No recent documents history

I don’t have a “Recent Document History” actually. I had it removed long ago, so I don’t even remember how it really looks like. But I’m sure most of you have it in your desktop. It shows the history of recent documents that you have opened. Sometime it could be a great harm ‘coz anyone can see what you just opened which of course you may not like. So, there is way you can remove this “Recent Document History”.

1. Go to Start -> Run -> gpedit.msc and enter

2. Navigate to User Configuration -> Administarative Templates -> Start Menu and Taskbar

3. Double click "Do not keep history of recently opened documents"

4. Check "Enabled" and then ok

And that’s it. The “recent documents history” is gone.

Great Room Heaters

It’s winter out here and it’s so cold that nobody comes out of the house. It’s been more than a week I have seen anybody outside my family members. That’s because I have not been out of the house for a week. And, how could I? It’s so frigid out there in cold and I can’t stand cold a bit. Even inside the house it’s so cold. But thanks to the room heater that I bought from products.desatech.com , that I’m still alive in such cold. Since the day I got that heater from DESA, the heating cost has reduced by up to 15%. It’s not just the room heater that DESA is offering. They offer a wide range of accessories from gas heater, vent less gas log for you fire place to garage heaters. Whatever you need is, you can find it at DESA’s Online Outlet.

Turn off the system beeps

There are many times when the OS beeps you. Those beeps are actually useful stuff, They alerts you of something wrong being done(some error or malfunctioning), so I suggest not to turn them off unless you really want to or you are very much annoyed with the “beep” sound.

1. Start the registry (Start -> run -> regedit and enter)
2. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Sound
3. Once there, locate Beep on the list on the right.
4. Right click on it and select Modify
5. Change the value equal to no
6. Reboot your computer and the beeps will be gone

Now, wasn’t that easy? Just try it for yourself.

Best Place To Learn

I came to know about Score through a friend. I checked out its site www.escore.com/ and found it quite interesting. The innovative tutorial methods that they are implementing are really helpful to children. Their motto is that “When children love to learn, they will learn”. I too believe in their motto. Surely, if the children love study as much they love any other sports, then they will learn. Parents can force their children to go to school or to do homework but they can’t force their children to learn. They will learn only when they want to learn. And Score make children love learning. Especially, the summer programs and the early learning programs are helping out the children a lot. I think Score is the best place for your child to learn.

Change the drive letter of the drive

Ever wanted to change your hard drive letter or your cd-rom drive letter, then this is the tip that you are looking for. It’s very simple.

1. Click the start button
2. Go into Administrative tools ( in Control Panel)
3. Go to "Computer Management" (or in run dialog box, type "compmgmt.msc” end enter)
4. Under "Storage" in the left pane, click on "Disk Management"
5. In the right pane you should all the hard disk drives and cd-rom drives info
6. Right click the drive that you desire to change the letter then click on "Change Letter Drive and Path"
7. click the "change" button
8. select "assign the following drive letter", select the letter you want to assign to the hard drive or the cd-rom drive
9. click ok
10. click ok

(Note: You can’t change the drive letter of your system volume or boot volume )
That’s it. You have successfully changed the drive letter of the drive.

Review: 800-ESPRESSO.COM

A morning without a coffee is not a morning and that without an espresso is not a good morning at all for me. That dark strong taste of the espresso …it just makes my day. Now how good an espresso is has most to do with the Espresso Machines that is being used to prepare the espresso. Most may not agree with me but that’s just what they believe and I can’t control their thinking. I stick to mine and they stick to their.

Anyways, I have seen many Espresso retailer shop but 800-ESPRESSO.COM is the best one that I have come across with. It is an online retailer specialized in Coffee Makers, Coffee Espresso Machines, Coffee products, Coffee Grinders, Tableware, Frothers Pitchers and Accessories and many more other stuffs. It has got a wide variety of espresso machines, coffee makers, table wares and other kitchen appliance that you can use in your kitchen. The price that they are offering is very much affordable in compare to the quality of products that they are selling. Also, they are offering free ground shipping on all orders over $250. Further more details can be obtained from www.1-800-espresso.com. And there is no need to hurry. There are plenty of stuffs and many new arrivals on the way.

