When trying to activate Windows Live OneCare after a successful installation, the activation process may fails during the finishing Live OneCare setup to sign in with Windows Live ID. The error message saying that “signing in was unsuccessful because of an error. Please make sure that you are connected to the Internet and try again later. If the problem persists, contact support.” even though the […]
Microsoft released its Windows Malicious Software Removal Tools lately. This removal tool can check whether computers running under Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003 are infected by any specific or prevalent malicious software or Malware which can damage your computer such as Blaster, Sasser and Mydoom. Once the removal tool has completed the detection and removal process, the tool will report […]
DixV is one of the most popular video codec format on the Internet. If you ever download video from P2P (BitTorrent or ED2K) networks, chance are you already have downloaded and installed DivX codec or DivX player and viewer. DivX bundle that includes free DivX Community Codec can be downloaded for free from DivX.com. However, if you want to create or rip DivX video, DivX […]
The USB flash drive or pen drive are very useful portable storage devices which are very commonly used for transferring or transporting personal data or work files from one station to another, e.g. from the house to the office or for carrying around data that users intend to transfer or access in a variety of places. The USB flash drive is compact and easy to […]
In Windows Vista notification area (previously known as system tray or simply systray) at the end of the taskbar, there are always a few system icons that show status and allow adjustment control of some system components, such as clock, network connections, sound volume and battery power. If any of these system icons are missing or disappearing from the notification system tray in Vista, users […]
In Windows XP Home Edition, Professional Edition and Windows Server 2003, all Standard, Enterprise, Web Edition, users may encounter a strange error where Windows system will prompt users to activate Microsoft Windows XP or Microsoft Windows Server 2003 every time users start the computer, even though the system has been successfully activated previously. Worse still, if users answer Yes in order to activate Windows again, […]
TCP receive window size (RWIN) is the amount of received data (in bytes) that can be buffered during a connection. According to Wikipedia, the sending host can send only up to that amount of data before it must wait for an acknowledgment and window update from the receiving host. When a receiver advertises the window size of 0, the sender stops sending data and starts […]
Windows Vista, like Windows XP SP2 or XP SP3, has also limit the number of concurrent simultaneous half-open TCP connections or sync packets that the system can establish at any one time. To make thing worse, the TCP/IP network protocol stack in Windows Vista has been rewritten so that Vista can auto adapt and optimize network settings according to network connection configuration. The changes to […]
Adobe AIR 1.0 Beta 3 version has been released from Adobe Lab. Adobe AIR allows developers to use their existing web development skills in HTML, AJAX Flash, Flex, etc to deploy the internet applications to the local desktop. With the release of this new version, Adobe AIR Beta 3, users will see a lot of cool stuffs and added important features. This new release supports […]
Windows XP stores the hardware configuration information of the computer at the time of activation, product activation state status, expiration info of the XP installation, and the current hardware specification in WPA.DBL file which located in %SystemRoot%\System32 folder. To secure the WPA.DBL file, Microsoft encrypts the file with RC4 algorithm. However, WPA.DBL file is not protected, and if user deletes it, user will have to […]
RealVNC has RealVNC Personal Edition and RealVNC Enterprise Edition that support Windows Vista, but unfortunately the software programs are not free and require a license and serial key. RealVNC Free Edition does not support Windows Vista, and users have to depends on various workaround to run VNC on Vista. Luckily there is free alternative for users who need to run VNC server on Windows Vista […]
Some of the popular frequently asked questions since the launch of Windows Vista are whether the computer, or the PC that you going to buy supports Windows Aero Glass Transparency effects? To know whether your notebook or desktop computer supports and able to enable and run Vista Aero effect, here’s a very simple trick to learn and know the support almost immediately without drilling into […]
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