Wanna remove dislike object or person from your digital photos? Inpaint is a simple-to-use, interesting photo editing application which is designed to help users remove any undesirable object (including logos, watermarks, power lines, people and text) from their still images. The program is capable of intelligently reconstructing the selected image area from the pixels near the boundary area – just as what you in the photo without unwanted objects.Features of Inpaint:
* Repair old photos
* Remove unwanted objects or person
* Remove date stamps
* Remove watermarks
* Digital Facial retouching
Inpaint normally priced at $39.99 per single personal license. As part of PCPraxis / Software-butler promotion, the interested users are now entitled to download the full version of Inpaint 2.4 for free of charge.To grab the free copy of Inpaint v2.4, visit the
registration page to get your free personal license serial key of Inpaint 2.4 by submitting your details. The page is in German, but use the screenshot above as the brief guide on the translated meaning.
After submitting the form, check the inbox of the registered e-mail address for an e-mail from Software-Butler (info@dadagoo.com) with the subject of “Newsletter: Bestätigung”. Click on the confirmation link in the email. Once clicked, a web page will open with the registration key, which can be entered into Inpaint via About -> Register.
Download the setup installer of Inpaint for Windows version 2.4: InpaintSetup_2_4.exe .
Inpaint v2.4 is compatible with Windows 2000 and higher platform.
Watch the video guide for Inpaint app:
Microsoft’s latest mobile operating system,
Windows Phone 7 , features simple yet beautiful icons. Windows Phone 7 icons are completely different from Android and iOS icons. If you like Windows Phone 7 icons, you may want to download all those icons to customize your XP, Vista, or
Windows 7 OS.
The folks over at WindowsWiki have released an icon pack that contains over 130 icons of Windows Phone 7 in PNG format. Even though you can manually replace most of the OS icons, use the recently reviewed AdSevenIconChanger utility to quickly replace the default Windows 7 icons with these icons.
Download the Metro icon pack from the below mentioned link. Please create a system restore point before replacing the default Windows 7 icons to quickly revert to the default ones.
Download Windows Phone 7 Icons
The other day I stumbled across an interesting program called
AeroWeather . This little application looks at the temperature and current weather conditions of your city and then plays around with the Windows Aero theme colors to reflect it.
Basically it changes the color of your desktop based on the weather outside. For example if it’s cloudy, your UI will go grey, if it’s sunny, it will be blue and it’ll go white if it’s snowing.
There’s even a night mode were it will dim all the colors when the sun sets and then brightens them up once again when the sun rises.
The application sits silently in your system tray and will work away on its on. Once it’s up and running, all you have to do is take a quick glance at your desktops UI and you’ll have a fairly good idea of the current weather conditions outside, handy if you’re stuck working indoors in an office all day.
The one draw back with this program is it only works if you’re based in the US as you have to enter a zip code for your location so it can gather the information.
You’ll find that you can customise lots of things like the maximum temperature color and the minimum temperature color as well as the color range.
It’s memory footprint is a mere 8mb so you shouldn’t find it slowing down your computer anyway.
You can download it and try it out for free here
Microsoft Office 2010 version 14 is the newest and latest version of interrelated Office productivity software applications, suites, servers and services for Windows operating system. Office 2010 was finalized (RTM) on April 16, 2000, and was officially released to business customers on May 12, 2010, and retail consumers on June 15, 2010. It has the build version number of 14.0.4763.1000.
The setup installers of Office 2010 had first been released to privileged MSDN, TechNet and volume licensing customers, and almost simultaneously, the Office 2010 volume ISO , which allows installation of any Office 2010 individual apps or suites, have since leaked for free download. With general availability, Microsoft has also made available official direct download links for Office 2010 from Microsoft’s hosted servers.
Note that most of the Office 2010 direct download links are hosted on Digital River, an authorized distributor of Microsoft products. The downloads from the server is as good as downloads from Microsoft’s own server, untouched, unmodified, unchanged, genuine, safe and legal. However, as it’s not in ISO image format, thus the MD5, SHA1 and CRC file hash checksums are different between the executable and ISO image.
Microsoft also publishes the trial version of Office 2010 suite products at http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/try/ , which allows free usage for 60 days. A free product key will be given, and user is required to activate the trial version of Office 2010 within the first 30 days after the installation to utilize the full functionality of the Office 2010. The 60 days trial period will begin only after Office 2010 is activated.
