How to identif network errors quickly during the transfer?
Tthe dialog ‘Status’ for network connections provides information about the number of received and sent packets. However, while doing so. Windows does not specify whether errors have occurred while transferring data. How do I find out if errors occur during the transfer?
An entry in the Registry helps in displaying important information for the error search. This is how you go about it.
• Start the Registry Edition and navigate and navigate to the ‘HEY_LOCAL_MECHINE\SYSTEMS\CurrentControlSet\Control\Network\Connection’key.
• Next, create a sub key ‘StatMon’ via ‘Edit | New | Key’ and in that create another entry ‘ShowLanErrors’ via ‘Edit | New | DWORD value’. Double click on it and set its ‘Value Data’ to ‘1’. Now close the registry.
• Then open ‘Network Connections’ in the control panel and double click on ‘Local Area Connection’. A status dialog appears where you will see ‘Errors’ in the ‘Activity’ area under ‘Packets’ with details about incorrect TCP/IP packets that were sent or received.
How to end processes using the command line by using ‘taskkill’.
Some programs tend to set their work superficially and use further resources in the Task Manager as a process. Despite that, after a system crash and in the absence of an alternative, I have to eventually fall back on these programs and end the process laboriously via the Task Manager. Is there an easy alternative.
The ‘taskkill’ command can perform the same functions as that of the Task Manager. The feature is however available only with Windows XP Professional.
This command can be called through a command prompt. You can even program a batch file if you frequently ‘End’ a useful but unstable program regularly. By just double clicking, the rather difficult process disappears into thin air.
• Use ‘takskill /IM msaccess.exe’ to end the access process with ‘taskkill’ on the basis of its map name ‘msaccess .exe.’. but be careful. If several processes exist with the same map name, the command ends all processes without any inquiry. Proceed accurately with the parameter ‘/F1’. This parameter offers the option of describing the process you are looking for by specifying a special filter. ‘Windows title’. With its help you can identify a process based on its Windows title.
• Example: If you want to end the ‘notepad.exe’ process with the Windows title ‘alex.txt – Notepad’, then use
‘taskkill/F1 “WINDOWTITLE” eq alex.txt – notepad’.
Windows delivers further parameters and information regarding the killers command with ‘taskkill/?’
How to display icons on the desktop without labels
Q. Some of the icons on the desktop do not require any label at all. The icon is indicative enough. How do I remove the labels?
Unfortunately, Windows does not allow deleting the label directly. The operating system rejects empty strings or labels consisting space characters by displaying the message ‘Enter a file name’. however, the following trick ill help you. Read more
How to protect Office setup files from the Disk cleanup wizard
The windows Disk cleanup wizard sometimes is too thorough and deletes even the setup files of the Microsoft- office that are copied on the hard disk. This can be annoying when you want to upgrade functions.
After starting the Disk Cleanup Wizard, you can select several options to choose which data should be deleted.
The ‘Office Setup files’ option takes care of the fact that the content of the folder. ‘Msocache’ is deleted. It serves as the local installation source for MS- Office. However, you can easily sacrifice the 250 MB required for the setup on a hard disk spanning hundreds of gigabytes.
You can save the cache from being deleted with a setting in the registry. Open the Registry Editor and navigate to the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ Mircrosoft\Windows\Current\Version\Explorer\VolumeCaches’.Here, select the sub key ‘Office Setup Files’ and create a backup file of the registry branch with ‘File Export’. Then delete the key with ‘Edit | Delete’ and confirm with’Yes’. Now, the ‘Office Setup files’ option disappears in the Disk Cleanup Wizard and can thus be no longer activated.
To enable the option later, a double click in Explorer on the entry of the previously exported REG file is enough.
