Download Windows 8 Developer Preview

The new Windows 8 Start Screen(Credit: Microsoft) Those of you interested in taking the current flavor of Windows 8 for a spin can now download and install the Developer Preview edition. Being demoed at Microsoft's Build conference this week, the Developer Preview is a prebeta version showing off the operating system at its current stage. Though technically designed for developers, no registration is required, so anyone can download and install it. DOWNLOAD The Windows 8 Preview is being offered in three different packages--a 64-bit version with various developer tools, a 64-bit version of just the operating system, and a 32-bit version of the OS. All three come as ISO files--image files of the contents of a CD or DVD. Since each...

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How to install Turbo C++ on Windows 7 64bit

This tutorial is dedicated to all those guys who messed up while trying to install C++ in Windows 7 1. Install the software DOSBox ver 0.73 : download here 2. Create a folder,for example „Turbo“ (c:\Turbo\) 3. Download and extract TC into the Turbo folder (c:\Turbo\): download here 4. Run the DOSBox 0.73 from the icon located on the desktop: 5. Type the following commands at the command prompt [Z]: mount d c:\Turbo\ [The folder TC is present inside the folder Turbo] Now you should get a message which says: Drive D is mounted as a local directory c:\Turbo\ 6. Type d: to shift to d: 7. Next follow the commands below: cd tc cd bin tc or tc.exe [This starts you the Turbo C++ 3.0] 8. In the Turbo C++ goto...

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Encrypt your entire hard disk for free

You may think that setting windows logon password will keep all your data safe . For hackers its not a big deal to break windows passwords.Tools like trinity rescue kit,konboot etc will break your windows password within seconds.So if you are professional or something like that and you may have critical data in your hard drive its not fully safe with windows login password or with bitlocker(A free tool avalable with windows 7 ultimate).Once the identity thieves access all your personal data then he can make your life like hell.So in this post I will show you how to encrypt your entire hard disk for free.We will be using a powerful ,Open Source program called “TrueCrypt” for this.In OpenSource world there are many powerful tools like TrueCrypt...

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Improve Windows 7 security by changing RDP port

The Remote Desktop utility in windows systems are built for remote assistance in case any system problems or other kind of situation that the normal user can handle.In some countries the technical support is provided with the help of this technology.Since this service uses a common port in all systems it will be easy for the hacker to enter into your system once you enabled Remote Desktop Assistance.So in this tutorial I will show you how to change this port number and get protected from hackers.Its a 3 step process 1.Run regedit from the start menu to open the Registry Editor. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, SYSTEM, CurrentControlSet, Control, Terminal Server, WinStations and RDP_Tcp. Find the PortNumber dword anddouble -click. 2.Your...

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Download Torrents via HTTP (Use any download managers for High Speed Downloads)

Bittorrent offers a very popular way of downloading files from the Internet, or even a local network. The protocol is however very dependent on the seeders, that is the users or servers the complete files are distributed from. Users can speed up downloading and seeding of files with so called seedboxes, which are dedicated servers that usually have a much larger throughput than the lines of the clients.Torrific offers an interesting alternative to using seedboxes or downloading torrents directly to a local computer service. The free service can be used to create direct HTTP downloads of torrents. It basically works like this. The user adds a torrent file to the system. Torrific then uses its server to download the torrent, and make...

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