Computer Hardware and Networking

Archive for January, 2009

If you’re having trouble running older programs originally developed for previous versions of Windows, you’re not out of luck. Luckily for consumers, Microsoft built Compatibility Mode into XP. Compatibility Mode allows you to run a program using the shell of  the original program it was developed for.
Here’s how to access a program’s Compatibility Mode in XP:

* Find the executable or program shortcut icon you’d like to run.

* Right-click the icon and select Properties.

* Click the Compatibility tab and place a checkmark next to the text labeled “Run this program in compatibility mode.”

* Select the operating system that the program was originally intended to run on.

* You may need to fine-tune the three fields under “Display Settings” if an older program requires 640×480 resolution or 256 colors.

* Click Apply.

Try starting the program after making these changes. If it still gives you trouble, try a different operating system. If the program was written for Win95 and worked fine in Win98, there’s nothing that says it still won’t work fine with Win98.

Being an Internet fan, you often communicate through webmail and post many contributions on forums. Since you often use similar text to identify yourself on a lot of website, you would prefer to work with auto-complete in Mozilla FireFox. Equip Firefox with an autotext function with free extension ‘Clippings’. This saves, for instance, the effort of typing in forums or complicated copying.The XPI ile for installing this update is available on addons. ID = 1347.

Click in the website on the ‘Install’ link or open the XPI file with Firefox if you have downloaded it. Start the integration by clicking on ‘Install now’. Also select the ‘Restart Firefox’ command to complete the installation process.
You need to first create the text before using it. Select a desired text in the browser and right-click on it. The context menu now displays the update. You can either set the selected text as a clipping with ‘Clippings | New entry with selected text’ or start the main dialog with ‘Clippings | Open Clippings Manager’.

Further possibilities: double-click on the new text symbol on the right part of the status bar or pull the selected text to this position by drag and drop. After you have created the text fragments, organize them in folders in the Clippings Manager. Each folder later represents a sub menu—this gives you a quick overview. Use the ‘Options | New entry from Clipboard’ command to use copied texts in the quickest possible way. At this point, you can also save your data in an RDF ile with ‘Options | Export’. Now close the dialog.using the Auto teXts: To use these texts, right-click on the entry field of the opened website. You can now access the hierarchically arranged folders with the sorted texts through ‘Clippings’ and insert them with a click.

Configure your Computer to start starting from the ordering of CD-ROM. For more information on the way of doing this, refer you please with your computer with ‘documentation of S or come into contact with your computer manufacturer.

Insert your compact disk of Windows Xp (CD) in your ordering of CD-ROM or order theRomanian one, and then restart your computer.

(You can also initialize with a disc of starting /Me Windows 98 with the support CD and run WINNT.EXE in the I386 file on CD)

When press any key to initialize CD message is posted on your screen, press on a key to start your computer of CD of Windows Xp.

When you see the following message posted on welcome to install the screen, press ENTER:

To install Windows Xp now, press ENTER.

In this moment an option to press R to enter the console of re-establishment is presented. Do not choose this option.

On the screen of licensing agreement of Windows Xp, press F8 to agree on the licensing agreement.

You ensure that your current installation of Windows Xp is selected in the box, and then press on the key of R to repair Windows Xp.

Follow the instructions on the screen to achieve the installation.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\Explorer

In right-side pane, create a new DWORD value NoViewOnDrive and change its value as following:

3 : To Restrict A and B drives only.
4 : To Restrict C drive only.
7 : To Restrict A, B, and C drives only.
8 : To Restrict D drive only.
F : To Restrict A, B, C, and D drives only.
03FFFFFF : To Restrict all drives.

Copy Following Code (RED) To a Notepad File -

cls
@ECHO OFF
title Folder Locker
if EXIST “Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}” goto UNLOCK
if NOT EXIST Locker goto MDLOCKER
:CONFIRM
echo Are you sure u want to Lock the folder(Y/N)
set/p “cho=>”
if %cho%==Y goto LOCK
if %cho%==y goto LOCK
if %cho%==n goto END
if %cho%==N goto END
echo Invalid choice.
goto CONFIRM
:LOCK
ren Locker “Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}”
attrib +h +s “Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}”
echo Folder locked
goto End
:UNLOCK
echo Enter password to Unlock folder
set/p “pass=>”
if NOT %pass%==type your password here goto FAIL
attrib -h -s “Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}”
ren “Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}” Locker
echo Folder Unlocked successfully
goto End
:FAIL
echo Invalid password
goto end
:MDLOCKER
md Locker
echo Locker created successfully
goto End
:End
* Change the “type your password here” with your password (Marked as blue in the above posted matter).
* Save it as batch file(with extension .bat).Any name will do.
* Now you see a batch file. Double click it to create a folder locker.
* A new folder named Locker would be formed at the same location.
* Now brings all the files you want to hide in the locker folder.
* Now double click the batch file to lock the folder namely Locker.
* If you want to unlock your files,double click the batch file again and you would be prompted for password.Enter the password and enjoy access to the folder.