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The games freeze after 10 to 15 minutes 2008-03-04 17:26:00 It is highly probable that your computer is overheating —either the CPU or the graph-ics card. Open the cabinet and look to see whether the CPU fan is functional. Check if all the fans in the cabinet as well as those in thepower supply are working. If possible, remove the CPU heatsink, clean the contact surfaces ofthe CPU and heatsink with a clean piece of cloth, apply a thin coat of thermal paste suchas Arctic Ice, and replace the heatsink on the CPU. Neatly arrange and tie up all the wire sand cables to allow free airflow. If possible,purchase a rounded IDE cable and install it inplace of the flat ribbon cable.If the problem persists, the fault lies with your graphics card, and there is little that can be done except downloading (from www.nvidia.com) and installing the updated driv-ers Read more:minutes
DVD-ROM drive disappeared after installing Vista - problem 2008-03-04 17:15:00 FIXThis happens when an incorrect drive
r was installed for the DVD-ROM. There are two solutions you can try.Method 1: In the Control Panel, double-click System. Click on Device Manager in the Hardware tab. Click the drive with the question mark next to it. Click Uninstall in the Action menu and click OK when prompted for confirmation. Click “Scan for hardware changes” on the Action menu. Your drive should get automatically detected. If this does not happen, try Method 2. Method 2: Open the Registry editor and go to the following key:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/System/CurrentControlSet/Control/Class/{4d36e965-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}Click Export on the File menu, type “back-upkey” in the file name dialog box, and click Save. This will help you revert to the original registry settings for Read more:disappeared
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SOUND CARD Buying Tips 2008-03-03 14:15:00 Integrated sound chips use a lot of system resources. They make goodmakeshift solutions, but generally offerlower quality output as compared tostandalone cards.. ..Buying
TipsDEFINE YOUR USAGE: If you love watching DVDs, and don’t play games too often, opt for a sound card that supports multiple channels, such as 5.1surround. If you want a gaming solution,buy a card that supports the standard 3D sound APIs, such as DirectSound, EAX, A3D and I3DL2.WARRANTY: Make sure you get at least a one-year warranty for budget sound cards—under Rs 2,000—and at least a three-year warranty for more expensive ones.INTERFACE: Make sure that thesound card’s interface is PCI and not ISA.DRIVERS: Check that the sound cardyou’re buying has the drivers bundled,especially if you are a non-Windows user.
Wireless Away From Home 2008-03-02 18:21:00 When travelling, you have to carry spare batteries, chargers, carrycases for all your mobile devices. The last thing you need is to haveto carry and take care of data connector wires as well.When on the road, nothing beats being wireless-enabled. Why unpack and boot up your laptop when you can send that shortquick e-mail off in a flash using your PDA and mobile phone. When staying at hotels around the world, you would have to bevery lucky today, to find rooms with LAN connectors. Wireless
hasbecome the Internet access solution of choice that hotels andrestaurants across the globe offer their patrons.You also don’t want to have to hook up a cradle, connect it toyour laptop and sync your PDA everyday, just tapping on the syncicon and letting them connect wirelessly is just too right a solu
Bluetooth Networks 2008-03-02 17:53:00 Wireless networking doesn’t only come in the ‘Wi-Fi’ flavour. For a Personal Area Network, Bluetooth
is the best solution. The most common misinterpretation of that people make of the term‘Network’, is to think that it only involves PCs.Even when you connect your Bluetooth-enable phone to a Bluetooth headset, it is a form of networking at work. Bluetooth networks can let you connect your PDA and cell phone to your PC,your PDA to your cell phone, and even let you have a completely wireless mouse, joystick and keyboard.It can also be the perfect solution to sharing Internet access between your mobile phone, PDA and your PC. With Bluetooth, you could set up your PDA to connect and use the home printer as well.
