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Step by step Guide to Install Windows 8 Developers Preview in Virtual Machine.

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8 months ago
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Microsoft just launched Windows 8 Developers Preview & here is a very easy step by step guide to Install Windows 8 Developers Preview via Virtual Machine.

 

 

I am installing Windows 8 Developers Preview via VM VirtualBox (You can install it with any other Virtual Machine, like VMware or Parallels. I am using Virtual Box because it’s free), & I will suggest you that if you are interested in Installing it, Don’t install it as a Primary OS, because it’s just a Developers Preview even not a Beta Version. They are making it better day by day. So it will be better not to install it as a primary OS.

 

Before Installing Windows 8 you must have these things downloaded & Installed. Obviously Windows 8 Developers Preview & Virtual Machine of your choice, Here I’ll prefer VirtualBox but you can download & use VMware Workstation & Parallels (These are Paid Software’s)

 

Step by Step Guide for installing Windows 8 Developers Preview

 

Step 1

Go to VirtualBox & Click on New button (See Screenshot for details)

 

Step 2

Just Click Next!

 

Step 3

 

Type in a name (ex: Techuncover or Windows 8 Developer Preview) for the virtual machine, select Windows 7 if have a 32-bit or Windows 7 (64-bit) if you have a 64-bit, then click on Next. (see screenshots below)

 

Step 4

Select or type in how much of your computer’s RAM (1024MB = 1GB) you would like for the virtual machine to use when it’s running, By default VirtualBox allocates 512 MB of RAM. Click on Next. (see screenshot below)

 

Step 5

Just Click Next (No need to change the settings here)

 

Step 6

Select VHD (Virtual Hard Disk), and click Next. (see screenshot below)

 

Step 7

Option Dynamically allocated is selected already, You just need to click on Next.

 

Step 8

Select how large you would like the VHD (Virtual Hard Disk) file to be, and click on Next. (see screenshot below)
NOTE: The default size is 20 GB, and is fine if you are not going to be installing a lot of software’s on the virtual machine.

 

Step 9

Click on the Create Button. (see screenshot below)

 

Step 10

Click on Create button to confirm!

 

Step 11

In the left pane, double click on the new virtual machine (ex: Techuncoer or Windows 8 Developer Preview). & than Click Next (see screenshot below)

 

Step 12

Click on the browse folder icon, select the downloaded ISO file of Windows 8 Developers Preview which you downloaded earlier, click on Open, and click on Start. (see screenshots below)

 

Step 13

Once the setup is loaded, hit Install Now, accept the license terms and hit Next.

Select Custom (advanced), select whichever disk it gives you (it will most likely say “Disk 0 Unallocated Space”) and hit Next

Once it’s done installing, go through the typical Customization/Setup Process..

That’s it, you’ve successfully installed the first Windows 8 Developer Preview in a Virtual Machine!

 

 

Keep visiting for more Windows 8 related news and tutorials! :)

 

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The Mango update to WP7 (Windows Phone 7 Series) will include 500+ new features.

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12 months ago
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said the next Windows Phone OS update codenamed Mango will bring more than “500 new features”. Speaking at a developers’ forum in Japan on Monday, Ballmer didn’t give away too many details about the update but promised to unveil more on Tuesday at a scheduled event in New York. Until then, we have a clue or two about what’s coming.

 

Ahead of a scheduled preview of Windows Phone 7 Mango in New York, Ballmer also teased about an announcement regarding several new devices. The WMPowerUser blog says it has received a tip saying that we can expect up to nine new WP7 devices from HTC, Acer, Dell and Samsung-but they won’t be on sale until the holiday season.

 

What’s coming up in Mango (Windows Phone 7.5)

Microsoft pre-announced several much-needed improvements to Windows Phone 7 to keep people’s minds off some troubles with software updates earlier this year. Third-party app multitasking is probably one of the biggest drawbacks in WP7, and Mango should fix that.

 

mango-FeaturesMango packs some more bang

 

- SMS and Email group messaging to help you during the season’s greetings times. You can create groups and quickly send out those messages.

 

group_messaging_mangoGroup messaging

 

- Office 365 will be fully supported in the office Hub

 

office_365Office 365 Support

 

- Lockscreen can be set to the currently playing album art.

 

zune_locksreen_wallpaperNow Playing on Lockscreen

 

 

- The Xbox hub also gets a makeover

 

mango_xbox_hubRevamped Xbox Hub

 

In addition WP7 codenamed Mango also include visual voice mail via the Open Mobile Terminal Platform protocol and also WiFi hotspot support via Microsoft’s own NCIS (Network Communication and Information Systems).

