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Unlock hidden Windows 7 Themes

July 27th, 2010

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There are a number of regional themes with multiple unique background images hidden from Windows 7 users.  On a Windows 7 install with United States regional settings only the United States theme is shown but there are actually four more themes hidden from view.

How To Properly Disable IPv6 in Windows

July 26th, 2010

ipv6 Starting in Windows Vista and Server 2008, Microsoft includes native support for IPv6 (Internet Protocol Version 6) and is enabled by default.  IPv6 is the new computer address protocol that will eventually replace IPv4 which is currently the most popular standard. Unless you network has a specific requirement for IPv6, very few do, you can safely disable IPv6. Unlike other protocols, you cannot disable IPv6 by disabling the protocol on each of your network interfaces. While that will disable the protocol for the interfaces the loopback and tunnel interfaces will still have it enabled that can cause problems with applications.  The proper way to disable IPv6 is to disable via the registry.

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Fluff Busting Purity : A script to clean up your facebook homepage

July 25th, 2010

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The greasemonkey  script called Fluff Busting Purity cleans up your Facebook wall by removing all idiotic messages, annoying quiz messages and other silly application spam, leaving behind just the standard Facebook apps such as status updates, wall posts, links, notes, photos, etc.

Fluff Busting Purity lets you hide messages like "Became a friend of", "Joined a group", "Became a fan of", "Is attending event" etc that floods your Facebook wall.

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Customize your Windows Vista and XP boot screens with BootSkin

July 21st, 2010

Bootskin Stardock BootSkin is a program that allows users to change their Windows boot screens. Unlike other programs that can change the Windows boot screens, BootSkin does so in a safe manner. It doesn’t patch the Windows kernel. Nor does it require the user to download replacement Windows kernels to do so.

The Vista default screen is black with a green progress bar. You can change that to any of a hundred different images called BootSkins. BootSkin Vista includes several to start with, while WinCustomize.com offers hundreds more to download.

Look into webcam and login to PC without typing password

July 14th, 2010

Luxand Blink is face recognition software for Windows PCs. Now you don’t have to type the password every time you login. Just look into a webcam for a moment, and you’ll be logged into your account before you notice. The most secure way to login so only you can login and nobody else can use your password. you can login day or night. Sophisticated face recognition algorithms adjust for varying lighting conditions automatically, making login possible without additional training no matter whether window or artificial lighting is being used.