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Microsoft announces that the support for Windows XP SP2 ends on July 13^th 2010 and Window Vista without any Service Pack has been ended and security updates for these will not be available further.

If you are not sure which version and service pack you have on your computer then you can check which version and service pack you have.

Turn On Automatic updates to download the latest security and driver updates.

For Windows XP you can install SP3 using Windows Update. Click Start > click All Programs, > Windows Update.

Note: There is no need to download SP3 as there is no SP3 available for 64-bit version of Windows XP.

Office 2007 file format convertor is necessary when you want your Office 2007 docx or xlsx or pptx file to be opened or edited in Microsoft Office 2003 or lower version installed Windows machines.

There is a solution to this problem and is provided by Microsoft itself. Microsoft released a Compatibility plugin called “FileFormatConverters.exe” which can be downloaded from the below given link and installed on a machine having

• Microsoft Office 2003 with at least Service Pack 1
• Microsoft 2002 with Service Pack 3
• Microsoft Word 2000 with Service Pack 3

By installing this compatibility plugin you can open, edit and save Office 2007 Word documents docx, Office 2007 Excel spreadsheets xlsx, and Office 2007 PowerPoint presentation pptx files in lower version of Microsoft Office.

Download Office File Convertor

It might be odd but its fact that my office computer won’t boot with the set BIOS configuration.

As I switch on my office PC it will display a message as ”Disk boot error. No boot disk found” I have set the BIOS configuration with the active hard disk boot but it won’t recognize the hard disk on the first start-up, if I press restart button it will detect the hard drive and boot normally. Office PC has Windows XP Service pack 3 installed with latest updates and drivers.

Anyone have any idea what might be the problem?

You can give your genuine solution / suggestions in my post comments section.

Meanwhile I am trying to figure out what acually the cause. If I found the solution, I will be posting the solution for this in comments  section.

Recently one of my friends bought a PC with the below said configuration:

• Intel Core2Duo 2.2GHz
• Intel Classic Motherboard
• 2 GB RAM
• 500 GB SATA Hard Disk Drive

When we tried installing Windows XP Professional it was showing BSOD as soon as it loads the setup files and we were not able to install Windows XP neither on SATA HDD nor on IDE. Then tried installing Windows 2003 Server, all things were going well until the screen says installing Device Drivers and got struck and prompted unable to read Windows 2003 installation CD. Tried the same with other copy of Windows 2003 Server installation Disk but resulted with the same above mentioned error.

Later found to be a guess that Windows XP below SP2 or Windows 2003 Server below R2 will not be able to install on the above said now PC configuration because we tried installing the same using Windows XP Professional SP2 and Windows 2003 server R2 and it gone smooth and both installed successfully.

What we came to conclusion is that with the above described problem is without the updated version of Windows with latest Service Packs you can’t able to load Windows on latest PC configurations.

I hope this information will help if you are facing the similar issue.

Lets explore new Windows 7 Aero Shake feature using which you can quickly minimize all open Window except the one you’re shaking.

To minimize all Windows except the one you are shaking follow the steps:

Click and hold on the Window Title Bar and shake the Window, that’s it you will see all the opened Windows will get minimized.

To restore back all of those windows you can again click and hold on the Windows title bar and shake the Window.

Windows 7 Aero Shake feature can save your time if you want to focus on a single window without minimizing all your other open windows one by one.