Office 2010 Setup Installer Direct Download Links
Microsoft Office 2010 (Retail Channel) Single Image
English 32-bit (x86): X16-32007.exe
English 64-bit (x64):X16-31970.exe
Brazilian Portuguese 32-bit (x86): X16-31999.exe
Note: Contains Office Home and Student 2010 , Office Home and Business 2010 and Office Professional 2010 . The suite edition that corresponding to the product key type will be activated after installed.
Microsoft Office Standard 2010
English 32-bit (x86): X16-32324.exe
English 64-bit (x64): X16-32361.exe
Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010 (Retail Edition)
English 32-bit (x86): X16-32250.exe (alternative download link at c2r.microsoft.com
English 64-bit (x64): X16-32213.exe (alternative download links at c2r.microsoft.com )
Arabic 32-bit (x86): X16-32241.exe
Arabic 64-bit (x64): X16-32204.exe
Brazilian Portuguese 32-bit (x86): X16-32242.exe
Brazilian Portuguese 64-bit (x64): X16-32205.exe
Simplified Chinese 32-bit (x86):X16-32244.exe
Simplified Chinese 64-bit (x64): X16-32207.exe
Traditional Chinese 32-bit (x86): X16-32245.exe
Traditional Chinese 64-bit (x64): X16-32208.exe
Danish 32-bit (x86): X16-32248.exe
Danish 64-bit (x64): X16-32211.exe
Dutch 32-bit (x86): X16-32249.exe
Dutch 64-bit (x64): X16-32212.exe
Finnish 32-bit (x86): X16-32252.exe
Finnish 64-bit (x64): X16-32215.exe
French 32-bit (x86): X16-32253.exe
French 64-bit (x64): X16-32216.exe
German 32-bit (x86): X16-32254.exe
German 64-bit (x64): X16-32217.exe
Hebrew 32-bit (x86): X16-32256.exe
Hebrew 64-bit (x64): X16-32219.exe
Hindi 32-bit (x86): X16-32257.exe
Hindi 64-bit (x64): X16-32220.exe
Italian 32-bit (x86): X16-32259.exe
Italian 64-bit (x64): X16-32222.exe
Japanese 32-bit (x86): X16-32260.exe
Japanese 64-bit (x64): X16-32223.exe
Korean 32-bit (x86): X16-32262.exe
Korean 64-bit (x64): X16-32225.exe
Norwegian 32-bit (x86): X16-32265.exe
Norwegian 64-bit (x64): X16-32228.exe
Polish 32-bit (x86): X16-32266.exe
Polish 64-bit (x64): X16-32229.exe
Portugal Portuguese 32-bit (x86): X16-32267.exe
Portugal Portuguese 64-bit (x64): X16-32230.exe
Russian 32-bit (x86): X16-32269.exe
64-bit (x64): x16-32232.exe
Spanish 32-bit (x86): X16-32273.exe
Spanish 64-bit (x64): X16-32236.exe
Swedish 32-bit (x86): X16-32274.exe
Swedish 64-bit (x64): X16-32237.exe
Thai 32-bit (x86): X16-32275.exe
Thai 64-bit (x64): X16-32238.exe
Note that for Office 2010 installed with a setup installer of retail channel, a valid product key is required to start the installation. Depending on the license encoded in the product key, the Office 2010 can be activated into trial version or full version product. For people who looking for volume licensing (VOL) edition of Office 2010 programs, there are ways to convert and change Office 2010 retail installation to volume (VL) installation.
Everybody can also uses the free Office Web Apps with web-based Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote, with ability to integrate with Facebook via Docs.com .
Looking for more downloads? Here’s more Office 2010-related downloads available.
If you’re interested to install Office 2010 in non-English language but cannot find the setup installer, or want to convert the user interface into another language, Office 2010 Language Packs will do the job.
Don’t have Office 2010, but wants to view Office 2010′s Word documents, Excel spreadsheets or worksheets, or PowerPoint presentations or slides? Here’s the Office 2010 viewers for free download.
Important things to know about Office 2010.
Microsoft has also published a lot of resources and guides for IT professionals, developers and end-users. Here’s the Office 2010-related resources, papers, publications, trainings, e-books and guides.
