Shutting down Windows XP Faster

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                     Sometimes the users could be irritated while system takes plenty of time to shut down the computer. At the backend the processor needs to kill down the active processors. We can manually change the set time factor for processor kill time and so the shut down time can be minimised. Let me give out the steps to handle the process. It could be possible by making changes in the registry settings. Do follows the steps to do shut down quicker.

• Go  to the Registry Editor(by ‘regedit’ from the run command)

• Select the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE->SYSTEM->CurrentControlSet->Control from the left pane

• Select the ‘WaitToKillServiceTimeout’ from the right pane.

• Change the value field from ’2000′ to ’200′

                      And you could feel now the Windows XP shutting down quicker.

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Getting Serial Key for any Software

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                     Perhaps you could have used the demo or a trial version product, and it will demand for the serial key for the product once the activation period is over. You all might be in dilemma then. You then need to search of the websites which is having the repository of crack keys. Almost plenty of websites are available, you need to choose the best one. Beware of malicious trojan horses and virus affecting your system. Make sure of your computer is completely protected. Let me give you a valuable suggestion to overcome such situation. To crack for the serial key, go for the Google search Engine. In the search text field, feed the input as follows “<Product Name>” 94FBR(replace Product Name with the software product for which you searching for). Perhaps you could get the link for the download of cracks. Try for it.

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Wikipedia focussing on Search Engines

The creator of the Wikipedia encyclopedia is turning his attention to search engines.

Jimmy Wales, the man behind the collaborative online reference work, is planning to create a “people-powered” search site. The Search Wikia project will not rely on computer algorithms to determine how relevant webpages are to keywords. Instead the results generated by the search engine will be decided and edited by humans. The project will stand apart from the Wikipedia encyclopedia but will be overseen by the Wikimedia Foundation – which is headed by Mr Wales.

Like the Wikipedia, the search site will rely on a large community of members to create and run it. Announcing the project Mr Wales said it was needed because the existing search systems for the net were “broken”. They were broken, he said, because they lacked freedom, community, accountability and transparency. The Search Wikia project would aim to change this and he said it would draw on the work of sites such as Nutch and Lucene which have taken a more open approach to search engines. At the moment the results returned to those using keywords on sites such as Google are generated by computers which analyse webpages to work out what they are about and how useful they are. Webpage owners use all kinds of tricks to outsmart the computer indexing systems and ensure their pages appear high up in results – even if they are not relevant to particular keywords. By contrast the relevance of results returned by the Search Wikia will be decided by the site’s community of users. Those searching will also be able to edit the list of results they get.

Mr Wales announced his plans for the search project before Christmas and was now recruiting people and buying hardware to get it up and running. There is no indication when it will be launched.

Source bbc.co.uk

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Creating an Windows XP Automatic installation CD…

You can create a CD that can install Windows XP automatically, putting in all the details and answering all the dialog boxes.

The secret behind this is the answer file, which tells Windows what to do while it’s installing. The answer file can be created using Windows setup manager.

Using this tool, you can make the answer file so powerful that you can even tell Windows to include or exclude individual components, set the display resolution, and more.

Here’s the Steps involved in creating XP Automated Installation Disc :

Step 1: Put the installation CD into the drive and copy the entire contents of the CD to a new folder on your hard disk.

Step 2: Navigate to the Support > Tools folder on the CD and double-click the Deploy.cab file. Copy all the files to a new folder on your hard disk.

Step 3: The crucial part begins now, creating the answer file. To execute the windows setup manager, double click the Setupmgr.exe file from the contents of the Deploy.cab, which you just copied onto the hard drive.

Step 4: The first few steps of the wizard are self explanatory. Select the following options from the successive dialog boxes. Create a new answer file; Windows unattended installation (Select the appropriate Windows version); “Fully automated”; “No this answer file will be used to install from CD”; and finally, accept the license agreement.

Step 5: Under the General Settings, you can customize the installation of Windows by providing the default name and organization, display settings, time zone and the product key. Fill in the fields using the drop-down list or by keying in the details. If you don’t select an option from the drop-down list, the default values will be used.

Step 6: After you are done click Finish and save the answer file as “winnt.sif” when you are prompted. Advanced users can further tweak the answer file by referring to the Help file called Ref.chm in the same folder.

Step 7: Finally copy the answer file to i386 folder in the Windows XP installation folder you created in the beginning.

