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Nepal, all set for e-Governance…

After the long wait, finally, the Visit to the datacenter for the MSP’s got approved due to the Continuous effort of Mr. Allen Bailochon Tuladhar, Country Manager,MDP Nepal. Firstly, we would like to thank him for such a great effort and passion towards the MSP’s.

In the beginning, we used to have our MSP meeting on different colleges but later on, we started to have it on Microsoft Unlimited Building. So, to innovate new things and with the whole idea of visiting new place that has got some real value in IT sector, we got an opportunity to visit our one and only National Datacenter, GIDC (Government Integrated Data Center). It was the first time that most of the MSP’s were inside the Singhadarbar and it was a lot of fun. When we first got in to the datacenter, we were really impressed by the infrastructure of the building and were more excited to go inside and have a look at the servers. Also, to maintain the cleanliness of the datacenter, we had to leave our shoes and slipper outside, and then, we were provided with other pairs of slippers which could be used inside the building.

Inside the datacenter, we first went to the meeting room where Mr. Allen Bailochan Tuladhar introduced us with Dr. Subarna Shakya, Executive Director, NITC and we made a self-introduced to him. Then, Dr. Subarna Shakya gave a brief description on the GIDC with its infrastructure and project implementation. He also made us know that in current status GIDC is providing internet only to the ministries. After the introduction of GIDC and its brief description, Dr. Shubarna Shakya answered someof the quires made by MSP’s. At last, we were given an opportunity to visit the Servers and the security of Datacenter. We got divided in two groups and entered to server room and control room one at a time. In control room, we got to see the security of the building as well security of the data’s on the server by the firewalls as well as a topology of the Network. We were excited to know that presently Datacenter contains 16 Terabyte of Hard disks Spaces. We also visited the server room where the normal temperature was maintained so that over heat and over cold may not create an error. We came to know that various ministries website Data has been kept there, and also presently it is providing secure internet to the ministries.

After our Tour to the Server room and control room, we returned back to the meeting hall again and had a discussion on the couple of things like farewell to old MSP’s and welcome to new MSP’s, visit to IT Park and so on. We too had a discussion on how to conduct install fest at different colleges more efficiently.

At last we would like to thank all the member staffs of GIDC for their co-operation and Dr. Subarna Shakya. Also we  would like to thank Mr. Allen Bailochan Tuladhar, Country Manager for giving us an opportunity to visit such a informative place.

Integrated XP on Windows 7 RC….

Windows 7 a perfect client Operating System, a lot of new features on less memory consumption as well as high Performance and a lot of drivers having inside it. We the IT student are so much curious to the Windows 7 that we had started to use since the Beta version of it has been released. And me too the user of Windows 7 since it was on Beta. I was so excited to try it first as to see its performance I was so much impressed. But Later on I got known some compatibility problem on Windows 7. I do have a Internal TV card of Phillips SAA7130, Windows 7 has detected my TV Card driver but also I was unable to watch my TV on Windows 7. and as I was searching for the solution of its, i got to know that Windows XP is integrated in Windows 7 RC through which now i am able to watch TV on my PC. The great thing is you don’t need to reboot your PC to get start with XP you just need to click and proceed with username and password as in real PC. Here i am Blogging about how to get work your integrated XP on Windows 7 RC. To get started to use Integrated XP on your PC you should also need to check the Compatibility of your Intel Chips for Virtualization.

Advantage of Virtualization.

• Your PCI slot hardware, Hardisk and other real hardware interface get integrated with your Virtual PC’s Windows XP.
• No need to get Reboot to get Start your XP.
• Security Policy as in Real Machines.
• Dual System can be run at a same time.

Softwares to Download:-

Intel Processor Identification Utility (For Intel Chipset)

AMD Virtualization Compatibility Check Utility. (For AMD Processor)

Update Package KB958559 Click to Download

Virtual Windows XP Click to Download

Here the Steps are to be done:-

• First you need to Identify whether your Chipset Supports Virtualization or not. For that you need to install Intel Processor Identification Utility or if you have AMD processor you need to install AMD Virtualization Compatibility Check Utility.

• If your Processor Supports virtualization then you can initialize your Windows XP on your Windows 7
• Now you need to update your Windows 7 with update package KB958559 and then get restart your computer.
• After restart install the File Virtual Windows XP. (Virtual Windows XP contain the file in extension .VHD)
• While Installing Virtual Windows XP your systems for XP get ready to use.
• Now you can just go to start menu and Click on windows virtual PC there you can find he option Virtual Windows XP.

Enjoy your XP inside the Windows 7…………

As usual here my snapshots….you guys will get surprise to see this.

