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Graphic Card
2007-05-30 07:01:00
The graphic card is one of the most important pieces of hardware in your PC. Without it, your super monitor with all the bells and whistles is just a junk box.Make Directional InputMost video cards come with simple frame capture programs, but you'll have to do some programming if you plan to integrate video capture with other operations on your computer, such as adding text data as an overlay or changing video-in channels on the fly. In this case you'll need good programming libraries in a language with which you are familiar for the video card. Some companies include libraries with their cards, but most charge extra. Most often libraries, when available, are for C or BASIC, and sometimes Pascal.Choose Between 24 bit and 32 bitFor True Color mode, some graphic cards offer 24 bit while some offer 32 bit. Which is the best? When True Colour mode was first suggested, it utilizes 32 bit which was very pleasing to the eye, they realize that 24 (with less coolers) won't look much diffe...
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What can I do to prevent Spam?
2007-05-25 17:44:00
Because it takes so many different forms, it's virtually impossible to block all spam from appearing in your e-mail account, but there are ways to avoid receiving a lot of it and even help in the fight against the spammers.Your e-mail provider may have its own system which attempts to filter out a lot of the spam you might otherwise receive. They do this by automatically checking your e-mails for common spam messages, keywords or known spammers' addresses, then place any they find in a separate Spam /Junk/Bulk folder rather than your Inbox.It is worth having a quick look through your Spam folder occasionally in case some legitimate e-mails have been falsely identified as spam by the system. There is usually an option to move the mail back to your Inbox, or even mark it as Not Spam to help the system identify e-mails that are safe to receive.Some providers allow you to mark any junk mail you do receive in your Inbox as Spam, to help prevent you getting it again and to stop others re...
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How to protect your e-mail address
2007-05-25 17:44:00
You may want to consider having more than one e-mail address: use one address whenever you sign up for anything on the Web, and give your other address only to people you know.When you do get spam mail, never reply or click a link offering to remove you from their mailing list. This will only confirm your address is real and you will then get even more spam.Never sign up for any spam e-mail opt-out lists, these are just another attempt to get your email address or money.It is important that you have up-to-date anti-virus software. If a virus infects your PC it may try to use your address book to spread itself through e-mail spam to all your contacts.Visit www.getsafeonline.org for more advice about spam prevention and security online.
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How did they get my e-mail address?
2007-05-25 17:43:00
It may be that the spammer has just made a lucky guess using software which automatically generates possible e-mail addresses.If your e-mail address is fairly obvious it can be guessed easily. Try to use combinations of numbers and letters, and the longer or more obscure the address the harder it will be to guess.When you register on a web site or sign up for things like newsletters and membership accounts you may actually be opening the door to receive e-mail marketing spam from these sites and their partners. Most trustworthy sites should give you the option of not receiving advertising mails when you sign up.
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What is Phishing?
2007-05-25 17:42:00
Phishing is the process of sending out lots of fraudulent spam e-mails with the hope of tricking a few people into giving out their passwords or personal information.Phishing messages may appear to be from a bank or other financial institution, asking you to confirm your account details by replying to their e-mail or by following a link to a web site.When you arrive at the fake site, which can often look professional and genuine, you will be asked to type your details into a form and this is where your information will be captured by the criminals behind the phishing.You may be able to tell if you are not actually on your bank's real web site by looking at the address of the site in your browser.Remember, your bank will never ask for your passwords or personal information in this way, and if you are in any doubt you should always contact your bank before giving out your details.
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How can I tell if a message is Spam?
2007-05-25 17:41:00
Spam mails will usually try to entice you to open them by having titles that promise things like financial rewards, health products, the latest news or gossip, cheap deals or celebrity pictures. Often their titles will contain odd mis-spellings; these are attempts to fool anti-spam programs.The safest course of action is not to open any e-mail you're not expecting, especially if it has an attached file, or if you do not recognise the name or address of the sender.If you have opened an e-mail and are trying to determine if it is genuine, you could try copying the subject line or some of the message into a search engine. If other people have mentioned it on any web sites you should be able to find out if it is spam. You should always do a search on any company before you buy from them or send them any money.
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What is Spam?
2007-05-25 17:40:00
Spam is the term used to describe junk mail messages sent to your e-mail account.You may receive an e-mail and not recognise the address of the sender. Alternatively, spam mails can come from people you know, but who are not aware their account is being used by a malicious program to automatically send out junk mail to contacts in their address book.Someone may forward a spam e-mail to you thinking it is a genuine message - perhaps appearing to be from a charity asking for your help to spread their message to everyone you know.Like junk mail that comes through your door, spam e-mails often try to encourage you to buy a product or sign up for a service. Often there will be an attached file or a link to a web site, but these may actually be trying to install malicious software on your PC or attempting to get your personal information.