Get Rid of the "GO" button from the address bar of IEXPLORER

I guarantee that this is the simplest trick that you have ever learnt or will learn about your computer. All of you must have seen the “GO” button in the address bar. It is actually an extra button. You don’t actually need it. So, what you can do is remove it from the address bar. Just right-click on the “GO” button itself and uncheck it from the pull down list and walla!!! that it. It’s gone.

Shortcuts for programs in the control panel

Most may not know this but programs in the control panel too have shortcuts (run commands) after all they too are some kind of files located in some place. In this post, I'll be giving out the those shortcuts.

control - Control Panel
control folders - Folder Options
control keyboard - Keyboard Properties
control telephony - Phone and Modem Options
control userpasswords - User Accounts
control desktop - Display Properties
control printers - Printer and Faxes
control mouse - Mouse Properties
control color - Display Properties \ Screensaver
control date/time - Date and Time Properties
control schedtasks - Scheduled Tasks
control admintools - Administrative Tools
control fonts - Fonts Folder
control international - Regional and Language
control netconnections - NetworConnections


I guess I've covered all the Shortcuts here, so try it and enjoy. Please feel free to comment.

Siterra

Nowadays, due to internet technology the business is changing to online business. Everything is being done from the organizations’ website and also business data are stored somewhere from where everybody can access the data but still the data are secure.

In times like this, there is the necessity of a single solution for planning, managing, maintaining and promoting the remote sites, assets and leases of the organization. Siterra Corporation is the answer to this problem. It is hosted at one of the world's most modern and reliable hosting facilities so that the service and your data are always secure and available anytime you need them. It provides the full integrated, self-contained, web-based solution to plan, build, manage, and grow remote sites, assets, and leases, yielding enormous productivity, cost savings and speed to market. There are more that 500,000 sites, assets and leases worldwide connected to Siterra. It’s the ultimate Real Estate Management Software.

Ways you can speed up your Xp.. contd....

This is the continuation of Ways you can use to speed up your XP ... part 1 . 12 ways have already been written in the previous post. Here is the next stock. As I've already mentioned in my previous post, I haven't used all these tips myself. So, please be aware of the changes you are about to make.

13.) Turn off any and all unnecessary animations, and disable active desktop. In fact, for optimal performance, turn off all animations. Windows XP offers many different settings in this area. Here's how to do it: First click on the System icon in the Control Panel. Next, click on the Advanced tab. Select the Settings button located under Performance. Feel free to play around with the options offered here, as nothing you can change will alter the reliability of the computer -- only its responsiveness.

14.) If your customer is an advanced user who is comfortable editing their registry, try some of the performance registry tweaks offered at Tweak XP.

15.) Visit Microsoft's Windows update site regularly, and download all updates labeled Critical. Download any optional updates at your discretion.

16.) Update the customer's anti-virus software on a weekly, even daily, basis. Make sure they have only one anti-virus software package installed. Mixing anti-virus software is a sure way to spell disaster for performance and reliability.

17.) Make sure the customer has fewer than 500 type fonts installed on their computer. The more fonts they have, the slower the system will become. While Windows XP handles fonts much more efficiently than did the previous versions of Windows, too many fonts -- that is, anything over 500 -- will noticeably tax the system.

18.) Do not partition the hard drive. Windows XP's NTFS file system runs more efficiently on one large partition. The data is no safer on a separate partition, and a reformat is never necessary to reinstall an operating system. The same excuses people offer for using partitions apply to using a folder instead. For example, instead of putting all your data on the D: drive, put it in a folder called "D drive." You'll achieve the same organizational benefits that a separate partition offers, but without the degradation in system performance. Also, your free space won't be limited by the size of the partition; instead, it will be limited by the size of the entire hard drive. This means you won't need to resize any partitions, ever. That task can be time-consuming and also can result in lost data.

