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Microsoft Announces Windows 7 PricingJune 25

Microsoft announced official retail prices for Windows 7 today, setting prices at nearly 10 percent below the prices for Windows Vista—good news for consumers who want new technology without the price tag. It’s also good news for Microsoft, whose strategy will likely boost sales for the long-term Windows 7 lifecycle and short-term Windows 7 promotion.

Windows 7 Home Premium upgrade, which is portending to be Window’s biggest cash crop, will be available on preorder for a shocking $49.99, but only for a limited time—from June 26 through July 11—and only for U.S. customers. Business customers who want the beefier Windows 7 Professional edition upgrade will only pay $99.99 on the promotion

For customers who purchase Windows 7 after the July 11 promotion will pay a substantially higher price. Preorders will still be available, with the standard cost of $119.99. Although this price is more than twice the cost of the promotion price, it is 8 percent lower than Windows Vista, which carried a retail price tag of $159.99 during its 2007 launch. Windows 7 Professional will cost $199.99. These costs will remain the same post-October 22, which is the scheduled release date for Windows 7.

Although most consumers will choose the upgrade route, Microsoft

How to Recover a Lost Windows Password with KonBoot.June 25

Have you ever lost a password to a Windows computer and just wish you had a way to get into the computer? There is a simple solution with KonBoot

KonBoot modifies the Windows Kernel in real time, thus allowing you to get past the login prompt when you start Windows. You can download KonBoot to either a floppy or burn it on to a CD-Rom. You insert either media into the computer and restart. When the computer restarts, KonBoot starts and launches Windows. When you are back to the login prompt again you can press enter to by pass the prompt. KonBoot will not allow you to change the password of the user, but you could create another account that has the ability to later change that password.

Remember, that this should only be used on computers in which you have permission to use the tool on or that you own. If you were to try this with any other computer, it is illegal and you could be put into jail. So use it at work on that computer of the employee who was just fired, or on one of the computers that your company is required to keep due to legal issues and nobody knows the password for. Try it out on your own computer just to see how it works, that way if you run into an time you need to use it at work you know how the program works. Eve

A Week With Windows 7May 18

You may have read that Microsoft is taking a new approach with the release of Windows 7 then they have done with any of their other operating systems. Microsoft has opened their beta program, and allowed the public to download and use Windows 7 Release Candidate 1 for free until June 1, 2010. The version that they allow you to test is the Ultimate version of Windows 7, which will have all the bells and whistles of the operating system. The only “drawback” for this test is that starting on March first of 2010, your computer will shut down after being on for two hours, but you will be warned about this two weeks before it happens. Here is a hands-on review of Windows 7 RC1.

Before we get into the review, let’s talk about some changes that Windows 7 has compared to Windows Vista.

DirectX 11

Yes, you read that correctly. Microsoft has updated DirectX again when designing Windows 7. DX 11 is suppose to be an improvement on the DX10, which was released with Vista. DirectX 11, has been designed to improve performance issues compared to 10, and there are rumors that DX9 graphic cards can support the new version which wasn’t possible with DX10. Other than this there has been little inf

Hide Files With SteganographyMay 11

Steganography is defined by Dictionary.com as “The art of writing in cipher, or in characters which are not intelligible except to persons who have the key; cryptography.”. In the computer field an example of steganography would be hiding one file inside of another file. This maybe hiding a text file inside an image, or hiding a music file inside a text file.

We are going to be explaining two ways to create a steganogaphy. One is with a free program called Steghide, which can be downloaded from Sourceforge.net, and the other is with a compression software, such as WinRAR, 7-Zip, or which ever you prefer. Both methods are very simple to do, the only difference is Steghide will give you a little extra security because you will need Steghide to “extract” the hidden file, and you will also need to know a passphrase to access the file.

For this hack we are going to be hiding a birthday invitation that we are working on for our dad’s secret surprise birthday party. First, we will need to create or find the files that we are going to be using. For this tutorial, we are going to be hiding the invitation in an image of our dad. The name of the files we going to be using are dad.jpg, and invite.txt, and they are located in C:\dad. Also, for the compression tutorial, the compression software we will be using is WinRAR, which you download a trial version at

Change Registered OwnersApril 21

One of the features which Windows doesn’t have is the ability to change the owners name or the organization that the system was registered to.   There maybe times that you need to change this information.  For example if your company’s name changes, or  if your friend gets a new computer from a relative and really wants his name to be the owner instead of his aunt’s.  At this point you may state that he should reinstall Windows.  But there is a better solution with a Registry hack.

This Registry hack is very simple.  As we always state, remember to back up  your Registry before you make any changes to it.  A Registry with errors can cause your system to run slow, crash, or even not boot at all.

1. Go to Start  and search for regedit.  Windows XP users will have to go to Start, Run and type in regedit then click okay.
2. Expand the following on the left menu tree:

H_Key_Local_Machine Software Microsoft Current Version

3. On the right you should see a registry key that is called RegisteredOwner.  Double click this key and you can change it’s value.   This will change the owner’s name.
4. If you want you can also change RegisteredOrganization also.  You will double click the key like you did RegisteredOwner and change the value.
5. Close your Registry

To check the if the changes have taken place, you can run Winver from a Run prompt or in Vista you can search for this app