Category Archives: Windows

Conficker Visual Test

By Krishna Chaitanya Mandava | Published: April 9, 2009
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Visual Test to Check Conficker Infection

By Krishna Chaitanya Mandava | Published: April 8, 2009
The April Fools Day Special Conficker worm and its variants have been dreaded by computer users across the world for some time now.
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Windows 7 Beta Available For Download

By Krishna Chaitanya Mandava | Published: January 10, 2009
Microsoft made the Windows 7 beta available for download Saturday after its servers were overwhelmed with users trying to download the operating system.
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Pazera Free Audio Extractor Rips Audio from Any Video

By Prithvi Mandava | Published: September 26, 2008
Windows only: Pazera Free Audio Extractor extracts audio from virtually any video file and outputs it to MP3, AAC, AC3, WMA, or WAV formats.
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Cool Timer Helps You Stay on Task

By Prithvi Mandava | Published: September 26, 2008
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.
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How to remove Antivirus XP 2008

By Prithvi Mandava | Published: September 16, 2008
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 [...]
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Fix ‘COM surrogate has stopped working’ error in Windows Vista

By Prithvi Mandava | Published: September 12, 2008
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. [...]
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Microsoft releases XP Service Pack 3

By Krishna Chaitanya Mandava | Published: April 22, 2008
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 [...]
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Open-Source ERP has arrived

By Krishna Chaitanya Mandava | Published: January 20, 2008
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 [...]
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Double-click to shut down

By Krishna Chaitanya Mandava | Published: January 4, 2008
Here is another batch file that you will find useful,
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