19.) Check the system's RAM to ensure it is operating properly. I recommend using a free program called MemTest86. The download will make a bootable CD or diskette (your choice), which will run 10 extensive tests on the PC's memory automatically after you boot to the disk you created. Allow all tests to run until at least three passes of the 10 tests are completed. If the program encounters any errors, turn off and unplug the computer, remove a stick of memory (assuming you have more than one), and run the test again. Remember, bad memory cannot be repaired, but only replaced.

20.) If the PC has a CD or DVD recorder, check the drive manufacturer's Web site for updated firmware. In some cases you'll be able to upgrade the recorder to a faster speed. Best of all, it's free.

21.) Disable unnecessary services. Windows XP loads a lot of services that your customer most likely does not need. To determine which services you can disable for your client, visit the Black Viper site for Windows XP configurations.

22.) If you're sick of a single Windows Explorer window crashing and then taking the rest of your OS down with it, then follow this tip: open My Computer, click on Tools, then Folder Options. Now click on the View tab. Scroll down to "Launch folder windows in a separate process," and enable this option. You'll have to reboot your machine for this option to take effect.

23.) At least once a year, open the computer's cases and blow out all the dust and debris. While you're in there, check that all the fans are turning properly. Also inspect the motherboard capacitors for bulging or leaks. For more information on this leaking-capacitor phenomena, you can read numerous articles on my site.

Following any of these suggestions should result in noticeable improvements to the performance and reliability of your customers' computers. If you still want to defrag a disk, remember that the main benefit will be to make your data more retrievable in the event of a crashed drive.

Technology Community

I am very much into technology stuffs...especially relating to computer, you know… web development, designing, programming and similar stuffs. And I face different kind of problem each day … mostly in programming. Some problems are so hard to trace that even my teacher don’t know how to tackle them. So, I’ve registered to many of the online tech related forums to get help from the experts.

Discussweb.com is a new technology and technical support community. For now it is only a simple forum with many technology experts posting regularly but I’ve heard that they have plan in the near future to help the technology experts. I’ve registered to Discussweb IT Community and got a lot of help from it. It has proven to be a very useful forum. Hoping for it’s betterment in future.

Ways you can use to speed up your XP ... part 1

I got this tweak from a friend of mine who is a computer student. I haven't tried all of these myself but I trust him.

Since defragging the disk won't do much to improve Windows XP performance, here are 23 suggestions that will. Each can enhance the performance and reliability of your customers' PCs. Best of all, most of them will cost you nothing.

1.) To decrease a system's boot time and increase system performance, use the money you save by not buying defragmentation software -- the built-in Windows defragmenter works just fine -- and instead equip the computer with an Ultra-133 or Serial ATA hard drive with 8-MB cache buffer.

2.) If a PC has less than 512 MB of RAM, add more memory. This is a relatively inexpensive and easy upgrade that can dramatically improve system performance.

3.) Ensure that Windows XP is utilizing the NTFS file system. If you're not sure, here's how to check: First, double-click the My Computer icon, right-click on the C: Drive, then select Properties. Next, examine the File System type; if it says FAT32, then back-up any important data. Next, click Start, click Run, type CMD, and then click OK. At the prompt, type CONVERT C: /FS:NTFS and press the Enter key. This process may take a while; it's important that the computer be uninterrupted and virus-free. The file system used by the bootable drive will be either FAT32 or NTFS. I highly recommend NTFS for its superior security, reliability, and efficiency with larger disk drives.

4.) Disable file indexing. The indexing service extracts information from documents and other files on the hard drive and creates a "searchable keyword index." As you can imagine, this process can be quite taxing on any system.

The idea is that the user can search for a word, phrase, or property inside a document, should they have hundreds or thousands of documents and not know the file name of the document they want. Windows XP's built-in search functionality can still perform these kinds of searches without the Indexing service. It just takes longer. The OS has to open each file at the time of the request to help find what the user is looking for.

Most people never need this feature of search. Those who do are typically in a large corporate environment where thousands of documents are located on at least one server. But if you're a typical system builder, most of your clients are small and medium businesses. And if your clients have no need for this search feature, I recommend disabling it.

