Download UXtheme.dll Patch For Windows XP SP3
by Haris on May 20, 2008
in Design, Microsoft, Softwares, Tips and Tricks, Windows XP
In spite of all the problems that have come with Windows XP SP3, people are still using it. If you are also one of them, then you must have noticed that your 3rd party Windows XP themes have not be working after installing service pack 3. That’s because the uxtheme.dll has been changed.
To fix this, you will need the UXtheme Patcher in order to run any 3rd party themes on Windows XP. Download it from here [direct link] and run the EXE file. Press the Patch button, and wait for a few seconds for it to patch. Now restart your computer for the changes to take effect.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer Egged By A Student
Now here’s something that all my readers would love to watch. While Ballmer spoke at the Hungarian University of Economy yesterday, a student started throwing eggs at the Microsoft CEO. This act was meant to protest the millions of dollars Hungary’s government spends to license Microsoft software at universities. He also asked the Microsoft CEO to give the money back to the taxpayers.
Fix For Restart Bug In Windows XP SP3
by Haris on May 18, 2008
in Computers, Microsoft, Softwares, Tips and Tricks, Windows XP
If you’re an AMD processor users, you must have been greeted by the Blue Screen of Death, after installing Windows XP SP3 on rebooting their computer. The error begins with something like this: STOP: 0×0000007E (0xC0000005 and contains the error text SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED. And after this, the computers reboots again and keeps repeating this.
Windows XP SP3 apparently copies an Intel power management driver to the computer that was not there before the installation of SP3 and that is said to be the cause for the restart bug. But thanks to HP, a fix has been given for this bug.
Download Free Templates For Office 2007
Microsoft Small Business is giving out six free designer templates for Office 2007 for Windows, and Office 2008 for Mac. The best is that they are absolutely free and comes in 9 colour schemes. The six templates contain a spreadsheet, presentation, invoice, letterhead, business card and newsletter blast templates.
Microsoft Office 2008 SP1 For Mac Download
What do we have here? A service pack release so soon, and that too by Microsoft! Today, Microsoft released Office 2008 SP1 for Macs. This is one of the fastest turnarounds for a Service Pack. Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac released in January, and here we have the first Service Pack right after four months. That’s impressive. Office 2007 for Windows didn’t got any Service Pack for nearly an year after it’s first release.
What’s more impressive are the timings of the VBA (Visual Basic support!) announcements. A week ago Open Office 3.0 Beta was rolled out, which included some early stages of VBA support. Microsoft released this Service Pack just in case, it feared that people would starting looking for Open Source instead of Offfice, because of VBA. May be that’s not the case. Just a thought.
Microsoft WorldWide Telescope Launched
The long-awaited, highly anticipated WorldWide Telescope by the software giant, Microsoft, is finally here! They launched the public beta today. This application of Microsoft is quite similar to Google Earth and Virtual Earth. It’s an application that lets you explore the heavens right from your desktop!
The images you see are actually astronomical photos that are stitched together. Back at the data centers, Microsoft has more than a terabyte of high-resolution images for everyone to explore. Browsing the night sky with a telescope client, right from our desktop is really fun. Whether you want to freely roam around the sky, or watch a guided tours of various celestial features (narrated by astronomers and teachers), it’s all in there. If you are star-gazing fan, and have a telescope at home, or work place, you can even connect that with your computer and control it with this application. Or how about joining communities of stargazers? :D
You don’t even have to worry about any disk space, because this application does not store any images on the hard disk for offline exploring. It simply connects, and only downloads the currently browsed images to the hard disk. So you don’t have to worry about getting a new disk for storing a terabyte of images.
WorldWide Telescope is an extremely feature packed and complex application with tons of cool features. I’ve just downloaded it now, I’ll take a full tour around the application on the weekend.
In the official press release from Microsoft, they quote Bill Gates saying:
“The WorldWide Telescope is a powerful tool for science and education that makes it possible for everyone to explore the universe.
By combining terabytes of incredible imagery and data with easy-to-use software for viewing and moving through all that information, the WorldWide Telescope opens the door to new ways to see and experience the wonders of space. Our hope is that it will inspire young people to explore astronomy and science, and help researchers in their quest to better understand the universe.â€Â
Download
You can download Microsoft WorldWide Telescope from here. Remember, it is a Windows only application.
I don’t think there can be any better opportunity for adults and kids, to see what’s out there. I guess, I’ll have to plan my next vacation to WorldWide Telescope to fully explore the skies! ;) After a long time, Microsoft has really made me happy.
Do share your views and thoughts with me on this.
Microsoft Office 2007 SP1 Releasing On June 16
The leading software giant, Microsoft, released Service Pack 1 for Microsoft Office 2007 about 5 months ago in December. At that time, the company officials said that they’d give customers a minimum 30-day advance notice before pushing out the service pack via its Automatic Update. SP1 has already been downloaded millions of times through Microsoft Download center.
Download Windows XP Service Pack 3
A week after announcing that there won’t be any Windows XP SP3 available for download through Windows Update and Microsoft Download Center, Microsoft has finally released the long-awaited service pack.
The distribution of SP3 was halted just before the official release date because of some compatibility glitches that Microsoft found. But now, as Microsoft says, SP3 is all ready for everyone to download. This service pack fixes about 1,174 bugs and includes some security updates. The full list of changes and fixes can be found here.
Microsoft Delays Service Pack Downloads
Microsoft has discontinued downloading of Vista SP1 via Automatic Update and delayed the release of XP SP3 through Automatic Update to as well. Want the reason? Well, today they uncovered a compatibility issue between Microsoft Dynamics Retail Management System (RMS) and both Windows XP SP3 and Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1). The same compatibility issue was found in XP SP3 before the general distribution, but it wasn’t in Vista SP1. Microsoft released Vista SP1 to manufacturing on February 4.
Due to the newly encountered incompatibility issues with the Service Packs, Microsoft is forced to halt the release. Their release was planned before the end of August, but this is not the case anymore and Microsoft fails to announce the exact date.
