Diwali Theme For Windows 7 ( Diwali Gift )

Diwali is one of the biggest festival celebrated all over India on this occasion I would love to share my Diwali greetings to all of you by sharing a windows 7 theme made by myself. All the wallpapers are by santabanta.com.


To use this theme pack just unzip the file to location \Windows\Resources\Themes and click on it. Don’t forget to share this Diwali greetings with your friends and family. once again wish you all a happy Diwali.

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Service Pack 1 RC Now Available for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2

Microsoft has official released the first release candidate build of Windows 7 Service Pack 1 to the general public. In order to install the service pack, you must have a final RTM version of Windows 7. Moreover, if you have already installed a previous build( Windows 7 SP1 Beta ) of the service pack, you will have to uninstall that first. Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Release Candidate has also been made available for download.

Windows 7 SP1 doesn’t include any major new features. It’s mostly a collection of previously released hotfixes and updates. However, the server edition introduces two new features – RemoteFx and Dynamic memory. The final build is expected to be released in Q1, 2011.

[ Download Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 Release Candidate ]

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Installing Windows 7 from a Pendrive (USB)

Objective: This tutorial will help you to make a bootable windows 7 pen drive.

Things needed: 

• Windows 7 ISO image (Any version) + PowerISO software Installed. 

OR

• Windows 7 DVD
• A Pen drive preferably having space of 3GB.

Steps:
     1.  Install PowerISO and mount the windows 7 Image or if you have a windows 7 DVD insert it.
    
     2.  Plugin your pendrive.
    
     3.  Go to Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Administrative Tools\Computer Managment\Storage you  can see your Disk layout. Check the Disk number for your pendrive.

Usually if you have one HD the the disk number is 1 else its 2.

    4.  Once you know your disk number open cmd prompt with Administrative privilage.

    5.  Execute the following steps one by one

1. diskpart
2. select disk 2
3. clean
4. create partition primary
5. select partition 1
6. active
7. format fs=fat32
8. assign
9. exit

Once you are done copy the files from your virtual Windows 7 drive or Windows 7 DVD using the following command.

 xcopy d:\*.* /s/e/f e:\ where d is your windows 7 drive and e is your pen drive

Thats all. Now you can boot through your pen drive. If its not booting check your bios for option to boot from pen drive. Cheers!

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