Now you can turn off Internet Explorer in Windows

Yes , you are reading it correctly . You can turn off Internet Explorer in your windows now . Microsoft now lets us turn off some windows key features. Continue for further details.
with Windows 7, users will have the option of disabling a number of features of the operating system . Microsoft has been facing lot of regulatory and anti trust issues in the recent times .Microsoft lost a long-running battle with EU antitrust regulators in 2007 over the way it bundled media player software into the Windows operating system.In the media player dispute, European union heavily fined Microsoft and forced it to sell a version of Windows without the offending program installed. To avoid such kind of issues , I think Microsoft has came up with this solution .

• Windows Media Player
• Windows Media Center
• Windows DVD
  
• Windows Search
• Handwriting Recognition (through the Tablet PC Components option)
• Windows Gadget Platform
• Fax and Scan
• XPS Viewer and Services (including the Virtual Print Driver)

With windows 7 Microsoft has stripped most of the programs from the Operating system Which are still available for download on Windows Live .

I dont like the way how people actually look at Microsoft . They developed things which are better than others and before any one does something , MS does it .Thats why they are here . They have better marketing strategies in place . But people always cry on Microsoft . They want a operating system for free . :) .If a OS comes out without anything , then are these people happy ?

What do you feel about Microsoft ? Lets others know through your comments .

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How to open docx file without installing office 2007 ? Read docx file in Linux

Dont have Microsoft office ? But still want to read docx ( Office 2007 word format ) files ? Here is the solution

Required : Mozilla Firefox .

There is a Firefox extension called OpenXML viewer which helps you achieve this .It lets you read docx files inside the Firefox browser just like any other HTML web page with any change in format and layout .

Download OpenXML viewer .

Open XML viewer is available for Linux also .

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How to delete all the messages in your orkut inbox ?

I know some friends of mine who deletes their messages frequently . But if they have huge number of messages like me , How will they do it ?

There is something that might help you .

Required : Mozilla Firefox Browser .
GreaseMonkey Firefox Addon.

Greasemonkey script : Rapid orkut message deleter .

After installing this you can delete all your orkut messages very easily .

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TCS to layoff more people in the coming days

Sources has revealed that the TCS, India 's largest software giant is going to take few tough steps to sustain in the present environment . Since economists and experts don't see a economy recovery in the near time , most of the customers are feeling the pain of slowdown and are pressurising the outsourcers to maximise the efficiencies . To keep itself equipped against the global economic activity , the company has rolled out four measures which are going to be implemented with immediate effect .The four measures are as follows :

• There will be no recruitment of experienced professionals unless the company feels its extremely required . People will be given cross skill training to manage the internal needs .
• Since outsourcing means saving money by working from a low cost place , the company will concentrate more on offshore leverage . Non Critical positions on onsite will be moved to offshore .
• There will be no promotions until the situation improves .
  
• If you are in the underperforming section or in the under utilised section , the company might counsel you or might even ask you to leave .
  

Its not only TCS , all the companies are implementing different kind of measures to sustain in the present environment . It might not sound good to the employees , but if the companies has to sustain , they have to undertake this . The companies are trying to do everything so as to retain employees . As a employee of the organisation , its time for us to stand by them and help them sustain . Do remember that When your company does good , it will always do good to you .

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How to remove " This page contains both secure and nonsecure items " ? ASP.NET https Menu workaround

Somedays back , I had to deploy a ASP.Net application in a secure environment for my client . But when I deployed my application in https environment , it started displaying a message " This page contains both secure and non-secure items. Do you want to continue ? " . Being a developer , this message is ok to me . But clients who are generic users might get scared of this . So I was asked to remove this error message . So How to remove " This page contains both secure and non secure items . " ?

• This message basically occurs when your application try to access a resource like image or some other file from a non secure server . So first you have to search for http in your code . Find all http links and replace them with https .
• Now check whether all your images and files are hosted on the same secure server where your application has been hosted . If not move them to secure environment .

These two are the common reasons why this error occurs . In ASP.NET if you are using Menu control , it will also this error . So what is workaround for Menu in https ? If you are using the master page , paste the following piece of code in your masterpage code-behind .

protected override void Render(HtmlTextWriter writer)
{
Page.ClientScript.RegisterStartupScript(typeof(Page), "MenuHttpsWorkaround", Menu1.ClientID + "_Data.iframeUrl='Blank.htm';", true);
base.Render(writer);

}

Add a new blank HTML page to your application folder and replace blank.htm in the above code with that page . Aslo replace Menu1 with your Menu Item Id . Once you make the changes , publish the code and check it in secure environment . The error message would not display again .

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