March, 2010 | TECHRENA dot Net

Install and Run Windows XP in Windows 7 Using VMware Player

March 16, 2010March 7, 2010 by dennis

Windows XP has been the most famous and most useful operating system to its users till date. Well even if we are have to migrate to Windows 7, we will never forget the ability of Windows XP. There are a lot of programs which were supported by Windows XP but not in the later versions like Windows Vista and Windows 7. Now when we migrate to Windows 7, we will not be able to run such programs.

In order to solve the problem of incompatibility of software and drivers in Windows 7, we have been given the option of installing Virtual Windows XP using Microsoft Virtual PC. But the lone problem in this option is that the processor should support Virtual Machine.

Windowx XP and Windows 7

Here we have given a technique with which you will be able to run Windows XP in Windows 7 without any Virtual XP software or Virtualization Supporting Processor. Moreover you can use your own CD or ISO backup of Windows XP to create the Virtual Machine and no need of downloading the XP Virtual PC from Microsoft.

Requirements:

Windows 7 installed Machine

Minimum 1 GB RAM.

Minimum 4 GB Free Hard Disk Space

Windows XP backup either CD or ISO file

OR

If you have downloaded Microsoft Virtual XP Mode, then refer the instruction at Step 6.

Step 1: Download and Install VMware Player 3.0.1. The download Links are given below.

Size: 90.0 MB

Download VMware Player 3.0.1 from VMware

Download VMware Player 3.0.1 from FileHippo.com

Follow the normal instructions and install. Restart your computer after installation.

Step 2: Now we have to create a new Virtual Machine. Open VMware and click Create a New Virtual Machine as shown below.

Step 3: Select the location from which you are going to create the new Virtual Machine. If you have a CD then select the drive. If you have a back up file in an iso, then you can select the file.

Step 4: Enter the Windows XP key and the user name and password.

Step 5: Then you can set the location to be installed, maximum Disk space size and the RAM size. Follow the instructions normally. Finish the setup. It will continue to install Windows XP in your Virtual Machine.

Optional Note: While installing the Virtual Machine it may ask you to download VMware Tools for Windows 200 or later. It is recommended that you download it or you can download it later also.

After that, the installation process will continue by itself and Windows XP will start.

After successful installation Windows XP will start and you can see the System properties as shown below. 512 MB of RAM is set when installation(you can change the size in VM settings).

Now, you have successfully installed Windows XP virtual PC using VMware player. In order to quit Windows XP you can simply shutdown and quit VMware player.

To start the Windows again in virtual mode, open VMware Player and Select Windows XP in the left pane and Click Play virtual machine.

Let us discuss some of the issues which should be known by the users.

How to Transfer Data to and from Windows XP virtual Mode?

As you are running two different machines drag and drop will not work if you have not installed VMware tools. Even if you can copy directly, it takes more time. You can either use a flash drive or Disc drive to transfer data between Windows 7 and XP virtual mode. But this is not the optimal way. You need to map network drive in Windows 7 which has been shared from Virtual XP.

To enable file and folder sharing in Windows XP virtual Mode, you need to edit the settings. Click on Virtual Machine Settings as shown above to edit the settings.

Select Options and select Shared Folders. Set Always enabled and click OK.

Now you need to share a folder with write permission as shown:

In Windows XP, right click on the folder or drive you want to share and select Share and Security. Do not forget to check Allow network users to change my files.

Now after sharing the folder in Virtual XP, you need to map the folder in Windows 7 as shown below:

Right Click on My Computer and Select Map network drive. Under Network search for the folder you have shared in Virtual XP Machine and click OK.

You can copy or paste anything from or to the network location drive in Windows 7. This is how you can transfer files between Windows 7 and Windows XP virtual mode.

Removable Devices:

Now if you want to use a removable device like a flash drive, you can connect the device using the following setting:

You need to disconnect the device from the host in order to connect to the Virtual machine.

Step 6. Running Microsoft’s Windows XP Virtual PC:

All the above installation is not done using the Microsoft’s Virtual Windows XP PC. Above we used normal Windows XP installation CD. If you have downloaded Virtual XP PC from Download Windows XP Mode then, install it on your PC and then you can open the Virtual Machine from the VMware Player as follows.

Browse for the .vmx file in the folder you have installed the Virtual XP PC and Click Open. You can run it.

Finally, as you have successfully installed Windows XP Virtual PC in Windows 7 using VMware Player 3.0.1 you can enjoy the unbeatable features of Windows XP in Windows 7 also.

Note: No new Partition is created in your hard disk for the Virtual PC. Just a virtual disk file is created in your drive which will increase in size according to what you copy and install in your Virtual PC. The maximum size of this file is the size you have set as maximum disk size.

PS: If any problem occurs or if you are not able to follow the steps and instructions, please leave a comment below.

R.I.P Internet Explorer 6 !

March 6, 2010 by bharath

Funny :

A Denver based design group is conducting funeral for Internet Explorer 6, the 8 year old browser.

