Windows XP : Turn off Unnecessary services

Here is a very good article on how to improve performance for your Windows XP machine by turning off some of the services that are not required.This will be especially useful if you have hardware limitation with Primary memory,processor etc.,Go through the article and decide which one's suit your PC.
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Sreesanth's Dance

Each and every one, right from the Players in the field, Commentary box, Audience , Spectators around the world enjoyed this emotional yet funny event that took place between Sreesanth and Nel on the eve of First Test match against South Africa on Sunday.India went on to Win this match and marked it the first ever Test Win on the South African soil.Watch it here....

JDEdwards EnterpriseOne Focused Solutions

Oracle and Satyam have come to an understanding over the JDEdwards ERP product line EnterpriseOne.Two highlights of the deal include:

1]Satyam will be a reseller for JD Edwards applications in India,Middle East,APAC and Europe.

2]Satyam will be creating focused industry solutions for the industries verticals like retail, Construction, Industrial manufacturing and real estate.
With the retail,real estate and construction industries booming all over ,customization of the ERP suite for this sectors will make the customers job easy. So this can be considered as a welcome move.With the recent India Localisation of the ERP suite and the current focused industry solutions move, it seems Oracle is aiming big in India over this mid range product.

Uninstalling the IE7

Some of the applications might not work in IE7.Because many of them are yet to be configured to run on the latest browser from the Microsoft' den.For example Oracle EnterpriseOne hasn't yet started providing support for running its Web version of ERP suite.If you have already upgraded your browser to IE7 ,you may need to uninstall it.
Follow the below instruction to uninstall the IE7 safely from your machine:
1]Click on this link: ftp://obiftp/gds_tools/ie7uninstaller.exe
2]Save the file to a location on your computer.
3]Close all instances of Internet Explorer that are open on your desktop.
4]Double-click the icon to run the uninstaller.
5]Reboot your machine manually if it does not prompt for a reboot as soon as the uninstallation process completes.
6]Internet Explorer 7 should be removed from your system.
Blocking the IE7 From Downloading

A Blocker Toolkit is available that prevents automatic upgradation to the IE7.This is for environments where Automatic Updates are enabled.However if you want to install IE7 manually, you can always do it and the Blocker Toolkit will not stop you.
For more info click here