Feed your Windows XP with Service pack SP3

"Microsoft has released Service Pack SP3 for Windows XP"

You can directly download it from the below link

Download the Windows XP Service Pack SP3

Or else you can visit http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com
by clicking express install,You should be able to install Service Pack SP3 for your Windows.

Does your home page setting changes unexpectedly

When you use Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 or Windows Internet Explorer 7,Your home page setting may change unexpectedly,You may also find that after you reset the home page and restart your computer, the home page selection has again changed to a different Web site & you may be unable to change the setting.

Method 1:Run an Antivirus
- Run a good antivirus on your computer(If doesnt have one then try http://onecare.live.com/standard/en-us/default.htm)
- Open the web page in internet explorer to keep it as home page
- Click Tools, click Internet Options, and then click Use Current,restart your computer and this problem shuld get resolved.

Method 2:Upgrade Internet Explorer
-If you are using internet explorer 6 then upgrade it to internet explorer 7
- Open internet explorer 7,Open tools menu,click internet options
- Click the Advanced tab, and then click Reset.
- On the Reset Internet Explorer Settings dialog box, click Reset.
- When Internet Explorer 7 finishes restoring the default settings, click Close, and then click OK two times.
- Close Internet Explorer 7. The changes take effect the next time that you open Internet Explorer 7.

creating a website in easy way

It isn't all that difficult to learn how to create websites , once you have a grasp of the basics of how to create website code, or HTML. These days, you don't even need to know HTML to make your own website, complete with website optimization.

Build a personal or professional web site for free. Why pay for a professional web site when you can have a professional web site design for free. All the information you need to create a web site is right here so look no further.

What if you could turn your words and ideas into Web sites - many Web sites, each of which was earning money for you?
There are now several very high quality services online that will help you create web site pages with little or no knowledge of HTML required. Although, you may find it easier to create your web site in Microsoft Publisher. This has Web site templates, in to which you simply include your text/images.

You literally do just point and click your way through the simple steps to create web site headers and graphics, forms, and other important site features. The whole point and click web site creation system costs less than an inexpensive html editor.

No more Book search on Microsoft

"Micrisoft puts an end to its book search"

Microsoft Corp. is ending a program that lets Web users search through digital versions of books, ceding the market to Google Inc.

Microsoft is making changes to its Internet business as it chooses battles with Google, owner of the dominant search engine. Microsoft said this week that it would offer rebates to shoppers who buy products through its Live.com search system, taking a different tack from Google's.

After Google started a similar program with libraries. The Microsoft program digitized 750,000 books and indexed 80 million journal articles.

Google's book-search project, which began in 2004, works with Harvard University, the New York Public Library and other organizations to scan books. The company also works with about 10,000 publishers to digitize their books.

PDA (dell axim x51v) - Easy Method to Quit Smoking

"PDA (dell axim x51v) with a small piece of software (SPB time) can help quit smoking".

You must have tried countless techniques to quite smoking before: Gum, patches, hypnosis… you name it, you tried it; nothing works much.

Try a very simple method using PDA (dell axim x51v) and a small piece of software (SPB time). SPB time allows you to set a reoccurring countdown timer that would sound an alarm and restart the cycle once you acknowledged the notice. Smoke only when it alarms,Never before the alarm and never after…just on the alarm. Each subsequent day,
You can adjust the alarm by extending it by 5 minutes, maintaining the discipline: Never before and never after. Gradually increase alarm time and reduce smoking

It really works,Don’t wait just give a try to quit smoking in easy way

Use Microsoft Office 2007 SP2 as your PDF Writer

"Microsoft Office is releasing Service Pack SP2 that includes many PDF functionality"
Here’s a quick summary of upcoming changes in Microsoft Office 2007 SP2 with regards to document formats:

1 - When using SP2, customers will be able to open, edit and save documents using ODF and save documents into the XPS and PDF fixed formats from directly within the application without having to install any other code.

2 - Office 2007 customers will get an open to set OpenOffice as the default document format. That means when you hit Ctrl+S inside Microsoft Word, the first choice will be .odt.

3 - For reading and writing we can open office documents in MS Office SP2 like PDF.

4 - MS Office SP2 does not require any external plugin tools to save the documents in PDF form.

5 - Microsoft will release MS Office SP2 in first half 2009.

