Few weeks back I had a strange problem, my Vista installation kept saying it is going to expire in 11 days. If you see the above image of the Control Panel-Systems says Windows is Activated . So I was puzzled, how can something that is activated can expire. Strangely the same error kept coming in few...

Following Microsoft's retiring of Windows XP on 30th June, there has been lot of talk on the Internet on how Windows XP is better Windows Vista. I love Windows Vista and I have been using it from Beta days. I will never even dream of going back to XP. Why?. The UAC prompts are certainly annoying...

The other day I wanted to password protect a word document before emailing it for privacy. I came across 3 different features in Word that are related to security and it is confusing at first. It took me sometime and few web search to figure them out. Though the below features can be accessed from the...

One of the compelling reasons I tell customers and friends for upgrading from Windows XP to Windows Vista is the extremely easy to use yet powerful backup feature. All it takes is three clicks to backup your entire computer to a removable USB storage or DVDs. You can backup a partition or folders to...

Though it has been hotly debated for last several months, I have kept away from writing on the Office Open XML (OOXML) proposed by Microsoft and currently a ECMA standard. With the ISO voting due today I thought let me write my views before the results. Basically what OOXML means is a standardized file...

This is a simple tip for MS Excel 2007. When using Outlook 2007/Word 2007 and working on a Table we get the "Design" menu which is very handy to make our tables look beautiful. When working with MS Excel 2007 I couldn't find this feature (Design Menu for Table) till yesterday. It suddenly...

I have been asked by many of you for the URL to watch the recordings of all the Mix '08 keynotes . Here it is : MIX08 Day 1 Keynote MIX08 Day 2 Keynote The page has an interesting video of MIX08 Keynotes in Hyperspeed, which is a timelape video to see the whole process from bare ballroom through...

I was looking for long on how to enable Hibernation option in Vista, as the sleep doesn't work in my laptop all the time. After spending lot of time in navigating through the confusing menus of Vista and Windows Help, I turned to Google, got the answer in the second search link. Here it is: 1. Click...

After I moved to Windows Vista about a year back , I hardly had to worry about Firewall settings. Though initially I found the UI of Vista Firewall Settings different and a little hard to understand, I soon realized its power and flexibility. Most of the time I found the firewall in Vista to automatically...

WOW, writing the above headline made me wonder how far software has come from the time you bought it from guys with coat and suit, to online, to free and now to rental. And what better product to signify this, other than MS Office. I read in news that Microsoft India has announced MS Office 2007 in Prepaid...