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How to enable or disable the show Bluetooth icon in the notification area  Having the Bluetooth icon in the taskbar notification area enables you to access the Bluetooth settings quickly. This is only possible if you have in built Bluetooth adapter or an add on adapter installed on your computer or laptop. Then all you have to do is double click on the icon in the taskbar. Then the Bluetoot

sportsfan327 asked: I installed AVG and Spybot but I know two antivirus programs can 't worked together and he made me even more slowly. If I disable Norton will make my computer faster, as if I didn 't have installed? Share The Words:

Just a day ago, I received question from blog reader Mike McDonald. “How can I modify permissions for SA user? I tried to modify dbo users permission but now I am having problems.” First of all, there may be no relation between dbo user and SA user. They are different and should be left separate. Modifying the permission [...]

A dramatic Leakage of Windows 7 build 6956 from china in the form of VHD image and then availability of Windows 7 Build 6956 DVD ISO was big relief for those users who planning to install and explorer Windows 7 Build 6956. This leaked Windows 7 Build 6956 DVD ISO is rebuild from VHD Image of [...]

How to disable the “Launching HTTP Cache Cleaner…” process that appears every once in a while on the taskbar/panel when using KDE apps like Amarok in GNOME. Install kcontrol sudo apt-get install kcontrol It’ll probably install kdebase-data kicker and libkonq4 too (not sure if they’re needed but let it do it). 2. Go to Applications -> Other -> Cache. [...]

The shortcut icons in Windows Vista have Huge arrows on them. If you are worried about the look of your desktop, you may not want to see the ugly arrows. Here's some before and after pictures so you'll know what to expect:Default:Shortcut Arrow Removed: Note: Because so many people have written in about problems with the registry tweaks, I'm going to suggest that you use the FrameworkX applicatio

Internet is full of threats from websites with download links which will steal information from your computer to websites which host virus and malicious programs. When you search for information in different search engines, you may find many search results. In some cases you may accidentally login to one of those websites which will harm your [...] Related posts:Street Maps of Indian Cities via

Do you use "Hibernate" when closing your computer down?Did you know that putting your Computer into Hibernation instead of closing it down may help you start up faster, but can use anything from 200MB to 500 or more MB? If your system is tight for HD space, turn the Hibernate feature off. To do this, go to START > Control Panel > Power Options > Hibernate.Un-tick the small box that says "Enable

When your hard drive is nearly out of free space, Windows Vista will warn you with a little pop-up box. This can be handy the first time but that's usually where the usefulness stops. Aside from being annoying, Vista's constant check for low drive space uses system resources which can slow Windows down. Follow the easy steps to turn off the low disk space checks in Windows Vista. Note: Chang

Following three simple steps now you can get rid of the pesky and sometimes buggy Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) notifications:1. Reboot Windows in safe mode (hold the f8 key while booting and you will get the option to boot in safe mode) and then:2. Open Registry Editor (regedit.exe) and search for wgalogon folder and delete it. You should backup up the registry beforehand, in case somethiong go

Windows Live Mail will  block the attachment when you receive mail with chm/.exe  extension.To receive the attachment you can configure Live Mail 1. Open Windows Live Mail. 2. Menu> Tools and select Safety Options>Security tab 3. Uncheck the Do not allow attachments to be saved or opened that could potentially be a virus checkbox.     4. Click the OK button.

Currently many viruses spread to the computer through Flash disk. Mostly the viruses running through USB sticks using autorun function of USB and it does not require any user confirmation and runs the system in the background.Many user using Flash disk to transfer data from computer to other computers, it will make potential to spread the virus more higher. Every time we use USB stick into the c

Vista comes with a new indexing service which improves desktop search. It not only makes search faster, but also adds some nice features. It also allows you to search very fast for mails in Outlook. There are, however, cases where you might want to disable Vista’s search indexing.If you want to disable this feature cause you are using any third party desktop search applications or you want to im

Log in to your blogger account and select the Layout of the blog which you want to modify.Select the tab page Template and then click on Edit HTML.Search for the text : body {now paste the CSS code above it.This is the CSS code to insert. #navbar{height:0px;visibility:hidden;display:none;}That's all. From now onwards your blog will not display navigation bar.