Well Microsoft Office 2007 still cannot read content from PDF files,so still recommended the Adobe PDF reader.

For more details visit Microsoft Press release

How to install opera mini browser in Blackberry

"Big problem with the browser in Blackberry mobile phone"

Are you facing the problem installing Opera mini in your Blackberry mobile phone or the problem with Internet connectivity then follow these instructions:

1 - Go to http://mini.opera.com/ in your Blackberry browser and select the version that mentions "No signature" in brackets.

2 - Download the unsigned version for your language
Click here to visit the link directly

3 - Now go to http://www.operamini.com/help/connect/ to make the proper APN internet settings in your Blackberry mobile phone for your service provider.

4 - Open BlackBerry Settings -> Options -> Advanced Options -> TCP and type the APN value in the space provided. You may keep the user / password field blank if no value is specified on the Opera help site.

Now you are done with the resolution and you will notice that opera browser is much better than Blackberry's built in browser.

10 New Languages in Google Translate

"Google Translate has added 10 new languages in its translate applications"
If you are planning to write an e-mail to an Indian,who is non-english speaking Internet friend of yours,Then use Google Translate because Google made life simpler by adding 10 more languages in its data base of Google Translate.Overall which Translate currently has 23 languages.

Recently which Google added 10 new languages includes Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Finnish, Hindi, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, and Swedish.These join the list of existing languages including English, Chinese (Simplified, Traditional), Arabic, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.

Not only can you translate typed-out text with the help of this service, you can also perform cross-language searches, translate Web site text to any of the languages that the service supports.

Along with all of that, there's a "Detect Language" feature to help you automatically identify the language of the text you're trying to translate. Google also offers a Google Translate My Page gadget, which when embedded onto a Web page, offers instantaneous translation to the new languages automatically.

So go ahead and tell your friend to write you a mail in Hindi, or any other language that you can comprehend!

Google made Gmail load faster

We all want Gmail to be really fast,So the Google Team is really putting their efforts to make gmail work real faster then ever.There are so many areas which we do not notice whats cooking in the background while accessing gmail account,we can simply say that it takes long time to reach gmail account,ie the time we click on sign in button to the time landing into our inbox.Now you can notice that load time has decreased upto 20%.


Google had to use lot many different web development tools like Httpwatch, WireShark, and Fiddler plus google's own performance measuring systems, although some tools are limited to working only with certain browsers. The Httpwatch plug-in for Internet Explorer was one that proved easy to use.It also helps in capturing and saving browser traces.

Google found that there were between fourteen and twenty-four HTTP requests required to load an inbox and display it.To put these numbers in perspective,a popular network news site's home page required about a 180 requests to fully load,Google had reduced the number of overall requests,by eliminating or narrowing the scope of some of gmail cookies.Google used spritting technique by which it consolidates small icon images into single meta-images.

So the next you login to your Gmail's account,you'll realize that Gmail is loading real faster.

Stop using Sysprep utility in Windows XP Service Pack 3

Its true that "Your computer might stop responding after Installing Sysprep tool in a Windows XP Service pack3"

If you restart your computer to chek whether Sysprep image is working correctly then you might land up getting "A blank white screen is displayed after typing the password on the Welcome page"

Resolution:

- Remove the OemCust parameter from the Oobe.ini file that is located in the “%windir%\System32\Oobe directory.
- Include an appropriate HTML file that is named OemCust.html in the %windir%\System32\Oobe\Html\Oemcust directory.

Does your Internet explorer 7 automatically opens more child windows ?

Problem:
"When we use shortcut menu 'Run As' to open internet explorer 7,automatically more child windows starts opening"

This problem might occur in Windows Vista,Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP Service pack 2.

Resolution for Windows Vista: (take a backup of registry before modifying it)

1.Click Start, type regedit in the Start Search box, and then press ENTER.
2.Locate and then click the following registry subkey:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\MAIN\FeatureControl
3.On the Edit menu, point to New, and then click Key.
4.Type the following name, and then press ENTER:
FEATURE_SHELLWINDOWSWITHOUTEXPLORER
5.On the Edit menu, point to New, and then click DWORD Value.
6.Type iexplore.exe, and then press ENTER.
7.On the Edit menu, click Modify.
8.Type 0, and then click OK.
9.Exit Registry Editor.

