Computer Hardware and Networking

Archive for July, 2009

You have heard about so many mobile phone incidents nowadays due to laziness’ and no proper protection for your mobile phone. So your Cell phone or mobile desires to be protected from temperature, water, electricity faults, unnecessary falls. Good news now there are so many mobile phone accessories available for your mobile phone.

The most important protection needed for your mobile is cell phone case. Cell phone cases are valuable accessories because they not only protect your mobile from unnecessary falls but also protect from scratch, dust and water. If you are using your cell phone without any protective cases then it may easily damage by other items in pocket like keys. Regarding this point cell phone cases are most important for your cell phone.

These cases are usually made by leather and plastic but neoprenes made cases are the best protective cases for your cell phone. These cases are come in many ensign and fashions that provides a new look to your mobile. Also they are not so much expensive and easily available on any mobile accessories shop. So don’t wait for new scratch or damage on your mobile buy a new protective case for your mobile today.

Here are a basics, tweaks and tips for vista users, these come from other sources and my own experience so far with vista, feel free to add your own to the thread.
Please remember that these may vary slightly from edition to edition, the following where done on Business edition.
Speeding up program search
This registry tweak stops vista searching for all indexed files on your system while you search for programs in your program menu, please remember to make a backup of your registry before you take any action to alter registry keys, just incase the worst case senario happens.

1. Open Registry Editor (regedit).

2. Navigate through HKEY_CURRENT_USER, Software, Microsoft, Windows, CurrentVersion, Explorer and finally Advanced.

3. Find and right click on Start_SearchFiles and select Modify.

4. Set the Value to 0.

5. reboot your computer.
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Disable the sidebar
Although his feature is somewhat handy (which is debatable in my opinion), considering it includes realtime weather reports, up to date news from various sources and other tools such as computer monitoring, and an over sized clock. It takes up valuable memory, clutters up your desktop, considering the limited information it gives you, if you want the weather in your area, look out your nearest window, here is how to disable it:

1. Open Control Panel

2. Navigate to and open Appearance and Personalization

3. At this point open Windows Sidebar Properties, here a pop up window appears, uncheck the box which says “Start sidebar when Windows Starts”

4. If you currently have Sidebar running, right click on the Sidebar icon, situated in the taskbar and select exit

5. Reboot and you’re set.
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Have you been experiencing random crashes in Windows XP or Windows 2000, and you can’t find any reason for them? Windows XP and Windows 2000 are both supposed to be (and typically are) much more stable than Windows 9x/Me, but there are still things that can bring down the entire system in a heartbeat, displaying the BSD (Blue Screen of Death) or simply restarting. Go over this checklist and see if any of these apply to you.

Power Supply - a bad (or insufficient) power supply is the most common cause for random crashes, especially if you have a lot of cards, drives, or fans, or have a dual-processor motherboard. A 350W or 400W power supply is recommended if you’re experiencing this problem.

A mix of FAT32 and NTFS drives - If you have more than one hard disk, and there are different file systems on each one, try converting them all to NTFS.

Audio Card Drivers - try removing your sound card, or at least uninstalling and then reinstalling the drivers.

USB Hub - if you have a USB hub, try eliminating it and see if that solves the problem (especially if you have a USB-based Palm cradle and your system crashes every time you hotsync).

Overheating - a computer will crash if the processor overheats. Make sure the CPU fan/fans are working, and that the processor temperature (read in the BIOS screen) is within normal limits. Make sure your computer case has adequate ventilation.

Bad memory - a bad memory module can cause this problem. Try removing one of the modules to see if that solves the problem; rotate through all modules until you’ve found the culprit. Note that some computers require memory to be installed in pairs, so, for example, if you have four modules, you’ll have to remove two (no more, no fewer) for this test.

1 Open a command prompt

2 Copy the current c:\boot.ini to another name (just in case)

3 With your favorite text editor, edit c:\boot.ini

4 Copy then edit the current boot line to another line. For example:

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS=”Micro soft Windows XP Professional” /fastdetect
might copy and then change to:
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS=”Micro soft Windows XP Professional Safeboot” /fastdetect

5 Start MSCONFIG

6 Click on the BOOT.INI tab

7 Highlight the second line with the additional name of Safeboot

8 Check the /SAFEBOOT box with option you want
Minimal - Minimal set of drivers
Network - With Network Support
Dsrepair - Directory Services Repair
Minimal (Alternate Shell) - Standard Explorer Desktop