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The Snapshots are in Sequence so that you guys may know the steps…

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Comparison on XP, Vista and Windows 7…

Technology is upgrading day by day. Some of the People thinks the new technology are better and some thinks the old better and stable. Like this confusion may arise on the user of Windows……which OS do i select now…. i prefer to Windows Xp as it is stable or go with Windows Vista or use the latest technology Windows 7 RC…….I have tried to blog this post to remove the confusion on you. May this help you . Here i have a datasheet on the basis of Hardware, Interface, Device and other…….

source:-www.bytingyou.com

This is the a surface view. also there are many things to be compared…

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Create your Fonts on Windows.

Many of guys have a fantasy on the fonts. and also want to create new new fonts to show their frens and also show their attitude. In our notebook we can easily do it with our pen without any barrier but how to do in the window……….here the problem comes to the people who are eager to the fonts. Here i have a solution for that. I think many of do not know that Windows have it own font creating application name Private Character Editor. so the guys who love to make fonts can use this one without using third-party tool to create the characters.

Here the way:-

1. Press [Windows]+R to open the Run dialog box.
2. Type eudcedit in the Open text box and click OK.
3. When the Private Character Editor launches, you’ll see the Select Code dialog box. Click OK.
4. A user interface that looks and works very much like Paint will appear. From this, you may use standard tools to create your characters.
5. When you finish, select the Save Character command on the Edit menu.

Once you save your new character, you can access it using the Character Map tool. Here’s how:

1. Press [Windows]+R to open the Run dialog box.
2. Type charmap in the Open text box and click OK.
3. When the Character Map appears, select the Font drop-down list and select All Fonts (Private Characters).
4. Select your character, click the Select button, and then click the Copy button

Here now you can use use your font character in any of your document…..try it…..

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Learn it……….do it……….play it………….unlearn it….

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Innovation: INSTALL FEST at THAPATHALI CAMPUS

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“A single step for a man, a giant leap for mankind”, now, these words are becoming true. Sharing knowledge in community initiated by Microsoft Nepal got lifted up by the community work of MSPs today. The long wait of INSTALL FEST to be initiated ended at last. Thanks to the MSPs of Thapathali Campus, Msp. Ram Hari Regmi and Msp. Ashok Basnet, who dare to initiate this program at their college crossing all the barrier of difficulties that arose with conducting it.

INSTALL FEST is the program in which the students get knowledge about the software of Microsoft, Need of Microsoft Certification and Knowledge of Microsoft platform. In addition, there is also distribution of ELMS account to the students who haven’t activated their elms account yet, by which they can get the free genuine software of Microsoft. With similar concept, we started our program at Thapathali Campus with the great sprit to provide as much information as we can to the students. As it was scheduled, Er. Shailendra Jha, our community lead, started his presentation with the introduction of MSP program and continued about the Value of Microsoft Certification, How to get it and where to get it. Also, he introduced about the Boot Camp and other terms. He also talked to us about the free certification voucher for MCTS for those students learing at brainwork’s which was really interesting. After Er. Shailendra Jha’s presentation, it was time to inaugurate the official site of free student council of thapathali, in which Msp. Ram Hari gave a short speech on why do we need our own portal and then we had the speech of President of student council on new innovation on Information Technology which was impressive.

Arrival of Mr. Allen Bailochan Tuladhar, our Country Manager, brought life to the program and his presentation just rocked the floor. Mr. Allen introduced dreamspark, Bizpark, Student to Business as well as MSDNAA to the students. He also shared information about MSP and asked to fill the form for new MSP enroll. Quite a good number of students were interested about it. To lighten the environment, a lot of humor arose in the middle of presentations and distribution of goodies to the students was really interesting. He also introduced our first country portal msdnnepal.net and technetnepal.net and also the work of Microsoft in community. Also, he broke the news of PTA in Nepal, which is very beneficial to the students as well as professionals. After our country manager, Mr. Gandip Khaling made a presentation on Windows 7 a cutting edge technology of Microsoft, where he got to the development of Microsoft Windows form window 3.0 to the today’s new technology Windows 7. The effects on windows 7 just stunned the students…they were just saying wow!!!!

At the end of session, as usual, Mr. Allen Bailochan Tuladhar was there to solve the queries of the students and the best part was that the students were willing to share their queries, their problems and their thoughts. He also asked the MSPs to share his experience as being a MSP. MSP Kushal Gautam shared his experience of 6 months as becoming a MSP as well as he also shared his experience of TechEd tour to hyderbad. We also had Msp. Archana Maharajan to share her experience to the students which was enthusiastic to the participants. Finally, with sharing of some feedbacks and making some fun, the program ended with lot of praise of participants. In the end, we would like to thank Msp. Ram Hari Regmi and MSP. Ashok Basnet once again to initialize the install fest as this single step that left a mark to other MSP’s to do similar work will surely bring a giant leap of sharing knowledge by Microsoft Community, Nepal.