Planning a Wireless Home Network 2008-03-02 17:20:00 The BasicsPlanning is the name of the game. Spend quality time planning for the best performance of the wireless network you intend to setup in your home. Since we are talking about linking two or more PCs wirelessly,you will need to first make the list of the Wi-fi equipment that you will be needing.Wireless
hardware available in the market usually comes with documentation that explains in detail how to get it up and run-ning. It will therefore help if certain issues are cleared beforehand.These issues will depend on what kind of systems you are going toconnect. Is it going to be two PCs, a Mac and a PC, or is there awireless printer involved as well? What kind of speed you expect out of your wireless network?Are your data transfers going to involve accesses to files and fold-ers, or are Read more:Wireless Home
Mount A Hard Disk As A Folder In The C: Drive 2008-02-29 22:22:00 This tip works for anypartition of any NTFS formatted drive except thepartition with the Windows system files on it. Windows XP, likeWindows 2000 before it,allows you to ‘mount’ drivesas folders in a pre-existinglogical drive. So if yourcomputer has a 20 GB diskformatted as a singlepartition and volume (driveC:), you could purchase asecond drive, partition andformat it through the DiskManager, and then instead ofgiving it its own drive letter,add it to your C: drive as adirectory. Any files added to thatdirectory would, of course, bestored on the new disk.This can come in handy—certain applications such asdatabases are extremelylarge, but may not supportstoring data on a logicallyseparate drive. As far as Windows isconcerned, a drive mountedas a directory is just adirectory. This can Read more:Folder
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Connecting To Windows PCs And Servers From A Mac 2008-02-29 19:51:00 You can connect to Windows
computers and servers on your net-work from a Mac To locate and connect to Windows computers on a network,you can use the Network browser in the Finder.If you cannot locate the Windows computer in the Networkbrowser, you may be able to connect to it using the Connect ToServer dialog in the Finder.To locate the Windows computer, you need to know the work-group name for the computer and the network name (called the“computer name”) for the computer. To connect to the computer, youalso need a username and password and the name of the shared fold-er you want to access. If you don’t have this information, contact theperson who owns the computer, or your network administrator.1 In the Finder, choose Go > Connect to Server.2 Type the network address for the compute Read more:Connecting
What is Mac OS X? 2008-02-29 19:38:00 People make two very common mistakes about the name “Mac OSX.” The word “Mac” is short for “Macintosh,” and is therefore notsupposed to be written “MAC.” The other mistake is that peoplepronounce the “X” in “Mac OS X” as “ex”; it is supposed to be thenumber 10, so you pronounce it “ten.” When Steve Jobsreturned to Apple,it was in a direstate, the reasonbeing that the MacOS was very outdat-ed and hadn’t seena revision in years.Therefore, whenApple announcedMac OS X, it wasmet with an enthu-siasm that can hardly be overstated. The Apple faithful had been waiting fifteenyears for a worthy successor to the classic Mac operating system.Several had even jumped the gun and switched to the only com-mercial alternative, the Windows OS from Microsoft. Mac OS Xhad be
Laptop keeps restarting randomly - problem 2008-02-28 22:13:00 There could be many problems that can cause yourlaptop to restart automatically and randomly
. Here are afew common problemsFaulty battery: Most spontaneous shutdown and restartingproblems on laptops are due to a faulty battery. Laptop
batter-ies are like mobile phone batteries—they do not last forever.A heavily-used laptop, where it is often running only onbattery power, will use up its battery at any stage between thefirst and second year of use. What is not very well known isthat even if you always use your laptop from the mains ratherthan on battery, a faulty battery will still adversely affectyour laptop’s operation, from unwanted shutdowns to spon-taneous restarts or freezes. Take the battery out, plug thelaptop directly into the power mains, and Read more:keeps
Start > Run Shortcuts 2008-02-28 22:05:00 Use these shortcuts in Start
