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open blocked sites 2008-04-01 11:15:00 Here is a good solution for all those who have restricted rights on there internet connection, I.e. those using net in there schools collage or offices. Anonymous Proxy Servers - it hide your IP address and prevent unauthorized access to your computer through the Internet. They do not provide anyone with your IP address and effectively hide any information about you and your reading interests. Besides that, they don't even let anyone know that you are surfing through a proxy server. Anonymous proxy servers can be used for all kinds of Web-services, such as Web-Mail (MSN Hot Mail, Yahoo mail), web-chat rooms, FTP archives, etc
Folder option not visible 2008-03-26 12:13:00 Very often i found people saying they do not get the folder option
onon there navigation Bar that may be due to some virus, the folderoption gets disappear. earlier I was also able to hide the files andto see them : I was going to the "Tool" menu then "Folder
Option" andthen "View" tab and "show the hidden files and folders" check box ..but in the past few days i faced the same very problem with my system.so i couldn't make changes to the settings of my folder. like forhiding some folder, the folder option only wasn't coming ...."do notshow" "show" hidden folder which is present in that is much in use. soi found the way get throw. just login to your administrator account..press windows+r then write -->>gpedit.msc --& Read more:visible
Speed up your system 2008-03-25 04:50:00 Below I have mentioned a few tweaks that will give your system a boost in performance. Please note that these tweaks are for Windows XP. * Format your hard drive using NTFS file system which is faster and more stable * Defragment your disk drives twice a month for faster data access. Click Start > All Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Disk Defragmenter to launch the utility. Defragment your system regularly Select a drive and click 'Defragment'. This will start the defragmentation process. * Disable Fast User Switching by going to Start > Run, and typing 'control user passwords' and pressing [Enter]. Disable Fast User Switching In the User Accounts window, click on 'Change the way users log on or off ' ; make sure Read more:Speed
increase the speed of Internet. 2008-03-23 03:22:00 A bit on increasing the speed of your internet connection, indeed it is very irritating to work in a slow net connection. Some times for a job of few seconds you may have to wait for minutes. Here is the remedy i found the "proxy servers". A proxy server is a kind of buffer between your computer and the Internet
resources you are accessing. In simple word they contain the necessary fies that you may need at time when some page is to loaded in your PC on your access that very site, called "cache". So the proxy servers makes it deliver immediately. The overall increase in performance may be very high. Also, proxy servers can help in cases when some owners of the Internet resources impose some restrictions on users from certain countries or geograp
Turn-off System Restore 2008-03-22 12:24:00 Go to Start > Run, type 'msconfig' and press [Enter]. Click on the Startup tab and uncheck any programs you dont want Windows to load at startup. Please be careful what you remove from here. If you don't know what a particular program is do a Google search (you can use the Google search at the bottom of this page) on the name of the process and then decide whether to keep it or not.SystemRestore
uses gigabytes and reduces system performance. If you dont install and uninstall programs often, you can turn this feature off. Press [Windows] + [Pause Break], to open system properties. Click on System Restore, and select 'Turnoff System Restore on all drives' and click 'Apply'. Note: All previously created restore points will be deleted.
