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Why there is no 64-bit Silverlight

Why there is no 64-bit Silverlight plugin from Micorsoft: In February 2009 we e-mailed Scott Guthrie, corporate vice president of Microsoft's .NET Developer Division, and asked him if Silverlight 3 would have a 64-bit version. He told us no, as other browser plugins (and most browsers) don't support 64-bit. Silverlight 3 was released in February 2009 and indeed was only available for 32-bit … [Read more...]

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Explorer Tools

Restart, Edit or add explorer.exe  to context menu in Windows 7  using this free tool. Author: Prisoner7 … [Read more...]

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Playing Media files and customizing Windows Media Player 12

You can access Windows Media Player 12 (WMP) in Windows 7 from :By Single Clicking the WMP icon in taskbar to open the player.Or By Right clicking over the WMP icon in the taskbar to get more options like above: or By Clicking the Start button then selecting and clicking WMP Or Going to the location where the file is located and double clicking it. Changing file association If you have … [Read more...]

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Enable Thumbnail view for PSD files

By default, You can not get the preview of Photoshop PSD files in Windows 7 Explorer. They will look like this Screenshot (The thumbnail you can see is of a PNG file): We will perform some trick to enable the thumbnail preview of these PSD files in Windows 7 without any need of softwares.   Enable Thumbnail view for PSD files : Steps Download this open source dll file (new page will open). … [Read more...]

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Adding tool tips to Folders

This method was first described by Ankur Mittal, Ex-MS MVP (WDE); however, I am writing it with step to step with detailed screenshots so that every one can follow it very easily. What is background of using it?   Any folder can be named by using 255 letters to maximum, thats too, there are restrictions in some characters. If a folder contains thousand of files, its very difficult to get … [Read more...]

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Enable Aero in Windows 7 Basic

There are genuine Windows Basic users who wants how to enable Aero feature in Windows 7 Basic. There are many tools available to enable Aero in Windows 7 Basic. I will give a short tutorial on how to enable Aero in Windows 7 without using any software. Step 1 1. Click Start menu. Type Regedit. Hit enter: 2. If any security prompt comes, accept it. Registry Editor will open. Step … [Read more...]

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Guide to Create a 3rd Party Theme

We are not talking about changing the wallpapers, changing the taskbar color , saving it and calling it "custom theme"; its about how to create excellent looking third party theme also known as "Visual Style". You must need some tools, in order to create a custom theme. 1. Resource Hacker. Go to the Resource Hacker Page to download. 2. System File Replacer by xuliikoo in Deviant Art. … [Read more...]