Keeping your Windows system up to date with latest security patches and updates makes it less prone to threats. Though users with fast Internet access can easily update their windows system online but what if you don’t have Internet access or on a slow connection, windows update would take ages to complete.

Also, in case you need to re-install Windows, you’ll have to update your system again from start as Windows Update doesn’t give you an option to save updates for later use. Surely, it’ll become quite annoying? Isn’t It.

But here’s a workaround to download windows updates for later use for both Windows XP and Windows Vista.

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Working on a Windows XP workstation is a nice experience but some features of Windows make this experience annoying. Today I will tell you those top annoyances that every XP user faces but mearly makes an effort to remove them.

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This is the second post of our series of 15 posts (one post everyday) about Tips and Tricks to make your Windows experience more satisfactory and comfortable. You can subscribe to our RSS Feed or daily e-mail updates for latest content. Keep checking back this space to know about useful Windows Tips and Tricks.

Here’s the today’s tweak.

How to say ‘No To All’ When copying files?

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Virtual Desktops is one of the feature that lets you run multiple applications simultaneously without any clutter on your Taskbar. With it, you can keep different applications running in different virtual desktops, though everything will run on same machine. Here is a nice utility for Windows XP, that lets you create virtual desktops with some nice effects.

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Many people feared that technical support for xp will be over after 30th june of this year, as microsoft has announced this date as the “end of sales” date for windows xp. But now microsoft has officially announced that it will continue to provide technical support for xp till April 2014 including security and other critical updates. Xp will be available even after 30th june, but not in retail. It will be available for some  buisness areas where xp is required. (more…)

Ever thought of having customized background of folders in Windows XP? Though Windows 98 has inbuilt functionality to customize folder background but this feature was discontinued with release of Windows XP. Windowpaper XP is a nice freeware utility that lets you achieve this functionality in Windows XP.

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The drive icons that Windows Vista uses to display Hard Disk Drives also show a bar which depicts the amount of space occupied and free on that drive. Ever Wondered if you could achieve similar functionality in Windows XP without having to open properties dialog for each drive.

Here is nice little utility for Windows XP that lets you achieve that.

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Do you know that whenever we reinstall Windows XP on our system, all updates and patches you applied to your system before through Windows Update have to be reinstalled.

Why not create a Windows XP installation disc that contains all the hotfixes and patches you installed on your system??

Here is what you need to create the disc:
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After a week’s delay of scheduled release of Service pack 3 for Windows XP due to some bug detected at last moment, Microsoft has finally released SP3 for normal users via Windows Update.

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