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Enable Aero theme in Windows Vista Home edition

Caution! This trick requires registry editing! Please review this video a couple of times before you try it, as registry editing is very dangerous for your system.
Otherwise this is a way to have Aero in Windows Vista Home edition.

Private Character Editor - Create or edit fonts!

There is an accessory program called the Private Character Editor included with Windows XP, Vista and 7 that is quite obscure and little-known. It is used in conjunction with the Character Map previously discussed and provides a way to create your own characters.

The program is not usually listed in the Start- All Programs menu. The program file is eudcedit.exe and is in the system folder "C:\Windows\System32\". (Incidentally, EUDC stands for "end user defined characters"). The same steps apply for Windows XP, Vista or 7.

Editing Hosts files - how to block or redirect websites!

Let's learn today about Hosts files and how to use them to block or redirect websites.
For a more detailed explanation visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts_file and read about it. You can find there also the location of the hosts file in the system files, since it depends on your operating system. In Windows 7 click Start - Run then the path is: c:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts
To explain it briefly, a hosts file is a computer file used in an operating system to map hostnames to IP addresses and it's a plain text file.

# This is an example of the hosts file
127.0.0.1 localhost loopback
::1 localhost


In the video you will see how you can block access to a site or redirect it using the hosts file. To redirect a website you will need the IP of the site you want to be redirected to. An easy example is to redirect yahoo.com to google.com. But how do you find google's IP? Click Start, type cmd - this will open command prompt. Type ping google.com. This will show you Google.com's IP; all you need to do now is to type it in the hosts file like this:
127.0.0.1 google's IP www.yahoo.com
Don't forget to save the file.
To see a video tutorial about how to find out the IP adress of a website, you can check out this tutorial.
In the tutorial, instead of ping we have used tracert command, these are both ways to find out a website's IP.
Coming back to our example, when you type in your internet browser www.yahoo.com, you will be redirected to google.com.
You can change it back anytime by opening the hosts file again and deleting the changes you have made.
You can search our site and find also a tutorial on how to open blocked websites. Good luck!

How to Change Windows 7 Starter Edition Wallpaper

This tutorial shows you how to change the wallpaper of Win 7 Starter Edition

How to edit the Windows Game Explorer data

This is a video on how to edit data from the Windows Vista Game Explorer. Sometimes the Game Explorer doesn't integrate your games how it should, so you need to come in and take matters into your own hands. Edit any existing game information, add other games that doesn't appear there, anything you want. This programs wasn't tested in Windows 7, but it might work there too.

Your can download it from here.

Photo Editing in Skitch Metro App

This is how photo editing will be done on Windows 8. What do you think?