Services are background processes which keep running waiting for a response, so if you don’t use the application it still runs and slows PC speed. The average user doesn’t need many running. 1. Click the Start button 2. Type msconfig in the Start Search box, hit enter 3. Click the Services tab 4. Uncheck the unneeded startup items (examples below) Desktop Window Manager Session Manager -

Windows Vista uses an always-on defragment set up that isn’t that necessary and will cause your system to slow down. Remember to run a defragment manually once a month. To shut down this feature: 1. Click the Start button 2. Select Computer 3. Right-click on C: Drive icon 4. Select Properties 5. Click the Tools tab 6. Uncheck Run on a schedule 7. Click OK

Vista is “sexy” because of its new aero glass transparency effects. Here is how to enable and disable this new eye candy. 1. Click Start (Windows) button 2. Select the Control Panel 3. Double-click Click Appearance and Personalization 4. Under Personalization, click Change the color scheme 5. In the Appearance Settings dialog box, click Windows Vista Basic, and then click OK. Or, if you pref

Indexing Services is a small little program that uses large amounts of memory and can often make a computer endlessly loud and noisy. This system process indexes and updates lists of all the files that are on your computer. It does this so that when you do a search for something on your computer, it will search faster by scanning the index lists. If you don’t search your computer often, this sys

There are certain programs that Windows will start every time you boot up your system, and during the startup phase, they're all competing for a slice of your CPU speed. Extra or unwanted items in the startup list will definitely increase your startup time, perhaps by several minutes. Some common examples are things related to AOL, RealPlayer, Napster, instant messengers, and video managers. If y

Google Earth uses iPhone’s accelerometer to tilt the screen from an overhead view to ground level view. While this is pretty cool, there are times when it becomes quite annoying. Here’s how to...

By default it is the nature of Microsoft windows that whenever your system crashes it automatically restarts your system most probably the issue of system crashing and restarting is caused because of problem in the RAM or Harddisk before somedays i also faced the same problem my system kept on restarting at regular interval.I wanted [...]

If you are using greasemonkey then you will be surely troubled with it and we have been receiving a lot of mails and scraps to disable the Orkut themes from their greasemonkey. Here we have given a small and simple tutorial to disable the orkut theme from the greasemonkey. Click here to Solve Orkut Errors Follow [...]

By default, Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 compresses images put into a presentation while saving. While this saves file size, it can result in a loss of quality - which you might not always want. To disable Image compression ..   Select the Office Button > Save As. Then select Tools > Compress Pictures. Click Options. Uncheck the box [...]

What happens if the users bring their own USB memory sticks and connect them to the computers at their office?With the size of USB storage devices increasing so much in recent years, the risk is increasing as more and more data could possibly be stolen or lost accidentally. You can restrict access for installing new USB storage devices by changing the permissions of these files: Type %windir

Pernah ga komputer kita ketularan virus dari flashdisk atao CD padahal Flash disk ato CD belum kita apa-apakan? Salah satu penyebabnya itu karena secara default windows menjalankan flashdisk ato CD yang sudah ada file virusnya itu secara otomatis alias autorun. Nah, agar kita terhindar dari hal tersebut, kita matikan saja fungsi autorun tersebut. Untuk mematikan [...]

Some of the Vista users finds the popup notification balloons very annoying, some finds it unuseful. and a waste of time but there are ways to turn this feature off. You can disable Vista balloon notification by editing your system registry. Before you do you anything with your registry I strongly advised that you first create a backup of your registry just in case anything goes wrong while perfo

Disabling the balloon notification is different from vista home basic and premium. In Windows XP you don't have to edit your registry settings you can simply turn this off by using Group Policy editor. This is a more safer and easy way than editing your registry. Here are the steps to successfully the feature off.

Firefox 3 has a “feature” that auto-fills a website that you wish to go to as you’re typing in the Location bar. I wanted to turn this off, but without turning off other auto complete functionality: I want to retain the autocomplete in forms (which can be managed from Tools -> Options -> Privacy)I also want to retain the autocomplete in the search box on the right (which can be turn

Here is a way to disable USB ports in an Active Directory DomainIn Active Directory Users and Computers, open an existing GPO or create a new one and open it. Use the security settings of that GPO to specify which computers it affects.In that GPO, go to Computer Configuration – Windows Settings – Security Settings – File System and create a new entry (right-click File System and select Add F

Very useful particularly for home users who want to protect their system default settings against unwanted changes that other users can make. For example changes in system desktop appearance, themes, and screen saver as well as other display settings. Using registry editor, you can disable the right click functionality on desktop to access the "Display Properties" dialog box and this will also pre

The New Xbox Experience, as we all know, is officially dated for release on November 19. But this is the Internet age, and nothing ever stays bottled up until its official release. Sure enough, reports have circulated the net that the download files for the NXE have leaked online, but before you figure it [...]