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New Monitors can give life to an older PC
2007-04-02 23:16:00
If you want to upgrade your computer, the new monitor is the easiest way to upgrade your computer, because if you have old monitor with new PC, your monitor slow down the system to download image on the screen. The main change with new monitor is the increased screen resolution, fast refresh rates in which a monitor will refresh a image on the screen. If you want to change the refresh rate of your monitor, Right click on Desktop > Properties > Settings then open Advanced options. Here on the Monitor tab, go to Refresh Frequency list, Here you can change your Monitor frequency with new refresh rate. The default frequency setting of old monitor is 60 Hertz, but your monitor may support more than 60 hertz. First check your monitor manufacturer documentation about your monitor supports. The higher refresh rate reduces the flicker problem on your screen.
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More Control Over Your Computer's Boot Process
2007-04-02 23:15:00
You can set the boot time in windows XP as your wish if you are install two operating systems on same computer, for example window 2000 with windows XP or more than two. Yow can do this with editing Boot.ini file. Here you can also set the sequence for operating system which operating system boot first. First Right Click on My Comp uter option and then select its Properties. In next dialog box open Advanced tab button. Under Startup and Recovery, click on the Settings button. Use the spin box "Time to display list of operating systems" to set the number of seconds you want the system to wait before automatically starting the default operating system. Here you will set time in seconds and its range start from 0 and ends with 999 seconds. After set the time, then click OK option to close the dialog box to save your change. The next time you restart, the new time will take effect.
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Export and Import Registry File Before Editing
2007-04-02 23:13:00
Today an important tip about the back up of your system Registry . Make sure before modifying your system Registry about its backup because Registry contains all information how your system runs. This backup will help you to restore Registry in case any problem occurs after modifying. You can backup the whole Registry and also Registry subkeys. Click Start Button then type regedit in Run box and click Ok button. Here you can export the whole Registry or you can locate the required subkeys that contain the information that you want to edit. Go to File menu option then click on Expo rt option for backup and save it with on any your system drive with .reg extension and you can restore this backup going File menu using import option.
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Enable Toggle Keys of your Systems?
2007-04-02 23:12:00
Toggle Keys option designed for those people who are typing while looking away from the screen or for those who are vision impairment. When your system Toggle keys is turned on, you will get a special sound when special keys are pressed like CAPS, NUM, SCROLL LOCK keys. To enable or disable your system Toggle keys, go to Control Panel using Start button. In your system Control Panel normally the first option will be Accessibility options. Double click on Accessibility options and check the Toggle keys box, Windows will automatically send you a special beeps when you will press locking keys.
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Dragging and Dropping Program Files in the Start Menu
2007-04-02 23:11:00
Perhaps the most commonly asked question from readers of these tips is how to sort the Prog rams menu in alphabetical order. Once again, the trick is to go to Star t , Programs and then make sure that you move your cursor to the right, so that your cursor is inside the actual list of programs. Then you just right-click and choose Sort By Name. This works with Favorites, too. Please note that in both these cases, unfortunately, new programs and Favorites are always added to the bottom of the list, so you'll have to re-sort them later. You can also drag and drop the shortcuts in the list of programs, just in case you want to move the most frequently accessed programs to the top. Just go to Start, Programs and then click and hold on a program or folder. Drag it and release to move it where you like.
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Print and Edit Through DOS Mode
2007-04-02 23:09:00
If you are working at the Command Prompt your can modify and print the text file very easily. There are different ways to print text a file while working at the Command Prompt. Assuming the file you want to print is in your current folder, you can type here with your file name with extension. For example: print filename.txt and press Enter. Here .txt is the file extension. You must use the extension. Now in the same way you can edit this file before printing with given command edit filename.txt and press Enter. This command opens the MS-DOS Edit or to edit this file. Edit the file and then press Alt, F, P to print it.
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Disable or Enable Auto run CD in Windows XP
2007-04-02 23:08:00
In windows XP you can enjoy a good feature to run CD or DVD automatically when you loaded it into you CD drives on your computer. This is a defaults feature in windows XP but you can disable and enable it according to your nature of work. In user interface mode there is no option to disable or enable this feature, you must edit the registry of windows and be careful to work registry. Click Start button then type regedit in Run option then press Enter for next. Here locate the location to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSet ServicesCdrom Here you can disable or enable automatically running your CD. Change the value of Auto run to 0 for disable and change the value to 1 for enable. At the end restart your computer for this change.
