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Windows 8 - A much anticipated OS which failed to scale up to the expectations.
Microsoft claims that 200 million Windows 8 licenses sold in 12 months. This indicates that it is not a failure like Windows Vista, which was a huge blow for Microsoft in past. It took Vista 18 months to sell 180 million licenses.


But speaking of licenses, Windows 7 steals the show. Windows 7 sold 240 million licenses in 12 months and by now (after 4 years) around 600 million licenses for Windows 7 is sold . Desperate Microsoft is planning to reduce Windows 8 cost by 200%. Though this information is not official, it is clearly visible that Windows 8 is not a big success.


Windows 8 came with a metro, which instead of boosting up, backfired. Many desktop users are not fond of metro. And its dual mode(metro, desktop) was difficult for naive users. So they stuck to the old one which was better than the new..Windows 7.
This is the 2nd time Microsoft facing this issue. The same thing happened with Vista and XP.


Moreover in Windows 8, MS forgot to change the appearance, other than introducing metro. The desktop and many other regions of UI remained same. Those who expected a big attractive difference as from XP to Win 7 were much disappointed.


Despite all these drawbacks, positives like speed, increased security helped Win 8 to get pass Vista's mark. 

Its been more than an year before which Win 8 came out (October, 2012). After that there has been only one update (Windows 8.1) which was released on October 2013. And they were not a hit as expected. So what's next? How to recover from this?



Windows 9......
According to Microsoft blog, Windows 9 might be released by April 2015. It had been codenamed as ' Threshold ' :) No more information available about Windows 9 yet. But it is almost confirm that next Windows will be available in market by 2015. Let us expect that Microsoft correct the mistakes they made with Win 8.


With new CEO Satya Nadella, Microsoft is expected to bounce back in Windows 9.

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Change Windows 7 Default Folder icon

Ever had a problem with Icons in Windows...?
Here is some solution for you.

You can either change your default folder icon or reset to normal one that has been changed by any other software.

There are two ways to do it. A simpler one and a technical one.
If you are a naive user and not ready to take risks, you may prefer the simpler one. Those who love to get more technical can go with second one which is a bit risky and tedious way.

Method One :

Step 1:

Download Icon Viewer software for windows 7 and install it.
Download Link :
Icon Viewer (Alternate link - Icon Viewer)

Step 2:

Go to -> C:\Windows\System32
Right click on imageres.dll file and select properties.

Step 3:

Go to icons tab in it, select the icon you wish to make as default, click ok.
Restart the system.

And its done.

Method Two :

The technical method is described in the pdf file available here

Change the Default Folder Icon.pdf
(Alternate link - Change the Default Folder Icon.pdf)



Hope it is helpful to you..
If you have any queries, feel free to ask. 

History of Windows Versions

WINDOWS 1.0 ---------> 16 Bit Os (1985)

WINDOWS 2.0 ---------> 16 Bit Os (1987)

WINDOWS 3.0 ---------> 16 Bit Os (1990)

WINDOWS 3.1 ---------> 16 Bit Os (1992)

WINDOWS NT 3.1 ------> 32 Bit Os (1993)

WINDOWS 95 ----------> Used WIN32 API (1995)

WINDOWS NT 4  (1996)

WINDOWS 98  (1998)

WINDOWS ME  (2000)

WINDOWS 2000 (or also Known as WINDOWS NT 5) (2000)


WINDOWS XP (or also Known as WINDOWS NT 5.1) (2001)

WINDOWS SERVER 2003

WINDOWS XP PROFESSIONAL ----->Supports 64 Bit (2005)

WINDOWS VISTA (WINDOWS NT 6.0) (2007)


WINDOWS 7 (WINDOWS NT 6.1)  (2009)
------->WINDOWS ­­ 7 ULTIMATE
------->WINDOWS ­­ 7 HOME PREMIUM
------->WINDOWS ­­ 7 HOME BASIC
------->WINDOWS ­­ 7 PROFESSIONAL
------->WINDOWS ­­ 7 STARTER
------->WINDOWS ­­ 7 ENTERPRISE

WINDOWS SERVER 2012  (2012)


WINDOWS 8 (WINDOWS NT 6.2) (2012)
------->WINDOWS ­­ 8
------->WINDOWS ­­ 8 Pro
------->WINDOWS ­­ 8 ENTERPRISE
------->WINDOWS ­­ 8 RT (FOR TABLETS)

NOTE :

XP-EXTENDED PROCEDURE
NT-NEW TECHNOLOGY
RT-RUNTIME