You Can use a tool such as EasyBoot to create multi-boot CDs of different versions of Windows. Remember that it is illegal to do so unless those versions of Windows are illegal. Here are the steps to add Windows XP.

Create a folder named XPPR under C:\ easyboot \ disk1. Copy the files win51 and win51p from root directory of XP CD to C:\ easyboot \ disk1. Copy i386 folder to C:\ easyboot \ disk1 \ XPPR. Copy wxp.bat from C:\ easyboot \ resource to C:\ easyboot \ disk1 \ XPPR and run it. Copy w2ksect.bin from C:\ easyboot \ disk1 \ ezboot to a new file named xppr.bin.

Start EasyBoot. Select Tools > ReplaceText, browse to C:\ easyboot \ disk1 \ ezboot \ xppr.bin, and specify i386 as Text to Replace, XPPR as Replace To, and click Replace; one occurrence should be replaced. Repeat this for C:\ easyboot \ disk1 \ xppr \ setupldr.bin, replacing i386 by xppr; four occurrence should be replaced. Open C:\ easyboot \ disk1 \ xppr \ textsetup.sif in notepad, search for SetupSourcePath, and change SetupSourcePath = “\” to SetupSourcePath = “\XPPR”. Set the menu item’s command as run xppr.bin. Save the file.

Repeat these steps to add more versions of Windows, but make sure that you use different name for the folder XPPR and the file xppr.bin. After you’ve prepared the contents, save the compilation by clicking Save. Click Make ISO, select the name and location of the place to save the ISO image file, and click Make.

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Recently I formatted my computer and went on to install Mozilla Firefox. The first plugin which Mozilla asked me to install, as soon as I started surfing the Internet, was the flash player.  Flash is very important part of backbone of web 2.0. It is present everywhere. Picnik is solely based on flash and Youtube will cease to grow without flash. But did you ever think how this tiny stuff actually works?

Why was flash needed?

If you keep flash aside then the other way which one can use to display animation is animated GIF images: a series of image files displayed one after another. But this isn’t the best method. Such files consume huge memory space (because images are duplicated number of times)  and it cannot even incorporate sound with them.

Flash was able to overcome these problems and now you know why it is the de-facto of Internet.

How does flash overcome the memory usage problems?

A complete flash movie isn’t downloaded in one shot as the delay might irritate the user. Instead the image which needs to be animated is downloaded and stored in client memory. Later the flash player downloads the instructions which tells the flash player what to do with each of the elements in original image. These instructions are read and executed by the system processor.

For example in case of flash based tutorial the button images are downloaded first and later the instructions (which were downloaded second), which might be collection of various events, are executed by processor subsequently.

Flash uses streaming technique i.e. part of file is executed in foreground and the rest is downloaded in background. Thus flash starts playing the movie even if size is large.

How does flash overcome the sound problem?

Flash is able to incorporate sound with it. Still, due to varying Internet speeds and differences in file sizes of sound and image files, it is hard to transfer sound with flash files.

The event sounds work similarly as images: sounds are loaded and instructions like when to play which sound file are loaded next.

In case of streaming sound the sound stream is given preference over images and this ensures that images and sound do not get out of sync.

The future of flash?

Java applets and Ajax might be close warriors but due to Adobe’s strong support flash will continue to rule for many years to come.

Bonus sneak peek - Shockwave!!

Shockwave is similar to flash though shockwave can make more versatile animations then flash.

• Shockwave was created for media like CDs while flash was built with Internet architecture in mind.
• Shockwave uses proprietary file format while flash uses open source and is cross-platform.

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What is this DirectX 10.1?

As the name suggest, DirectX 10.1 is upgraded version of DX 10 graphics specification, which will be in market with Vista Service Pack 1.

Which system will be able to handle DX 10.1?

Only the systems with Vista SP1 will use DX 10.1. The ones without SP1 will use DX10.

What is its significance?

DX 10.1 adds specs that were optional in DX 10 like the 32 bit FP filtering.

When will the real world actually see it running?

Although DX 10.1 is ready to take hold of the market (at least Microsoft thinks that way) still the games that utilize DX 10.1 spefication properly are yet to be built. But some good news is that ATI has released graphics card that are DX 10.1 capable. Vista SP1 is yet to be launched and we can just pray that DX 10.1 is compatible with XP.

What is the hype?

Those who have spent good bucks on DX 10 cards are worried that their cards might go obsolete. Although the games made for DX 10.1 will run on DX 10 but the features which need DX 10.1 won’t be available on DX 10. Everyone will have to upgrade at some point or the other.

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Here goes the complete step by step “basic” procedure (in form of interactive images) which Google follows to give search results in almost no time.

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One of the things that Windows is notorious for is not completely uninstalling an application when you go through the Add/Remove Programs. There just always seems to be some junk left behind that is impossible to get rid of, well, almost impossible.

ZSoft Uninstaller (Download Mirror) hopes to conquer all of your uninstallation woes by providing a more advanced method for keeping track of the applications you install. Normally when you install a program it creates an uninstall log that monitors where all of the files and registry values are stored. That way it can reference when a user wants to uninstall it later on.

Some things, such as registry values associated with your program settings, aren’t removed in case you decide to install the program again later on. That way you won’t have to reconfigure it all again. I don’t know about you, but when I want to uninstall a program I want everything it created to be removed.

That’s where ZSoft Uninstaller comes into play. It will scan your hard drive and registry both before and after installing a program. Then it will compare the differences so that there are no worries about everything not getting removed. All it takes from you is a few clicks… [Read more]

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