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How to surf internet securely in Windows XP

I’ve mentioned a few tips previously here and now I’ve found another great tool that helps you to stay even more secure in Windows XP. Introducing DropMyRights little usefull software written by Michael Howard who is specialist in security, working in the Secure Engineering group at Microsoft.
Before I begin with DropMyRights, let’s take a look [...]

Whois information for domain microsoft.com

Last week I made transfer from  ABOUT DOMAIN DOT COM SOLUTIONS PVT. LTD. to Godaddy. Today I wanted to check if the transfer is complete. Doing a simple whois query I found out it still pending transfer.
I made some other queries, microsoft.com was one of them. I was surprised to see the outcome. Check out [...]

How to make Windows XP faster

Microsoft released it’s latest version of Windows – Vista recently. But IT professionals criticized Vista in many ways. Some of them even setup BadVista.Org website.
Anyways, this post isn’t about Vista, it’s about XP. Let’s take a look how we can speed up working XP machine by tweaking the OS and settings.
1. The default [...]

Application transparency, minimize to systray in Windows NT/2000/XP

While working in Windows, I always miss what I use in Linux. Previously I blogged about virtual desktops, window catalogue, desktop preview etc in Windows.
Just like that, I’d like to share another of my favorite application – PowerMenu.

This tiny application(consists of 3 files) allows you to have transparency, minimize to systray, prioritize and put [...]

Repetitive tasks?

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Intelligent software to record, replay and schedule keyboard and mouse activities. With Apis you don’t need to learn any programming language. Apis system monitors such activities as [...]