The startup scripts located in /etc/init.d are part of the bootup sequence of every Debian-like distro. Very often Ubuntu's documentation and guides have suggested - in order to deactivate init scripts - to change the permissions of the scripts in /etc/init.d, making them non-executable. This will have the following consequences:     * You'll get an error message at boot time (to avoid it you

Services are programs that run when the computer starts up and continue to run as they aid the operating system in functionality. There are many services that load and are not needed which take up memory space and CPU time. Disabling these services will free up system resources which will speed up your overall computer experience. I recommend that you sort through the list and read the descrip

By default Windows will run the Desktop Cleanup Wizard every 60 days to remove unused desktop items and shortcuts. This setting will disable it from running automatically. Open your registry (Regedit.exe) and find the key below. You may need to create the key if it does not already exist. Create a new DWORD value, or modify the existing value, called 'NoRun' and edit the value according to the s

Open Control PanelClick on Preformance and Maintenance.Click on System.Then click on the Advanced tabClick on the error reporting button on the bottom of the windows.Select Disable error reporting.Click OKClick OK

To disable the stupid feature in WinXP which tries to send a report to microsoft every time a program crashes you will have to do this:**********************************************************************Open Control PanelClick on Preformance and Maintenance.Click on System.Then click on the Advanced tabClick on the error reporting button on the bottom of the windows.Select Disable error reportin

DemoGeek.com has an in-depth and interesting article on how to add a right click menu shortcut to turn on or off Windows Vista’s Aero effect. The article is in-depth in detail and has a lot of screenshots to explain the concept better. It’s an interesting hack for Windows Vista. Read the full article on how to [...]

User Access Control is that annoying thing that keeps on popping up tirelessly to ask you if it is OK to install a particular program when you try to install one. It is one of the biggest irritants in Vista, but I must warn you that disabling it will render your system less secure.   Open [...]

The WGA Notifications patch is installed if the user has opted to automatically update Windows via the Windows Update Website or if a XP users manually downloads the latest Windows updates. A workaround posted on internet WGA install workaround (KB905474) suggests the following: End the process wgatray.exe in Windows TaskManager and restart Windows XP in safe mode. Now delete the following files

The WGA Notifications patch is installed if the user has opted to automatically update Windows via the Windows Update Website or if a XP users manually downloads the latest Windows updates. A workaround posted on internet WGA install workaround (KB905474) suggests the following: End the process wgatray.exe in Windows TaskManager and restart Windows XP in safe mode. Now delete the following files

Author: shamsuSubject: how to disable the back property of the pagePosted: 16 Oct 08 at 8:53amthanks 4 ur supporting mind i will try this

When a severe error occurs in a program, Windows XP will usually halt the program, and then Windows XP ask whether you want to send the error messages to Microsoft. However, you can actually disable this annoying features. To disable this feature: Bring up the System Properties dialog box. (In case you don’t know how to display [...]

If you do not have a windows enabled keyboard you can disable its use. Navigate to the key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\KeyboardLayout. Lookfor value of "Scancode Map". Its binary data. Set its value to "00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 03 00 00 00 00 00 5B E0 00 00 5C E0 00 00 00 00" to disable the win key. Please be cautious while entering this lengthy key.

Are you annoyed with Adobe auto-updater which is popping up and freezing the applications?You can completely disable the feature in the latest version of Adobe Acrobat reader 8.1, just follow the steps below to disable Adobe updater You need to uncheck  “Automatically check for Adobe update” & “Choose the applications to update” Another way to disable automatic updat

Dating back to Windows 95, Autorun allows an inserted CD-ROM to launch a function automatically, for example by installing a program, when the disc is inserted. This isn't always good news. It's how some malware, like rootkits, can be installed without your knowledge. Usually the disc has a file on it called Autorun.inf that tells it what to do when inserted. Basic Workaround:If you hold down the

It is very disturbingif someone copies your content and pastes in his website or blog . Mostly people do this because to create genuine content it takes time .So if we could disable the copy function in our site ,the rate at which content being copied can be reduced.But keep in mind that an experienced internet user can anyways bypass this trick .I am gonna explain this trick with reference to blo

You should edit /etc/sysconfig/selinux# vi /etc/sysconfig/selinux file using an editor and make sure the paramater is: SELINUX=disabled

Thumbnail preview for PDF files can be enabled or disabled. Adobe Acrobat Reader includes a thumbnail extractor shell extension which generates thumbnail preview for PDF files in Explorer. If you want to disable PDF thumbnail generation for performance or for other reasons, use the steps listed below: (This assumes that you have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed [...]

