Computer Related....

Submitted by karan129 on Thu, 10/30/2008 - 11:39
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A list of great, free software you can use...

Replace Microsoft Office with Open Office
Replace Norton/Nod32/Kapersky/McAffe with Avira AntiVir
Get a Firewall with Zone Alarm
Play Music with Winamp
You can replace Winrar with 7-Zip but it won't create .RAR archives.

Just a list of possible ways to fix common computer problems.

Get around Windows 30 Day Activation
After 30 days you can't login to Windows without activating it first. To get around this, goto the activation screen, then press [Windows + U] to bring up the narrator. Click on the top left corner, you get a menu. Click on 'About' and then click on the link to the microsoft website. You'll get IE open. Now you can go to My Computer by typing it in the bar. To get the rest, type C:\Windows\explorer.exe and you're done.

DVD Writing Errors - Internal Target Failure
Write DVDs at 4x instead of 8x =P or a lower speed if possible. Basically lower the speed, lesser the chance of errors.

Port Forwarding
(detailed explanation coming soon)
First set DHCP so your comp gets the same address each time, then set the port in the port forwarding part.

Turn off Auto-Play
There is a lower chance of viruses being triggered, since the OS does not read from a drive automatically. Explained here.

Sharing Youtube links on Facebook
Put a ';' after the link, explained here.

The "Open With Dialog box when opening a drive" problem
One reason for this is that the "autorun.inf" file gets corrupted by a worm. I fixed it by...

1. Run a scan of your entire hard disk to take out the virus/worm that caused the problem.
2. Go to command prompt(run->cmd)
3. Use the following commands
cd /D [drive]
attrib -h -s -r *.inf
del *.inf
4. Go to Tools->Folder Options->View->Show hidden files and folders.
5. Open an unaffected drive and copy the autorun.inf to the affected drive.
6. It should work fine now or after a restart.

Task Manager has been disabled by your administrator
Click on Start, Run and type the following command exactly and press Enter

REG add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System /v DisableTaskMgr /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f

Registry editing has been disabled by your administrator
Click Start, Run and type this command:
REG add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System /v DisableRegistryTools /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f