A installed copy of Office 2010 can be translated and converted into another language with a Office 2010 language pack. Office 2010 language packs are add-in products that enable multiple language and show localized Menus/Display, Help, dictionary, and include localized language document proofing tools such as thesaurus, spelling checkers, grammar and style checkers, hypenators, AutoCorrect lists, AutoSummarize capabilities, translation dictionaries, and Input Method Editors (IME) for East Asian languages for most Office 2010 apps, including Word 2010, Excel 2010, PowerPoint 2010, Access 2010, Outlook 2010, OneNote 2010, InfoPath 2010, Publisher 2010, Project 2010, SharePoint Workspace 2010, Visio 2010, and the Microsoft Office suites containing these products.
In addition, display languages for Microsoft Office Tools, such as Clip Organizer, Document Imaging, Document Scanning, and Picture Manager, are localized when Language Packs are enabled. However, Word Starter 2010 and Excel Starter 2010 in Office Starter 2010 does not support language packs, while Access 2010 and Project 2010 are not supported in Hindi. Office 2010 Language Packs can be turned on for individual feature too. User can choose to use individual aspects of the pack, such as spell checker to proof a document in a language other than the default language set on their
computer .
Office 2010 Language Packs has suggested retail price of $24.95. Only the Office Language Interface Packs (LIPs) , which provides a translated User Interface and spell checker (but not translated Help) for Excel, OneNote, Outlook, PowerPoint and Word of Microsoft Office 2003, 2007 or 2010 in a different language, and ScreenTip language translation , which will change the names of ScreenTips that pop up when mouse hovers over components such as buttons, menus and dialogs into another language are available for free. However, by downloading the Office 2010 language packs by using the official direct download links below, everybody can skip paying extra to Microsoft, and get Office 2010 Language Packs for free. The language packs can be installed without any product key or serial number, nor it requires activation, as long as the Office 2010 product is properly activated.
Office 2010 Language Packs Direct Download Links (version 14.0.4730.1010)
Arabic 32-bit (x86): X16-37685.exe
Arabic 64-bit (x64): X16-37621.exe
Bulgarian 32-bit (x86): X16-37688.exe
Bulgarian 64-bit (x64): X16-37625.exe
Chinese (Simplified) 32-bit (x86): X16-37690.exe
Chinese (Simplified) 64-bit (x64): X16-37627.exe
Chinese (Traditional) 32-bit (x86): X16-37692.exe
Chinese (Traditional) 64-bit (x64): X16-37628.exe
Croatian 32-bit (x86): X16-37694.exe
Croatian 64-bit (x64): X16-37630.exe
Czech 32-bit (x86): X16-37695.exe
Czech 64-bit (x64): X16-37632.exe
Danish 32-bit (x86): X16-37697.exe
Danish 64-bit (x64): X16-37633.exe
Dutch 32-bit (x86): X16-37699.exe
Dutch 64-bit (x64): X16-37635.exe
English 32-bit (x86): X16-37701.exe
English 64-bit (x64): X16-37637.exe
Estonian 32-bit (x86): X16-37703.exe
Estonian 64-bit (x64): X16-37638.exe
Finnish 32-bit (x86): X16-37705.exe
Finnish 64-bit (x64): X16-37640.exe
French 32-bit (x86): X16-37707.exe
French 64-bit (x64): X16-37642.exe
German 32-bit (x86): X16-37709.exe
German 64-bit (x64): X16-37644.exe
Greek 32-bit (x86): X16-37710.exe
Greek 64-bit (x64): X16-37646.exe
Hebrew 32-bit (x86): X16-37712.exe
Hebrew 64-bit (x64): X16-37647.exe
Hindi 32-bit (x86): X16-37713.exe
Hindi 64-bit (x64): X16-37649.exe
Hungarian 32-bit (x86): X16-37715.exe
Hungarian 64-bit (x64): X16-37651.exe
Italian 32-bit (x86): X16-37717.exe
Italian 64-bit (x64): X16-37653.exe
Japanese 32-bit (x86): X16-37718.exe
Japanese 64-bit (x64): X16-37654.exe
Kazakh 32-bit (x86): X16-37720.exe
Kazakh 64-bit (x64): X16-37656.exe
Korean 32-bit (x86): X16-37722.exe
Korean 64-bit (x64): X16-37657.exe
Latvian 32-bit (x86): X16-37724.exe
Latvian 64-bit (x64): X16-37659.exe
Lithuanian 32-bit (x86): X16-37725.exe
Lithuanian 64-bit (x64): X16-37661.exe
Norwegian 32-bit (x86): X16-37727.exe
