Windows Seven Tips & Tricks: how to Reduce Taskbar Size

Annoyed with too big taskbar of Windows Seven? You just cannot resize it dragging with the mouse. There is an easy way to reduce its size.

Right click on an empty space of the taskbar. Click properties. On taskbar properties tick the check box "Use small icons" as shown in the image below:

Click ok. You'll see the size of taskbar has been automatically resized.

Migration to Windows Seven, KIS and DST

Migrating to Windows 7 is pretty easy. You can either replace previous Windows with Windows Seven or Multi-boot Windows Seven with previous Operating Systems. If your primary partition isn’t big enough [less than 12GB] then install new OS in other partition. Another solution is expanding the primary partition. You can try good partition manager software like symantec partition magic, acronis disk director suite etc. Be careful about keeping backup of your data and partition table. Anyway, I’ll describe it in detail in another day.

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If you want to replace the previous Operating System then make backup of your important data from C: drive (if it is Windows). For example, if you were using Yahoo Messenger then you can copy your archive from the following directory: C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Messenger\Profiles\Your User Name\Archive\
Put your correct yahoo username in the location. Same way you can copy your unfinished downloads of Internet Download Manager to resume them back.
Backup other files and folder if you have kept them in C: drive.

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Install Windows Seven in the drive you decided to install. If you want to replace the previous Windows it will be C drive.

After installation check out if you are using a final release or beta version.
Open registry editor (in run dialog box type regedit).
Now navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion
Check out the follow string values for final release:
CurrentBuildNumber : 7600 [Build number]
CurrentVersion : 6.1 [Windows Version]
BuildLabEx : 7600.16385.x86fre.win7_rtm.090713-1255

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Or type this in command prompt:

c:\> reg query "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion" /v BuildLabEx

If it matches then you got the right hit!

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Who knows! May be next software you are going to install may be an infection of parasitic viruses after installing which will instantly create millions of replicas and boom!!
Cool down. There is way. The first thing you should do is installing an antivirus software.

If you were using a previous release of Kaspersky Internet Security or other Antivirus softwre and found that it isn't working under Windows Seven don't be overwhelmed.

Get Kaspersky Internet Security 2010 [KIS 9.0.0.736 is current up-to-date version] and install. This version has implemented Windows Seven security features and its performance isn't bad. One thing to remember if you are gamer. You need to run Windows Experience Index for rating before installing KIS. After installing KIS you won’t be able to run WEI successfully. I think kaspersky will soon release a patch or fix it in next release.

Download latest Kaspersky from here and install.
Note that, softwares like Kaspersky Internet Security are damn useless if they are not updated. So before proceeding to do anything next update the antivirus.

You can also update the antivirus manually if you have slower internet connection or no connection at all. Instructions here. Remember one command to download the updates and then update from the downloaded files.

If you are not in Bangladesh skip Step 4.


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Fix your day computer timezone for light saving(DST) time coz your PC is showing one hour less than original. To fix it install patch from here.

Now select timezone Dhaka as shown in image.

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Now install applications/softwares one after one scanning by KIS as you need. Have fun with secured system.

The Movie: Artificial Intelligence

View more info about this movie on imdb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0212720/

The Wallpaper of the movie is nice that's what I say about his movie. Oh! Yes, you can download them here.

I watched this movie to get some flavours of latest artificial intelligence and enjoy related critics. But it wasn’t.

Anyway, this movie does not follow the same spirit of Steven Spielberg. It is different.
There are many things that the movie missed. Frankly I expected some more actions from the robot boy, David. May be for real reason he is just made like that. Moreover the focus on the boy from the start to the end of the film kinda made me bore. No actions, no surprises, cold flow of the facts and without any kind of representation of artificial intelligence rather emotions for some low-leveled robots exist in the movie!

Didn’t you ever think how foolish was that robot named David? He cut the mother’s hair for love.. What a loser! This is not AI. This is dumbness!

And the afterward things were totally fairy tale even that cannot be counted with a bit similarity with reality. The movie says the boy was unique. But he couldn’t be if he was such a success. The company would build thousands of replica of product when it is successful.

When David was showed in Johnson's place it was supposed that the authority would take the control of David over. But it was not! Again emotions! People’s love for the boy who look like real saved him. What a luck! The supertoy just saved his life.

I think from there the directors just lost the track. What should be done next!? There could be intelligent ideas. But they played with the fake boy’s emotion! He loves the mom and want’s mom’s love still not being human. Well if you want a robot to love you and make that way it will definitely love!! What’s the big deal!!

Phony concepts they are. To be honest there is nothing you can expect from this movie. What you get from it is an impure mixture of robotic emotion and those all about… Even cannot be said fairy tale! Better call it non-fair tale!

Nice special effects though.