Links disabled in Windows Live Messenger

Few users over the last two days may have noticed the links which were not working in Windows Messenger 2009. This is temporary security measurement taken by Windows Live team to ensure that the malicious worm does not spread across the computers.

Windows Live team has posted a security alert on their website and this is to warn users to be safe while using Messenger 2009. And the Windows Live Messenger 2011 is safe to use, as it is not affected by any worms and users can upgrade to 2011 to use the latest version with all the features enabled. Messenger 2011 is safe to use, as the links which are clicked on Messenger 2011 will go through Microsoft‘s SmartScreen before you see the actual page.

The malicious worm is quickly spreading through Messenger 2009, sending messages to all the contacts which are in victims contact list. When a victim clicks on the link, the malicious worm will be downloaded and installed in the victim’s computer and it will..

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Sign in to multiple Google Accounts

Google has launched a new and advanced feature. You can login to multiple Google accounts simultaneously, isn’t this time saving? If you are using more than one Google account, you can log into an account as you normally do, and to enable this new feature all you have to do is- go to your Google Manage Account section and enable/turn ON Multiple sign-in option.

Google has started providing this feature to almost all the accounts, to check if you can enjoy this time saving feature, just go to

Enable Notepad Status Bar along with Word Wrap option in Windows7-Vista-XP

If you are an avid user of Windows text editor Notepad, here is a trick to enable “status bar” while you use the “Word Wrap” option.  While using Word Wrap option in Notepad, you might have noticed the Status Bar option is grayed out— you can enable this option by making some changes in Windows registry.

Normally you can enable the status bar to display, only when the word wrap option is disabled, but the following trick will let you enable the status bar even when the word wrap option is enabled.
Follow the easy steps to enable this:

1. Incase if there are any notepads opened, close them after enabling Word Wrap option.
2. Type Win+R (or Press Windows Button and Click Run)
3. Type “regedit” (without the quotes) and click “OK”.
4. Once the registry editor is opened browse to the following path:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Notepad

Google Search Page- Make it your own

Google- Is it going the Bing Way….?

Google will allow users to add their personal images to the background of their search page, it was announced in their blog very recently.

So, is this an effort to bring in Bing users to Google? Google is just allowing users to upload their own photos, but Microsoft Bing is quite different, where it displays Microsoft-chosen background picture every day, with some information stuff.

Three methods to customize your Google Search Page:

You can upload a photo from your computer.

Or select a photo from

Tips: Easiest way to “proof-read” your text

Are you a web designer or a data entry operator…? How do you proof-read the text which you have typed in a notepad? I know cross-checking each characters manually is too difficult or we might do mistakes even while cross checking manually…. And I know the spell checker in MS Word works absolutely fine and the MS Word 2007 is even better than v2003…

This article helps for the users to proof-read the content, who doesn’t have MS Word or similar Applications. I use Google Transliterate (this is mainly used to transliterate between languages and the same can be used to proof-read the text, and this works fine in offline mode as well) to spell check the documents as it doesn’t require internet connection. (provided the cache must be stored of your earlier session). And you can also check the online spell checking tools like: SpellChecker || Orangoo.

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