Optimize Virtual memory 2008-03-21 15:36:00 The virtual memory is the amount of space on your hard disk allotted to Windows XP, which it uses as though it were RAM. Press [Windows] + [Pause Break], to get to the system properties dialog box. Go to Advanced, under Performance click on Settings, go to Advanced tab. Here make sure 'programs' is selected for both Processor scheduling and Memory usage. Now under Virtual memory, click on change. Select the drive where the page file is currently present, select 'No Paging File' and click on 'Set' >>>"Virtual Memory" Note: If you have two physically separate hard drives, set the virtual memory on the drive that doesn't hold XP. If you have only one hard drive, set it to another partition that does not hold XP. This increases performance.Now select the
INCREASE YOUR sYSTEM pERFORMANCE 2008-03-21 15:29:00 Do you heard about catch memory that is an important part of your system?Ya!! its true. its can increase your system performance to a noticeable extendand now a days your mother board has a catch memory with 1MB or greater than that(L2 CATCH).u have a catch memory of 1MB or greater .but u know how much your OS use from it?u are amazing to know it? just 0 kb for windows XP(2005).in case of 2004 most probably 255 kb and also 0kb forWidows media center (full versions) that I have just install on my machine.now I am going to my point how increase it okFollow the instructions given belowa > go to start then run then type regedit b > then go to [HKEY_LOCAK_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CyourrentControlSet\Control\SessionManager\Memory Management]c > then look the right side for a key
Tips & Tricks 2008-03-17 08:28:00 Well it is not easy to switch me to work without a mouse, if u are so much accustomed to use it. But if you try for a few days of say or two you can do things really faster than what you do with mouse, just you have to learn the keyboard shortcuts. yesterday i faces the problem of working without a mouse when it fall down the table and there was some internal breakage, but at that time i found it really very irritating to work without mouse. i asked one of my friend to mail me the keyboard shortcuts and now i am loving it to work without it.Firstly, it's not bad. Yup! For those who think that life without a mouse reminds you of the 80's or MS Dos, I've got a message for you, it really isn't that bad. In fact whatever you do with the mouse you can do with
Adsense ads within posts 2008-03-15 15:31:00 Well due to the up gradation of the template mode by the blogger beta group various user are finding it difficult to customize their blog template, those who have some idea of HTML, but it is very benefit to those user who do not have any idea of HTML at all. just they have to do is to add or remove some of the page element in the layout section.
Now here are some of the tips for those blogger users with some advertising account who are willing to put there ads in between the posts
. I feel this is a wonderful idea because people may be attracted to these much.
For this what you have to do is just enable (tick the option for showing ads between posts) default position where ads are placed (below the post), isn't a good place for a good result in terms of revenue.
So here is how i changed th Read more:Adsense
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computer speed tip 2008-03-15 10:10:00 There are many instant when your computer speed may reduce after using it for an year or two ,even reinstalling the operating system doesn't solve the problem. the reason may be the heating problem of your processor. so for this once in a year you can open the cabinet and blow of the dist that may deposit on your processor heat sink(processor fan). WARNING!!!! check out if your computer is under warranty because it is void if you remove it or open it
Adobe reader (Acrobat reader 6.0 and 7.0) talks 2008-03-14 01:19:00 The interesting thing i have noticed few days back about the Acrobat
reader that it speaks. so i thought of making a post on it. it uses the Microsoft SAM for this purpose. you can ask the computer to read the whole document, or a single page without without taking the pain to read it just follow these few tips.1. For listening to the whole document press ----> shift+control+b 2. For listening to only one page press -----> shift+control+v3. For stopping or pause press -----> shift+control+x4. For resuming read -----> shift+control+cjust you have to press window+u to configure the Microsoft navigator if it the voice is not clear.ain't it cool!!!!! Read more:Adobe
UPS safety Tip 2008-03-07 22:11:00 Always put the supply OFF of your UPS when it is not in use.There are many people who doesn't switch of the main power supply of the UPS when it is not in use, this may shorten the life of there UPS battery.symptoms may be:reduced backup time on power failure .High rate of beeping frequencyReason :The main cause of this is the over charging problem with the battery, inside there is a lead acid battery which is constantly on charging when the power is on and it gives continuous supply to the inverter circuit even if the power is on when there is a small fluctuation in the power line the sensing circuit senses it and the relay inside gets tripped and disconnect it from the power supply line. And then it runs totally on the battery not gong to much detail of the working i will conclud
Double click on hard disk drive dosen't work 2008-04-05 23:13:00 Some times there is a problem with not opening of the drive
on double clicking. HEre in my hostel many people face this problem, but only few of them know how to repair it. Even the Anti viruses are unable to do this in some case. indeed it is because of the freaking viruses. These may be the Key logger, what they do is they creates a Autorun.inf file that redirects your Double click action to open or to execute some program that spreads into your system and and deteriorate.Best option in this case is to go to the address bar and type in the drive you want to go followed by a colon e.g for C drive " C:" >> then "Enter".To remove this problem thing you have to do is just go to the command prompt then follow these steps.full steps here:press windows+r.cmd >> "Enter"cd\ >> "Enter"go to drive
Turn-off System Restore 2008-04-15 06:08:00 Go to Start > Run, type 'msconfig' and press [Enter]. Click on the Startup tab and uncheck any programs you dont want Windows to load at startup. Please be careful what you remove from here. If you don't know what a particular program is do a Google search (you can use the Google search at the bottom of this page) on the name of the process and then decide whether to keep it or not.System Read more:Restore
10 Tips For Google Image Search 2008-04-22 10:11:00 Google ImageSearch
could be used in many ways.1. If you want to know if a person is a man or a woman and the name doesn't help, do a search for the name. 2. If you don't know the meaning of a word, the pictures may help you. 3. A better search for Flickr. Google uses information from other sites that link to Flickr photos, so you may find Google search better.4. Find what's interesting about a Read more:Google
Get Yahoo Mail Beta 2008-04-22 10:09:00 To get YahooMail Beta
, just switch your content preference to Germany, France or UK. Then you will be asked if you want to join the beta when you log into your Yahoo Mail. Say yes, and join the beta. Then from the options menu, change your content preference what it was before. Then go to Yahoo Mail again. You should see Yahoo Beta. If you don't see it, go to options and click "Try Beta" button.