Step 8: To burn a bootable installation disc, you need the boot sector of the Windows XP CD. Download it from here bootfiles.zip

Step 9: Launch Nero and select CD-ROM (Boot) from the New Compilation dialog box. Under the Boot tab, specify the boot sector file you downloaded and extracted. Set the emulation as “No emulation”, and keep the boot message blank. Most importantly, remember to set the “Number of loaded sectors” as 4.

Step 10: Under the Burn tab, set the write method to disc at-once. Click the New button to to begin adding files and folders to the compilation. Drag all the contents of the Windows XP installation disc that you copied to your hard drive (with the answer file in the i386 folder) into the left pane. Insert a blank CD into the optical drive and hit burn button. Your windows automated installation Disc is ready!

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How to log on to Windows XP if administrator password is lost.

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                     What happens if the administrator password is lost when demanded on login screen. Do the following steps to recover from such a hassle situation. 

1. With your Windows XP CD in the cd-rom drive and boot your computer

2. Press any key when you read “Press any key to boot from cd” on the screen

3. The first screen will indicate that Setup is inspecting the system hardware and loading files

4. When you get to the Welcome screen, press ENTER to Setup Windows now

5. Press F8 to accept the Licensing Agreement

6. The next screen gives you the option to start a Repair process. Use the arrow keys to select your XP installation (if you only have one, it should already be selected) and press R to begin the Repair process

7. Setup will now check your disks and then start copying files which can take several minutes. Shortly after this stage you will be required to reboot

8. During the reboot do not press any key to boot from the CD again. Setup will resume automatically with the standard screen

9. Keep your eye on the lower left hand side of the screen. When you see the Installing Devices progress bar, press SHIFT + F10. A command console will now open up giving you a wide access to the system

10. At the prompt, type NUSRMGR.CPL and press Enter. You have gained graphical access to your User Accounts in the Control Panel

11. Now remove or change your password as you prefer. Once the Repair is done, you will be able to log on with your new password. Your programs and personalized settings should remain intact.

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How to make vertical text selection in Microsoft Word

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                  Hope all are addicted to the Microsoft Word although plenty of open source writers are available. I hope Microsoft Word is ahead of all, as it was user friendly. (Recently used the Zoho Writer. It looks much more better than MS word and it was quite user friendly too. Hats off to the Zoho development team. Sure, expecting a tough competition to Microsoft office suite and Google too). Frequently users when need to select an excerpt of a document, use of mouse to select and drag it. It will be selected in row order.

           Ok. How to select an excerpt of document in vertical manner(I mean of selecting a particular column). In such case use a combination of ALT key along with the mouse selection of the text.

NOTE: The above hint works only for Microsoft Word.

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Tips to log on to Windows after Activation expiry

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                     For a Windows operating system with out activation, after 30 days the users are not allowed to log on to the system. So user might face a situation to lose the data kept on the drive until Windows OS is activated. Let me prescribe some tips to access the data files(with some restriction to full control in registered Windows OS) even after the 30 days of Windows activation expiry.

                      A computer having Windows operating system without activation, after 30 days would prompt for the login screen as usual.  Even when provided with the authorized password, it wont allow you up to the drive and ‘Activate Windows’ screen is opened. Click on the ‘Yes’ button and the ‘Lets activate Windows’ screen is opened.

NOTE:  Dont close this window and just minimise the screen.

                     Then just press a key combination of Windows and ‘U’. This will open up the narrator program. In the title bar of the Narrator screen, click on the small computer icon(preceded by the title ‘Narrator’) and select the ‘About Narrator’. A seperate ‘About Narrator’ screen will be displayed. In the mid of the About Narrator screen, click on the Microsoft Web sites and the default browser will be loaded with the microsoft website. In the address bar of the browser just type the directory you need to access. And from there you could access the files.

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Dell hopes on Colour

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                       Dell Laptops are going to fade out the traditional gray and black color models. Yeah Dell on last week introduced the laptops in different colors in the Inspiron model. From now Dell laptops can be available in blue, red, green, pink and yellow. Dell keeps on targeting all kind of peoples. Since from the starting of Dell computers, the support provided by them are quite good. They are focussing on the quality of the products delivered. To know more about this…click here

                       To add up one more about Michael Dell, (Founder of Dell Computers) he was discontinued from his graduation. He too added in the list of Steve Jobs(my inspirational character), Bill Gates.

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