DesktopInfo is compatible with Windows operating systems including Windows XP, Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista and Windows 7. You can download DesktopInfo from here. You just need to unzip and run the application. It appears with transparent text on your desktop wallpaper and uses very little memory.

DesktopInfo Displays System Information on the Desktop is a post from: TechieQuest

Microsoft Security Essentials is a free download from Microsoft as long as you have a genuine Windows running on your computer. It is easy to use and always kept up to date so you can be assured your PC is protected by the latest technology. It’s easy to tell if your PC is secure — when you’re green, you’re good. It’s that simple.

Microsoft Security Essentials runs quietly and efficiently in the background so that you are free to use your Windows-based PC the way you want—without interruptions or long computer wait times. It will alert you if there’s something you need to do.

Microsoft Security Essentials Features:

• Comprehensive malware protection
• Simple, free download*
• Automatic updates
• Easy to use

Download Microsoft Security Essentials

It works on Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7.

Microsoft Security Essentials – Microsoft’s Free Anti Virus is a post from: TechieQuest

How to turn DreamScene on XP with XP Scene

1. Select the video that should be used as the desktop background. Supported are avi, mpg and wmv videos. The resize mode can also be changed from “keep input aspect ratio” to “stretch video to display size” in this step.

2. Selecting the output folder where the html file and video will be saved in.

3. Starting the conversion.

4. Once finish file conversion, go to Computer Control Panel > Display Properties > Desktop > Background. Then browse to the location where the html file has been saved to and pick it from there.

Meanwhile, XP Scene application is portable, so you do not need installation. Plus more, running XP Scene might consumes lots of resources, so you can not worthwhile.

if your XP platform having a lot of computer memory. Worth to try out

Download XP Scene

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However, DreamRender difference from DreamScene in term of display technology whereby Dreamrender not only uses video as a animated desktop backgrounds, but also uses high end particle sequencing, 3D Object Animation, Custom Bubbles, Desktop Image Animations, Music Interaction, Liquid Animations, Tunnels, and MORE.

Beside that, DreamRender also ships with about a dozen animations. One click is sufficient to load that animation. This does not replace the original wallpaper of the system though. It overlays the animated wallpaper and the original wallpaper will appear if DreamRender is disabled.

To create a new animated wallpaper you need to click on the File > New menu in the settings. There you have the options to select a video, a picture, slideshows and several other backgrounds for your animated wallpaper. Just play around with it for a while and you should find your way.

For complete customization of your system DreamRender can apply textures and colors to your windows, make them transparent, and produce amazing effects every time you move your mouse.

As Dreamscene is an extra features that ships with Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate that allows users to replace a standard wallpaper with an animated one. However, the biggest shortcoming of DreamScene is that it is only available for Windows Vista Ultimate.

But DreamRender seem like a promising candidate for everyone else who is not working with Windows Vista Ultimate. Meanwhile, DreamRender official site also offer a lot screensaver or Animated Desktop Wallpaper to fancy up your dreamscence on XP.

Requirement for DreamRender – Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/Vista and 512MB RAM

Visit : DreamRender – Windows desktop wallpaper animation utility

Via Ghacks -DreamRender is an alternative to DreamScene

Play DreamScene Features on XP using DreamRender is a post from: TechieQuest

WinGuggle – Windows Vista And Office Product Key Features:

• Get Windows Vista and Office Product Key (CD Key)
• Change OEM Logo and Information
• Change Performance Information and Tools OEM Logo

You can download WinGuggle from SnapFiles. No Installation is needed. To use WinGuggle, just unzip the archive and execute the application.

WinGuggle – Recover Windows Vista and Office Product Key is a post from: TechieQuest

With reQall, be confident you can remember what you need to – when you need to – no matter where you are! It’s the free memory tool that works with your voice through phone, web, text, email and online calendars.

reQall works with any phone (including mobile phones and iPhones), Windows Mobile devices or web browser, no download or installation required. All you need is to register online to reQall or call 1-888-973-7255 (US or Canada), 0800-692-8780 / 020-7147-5700 (UK).

