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New Windows 7 Activation Crack – “Chew-WGA”

Friday, November 6, 2009

Few days back I had told you about RemoveWAT, a Windows 7 Activation crack utility by a hacker named Hazar. Now, there is an alternate Windows 7 crack tool called “Chew-WGA“. Chew-WGA is a Windows 7 crack which is designed to test the security resistance of various software protections built into Windows 6.1.x operating systems. It [...]

[How to] Improve Windows Vista and Windows 7 Boot Speed

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

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[How to] Improve Windows Vista and Windows 7 Boot Speed

Continuing the series of posts on Windows 7 tips, here is a small tutorial on speeding up the booting of Windows 7 and Windows Vista. This is very important and helpful especially since both Windows Vista and 7 are accused to be pathetic when it comes to booting time. Windows 7 and Windows Vista have an [...]

Free Windows 7 for Beta Testers!

Friday, July 31, 2009

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Microsoft has announced that Windows 7 Technical Beta Program members will get a free copy of Windows 7 Ultimate! Till now, Microsoft was adamant with its decision of not offering the free copy to its beta testers, but has done a volte-face today, with Brandon LeBlanc announcing that “Last week, I blogged that members of [...]

Browser and OS Stats for April 2009

Thursday, May 7, 2009

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Many Tech blogs have started the trend of displaying the visitor stats and some times even the earnings stats at the end of the month. Technically Personal has made a tremendous progress over the last 3 months with over 200,000 unique visits to the blog and 500,000+ page views in the month of April. Well, that [...]

Great OS X Style dock for Windows – RocketDock

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

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Great OS X Style dock for Windows – RocketDock

RocketDock is a smoothly animated, alpha blended application launcher. It provides a nice clean interface to drop shortcuts on for easy access and organization. With each item completely customizable, there is no end to what you can add and launch from the dock. Now with added Taskbar support your minimized windows can appear as icons on [...]

Know What Each Svchost.exe Instance is Doing with ScvHost Viewer

Thursday, February 5, 2009

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Know What Each Svchost.exe Instance is Doing with ScvHost Viewer

Long back I had shown How to Fix svchost.exe Memory Hogging Issue. It is still one of the most viewed posts on Technically Personal! Now, this is a supplementary article to that post which helps you analyze and understand SvcHost.exe process in a much better way. I suggest you to read the parent article (link [...]

[How to] Fix Downadup Worm

Thursday, January 22, 2009

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Update: Tools to detect & remove Downadup worm Last week when I asked the question “Is Downadup, one of the deadliest worms ever?” some people in one of the forums I was discussing, made fun of my question and blamed me for giving hype to the news. Well now, ComputerWorld has reported that 1 in every [...]

List of Antivirus Software not Compatible with Windows 7

Thursday, January 15, 2009

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List of Antivirus Software not Compatible with Windows 7

Update: Oct 20th 2009 – Check out Windows 7 Compatible Antivirus Software Matthew Arkin has listed some of the Antivirus software which are not compatible with Windows 7. Antivirus software NOT compatible with Windows 7 Beta Windows Live One Care (ironical!!) McAfee Virus Scan Trend Micro Internet Security 2009 Got a heads up that these antispyware softwares are having problems- Super-Antispyware Antivirus Software [...]