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Deal with your Print Screen Button
2007-04-02 23:07:00
Today a very useful tip for those who are interested to copy or download an images (Specially for Copyrights Images) from any site using Internet. Then there are two options to copy these images in Windows XP, Just open the required image page website, one option deal with this the Print Screen Button on your Keyboard and other is press Alt- Print Screen Button. If you simply press Print Screen Button after open a image from any site, here you can copies the entire windows to the Clipboard, and if you press Alt- Print Screen Button, Windows XP copy the only active window. Now you can use any Graphic Tools like (Adobe Photoshop, Paint) to manage and print this image. Just open one tool then paste this image, this will paste all Clipboard contents into Paint. Now you can print, save this image or can do more work on this image.
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Control all open windows using windows shortcut keys
2007-04-02 23:06:00
A cool tip to minimize and maximize all your active windows programs. You can do all using your mouse, but if you want to do this with keyboard then simply press Wind ows key+M to minimize all active programs and later maximize it using Windows key+Shift+M.If you want to minimize the all active windows programs one by one then use the shortcut by pressing Alt+Space+N keys and sequentially maximize the active windows programs using shortcut Alt+Space+X keys.
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Save energy using energy saving feature
2007-04-02 23:02:00
You can save your system energy applying these feature. * First Right click on our your system desktop and a popup menu will appear. * Select the Properties option from the menu. * Click Screen Save r tab and then select Power button, here you will get Power saving sitting option for your monitor. * Select your power scheme from available option, for example turn off monitor time, turn off hard disk and stand by your system. * At the end Click OK button to apply the selected scheme.
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Choose The Sounds For Each Windows Event
2007-03-28 20:24:00
Here is a cool tip to choose the sounds for each windows event, you can get these sounds files using windows special sound folders but you can add sounds from any third source. * First Click on Start button, Control Panel and then Click the Sound s and audio devices icon. * Click on sounds option , select it and then click Browse button. * After clicking browse option you will go c:WINNT > Media or Sounds folder (windows default sounds folder), but you can add sounds here from any third source. * Simply locate here the sound file you want to associate with the selected event and double-click it. * Now you can play this sound file in preview to observe if your like the sound file or not. * Click OK, and then Click OK again to close the dialog box.
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Change the Icon Spacing in XP
2007-03-28 20:22:00
You can manage your desktop icons in windows XP horizontally as well as vertically spacing. You can change the location, size of icons and spacing between icons manually but you can arrange these setting using windows methods. First Right click on your windows XP desktop then click on Properties option. Here click the Appearance tab then go to Advance button and under Item you will find many options to change the desktop icons, for example choose icon spacing in both ways and then here you can change the size putting number (minimum or maximum) under size. When you finished all setting then click ok button.
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Change The Recycle Bin's Name
2007-03-28 20:20:00
You can change the name of Recycle Bin of your system if you wish. It is very easy and interesting but it require some changes in windows registry, * First click on Start button > click on Run option. * Type here regedit.exe and press enter then you will find there regedit editor. * In regedit editor you will open HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT folder, In this folder open the CLSID folder then open the {645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E} folder >ShellFolder folder at last. * Here simply change the data value from "40 01 00 20" to "70 01 00 20". After performing all above steps restart your computer then you will find option to rename Recycle name after right clicking on Recycle Bin Icon. Now you can change new name as you wish.
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Change the boot Time in window XP
2007-03-28 20:16:00
You can set the boot time in windows XP as your wish if you are install two operating systems on same computer, for example window 2000 with windows XP or more than two. Yow can do this with editing Boot.ini file. Here you can also set the sequence for operating system which operating system boot first. First Right Click on My Computer option and then select its Properties. In next dialog box open Advanced tab button. Under Startup and Recovery, click on the Settings button. Use the spin box "Time to display list of operating systems" to set the number of seconds you want the system to wait before automatically starting the default operating system. Here you will set time in seconds and its range start from 0 and ends with 999 seconds. After set the time, then click OK option to close the dialog box to save your change. The next time you restart, the new time will take effect.
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Automate the DIR Command
2007-03-28 20:13:00
If your are using same switches frequently in Comm and prompt then open your system command prompt using open Run option Click Start and open Run option then type cmd to open command prompt, here type set dircmd=/w/o/p then press Enter, now every time thereafter that you type dir the /w/o/p switches will be automatically applied and now need to type every time. If your are interested to use single switch like /w you can use it set dircmd=/w and press Enter. and same if you wants to undo these switches then you can very easily by typing dir /-switch For example, if you wanted to do a directory with only the /w switch, you could enter dir /-p/-o When you exit the Command prompt window, however, the Dircmd setting returns to its default settings.
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How you can add a Shortcut Key to Your Internet Connection?
