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Hackers have discovered the first bug that could put Microsoft windows XP customers & users at serious threat, after Microsoft company stopped support for the aging operating system XP less than three weeks ago. On Saturday, Microsoft announced that Microsoft Internet Explorer (version 6 through 11) contains a Zero day vulnerability. This can allow arbitrary code execution. While using internet, users might  ‘Click‘ links/popup in a webpage or a Spam Email (attachment) – Once users click it , an attacker could take complete control of the system . Currently, Microsoft not yet released a patch to fix this breach – SO it is a RISK for all Internet Explorer users. 

In this post you will learn  ‘How to install Windows 7 and Windows XP as  dual boot ’  with  Windows 7 as first installation . This case is applicable for users who have Windows 7 pre-installed on ‘C’ and want to install XP on their ‘D’ partition. The process for this is very simple . Follow the steps below to  install XP after Windows 7 . 1) Make a fresh Install of Windows XP on ‘D’ partition of your hard drive. Assuming, Windows 7 is installed on ‘C’ partition.

For HP printer when Accessing Printer Services in Windows XP  'Unable to perform the operation' Error Occurs.   Issue An 'Unable to perform the operation ' error message displays on the computer when you attempt to access printer services on a computer running the Firefox Web browser in Windows XP. Cause This error occurs because older versions of the product software are incompatible with the Firefox Web browser.

[Solved] Unable to remove shadow of desktop icons of Windows XP Removing the shadows under the text on Windows XP desktop icons? Drop Shadows for desktop icons not working - Customize Desktop Windows XP Common Issues > Remove icon border shadows on the desktop Desktop icon label problem Using XP Pro, I did something when using a CD label making programme that accidentally made the desktop icons have a blue rectangular label behind the normal white lettering for the icon. This is only on the log in the wife uses, my log in is "normal", white letters under the icons, no "label". I've tried to change all sorts of things to get rid of it, but can only get the label to change colour.Tried ticks in and out of boxes in properties of system/appearance etc. I notice if I go into the icon properties, choose an alternative, and browse, I'm taken to %SystemRoot%\system32\SHELL32.dll Here I see that folders DRVSTORE and DLLCACHE are in blue fo...

When using Windows Live Movie maker to create videos at home, one of the biggest problem is to produce a final video which has only parts of the original video. This is specially required when you want your final video to only showcase best moments of a long video. Windows Live Movie Maker does have split feature which you can use to split videos and  then remove what is not required  but below is a much easier way to achieve it. We will use two things : Trim Tool : This tool allows you cut a particular section of a movie. And Windows Live Movie maker has no restriction on how many times you can add a video. So if you have 10 moments to be captured, add the video ten times. How to trim : Select the first video and go to Video Tools which will be highlighted as soon as you select the video. Select Trim Tool and you will see horizontal bar displayed right under the video preview Now drag the bars from left and right to the best video moment and click on Save Trim. Y...

WMI: Initialization failure error Question  | Does anyone know what could cause  WMI: Initialization failure error to start happening: | WMI: Initialization failure | Login failed to machine "myserver". | I noticed that recently that my backups started failing becuase of some | WMI errors, so I tried to connect to these problems servers via WMI CIM | Studio and this is the error that I get. I'm pretty sure whatever is | causing this error is also causing the error in the backups, and these | servers were working properly for quite a while (about two years), I | don't think aything has changed recently, and i know that the WMI | service is running on the servers that are triggering this error. Solution 1 Press Winkey + R or start run & type services.msc & press enter Press Winkey + R or start run & type services.msc & press enter locate "Windows Management Instrumentation" service & stop it locate ...

If you have two or more computers connected on to the same network, you can share files and folders on your computer such that others may access them as if they were on their own local file system. You may also set permissions depending on whether you others to simply view your files or even modify them. This  support page  on Microsoft has more details on file sharing in Windows. Once you have enabled sharing in Windows, you may also monitor connections to know which other computers are accessing files on your computer and what files /folders are they currently accessing. The easiest way to monitor this activity is through the Computer Management program that you may quickly access by typing  compmgmt.msc  in the Windows Run box. Once there, go to System Tools –> Shared Folders –> Sessions to view a list of all users who are connected over the network to your computer and what files are they accessing. Alternatively, if you need something more si...

In a typical office environment when you need to share a folder with your colleges, giving right permission is very important.If you are just sharing your photographs or a normal document you can quickly share with read permission to everybody or a particular group its easy but consider this scenario : Situation :  You have two group of people with which you need to share files. First group is only concerned with reading the documents but the second group needs to update the documents ( collaboration ) also. Simple Solution :  So One typical way of doing this is to create two folders with same document set and share it with both groups with different permission. Problem :  Since the update has to be also reflected to Group 1 also, it is your duty to keep both the folders in sync.Now imagine if you have multiple folders like this. Your problem just increased that number of times. An easy solution that comes with Windows : Windows 7 allows you to create multiple sha...

Problem Question: I had 800 Pc's windows-xp loaded through Ghost  it takes more  than 15 minutes to login the domain & if i run SYSPREP  it comes on 10 minutes; at a time near about 200 Computers are online  Server is Win2008 Enterprise Edition  Can u any 1 help me out for this issue? Its related to N/w or Win domain issues? Solution:  I Face a same problem .I was able to fix the problem... after looking at the file myself and with the help of  Microsoft chat support we came to the same conclusion.. it was a problem with Kerberos we found the same KB ( force Kerberos to use TCP instead of UDP in Windows ) I applied the fix to a computer it worked like a charm... 

If your looking to password protect a shared folder on your network / domain, you've probably noticed that Windows XP doesn't have any built in features allowing you to lock access to a folder via a password like previous Windows releases did. This means that anyone using the same workgroup or domain can access the files within your shared folder. But nothing is impossible, good news is that there is a work around ,the trick and simply involves creating a password for the guest account no third party software needed. Since shared folders are accessed on the network using the guest account, once the password for the guest account is set, a user in your workgroup or network domain must supply a valid username and password for the guest account to access the shared folder and contents within. Password protecting a shared network folder : Log into Windows XP as an Administrator Click Start -> Control Panel -> User Accounts , then click on Guest Account and make sure i...

when you have Single Internet connection & you have no switch/router to unable sharing; don't be sad turn your Laptop/Desktop to act as a wi-fi router ..here is a guide to enable this feature. Step 1: Enabling Internet Sharing on the Host Computer To enable Internet sharing on the host computer, do the following: 1.From the Windows XP desktop, click   Start , click   Control Panel , click   Network and Internet Connections , and then click   Network Connections . 2.Right-click the Ethernet network connection that is used to access the Internet, and then click   Properties . 3.On the   Advanced   tab, select the   Allow other network users to connect through this computer's Internet connection   check box and clear the   Allow other network users to control or disable this shared Internet connection   check box. 4.Click   OK   to save changes to your connection. 5.You might be prompted with ...

Run Microsoft Windows on an Intel-based Mac computer. Boot Camp enables you to install Windows on your Intel-based Mac computer, using a Microsoft Windows install disc that you provide. Windows is installed on its own partition. After installation, you can use either Windows or Mac OS X on your Mac computer. Here are the  steps required to install Windows XP on a Mac : Step 1: Download Mac OS X v10.4.6 (or later) and latest firmware update from Apple Download website. Step 2: Run the Boot Camp Assistant to  create a Macintosh Drivers CD  or DVD. Step 3: Create a new hard-disk partition [minimum size, 5GB] to make room for Windows XP. All the software and data on the original Mac partition stays intact.