Upgrading From Windows XP to Windows 7

The official word from Microsoft is you can’t upgrade from Windows XP to Windows 7; you need a clean install. But in fact you can upgrade, including moving your data, applications, and settings. Here are some tips to help.

With Microsoft having abandoned Windows XP SP2, late-adopting companies still using XP are being pushed to make the upgrade to Windows 7. Windows XP is a dying breed.  It’s time to upgrade. Microsoft says only Windows Vista systems are eligible to upgrade, while Windows XP users need to make a clean install of the new operating system:

You can’t directly upgrade from Windows XP to Windows 7, says Microsoft.

Thankfully, you can avoid the need to wipe the disk of each PC and clean-install Windows 7 manually.  Some tricks are more effective than others. Let’s look at some of these upgrade options, the DO’s and DON’Ts, and pick the slickest (and cheapest) and method.
#1: Don’t migrate from Windows XP to Windows Vista to Windows 7

Some IT departments are so desperate to avoid clean-installing Windows 7 that they “upgrade the upgrade.”

The workaround involves performing an in-place upgrade from Windows XP SP3 to Vista SP2 (which is possible), then an upgrade from Windows Vista to Windows 7 using Setup.exe (which is also possible, of course). This is a bad idea because it requires paying for Windows Vista licenses. There are other reasons why no company should even consider going that route.

The reason Microsoft doesn’t recommend upgrading from XP to Windows 7 is that there are too many changes to PC configurations (such as applets, hardware support, and the driver model) to carry it all forward, according to Microsoft’s Engineering 7 blog. A clean install is better.

The driver and legacy applications problem could be solved if your IT department puts enough time into it. But also, PCs become unstable. After years of installing programs, collecting temporary files, crashing dozens of times and sometimes fighting malware, most old Windows XP systems have become messy. Performance is just not on par with a clean install; neither is stability.
#2: Clean-Install and Rely on Windows Easy Transfer

Adobe's Elements turn 10

It doesn't seem all that long ago that Adobe trotted out its first consumer image-editing application, but Photoshop Elements seems to have aged fairly well over the past 10 years. It hasn't changed that much--it still has a task-based interface and modular architecture--though it's gotten a bit glitzier looking and, as it continually absorbs new technology and features from its big sister Photoshop, has gotten a lot more powerful as well.

Premiere Elements' new Three-Way Color Corrector lets you adjust highlights, midtones, and shadows independently.

(Credit: Lori Grunin/CNET)

Along the way, Adobe paired it up with a consumer version of its Premiere video-editing software. Though not 10 years old, it carries the same version number, and some of the same baggage, which includes an interface that hasn't changed substantially over time, and therefore has a steeper learning curve than a lot of newbies want to climb.

The new versions of both applications don't boast a lot of shiny, gee-whiz new features, but Photoshop Elements continues to evolve in meaningful ways, and Premiere Elements makes the important jump to 64-bit operation, at least on Windows. Plus, the company unified the Organizer to better handle both video and still media.

Pricing remains the same: $99.99 each or both for $149.99. The $79.99 upgrade pricing per product seems a bit steep to me, though.

Read the review of Adobe Photoshop Elements 10 for Windows | Mac
Read the review of Adobe Premiere Elements 10 for Windows | Mac

Undelete files and recover lost data

Undelete files and recover lost data

File Scavenger Version 3.2 Download 

File Scavenger is a Windows file undelete and data recovery utility for NTFS and FAT/FAT32 volumes. It can recover files that were damaged by virus or accidentally deleted from Windows Explorer, the Recycled Bin, command line window, or a network share along with original folder names and file Create and Modified dates. It supports reformatted volumes or broken hardware/software RAID volumes as well as file compression, dynamic disks, alternate data streams, sparse files, Unicode file names and more. With the trial version only 64KB or smaller files can be recovered.

 File Scavenger offers 3 different search modes, one for quick access to recently deleted files, one for exhaustive search and also a defunct volume search that can even recover files from compromised striped and RAID volumes. We tested the product on a machine that was reformatted a few days ago, and safely recovered some of the files, old desktop shortcuts and more. File Scavenger can be installed or used in portable mode.

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  Recovers deleted files.
• Recovers files from corrupt, deleted or reformatted partitions.
• Recovers files with the original filename, folder and dates.
• Supports hard disks, floppy disks, ZIP disks, memory sticks, flash cards, RAIDs, and more  Runs on all Windows versions.
• Supports both NTFS and FAT/FAT32.
• Available in English, German and Japanese.
• Reconstructs broken RAIDs and spanned volumes.

Recovered from a reformatted or corrupted volume

With File Scavenger files can be recovered from a reformatted or corrupted volume. This is even possible when the volume has been deleted and its original position and size are unknown. File Scavenger can scan an entire physical hard drive to look for traces of defunct volumes.

Bad sectors and badly corrupted partitions

File Scavenger uses advanced algorithms to transparently handle disks with many bad sectors and badly corrupted partitions. The software can be installed on a hard drive or run from a floppy disk. To run File Scavenger, you must log on as a system administrator to the computer where data recovery is intended.

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Add the Command Prompt to the Windows Explorer Right-Click Menu ...

