gHacks Technology News | Latest Tech News, Software And Tutorials » all microsoft patches http://www.ghacks.net A technology news blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:51:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Windows Wallpapers From MSNhttp://www.ghacks.net/2008/10/01/windows-wallpapers-from-msn/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/10/01/windows-wallpapers-from-msn/#comments Wed, 01 Oct 2008 15:25:32 +0000 Martin Brinkmann http://www.ghacks.net/?p=7336 Windows Wallpapers from MSN is a beta application and web service that provides Windows users with wallpapers from Microsoft. The software application will automatically check in intervals if new Windows wallpapers are available and download them automatically to the computer system. At the time of testing 156 Windows wallpapers were downloaded to the computer.

Wallpapers from MSN is not your usual wallpaper manager though. It displays the Windows wallpapers in an image library and gives the user options to add his own wallpapers to the application. Each wallpaper can be processed before it is being used as the Windows wallpaper.

The user can use basic photo editing functions like cutting, rotating or cropping images. More interesting that that is the option to add elements to the wallpapers. Three types of objects are available that can be added to a selected wallpaper: Foreground Images, Graphic Elements and Text.

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The changes can be previewed and saved to the library. The Wallpaper Settings menu can be used to pick a permanent wallpaper or to rotate the wallpapers frequently. There is no need to run the application if you want to pick a downloaded wallpaper from the list and use it as a static Windows wallpaper or move it to another operating system.

Wallpapers from MSN is one of those nice to have applications for casual computer users. All effects could be added with a photo editor as well. Most wallpapers are well done and the program can be used to increase the wallpaper collection on a computer rapidly.

]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2008/10/01/windows-wallpapers-from-msn/feed/ 12 Autopatcher June 2007 for XP finally releasedhttp://www.ghacks.net/2007/07/05/autopatcher-june-2007-for-xp-finally-released/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/07/05/autopatcher-june-2007-for-xp-finally-released/#comments Thu, 05 Jul 2007 06:59:56 +0000 Martin Brinkmann http://www.ghacks.net/2007/07/05/autopatcher-june-2007-for-xp-finally-released/ I mentioned three days ago in my blog that the Autopatcher team released the June 2007 patches for Windows Vista and just now they announced that the updates for XP can be downloaded as well from their sites. In case you missed the last post here is what Autopatcher does.

Autopatcher provides a single executable that includes all patches for the operating system that you are choosing either of the month – called Updates – or complete which are called core releases. After downloading you can execute the file and select if you want to install all patches or only the ones that affect your system by manually adding and removing patches from the list of available patches.

The following downloads are right now available at the Autopatcher website:

  • Windows 2000 SP4 – May 2007 Core | June 2007 Update
  • Windows XP SP2 (32-bit) – May 2007 Core | June 2007 Update
  • Windows Server 2003 SP1/R2/SP2 (32-bit) – May 2007 Core | June 2007 Update
  • Windows XP/Server-2003 (64-bit) – June 2007 Core
  • Windows Vista – June 2007 Core

If you never installed patches before for your Windows XP system you should download the May 2007 core release and the June 2007 update which ensures that you can apply all patches to Windows XP that have been released by Microsoft.

This is a great way if you want to patch a system without Internet connection for instance or if you have to patch several computers and want to download the patches only once to save bandwidth.

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