Photo editing can be a taxing and time-consuming job if you don’t have a proper and professional photo-editing tool. To edit your favourite shots or create innovative digital art for your company proposals or marketing material without a good photo editing software might occupy a lot of your valuable time and yet yield unsatisfactory results. There are many types of photo editing software available in […]
Microsoft seems determined to make the upcoming Windows 7 one of the best operating system ever released. Windows graphical user interface has been greatly beautified in Vista, leaving less room for impressive “wow” factor. So now it’s turn to long pending upgrade and update to the features and functions of programs packaged for free in Windows. One of such basic programs been updated is Calculator.
When visiting or browsing a web page using any web browser such as Internet Explorer and Firefox, occasionally will display error messages such as “Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage” or “Server Not Found”. Beside, when connecting to a remote server, the connection may return “Host not available” error too.
Windows Vista has strict product activation scheme, which will dumb the system into Reduced Functionality Mode (removed in Service Pack 1 with black desktop experience) if one doesn’t activate the system without 30 days or was detected or validated as non-genuine. Thus it’s very important to check and verify the activation status of Windows Vista to ensure that the system is indeed already activated, especially […]
Microsoft cuts Windows Vista retail edition selling price by up to hefty 48% in order to persuade customers to upgrade to Vista. The new cheaper price of Windows Vista retail box version is applicable to both full version and upgrade version of Vista, which used to upgrade install an old Windows operating system such as XP to Vista. Only retail Vista price is adjusted downward, […]
New desktop and notebook or laptop computer system from HP and Compaq typically has a special HP recovery partition that allows users to restore PC to original default factory condition when Windows BSOD, fails, corrupts or unable to boot. If you delete or remove this special HP recovery partition away by using Disk Manager or third party disk management tool such as Partition Magic and […]
All OEM computers, desktop or notebook PCs from Dell, HP, Lenovo, IBM, Acer, ASUS, Sony, Fujitsu, Toshiba and many more probably comes with special EISA partition either in FAT or NTFS file system that contains system recovery utility to rollback to factory settings and/or diagnostic tools. The special partition, normally hidden, can have a size of from few gigabytes to 10 GB or more. In […]
HP desktop, notebook or laptop computer normally comes with a special recovery partition which caves out on a portion of local hard disk. The hidden partition, which size can comes to about 5 to 10 GB in size, usually used to store recovery information and diagnostic tools. For HP system, the special Recovery Partition, normally on D drive, is used for PC System Recovery, an […]
Windows XP, Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003 features a Recovery Console which provides a mean for administrators or Windows user to perform a limited range of tasks using a command line interface, especially to recover of Windows system that does not boot into desktop in graphic user interface (GUI).
On some occasions you need to capture, record and show somebody some activities on your screen. For instance, you are a software developer or application tutor and you need to demonstrate to your end users how this software/application is installed and run. In most cases you will have to record a video of the full desktop screen activities and show it to others. If that […]
As promised by Microsoft (although Microsoft supposed to include it in Vista SP1), the update to detect activation exploits that commonly used by hackers and pirates to bypass and crack activation in Windows Vista has been released via Windows Update as Important Update. The anti-crack update, KB940510, will install a detector or sniffer on Vista system to detect Grace Timer exploit and OEM BIOS activation […]
Busy familiarizing with Windows Vista? The successor to Windows Vista, with internal codename as Windows 7 (previously known as Blackcomb and Vienna) has also been in development stage by Microsoft, with rumored release date targeted at late 2009. But with Microsoft’s records, the date will definitely delay. But it doesn’t stop Microsoft to send out the first known build of Windows 7, named Milestone 1 […]
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