Features:

• Seamless installation and uninstallation giving users safe transformation
• Easily configurable in single click with intelligence Metro UI design
• Designed for all editions of Windows XP/Vista/7 including Server Editions
• Genuine Windows 8 system resources with Metro touches
• Smart system files updating with auto-repair and Windows Update friendly
• Fresh start for Vista/Seven Transformation Pack users with updated Windows 8 themes and resources
• UxStyle memory patching
• Windows 8 themes, wallpaper and logon screen
• UserTile with current user auto-configured on login
• Metro UI desktop emulation with pre-configured gadgets
• Aero’s auto-colorization feature
• And much more

Requirement:

• .NET Framework 2.0 – Required for system files transformation in Windows XP/Server 2003 x64 Editions Only.
• .NET Framework 4.0 – Required for Windows 8 features like User Tile/Metro UI Desktop/Auto-colorization. (Download link)

You can download it from here:

http://www.downloadcrew.com/article/25004-windows_8_transformation_pack

There is a paid version also which you can get details from the update tab in settings option inside the application.

Download link: http://cdn.bluestacks.com/bstk-download-success-2.htm

Offline download of Bluestacks: Try the Trouble installing Beta link on the above page.

Its almost straight forward after you install. Basically the software run a virtual android simulator and makes you run the apps.

Features which i really liked and you should give a try:

1) Sync apps between your android mobile and PC: With your registered email address and by installing an app on your mobile you should be able to sync your android apps between devices. You get this option while installing.

2) Installing apps is just a click: Installing any app is very easy. Just click and done.

3) Multiple app stores are already available:

4) App store search works perfectly: Just search for the app and you have it.

5) Set screen size for apps: Ya if you want to play angry bird in big screen here you go. Just change the settings.Works for any app.

Try it and let us know how it works for your fav app. Here is how talking tom looks like

Download and install the script from http://labnol.org/?p=20989

Things needed:

1) Windows 7 ISO image (Any version) + PowerISO software Installed. (http://www.poweriso.com/download.htm)
OR
1) Windows 7 DVD
2) A PEN drive preferably having space of 3GB

Step1) Install PowerISO and mount the windows 7 Image or if you have a windows 7 DVD insert it.
Step2) Plugin your pendrive.
Step3) Go to Control PanelAll Control Panel ItemsAdministrative ToolsComputer ManagmentStorage you can see your Disk layout. Check the Disk number for your pendrive.
Usually if you have one HD the the disk number is 1 else its 2.
Step4) Once you know your disk number open cmd prompt with Administrative privilage.
Step5) Execute the following steps one by one

• diskpart
• select disk 2
• clean
• create partition primary
• select partition 1
• active
• format fs=fat32
• assign
• exit

Once you are done copy the files from your virtual Windows 7 drive or Windows 7 DVD using the following command.

1. xcopy d:*.* /s/e/f e:   where d is your windows 7 drive and e is your pen drive 

Thats all. Now you can boot through your pen drive. If its not booting check your bios for option to boot from pen drive. Cheers!

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Interesting! lets try them anyways!This update was a must for Windows 7 user as the beta crashed so many times.

Download link: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/beta/worldwide-sites.aspx

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/beta-download.aspx

Don’t forget to save the Windows 7 key as it’s required for your activation. NB: This is limited download link so don’t blame me if you are late. Also if you have Vista with SP1 you can upgrade it directly.

On a broader view you will feel windows 7 as a remake of Vista. Most of the look and feel is same except some design change and some application change. Yap to be mentioned there has been certain architecture change but still the Windows 7 is resource hungry so never try with a week comp which already failed with Vista. Also most of the vista software works with windows 7 and some software even detect windows 7 as vista. :lol

Conf. of machine on which I used:

* Intel 965 mother board
* 2GB DDR2 RAM
* WD 500GB Sata II HD
* XFX GeForce 8600 GTS 512MB DDR3

Here goes my review.

1.The Awesome Windows 7 Paint:

At the first look the menu looks same as Office 2007. Really cool and pretty.

Though the functionality of paint was not increased much except the dedicated Crop tool, Rotate tool and Resize tool but the look and feel has huge change.

2.The new Windows 7 Power shell and Sticky Note:

Still I am not sure what much you can do with this new Shell but yes if you are a XP or Vista user you can download power shell from here:

Xp and Vista Power Shell: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/technologies/management/powershell/download.mspx

But remember the windows 7 power shell is V2 and the download link I provided is for V1.

One more cool thing provided is the built in Windows 7 sticky note. Really helpful and at last no need to install any third party. Very useful for office works.

3. Windows Media Player 12:

Yap you read it right. That’s media player 12. A bit light on resource and nothing special. It’s still not available for XP and Vista but hope it will be release soon.

4.Internet Explorer 8:

Windows 7 comes bundled with much talked IE8 Beta which always crashes. Hope it works properly when out.Its available for XP and vista also and it never crashes there. Lot of improvements over IE 7 and again light on resource. Hope MS is learning now. Look is also good.