How to Enable/Disable Hibernation in Windows Vista is a very common question these days here is my solution for Enable/Disable Hibernation in Windows Vista.What is the difference between Vista's sleep and hibernate? Sleep awakens quicker than hibernate. In the event of complete power loss, sleep stores the information in RAM, thus loss of power means loss of unsaved data. Hibernate on the

If you would like to disable Data Execution Prevention for IE 7 only, here is how you can do it :

Type cmd in Vista's search bar. Rt click on search results 'cmd' and click on Run as Administrator. Then copy paste the following and hit enter.

If you feel confident with taking control of security, you probably don’t need the User Account Control (UAC) that comes with Microsoft Windows Vista. This guide will show you how to turn off the UAC so that it doesn’t bother you any more. 1. Open the Start Menu and select Control Panel. 2. Now select User Accounts3. Select Turn User Account Control on or off 4. Uncheck the box next to

If you want to disable the user login screen of Windows Vista, here is what you can do :

What is the difference between Vista's sleep and hibernate?   Sleep awakens quicker than hibernate.  In the event of complete power loss, sleep stores the information in RAM, thus loss of power means loss of unsaved data.  Hibernate on the other hand, saves the contents of memory to a file called hiberfil.sys, thus you would not lose unsaved data. The space it takes up depe

In Windows Vista explorer, when you select the Details, all the columns, for that row, are active for file selection. Under XP only the 'Name' column was. In a large folder with many columns displayed, it can be difficult to right-click on the folder background. These scripts will help you modify the full row select behavior.

How to disable Windows Vista the Welcome CenterChanging the Look and Feel of VistaWindows Vista's new neat-and-slick interface might make you ooh and aah, might wow you, and might even be the reason you updated to Vista; on the other hand, you might not care for it and might not want to take the time to get used to it. Therefore, this chapter is dedicated to those who don't like change—especiall

To disable system restore feature in Windows XP do this.Right-Click My Computer icon on the desktop and choose properties ,the system properties dialogue box opens ,choose system restore tab and then check the option to turn off system restore ,Click apply then OK when done.

I've gotten this question several times so I figured it was time to blog about it. While I don't recommend this for a production environment, some customers have asked for instructions on how to disable SSL for Lotus Connections. This can be more convenient than using a self-signed certificate which may cause some annoying pop-ups. Here's the simple procedure: Disable SSL in the config file

Automatic Updates is a great feature. Your computer stays protected from threats without worrying about it… but if it's 3am and I'm trying to play a video game, the last thing I want is for the automatic updates to pop up and remind me every 5 minutes that I need to reboot, interrupting my game… Drives me crazy! Dear Restart Dialog, I hate... Read the full entry at PROHACK. Be a pro,Vis

Fireofox 3 has a built in feature of scanning for viruses after each download is completed.That could slow the process specially if the file is big.That can really take some important time.So if you want to disable this automatic virus scan you just have to follow these simple steps.Yeah yeah the same old about:config trick.Here you go.Type about:config in the Firefox address barNow filter the fol

USB drives have become very common today>it has lot advantage but,there are certain problems associated with it.These devices are the common carrier of viruses & worms which can create havoc in the system.when ever any usb drive is connected to system,it is automatically detected.It is done through  usbstor.sys driver.It automatically loads appropriate driver for the USB drive..our motto i

Q: How can I disable one or several keys of my laptop keyboard in Linux? When I press DELETE key it gets stuck and deletes everything A: No problem! You can use the following command to remap or disable any key of your keyboard: xmodmap -e 'keycode <value>=<action>' For example, run the following to disable your [...]

