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Tired of such messeges ? You’ve tried your best to free up space by deleting those old movies or games but are still wondering who’s eating up all that space ?

Check out these Simple 8 Steps to Free Up your Disk Space : (Courtesy : pc-washer.com )

1. Empty the Trash
   The first and easiest thing that you can do to clean up your hard disk is to empty the Recycle Bin. The Recycle Bin is a temporary storage place for deleted files. You can often gain quite a bit of extra space simply by right clicking on it and choosing the Empty Recycle Bin option. Remember that once you empty the recycle bin, you will not be able to retrieve any of the files because they are now permanently deleted. It is a good habit to occasionally empty the Recycle Bin even when you don’t do a full disk cleanup.
2. Remove temp files
   Temporary files are created when you download and install software, open files in e-mail and instant messaging programs, or transfer files. In most cases, your computer only uses these files at the time they are created. Generally, they live in a folder on your hard drive called C:\Documents and Settings\[user account]\Local Settings\{Temporary Internet Files, Temp}. Usually the program that created the temporary files deletes them when it’s finished, but sometimes the files are left behind. This can happen for a number of reasons - the program might have been interrupted before it finished installing, or it crashed during a restart. Delete all files under these folder. You might get error messages telling files are being used. Just ignore them.
3. Compress infrequently used files
   Compressing files that are not frequently used frees up disk space, but does not slow down the computer.
   1. Compress old files: Go to Start -> Programs -> Accessories -> System Tools and run “Disk Cleanup”, check all boxes including “Compress Files”.
   2. After you click “OK” this may run for many hours if it is run the first time…

   
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   Author: Tanmay

Its been only about a month since Firefox 3 was launched. Mozilla surely must’ve expected to increase its market share. This was evident from the World Record attempt that Mozilla tried at !

The average market share for Firefox was 19.27% in June, up from 18.41% in May. IE dropped from 73.75% to 72.95% in the same time frame.

Today Internet Explorer has 69.88% , while Firefox captured a market share of 20.68%.

So within a month Mozilla has managed to increase its Market Share by 2.85% which is still pretty good !

After all the high end drama that was going on months ago in which the Microsoft-Yahoo Deal was called off, it now seems that Yahoo itself is now interested to deal with Microsoft !

Investor activist Carl Icahn with Microsoft’s support is trying to remove the Entire Yahoo Board. Microsoft said in a Official Statement that either it will purchase only the “Search” function with financial guarantees or simply buy the entire company.

Yahoo too made an Official Statement showing its interest on working out on the Deal with Microsoft. Take a look at the Official Statement :

Yahoo!’s Board of Directors continues to stand ready to enter into negotiations with Microsoft Corporation for an acquisition of Yahoo!. Indeed, as recently as June, Yahoo!’s independent directors and management approached Steve Ballmer about just such a transaction, only to be told that Microsoft was no longer interested even in the price range which they had previously proposed. Now Mr. Ballmer and Mr. Icahn have teamed up in an apparent effort to force Yahoo! into selling to Microsoft its Search business at a price to be determined in a future “negotiation” between Mr. Icahn’s directors and Microsoft’s management. We feel very strongly that this would not lead to an outcome that would be in the best interests of Yahoo!’s stockholders. If Microsoft and Mr. Ballmer really want to purchase Yahoo!, we again invite them to make a proposal immediately. And if Mr. Icahn has an actual plan for Yahoo! beyond hoping that Microsoft might actually consummate a deal which they have repeatedly walked away from, we would be very interested in hearing it.

June 27th would be remembered with heavy hearts by many Windows Fanboys and Gates followers for it was the day when Bill Gates Officially announced Retirement.

Microsoft says that after this day Bill Gates will  leave his day to day activities and responsibilities and will now concentrate on working Full Time for his  Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on global health and education work.

Bill Gates however will still continue to work as the company’s Chairman and an adviser on key development projects. The Chief Software Architect would now be Ray Ozzie who previously was the Chief Technical Officer.

Lets inshort have a look at the tremendous work Bill has done throughout his life : (Image Courtesy : GizModo) (Click to Enlarge)

Hi Everyone….

Its been a long time since I’ve posted anything ! Well I’d been busy working as a Paid Blogger for other sites and after than I had my Exams. Also I faced many problems due to my internet being taken down, worst of which was - My Domain www.thevistadaily.com getting Dropped.

So here we are, with a new name and a sort of a new beginning on MicrosoftDaily.com

I’ll try my best to keep this Blog Updated with Quality Content !

Cheers,
Tanmay (Admin)

The Milestone 1 release of Windows 7 has been released a few weeks ago to a first bunch of testers and we have been very fortunate that some of those testers wrote about their experience and even created some Windows 7 Screenshots and even Windows 7 Videos.

The screenshots have actually a very nice quality but the videos are unfortunately very shaky and it looks like bad equipment has been used to tape the operating system. We will most likely see some new and better quality videos soon, maybe even Microsoft decides to publish some videos soon.

Windows 7 is supposedly the next version of Windows ! Some days back a leaked copy of the so called Windows Se7ev Milestone 1 appeared on most torrent sites. Many said it was fake. I personally feel that it was Vista with a changed theme just like many other Customized OS Installations like Crystal XP.

Whatever it may be……have a look at some screen shots !

Windows Se7en Main Desktop :

Gadgets

Control Panel