Add the Command Prompt to the Windows Explorer Right-Click Menu ...

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• Many computer users, specially the programmers, need to launch a command prompt window every once in a while to execute some dos/shell commands. The problem is, when a command prompt window launched, the default path is normally the system path or the user profile's path. The users will then have to do all the "cd" commands to change the directories to the path he/she wants
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• This trick shows you how to add an option called "Command Prompt" when you right-click on a folder in Windows. With this option, a Command Prompt Window will launch and its current directory will be the path to the folder you've selected.
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• Use this trick at your own risk.
• Here's what you'll get:
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• Follow This Instructions
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•    1. Start > Run
•    2. Enter "regedit" and hit Enter
•    3. Expand to "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Folder\shell"
•    4. Right-click on "shell" and select New > Key
•    5. Make sure a new key is created under "shell". Change the name of this key to                 "Command Prompt"
•    6. Right-click on this new key "Command Prompt" and select New > Key
•    7. Change the name of this key to "command"
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•    8. Here's what we should have:
•    9. Double-click on the "(Default)" text on the right window to bring up the edit box
•   10. Enter this text into the Value Data field:
•       cmd.exe "%1"
•   11. Click OK and close the registry. 

How to Disable "Send an Error Report to Microsoft"

"How to Disable "Send an Error Report to Microsoft"

 

To disable the stupid feature in WinXP which tries to send a report to Microsoft every time a program crashes you will have to do this:

* Open Control Panel

* Click on Performance and Maintenance.

* Click on System.

* Then click on the Advanced tab

* Click on the error reporting button on the bottom of the windows.

* Select Disable error reporting.

* Click OK

* Click OK

Convert scanned documents to PDF

WinScan2PDF is a simple tool that allows you to scan documents from your scanner and save them as PDF files. The program also supports scanning of multiple pages, which will then be combined into a single PDF document. Useful if your scanner software does not offer PDF conversions. Standalone software, no installation....

Click to here to download the file

Keyboard Special symbols

Keyboard Special symbols !,@,#,%,(,&,^)_

Keyboard Special symbols !,@,#,%,(,&,-.........

~	Tilde
`	Acute, Back quote, grave, grave accent, left quote, open quote, or a push
!	Exclamation mark, Exclamation point, or Bang
@	At or At symbol
#	Octothorpe, Number, Pound, sharp, or Hash
£	Pound symbol
€	Euro
$	Dollar sign
¢	Cent sign
¥	Japanese Yen
$	Generic currency
§	Micro
%	Percent
°	Degree
^	Caret or Circumflex
&	Ampersand or And
*	Asterisk and sometimes referred to asstar.
(	Open parenthesis
)	Close parenthesis
-	Hyphen, Minus or Dash
_	Underscore
+	Plus
=	Equals
{	Open Brace
}	Close Brace
[	Open bracket
]	Close bracket
|	Pipe, Or, or Vertical bar
\	Backslash or Reverse Solidus
/	Forward slash, Solidus, Virgule, or Whack
§	Section
:	Colon
;	Semicolon
"	Quote, Quotation mark, or Inverted commas
'	Apostrophe or Single Quote
<	Less Than or Angle brackets
>	Greater Than or Angle brackets
,	Comma
.	Period, dot or Full Stop
?	Question Mark

A Complete List of A 2 Z Extesion Files

A Complete List of A To  Z Extesion Files

 We rush to others to find the meaning of this file extension . So here I tried out to find a huge list of file extension used by computer programs or computer hardware.
A

.a  - library (unix)
.ad - screen saver data (AfterDark)
.adi - graphics (AutoCAD)
.adl - MCA adapter description library (QEMM)
.afi - Truevision bitmap graphics
.afm - Type 1 font metric ASCII data for font installer (ATM - many)
.all - format file for working pages (Always)
.all - general printer information (WordPerfect for Win)
.ani - animation (Presidio - many)
.anm - animation (Deluxe Paint Animator)
.ans - ANSI graphics (character animation)
.ans - ASCII text ANSI character set (NewWave Write)
.asc - ASCII text file
.avi - Audio Video Interleaved animation file (Video for Windows)

B

.bak - backup file
.bas - BASIC source code file
.bat - batch file (DOS)
.bbm - brush (Deluxe Paint)
.bbs - Bulletin Board System announce or text info file
.bch - batch process object file (dBASE Application Generator)
.bcp - Borland C++ makefile
.bdf - Bitmap Distribution Format font file (X11)
.bga - bitmap graphics
.bib - bibliography (ASCII)
.bib - database - not compatible with TeX format (Papyrus)
.bib - literature database (TeX/BibTeX)
.bif - Binary Image Format b&w graphics (Image Capture board)
.bin - binary file
.bio - OS2 BIOS
.bit - bitmap X11
.bm - BitMap graphics
.bmk - Help Bookmarks (Windows 3.x)
.bmp - BitMaP graphics (PC Paintbrush - many)
.bpt - bitmap fills file (CorelDRAW)
.btm - Batch To Memory batch file (4DOS)
.bup - backup file
C

.c - C source code file
.c - compressed unix file archive created by COMPACT