2007-03-28 20:10:00
This basic and common way to dial the internet connection using giving path: * Click on Start Button > settings then click on Network and dial-up connections option, here you can dial your internet connection. * Another way to dial your internet connection if you have a shortcut to your internet connection on your desktop. Simply boot your system and dial your internet connection from your desktop shortcut. * A new cool tip to dial internet connection with out using the mouse, simply add a shortcut key that will allow you to do this. Just right-click on your Inter net connection and go to Properties option. Click in the Shortcut Key box and then press a key combination that you would like to use here like (Ctrl-Alt-I). When you have a combination you like, click OK. Next time no need to use mouse to run your internet connection simply use this shortcut from your keyboard, you can just press your shortcut key combination (Ctrl-Alt-I) to launch your Internet con...
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A Quick way to print a Document
2007-03-28 20:07:00
There are many ways to prints a document, but you can print a document quickly if you put a shortcut to the printer on your desktop and drag a document icon to it, no need to open file for printing just drag a file to printer icon and get your print.To do this, first click Start button, Settings, then Print ers ( first make sure you installed your printer driver). When the Printers window opens, hold down Ctrl and drag the printer icon to your system desktop.Now you can drag a document icon and drop it in printer icon on your desktop. Here you will get a print quickly and with out open a file.
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Run to a Web Page!
2007-03-24 03:40:00
A quick way to get to a website if you know the URL and don't want to wait for the home page of your Internet browser to load first, is to click on Start and then Run. Type the URL in the Run dialogue box and press the enter key. As long as you are running Windows, your default browser will automatically start, and take you directly to that web page.
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Removing Spyware
2007-03-04 20:41:00
Recently Identity theft and Spyware have been closely related as far as the media is concerned. Not that they are wrong. Spyware as the name says is like a virus or trojan that records your keystroked and information you enter into your PC. The problem is that Spyware and Adware are used in the same context which they shouldn't be. For 95% of computer users Adware (unwanted pop-ups, ads, replacing words with links and the like) are on their PC, NOT SPYWARE. I use the term spyware on this article for the same reason, because it's commonly associated with Adware even though it's not the same. To detect and remove Spyware you will want to get a Virus scanner/monitor program. A great FREE one I recommend is Antivir which you can get here. However you're probably reading this because of Adware in the case I recommend you...
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Defragmenting Your Computer
2007-03-04 20:39:00
Keep your Comp uter running smooth.Defrag menting will likely speed up your PC if you haven't defragmented your Computer in the last month you should.Defragmenting your pc is a very simple process, but it is a time consuming process for the computer.So the best time to defrag your computer is when you won't need to use it for an hour or so.The length of time it will take to defragment your computer depends on many factors like computer speed and hard drive speed.The defragement program is under..."Start-->Programs-->Accessories-- >System Tools-->Disk Defragmenter"Once the process starts you can walk away. There is one requirement to defragment your Computer and that is having enough room on your computer so the defragment process can move files around.If you get the error that your computer does not have enough space you will need to clean-up your hard drive of files you don't need.Why does defragmenting your computer speed it up?Your hard drive where all your files are stored (unti...
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Cleanup Your Hard Drive
2007-03-04 20:34:00
If you're getting "out of memory" or "hard disk full" errors you're most likely running out of hard drive space.You probably aren't running into this problem if your computer is relatively new because newer computers have huge hard drives allowing you to store a ton of data.But don't worry if you are getting errors there's a few easy ways to clean up your hard drive and get that extra space backUninstall Unused Software ProgramsThis is the first thing you should do. If you've downloaded programs and installed things you no longer use don't let them waste space uninstall them.Go to: Start-->Settings-->Control Panel-->Add/Remove ProgramsThen simply remove the ones you don't use. Make sure before you uninstall anything you know what it is so you don't remove somthing important because you may lose the data from saved files depending on the program.Delete Temporary Internet FilesEverytime you go to a website some of the information is saved to your computer so the next time you...
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A Quick way to print a Document
2007-03-04 04:41:00
There are many ways to prints a document, but you can print a document quickly if you put a shortcut to the printer on your desktop and drag a document icon to it, no need to open file for printing just drag a file to printer icon and get your print. To do this, first click Start button, Settings, then Print ers ( first make sure you installed your printer driver). When the Printers window opens, hold down Ctrl and drag the printer icon to your system desktop.Now you can drag a document icon and drop it in printer icon on your desktop. Here you will get a print quickly and with out open a file.
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How to Remove the Speaker Icon
2007-02-14 22:50:00
There is a little speaker icon that lives in the lower-right of your screen right next to the clock. This icon enables you to adjust the Volume on your computer by clicking on it.If you want to remove this icon:Click on "Start", point to "Settings" and click on "Control Panel".Double click to open the "Multimedia" or "Sounds & Multimedia" window.Click to remove the check mark from "Show Volume Control on the Taskbar".If you want to put the speaker back, just follow the directions and click to put a check mark back in the box.
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