April 2009
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“Media Sensing” is a feature in recent versions of Microsoft Windows operating systems including Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Vista. This feature automatically detects whether the network media are in a “link” state, in a Windows machine with TCP/IP protocols. With Media Sense feature, Windows senses a link state as UP or DOWN based on the link availability. Ethernet network adapters and hubs typically have a “link” light that indicates the read more
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Written by Tony on April 30th, 2009 with no comments.
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Automatic Private IP Addressing, or APIPA as it is better known, is a feature of Windows 2000 , XP,2003 and Windows Vista operating systems that allows for the automatic assignment of IP addresses in a network where there is no DHCP server present. APIPA automatically assigns an IP address in the class B network 169.254.0.0(Note: The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) has reserved 169.254.0.0-169.254.255.255 for Automatic Private IP Addressing. As a result, APIPA provides an address read more
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Written by Tony on April 29th, 2009 with no comments.
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Favorites, also known as bookmarks, are a convenient way to organize and find webpages that you visit frequently. If you use Internet Explorer on several computers, you can save your favorites from one computer and then import that list to another computer.Internet Explorer 7 makes it easy to import and export your favorites, feeds, and cookies with an import and export wizard.
To export favorites Follow these steps on the computer that you’re exporting your favorites from.
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Written by Tony on April 29th, 2009 with no comments.
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ActiveX Controls are small programs, many developed by companies other than Microsoft, help Internet Explorer 7 do things it can’t alone. ActiveX Controls provide websites with added degrees of functionality, interactivity, and multimedia. However, they can also introduce problems, such as rogue software masquerading as valid ActiveX Controls that can do damage to your computer and/or data. If you want to disable the use of ActiveX controls in Internet Explorer 7 when viewing the read more
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Written by Tony on April 29th, 2009 with 1 comment.
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System beeps are those sounds you hear when an error message or an information/warning message appears.One of the small but annoying things in Windows Vista is the fact that the System Beep is enabled by default.
If you want to get rid of the annoying system beep in Windows Vista, do any of the following methods:
Method 1: Through Windows Vista Registry
Start the Windows Vista registry editor by clicking Start, then, Run, and then entering regedit.
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Written by Tony on April 28th, 2009 with 2 comments.
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After you log on to a Windows Vista-based system, you may notice that a temporary profile has been loaded instead of the profile that corresponds to the current user. Therefore, any changes that you make to the current desktop are lost after you log off the system. Additionally, the notification area may display the following error message:
Your user profile was not loaded correctly! You have been logged on with a temporary profile.
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Written by Tony on April 28th, 2009 with no comments.
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You know that Quick Launch Bar is no longer available in Microsoft’s new operating system, Windows 7.You should note that the new Windows 7 taskbar allows you to dock items to the taskbar, combining the features of both the normal taskbar as well as the Quick Launch.But some users may find that they really need the Quick Launch bar back like it was in Windows Vista and XP. Windows 7 doesn’t give you any instant way to bring it back, but it is still possible.Because Microsoft has not read more
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Written by Tony on April 28th, 2009 with 1 comment.
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