft’s lottery promotion, Some one in Nigeria requesting you to be a partner to transfer massive amount of money to his account and many more.
Google has definitely created a niche for them. It is a rare incident that a web surfer has not heard about Google. This is the major search engine that has eveolved out of a PHD project. Pages and products like Doodles, Google Blog, Google Store, Google Docs and Google Labs are well known to every body.
9. Show Current Music track in Google talk in Vista
When I posted about Google Talk Not displaying the Current Music Track as Status message in this blog long back, I saw people asking about the trick to make it show in Windows Vista. I suggested them a few trick but none of them worked to my knowledge. It is until today when I decided to set my status in Google Talk as the music playing in media Player (Cause I wanted to impress someone)
10. Hidden Files/Folders do not show in Windows Explorer
Last week one of my client came to me with his laptop saying his laptop is running extremely slow. When I started the laptop, it took 10-15 minutes to get the Desktop. I was shocked; the laptop having a DUAL CORE processor with 1.5 GB of RAM is taking that much time to start up.
Finally wish all of you a great year ahead.
Happy New Year 2009
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