Here’s how reQall works. You access the reQall service by calling a toll-free number to leave a voice message. reQall will identify your CallerID and then convert what you say to text. reQall can e-mail you your messages along with your speech WAV file, or put them on a desktop widget.

reQall offers two phone programs:

• Speed reQall – the fastest way to record and retrieve
• Power reQall – lets you organize as you record or take advantage of more powerful retrieval features

Currently reQall web and PC capabilities are available worldwide but reQall’s phone services are only available in the US, Canada and the UK. reQall works great with the iPhone and iPod Touch. Login to http://www.reqall.com/web with your iPhone or iPod Touch’s web browser to enjoy the reQall experience.

reQall – Voice to Text Reminder Service is a post from: TechieQuest

CDBurnerXP application is easy to use, Its simple Drop-Box feature offers a really smooth way to add new files to a project via drag-and-drop like other popular burning software.

Here is some features that CDBurnerXP 4 provides:

• Copy audio and data CD’s on the fly: (swap source and destination media within the same or alternate drives). Copy to ISO file supported
• Burn Audio CDs: with or without gaps. Supports MP3, WAV, OGG, WMA, and FLAC files. Allows for adding tracks from audio CDs without ripping them first (cda-files). Does not rip audio cds .
• Burns Video DVDs: in UDF file format; i.e. they will play on your DVD player.
• Saves and burns ISO files: Converts .BIN and .NRG images to ISO format.
  
• Support for new media formats: double layer DVDs, Blu-Ray and HD-DVDs.
• Verifies data after burning; can simulate burning for error detection.
• Supports overburning from the FAQ “just add as much data to CD layout as possible and .. ignore warning messages if any”).
• Dropbox: is a cool feature whereby you can drap and drop files to a floating “drop box” (see screenshot on the right). I am a sucker for cool features like this one.
• Bootable CDs/DVDs/ISOs: supported.
• Automated backups : not implemented in 4.0.013 but promised in a future release.
• Other features: simple cover printing, integrated audio player, visual representation of disk space, file filtering by extension, etc.

CDBurnerXP 4 is an excellent alternatives which you not need purchase out 100USD for Nero or some other professional suite, however, this software is available to Windows Compatible only.

Download CDBurnerXP4 – Free CD/DVD burner Software

More CDBurnerXP 4 Official Pages

CDBurnerXP 4 – Free CD/DVD Burner Software is a post from: TechieQuest

Summary features of Xdn Tweaker

• Removing Windows Media player entries from the right-click context menu. (Yesss!)
• Adding a context menu entry when selecting a folder to open a command prompt within that folder.
• Ability to switch on/off the option to view zip & cab files as folders in explorer.
• Increasing the number of folder views Windows will remember to up to 50,000. (Normally, Windows will remember your custom or default folder views for up to 400 folders in XP; after that, it may give you folder views which you do not want).
• The ability to remove any file extension association. Don’t want your .MOV files to automatically be associated with ITunes? You can use Xdn Tweaker to do it.
• Classic search: do you prefer Windows old classic search (the one with the cute puppy) to the new Vista-like search? Xdn can restore it as default.
• IE7 search box: Xdn can remove it for you (say, for example, you use the Google toolbar search and don’t care to have 2 search boxes showing).
• Remove “shortcut to” from being used by default in newly created shortcuts.

Xdn Tweaker system Requirements:

- Windows XP, 2003, or Vista
- .NET Framework 2.0 if you are using Windows XP or Windows 2003.

You can download the .NET 2.0 Framework HERE

Download XdN Tweaker

Via Xenomorph

XDN Tweaker – Lightweight Tweak XP and Vista application is a post from: TechieQuest

Changes of Windows Vista Tweak VI build 1070 :

• ‘Premium’ and ‘Ultimate’ versions only: added a feature to the ‘File Tools’ plugin to remove file type associations to the ‘File Tools’ plugin
• ‘Premium’ and ‘Ultimate’ versions only: added a feature to the ‘File Tools’ plugin to create additional context menu commands for the file/folder right click menu
• ‘Premium’ and ‘Ultimate’ versions only: Added an option to the ‘Autostarts’ plugin to de-activate registry autostarts
• All versions: Added an option to the ‘Outlook tweaks’ plugin to allow setting a default path for .pst and .ost files
• Several minor changes and fixes to the main application
• Some very minor changes to the ‘Windows Utilities’ plugin
• Some improvements to the ‘File Tools’ unnecessary file search feature
• Quite a lot of internal improvements to most premium and ultimate plugins
• Changes to the uninstaller to allow saving snapshot files and other TweakVI configuration files on uninstallation
• Updated language files
• Updated help file
• Updated snapshot feature: Outlook 2007 settings were not saved under certain conditions
• Some fixes to the new subscription manager
• Fixing a few issues in the ‘Desktop tweaks’ plugin
• Some minor setup issues fixed + some improvements

You can check out the complete release history to find out what has been changed so far on Windows Vista Tweak VI.