Boot Windows7 from your USB Drive

Last time when I tried to install the Windows 7 in my college Lab computer I get stuck due to the lack of CD-ROM in my Lab Computer. I need to open each casing join CD-ROM and to install the Operating System. So to get rid of this I thought to boot my windows 7 with my USB drive so I can easily install Windows 7 in my College Computer whenever I want without any extra labor of opening casing. So I goes through these process and get succeed to install Windows 7 without using CD-ROM. and this may help you guys too.

Here the steps are:-

First you need to download the software name MBRwiz which you can download form this link then you extract it to your any drive after that you follow this process….

1. Connect your USB Drive to your computer Format your USB drive

2. You can format USB Flash Drive  by Going to My Computer -> Right click on USB drive and select Format from context menu.

3. Now go to Start Menu->run->cmd (Open Command Prompt) and Type following command, the command must be run under administrative privilege.

convert i: /fs:ntfs (Where “i” is your USB drive letter)

4. Mount Windows 7 iso as drive by any imaging tool.

5. Type Start->run->cmd

Now dir to directory where you have extracted MBRWiz and run following commands

mbrwiz /list (lists disk number of your USB Pen drive)

mbrwiz /disk=X /active= Y (X is Disk Number of your USB Drive and if Y=1 it makes enable active partition and 0 disables )

exit

6. Now open another command window and type following command

J: (Drive letter of Windows 7 iso mounted with demon tool)

CD boot

bootsect /nt60 Y: (Y is drive letter of your USB drive )

7. Now copy all files from drive where you have mount Windows 7 iso

8. Now reboot your computer and press F2 or DEL to get your BIOS screen and select USB drive as your boot drive.

9. If everything goes fine, Your Windows 7 Installation should start from your USB drive.

Hope this will help you guys also….

Changing Windows Vista Product key….

After the blog of changing windows XP  Product key to the genuine tips some of my friends  and colleague  ask me to blog on how to change the windows vista product key. As we know that genuine is the need of today and without genuine we cannot get update in Microsoft operating system.Not going further on language i would like to start the process how to change the Product key in Windows Vista

Here the Steps are:

1.Run Elevated Command Prompt with administrator rights or privileges. To do so, locate Command Prompt icon in Start Menu, right click on it and select “Run as Administrator”. You can also type in “command prompt” in Vista instant search, and right click on Command Prompt shortcut and then select “Run as Administrator” to enable administrator credentials. Answer yes to any UAC(User Account Control) confirmation. You can also turn off UAC.

2.In the command prompt window, type the following command:
slmgr.vbs -ipk <insert your product key here>

Replace <insert your product key here> with the 25-digit Windows Vista product key.

3.To activate windows after changing the key, run the following command in the command prompt window:
slmgr.vbs -ato

If you don’t prefer to issue commands manually on command prompt, you can use the Vista GUI (graphical user interface) to change product key.

4. Now go to System Properties window with one of the following method:
         -->Right click on Computer and select Properties in the right click context menu
         -->Click on Start button, then Control Panel, and then select “System” (for classic view of Control Panel).
         -->Click on Start button, then Control Panel, and then System and Maintenance, and then select “System” (for normal view of Control Panel).

5.At the bottom of the System Properties window where “Windows activation” section located, click on a blue link named “Change product key” with a small shield icon next to it. Your system might need a second or two to display the change product key dialog after clicking on the link.
If Windows Vista system already in Reduced Functionality Mode, there is an option of “Retype your product key”, which is the same as “Change product key” above and will give you the opportunity to enter a new product key or license key if you want to activate Windows Vista with a new key that is not yet installed on the existing installation of Windows Vista.

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Changing Product key in Windows XP.

Genuine is the need of today. To respect the creator of the Product also we need to use the genuine software's. and what if it is pirated one and we have to make it genuine. Also in our country Microsoft Unlimited is providing the genuine key of all products of Microsoft to all the students related to STEM-D by the ELMS.

Now most of us we student are using Windows XP in our PC, and also due to the limited compatibility we are using Windows XP. What happen if we have to format our PC to only change our Product key and Make it genuine……….This stuff will make our time loss and also we may lose our important documents. so here i have some steps by which we can change our pirated version of product key to the genuine one without formatting our PC.