Norwegian 64-bit (x64): X16-37662.exe
Polish 32-bit (x86): X16-37728.exe
Polish 64-bit (x64): X16-37664.exe
Portuguese (Brazil) 32-bit (x86): X16-37687.exe
Portuguese (Brazil) 64-bit (x64): X16-37623.exe
Portuguese (Portugal) 32-bit (x86): X16-37730.exe
Portuguese (Portugal) 64-bit (x64): X16-37665.exe
Romanian 32-bit (x86): X16-37731.exe
Romanian 64-bit (x64): X16-37667.exe
Russian 32-bit (x86): X16-37733.exe
Russian 64-bit (x64): X16-37669.exe
Serbian 32-bit (x86): X16-37735.exe
Serbian 64-bit (x64): X16-37670.exe
Slovenian 32-bit (x86): X16-37738.exe
Slovenian 64-bit (x64): X16-37673.exe
Slovak 32-bit (x86): X16-37736.exe
Slovak 64-bit (x64): X16-37672.exe
Spanish 32-bit (x86): X16-37740.exe
Spanish 64-bit (x64): X16-37675.exe
Swedish 32-bit (x86): X16-37741.exe
Swedish 64-bit (x64): X16-37677.exe
Thai 32-bit (x86): X16-37743.exe
Thai 64-bit (x64): X16-37679.exe
Turkish 32-bit (x86): X16-37745.exe
Turkish 64-bit (x64): X16-37681.exe
Ukrainian 32-bit (x86): X16-37746.exe
Ukrainian 64-bit (x64): X16-37683.exe
Now that the
Language Interface Packs are available for Office 2010 , many of you might want to install one or more LIPs. Downloading and installing a Language Interface Pack is pretty simple. Once installed, you can use OneNote, Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel and World features in different language.
For starters, here is how to install LIPs in Office 2010:
1 . Visit the official LIPs page to download your LIP. Make sure that you choose the right version from the available x86 and x64 versions. If you are not sure about your Office 2010 version, please follow our how to know your Office 2010 version guide .
2 . Run the LIP installer, click Yes for the UAC prompt, accept the license agreement and finally hit Install button to begin installing the LIP.
3 . Once installed, click OK button.
How to enable the installed LIP in Office 2010:
1 . Open Office Word, Excel or OneNote.
2 . Navigate to File , Options and then switch to the Language tab.
3 . Here, select the installed LIP in the Editing Language list and click Save as default button to enable the LIP as the default editing language. To set the installed LIP as the default display language, select the same in the Display Language list and then click Save as Default button.
4 . Select Yes for the prompt to enable the new LIP.
5 . You are done!
The new version of Microsoft Office for Mac OS X platform has been finally released to manufacturing (RTM), which means the development for Office for Mac 2011 has been completed and the final code has been signed off, and been sent to production.
Office:Mac 2011 packs a lot of new or enhanced functionality and redesigned user interface, with features such as everywhere access, full co-authoring support and ability to connect to cloud-based Microsoft services such as the Office Web Apps, SharePoint and SkyDrive for team collaboration. Office 2011 for Mac also introduces Outlook for Mac, uses Ribbon interface, adds new tools to easily craft professional documents, such as new template gallery, Sparklines, in-document photo editing and more.
The final RTM release of the Office 2011 for Mac suite of programs has the build version number of 14.0.0.100825.3, and the build was assembled and RTMed on Friday, September 10, 2010.
And as expected and similar to most other new Microsoft products, the Office for Mac 2011 has been leaked way before its official launch to retail customers and businesses, normally right after Microsoft delivers the products to volume licensing customers in the name of SW_DVD5_Office_Mac_Standard_2011_English_MLF_X16-99088. The online retailer Amazon had previously accidentally publish the availability date of Office for Mac 2011 before it’s taken down, which is listed as October 26, 2010. Microsoft had announced that Office for Mac 2011 will shipped by end of October.
Those who interested in Office for Mac 2011 can wait no more, as the download links to the setup installer of Office for Mac 2011 have been leaked and available for free download.
