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Internet explorer 9 standalone installer downloads
- win7 64bit English: http://download.microsoft.com/download/C/1/6/C167B427-722E-4665-9A40-A37BC5222B0A/IE9-Windows7-x64-enu.exe
- win7 32bit English: http://download.microsoft.com/download/C/3/B/C3BF2EF4-E764-430C-BDCE-479F2142FC81/IE9-Windows7-x86-enu.exe
- For other language and OS, the direct download links can be found here.
IE9 interesting feature
In the webpage, if there is a telephone number, and at the same time you installed Skype, you can see that there is a direct link to place a call using skype:
Enjoy!
How to Uninstall IE9 Release candidate
- Go to “Program and Features”
- Click “View installed updates”
- Select IE9 RC to be uninstalled
Done!
Kill a process brutely via command line
cmd > TASKKILL /F /IM SomeProgram.exe /T
/F: Specifies to forcefully terminate the process;
/IM: Specifies the image name of the process to be terminated
/T: Terminates the specified process and any child processes which were started by it.
For more details, run TASKKILL /?
Acrobat Reader: Disable rotating images on reading PDF
Didn’t you encounter the annoying progress bar in Acrobat or Acrobat Reader, saying it is rotating images? It makes you so inefficient ?!
To get rid of this, go to Control Panel => Ease of Access => Ease of Access Center (or “win + U” key), and then uncheck the two checkboxes:
BTW: To disable content preparation: simply rename
Microsoft DreamSpark for EDU: Download and use MS software for free
For HKU students, they can apply for a free account as desicrbed in CC, see details here.
For other HKU memebers, they can apply an account online as follows:
- Visit DreamSpark web: click here to visit
Office 2010 Filter Packs: Search within your documents
Microsoft released Office 2010 Filter Packs which lets you search for content such as text inside Microsoft Office documents.
New features of Windows Live Essentials 2011
The Windows Live Essentials 2011 is released yesterday, and below are some of the new features.
- Live messenger and Windows 7 task bar: It is now possible to change the status of your messenger without activating the GUI. Simply update this on the taskbar preview window.
