Windows 7 Theme for Windows XP

“Windows 7 Theme” named “SevenVG” by Vishal Gupta of AskVG.com theme has been created by him for Windows XP users who want to get the same Windows 7 look in XP. Its an update over previous “” theme. Lots of resources has been updated to match with Windows 7 RTM and many bugs have also [...]

Getting around Windows Activation when Virtualizing

Scroll down to Setting up Automatic Activation to see the process if you are not interested in the background. Background When I first setup my VMware Server to run an existing Windows Install from a physical partition, I was asked to reactivate Windows XP before I could use it as a guest OS. All this [...]

Windows XP Performance Tweaking guide

1. Stop the ‘last access update’ stamp Every time a directory on an NTFS drive is accessed by Windows XP, it updates that directory and every subdirectory with a time stamp to indicate the date of access. In folders with a lot of subdirectories, this can add considerable overhead to whatever your PC happens to [...]