Office for Mac 2011 Standard (VL – Volume Licensing)
File Name: office_Bus_enu_14.0.0_100825.3_ship_VL_build.dmg
Build: 14.0.0.BUILD.100825.3
Size: 955,088,986 byte
SHA1: 3834853A973B27781683CAB275E499C5353F7B69
MD5: 6B97DC2BD1D020BBAF41F1C244F6A044
CRC: 7AE845CB
BT Torrent (Magnet Link): MICROSOFT.OFFICE.FOR.MAC.2011.RTM.BUSINESS.VOLUME.ENGLISH-WZT
Office for Mac 2011 Standard (Retail)
File Name: office_std_enu_14.0.0_100825.3_ship_retail_build.dmg
Build: 14.0.0.BUILD.100825.3
Size: 932,901,946 byte
SHA1: 3A127A75473BAC07593E56239360B288539F788E
MD5: 2A7EC3816614094E3FF73CC801104B63
CRC: 9EC75633
BT Torrent (Magnet Link): MICROSOFT.OFFICE.FOR.MAC.2011.RTM.STANDARD.RETAIL.ENGLISH-WZT
Communicator for Office for Mac 2011 Standard
File Name: Communicator_std_enu_13.0.0_100825.3_ship_vl_build.dmg
Build: 13.0 .0.100825.3
SHA1: B3B0C1D5239E94BD8CEB5980E85DAEE9CC41E0A5
MD5: 6E74B7D42CCB500116A6A4325B7C9B48
CRC: C7240532
Download: Communicator_std_enu_13.0.0_100825.3_ship_vl_build.dmg
BT Torrent (Magnet Link): COMMUNICATOR FOR OFFICE.FOR.MAC.2011.RTM.STANDARD.ENGLISH
The package of Office for Mac 2011 Standard contains all popular Office apps for Mac OS X system, including Mac versions of Word 2011, Excel 2011, PowerPoint 2011, Outlook 2011 which replaces Entourage, Messenger for Mac 8, Remote Desktop Connection for Mac, Document Connection for Mac, and Communicator for Mac.
Similar to Office 2010 for Windows, no product key is required to install volume licensing edition of Office for Mac 2011, and a product key is required to install retail version Office 2011 for Mac. Use the following product keys to install Office for Mac 2011 retail edition products.
Word for Mac 2011: CRVGP-F9DFF-YCR4X-D9GMM-9GQYB
Excel for Mac 2011: MVGQR-X389M-DV7FQ-TVGVP-X7KBW
PowerPoint for Mac 2011: MMGC8-469V6-WMYXY-FCT9C-9GVYC
Outlook for Mac 2011: TRTWQ-4VGHQ-C72R6-GTVFR-W4TC6
The product keys unlikely will work for activation though.
Office:Mac 2011 is available as 32-bit (x86) software only, and is available in 13 launguages: Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Spanish and Swedish.
Microsoft has a free upgrade to Office for Mac 2011 program which entitles customers who purchase Office 2008 for Mac between August 1, 2010 and November 30, 2010 to receive free upgrade license of the new product. Check out the prices and editions available for Office 2011 for Mac .
Microsoft has prepared several video clips which showcase features of Office for Mac 2011 at OfficeForMac.com .
The most popular consumer video editing software, Adobe Premiere Elements, has been upgraded to version 9. Adobe Premiere Elements is a scaled-down version of the professional-level Adobe Premiere Pro, and competes with other video editors such as CyberLink PowerDirector, AVS Video Editor, Pinnacle Studio, Sony Vegas Movie Studio, Sony Vegas, Corel VideoStudio, Final Cut Express and iMovie.
Adobe Premiere Elements 9 includes the following new features and enhancements:
Imrpoved state-of-the-art effects options to enhance movies with eye-catching visual effects and professional-quality audio.
Give movie an eye-catching cartoon look. Choose and customize from a variety of animation styles.
Easily share movie — complete with a scene index and chapter menus — on Photoshop.com or own website with a convenient, interactive web DVD viewing experience.
Conveniently share videos and photos on Facebook directly from the Organizer, which automatically optimizes media so it looks its best.
Relevant how-tos that appear just when users need them.
Easily reduce background noise and fix problems with audio volume and clarity for high-quality sound from start to finish.