Download Tweak VI V1 Build 1070

Vista Tweak VI Build 1070 – Tune , Optimize and Speed up Windows Vista is a post from: TechieQuest

Windows Vista Compatibility, Reliability and performance Packs

With beta version of Vista SP1 already under way, the two windows vista updates released to testing seem to offer a preview of the service pack. Still, although Vista SP1 could very well include these resolves, the fact of the matter is that Microsoft can also simply make them available through Windows update.

IMPORTANT: One thing that a Neowin user pointed out was that the 64-bit version will require that you disable driver signing each time your computer starts, which can be done by pressing F8 during the boot process. This includes everyone that’s using Rivatuner, atitool and/or Peerguardian on Vista 64-bit.

Here are two lists with the improvements included in the updates:

938979 Vista Performance and Reliability Pack
This update resolves a number of individual issues which may be affecting some computers running Windows Vista. These issues have been reported by customers using the Error Reporting service, product support, or other means. Installing this update will improve the performance and responsiveness for some scenarios and improves reliability of Windows Vista in a variety of scenarios. Some examples of the improvements contained in this update are:

• Improves performance in resuming back to the desktop from the Photo and Windows Energy screensaver.
• Resolves an issue where some secured web pages using advanced security technologies may not get displayed in Internet Explorer on Windows Vista.
• Resolves an issue where a shared printer may not get installed if the printer is connected to a Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 system and User Access Control is disabled on the Vista client.
• Resolves an issue where creating AVI files on Vista may get corrupted.
• Improves the performance in calculating the ‘estimated time remaining’ when copying/moving large files.
• Improves performance in bringing up Login Screen after resuming from Hibernate.
• Resolves an issue where synchronization of offline files to a server can get corrupted.
• Resolves a compatibility issue with RAW images created by Canon EOS 1D/1DS Digital SLR Camera which can lead to data loss. This only affects RAW images created by these two specific camera models.
• Resolves an issue where a computer can lose its default Gateway address when resuming from sleep mode.
• Improves the performance when copying or moving entire directories containing large amounts of data or files.
• Improves the performance of Vista’s Memory Manager in specific customer scenarios and prevents some issues which may lead to memory corruption.

938194 Vista Compatibility and Reliability Pack
This update resolves a number of individual issues which may be affecting some computers running Windows Vista. These issues have been reported by customers using the Error Reporting service, product support, or other means. Installing this update will improve the reliability and hardware compatibility of Windows Vista in a variety of scenarios. Some examples of the improvements contained in this update are:

• Improved reliability and compatibility of Vista when used with newer graphics cards in several specific scenarios and configurations.
• Improved reliability when working with external displays on a laptop.
• Increased compatibility with many video drivers.
• Improved visual appearance of games with high intensity graphics.
• Improved quality of playback for HD-DVD and Blue-Ray disks on large monitors.
• Improved reliability for Internet Explorer when some third party toolbars are installed on Vista.
• Improved Vista reliability in networking configuration scenarios.
• Improved the reliability of Windows Calendar in Vista.
• Improved reliability of systems that were upgraded from XP to Vista.
• Increased compatibility with many printer drivers.
• Increased reliability and performance of Vista when entering sleep and resuming from sleep.

Download Windows Vista Compatability and Reliability Pack (32Bit and 64bit ):

938194 Vista Compatibility and Reliability Pack x86 version (link 1)
938194 Vista Compatibility and Reliability Pack x86 version (link 2)
938194 Vista Compatibility and Reliability Pack for x64 version (link 1)
938194 Vista Compatibility and Reliability Pack for x64 version (link 2)

938979 Vista Performance and Reliability Pack (link 1)
938979 Vista Performance and Reliability Pack (link 2)

Vista Compatibility and Reliability Pack 32 Bit (KB938194)

Vista Compatibility and Reliability Pack 64 Bit (KB938194)

Via NeoWin

Vista Compatibility, Reliability and Performance Pack ( Vista SP1 Beta download ) is a post from: TechieQuest