Here's how: First, double-click the My Computer icon. Next, right-click on the C: Drive, then select Properties. Uncheck "Allow Indexing Service to index this disk for fast file searching." Next, apply changes to "C: subfolders and files," and click OK. If a warning or error message appears (such as "Access is denied"), click the Ignore All button.

5.) Update the PC's video and motherboard chipset drivers. Also, update and configure the BIOS. For more information on how to configure your BIOS properly, see this article on my site.

6.) Empty the Windows Prefetch folder every three months or so. Windows XP can "prefetch" portions of data and applications that are used frequently. This makes processes appear to load faster when called upon by the user. That's fine. But over time, the prefetch folder may become overloaded with references to files and applications no longer in use. When that happens, Windows XP is wasting time, and slowing system performance, by pre-loading them. Nothing critical is in this folder, and the entire contents are safe to delete.

7.) Once a month, run a disk cleanup. Here's how: Double-click the My Computer icon. Then right-click on the C: drive and select Properties. Click the Disk Cleanup button -- it's just to the right of the Capacity pie graph -- and delete all temporary files.

8.) In your Device Manager, double-click on the IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers device, and ensure that DMA is enabled for each drive you have connected to the Primary and Secondary controller. Do this by double-clicking on Primary IDE Channel. Then click the Advanced Settings tab. Ensure the Transfer Mode is set to "DMA if available" for both Device 0 and Device 1. Then repeat this process with the Secondary IDE Channel.

9.) Upgrade the cabling. As hard-drive technology improves, the cabling requirements to achieve these performance boosts have become more stringent. Be sure to use 80-wire Ultra-133 cables on all of your IDE devices with the connectors properly assigned to the matching Master/Slave/Motherboard sockets. A single device must be at the end of the cable; connecting a single drive to the middle connector on a ribbon cable will cause signaling problems. With Ultra DMA hard drives, these signaling problems will prevent the drive from performing at its maximum potential. Also, because these cables inherently support "cable select," the location of each drive on the cable is important. For these reasons, the cable is designed so drive positioning is explicitly clear.

10.) Remove all spyware from the computer. Use free programs such as AdAware by Lavasoft or SpyBot Search & Destroy. Once these programs are installed, be sure to check for and download any updates before starting your search. Anything either program finds can be safely removed. Any free software that requires spyware to run will no longer function once the spyware portion has been removed; if your customer really wants the program even though it contains spyware, simply reinstall it. For more information on removing Spyware visit this Web Pro News page.

11.) Remove any unnecessary programs and/or items from Windows Startup routine using the MSCONFIG utility. Here's how: First, click Start, click Run, type MSCONFIG, and click OK. Click the StartUp tab, then uncheck any items you don't want to start when Windows starts. Unsure what some items are? Visit the WinTasks Process Library. It contains known system processes, applications, as well as spyware references and explanations. Or quickly identify them by searching for the filenames using Google or another Web search engine.

12.) Remove any unnecessary or unused programs from the Add/Remove Programs section of the Control Panel.

This is just one half of the tricks ... the rest is still in the way....

Diamond for a gift

Everybody knows that diamonds are girls’ best friends. Girls can’t deny the sparkle of a diamond. My father told me that when he proposed my mom for the first time, he had proposed her with a diamond ring in his hand. In his last anniversary too, he gave mom a diamond bracelet. So, it’s very special for me too. I am also planning to give a Diamond Engagement Ring to my girlfriend when I’ll be engaged to her. It will make her feel how much I love her and care for her.

Well, whatever be the occasion, I’ll keep on giving diamond as gifts to my loved ones and I know a perfect place where I can get it. Diamondsafe.com is the perfect place where you can get all types of diamond jewelry for whomever you love. So, for all those who want to keep their relationship tight especially with girls, I suggest you give a diamond as a gift.

Changing DOS Window Titles

Well, here is a very simple trick for my readers. If you use DOS a lot, you may frequently have more than one DOS window open at once. Perhaps you'll have one a window for
FTP, one for debugging a batch file, one for doing basic tasks such as displaying directories, etc. If so, it can get very confusing navigating between the different DOS windows since each of their titles just say "Command Prompt" or something like "c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe". Now, if you like, you can change the titles of a DOS window so you can easily see what tasks you are performing in each window.