The Benefits of Disabling System Restore 2008-04-26 15:45:00 Windows XP comes with a number of sexy features -- some of which many people haven't had time to explore enough to understand fully. SystemRestore
is one of them. Here's some info about the System Restore feature and a suggestion for when you might want to switch it off.
System Restore periodically takes a snapshot of your computer. You can use the snapshots to restore your computer to a Read more:Benefits
Build back up and restore your Ubuntu machine 2008-04-26 15:31:00 There are many, many different ways to back up your Ubuntu
system. Here we’re going to look at two of them, one of which is a full system backup and the other is a way to copy folders and files. The point of this article isn’t to be super inclusive of every method under the sun, but to provide a guide as to how I do this and why it works for me.
All of my backups are done to an external drive. Read more:Build
Beat proxy in town 2008-05-05 11:51:00 Your freedom is the best proxy server i have been using for opening Orkut and Myspace sites that are banned in my college computer lab so with your freedom you can get access to any blocked sites when you have a restricted rights to the internet connection. just download and install then register yourself in to the site after registration you can configure the proxy servers you want to use.
good Net browsers 2008-05-05 02:14:00 The most popular of all the internet browsers
i found in the internet is the Mozilla firefox and flock they are the best for those having slow internet connections. There are options to change colors of the web pages. prevent loading of images on the sites all these features are available which are very useful to many people. for me in my college we are not allowed to open pages with high graphic
what are .RAR and .Zip files - WinRar 2008-05-05 01:45:00 so many times people have to send files
to there friends via e-mail but it is very difficult if the files to be send are more in number. it becomes very cumbersome to attach each of the files, and in some case by any chance if the speed of the internet is slow then with you there will be no hope of getting your work done. so WinRar is the solution Winrar or WinZip. They are powerful archive
GoogleTalk trick with friends 2008-05-06 09:35:00 With this small modification you can use more than one Google talk log-in at a time with multiple user name or account. it is very good for people those who share their computer, and wants to use Google talk simultaneously being online all together. just you have to do is change the target with
"C:\Program Files\Google\Google Talk\googletalk.exe" /nomutex
then ok see the result you can login
Open Orkut,Myspace and Bebo without using proxies 2008-05-08 21:53:00 A large number of office and school block social networking site like Orkut
, Myspace, Bebo etc from office or schools using filters and firewalls. There are a number of ways to bypass/access/ or unblock the firewall or filter that is run by your corporate office or school. Some of the ways to bypass/access or unblock the Filter/Firewall to access blocked sites depend on how powerful the filter or
Windows XP Error message "MMX @ 0 MHz" 2008-05-18 04:14:00 Last night few days back, i had a serious problem with my PC i was checking mails and suddenly my processor fan started running fast showing indicating that it has been loaded heavily and temperature has rise, as i had made my in BIOS setting the CPU fan to run fast @ temperature higher than 50 degrees C. After that it started hanging and forced me to shut down. Later on restarting it was normal Read more:Windows
Printing Microsoft Excel sheets 2008-05-17 22:19:00 Many times in the websites and forums i have seen this problem being discussed by people that they are unable to print the MicrosoftExcel
sheet in exact way the work up on. people believe there is some kind of problem with their printer :), if they have got a new one and printing Excel for the first time. well it is not the problem of the printer just see the print preview before printing all Read more:Printing