WARNING about removing the SP1 Beta uninstall Information to free up disk space!

There are some recent Blog posts that describe a command that will completely remove all of the uninstall information for the Service Pack 1 Beta to free up some disk space. Some of these blog posts do not go far enough when describing the consequences of using this procedure.

Please remember that if you have the Service Pack 1 Beta installed on Windows 7/Server 2008 R2, that you will be Required to uninstall the SP1 Beta before you can install the Final (RTM) version of SP1 when it is released.

Just to be perfectly clear, if you use that command to remove the SP1 Beta Uninstall information, you will be required to completely reinstall Windows 7 or Server 2008 R2, or use a complete System Image Backup, created prior to installing the SP1 Beta, before you can install the Final (RTM) version.

Please consider this information carefully before using that command.

Microsoft Research street view

Street Slide is a novel browsing interface for street-level imagery that combines the best aspects of the immersive nature of "bubbles" with the overview provided by multi-perspective strip panoramas, figures to attract significant interest, in large part because of the ingenious way in which Microsoft Researchers tackle problems with current street-side imagery on the web.

STREET SLIDE VIEW

The Window Phone

  This new Window Phone is the concept mobile phone, which is able to transform its appearance like a window as per the weather. The phone is designed as a thin, clear and transparent plastic sheet, which remains clear during a sunny day, becomes humid during a rainy day and takes a dump outlook during a snowy day.

 

 

No Internet Connection Error during installation of Windows Live Essentials Beta 2011 fix

Yesterday an update to Windows Live Essentials 2011 beta was released. And while installing some faced problem where they were getting the error message “No Internet Connection…” and the installation failed even though they were connected to net. It was happening even using the Full offline installer.

Today they have fixed it and they have posted this -

“A fix for the "no internet connection" error you encountered has been released.  Please retry and reply if you continue to see errors in your installation experience.

Root cause is that we added functionality to the Windows Live Installer to also install language resources matching the Windows OS language and mistakenly included references to languages that are not available until the final Windows Live release.  Users installing on an OS language other than one of the nine languages released for Windows Live would have encountered this failure (English is just another language and not a unique cause of this error).

We apologize for the negative experience and inconvenience and appreciate you using Windows Live and for providing feedback.  From this, we are updating our release tools to detect and avoid this problem in the future and investigating changing our error messages to be more helpful.”

Internet Explorer 9 Beta is coming on September 15th

A nasty rumor in the wild has come to end since PDC 09, when Microsoft revealed schedule of IE9 beta for the first time. Today Microsoft has announced that the first beta of Internet Explorer 9 has been scheduled torelease on September 15th.

At Mix10, first Platform Preview of IE9 was made available for developers to test their websites capabilities to new web standards. After that 3 more PP releases were delivered which showed significant changes and performance improvements release by release; that put the solid foundation of IE beta and shows the hard work done by IE Team.

Microsoft Mathematics ADD-IN

With the Microsoft Mathematics Add-in for Word and OneNote, you can perform mathematical calculations and plot graphs in your Word documents and OneNote notebooks.  It makes it easy to plot graphs in 2D and 3D, calculate numerical results, solve equations or inequalities, and simplify algebraic expressions. The add-in also provides an extensive collection of mathematical symbols and structures to display clearly formatted mathematical expressions.

The Microsoft Mathematics Add-in can help you with the following tasks:

• Compute standard mathematical functions, such as roots and logarithms

• Compute trigonometric functions, such as sine and cosine

• Find derivatives and integrals, limits, and sums and products of series

• Perform matrix operations, such as inverses, addition, and multiplication

• Perform operations on complex numbers

• Plot 2-D graphs in Cartesian and polar coordinates

• Plot 3-D graphs in Cartesian, cylindrical, and spherical coordinates

 

his add-in works with Microsoft Word 2010, Microsoft OneNote 2010 and Microsoft Office Word 2007.

For more details check the download link. You can download the add-in from here .

BING DYNAMIC WIN 7 RSS FED THEME FRESH WALLPAPERS

Receive a new photo from Bing every week for three months, with this Windows 7 theme that updates automatically through an RSS feed.

Click the below link for BING website

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/bing-dynamic

when you DOWNLOAD and run it you will see this picture

it takes time to set wallpaper for first time,

ALL in ONE from Windowsworld

Windows world has developed a feature all in one contains all basic features in one click like paint, notepad,wordpad,word,excel & many more.

you can download here.

HTML5, Modernized: Fourth IE9 Platform Preview Available for Developers

IE9 started from the premise that the modern web will deliver HTML5 experiences that feel more like native applications than sites. Building on hardware-accelerated SVG, canvas, video, audio, and text, developers will use the power of the whole PC to achieve great performance. On the modern web, developers will use the same markup across different HTML5 browsers.
Fully Hardware-Accelerated HTML5

Modern SVG
Native JavaScript Integration
Same Markup, and Tests
Getting sites ready for Beta
Platform Preview 4 is an important milestone on the way to beta. It is the last preview before the IE9 Beta. The IE9 platform is nearly complete.

Change windows 7 logon Background

Step 1:

Click Start button, type "regedit" (without quotes), the program will appear at the top of the list; right click over it and select run as Admin ; accept any security prompt.

Step 2:

Locate the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > SOFTWARE >Microsoft > Windows > CurrentVersion > Authentication > LogonUI > Background

Step 3:

Right click on the right sided pane, and create a new DWORD and name it OEMBackground.

 

Double click over it and change the Value from 0 (zero) to 1

Close regedit.

Step 4:

Open C:\Windows\System32\oobe  here is the screenshot

open oobe folder click on Background bitmap image.

All you need to do this now

1. Create a subfolder inside oobe subfolder; name it "info", inside it create another subfolder, name it "Backgrounds".

2. Images must be of 24-bit and not larger than 256kb in bitmap format.

3. Default Image must be named: "BackgroundDefault.jpg"

4. It must be of the same resolution that of your monitor, For me, its 1024x768

Reboot ,You are done!..

Change the Background in WMP12

Step 1:

Click Start button, type "regedit" (without quotes), the program will appear at the top of the list; right click over it and select run as Admin ; accept any security prompt.

Step 2:

Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\Preferences in the left side pane

 

Step 3:

In the right hand pane look for "LibraryBackgroundImage"  double click on it.  Make sure that hexadecimal is checked and enter a number from 0 to 6 in the value data field and click OK

Default is 6

change the value from 6 to your wish (6 to 0)

Here I have changed to 3 the result is