Windows 7 - How to disable highlight new program in start menu

January 8th, 2010

When you install new program on windows 7, that program will automatically highlighted in Start Menu. This highlight will dissappeared after that program was used.

But if you didn’t like it, you can disable it. Follow these steps below:

1. When you clicked Start Menu, you’ll see the highlighted programs shortcut.
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OS Battle - Android vs Symbian vs Windows Mobile

November 18th, 2009

Author: Matt Sharp

The mobile OS is the central key to making a truly great smartphone. Let’s check out the big three operating systems in the mobile arena.

HTC Magic - the basics

The first important fact about the HTC Magic, and the bit that has made it so talked about, is its operating system: Google Android. As it’s only the second phone to officially go on sale using Android, the HTC Magic has garnered an awful lot of trade and consumer interest. Even more importantly, the HTC Magic is the first Android phone to feature a keyboard-less, touchscreen-only design, a thing that seems to be all the rage in 2009. It’s certainly more of a looker than its predecessor, the G1, and that fusion of enhanced looks and the still-awesome power of Android makes the HTC Magic a very compelling phone indeed. If innovation is your thing, this is the phone for you.
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How To Installing the Platform SDK for use with Visual C++ Express Edition

September 9th, 2009

When using Visual C++ Express Edition to compile and build win32 application it will get a error like:
‘fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: ‘windows.h’: No such file or directory’

To Solve it you must install Microsoft Platform SDK.

There is some steps to setting up visual c++ Express edition for use Platform SDK:

  • From the Tools menu in Visual Studio, select Options. The Options dialog box appears.From the Options dialog box, expand the Projects and Solutions node and select VC++ Directories. In that section, add the following paths to the appropriate subsection:
    • Executable files: C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDK\Bin
    • Include files: C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDK\include
    • Library files: C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDK\lib
  • Update the corewin_express.vsprops file (found in %VSINSTALLDIR%\VC\VCProjectDefaults) and change the string that reads:AdditionalDependencies=”kernel32.lib”to:

    AdditionalDependencies=”kernel32.lib user32.lib gdi32.lib winspool.lib comdlg32.lib advapi32.lib shell32.lib ole32.lib oleaut32.lib uuid.lib”

  • Update the default.js file (found in %VSINSTALLDIR%\VC\VCWizards\AppWiz\Generic\Application\scripts\1033) and change the two lines that read:LinkTool.AdditionalDependencies = “kernel32.lib $(NoInherit)”;

    to:

    // LinkTool.AdditionalDependencies = “kernel32.lib $(NoInherit)”;

  • These is optional, in my case there is few more settings, in properties of projects, in C/C++ section, Additional Include Diretories field, fill with “C:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK\Include” (if platform sdk is installed in default location)
  • Optional, check in Linker section, field Additional Dependencies must re-check, in my case there are few libs file that must be added here, like user32.lib gdi32.lib winspool.lib comdlg32.lib advapi32.lib shell32.lib ole32.lib oleaut32.lib uuid.lib