Easily bring in video from compact camcorders like Flip cameras as well as from DSLR still cameras.
Improved performance when editing video, including HD video.
Supports Windows or Mac OS X.
Adobe Premiere Elements 9 can handle unlimited video and audio tracks, with multiple keyframed effects applied to each clip. Premiere Elements 9 features real-time video rendering for user to instantly preview edits made to timeline, and can create bars and tone and a countdown leader, as well as has Picture-in-picture and chromakey capabilities. It also supports many third-party plug-ins for additional features, including Premiere Pro plug-ins, After Effects plug-ins, and VST effects.
Adobe Premiere Elements 9 is now available for both Windows and Mac OS X platform at $99.00 (aff) for single full version license. An upgrade license is priced at $74.00 (aff). There is also Adobe Photoshop Elements 9 and Adobe Premiere Elements 9 bundle deal, which is priced at $149.00 (aff) per full version license or $112.00 (aff) per upgrade license.
Adobe is offering free download of Adobe Premiere Elements 9 trial evaluation version for try-out. The trial version of Adobe Premiere Elements 9.0 is fully functional and offers full features of the product, no unlock required but expires in 30 days, though the trial installation can easily be converted to a purchased version with a purchase an activation product serial number or key code without the need to reinstall the software.
Tto download Adobe Premiere Elements 9 trial from Adobe, users are required to create or sign into Adobe account. There is a trick to bypass the requirement to create Adobe account though, by using the trick to download with the following direct download link to setup installers of Adobe Premiere Elements 9.
Adobe Premiere Elements 9 Direct Download Links
Important: For the direct download links of Adobe Premiere Elements 9 to work, downloader has to visit and click on “Try” link of at least one Adobe product in order to set the proper download cookies which permit direct download. For example, just click here , which is the link to download Windows version of Adobe Premiere Elements 9. Then, click on direct download link above, with no login necessary. If the step above still does not allow direct download, register and/or login to Adobe account . Otherwise, an “Access Denied” error message will be displayed indicating you don’t have permission to access the file.
Language supported: English, French, German, and Japanese
Windows 1: http://trials2.adobe.com/AdobeProducts/PRE/9/win32/PremiereElements_9_LS15.exe
Windows 2: http://trials2.adobe.com/AdobeProducts/PRE/9/win32/PremiereElements_9_LS15.7z
Mac: http://trials2.adobe.com/AdobeProducts/PSE/9/osx10/PhotoshopElements_9_LS15.dmg
Mac OS X: http://trials2.adobe.com/AdobeProducts/PRE/9/osx10/PremiereElements_9_LS15.dmg
Note: The Windows version of setup installer contains 2 parts, which ends with .exe and .7z file extension. Both files must be completely downloaded and placed inside the same folder for the self-extracting setup to work.
The Task bar in Windows 7 is dead handy, it’s great for accessing folders, files and programs quickly. However, it’s not so easy to quickly access a hard drive from it. I’m afraid it’s not as easy as simply dragging the drive to your task bar like it is with other programs. You need to do a little bit of work on it.
1. First off, make a new text document on your desktop ( right click on your desktop and choose New – > Text Document )
2. Then you want to rename it to what ever you want, for this example we’ll use Drive C and change the file extension to .exe instead of .txt
3. Now Drag that Drive C.exe file to your task bar and it should pin itself there.
4. Right Click on it and then right click on the drives name that pops up and go to Properties
5. Click on change icon, you will probably get an error, don’t worry about this, just click ok, you can then choose an icon from the Change Icon Window or browse for your own icon if you prefer. Then hit OK
6. You should now be back at the properties window, you need to change the Target line from “C:\Users\Your user name\Desktop\Drive C.exe to your desired drive name, in this case it will simply be C:\
7. Finally hit OK to save your settings and you should be able to access your hard drive from your desktop, you can delete that .exe file you created on your desktop if you wish.
The development of Windows Live Essentials Wave 4 (2011) has finally came to a close, with the final RTM version of Windows Live Essentials suite of software products been released to general public for free download. Windows Live Essentials 2011 needs no more introduction, as most people should know that it’s a suite product that includes Messenger, Photo Gallery, Movie Maker, Mail, Writer, Family Safety, and Windows Live Mesh, plus Bing Bar, Messenger Companion, Microsoft Silverlight, and Outlook Connector Pack (which includes
Outlook Hotmail Connector and Microsoft Outlook Social Connector Provider for Windows Live Messenger).