To change the title of a Windows command prompt window, in the command prompt just enter in the TITLE command, followed by your desired window title.
(e.g. to name a DOS window "craze4tech", just enter the following command at a DOS prompt: TITLE craze4tech and then enter )
enjoy...

Super car wallpapers

I love basketball. There are no words to explain how fond I am of basketball. In many of my previous posts I’ve mentioned this. But I’ve never mentioned about my other hobbies. My second best hobby is of cars. I simply am crazy about cars…how much crazy??? Even I don’t know. I have my room full of posters of super cars. Most of my pocket money finishes buying car posters. Cars are one of my biggest passions and my ultimate dream is buy a McLaren F1 someday. Damn!!! That car is too hot.

What I feel disappointed is when I search for good super car screensavers and wallpapers, I could not find many. My friends are also very fond of cars and we all search for good car wallpapers for hours in internet to find just few boring pictures. There are very less sites that give quality updated information on cars – especially on super cars. I used to get upset very much due to this reason. But then, I came to know about www.vcars.co.uk. It was just like finding God when looking for a stone. Vcars has got some of the coolest car screensaver and wallpapers. I got myself some pretty good Supercar wallpapers and screensavers from there. I have even put the wallpaper of my computer to one I found got from there.

Not only is Vcars has got wallpapers and screensavers, it also deals with used cars and constantly keeps on monitoring news related to new car release, new technology and you know stuffs like that. It is the right site for you if you are looking for an approved UK cars and dealers.

I am one of the 1393 subscribers of vcars’ news and am very much satisfied the frequent updates that it provide to it’s customers through email. So, if you are a car fanatic just visit http://www.vcars.co.uk, you might find something that you wouldn’t wanna miss.

Converting a FAT/FAT32 volume to NTFS

Most of the Windows uses are still using FAT/FAT32 file system. That’s because they are unaware of the limitations of FAT/FAT32 and features of the NTFS. For a short detail on this, you can refer to my previous post "NTFS Vs FAT and FAT32".

So, if you have your hard-drive volumes in FAT/FAT32, I am providing this piece of command to covert your FAT/FAT32 volume to NTFS. This is a very safe conversion and I assure that no data of yours will be lost.

But, Beware!!! , once you convert a drive or partition to NTFS, you cannot simply convert it back to FAT or FAT32. You will need to reformat the drive or partition which will erase all data including programs and personal files on the partition. Of course, there are other several third-party softwares that can still change your volume back to FAT or FAT32 without formatting the hard-drive (like Partition Magic, Boot Magic, etc), but I don’t know how much reliable these s/ws are?

Anyways, lets skip the gossip and come to the point.

1. Open command prompt (start -> rum -> cmd)
2. type the following command - convert drive_letter: /fs:NTFS (e.g. convert D: /fs:ntfs)
3. There are different switched available in the convert command. To view detail of all these switches, in the command prompt …type convert /? and enter.

Newest style of communication

Internet is the modern technology for communication and Weblogs are the mediums. Weblogs or simply blogs are gaining very much popularity amongst people for information and advertising as well. Blogs on specific topics interest people very much as they are short and informative at the same time. One of the blog that has attracted me very much is GimmieTheScoop.com. It’s one of the modern news blog having contents on wide variety of stuffs from business, politics, health, technology and other topics. I haven’t read all the wide array of contents on it but I found GimmieTheScoop a great Business Blog and got a lot of information on business.

Other one is the skype phone through which users are allowed to receive the phone calls from the computing system to the local phone in the cheapest rates. There are the great advantages of the telephonic calls via voip. The most leading broad band phone service provider is known as vonage in all over the world. You may get answer of your queries regarding the use of internet voip by browsing the websites of broadband phone companies which offer the reasonable answers via voip faq.

