Create a Windows 7 / Windows Vista Usb Bootable Flash Memory Stick Fast

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This is a very simple tutorial for making a USB bootable drive.

You need to complete these simple steps:

        1. First you need to format a USB flash memory stick(at least 4GB). In order to do so, find the device’s icon in Computer folder, right click on it and select format.

Then select NTFS File System and click start.

2. After you have formated the drive you need to make it bootable. You need a program named bootsect.exe that is located on your windows installation disk in the boot folder. Look in the Computer folder to see your cd/dvd drive’s drive letter.

Click on Start-Run(or Search) and type cmd – don’t press Enter – a program named cmd.exe will appear in the search results. Right click on the program and select Run as Administrator.

Type <your CD/DVD drive letter> : then press enter, in my case H: then enter

Type cd boot then press enter.

Type bootsect.exe /nt60 <your memory stick drive letter>: , in my case bootsect.exe /nt60 d:

Copy the contents of your windows disk to your usb flash drive.

Set the pendrive to be the first boot device on your bios and you’re ready to boot.


Free photo editing and vector graphics/Photoshop Illustrator alternatives

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1.The Gimp is a free photo editing, image composition and image authoring program for Windows and other Operating Systems. It’s a free alternative to Adobe Photoshop.

Gimp 2.6

2.Inkscape is an Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format.

Inkscape for Windows

Best free programs to install after a fresh windows installation

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Ok, so you’ve just bought a new PC with Windows pre-installed or you have reinstalled your os. Even if your pc is ready to go, you may still need other programs like an office suite, codecs for movie playback, an antivirus program, etc. Here are some free programs that I install after i have just set up  my OS:

 1. 7-zip is an open-source file archiver for widows, that supports most of the common archive formats(zip, rar, tar) and many other.

This program doesn’t make file associations by default. In order to do that you must open 7-Zip File Manager from your start menu, select tools-options then check the archive types you want to be managed by this application. In the 64 bit version of this program you mush open the File Manager with Administrator privileges for the file associations to work.

                                                                              

 2. Open Office is an open-source office suite for word processing, spreadsheets,presentations, graphics, databases and more. It is available in many languages and it can be downloaded and used completely free of charge for any purpose.  It supports the Open Document Format (ODF) as its default file format, as well as Microsoft Office formats among others.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

 3. K-Lite Codec Pack is a collection of codecs and related tools. Codecs are required to encode or play audio and video files. This pack allows you to play most of the video formats in use.

  4. ALPlayer is a small, free video player that supports many file formats.

5. Winamp - one of the best audio players. It is fully customizable and you have many online radio stations in the media library.  Winamp supports music playback using mp3, midi, mod,mpeg-1 audio layers 1 and 2, aac, m4a, flac, wav and wma.

 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                

6. µTorrent is a bit torrent client whose size is less than 400 KB. It’s very fast and stable.

7. Google Chrome is a web browser developed by Google that starts very fast and looks clean although it’s very customizable.

8. AVG Anti-Virus Free provides the best free antivirus and antispyware protection.