Operating Systems

With the popularity of BitTorrent (BT) and ED2K P2P (Peer-to-Peer) file sharing technology, many Internet users are now downloading bunch of video clips, movies, films, TV serials, music videos and other media files to local computer for viewing and personal watching. These video files and its audio are encoded with all sort and kind of encoding formats

There are many cases where Microsoft Office 2007 cannot be uninstalled properly from the system by using Add and Remove Program or Uninstall Program of Control Panel, normally with setup failed and rolling back changes error message. The cause of the uninstallation problem is vary, such as corrupted or invalid components or remnants from prerelease or trial version of Office 2K7, or invalid registry value […]

Sometimes, Microsoft Office Suite 2007 unable or cannot be uninstalled by using Add or Remove Programs (or Programs and Features) in Control Panel. There could be multiple causes and reasons that cause user cannot uninstall Office 2007, mainly due to corrupted, invalid or missing critical registry keys, files or components. When official uninstallation fails, the following error messages may appear.

When using TCP-Z Virtual Device Driver to automatically load itself during system startup in order to modify and patch TCP/IP concurrent half-open connection limit for higher value, the system may prompt “Fail to Load Driver” error.

Vista Services Optimizer is a free tweaking utility that able to improve Windows Vista performance. It can automatically in a safe way according to the way the users use the computer and what software has been installed. Beside that, Vista Services Optimizer also allow the advanced users who need more control over Windows services to tweak Windows Vista services manually in an easy and safe […]

Many users get so used to the mouse for easy controlling of the pointer on a graphical user interface until they are stuck when the mouse suddenly dies or can’t work properly. They wouldn’t be able to proceed with the work until a new mouse has been installed. If you are using Windows Vista and your mouse has stopped working, you can actually configure the […]

Recover Keys is a software utility that, as its name implied, able to recover, retrieve and reveal product keys, serial number, license key, activation code, registration info such as username, company, product ID and auth. key, and other information from application program that currently installed on the computer. Recover Keys is useful in the situation where user lost the license serial key, but need to […]

Parallels Workstation is a hosted (hypervisor Type 2) virtualization software that lets users run Windows, Linux and more side-by-side on a single PC without rebooting, and competes with other similar virtual machine programs such as Microsoft Virtual PC, Microsoft Virtual Server, VMWare Server, and VirtualBox, all of which is available for free download freeware.

You probably like to sing along while listening to your favorite music. If you don’t mind sacrificing a little space on your monitor, you can get this free application, AutoLyrix, to show you the lyrics for the song you are listening to and sing along with it. Music lovers and idol wannabes surely will like this interesting program. AutoLyrix will automatically detect the song you […]

Data Execution Prevention (DEP) is a useful Windows Vista security feature that can prevent the execution of software in data memory locations and thus help to prevent malicious software from attacking and harming the system. This security tool needs to be configured before it can fully operate. Over time, this feature might also accidentally shut down legitimate processes of valid applications. Users can choose to […]

If you feel that the themes (by default has 4 or 5 different themes included on installation) is not enough for personalization, Windows 7 (from build 6956 onwards, including build 7000) has hidden themes that can be unlocked, and applied as the theme for Windows 7 system. These locked hidden themes is actually meant for some regional countries such as Australia, Canada, Great Britain, United […]

Clock, Volume, Network and Power or Battery icons on notification area (system tray) is system icons that users can choose to display or hide. However, sometimes, any or all of these system icons can disappear, missing or hiding from systray area. The easy solution is to re-enable the showing of system icons on Notification Area tab of Taskbar and Start Menu Properties. However, sometimes, even […]