My CPU is running but the monitor won’t display anything

This was problem that I faced few days back. A friend of mine called me and told me that her monitor won’t display anything and asked me to come and fix the computer. I went to her house and was pretty amazed to see that CPU was running, the monitor was also getting the power (the power light of the monitor was blinking) but it wasn’t displaying anything. I didn’t know what to do. I checked the connection from the monitor to the CPU and it was also fine. Then, I opened the casing to check if something was wrong inside. By the way, I am not that good at hardware stuffs but still … just to check. There were two RAMs and 2 hard-drives connected. Then, I just plucked out one of the memory (RAM) and restarted the computer. The computer booted normally. Then, I thought that may be the memory or the memory slot was damaged. Then, I cleaned the memory and the slot with a cloth and put the memory back the slot and turned on the power. The computer booted fine and still is. I was happy and my friend was too because her problem was solved but I was not satisfied. I couldn’t find out what the real cause was? Was it really the memory, the memory slot or some other cause?

New Product Arrivals

Many new lines of products have just arrived at tvproducts4less.com. tvproducts4less is an online shopping center where as in its name suggests, you can get variety of TV products for lesser price. It has different line of products from sunglasses, houswares, hardwares, computers and many others.Among the new products are Zorbeez, Chai Pets, Mr. Beer and Clapper Plus. Some products that I personally feel seem very useful like

Bionic Fish Finder is really a good one for fishing lovers. It blinks and sounds an alarm when fish are located. Seem pretty cool, huh? Think, I’ll get one for my father.

NTFS Vs FAT and FAT32

As most of the computer might know, Windows supports three types of file systems - FAT, FAT32 and NTFS.

FAT is a file system used by MS-DOS and other Windows-based operating systems to organize and manage files. The file allocation table (FAT) is a data structure that Windows creates when you format a volume by using the FAT or FAT32 file systems. Windows stores information about each file in the FAT so that it can retrieve the file later.

FAT32 is a derivative of the file allocation table (FAT) file system. FAT32 supports smaller cluster sizes and larger volumes than FAT, which results in more efficient space allocation on FAT32 volumes.

NTFS (New Technology File System) is an advanced file system that provides performance, security, reliability, and advanced features that are not found in any version of FAT. For example, NTFS guarantees volume consistency by using standard transaction logging and recovery techniques. If a system fails, NTFS uses its log file and checkpoint information to restore the consistency of the file system. In Windows 2000 and Windows XP, NTFS also provides advanced features such as file and folder permissions, encryption, disk quotas, and compression.

So, use NTFS when the partition on which Windows will reside requires any of the features such as file/folder level security, disk compression, disk quotas, encryption, etc. And use FAT/FAT32 file system when it is necessary to have a computer that will sometimes run an earlier version of Windows and other times run Windows XP.

Just say hi

I’ve never been that much of close to girls. May be that’s the real reason, it’s been kinda hard for me to find a date. Or may be it’s just that I haven’t come across the girl that really struck my heart, the girl that in a first sight made me feel that I wanna love her and spend rest of my life with her.

JustSayHi is the best thing that has happened to me since we won the last BIM cup. There are many dating services available ... most of which take money to hook you up with a date. There are few free dating sites too. And among those also, justsayhi.com I found is the best one. I’ve seen and registered to many dating sites and then I’ve registered to justsayhi.com. It is as good as and has as many features as a paid dating site. And with all the ups and downs in my life going on, think I’m gonna give the job to find a good, nice date to justsayhi.com.

Network Adapters

The Network Adapter is the component that links a compute to the network. The adapter prepares the data for transmission, sends and receives data, and translates the data back into a computer-readable form.

Different types of components can function as network adapters. For example, you might use a modem to dial a phone line to connect from your computer to the Internet. Or, a special purpose adapter card might physically link your computer to a cable. Network adapter cards are sometimes called network interface card (NIC which is a more familiar term) or LAN cards.

The network adapter fits into an expansion slot inside the computer. The inside edge of the adapter is fitted with a connected that matched up to the computer’s internal bus. The bus is the pathway inside the computer that connects all the components to the computer’s CPU and memory. There are many different types of bus architectures and computers. Old bus architectures carried 8 bits of information at a time; newer buses are much faster, and carry 16, 0r 32 bits of information.

