Archive for April, 2009

Is Windows 7 a Vista with name change?

April 23rd, 2009 by Imroz


Is Windows 7 is a Vista with name change?
Please read the following article by Jerri Coverstone to find out the answer.
These days computers now have more power than ever, they are capable of doing so much more and doing it faster than ever before, but the current operating systems XP/Vista do not exploit this [...]

HTC Touch Viva Launched in India

April 21st, 2009 by Imroz


 
HTC Touch Viva is the new affordable Price Phone from HTC.It has 2.8-inch TFT-LCD flat touch-sensitive screen with QVGA (320 X 240) resolution with the TouchFLO™ user interface.It has Bluetooth 2.0,WiFi,2MP Camera,memory: 256MB ROM and 128MB RAM and Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE: 850/900/1800/1900 MHz network.
HTC Touch Viva™ comprises the best elements of the touch screen experience [...]

Setting Capslock, Numlock, Scroll Lock

April 20th, 2009 by Imroz


If you want to set the startup state for any or all of these keys,
you just need to edit the registry.

Start Regedit
Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Control Panel \ Keyboard
Open InitialKeyboardIndicators
Change the value to one of the following numbers
0 – All Keys off
1 – Caps Lock on
2 – Num Lock on
4 – Scroll Lock [...]

Identify Faulty Device Drivers

April 20th, 2009 by Imroz


How to find faulty device drivers?
If you are having problems with lockups, blue screens, or can only get to safe mode,
often the problem is due to a faulty device driver.
One way to help identify them is through the use of the Verfier program

Start / Run / Verifier
Keep the default of Create Standard Settings
Select the [...]

Viewing Your IP Address Information

April 20th, 2009 by Imroz


What is my IP Address?
There are several ways you can determine your IP address information:
IPCONFIG

Start / Run / cmd
IPCONFIG /ALL

This opens a command window. One advantage is that you can send the information to a text file (IPCONFIG /ALL > c:\ip.txt)
But sometimes the window shows show much information you need to scroll around to [...]

Speeding Up Network Browsing

April 20th, 2009 by Imroz


Speeding Up Network Browsing

There are a lot of things which can negatively impact how fast XP will browse network shares.
One has been previously covered regarding browsing to Win9x computers.
Other things you can try, especially when there is slow browsing to network shares with a lot of files:
1. Remove current shortcuts in My Network Places
2. [...]

Disable Windows Tour

April 20th, 2009 by Imroz


If you want to disable the Take Tour of Windows XP that comes up after you install WindowsXP:

Start Regedit
Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Applets\Tour
Create a new DWORD key called RunCount
Give it a value of 0

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Renaming Multiple Files in a Directory

April 20th, 2009 by Imroz


If you want to rename multiple files in the same directory:

Using the Windows Explorer, select all the files you want to rename
Press F2 or right click and select Rename
Enter the prefix for the name you want (e.g. Newname)
This will automatically rename the rest of the files Newname (1).jpg, Newname (2).jpg etc.
Make sure you include [...]

Taking Ownership Of a Folder

April 20th, 2009 by Imroz


Sometimes when you reinstall WindowsXP, you can receive an Access Denied error when trying to open a previous user’s directory.
To take ownership of that folder again:

Log on with an account that has administrator rights
Right click on the folder
Select Properties
Click on the Security tab
Click on the Advanced button
Click on the Owner tab
In the list of [...]

Remembering Outlook / Outlook Express Password

April 20th, 2009 by Imroz


On systems, Outlook or Outlook Express will not remember the e-mail password,
which would then need to be entered in each time.
To solve the problem:

Open Registry Editor
Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft
Right Click Protected Storage System Provider
Choose the Permissions option
Click the Advanced box near the bottom right hand corner. This should open another box, [...]

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