For XP and vista user: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/Internet-explorer/beta/default.aspx

5.Windows 7 Drive Lock (Bit Locker):

At last its there and it’s so easy to use. Just right click on any of the drives and you are ready to lock it down. Give your password and lock it. It takes time to encrypt but no problem in between you can restart your PC and bit locker resumes again. For a 40GB drive with full data it took nearly 1hr to encrypt. Encrypt is only for first time.

6.Windows 7 Side bar:

Better then Vista. The rectangular transparent solid background is gone. These is additional maximize button (Img. 1 above). It behaves differently for different gadgets. On click it can show up new features.

7.Windows 7 Background wallpaper changer:

Windows 7 comes with built in wallpaper changer.Cool and useless atleast for me!
8.Windows 7 Media Center:

More or less same as the Vista media center but yes I did found a cool feature.Check the screen shot.

It’s actually windows media center running on your desktop.

Just run Media center and press Windows + D. You will get you media center as desktop background. It’s really cool and I like it so much :wink

9.The Cool Start Menu Search:

For XP user it may be new but Vista user already saw this. What I like here is the clean and categorized look of the start menu search.

10.Recent and Task on windows 7:

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There is a special arrow which appears for application which supports recent item like paint and Utorrent and tasks for apps like “Getting started”. A nice to have feature and handy.

11. Surprise Surprise! A special one at the end. Its the windows 7 Aero Shake. Totally new and cool. This was hard to write and describe so better take a look at this video :wink

Hope you liked my review. Thanks for reading. Your comments are welcome!

What is this all about:
Guys to keep small notes in comp we usually use software like Stick Note(http://www.sticky-notes.net/). But these usually eats up huge memory and sometime very complected.

Solution:
This trick will help you to maintain your notes as logs using simple windows inbuilt Notepad.

Its very easy. Create a new text file.Name it anything you like. Say Notes.txt
Now add the following text in your notepad. “.LOG”
Save your file.
Now close the file and open again.
Each time you open it the file will append current time stamp in the file

This is quiet easy and very easy to maintain. Just create a shortcut of it on your desktop and use it.
Let me know how you like it.

Guys say you want to copy the full folder path. Usually what we do is we copy the path from the required folder’s parents folder and then add folder name to it.

Say we need to copy the path for Songs folder which is at “D:TestSongs” we usually get “D:Test” + “Songs” = “D:TestSongs”

But there is a easier way. Check the screen shot below. Just you need to press “Shift” and “Right Click” and “Copy as Path”

Actually this has helped me in various ways specially copying folder structures for pasting in cmd prompt.

Prerequisits:
Download at

http://www.mediafire.com/file/k2ydg0yozzm/gtalkKill.zip

Remember this is for your office computer or the computer where you want a auto gtalk kill.
Once you download just extract it in any drive.

Now for XP users:
Go to control pannel –> Scheduled Task –> Add scheduled task.. Click and follow the steps. Where it asks for application point it to the file you download. Give a time which you will be out of your office. Also don’t forget to put your user credentials. And make it a daily schedule. That’s it.

For vista User:
Click on Start button and type in search as “schedul” click on the scheduler.
Now once the Task Scheduler is open on the right hand side you will see “Create Basic Task” Click on it. The task scheduler will open.

Name: Give anything (Gtalk kill)
Description: Any description
Task to start: Daily
Start time: Time you will be out of your office
Action: Start a program
Program: Browse to the file you downloaded
And press finish in the next screen and forget it..

Next time it will never ever happen that you will have 2 instance of gtalk running.
If you usually forget to log off your gtalk at home then use the same method for home also.

So whats next?
So XP keeps some folders to keep its temporary data!Those ideally should get deleted but they never happen perfectly. So..
Step1: Delete C:WindowsTemp This folder is safe to delete and it again gets created when required by the OS
Step2: Clear c:documents and setingsusernamelocal setingstemp folder.
Step3: Clear the recycle bin.
Step4: Open My Computer and then right click on the installed drive. Select the checkbox for “Compress the drive to save disk space” and let do the job.. it should take some time.
Step5:Uninstall all useless programs or reinstall programs on another drive.
Step6: Clean up your desktop. First it look ugly with lots of icon and 2nd it eats up memory.
Once these are done lets see what if anything else is wrong!
Step7:Click ctrl+altr+del and you get your task manager.
See the Applications running. Stop all the applications present there. And now wait for 5 mins. Now click on the performance tab and see the CPU usage.. A normal flow when you dont do anything should be 0~10 anything more than that means something wrong!
If anything wrong check step8
Step8: Click on the processes tab. You will see lots of application running. Lets figure out whats wrong. Click twice on the CPU tab will sort the thing and give you the applications taking lots of energy. Try to figure out what can be killed.. Reading there description you can come to know. What you should not delete are “explorer.exe” or “Dllhost.exe” and some others. Its best to read there description and folder location and think it can be deleted or not.
Anyways if you kill something and do a mess just restart and it will be fine!

Also defragmenting your hard disk is a good practice!

I think that preety much should help.. From my experience one more thing i can tell.. never ever use cracked antivirus or you are gone.. use AVG Free edition best.
Also do scan your computer with some anti spyware! Use trial version of this: http://www.pctools.com/spyware-doctor/

Hope this post will help!