How to hide user account in Windows 7

Here I’m showing steps to hide a user account in Windows 7. The user account can be hidden from welcome screen but can be used while sharing etc. Steps Create a new account from User Accounts Make the following changes in registry Goto HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\Userlist Create a new “KEY”  if “SpecialAccounts” is not listed, under special [...]

[ More ] January 9th, 2012 | Your thoughts are welcome | Posted in Misc, Softwares |

Installation of Windows 8 Developer preview on VHD

It is better to try out window 8 on a VHD as the performance hit will be only on the HDD, rest everything will be on the actual hardware. Windows 8 Download link To install windows8 we can either burn a DVD or create a flash drive and install from it, here I’m using a [...]

[ More ] December 1st, 2011 | Your thoughts are welcome | Posted in Softwares |

Protect Freemind files with password.

Freemind is a Mind mapping tool which is free of cost. Most of my project and  plannings are managed by this tool. Try it if you have not started using mind mapping tools. It is easy to go through a presentations or meetings. Currently my file has lot of  personal details which are not sharable. [...]

[ More ] August 10th, 2011 | 1 Comment | Posted in Softwares |

Performance testing tool for HDD / DVD / SSD / Flash disks

HD Speed is a free tool to check the performance of your hard drive, CD /DVD drives, Solid State Disks, Flash disks, Memory cards Etc. It is a standalone application. It will display a real time graph along with the average / current data transfer speed. This will help you to compare the performance of [...]

[ More ] August 9th, 2011 | Your thoughts are welcome | Posted in Softwares |

html signature in outlook 2007

Older version of outlook has a feature to attach html file as a signature.  Outlook 2007 removed the feature to attach HTML file in signatures. The default editor supports Rich text formatting, and insert images.  Still alignments of images are not possible Here I have explained how to integrate an HTML signature to outlook 2007. [...]

[ More ] August 8th, 2011 | 3 Comments | Posted in Softwares |

Introduction to unattended Installations

Unattended installation is an installation technology in which the setup automatically installs with minimum/no interaction with user. This technology is mainly used for installing Operating Systems(OS) in servers and PCs and large-scale roll-outs. The logic of unattended application is that the answers(keystrokes,mouse-clicks and other user inputs) are stored in a file. Then, during the setup [...]

[ More ] July 25th, 2011 | Your thoughts are welcome | Posted in Softwares |

nMozhi – Regional GTalk client for Indian languages

nMozhi – a GTalk chat client that allows you to chat in Indian regional language. Ever thought about chatting in regional languages. Then nMozhi is for you. Yes! It’s time to stop those manglish (Malayalam + English), hinglish (Hindi + English) way of chatting. And start chatting in your regional languages.   Regional languages that [...]

[ More ] July 1st, 2011 | Your thoughts are welcome | Posted in Softwares |

Techinline – Remote Desktop Sharing Software

Do you want to give remote computer support to your clients and customers? Do you want to connect to another computer located at any place in the world and transfer files, documents and also chat with the customer using a single application. Then go for TechInline remote support software . Techinline give you instant, secure, [...]

[ More ] June 28th, 2011 | 2 Comments | Posted in Softwares |

Create a simple web based file server

HFS is an open source application to create a simple file server. It is a lightweight file server with file size of 600 Kbyte. This is a standalone application. So you can setup your web based file server in minutes. Good for small offices / instant file sharing. This server can be used as anonymous [...]

[ More ] April 7th, 2011 | 1 Comment | Posted in Servers, Softwares |

Implement a free skype IVR system – Xtend IVR

Xtend IVR ( Interactive Voice Response System ) is an application which helps you to implement an automatic IVRS easily and effectively. It supports SIP, Dialogic, Telephony API, Skype etc … Its one of the major software product from  Xtend technologies , a company based in Kerala, S.India. Here we configure Xtend IVR with a [...]

[ More ] March 23rd, 2011 | 3 Comments | Posted in Softwares |