Big Posters

I’ve heard about Bigposters.com a lot. It a printing and graphic company with a lot of experience in printing virtually anything. It’s a pretty big company printing over 1000 large format posters daily using latest technology available for better quality output. The price they are charging is also minimum. They used to do printing posters and banners for big company only. But recently, they have launched for public too and to celebrate that they are running a special on retractable banner stands. I sincerely hope that they are as good as they say they are.

Unattended Windows installation

Everybody knows that installing Windows is a hectic job. It takes al least half an hour or even more to completely install Windows in our computer and during installation we have to stay right next to our computer to fill out forms and see if everything is going fine. I’ve always hated installing Windows because of this.

Well, I just found out that there is no need to stay next to the computer while installation. You can just click the install button, go watch a movie and come back after half an hour. You don’t need to attend the whole installation. There is a tool that Windows is providing by using which you can simply create an answer file beforehand and then install Windows without filling up the forms every time.

1. In the Windows CD there is a file named DEPLOY.CAB inside the SUPPORT ->TOOLS folder.
2. Extract a file called setupmgr.exe from that file. This will take you to a Preinstallation Wizard that will help you to enter essential information needed to automate preinstallation setup for Windows on the computer.
3. Click next
4. Select “create a new answer file” or “modify an existing answer file” and click next (select “create a new answer file” if you are new)
5. Select “Windows Unattended Installation” and click next
6. Select the appropriate platform and click next
7. Select “Full automated” user interaction and click next
8. Select the radio button ‘No, this answer will be used to install from CD’ and click next
9. Fill up all the required information and save the file as “winnt.sif” in a floppy
10. This will create two files : ‘winnt.sif’ and ‘winnt.bat’ in the floppy
11. Now when you install Windows from the CD, insert the floppy in the floppy drive and take a tour
12. But remember that you still need to make partition of your hard-drive yourself. There is no such tool I know that partitions the hard-drive itself.

Portable Scanner

Everything nowadays has reduced its size. The enhancement in technology has led to the rise of small laptops from big mainframes and desktops. The size of physical devices and price is decreasing whereas their capacity and functionality is increasing. Just few days ago a friend of mine bought a 1 GB flash drive for just Rs. 800, the same which I bought for Rs. 2300 just few months ago. Also, the competition between the business houses has benefited the customers like us a lot. We are getting better products in cheaper price.

One of such devices that have reduced its size greatly is the scanner. What I remember about the scanner is a middle-sized that my uncle got one at his home. But, it’s pretty old. I don’t know if it still works. In the market there are portabe scanners available. One that I’ve heard a lot about is the ScanShell 2000N (2000NR) portable scanner which is the ideal A4 color scanner for the busy professionals and executives. It is a very small and lightweight scanner just about 390g and requires no external power adapter. You only need to connect it to you PC using the USB 2.0 port. Due to its smaller size, it’s very convenient to carry it wherever you like. It has got so many other features and just with a button click, you can launch the imaging application, scan and store your documents/images in your computers.

With it, comes a bundled software DocShell, that scan documents and export the scanned image into existing, pre-installed application on the user's PC. The scanned document can be saved to any of the image types (BMP, JPG, TIF, PSD, PCX, PNG or TGA).

I'm going to get a portable scanner for me. You too get one for yourself. It's for your own ease.

Some quick .msc's

.msc extension is for Microsoft Management Console Snap-in Control File. These files fall under the category of system files. They help you to have additional control to the Microsoft Management Console in Windows. Some of them are as follows:

