How To Upgrade from Windows Vista to Windows 7

Tired of Vista, but feel you have to still use it? Well, why stick with Vista, when you can upgrade to Microsoft's new release, Windows 7? Follow these steps to join the Windows 7 rave. The first 4 steps are optional, but strongly recommended.

Steps

1. Download the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor from here.
   
   
   
2. Run the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor installer.
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
3. Run the actual upgrade advisor once it is installed. Remember to plug in any devices that you regularly use (printers, scanners, MP3 players etc).
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
4. Once the program's done its thing, look at the report. Save and/or print it (you will need it).
   
   

Download Free Winamp MP3 Player

Winamp is a proprietary media player written by Nullsoft, now a subsidiary of AOL. It is skinnable, multi-format freeware/shareware.

Winamp was first released by Justin Frankel in 1997. Current Winamp development is credited to Ben Allison (Benski) and Maksim Tyrtyshny. Winamp grew from 33 million users in February 2005 to over 57 million users in September 2006.

Playback formats

Besides MP3, Winamp supports a wide variety of contemporary and specialized music file formats, including MIDI, MOD, MPEG-1 audio layers 1 and 2, AAC, M4A, FLAC, WAV and WMA. Winamp was one of the first common music players on Windows to support playback of Ogg Vorbis by default. It supports gapless playback for MP3 and AAC, and Replay Gain for volume leveling across tracks. In addition, Winamp can play and import music from audio CDs, optionally with CD-Text, and can also burn music to CDs. It should be noted that it is necessary to buy the "Pro" version to be able to rip or burn discs at maximum speeds.

Winamp supports playback of Windows Media Video and Nullsoft Streaming Video. For MPEG Video, AVI and other unsupported video types, Winamp uses Microsoft's DirectShow API for playback, allowing playback of most of the video formats supported by Windows Media Player. 5.1 Surround sound is supported where formats and decoders allow.

How to Make a PC Theme

Do you want to make a PC Theme in Windows XP and Vista? Here is how to do it.

Steps

For Windows XP

1. Right click on an empty area on the desktop, and click Properties. (Or click Start, Run..., and type desk.cpl.)

2. Click on the Appearance tab, then click Advanced.... Use Active Window, Font Size, and more interfaces.

3. Click OK, click on the Themes tab, click Save As, type your name of the theme (default is My favorite theme), click Save and click OK again.

Download Free Adobe Reader

Adobe Reader software is the global standard for electronic document sharing. It is the only PDF file viewer that can open and interact with all PDF documents. Use Adobe Reader to view, search, digitally sign, verify, print, and collaborate on Adobe PDF files.