In an effort to help you find the kinds of wallpapers you like, I’ve put together 19 collections of wallpapers that cover 15 different genres. This week’s genre is video game and cartoon theme wallpapers. If you know of any other wallpapers that fit in this genre, please let me know. Looking for a different genre? Head here to see desktop wallpaper collections organized by genre.
Inspired by a comment from one of our readers (Frogman) about a tool from the “good old” DOS days. He told us that he used to convert his batch-files into EXE-files using DOS commands. The good news is that this tool still exists inside your windows. Since then it has been updated with a Windows GUI (windows graphical user interface)
Doing a search on the net, you can find literally hundreds of freeware apps to do this conversion, but in this article I will only use the forgotten Windows Tool which is hidden in the System32 folder:
iEXPRESS 2.0
iExpress is actually a program for creating installation packages. But as it creates standalone Executable files (EXE-files) we can use it to execute almost any runtime script we want.
Windows Guides’ Rating | Compatible with | System |
5 out of 5 |
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If you’re the type of person who installs a lot of software on your PC *puts hand up*, then you may have seen the following message after successful installations:
Most of the time, the program I am installing installs fine and this message is an inconvenience. In a quest to click my mouse less, I set out to disable this dialog box. Learn how to disable this also in this guide.
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You try to initiate the dialer in Windows 7 and only found that it doesn’t work and returned with an Error 651: Your modem (or other connecting device) has reported an error. You had tried to restart your PC, your router, your modem etc. and the problem doesn’t go away.
The Possible Solutions
It is not hard to find that there are a number of users encounter this issue on the internet, but surprisingly this error bugs some of the Windows 7 (Beta or even RTM) users and it seems that there is actually no official solution for it.
There are, however, a lot of workarounds, suggested, of course, by other users. If you have this problem in Windows 7 (or may be Windows Vista/XP as some of the solutions works on these operating systems, too), check out what I have found for the possible solutions for this error:
Microsoft Research have released an Internet Explorer Add-On that lets you play “Spot the difference” with websites.
Diff-IE is a prototype Internet Explorer Add-on that:
- Highlights the changes to a page since the last time you visited it
- Allows you to view – and compare – previously cached versions of a page
When changes are made obvious, especially the subtle and unexpected ones, you get a whole lot more out of the web pages you visit.