October 2008
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System restore is a very necessary utility in Microsoft Windows operating systems and it has a tendency to consume large amounts of disk space. By default, System restore feature in Windows Vista and XP is allocated a minimum of 15% of disk volume for restore points.
Decreasing system restore space is somewhat a trade off – reduce the allocated space and, although you gain extra free space, you also loose the earlier system restore points. If you are happy having a reduced number of read more
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Written by Tony on October 29th, 2008 with no comments.
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Joining a Bluetooth personal area network
A Bluetooth personal area network (PAN) is a short-range wireless network used to connect devices together wirelessly. It’s commonly used to connect a laptop to a desktop PC, though it can be used to connect other types of Bluetooth devices. As a rule, there’s not much to joining Bluetooth devices to a Bluetooth network. Most of the action takes place automatically behind the scenes. To understand the basic procedure, let’s assume you already read more
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Written by Tony on October 28th, 2008 with no comments.
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When you want to right click on any folder or file and want to open up an Explorer window of that folder,you can easily add “Explore From Here” option as folders context menu item in Windows Vista or in Windows XP.The steps for this registry tweak is given:
Open the Windows Vista start menu by click on Vista start orb button.
In the opened start menu you will find a search box and type regedit in the type field and then press Enter.
This will launch up windows registry editor and read more
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Written by Tony on October 26th, 2008 with 1 comment.
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Microsoft allows you to install and use Windows Vista for evaluation without license or product key for up to 30 days. Within these 30 days, you must activate the Windows Vista system with a valid product key. Else, if you forget to activate your Windows Vista computer, or you’re using illegal and pirated product key, Windows Vista will go into Reduced Functionality Mode (RFM), where you basically can no longer use the system for productivity works until you successfully activate Windows read more
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Written by Tony on October 22nd, 2008 with 1 comment.
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A lot of people has soft copy of Microsoft Windows installation file, normally in the format of ISO format. Normally, the ISO has to be written or burnt to a DVD disc, which can then be used to insert into DVD drive to start the installation of Microsoft operating systems Windows Vista and Windows 7. Unless the ISO is been used to install in virtual machine powered by Microsoft Virtual PC, Virtual Server, VMWare or Sun xVM VirtualBOx, which can mount the ISO image as CD or DVD drive.
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Written by Tony on October 20th, 2008 with 2 comments.
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If you facing network connection issue, or more accurately unable to access or connect to Internet or network problem in Windows Vista, Windows 2003 and in Windows XP, and repair WinSock settings plus workaround for Vista IE7 strange no connection problem do not save your from Internet woes, you can try to reinstall and reset TCP/IP stack or Internet Protocol, one of the core component of the operating system, which cannot be uninstalled.
Again, with a corrupt TCP/IP stack, the same woes may read more
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Written by Tony on October 19th, 2008 with no comments.
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Do you always leave your Windows Vista computer turned on and wished you have turned it off instead? For some users, the reasons are diverse from saving power consumption to just having a clocked or scheduled mechanism to shutdown or restart their computer.
The shutdown command included in Windows Vista is used to shutdown the computer and the task scheduler to shut it down at a specific time.Here are the steps to automatically shut down Windows Vista computer at a specified time:
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Written by Tony on October 10th, 2008 with no comments.
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