The design group is even conducting mass funeral for IE 6.IE 6 sustained major injuries from its rival browsers and is not in a position to compete with them, according to the design group.IE 6 was born on August 27, 2001 and died on March 1, 2010 🙁

[It’s also noteworthy that YouTube is going to stop IE 6 support from March 13, 2010].

Event organisers has started a new website http://ie6funeral.com/ and a brand new Twitter account http://twitter.com/ie6funeral to promote this mass funeral event.

ie6_funeral_illustration_new

The most interesting part of this funeral is the flowers sent by Microsoft ( pic )

So on this historic occasion, let us recall the sweet memories of our grand ma IE6, comment your moments with IE6.

R.I.P IE6

Indian Mobile Company Launches ‘AAA’ Battery Based Mobile Phone Handset

March 5, 2010 by bharath

An Indian mobile handset manufacturing company ‘Olive Telecommunications’ has come up with an innovative idea of including most commonly used ‘AAA’ size batteries in the mobile handsets.

Gurgaon based Olive telecommunications has said while launching the model FrvrOn (= forever on) that this product is will come handy for those residing in rural areas that are having erratic power supply. The specially mobile handset as you can see in the picture, will have a provision for inserting an ‘AAA’ battery besides conventional Lithium-ion battery on the rare side.This is a dual powered phone.

"With our phone, all one needs to do is pack a few extra cells (batteries) if one is travelling in areas where one expects power supply disruptions."

AAA battery powered mobile handset

Mobile Handset Details:

Brand name: Olive Telecommunications

Handset model: FrvrOn

Battery backup : 3 hours (Li-ion) + 1 Hour (AAA battery emergency back up)

Price: Rs. 1699 INR ($ 35)

This is interesting.We need to see how other mobile phone manufactures will take out of this.Using ‘AAA’ batteries may not provide the longer talk time but definitely will reduce the hazards of conventional Li-ion batteries bursting.

Via Yahoo News(AFP)

Airtel Announces Unlimited National SMS Packs Across India

March 5, 2010 by bharath

Airtel which has enjoyed the monopoly over the Indian mobile services is now facing the stiffest competition from the other mobile operators who have slashed down rates and are coming up with innovative offers, thanks to the likes of Tata Docomo and others like Aircel.Even Reliance is pulling large number of mobile users through their “Simply Reliance” plans that offers cheaper national /roaming calls and SMS.

unlimited_national_sms_airtel

Airtel seems to be working out on minimizing the users migration, and it is evident now as they have come up with the Unlimited National & Local SMS pack across India.

The only difference is that unlike Reliance, which is offering the uniform rates across all the states, Airtel is offering this service for different tariff rates for different states.

Airtel is promoting this offer big time through Television Ads with “3 Idiots” fame Sharman Joshi.

Check out this Airtel Unlimited SMS Pack page to find out the exact tariff for your circle (for prepaid subscribers).

Postpaid subscribers can enjoy this Unlimited National/Local SMS pack at a monthly rental of Rs. 99.SMS “UNLIMITED” to 121 to activate this SMS pack.

Note:

This is not actually fully unlimited offer, Fair usage policy applies to this, meaning that there may be limit on the number of SMSs that you send on any given day (ex: 500 SMS per day !)
The free SMS offer doesn’t work on the Customary/ Festival days (Blackout days), Airtel will charge Rs, 1 per local SMS, Rs 1.50 per national SMS on these days.

How to Find Your Location In Windows 7 Using Geosense

March 5, 2010March 5, 2010 by dennis

Geosense is a Windows Sensor that uses the Location and Sensors platform in Windows 7 accurately using IP lookup, WiFi and Cell tower triangulation positioning without the assistance of GPS hardware, enabling more practical location-based applications and scenarios on Windows 7.

Today most of the laptops are not equipped with GPS, so the Windows 7’s new Sensors and Location platform is practically not much useful to the users. But with the help of Geosense, we can use this location sensor platform.

Geosense if free to download and it is available for both 32 and 64 bit editions of Windows 7. Please note that Geosense will work only with Windows 7 editions having Location and Sensor platform. For example this functionality is not available for Windows 7 starter. All other higher editions have this feature.

Follow the instructions below to install and use Geosense For Windows.

Step 1: Download Geosense For Windows from the link below. Select your compatible edition while download.

Click Here to Download Geosense for Windows

Step 2: Install Geosense for Windows. Accept the agreement, and accept to install the device.

Step 3: After successfully installing the sensor, Click on Start button and type geo in the search box. Click on Enable Location and other sensors.

Step 4: Select the enabled Check Box and Apply.

Step 5: Now on the desktop right click, and open Gadgets. Double click on Weather. You can see your location in the Weather gadget as shown.

Once you have added the gadget, you can see the Location in the desktop Weather gadget as shown below. My location shown here in Delhi, India.

But the location sensor displaying only the location in the gadget is not quite impressing. As there in not much of Location aware Windows 7 applications, Geosense has made a Google Maps Client Demo to make use of the sensor in a proper way. Hope that in near future we will be able to use this Windows 7 Location sensing feature in a proper way.