Windows Live Essentials 2011 is available for 32-bit (x86) and 64-bit (x64)
Windows 7 ,
Windows Vista SP2 with the Platform Update for Windows Vista,
Windows Server 2008 SP2 with Platform Update for Windows Server 2008 and
Windows Server 2008 R2 , which system has all the latest updates installed, and is releasing in 48 languages. According to
Inside Windows Live blog , Windows XP users will unfortunately have to stick with current
Windows Live Essentials Wave 3 with Messenger 2009 with no upgrade path available.
Windows Live Essentials 2011
system requirements also requires a processor of 1.6 GHz or higher, memory of 1 GB of RAM or higher, and minimum resolution of 1024 × 576. In addition, Windows Live Movie Maker requires a video card that supports DirectX 9 or higher and Shader Model 2 or higher.
Features and Highlights of Windows Live Essentials 2011, as released by
Microsoft Press :
Windows Live Messenger provides HD video chat so you can share photos and videos and see your friends’ reactions in real time.
Take the best parts of several photos to make one great picture with the Photo Fuse feature in the new Windows Live Photo Gallery.
Create movies with just a few clicks using the new Windows Live Movie Maker to combine photos, video clips and music.
Share your photos and movies directly to Facebook, Flickr, YouTube or SkyDrive from the new Photo Gallery and Movie Maker.
Send virtually all the photos you want without having to worry about attachment limits or clogged inboxes. Hotmail works with SkyDrive, the free online storage space from Windows Live, so you can send up to 200 photos, each up to 50 MB in size (10 GB total), in a single message.
Facial recognition automatically finds and tags people in your photos. When you share your photos online, such as publishing to Facebook, Photo Gallery will keep them in sync.
The new Windows Live Hotmail integrates content and functionality from partner websites into the e-mails you receive, saving you from having to hop back and forth between messages and websites.
Windows Live Mesh keeps folders you choose, such as documents, pictures, music and more, in sync across your computers and on Windows Live Skydrive. Users can store up to 5 GB by syncing their files to the cloud.
Windows Live Essentials is now available for free download from live.com
The download from the official Windows Live is a web installer in the name of wlsetup-web.exe, which is small in size and requires Internet connection during setup installation. For users who prefer to download full version standalone installer, which can be used to install Windows Live programs offline, use the following direct download links (indicated with “full”) instead.
Download Windows Live Essentials 2011 – English (web)
Download Windows Live Essentials 2011 – English (full)
Download Windows Live Essentials 2011 – Czech (web)
Download Windows Live Essentials 2011 – Czech (full)
Download Windows Live Essentials 2011 – Danish (web)
Download Windows Live Essentials 2011 – Danish (full)
Download Windows Live Essentials 2011 – German (web)
Download Windows Live Essentials 2011 – German (full)
Download Windows Live Essentials 2011 – Estonian (web)
Download Windows Live Essentials 2011 – Estonian (full)
Download Windows Live Essentials 2011 – Spanish (web)
Download Windows Live Essentials 2011 – Spanish (full)
Download Windows Live Essentials 2011 – French (web)
Download Windows Live Essentials 2011 – French (full)
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As you may know, the registered owner and organization name can been seen by launching About Windows. About Windows can be opened by typing
winver in Start menu search area and hitting enter.
Now, if you want to change the registered owner and organization name to something else from the current one, you can do with a small registry tweak. Of course, you can also do this using free programs such as Set Owner . If you are looking for a manual way to do the same, follow the below mentioned steps.
1 . Type regedit in Start menu search box and hit enter to launch Registry Editor. Click Yes if you are prompted with a UAC prompt.
2 . In the Registry Editor, navigate to the following key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion
3 . In the right-pane, double-click on RegisteredOwner and RegisteredOrganization entries to change them.
4 . Now, open the About Windows dialog-box to see the new registered owner and organization name.
Sometimes the system admin, or parent may not want a particular program from running on a computer (ie.torrents and other downloading programs) for obvious security reasons. This little guide will show you how to prevent a program from running, and will still apply even if the program is uninstalled and reinstalled.
