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[13 Oct 2008 | 4 Comments | ]

Windows DreamScene is a nice extra feature that plays high definition video content or movie as desktop background with animated wallpaper instead of static graphic. Unfortunately, Microsoft only offers the feature to Windows Vista Ultimate users for free download. But it’s not impossible for Windows Vista Home Premium, Home Basic, Business, Enterprise and Starter edition users, and for those Windows XP user who do not want to upgrade to Windows Vista to set a video as animated desktop wallpaper. Here is a trick to use an alternative method to create …

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[4 Oct 2008 | 2 Comments | ]

There are a whole bunch of possible BSoD messages; probably more than a hundred. However, only about 20 happen frequently enough that they might imply that an actual problem exists. More than likely, you’ve seen at least one of the following stop messages on your own system.
Attempted Write To Read only Memory (stop code 0X000000BE)
A faulty driver or service is typically responsible for this error, as is outdated firmware. If the name of a file or service is specified, try uninstalling the software (or rolling back the driver if it’s …

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[26 Sep 2008 | No Comment | ]

1. Install Windows Vista Ultimate edition (or other edition) without product key.
2. Windows Vista needs to be applied with 2099-ReArm trick, so that the counter of minutes to no activation required period will not return to normal after reboot. Click on Start Orb button.
3. Select “All Programs”, then “Accessories”.
4. Right click on “Command Prompt, then select “Run as Administrator (A)”.
5. If User Account Control (UAC) prompt a warning message, click on “Continue”.
6. In the command prompt, type date and press Enter. You will see the following:
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.0.6000]
Copyright (c) …

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[25 Sep 2008 | No Comment | ]

If XP won’t start it may be due to a damaged boot sector or a missing or corrupt ntldr or ntdetect.com files.
To replace damaged ntldr and ntdetect.com you can copy fresh files from the XP CD using  the COPY command. Boot with the XP CD and enter the Recovery Console. At the Command Prompt type the following (where “X” is your CD-Rom drive letter) allowing the files  to overwrite the old  files
COPY X:\i386\NTLDR C:
COPY X:\i386\NTDETECT.COM C:
To repair a damaged Boot Sector at the command prompt …

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[8 Sep 2008 | One Comment | ]

Virtual memory is a very important aspect of most operating systems on computers. Most computers have something like 64 or 128 MB of RAM available for use by CPU. Often, that amount of RAM is not sufficient to run all of the programs that users expect to run at once.
If you set the virtual memory to double to the actual RAM size then it gives better performance of your computer. If you set the virtual memory to more than double or less than the double of actual RAM size then …

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[6 Sep 2008 | No Comment | ]

Sometime in offices and colleges, we are not able to access our favorite sites (like orkut).Glype proxy is free web-script that allows anonymous browsing and bypassing network filter.
We all know very well just because of images and flash content, pages take lot of time to load. Glype Proxy seems to be a good tool to bypass proxy, and has few options with that it is possible to view pages without, images, flash, and scripts. It also provides option to disable or enable cookies. So if you want better …

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[5 Sep 2008 | 2 Comments | ]

When we re-install system or add any new hardware, at times it is bit difficult to install driver for them, although it is available with us on the disc. People love to install all the drivers available on disc which takes unnecessary space, but what if we have the lost the disc? In this post I want to share easy way for installing drivers.
1) Right click on my computer, go to properties
2) Select hardware option
3) Click on device manager
4) Then you will see the number of missing drivers with yellow …

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[2 Sep 2008 | No Comment | ]

Everyday while stumbling, I come across several posts on how to increase the speed of firefox? But what I practically observed is, all the tips don’t actually work.
Which will work and why?
Monzilla firefox is which has a feature ‘pipelining’ which really makes it faster than another browser. By default it is disabled, so enable it to get good results.
Enable pipelining and increase pipelining maxrequests
Like in processors pipelines concept is there to fast execution of instructions so processor ultimately execute programs fast. Same concept is used in firefox to get fast …

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[30 Aug 2008 | 5 Comments | ]

How to remove your BIOS password password 
Sometimes it happens that you forget your bios password or anyone will give password to your computer without your knowing. At that time it is difficult to get that password. If you don’t get password then it’s difficult to boot or reboot your operating system again. To avoid this there are four techniques to remove passwords. These techniques are varying with company brands; still first one is widely used.
They are
1) In market cracking passwords cd’s are available, use that to remove bios and …

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[28 Aug 2008 | No Comment | ]

Sometime it might happen that your system automatically restarted while working. I don’t need to tell causes of improper shutdown, right ???? It happened with me twice. First I thought it happen due to lose power connection problem or cable fault. I keep working on it then I realize it happen because some system files get corrupt. After that I reboot my system to recover that files. Now it’s working properly.
Lot of times system files get infected or corrupt due to viruses and improper shutdown. So always shutdown your system …