Windows Vista takes away a lot of support and convenience for the sheer attractive of flashy user interface. One major feature is the ability of open full screen window for command prompt shell in Windows Vista. When you attempt open or run DOS .com applications, .bat batch scripts or games that relies on command prompt, and including cmd.exe itself, you will encounter the following error […]
System Restore also been featured in Windows Vista, just like in Windows XP. However, unlike the user friendly and easy to use slider bar in Windows XP, there is no easy way and no longer an ability to change the limit of System Restore disk storage space usage in Windows Vista via graphical user interface. In order to limit the maximum hard disk space can […]
ReadyBoost is a new feature that first included in Windows Vista with the aim to speed up Vista performance. ReadyBoost is actually an disk caching technology that uses flash memory on a USB 2.0 drive, Secure Digital (SD), CompactFlash (CF), Memory Stick, MMC card, or other form of USB flash memory, USB flash drive or USB key, as extra virtual memory in order to boost […]
Parents are always concerned about their kids accidentally or purposefully accessing porn sites or adult sites. Porn has a negative impact on kids. Exposure to pornography for young and immature kids or adolescents will create unhealthy sexual behavior and attitudes amongst them. Parents can do something about this problem. There are some security methods discussed here that can help parents to block adult sites in […]
Windows Vista sucks? Or simply don’t like Vista? If you’re thinking to downgrade your Vista system to run on Windows XP, it’s not as easy as you think. There is no direct path to downgrade Vista to XP. You can’t simply insert the XP installation CD media into the CD-ROM drive and hope to ‘upgrade’ and replace the Vista with Windows XP usual install routine […]
BitComet has been upgrade to version 0.90 and is available for immediate free download. BitComet is a one of the popular BitTorrent (BT) client written in C++ for Microsoft Windows, and has been translated into 43 different languages. Other than handle BitTorrent torrent download, BitComet also is a HTTP and FTP download management software which effectively make the download via HTTP and FTP connection faster […]
Regret your choice for Windows Vista? If you bought a license or product ID key to use Windows Vista, or Vista was preinstalled as OEM version with your new laptop or desktop system, but now decided to give up Vista and back to XP instead, the downgrade process may not as easy as you think, as outline here. Beside, unless you specifically buy a new […]
If you’re a person who very much loving yourself, and would always like to see your own pretty or handsome face all the time even while using computer, the Windows Self Shot! sidebar gadget for Windows Vista will help you to stream video display of your face posture, or rather any other scene or place that the webcam points to Windows Sidebar. So with Windows […]
Getting bored with the default yellow icon for your folders in Windows Explorer? Here’s a few 3D folder icons in different colors which has a similar design with the default folder icon in Windows Vista, minus the interactive feature which able to display preview the contents inside the folder and change the style and size of icons when viewed as medium, large or extra large […]
A keyboard shortcut (also known as a shortcut, accelerator key, hot key, or mnemonic) is a key or set of keys that performs a predefined function. You can act faster, save time and reduce a lot of mouse work for some common computing chores using shortcut keys. Having said that, many people do not really like to use shortcut keys because it is hard to […]
In Microsoft Office Outlook 2007, users can preview supported files that sent to them as email attachments directly in Reading Pane (aka Preview Pane) or Message window without actually need to open or save the attachments to local disk. The file formats that can be previewed including Office Word, Excel, PowerPoint files, JPG or JPEG photos, GIF images, Acrobat PDF documents (instead of loading the […]
ARP (Address Resolution Protocol is the standard method for finding a host’s hardware address when only its network layer address is known. In other word, in IPv4 and Ethernet network environment, Windows operating system uses ARP to translate IP addresses to Ethernet MAC addresses. However, Microsoft Windows ARP cache will occasionally become corrupt and need to be cleared and deleted so that the cache can […]
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