If you feel that the themes (by default has 4 or 5 different themes included on installation) is not enough for personalization, Windows 7 (from build 6956 onwards, including build 7000) has hidden themes that can be unlocked, and applied as the theme for Windows 7 system. These locked hidden themes is actually meant for some regional countries such as Australia, Canada, Great Britain, United States and South Africa.

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Clock, Volume, Network and Power or Battery icons on notification area (system tray) is system icons that users can choose to display or hide. However, sometimes, any or all of these system icons can disappear, missing or hiding from systray area. The easy solution is to re-enable the showing of system icons on Notification Area tab of Taskbar and Start Menu Properties. However, sometimes, even the checkboxes to enable or disable the displaying of system icons are disable or grayed out, forbidding user from enabling the icons in notification area.

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Intel has launched its low cost quad-core mobile processor and added more mobile Core 2 Duo processors to its chip lineup. The new Intel Core 2 Quad Mobile Processor Q9000 has been used by Acer in its new released Aspire 8930G-7665 laptop. For extreme gaming experience, this laptop features with 2.53GHz Processor, 18.4 inch WUXGA screen and Nvidia GeForce 9700M GT graphics. The Aspire 8930G-7665 is at the price of $1,799.

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When user visits a secure website encrypted with SSL (Secure Sockets Layer, now known as Transport Layer Security (TLS)) HTTPS protocol, such as e-Commerce and Internet Banking sites, most people will feel that the site is more trustworthy, reliable and unlikely to be a malicious or phishing web pages. However, the security associated with SSL may be things of a past as a team of researchers in California, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in the Netherlands, EPFL in Switzerland, and Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) in the Netherlands reveal a serious security flaw in the SSL protocol, and presented it during the 25th Chaos Communication Congress (25C3) in Berlin.

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The year 2008 curtain finally coming down, giving way to the new year 2009. Despite painful subprime mortgate crisis causing free fall in home value, credit crunch crisis causing bankruptcy of banks and financial institutions, massive drop in stock equity amid worst recession in since Great Depression, one thing doesn’t change though, and that’s filing for tax return.

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Savage 2: A Tortured Soul is a fantasy and science-fiction themed, and first-person shooter (FPS), real-time strategy (RTS), and action role-playing genre computer game developed by S2 Games. Savage 2 is the sequel to Savage: The Battle for Newerth which was release early 2008, and is also a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG). Since December 9, 2008, S2 Games has released the Savage 2 as freeware.

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One of the most common problems faced by travelers at airport checkpoints is having to open their suitcases, handbag and even their laptop bag for inspection by the customs and immigration officers. Being asked to empty their carefully packed bags can be a nightmare. For the notebook-totting travelers, if you don’t want high-handed officers to disturb your laptop bag, one of the practical solutions to is to grab hold of the interesting Skooba Design Checkthrough bag. This “checkpoint-friendly” bag is designed particularly for travelers who value the convenience and want their bags to go through airport x-ray screening without having to remove the computer and other stuff inside the bag.

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When attempting to install or uninstall HP printing and scanning software suite or driver for HP printer, scanner and other imaging devices, one of the following error message may be displayed, and the HP program installation or uninstallation process will stop and cannot proceed further or be completed.

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