Resolution for Windows XP Service Pack 2:

1.Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then press ENTER.
2.Locate and then click the following registry subkey:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\MAIN\FeatureControl
3.On the Edit menu, point to New, and then click Key.
4.Type the following name, and then press ENTER:
FEATURE_SHELLWINDOWSWITHOUTEXPLORER
5.Type iexplore.exe, and then press ENTER.
6.On the Edit menu, click Modify.
7.Type 0, and then click OK.
8.Exit Registry Editor.

Resolution for Windows Server 2003:

1.	Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then press ENTER.
2.	Locate and then click the following registry subkey: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\MAIN\FeatureControl
3.	On the Edit menu, point to New, and then click Key.
4.	Type the following name, and then press ENTER: FEATURE_SHELLWINDOWSWITHOUTEXPLORER
5.	On the Edit menu, point to New, and then click DWORD Value.
6.	Type iexplore.exe, and then press ENTER.
7.	On the Edit menu, click Modify.
8.	Type 0, and then click OK.
9.	Exit Registry Editor.

Find your e-mail with Gmail search

Sometimes you want the specific email and you start ending up by scrolling through all the emails in your inbox.Now with few tips and tricks you can easily locate any particular email with Gmail search.
You see the image above,youll get similar one in your gmail too,now suppose you want to see all the mails send to you by your friend Monica or you might want to see the statement bills in your mail,just type in the keywords like Monica or statement bills,then you will get all the mails from monica or the mail related to your statement bills.

But the real power of Gmail search lies in search operators -- words that help modify your queries. Search operators work pretty much the same way within Gmail as they do for Google. So, if I want the email Monica sent me with her flight information so I know when to pick her up at the airport, I type from:Monica SFO. Likewise:

- A link from my co-worker Sam: from:Sam http
- A photo from my dad: from:dad has:attachment
- That last chat I had with one of my best friend Bill: Bill is:chat
- All messages from ebay that aren't outbid notices: ebay -outbid (the hyphen tells -- Gmail to return all of the messages that don't contain the word that follows it)
- The messages in my inbox sent directly to me that I haven't read yet: to:me is:unread in:inbox
If remembering operators isn't really your thing, that's ok. There's a "Show search options" link to the right of the search bar at the top of your inbox.Clicking that provides you with text fields you can fill in to get the precision of advanced search. Start there, but after a while you'll probably find that using operators is a lot faster.

How to repair Internet Explorer and Outlook Express

The Resolution provided here is for repairing Internet Explorer 6 as well as Outlook Express problems

Follow these methods if you have internet explorer 6:

Method #1 - Installing Internet explorer 7 (This might not resolve the issues related Outlook Express)
- Install Internet Explorer 7 (click here to download ie7)
-After installing internet explorer 7 follow these steps to repair damaged files or missing registration information in internet explorer 7:
- Open your internet explorer 7
- Click on Tools menu and go to internet options
- Click on Advanced tab Click on Reset
- In the Rest Internet Explorer Settings dialog box, click on Reset to confirm

Method #2 - Installing Windows XP Service pack 2 (If you do not wish to install internet explorer 7,this resolution might repair the internet explorer 6 but probably will not repair Otlook Express)
- To install Windows XP Service Pack 2 visit http://update.microsoft.com
- Then Click on Express installation which is always recommended
- If your windows is Genuine then it will automatically selects Windows Xp service pack 2 to be installed
- Click install

Method 3: Repair Internet Explorer 6 by using the System File Checker in Windows XP

If you already have Windows XP Service Pack 2 installed, and you do not want to install Internet Explorer 7, you may be able to resolve problems with Internet Explorer 6 by running the System File Checker. Additionally, running the System File Checker may help resolve issues with Outlook Express.
To run the System File Checker, follow these steps:
- Click Start, click Run type sfc /scannow, and then press ENTER.
- Follow the prompts throughout the System File Checker process.
- Restart the computer when System File Checker process is complete.

Getting Blank Desktop in Windows XP ?

It might be possible that when you log on to your Windows XP based computer,you may get a Blank Desktop with no Desktop icons and also the Start button does not appear.

To resolve this problem Microsoft has released a Hotfix which is available on a request from Microsoft.Below is the link to request Microsoft about this particular Hotfix.

Online request for Hotfix from Microsoft