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• 7-Zip file archiver – a polished, quickly, and efficient file archiver. Supports the following formats, 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2, TAR, RAR, CAB, ISO, ARJ, LZH, CHM, MSI, WIM, Z, CPIO, RPM, DEB and NSIS.
• Infra Recorder – User-friendly and lean recorder suite for CD / DVD / HD DVD / Blu-ray. Supports also creation of music CDs from MP3 files directly.
• VLC Player – The best and most user-friendly film and video player. Simply a must have.
• Launchy – A so called key-stroke launcher. Makes it smart and easy to start programs in Windows just like Quicksilver does it for Mac and Gnome Do for Gnome under Linux.
• Paint.NET – Good, polished, and fast photo processing and editing program. Smarter and more user friendly than Adobe Photoshop
• PDFCreator – Easy and quick program to create PDF files. PDFCreator easily creates PDFs from any Windows program. Use it like a printer in Wor d, StarCalc or any other Windows application.
• Notepad++ – Wonderful and quick editor for text and various programming languages.

• uTorrent – BitTorrent client used to download movies, software and music albums from the peer to peer net. The stuff for download can often be found on thepiratebay.org or torrentz.com.

• Firefox – Quick and easy to use browser. A Must have on Windows 7.
• Picasa – Easy and simple program for managing and storing photos and photo albums.
• iTunes – super duper program managing music collections, it can handle tons of mp3 files
• VirtualBox – easy and fast virtual machine that can be used to test Linux distributions, and to install windows inside another windows – Fancy, fancy and quite usable.
• OpenOffice – complete office suite containing; Word processing, Spreadsheets, Presentation editor, Drawing, Database programs and etc. A must have, and it works better than Microsoft Office.
• Inkscape – Drawing program for drawing vector drawings (logos and such things).
• Scribus – Polished, user-friendly DTP program, used to create brochures, catalogs, reports, articles, etc.

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10. Must Have Windows Software

First, let me remind you that Windows security is very bad in relation to password storage, so it is very easy to recover, crack / hack your own windows administrator password. (remember that you should only crack our own accounts and not other users’ accounts without having the necessary permissions).

The tool we are going to use is called Ophcrack, which is a free Windows password cracker based on rainbow tables. It is a very efficient implementation of rainbow tables done by the inventors of the method. It comes with a Graphical User Interface and runs on multiple platforms.

How to perform the actual password crack / recovery / hack

• Download the Ophcrack Live CD from here.
• Burn and boot the Ophcrack Live CD
• When Ophcrack finishes booting (it take a while, so be patient), you’ll see a list of all of the accounts available in your Windows installation. Click on Launch to initialize the cracking process.
• As Ophcrack starts working, you’ll see several strange letter combinations appearing in the LMpasswd1 and LMpasswd2 fields.

I’m really impressed by the ease and speed that Ophcrack delivers. I managed to crack / hack / recover my Windows admin password in just 30 minutes, even though I used a password generator to generate a “secure” 8 letter alphanumeric password

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This post reviews the five most popular free for download themes for Windows 7 available on the internet.

Themes for Windows often requires different types of heavy and resource demanding 3rd party software, e.g. like ThemeXP and others. In this post I have collected the most popular themes that do not require additional 3rd party software, but just works out of the box. Don’t bother on trying them with Vista or XP because they just wont work.

Black Windows 7 Theme

Black Windows 7 Theme

Download the theme here.

Blue Windows 7 Theme

TBD

Tiger Windows 7 Theme

TBD

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To get around the censorship you can to change the name server settings on your computer or router. Here are some different ways to do it.

Option 1: Use OpenDNS
OpenDNS is a project that helps you to avoid the censorship in an easy way. On their website you can find information about how to configure your computer, regardless of which operating system you use. They also have guides for a large amount of routers.

Option 2: Guide for Mac OS X
(the official OS X Leopard guide from OpenDNS)

1. Go to System Preferences
2. Click on Network
3. Select Built In Ethernet and click Advanced
4. Select the DNS tab and add 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220 to the list of DNS servers. Click OK

Option 4: Guide for Windows XP”
1. Select Control Panel from the Start menu.
2. Click Network Connections from the Control Panel choices.
3. Choose your connection from the Network Connections window.
4. Click Properties button.
5. Select Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) and click Properties.
6. Click the radio button Use the following DNS server addresses and type in OpenDNS addresses in the Preferred DNS server and Alternate DNS server fields.

Option 4: Guide for Windows Vista”
1. Click the Start Orb, then select Control Panel.
2. Click on View network status and tasks.
3. Click on View status.
4. Click the Properties button.
5. Vista may ask for your permission to make changes. If so, click the Continue button.
6. Select Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4), then click the Properties button.
7. Click the radio button Use the following DNS server addresses: and type in OpenDNS addresses in the Preferred DNS server and Alternate DNS server fields.
8. Click the OK button, then the Close button, and the Close button again. Close the Network and Sharing Center window.

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The autorun mechanism was introduced for CDs back in the 90s and was used to automatically run programs and applications when the CD was inserted. This autorun feature has also made its way to USB flash disk drives.