1. First off go to your registry editor by pressing Winkey+R and typing in regedit
2. Then you want to navigate to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
3. Next right click on the right handside pane and choose New->DWORD (32bit) Value and name it DisallowRun.
4. Once it’s created, double click on it and change its value to 1 and then hit Ok.
5. Now right click on Explorer and choose New->Key . Name the key DisallowRun aswell.
6. Then right click on the right handside pane and choose New->String Value
You can now enter any name you like, ie. Block Bittorrent and then double click on it and in the value data field you want to insert the exe extension.
(You can find the .exe extension by right clicking on the program and going to properties in all programs)
7. Finally restart your computer and next time you try to launch the disabled application you will get an error message like this.
To disable more than one program, you need to repeat steps 5,6 and 7 for each .exe you want to disable.
To re enable the program, simply delete the registry entry that you made in steps 5,6,7 and restart
While one can
install Windows 7 from an external hard drive or USB , one can’t install the same to an external hard drive. For all those users waiting for a workaround to install Vista,
Windows 7 and
Windows Server 2008 R2 to an external hard drive, here is a complete solution.
Even though Windows recognizes and displays the USB hard drive in the installation screen, it doesn’t allow you install Windows on the same. So, if you want to install Windows 7 on an external hard drive you need to follow the steps given below.
The procedure is simple but you need to install Windows Automated Installation Kit first to get some files. We would like to thank fujianabc @ boot-land forum for this workaround.
Requirements:
# An external hard drive formatted with NTFS
# Windows 7 installation files (if you have Windows 7 ISO use Virtual Clone Drive freeware to mount it)
# Windows Automated Installation Kit (free download from Microsoft )
NOTE: Make sure that you have a minimum of 15 GB free space on your external hard drive before starting the procedure. Although we are not going to delete the contents of external hard drive, we recommend backing up your external hard drive contents before trying this guide.
Procedure:
1 . Create two folders named Windows Files and WAIK Files on your desktop or any other drive which has a minimum of 5 GB free space.
2 . Download the ZIP file from here and extract the contents to WAIK Files folder. Before starting the actual installation procedure, you need to have three files: Bcdboot.exe, Bootsect.exe and Imgex.exe. These files can only be obtained by installing Windows Automated Installation Kit for Windows 7 on your Windows PC . After installing WAIK, simply search for these files in the Windows installation drive to get them. Once you have these three files, copy them to WAIK Files folder that you have created in the above step.
3 . Copy all the contents of Windows 7 installation DVD to the Windows Files folder.
4 . The next step is to run Installer.cmd file as Administrator (Right-click on installer.cmd and select run as administrator). In the first screen, you will be asked to press Enter to continue.
5 . Press Enter key to browse to the install.wim file present in the Windows Files folder. The Install.wim file can be found under Sources folder (Windows Files/ Sources/ install.wim).
6 . Now, you need to select the Windows 7 edition that you want to install on external hard drive. You can select the edition by entering the index number shown in the screen. For example, type "5" (without quote) and hit Enter key to select Ultimate edition.
7 . The next step is to enter your External drive’s drive letter. Enter the drive letter (ex: L) and press Enter key.
8 . Now, type in the drive letter of your ACTIVE partition and hit Enter key. Generally "C" is the active partition. You can find the active partition by opening Windows Disk Management tool (type diskmgmt.msc in Start menu search area and hit enter to launch it).
9 . Finally, the installer will ask you the drive letter that you have entered to install Windows 7 is a USB hard drive or not. As you are installing Windows 7 to an external hard drive simply type "Y " without quote and press Enter key.
Finally click Enter key again to start extracting the Install.wim files. This might take a few minutes. Once done, you will be asked to reboot your PC to continue the normal Windows 7 installation procedure.
10 . Reboot your PC and follow the usual Windows 7 installation procedure to complete Windows 7 installation on external hard drive. Your PC will be restarted twice or thrice during installation.
Please note that the installation procedure might be slower as you are installing Windows 7 to an external hard drive.
11 . Once done with the installation, you are good to go. You can install all drivers and other software to start using the best Windows version on your PC.
Note: We have tested this method to install x86 flavor of Windows 7 to Seagate USB external hard drive . But should work fine with x64 as well. Users who would like to carry Windows 7 on a USB flash drive can follow our how to carry Windows 7 on USB flash drive guide.