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Evalaze: Virtualize your Windows applications

Evalaze is a free but powerful software virtualization application that allows a user to flexibly run a virtual application. The program creates a different virtual environment so that the virtual applications do not affect the working of Windows and other [...]

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How to Enable Hyper-V in Windows 8

Windows 8 supports client Hyper-V; a flexible, robust, and high performance client virtualization technology that enables IT pros and developers to run multiple operating system instances simultaneously on their Windows 8 computer. Hyper-V requires a 64-bit Windows 8 system that [...]

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VMware Player 5 for Windows 8 released

Just installed Windows 8 and are missing your all Windows 7, Vista or XP apps? Well this may be the news you were waiting for. VMware has released VMware Player 5 for Windows 8 which easily lets you run your earlier operating systems [...]

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Review Of SpotFlux – Stop Existing On The Internet

While you are on the Internet, there are many things happening that you don’t know. There are people and companies tracking you to know your interests. There are agencies collecting data about you and your computers. There may be hackers [...]

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Create virtual desktops in Windows with Sysinternals Desktops

One feature of Linux that you may have liked that is you can switch between different virtual desktops. You can do so for Windows by using a free  program named ‘Desktops’. Desktops from SysInternals, creates 4 virtual desktops. Plus you [...]

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Does your Windows PC support Virtualization?

Now as the Windows 8 DP has been released, many want to try it out. There are various Virtualization software for trying out Windows 8 on a machine without affecting your machine setup as it can be run from within [...]

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Download VirtualBox and get into the world of Virtualization

Oracle VM VirtualBox is a powerful and free x86 virtualization package for enterprise as well as home use. It was originally created by a software company named Innotek GmbH, which was then purchased by Sun Microsystem. It is now being developed [...]

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How to Remotely Control Windows 8 Virtual Machine

This tutorial will tell you how to remotely control the Windows 8 virtual machine. Most of the people installed Windows 8 using VirtualBox and VMware. Sometimes we need to transfer files from virtual machine to host system and vice versa. Establishing a Remote [...]

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Understanding how Hyper-V will work on Windows 8

The Windows 8 user guide says Windows 8 supports client Hyper-V. So what exactly is Hyper-V? Well Hyper-V stands for Hypervisor based virtualization. Perhaps Hyper-V has been part of earlier two versions of Windows. Microsoft now plans to make it a [...]

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Install Windows 8 on Mac OS X using VMware Fusion

Good news for all of you Microsoft Windows fans and still better news for you Mac OS X fans who want to try out Windows 8! Now the developer’s preview of Windows 8 can be installed on Mac OS X [...]

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Introduction to Virtualization

As a user some of you may be nonplussed by the two terminologies which appear now almost at every  technical site:  Cloud Computing and Virtualization. We had covered introductory articles on Cloud Computing but Virtualization has not been covered here. [...]

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BlueStacks: Run Android Apps and Games on your Windows PC

Ever wished you could run some Android App or Game on your Windows PC? A soon to be publicly launched app will bring the Android operating system to Windows-based computers via a virtualization layer. Enter BlueStacks! UPDATE 11th Oct 2011: [...]

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How to install and use Windows XP Mode in Windows 7

In the previous article of this series, I discussed about the new features introduced by Microsoft in Windows Virtual PC. Now moving further in this article I’ll discuss the methodology of installing and using Windows XP Mode in an easy [...]

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Working with Windows XP Mode for Windows 7

Windows XP Mode, a feature in Windows 7 (available to use with Professional, Enterprise and Ultimate versions) is a virtual Windows XP environment which is ready to use with Windows Virtual PC. It is specially designed to helps small businesses upgrade to Windows [...]

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Giveaway: Prayaya V3 – Portable Virtual Operating System

Prayaya V3 is a smart technology that allows you to take your entire PC on a USB drive or any other removable storage device.  By hooking the kernel of PC and redirecting file operations, Prayaya V3 virtualizes an operating system [...]

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Windows SteadyState alternatives for Windows 7

You may have read earlier that Microsoft has decided to discontinue downloads of the very useful Windows SteadyState after this year. While one can always achieve a Steady State in Windows 7 using Group Policy, native Windows 7 features, and [...]