If you don’t have an extra machine or are an early adopter who wants to test out Vail, creating a VM is a good choice. To complete our series of installing WHS “Vail” Beta virtually, we look at installing it on Oracle’s VirtualBox.

Note: You will need to install VirtualBox on a 64-bit Windows System that supports hardware virtualization. We’ve read some articles that you can install it on a system without Hardware Virtualization, but haven’t been able to confirm that. For best results make sure the Host computer supports Hardware Virtualization.

To check if you’re system is capable of Hardware Virtualization you can use either SecurAble or the MS Virtualization Detection Tool…both are free and easy to use utilities.

Download and Install VirtualBox

If you don’t already have the latest version of VirtualBox installed on your PC, go to the VirtualBox site and download it (link below). Installation is straight-forward choosing the defaults. During the installation select Yes to the warning about Network Interfaces.

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Need some abstract wall papers for your windows desktop ? Here are some abstract wallpapers.

Note: Click on the picture to see the full-size image.

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Do you want to easily stream videos from your PC to your apple device ? Here is a way to do so through Air Video.

There is a free version as well as a paid version for just $2.99, which frankly is not a lot considering what you can do with it. In the free version you are limited to viewing certain number of folders or so.

It will convert video formats that can’t be played on your device to an iPhone friendly format. It can convert the more widely used containers like mp4, MOV, AVI, MPEG, DIVX, FLV…etc. Keep in mind that DRM protected videos and Propriety codecs are not supported.

Install Air Video Server

The first thing we need to do is download and install the free Air Video Server software to your computer (link below). Install as normal accepting the defaults. Continue Reading ->

If you do not know what you do in the registry, you can damage your computer pretty good.Today we show you how to prevent users from accessing the registry and make changes to it.

Using Policy Editor Local Group

Note: This method uses Group Policy Editor which is not available in versions of Windows Home.

first type gpedit.msc in the Search box on the Start menu.

When Group Policy Editor opens, navigate to User Configuration \ Administrative Templates and select System. Under Setting in the right pane double-click Prevent access to registry editing tools. Continue Reading ->

Some Use full Short cuts for windows

Here are some useful short cuts for the Windows users. Its way easier to use these short cuts, then to rather use the mouse and start looking up actions under the File Menu. I am pretty certain that these short cuts will save much time and make using  a PC less of a hassle.

• Ctrl+T — opens a new tab.
• Alt+Tab — cycles through currently-open programs. If you also hold down Shift, it cycles backwards.
• Ctrl+Tab — cycles through Web browser tabs (you can use Shift to go backwards too).
• Ctrl+W — closes the current window or tab.
• Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V — copies selected text, and then paste it.
• Ctrl+Z — undoes your last action.
• Ctrl+Mouse scroll wheel — zoom in, zoom out.
• F5 – refreshes your current folder/directory or Web page.
• Alt+D – selects the address bar in your Web browser or folder/directory view.

Neat Keyboard Shortcuts
This next set of shortcuts is for the power users, the administrators. These shortcuts are nearly all Windows Key combinations.

The Windows Key is a relatively recent addition to modern keyboards. It’s functionally identical to the Mac’s Command Key, and both of them originated on the awesomely-named ‘Space-cadet keyboard’ at MIT.

• Windows Key+L — locks the computer.
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File this one under “why didn’t I think of that.” Blogger and software engineer Abhishek Bhatnagar has posted a simple, clever way to pin multiple folders to your Windows 7 taskbar (or Superbar). Yes, you can already pin as many as you want to the Explorer icon, but it’s still nice to be able to have single-click access to your most-used folders.

Abhishek’s exact directions didn’t work for me, so here’s how I did it.

The first step is to make sure you have the hide extensions for known file types option unchecked. Click the windows button and type folder into the search box, the click folder options when it appears (it’s also in Control Panel). You can also open the run box and paste this command: rundll32.exe shell32.dll,Options_RunDLL 0

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