> Run toget to your configuration tools faster inWindows XP Professional:compmgmt.msc Computer management consoledevmgmt.msc Device managerdiskmgmt.msc Disk management dfrg.msc Disk defragmenterfsmgmt.msc Shared folders gpedit.msc Group policy editor lusrmgr.msc Local users and groups perfmon.msc Performance monitor secpol.msc Local security settings services.msc Manage services Read more:Shortcuts
How to Speed Up With A USB Stick 2008-02-28 22:01:00 If you’ve got yourself a large USBFlash drive (at least 1 GB, preferably 2),you can move your system’s page fileonto it for significantly betterperformance, because accessing flashmemory is typically faster than youraverage hard disk.You should also optimise the Flashdrive for performance—right-click on itin My Computer, select Properties. Go tothe Hardware tab, select your Flashdrive and click Properties. Under thePolicies tab, select “Optimise forperformance”. A couple of caveats: Firstly, if youremove this drive while Windows isrunning, you could cause it to crash, sobe careful there. Secondly, Flash drivesare good only for limited read/writecycles, so this approach is definitelygoing to eat into its lifetime. Use thistip only for when you really need theperformance boost rath Read more:Speed
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Clear The Page File On Shutdown 2008-02-28 21:59:00 This setting may or may not improve yoursystem’s performance (it depends on yourusage patterns), but it does provide reliefto the paranoid. Your Windows swap filemay contain unencrypted text, includingpasswords, that could be exploited byinterested parties. To delete the file whenyou shut down your system, you’ll find asetting under Computer Configuration >Windows Settings > Security Settings >Local Policies > Security Options called“Shutdown
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virtual memorypagefile”. Double-click this, select Enabledand click OK. Your shutdown time willincrease marginally, though.
A 6 channel speaker setup 2008-03-10 22:43:00 A 6 channel speaker setup
So you got a new set of 5.1 speakers. Great—way to go!Your next step would proba-bly be to grab a bag of popcorn and settle down in front of your home entertainment system! Slide in that DVD and sitback. But what’s this? DVD not sounding the way it should?Gun shots fired from behind being played by the front speakers? The ensuing irritation could make you want to tear out your hair, or maybe throw out your speakers, or both!What you need is only to prop-erly set up those sound boxes, and you’ll be surprised at the mere minutes it takes to actually get it right. We throw in a helping hand,as usual, and believe it—you will hear the difference!Why Six Channels?A 5.1 speaker set is, of course, a six-channel system, that is, it is capa-ble of reproducing six ch
Load Applications Faster-xp registry hack 2008-03-09 21:57:00 The Windows prefetcher aims to load applications faster by “pre-fetching” the application and storing it in the pre-fetch cache. You can speed up application loading by changing the default value ofone the settings under the relevant key.Navigate to: HLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SessionManager\Memory Management\PrefetchParametersThe default value for the Enable Prefetcher setting is 3. Change this value to 5 to make applications load faster. You can experi-ment with higher values—up to 9—and see if you get a further improvement.Since this relates to the system, a reboot is required for thechange to take effect.sam.samier@gmail.com Read more:Applications
New iPhone/iPod touch with more storage 2008-03-19 16:43:00 It may not be the 3g iPhone
that many of us are waiting for, but it is the highly anticipated 16GB model! That’s right Apple just quietly updated the Apple online store with new iPhone and iPodtouch
models. The NEW 16GB iPhone goes for $499 (ships 1-3 days) and the 8GB model is unchanged at $399. There doesn’t seem to be any other apparent changes in the iPhone itself.The iPod touch gets a more significant boost now with a 32GB model at the same $499 price as the 16GB iPhone. So you can get an iPod touch 8GB for $299, 16GB for $399 or 32GB for $499 (ships 1-2 days).While I’m always up for more storage
on my iPhone, I still remain puzzled as to why Apple wouldn’t release an iPhone that has the same capacity as the higher end iPod touch? Yes I want a 32GB iPhone! I don’t want to Read more:New iPhone
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