 

There are also a bunch of features Microsoft didn’t announce but were leaked in a developers’ podcast last week. These include Windows Live Messenger, Facebook Chat and AIM integration in the Messaging Hub. Turn-by-turn navigation is also on the table, along with SMS dictation and iPhone-like visual voicemail.

 

The Windows Phone 7 Mango update is expected to arrive later this year.

 

Let’s use an analogy. Vista was a step in the right direction for Windows design, but it was half-baked, poorly executed, and left everyone who used it wanting more. So it is with current WP7 phones, they are a movement towards a better future, but require refinement to really hit their stride. In other words, Mango is going to be Microsoft’s mobile Windows 7, the second try that fulfills the potential that the previous product never did.

With Nokia as the wind at its back, and with the massive new Mango feature set, Windows Phone should finally be ready to step into the ring with iOS and Android, two platforms that up until this update it could not quite handle.

We will have piles more on Mango come the 24th, when Microsoft is hosting a WP7 event to outline the phone line’s roadmap.

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How to access all your Emails offline on a USB Stick.

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1 year ago
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How do you ensure that you always have access to all your emails – even at places where there is no Internet or when you aren’t carrying your own laptop?

One of the popular options is that you use a tool like Microsoft Outlook to download all your emails to the computer beforehand and you can then read them anywhere even in offline mode. Both Gmail and Hotmail offer POP3 access to help you download messages using any email client while there are easy workarounds for Yahoo Mail.

There are some downsides though. First, most email clients aren’t portable (can you carry emails on a USB drive?) and second, if all you want is offline access to your Gmail messages and nothing extra, Outlook is probably too heavy a tool for that purpose.

I have been testing a Windows-only utility called MailStore that seems like an ideal solution for such a problem – the tool is free, there’s a portable version for your USB stick and best of all, it works out of the box with your email account without requiring any configuration.

 

Step by Step – How to Backup your Emails

The way MailStore works is something like this. You install (or unzip) the software to a folder and then select the email accounts that you want to archive. They can be your Gmail accounts, Microsoft Exchange, your old Outlook PST files, Thunderbird and any other web email service that supports either IMAP or POP3.

 

Step 1

 

Step 2

 

 

Step 4

 

The tool will pull your email messages from all these places into a central location. If you have a large mailbox, you may specify criteria to skip emails that are older than ‘n’ days. It skips the Spam and Junk folders by default but you may also manually specify any folders /labels that you wish to include (or exclude) from the backup.

That’s it. There’s a convenient search box allowing you to search all your email accounts from one place. You can copy the MailStore folder to your USB drive, or even your Dropbox folder, and access all the emails from anywhere, anytime. Since this is more of an email backup utility and not a full-blown email client, it cannot be used for replying or sending new emails.

To quickly recap, here are some scenarios where you may find Mail Store useful:

 

0. You want to backup all your web mails to a safe location.
1. You want to carry your Microsoft Exchange / Outlook emails on a USB drive.
2. You have multiple email accounts and need to search all your mailboxes from one place.
3. You want offline access to all your web-based email accounts.

 

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Create A New Partition or Volume in Windows 7

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1 year ago
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If you want to create a New Partition/Disk Volume in Windows 7, you can use the built-in disk management tools to do that. Here’s how.
Creating A New Partition

 

Using Disk Management Instructions

(1) Right click on Computer in Start Menu, and click on Manage (with the Administrative Tools icon). Then close the Control Panel window.


click on the Administrative Tools

 

(2) Click on Computer Management in Administrative Tools, Uncollapse Storage, then click on Disk Management


Computer Management

 

(3) You will first need to shrink a partition or volume from the free space on a disk to create unallocated space on that disk.

You can then use the unallocated disk space to create the new partition or volume.

 

create unallocated space

 

(4) In the middle pane, right click on the empty unallocated partition or volume and click on New Simple Volume.

(5) Click on the Next button.

 

click on New Simple Volume

 

(6) Type in how much disk space in MB (1 GB = 1024 MB) you want to use from the unallocated partition to create the new partition with, then click on the Next button.

 

Click on the Next button

 

(7) Assign a drive letter for the new partition

 

Type in how many MB (1 GB = 1024 MB)

 

(8) Type in a volume label name that you want for the new partition, check the Perform a quick format box, and click on the Next button.

 

Type in a volume label name

 

Click on the Next button

 

Click on the Next button and you’re done! You have successfully created a new partition in Windows 7.

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Kung Fu Panda 2 – Windows 7 Theme

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1 year ago
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Prepare for the return of awesomeness! Download this free Windows 7 theme featuring images of your favorite characters from Kung Fu Panda 2, a 3D movie by DreamWorks Animation in cinemas across the world this summer (26 May 2011)

 

 

I am sure this is gona be a bigger hit than Kung Fu Panda 1.

 

 

Download Kung Fu Panda 2

 

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