Here's How:
1.Click on Start and then Run.

2.In the text box in the Run window, type regedit and click OK. This will open the Registry Editor program.

3.Continue to expand folders until you reach the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\Current Version\WPAEvents registry key.

4.Click on the WPAEvents folder.

5.In the results that appear in the window on the right, locate OOBETimer.

6.Right-click on the OOBETimer entry and choose Modify from the resulting menu.

7.Change at least one digit in the Value data text box and click OK. This will deactivate Windows XP.

8.Click on Start and then Run.

9.In the text box in the Run window, type the following command and click OK.

%systemroot%\system32\oobe\msoobe.exe /a

10.When the Windows Product Activation window appears, choose Yes, Let’s activate Windows over the Internet now and then click Next.

11. then select no, I don’t want to register now, let’s just activate Windows and click Next.

13.Click Change Product Key.

12.Type your new, valid Windows XP product key in the New key text boxes and then click Update.

14.If you're taken back to the previous screen and prompted, choose Remind me later.

15.Restart your PC.

Bingo………….now your pc becomes Genuine.

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Note:-Please backup your registry before proceeding….

Cube Desktop on Window

Now it has been need of every people working in desktop to have more workspace…..Due to the lack of workspaces people are purchasing the wide screen as well as big screen monitors. and people having low budgets are having trouble with low workspace in desktop. Now not to worry to those guys we have small monitors……Now the technology has reached to multiple virtual desktop on your single desktop with efficient work.

Here the concept of Cube desktop comes for windows. Cube desktop contains six virtual and independent desktops, increasing the space you have to work and play. It’s 3D technology to quickly show, switch and move windows between desktops is the best feature.

Some key features of "Cube Desktop's" are:

· Virtual desktops
· Cube Desktop creates six virtual and independent desktops, increasing the space you have to work and play.
· 3D effects
· Use the 3D cube to preview, switch or move windows to another desktop. Or just for fun.
· Improve your Windows Vista experience. CubeDesktop is the best Vista addon so far, adding to your desktop incredible 2D and 3D effects.
· Windows and desktops update in realtime, like Windows Vista new thumbnails, but in true 3D.
· Impress everybody that looks at your computer and change the way you work with it!
· Moving windows between desktops
· CubeDesktop offers various ways to move applications amongst desktops.
· Drag a window near the edge of the screen to show the 3D cube and drop it on the desktop of your choice.
· "SendTo" menu items integrated into all applications' system menus allow you to send applications to the desired desktop.
· You can also use hotkeys to move the selected window to another desktop.
· Live preview
· CubeDesktop is not like the classic utilities for Windows. Everything is live. When you switch between desktops using the 3D interface or the desktop explorer, you see a live preview of what's happening. All windows update in realtime, allowing you to see what you're really looking for.
· Window organization
· Open the full graphical desktop preview to see all desktops at the same time. Every window is just one click away. Move them between desktops in a hurry.
· Autosend rules allow you to move windows to one desktop automatically when they open. When this happens, a notification bubble hint will inform you, no need to look for it!
· Desktop customization
· Every single desktop may have its own wallpapers, icons and name. Change your Windows wallpaper as usual and arrange your icons using your favourite layout on every single desktop, CubeDesktop just remembers everything when you switch between desktops.
· CubeDesktop also includes an integrated icon manager, allowing you to quick and easily which icons are shown on every desktop.
· Switch between tasks faster than ever before
· Switch between tasks using Window Exposer. With a single keypress or mouse move, Window Exposer instantly tiles all of your open windows, scales them down and neatly arranges them, so you can see what's in every single one. This feature brings to your Windows Vista desktop the most impressive Mac OS X Expos?-like experience.
· Hot corners
· Just move the mouse pointer over the screen edges and watch how the action you configured gets executed.
· Advanced visualization effects
· CubeDesktop uses advanced 2D and 3D techniques like animation with physical dynamics, transparency, reflection, lighting and antialiasing.
· All effects are fully configurable. 3D visualization also allows you to set personalized backgrounds and 360? panoramic skyboxes.
· 3D Windows Explorer
· 3D Desktop Flip
· Password protected access to virtual desktops
· Automatically start applications on specific desktops
· Change Windows Exposer appearance options
· Modify the background for 3D Windows Explorer and 3D Desktop Flip

Snapshot of Cube desktops:-

System requirements :

• Microsoft Windows® XP™ or Windows® Vista™  and in Windows 7 RC1 also...
• 1.4 Ghz processor
• 512 MB of RAM (1 GB recommended)
• DirectX 9.0c
• 3D accelerated video adapter with at least 64MB of video memory

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