There may be instances when you need to disable Desktop Effects (Compiz Fusion) temporarily in openSUSE. To disable Desktop Effects temporarily,     Press + F2 and type “metacity — replace” This should let compiz to start but disables later on. This will replace metacity as the new Window Manager. To re-enable Desktop Effects     Press + F2 and type “compiz-manager –replace

It’s important to keep your computer as secure as possible. One way to do so is to enable Secure Logon so that you are required to press Ctrl+Alt+Delete to log on. Using secure logon provides an additional layer of security for your computer by ensuring that the authentic Windows logon screen appears. When secure logon [...]

Disable CD Autorun ( WinXP PRO Only)1) Click Start, Run and enter GPEDIT.MSC 2) Go to Computer Configuration--> Administrative Templates,--> System. 3) Locate the entry for Turn autoplay off and modify it as you desire.

Windows OS generally have a number of errors.Some are critical also.But,it frustrates its user with frequent messages.The best way to disable the notification is to follow these steps:press "windows+pause/break" button together.Than go to Advanced tab & from there, look at the bottom.U will find that a button that says error reporting.click on it.It will present a small box.Select Di

1. Copy paste kode dibawah ini dan simpan sebagai disableSelect.jswindow.onload = function() {document.onselectstart = function() {return false;} // iedocument.onmousedown = function() {return false;} // mozilla}/* Jika Anda ingin men-disable semua elemen, gunakan ini. */window.onload = function() {var element = document.getElementById('content');element.onselectstart = function () { return false;

It is very disturbing if someone copies your content and pastes in his website or blog . Mostly people do this because to create genuine content it takes time .So if we could disable the copy function in our site ,the rate at which content being copied can be reduced .But keep in mind that an experienced internet user can anyways bypass this trick .I am gonna explain this trick with referen

i was recently playing games and this nasty windos logo key keep annoying me , cause i often accidently clicked it , and i start to search a solution to solve my problem, and found the following article in microsfot website, and it did work, hope this helps, thanks!CODE in other articles, u can copy the following messages into ur notepad and save as *.reg, and use it..Windows Registry Editor Versi

You can easily access these virtual console using keyboard combination by simply hitting Alt+F1 (tty1) upto sixth (Alt+F6) tty console. you can easily login to these console. There is a quick and effective way to disable these console. 1) Open /etc/inittab file and look for the section 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty --noclear tty1 2:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty2 3:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty

Every time I need to visit hyperlinks presentin a Word document, I cannot directly clickon the link. I need to hold down the CTRLkey while clicking the link. I find this processcumbersome. Is there a way to directly visitthese links without holding the CTRL key? Whenever you want to visit ahyperlink in a Word document, you need tohold down CTRL key while clicking on thelink. If you find this proce

This post explains how to disable the right mouse button on blogger (blogspot) or any other web page using HTML (JavaScript) code. It's so annoying if someone copies (thefts) from your blog, articles, pictures and other proprietary information from you saying that they are the original owners of content. But, I think "disable the right mouse button 'is not the right solution for this. Most pe

If you want to disable beeping sounds in Vista/XP/2003/2000 follow any one of the method.These commands assume administrative rights on the PC.Works especially well to hush Terminal Services Beeping. Method 1From Local MachineTo disable the PC Speaker beep temporarily from the command line type the followingnet stop beepTo disable the PC Speaker beep for good run the following commandsc config be

Windows Media Player 11 provides a feature to share media between different computers on the same network, and can even share media with other devices as well. So if you are not using this features you should or can disable it to free up some KB of RAM.How to- 1) First of all, you have to disable Windows Media Player Network Sharing Service. So Open up Services from Control Panel, or type services

Usually system administrators need to keep the systems with their control. Either it is for data safety or for system safety. In such a way here it is an option for disabling the task manager by Registry and Group Policy Editor. First we look at the Registry Editor. To disable the Task Manager follow the following steps carefully. 1. Start Regedit Through Run Command 2. Click Start 3. S

As you all know, Yahoo! upgraded its features and the capacities of the mail accounts have grown to 2GB. That's good for sure, but the "monitoring" methods that we all have been far too familiar within the last couple of years have been renewed with this move as well. Yahoo! is now keeping track of which sites its members that are getting into groups or using Yahoo! services are visiting and stori

On windows xp.. Note: You must be Logged into the Administrator account to do this: 1. Click Start —> Run… 2. type “gpedit.msc” This is the group policies editor. 3. Click “Administrative Templates” 4.then “System” 5. then find “Turn off Autoplay” 6. Doubleclick it and set it to “Enable” You can choose to turn [.