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The April Fools Day Special Conficker worm and its variants have been dreaded by computer users across the world for some time now.
Even though it may seem that the virus has been maintaining a low profile for the past few days, security experts warn that the virus is still a threat. In reality, it has [...]

Microsoft made the Windows 7 beta available for download Saturday after its servers were overwhelmed with users trying to download the operating system.
On its Windows 7 site, Microsoft posted a note saying “The Windows 7 Beta is now available for download.” The Windows 7 site lists a page where the beta can be downloaded.
On Friday, [...]

Windows only: Pazera Free Audio Extractor extracts audio from virtually any video file and outputs it to MP3, AAC, AC3, WMA, or WAV formats. Just plug in your video file (it supports AVI, FLV, MP4, MPG, and more) into the program, choose your output type, and let it rip. Pazera takes care of the conversion [...]

Windows only: Stop wondering where the time went and start using a timer to be more productive. Cool Timer is a small timer application with three modes: countdown, stopwatch and alarm clock. You can customize the color scheme and size of the clock to make it easier to see it at a distance, and you [...]

Antivirus XP 2008 is back, unfortunately. It’s not an antivirus app, but a cleverly disguised rogue security application that tries to get you to buy the non-existent “security” it’s selling. Advertised using the common tricks of Trojans and faux security alerts, this nasty piece of malware can take over your desktop settings to mimic safe [...]

A recent and annoying ‘bug’ in Windows Vista (both 32- and 64-bit versions) is the ‘COM surrogate has stopped working’ error. This happens almost whenever you browse a folder containing media files like mp3, avi, wav etc. A lot of people have attributed this to the presence of non Vista-compatible codecs installed on the computer. [...]

Microsoft released Windows XP Service Pack 3 to its manufacturing channels (RTM) and hopes to reach OEM and enterprise customers by the end of April. The Beta release includes the new Windows Installer 3.1 v2, IPsec Simple Policy Update, Wi-Fi Protected Access 2 (WPA2), and Network Access Protection (NAP) among others. We hope this won’t [...]

Open-Source ERP has seen a strong surge in downloads in the last one year. It is difficult to gauge whether a big chunk of those were just for evaluation purposes but, the interest in these products doesn’t seem to be waning. SMBs or Small and Medium Businesses as they are known, are the biggest force [...]

Here is another batch file that you will find useful,
Double-click to shut down your PC
Open Notepad and type
shutdown.exe -s -t 00
Note that there are two zeros and not the letter ‘O’.
Save it on the desktop as Shutdown.bat and double-click. Voila, Windows will shut down immediately.