Now You can put Fences for your Windows ! I bet Mr Bill Gates will be happy 
I know it is a lame attempt from me at being funny in technical writings… but well, I had to say it
Fences is actually a Lab software from Stardock, and I personally find it quite interesting for ppl with messy desktops
Basically you install it (6.3 MB) , if you stick with the standard procedure, you will get 2 fences, those are areas where u can somehow collect you desktop icon in it,you get the chance to add more fences by drawing them simply, position them, change the display and all those details that background loving ppl like to do and another interesting feature is that if you double click your background, you hide your desktop mess, of course you can exclude some items from hide
So without further ado, I give you the official overview of Fences and the download link : I http://www.stardock.com/products/fences/
Fences is a one-of-a-kind program, allowing you to draw labeled shaded areas on your desktop, which become movable & resizable containers for your desktop icons. These groups can help bring organization and consistency to your computer’s desktop, solving the “constant mess” problem that has plagued the desktop since its inception.
Fences also helps you finally appreciate the wallpaper you have hiding behind all that clutter.
In addition to its organizing features, Fences offers a novel quick-hide feature (in-patenting-process). Double click your desktop, and all your icons will fade out. Double click again, and they’ll return
– psst, I will appreciate if you share cool background pics or print screen of your “newly ordered desktop”
I’ve recently told you that I have installed Windows 7 on my MacBook and giving it a serious try so here is a nice feature I found about 2 days ago.
If you shake an open window slowly all other windows will get minimized shake again to restore them all.
However this looks more like an application feature than a windows feature to me since it only works with the applications that ship with Windows 7. For example it doesn’t work with Windows Live Messenger nor with Firefox but does with Internet Explorer 8 or the new version of Paint.
Although this feature is not the most useful I sure think it is cool, what do you think?
Today I’ve installed Windows 7 on my MacBook to give it a spin and, overall, it was a nice experience I understand now why they call it “Vista done right”!
What immediately bothered me was the fact that I couldn’t get Windows Live Messenger 9 to minimize to the system tray! No matter what I did it was stuck to the taskbar whereas I never had that problem on Windows Vista and it was quite annoying.
Luckily it didn’t take me long to figure out that running Windows Live Messenger in Windows Vista compatibility mode would solve the problem to do so
- Navigate to %ProgramFiles%\Windows Live\Messenger\ and find msnmgsr.exe
- Right Click properties on that file and go to the “Compatibility” tab
- Select “Windows Vista” from the drop down menu
- Click ok
- Exit and run Windows Live Messenger again
That’s it!
If there’s one thing everyone seem to be eager to do, it would be saving the resources of their computers. Especially that people nowadays tend to run endless applications together although their resources, i.e. RAM and CPU power, are limitd at the end of the day.
One way of saving RAM and CPU power is stopping unnecessary services. Remember the indexing process you learned about in yesterday’s post? Well that was in Vista, but a similar process exists in Windows XP to also allow faster search results, but it is useless to us since we actually use Good Desktop instead, so that indexing feature just wastes valuable resources to us! Here is how to disable it.
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The searching engine in Windows Vista is a good improvement over its predecessor in Windows XP, did you know that it can also search into Microsoft Outlook 2007?
Anyway, we have lately encountered some problems with out search engine on Windows Vista while trying to search for some items, sometimes we were receiving errors, and sometimes we were unable to find the targeted items although we knew they were there on the computer, and we were able to reach them manually.
The best thing to do in this case is to rebuild the search index, this will clear the already existing index and will build a fresh new one. It could be a lengthy process but it IS worth it. Here’s how you can rebuild your search index in Windows Vista.
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When Microsoft released Windows Defender was we were all eager to install it on our Windows XP. But now as you probably know, it comes by default with Windows Vista. And guess what, people are looking for a way to uninstall it! It’s kinda funny, but it’s most likely due to the fact that people always want to try the “other” software. So if they got Windows Defender and a new version of Kaspersky is relaeased, they start running after Kaspersky! (We do that as well by the way).
So, in today’s post we’re going to teach how to uninstall Windows Defender since it’s a bit tricky.
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Do you that you can make your screen fonts more readable if you are using Windows XP? Well, there’s actually a possibility to sharpen the fonts on your display by smoothing their edges so they become more clear to the eye. Check the picture below showing the difference between a normal font and an enhanced one.
Want to know how you also can enhance your display fonts?
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Have you tried to install 4GB RAM on a Windows Vista 32-bit computer? I have tried it today, and to my surprise the computer reported only 3.GB RAM when I checked the system information.
I first thought it might be an addressing issue, I thought that a 32-bit operating system cannot address more than 3.2GB RAM, so I did some calculation and noticed I was wrong. A 32-bit operating system can address 2^32 Bytes of memory, that is 4294967296 Bytes, OR 4194304 KB RAM, OR 4096MB RAM, OR 4GB RAM.
So I was curious to know the reason for not detecting more than 3.2GB RAM although the chips were alright, I did some research and here’s the cause of that “problem” although practically speaking no memory is wasted.
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Defragmentation is the process of locating the noncontiguous fragments of data into which a computer file may be divided as it is stored on a hard disk, and rearranging the fragments and restoring them into fewer fragments or into the whole file. This process reduces data access time and allows storage to be used more efficiently.
Back in Windows XP, we used to analyze our disk usage by clicking on Start –> All Programs –> Accessories –> System Tools –> Disk Defragmenter, we then right click on our drive and select analyze, then depending on the result we choose if a degfragmentation is necessary for that drive or not. But since we have started deploying Windows Vista, some people have been asking about the way to do it in the new operating system.
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You might have heard of routing tables before, they exist in routers and computer, and they are used to store the routes to specific destinations. So everytime your computer needs to forward a packet, it will check its “map”, the routing table, to decide to which gateway should this packet be forwarded and via which network interface (in case you have multiple network cards).
In your computer, routing tables are automatically built. But sometimes, you may need to add a route to your computer routing table for testing purposes or because you might be required to design some complex network. Here’s how to do it under Windows.
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