Start > Run >

1. Certificates - certmgr.msc

2. Indexing Service - ciadv.msc

3. Computer Management - compmgmt.msc

4. Device Manager - devmgmt.msc

5. Disk Defragmenter - dfrg.msc

6. Disk Management - diskmgmt.msc

7. Event Viewer - eventvwr.msc

8. Shared Folders - fsmgmt.msc

9. Local Users and Groups - lusrmgr.msc

10. Removable Storage - ntmsmgr.msc

11. Removable Store Operator Requests - ntmsoprq.msc

12. Performance - perfmon.msc

13. Services - services.msc

14.Windows Management Infrastructure (WMI) - wmimgmt.msc

Take a vacation

I am so busy nowadays that I can't even give time to my friend and girlfriend. I don’t even have time to eat properly. There was time when I used to roam a lot with my friends and meet girlfren everyday but since the day I got a job, I have no time to enjoy. I've been planning to go on a vacation for a long time. I really miss all my friends a lot. The only thing that I do in my free time nowadays is surf net. Few days back I went through a site http://www.vlbo.com/. I think this is the perfect site that can arrange a nice vacation for me. I don't have to go through all those hasty work of looking for condos, villas and cabins all by myself. I can get whatever I need for my traveling from vlbo. I want to go somewhere where there is freshwater, where I can enjoy skiing and view peaks. Lake Tahoe vacation rentals seems to be just the place which can take me close to all these attractions. Think I might go there.

Change Web Page Font Size on the Fly

Once I went to a cyber café and when I opened the sites, the font size of the pages was so big. At that time, I thought that the, programmer himself had coded the page such that the font appeared big but later I unknowingly scrolled the mouse while pressing the control (Ctrl) key and to my surprise the font size reduced. I now know that if your mouse contains a wheel for scrolling, you can change font size on the fly when viewing a Web page.

To do this so you should:

1. Press and hold Ctrl. Scroll down (or towards yourself) to enlarge the font size.
2. Scroll up (or away from yourself) to reduce the font size.

or you can even Press and hod Ctrl key and then press '+' or '-' keys to see the effect...

You might find it useful to reduce font size when printing a Web page, so that you can fit more content on the page.

PrimeView

here are millions of web sites in the internet today. The easiness in making a web site and the popularity of using internet as medium of marketing is further more boosting up this trend. Everyone and every business houses are making website for identifying themselves and promoting their business as internet marketing has proven to be the most effective form of marketing. But who will visit your website if it is not that attractive, if it’s not well designed and is unable to meet your requirement?

PrimeView adds the professional touch to your web site design. It brings you the highest in quality web site design. It has been in web site designing for more than a decade and has worked with many big names like Nissan, National Car Rental and University of Phoenix. After hiring PrimeView’s arizona web design, your site will flourish with images/graphics, matching colors, embedded animations and applications such that it can grab customer’s attention. Also, the current marketing trend is a site designed with search engine optimization which is one to be the most effective internet marketing strategy as it targets your customer's interests with positive results when visiting the web site. This is also achieved through PrimeView’s Arizona SEO services. By integrating web sited designing with Search Engine Marketing, PrimeView create highly successful web sites that rank well. So, if your site needs an expert touch hire the service of PageView as soon as possible.

Review: FXBear.com

Audios are in different formats and in many cases the format that we have may not be good or can’t be used. So, they need to be converted the desired useful format. But the tension is that in the market, there are different softwares that can be used for the purpose of conversion of audios. Some convert mp3 to wma, some wma to mp3, some AC3 to wma and similar. But none that I’ve seen is more useful and has as many conversion facilities as XBears’ All-In-One Audio Converter.

It’s a single s/w that does all the conversions, for which many s/ws are required. The Converter software comes with many features including MP3 converter software, WMA conversion, AC3 conversion and many more! This s/w is very easy to use but still, the features are included such as to suit all types of experience. If you have any doubts regarding the s/w, you can download the trial version, try is and then buy one later. I say, everybody should get this s/w. I’ve used it and it’s really a cool stuff to have.

Spyshakers

Remembering your passwords or the list of your favorite websites is one of the hectic jobs you need to do. If you are in your home using your computer, then it may not be that much of a problem but if you are out, using your friend’s computer or if you are in a cyber café, then there may be a problem in remembering your favorite site and passwords. In such case, Spyshakers comes in use. The concept is very simple. It provides a secure environment for the storage of your personal internet information (bookmarks, passwords, etc) that users can access later from anywhere and use. It’s secure in a sense that the data can’t be stolen via key loggers, screen capturing devices, and clipboard monitors. So, basically it’s a complete storage solution to all your internet related data. It should be me more clear to you after watching this demo movie.