When installing Windows Vista on VMWare Server or VMWare ESX Server using ISO image of Vista setup DVD, after boot up normally with for Vista installation from DVD image, the setup will then halted for error message in a pop-up window titled “Load Driver” that basically implies that the the driver for the virtual CD/DVD-ROM that just been used to boot up the computer is […]
Digital Versatile Disc or Digital Video Disc (DVD) is quite commonly used nowadays due to its huge storage advantage. However, most commercially produced DVDs are always protected with the Content Scramble System (CSS), a digital rights management scheme that is widely used. Manufacturers or producers use CSS keys set which is a collective term for authentication key, player key, title key, disc key, second disk […]
User Account Control or UAC in fact is quite a useful security infrastructure or security feature brought to you by Microsoft in its Windows Vista Operating System. Undoubtedly it is quite irritating and annoying when it keep popping up to seek your authorization, but it plays a very important role to keep you aware if there is any program tries to execute or change something […]
Other than burn an ISO image to CD or DVD in Vista, users may also want to mount the ISO, CUE/BIN, IMG, VCD (FarStone Virtual Drive), NRG (Nero Burning ROM), CCD (CloneCD), CIF (Easy CD Creator), DVD, UDF, MDS (Media Descriptor File), CDI (DiscJuggler), BWT (BlindWrite), PID (Instant CD/DVD Copy), B5T (BlindWrite 5) and other CD or DVD image file and open the data content […]
Want to record, capture and save the TV shows or movies broadcasted and streamed via popular P2PTV software such as PPStream, PPLive, TVUPlayer, PPMate, SopCast, TVKoo!, Feidian, UUsee, CoolStreaming, QQLive and others as video clips on your computer? P2P TV client software enables viewers to enjoy live streaming TV channels especially live telecast sports such as ESPN and Star Sports, and numerous other programs such […]
Sometimes it is quite fun to disguise your voice while you are skyping with your friends. You imitate the voice of a girl or woman to make your friends think you are somebody else. You can speak like Britney Spears or Paris Hilton to trick your friends into making fools of themselves. So is there any device or program that can help you to sound […]
Microsoft AppLocale is a utility that allows Windows users to display foreign language character sets or codepages in non-Unicode legacy code-page based application program that is different from current system locale. Otherwise, the text in the program’s interface may appear garbled and unreadable. But not only the UI of the application may display garbage characters, even the setup file or installer that runs the installation […]
TVUPlayer is a live streaming TV viewer client from TVU Networks, an Internet company based in Mountain View, California, which offers high quality global live television service that can be watched on your Windows PC or laptop over a broadband Internet connection. For cable and satellite TV addicts, or audience at the location where free-to-air TV channels are simply not enough or have only poor […]
Disk Management under Computer Management in Administrator Tools is a GUI (Graphical User Interface) based disk partitioning utility that allows Windows 2000, Windows 2003 Windows XP and Windows Vista users to set active partition, change drive letter and paths, extend volume, shrink volume, delete volume, and format the drives. However, Disk Management extension in Microsoft Management Console (MMC) does not always work properly. Problems faced […]
DiskPart.exe is a text-mode command line tool interpreter which enables storage objects such as disks, partitions or volumes configuration and management from a script, remote session, or direct input from a command prompt. Diskpart is actually the underlying utility that augments the Disk Administrator graphical user interface and enables a superset of the actions that are supported by the Disk Management snap-in. The Disk Management […]
How do you type some special characters, signs, symbols, accented letters and other Unicode languages in Windows Vista? These characters include some regular used symbols and signs such as © (copyright), ® (registered), ± (plus-minus), ™ (trademark), Ω (ohm), √ (square root), ∞ (infinity), ‼ (double exclamation mark), → (various arrows), ¿ (inverted question mark), ° (degree), µ (micro), ≈ (almost equal to), ≠ (not […]
DRM restriction in Windows Media Player of Vista, XP, 2K 9x and Me is crap, and sucked. If the media contents rights management system is working properly then it’s still forgivable. Unfortunately, it’s getting annoying the playback of copyrighted audio or video can run into various DRM license issues or errors. In this DRM hell situation, you may need to reset the DRM settings in […]
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