Six Ways To Backup Windows Registry
Sometime back, Abdullah wrote about how to backup your registry. I was also in the process of writing the same article but Abdullah was faster than me :-). So I abandoned my article. But today I was searching in my drafts and I found out the article again. Actually there are several methods to backup Windows registry. Some of them, I’m discussing in this article which is a combination of my previous article plus some additional useful ways to backup your registry.
Method 1: Using System Restore
When we create a system restore point in Windows XP, it backs up the following items:
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Old Computer Advertisements
Asma sent me a mail today about how the old computer advertisements used to be. It was interesting for me. I thought I should publish for all of our readers :-). Here are some of the old computer ads. Compare them with the modern ones and you’ll see the difference 
(Click on any image to enlarge)
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5 Ways To Change Password Of Users In Windows XP
Chiranjib asked about how to change the passwords of users in Windows XP. I just researched and found out five ways to change the password of users in Windows XP. I’m explaining every way one by one. If you know any other interesting way, please let me know through comments.
Using Ctrl Alt Delete
This is the easiest one in my opinion. If your press Ctrl Alt Del when you are logged onto your Windows XP machine, it will show you the classic security options.
Download Portable Opera 9.5 And Portable Firefox 3
Previously Abdullah wrote about Opera 9.5 download and Firefox 3 download. I just love portable software as I can take all my software in my flash drive and keep working anywhere. I was searching for a portable version of the new opera 9.5 and Firefox 3 so that I may be able to keep one copy of the browsers with me as I travel because I don’t like using the default browsers in public places. Today I’ve found the portable versions of Opera 9.5 and Firefox 3.
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Smart Virus Remover 1.4
Depending on the function of the program, I have changed the name of Smart Anti-Virus to Smart Virus Remover. Since it was not a complete Anti-Virus product.
In the new 1.4 version some modification are :
The display of infected files. Now you can select which file to delete or which to not. Finally some bugs are removed.
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Free Alternative to Microsoft Paint
Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. An active and growing online community provides friendly help, tutorials, and plugins.
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Check Disk (chkdsk) Runs Every Time Windows Starts
Sometimes it happens that disk check always starts to check the file system on one or more drives for consistency. If any key is pressed, the disk checking is aborted. Actually this is because some data structure of the drive or some file is corrupted which can not be recovered and check disk is always run at Windows startup. Or sometimes it may take several hours for disk checking to scan all the drives. So disabling it or postponing disk check is better. There are several methods to disable disk checking at Windows startup. Two of them are given below:
New Opera 9.5 Features
One of the largest updates to Opera in quite a while. The whole look and feel was revamped a bit and it’ll be a little bit of a shock to old users. I haven’t had time to test and check out some of the new features, but I think 9.50 is mostly an attempt to visually differentiate Opera from Firefox and IE.
For those that haven’t tried it, in my experience, Opera offers superior speeds and memory management over both IE and Firefox. It’s initial memory footprint is larger than both Firefox and IE, but increasing the number of tabs while browsing is almost negligible. Whereas if you start to open more tabs in IE and Firefox, it is as if you are opening more instances of the program, Opera handles this nicely and the memory footprint hovers around the 50mb mark that it started with.
The New Firefox 3 Everywhere
BrendanW, commented on our Firefox 3 Download article. He has got a very good analysis capability. I liked his analysis so I’m putting his analysis as an article rather than a comment. This is what he says:
Even as an avid and vocal Opera user, I have to admit that it seems Mozilla did a very nice job with the new version. While the verdict isn’t out on many of the performance benchmarks, it is doing significantly better than FF2 did. As an example, FF3 is currently besting Opera 9.5 on the memory usage benchmarks with regards to single/small amounts of tabbed browsing. Opera has been the king of having a small memory footprint for quite some time, but it looks like Firefox has made huge leaps in that department.
FireFox 3.0 Download
Mozilla Inc. has released Firefox 3 with some exciting new features. Firefox is best alternative to Microsoft Internet Explorer having more security, tabbed browsing, customization (5000+ Addons), privacy, productivity, better searching techniques,faster browsing,
Top New Features in 3.0 version are:
One-Click Bookmarking
Instant Website ID
Improved Perfomance
Full Zoom
Password Manager
Smart Location Bar
Platform Native Look & Feel
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