Find All The Installed Windows Updates

While surfing the web, I found a very interesting utility that can list all the Windows updates installed on your system. I’m always interested in such small applications as they could come in handy anytime!

Moving on back to the application, WinUpdatesList can run from any location on your drive. It neatly displays all the Windows updates (hotfixes, service packs, individual updates) in a table and shows information about the name of the update, its description, and the date that update has been installed. You can also find out that which user installed the updates.

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Firefox 4 – Already? Yes!

Hi, this is Pumxee from MixedDance.com. I’ll be guest blogging here for Haris till his exams don’t finish.

Firefox 3 hasn’t even released yet, and the first alpha release of Firefox 4 is out!

Internet Explorer 8 looks promising this time, but Firefox is surely taking the lead, with Firefox 4 supporting Javascript 2 already into the pipeline, the future seems to be with Firefox!

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Tutorial:Customize the “Open” dialog box

This is a guest post by Siddharth

Hello friends,
Do you ever want to customize the “Open Dialog Box” of Windows XP ? Do you want to change its look and feel ? Do you find the navigation shortcuts useless. So here is a tutorial which will help you to customize the “Open Dialog Box” :cool:

In this tutorial I will basically tell how to customize the “Open Dialog Box’s” side icons through registry.You will also be provided basic information on how to change its other things also. :wink:
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Services You Can Safetly Disable in XP

A Windows service starts when Windows is booted and runs in the background as long as you are working on your PC.There are many services that run when you start your PC. With my experience with Windows and it’s tools, I have found out some of the services that can be disabled and your PC would still run fine.

First of all, you have to know the place from where you can view, enable/disable the services. Go to Start > Run and type msconfig. Now click on the Services tab. That’s it. You could now see a number of services.

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Best Replacements for Windows Media Player

Now you all know that Windows Media Player is one the worst players available. So here I have some replacements for it. I would recommend all WMP users to switch to something better. And that also when all the other good applications are free to use.

Now, let’s start the list :)

VLC Player

Also known as Video Lan Player is a must-have for every computer-geek just like having Harry Potter’s seventh book for a Harry Potter fan. It plays every thing you can imagine. As far as I remember, I have never had any compatibility problems with this player. You can say “It plays almost anything you throw at him“. I would recommend you to download this and try it out. It supports file formats such as MPEG, MOV, AVI, ASF, WMx, OGG, WAV, 3GP (this is just the start) and more. And one more thing, it’s skinnable just like other good applications. Download the best skins from here. The default is just like giving you a heart-attack, so get the skins now!

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3 Ways To Make Shutdown Timers for Windows

Do you know that you can make your PC shutdown at a time u wish to? I always needed something which can switch off my PC, when I have to go out and I have some important downloads running. But these sweet tricks I have found works like a charm :) .

Remember, always make sure you that make a backup before trying any of such tricks.

Now, moving on back to the topic…

Method 1

Right-click anywhere on your desktop and make a new shortcut by navigating to New > Shortcut. Now in the location text box, type “shutdown -s -t 3600” (without the quotes).

NOTE: 3600 is the number of seconds after which the computer shuts down.

• For PC to shut down after 30 minutes, use 1800
• For PC to shut down after 1 hour, use 3600
• For PC to shut down after 1 hour 30 minutes, use 5400
• For PC to shut down after 2 hour, use 7200

I’m sure, you can count the rest :P .

So moving on to the next step, type a name for the shortcut and you are done! You can choose a nice icon for the shortcut you just made later on.

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2 Ways to Backup Your Firefox

Recently, my Windows got infected by a powerful virus and all my C:\ data was wiped out :( . Even my Firefox bookmarks, settings, saved password etc. were deleted. The reason for all that loss was that I didn’t had any backup. I’m just too lazy to do that. ;) But now, I have learned a lesson that backups are very important.

So here I have come up with two ways by which you can backup your Firefox.

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