Microsoft Automated Troubleshooting Package

Microsoft releases various Fix It’s and ATS from Microsoft Automated Troubleshooting (MAT) regularly. These tools help us identify and resolve our Windows problems and issues automatically with a few clicks.



Microsoft Support uses MATS to collect diagnostic information from a Windows-based computer, to analyze the data that is collected for known root causes, and to determine the correct resolution to any issues found. The information that is collected may also be used to automatically perform common troubleshooting tasks or automatically fix known problems on your computer.


As a Windows MAT user, you may have some questions about this service and its usage. For instance you might want to know, Which URLs may be required be configured on a firewall/ proxy if you find that your diagnostic package is not running properly?

Opera 12 Released

Opera 12 for Windows, Mac and Linux has been released. This is the first major version update, after Opera 11 was released in Dec 2011.

Opera 12 new features:


HTML5 drag-and-drop. This feature will allow you to drag and drop items from your desktop onto the browser with a view to transfer them to online or cloud services.


Opera 12 is now easier to personalize. New themes will now offer you instant makeover and will give your brower new looks.

How To Backup Bootable USB Drive

USB Image Tool is a small tool that lets you create image backup of any USB drives with a  click. It supports almost all USB drives out there and lets you backup bootable drives as well. Follow the below mentioned steps to create an image backup of the bootable drive and restore the backup using the same tool.



Step 1: Download and install USB Image Tool. It supports both x86 and x64 versions of Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8 operating systems.

Step 2: Connect your bootable USB drive to the PC and then run the program as administrator. Select your USB drive, select Device Mode in drop-down menu, click Backup button and browse to the location where you wish to save the image backup and finally click Save button to start the process.

How To Create Shortcut Key To Switch To Next Desktop Background

Microsoft introduced Desktop Slideshow feature with Windows 7 OS and the feature is present in Windows 8 as well. As all of you know, Desktop Slideshow lets you have a slide show of your favorite wallpapers. The feature supports changing of the desktop wallpaper at intervals ranging from 10 seconds to 1 day.

Hundreds of theme packs (set of wallpapers) are also available as free download from Windows personalization gallery. The only problem with the feature is that you need to manually right-click on desktop and then click Next desktop background option to switch to the next background in the slideshow.

Download 180-Day Free Trial Copies Of McAfee Internet Security 2012 And Norton AntiVirus 2012

Usually, security software vendors offer 30-day trial of the full product. In an effort to protect its users, Facebook is now offering its users to download 6 months trial copy of Norton Antivirus 2012 and McAfee Internet Security 2012 software.


Norton Antivirus 2012 comes with four different layers of smart protection to detect and remove threats from your PC. The newest version of the security software scans your Facebook news feed for suspicious web links and downloads and then warns you. Norton Antivirus also scans your email and instant messages for unsafe links and attachments.

Google Drive Launched, Download Now

Google has finally launched the much awaited and speculated Google Drive, the cloud based file storage service. The service offers 5GB for storage space and client application is available for Windows, Mac, and Android.


Google Drive lets you easily upload files, videos, photos, PDF files, Google Docs and more. In addition to the above mentioned features, there is another cool feature available if you are a Google Docs lover. Google Docs is built right into Google Drive! So, creating, editing or managing your Google Docs is fairly simple job now.


Google Drive offers 5GB of storage for free. Power users can upgrade to 25GB for $2.49/month, 100 GB for $4.99/month, and 1TB for $49.99/month. Upgrading to a paid Google Drive account will also increase your Gmail account storage limit to 25GB. Google plans to add more features to the service in coming months. Visit the download page to begin using Google’s new service.


Visit HERE to download the web installer and then run the setup to download and install the program.

Access Facebook on any Mobile Without the Internet In India

Facebook India has partnered with Fonetwish to bring Facebook on every mobile phone without requiring any apps or even the Internet.


You dial the *325# number, then enter your Facebook username and password and you are in. You can then send number based commands to access various features of Facebook, chat with friends who are online, add new people to your friends list, and more.

Download Wikipedia Articles for Offline Reading

Wikipedia, the world’s largest encyclopedia, provides database dumps of all their wikis that one can download for free and thus access the entire Wikipedia content on computers that are not connected to the Internet.


The database dumps are frequently updated and include every single article that’s available on the main Wikipedia website. The dumps are available as .xml.bz2 files that you can easily open on your computer using the free and portable WikiTaxi software.