Unicode and Microsoft’s commitment to it is creating history in online Telugu content. When compared with online content in other worlds major languages Telugu content might still be very micro sized. But it is significant amount when compared to what it was couple of years back.

        Before Unicode era it was not easy to write something online in Telugu script. Some wrote Telugu content in roman script, popular news papers came up with online editions but with non standard encoding and dynamic fonts technology. As most of the Educated Telugu are bi-lingual (Telugu & English) if not tri-lingual (Telugu, English & Hindi) they were happy to use chat + mail in either English or a mix of English and roman script Telugu.

         With Unicode support readily available on XP, Vista, even on 98 after some hacks the scenario began changing. Blogs, Online webzines, wiki created bulk of Telugu Unicode content on web. Now there are more than 1000 blogs which are writing Telugu in Telugu script. One interesting observation I have:- Before starting these blogs some of these people are lot worried about future of Telugu, but now they no longer worried! They have hopes for the survival of Telugu language spoken by more than 80 million people.

Sample Telugu Blog : http://nachaki.spaces.live.com/

If you want to open notepad you can open from clicking on start button, all programs, accessories, notepad

Or you can also open by running 'notepad'. i.e press start button + R and type notepad and press enter.

Like wise you can open

wordpad

devenv --> visual studio

winword --> microsoft word.

Alright, may be these things you might already know.

What if you want to open some other application from run command which you don't know the command?

How to know the command of that application.

Let us say we want to know the command name for microsoft windows moviemaker.

Step 1: Open microsoft movie maker (from start window, all programs, windows movie maker)

Step 2: Open Task manager (press alt +ctl +del and then T)

Step 3: Keep the highlight on the windows movie maker ( make sure you are in applications tab)

Step 4: right click over it and click on Go to process

Step 5: Read the process name . It is moviemk.exe

Step 6: That's it. Now you have the command for opening windows movie maker from run command. i.e "moviemk".

I am not sure this will work for all.

But you can try and see for other applications as well.

Happy windows using :-)

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