How To Remove Windows Media DRM 10 and 11

October 2nd, 2006 Microsoft Corp. has sued an anonymous computer hacker whose free program FairUse4WM allows users to copy digital movies and songs by bypassing a software protection (DRM) built into the company's Media player.

January 12th, 2009 Wait a minute music-aficionados! If you are planning to download beta version of Windows 7 awaiting a grand release - look before you leap. Do you know the beta of Windows 7 may remove the first few seconds of any mp3 file added to your Windows Media Player? Now, if you are willing to learn a solution, here's the key to it.

May 29th, 2009 Microsoft has reported a vulnerability in its DirectShow, in some versions of Windows. DirectShow is Microsoft's framework for playing different media types such as games and multimedia.

December 2nd, 2008 Are you really annoyed with Windows Instant Messenger popping up every time you log into your internet? And if you have used Windows, then you know that unnecessary, unwanted, unacceptable- such terms are nothing but a sheer waste o time. Because you are made to toil for almost every good thing you do from Windows XP.

July 13th, 2006 Previously I described how to remove the Windows Genuine Advantage Notification Tool. It is a simple tool to get rid of the home calling of Windows Genuine Advantage notification tool.

March 4th, 2009 Enough is enough. If you think that you don't want to rely on Internet explorer anymore (after seeing till the very end from IE 5 to IE 8 ) you can switch to Firefox or Google Chrome.

May 20th, 2009 Windows Media Center will be a richer hub for media now, with Netfix finally included. Netfix had been unofficially running on Windows Media  Center for years.

July 27th, 2006 Andy Patrizio learned the hard way that Windows Genuine Advantage can be a disadvantage in disguise and all without any fault of his own. Such cases apparently flies in the face of Microsoft assertion that only a handful of genuine false positives have been identified.

March 12th, 2008 Dell in India doesn't offer the range of customizations that you would normally come to expect from them. Moreover calling Dell may have some unintended consequences like possibly a call from Microsoft.

June 26th, 2006 Windows Genuine Advantage includes two main tools - Windows Genuine Advantage Validation and Windows Genuine Advantage Notification. The WGA Validation tool checks that an instance of Windows XP is properly licensed, and is required for some Windows updates.

August 30th, 2007 By default, Windows Vista uses Live File System to incrementally add files to your CD. Live File System is a file storage system that can be used to create CDs and DVDs.

December 18th, 2007 GrooveMonitor is a service utility that tracks groove behavour and creates reports for error reporting to MS (what else does it report?). It loads on startup.

July 18th, 2006 Another lawsuit has been filed, in U.S. District Court in Seattle, against Microsoft over Windows Genuine Advantage, alleging that the anti-piracy tool is spyware.

February 25th, 2006 One of the common questions I hear from Java newcomers is - where is a FIFO list in Java? Java does have a FIFO list capability built-in with LinkedList and ArrayList, but they are not well advertized. A FIFO interface should at least have: public interface FIFO { /** Add an object to the end of the FIFO queue */ boolean add(Object o); /** Remove an object from the front of the FIFO queue */ Object remove(); /** Return the number of elements in the FIFO queue */ int size(); } A FIFOList class implementing the above would simply be: public class FIFOList extends LinkedList implements FIFO { public Object remove() { return remove(0); } } I prefer this setup instead of using a LinkedList.remove(0) directly.

August 9th, 2006 Windows Genuine Advantage (how to remove WGA) has been alleged as Spyware, creates innumerable problems for genuine users and yet it is very simple to fool with 15 minutes or less of effort. Ed Bott spent about 15 minutes to find a web page containing five volume license keys that had reportedly been posted on September 9 2004.