The following is a guideline on how to create an autorun-usb drive.

1. Create a plain text file in the root of the USB drive (eg. G:\) and name it autorun.inf.
2. Open Notepad the autorun.inf file in notepad

3. Type in:

[autorun]
open=start.exe
action=Run My Program
icon=start.exe
label=My Program


4. Save the file

The start.exe-file should be opened when the USB drive is inserted into a PC.

The autorun-function can also be used to open PowerPoint presentations and any other file types automatically when inserted into a machine.

Type this into the autorun.inf to run a PowerPoint presentation named my.ppt.

[autorun]
open=my.ppt
action=Open my.ppt


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This short guide describes how to install Windows XP or Windows 2003 Server on Xen. It provides an overview of the Debian Linux Etch installation, and detailed steps for installing and configuring Xen and starting the Windows XP or Windows 2003 Server
installation.

Requirements

• CPU with either Intel’s Vanderpool (IVT – Intel Virtualization Technology) or AMD’s Pacifica Technology (AMD virtualization)
• Windows iso-image

First you need to install Xen on Debian Etch:

sudo apt-get install xen-linux-system-2.6.18-4-xen-686 libc6-xen bridge-utils


Boot into the newly installed Xen enabled Linux kernel

sudo reboot


Then adjusted the network settings in /etc/xen/xend-config.sxp. Enabling the network bridge:

(network-script network-bridge)


Install Xen IO Emulation tools:

sudo apt-get install xen-ioemu-3.0.3-1


Create a directory for the virtual machine files e.g. /home/xen/domains/win01 and create a disk image for the virtual machine’s primary disk.

mkdir /home/xen
mkdir /home/xen/domains
mkdir /home/xen/domains/win01
sudo dd if=/dev/zero of= /home/xen/domains/win01/disk.img bs=1M count=4096


Establish a Xen machine Configuration file (/etc/xen/win01.cfg) like this

kernel = '/usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader'
builder = 'hvm'
memory = '256'
device_model='/usr/lib/xen/bin/qemu-dm'

# Behaviour
boot='d'
vnc=1
vncviewer=1
sdl=0


The ready to fire up the new machine and start the Windows installation in a vnc terminal.

xm create win01.cfg


After the virtual machine is started – a VNC server port should be available on port 5900 at the Xen server’s IP, e.g. 192.168.1.102 – A VNC XEN Client session is depicted here.

If an error like this shows up

Error: Device 0 (vif) could not be connected. Backend device not found.

You should check your that you have enabled the network bridge, “(network-script network-bridge)”, in /etc/xen/xend-config.sxp and restarted the xen deamon by /etc/init.d/xend restart

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Today I tried to run the new Settlers II – 10 Anniversary on my Lenovo laptop, but it was unable to run due to the fact that my laptop’s integrated graphics card (a Intel i945GM) doesn’t support Pixel Shader 2.0. I have then searched Google for a software based Pixel Shader – and I actually found one called SwiftShader from a company called TransGaming. SwiftShader features all DirectX Pixel Shader 1.1 calls and most of the DirectX 2.0 calls, but not all of them.

It’s easy to install SwiftShader. Just copy the two DirectX 3D related files: d3d8.dll and d3d9.dll into the root of the Direct 3D game or application and you should be up and running.

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This post reviews the most popular free for download themes for Windows.

Themes for Windows XP often requires different types of heavy and resource demanding 3rd party software, e.g. like ThemeXP and others. In this post I have collected the most popular themes that do not require additional 3rd party software.

The Luna Theme
The Luna Windows XP theme is the traditional Windows XP theme. The Luna theme aka the official Windows XP Style is available in three different color schemes; Blue (the default), Olive Green, and Silver.

The Energy Blue Theme
The Energy Blue theme is a theme concept produced by Microsoft and introduced in 2004 for the Windows Media Center and Windows XP Tablet editions. It is composed of a new redesigned wallpaper (inspired by Windows XP Bliss) and a new desktop theme and skin. The concept presents aesthetic brilliant and relucent blue and green colors. The Energy Blue theme is not only available for Windows Media Center and Windows XP Tablet editions, but also regular Windows XP editions.

Download the Energy Blue theme here.

The Royale Themes
The Royale theme is a new theme for Windows XP that has leaked out of Microsoft and onto the web. The theme appears to have come out of a beta version of Windows Media Center 2005 that was in testing. The Royale theme is an aesthetic theme and comes with two color schemes Royale (a blue theme) and Royale Noir (a black theme). The Royale theme is refreshingly different to the traditional Windows XP Luna theme.

Download the Royale theme here and the Royale Noir theme here or here (1).

The Zune Theme
After the Royale and the Royale Noir themes were leaked onto the web Microsoft decided to release a modified version of the Royale theme called Zune – perhaps to promote the release of their new invention – the Zune. The Zune theme is different to the Royale and the Royale Noir themes by having orange controls and a orange start-button.

Download the Zune theme here at Microsoft

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