BSNL 3G Launched In Hyderabad (& AP) : Tariff Plans

March 4, 2010 by bharath

BSNL 3G in Andhra Pradesh

BSNL has officially launched all new third generation (3G) mobile services in Hyderabad on March 3, 2010.

3G offers more bandwidth, hence better call quality, video calling facility and much faster data transfer speeds (data download speed up to 3.6 Mbps)

As you can see from the following tariff plans, the subscribers can make cheaper calls on the net (STD-on-net @ 50 paise/ min, local-on-net @ 30 paise/ min).Data usage charges are 1 paise/10 KB

These are the tariffs for the newly introduced 3G services in Hyderabad (and soon to be launched in 29 towns in Andhra Pradesh).

New users have to buy USIM(Universal Subscriber Identity Module) available at a price of Rs. 59.

Existing BSNL subscribers can send “M3G 120” to 53733 for free migration to general 120 plan (Prepaid), existing BSNL postpaid customers can send an SMS “M3G25” to 53733 for free migration.

Prepaid Tariff

Postpaid Tariff

Looking at the tariffs, we can easily conclude that this isn’t quite useful for internet browsing, as there is no plan which offers unlimited data usage.

BSNL is offering a promotional offer of free talk time (50 mins both local and STD) and free data transfer( 25 MB).

Toll Free number for enquiries on 3G services is 1800 180 1503

for BSNL prepaid broadband plans in AP (launched sometime back), read BSNL Prepaid Broadband Plans

SearchWiki Goes, Stars Debut In Google Personalized Search

March 4, 2010 by bharath

Google Kills SearchWiki, Adds Stars For Customized Search:

Google has rolled out new “Starred results” in Google search results, killing its previous “SearchWiki”.

This feature will be available to all the users in the coming few days, according to a blog post on Official Google blog.

Google has been offering personalized search via SearchWiki, which the search engine giant thought should be replaced by much simpler “Starring the results”

How This Works?

Google Bookmarks actually allow you to bookmark the sites right from the search results.Just go to search for anything you want in Google,

Find the small white star logo on the extreme right after the every search result listing, click on any result that you liked or what to bookmark to save it.

adding star bookmark in Google results

Now that you have saved the result page in your Google bookmarks using star, next time when you search for the same query, you would see the results like this:

Google starred results overview

Add YouTube Official Buttons For Your Website

March 4, 2010 by bharath

youtube-logo

YouTube has released brand new set of banners that you may keep in your website to promote your channel in YouTube.

You can either use them to link to your main YouTube channel (ex:http://www.youtube.com/user/google)

link to your YouTube subscription page (ex: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=google)

The following are the some of the YouTube buttons available on this YouTube page for download.

The image buttons are available in all possible sizes (small, medium & big) for your site.

YouTube Banners:

Add these buttons to your website to make yourself popular on YouTube.

You may also grab Twitter, Facebook, MySpace Ribbons For Your Website

Download: Skype App For Nokia Symbian Phones [via Ovi Store]

March 4, 2010March 4, 2010 by bharath

nokia logo

Nokia which has just announced Nokia 5230 Nuron for T-Mobile USA, has another important announcement to follow.Nokia in partnership with Skype, has announced Skype mobile application for Nokia’s Symbian phones via Ovi Store.

Skype in these Nokia Symbian phones works both on Wi-Fi , as well as through mobile data connection like 3G (also works on GPRS/EDGE, but 3G is recommended for Skype as it offers more bandwidth for better clarity).

If you are using any of the below supported Nokia models, you can point your browser to skype.com/m to download the application or alternatively you can use the links given below to get it downloaded to your PC.

Download

You can download Skype Nokia Symbian Application from either Ovi App store or from Skype website.

Ovi Store

Skype website

List of Nokia supported phone models:

Nokia 5530, Nokia 5320, Nokia 5800, Nokia 6210, Nokia 6220, Nokia E51, Nokia E63, Nokia E66, Nokia E71, Nokia E72, Nokia E90, Nokia N78, Nokia N79, Nokia N81, Nokia N81 8GB, Nokia N82, Nokia N85, Nokia N95, Nokia N95 8GB, Nokia N96, Nokia N97, Nokia N97 mini, Nokia X6

Brand Name	LG GD510 aka LG COOKIE PEP
Physical Details	Weight: 3.2 oz. Dimensions: 4×1.9×0.6 in.
Display	3″ WQVGA full touchscreen 256k colors 240 x 400 pixels(resolution)
Memory	42MB internal memory Expandable up to 8GB (using memory card)
Talk time	4.1 Hours 300 Hours standby time
Camera	3.15 Megapixels Max res: 2048×1536 pixels
Audio Playback formats	eAAC, MP3, WAV
Video Playback formats	H263, H264, MP4
Network	EDGE, GSM, UMTS (3G)
Connectivity	Bluetooth v2.0 with A2DP MicroUSB
Colors	Silver

How to Transfer Data to and from Windows XP virtual Mode?

Removable Devices:

Step 6. Running Microsoft’s Windows XP Virtual PC:

LG GD510 Cookie Pep Specifications: