Upgraded vista to XP

Ya am serious and in full senses. I have just upgraded my dell inspiron which i have been using for last 2 years from windows vista to XP. Also i know i have used term upgrade even though XP came much before vista .

but these words come right from the bottom of my heart. Am actually feeling good on getting rid of vista from my machine.

Though i miss some of the cool features of the vista like quick search , sparky UI, good icons and all but still when it comes to performance XP is still a killer.

I used vista for 2 years and there was no day when i dint get blue screen error on my machine. Ok i understand that dell machine gets heated up and then crashes down but it only added to the number of blue screens . Since last week i have seen no error as such.

And what to talk about the speed on my laptop. When i had vista i can power on the machine go out had a good dinner or a long call with my friends and still the system would be just booting up. With XP its a matter of seconds.

Not to mention the ribbon death in vista when it is not able to find out the type of media file. That thing was driving me crazy.

Now migrating back to XP was not that easy. I had to get used to the basic fonts which xp used. The form factor is entirely different for xp and vista , and for people shifting back to XP from vista its really challenging too.

But i have found out solutions for it too, and now my xp looks even better then vista.

There are many free tools available in market which can make your xp look even better then vista and also function better then it. Your XP feels like window 7 in functionality and it still is light weighted like XP.

The features which i missed in xp most was the quick search tab. In vista you click on start menu type down the application you want and voila its in front of you. You dont have to search for it.

This i really wanted but xp does not have it. I searched a lot for it and finally found a software which does it better then vista.

"vista statup menu" does the magic for me. it is same as quick search of vista but looks better the it with many more options.

The second utility which added glitter to my xp was "winFlip". It shows all the apps in cool 3d flip style. You can also customize it to use the which key combination you want. Also you can make it work on mouse gestures. Its

a very kool app.

The next in line which i had been looking for long is "Deskspace". I really wanted to have multiple desktops on my machine without slowing it down and without switching to ubuntu.

This software made that easy.

There were many more softwares included in making my xp have all the good functionalities of vista and win 7 minus there crib points.

Here is how my xp looks now.

Changes in life

Life is a funny and very unpredictable movie.

when you least expect for something to happen sometime it happens with a bang.

Something like this happened to me on 6th of feb.

I by mistake got married (i swear i dint intended to).

And to top that up i married my own girlfriend with whom i have been for last over 15 years i guess.

Now i think you might be able to comprehend why i say life is a very unpredictable movie.

Now when am coming out of the first wave of awe , am trying to observe (read it as criticize) what all have changed in my life.

First and foremost what have changed is my my sleeping place and bed.

Earlier i used to sleep on a bed next to my mom. That was so soothing . Now i have a whole room for myself oh sorry for me and my spouse and also a whole big bed. It looks good but i do miss sleeping near my mom.

Second thing which has changed is only one of us either me or my wife is allowed to sleep in night.

sounds crazy but it is. Issue is am a big snorer. My mom says when me and papa are sleeping in house , its seems like someone has started engine of Boeing plane.

Now my wife she is very quite sleeper and also a light sleeper. So my snoring disturbs her sleep .Which in turn forces her to kick me so that i stop snoring . Now this thing breaks my sleep.

So you can understand , its either none of us or just one of us who gets to sleep in night.

Third and a bit less irritating thing which has changed is the attitude and questions of people.

Every other person am meeting is trying to have same funny line. How do u feel after marriage.

Common man i feel the same as you all guys felt.

Am seeing a good mail which has beautiful ladies and suddenly my colleague will say. Hey dude you are not allowed to look at them any more.

Now that insane.

This my till now stock of things which has changed , leaving things like not allowed to mess up my place at home anymore, no more late night dvds and other small things.

The only best thing which i can think has changed is i have her with me. She makes up for all the things which am missing. Her one smile is enough for me.

Lets see what else does this movie has in store.

chow for now

Welcome me back

I am awed and am loss of words today.

First of all let me apologize to all my readers. Am really sorry but i really dint knew that someone was following me this close.

As you all might have guessed by now how lazy i am in keeping a routine , so for last so many days (in fact months) i have not written any new post.

Today just my chance i happened to stumble upon my blog page , and man do i have got people.

There were umpteen number of comments written by people telling me how much they love my blog. There were comments on my older posts telling me how my post have helped them out or they have enjoyed reading it.

I again say sorry to all of you. From now onwards i will try to be more regular in my posts :).

Just one request from my side. Please don't put anonymous comments . I would really like to know all my readers.

Thanks to all of you pals.