Download Windows 7 Themes, Wallpapers and Gadgets
Windows 7 is out and Microsoft is providing easy access to a range of new themes, wallpapers and gadgets.
Microsoft has done a great job this time around with themes as you can get customized themes optimized for fans of different countries and brands.
Here are some of the [...]

Bypassing Windows Update restart message in Vista
If you are annoying of seeing the restart your computer messages on Vista after installing the updates through Windows Update, this tip is just for you…
Run Command Prompt as an administrator.
Type CMD in Run and press Control+Shift+Enter
Type net stop “windows update” and press Enter
This should hide the window [...]

Disabling User Account Control in Windows Vista
User Account Control is one of the most annoying security features in the Windows Vista operating system.
It serves little considering most people do not even bother to think before clicking on the option to continue with what they are doing.
So, well if you want to disable User Account Control [...]

*techwhack exclusive feature*
Towards the end of this year, when Windows XP’s latest update (Service Pack 2) is satisfactorily rolled-out we are going to see a media blitz. Looks like Microsoft favours letting a year or two roll-by, and getting a good service pack out of the door, before advertising in public media about their OS [...]

Don’t you hate it when some program just unilaterally changes your file associations — so all of your music opens up in Windows Media Player, instead of MusicMatch, for example? Well there’s utility that’ll give you back control of how Windows selects programs to open files. In addition to locking down associations, it also lets [...]

nLite – cut-down the size of your Windows CD, and more!
Hey, some of us are bothered about the existence of utilities we never use in windows. If you feel so too, this tool is for you. It is to be used on an existing Windows 2000/XP/2003 installer CD – it will aid you in removing [...]

use unattended CDs to simplify Windows deployment
You can make customized Windows XP CDs for deployment within your company. Make your CDs in such a way that they already are updated to the latest Service Pack, have all patches installed, and all the applications you need, and the settings you need to pre-configure every-time. You [...]

Windows Explorer caches DLLs (Dynamic-Link Libraries) in memory for a period of time after the application using them has been closed. This can be an inefficient use of memory.
1. Find the key [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer].
2. Create a new DWORD sub-key named ‘AlwaysUnloadDLL’ and set the default value to equal ‘1′ to disable Windows caching the DLL [...]

SYMPTOMS
After you install Windows XP Service Pack 1 (SP1), your programs may take as much as ten times as long to start.
CAUSE
This problem may occur if the programs you run frequently allocate and deallocate large blocks of memory. Changes in Windows XP SP1 in the memory management system have caused this operation to take [...]

This tweak will launch most executables with the priority setting you want it to have.
Let’s say you have a game installed called HIGH NEEDS and the executable is called HN.exe
Here’s what to do:
-Create a new textfile in the game-app wathever-directory (let’s say C:\HN), but instead of giving it the .txt extension you [...]