Better option than windows notepad
Windows Notepad comes in handy when you want to quickly jot down notes. EditPad lite is an excellent replacement for Windows Notepad, with its compact design. It boasts of all the features required by a full-fledged text editor. Read more
Optical mouse shines continuously even when the PC is switched off
Some motherboards like Arocks enjoy great popularity amongst those who want ot upgrade, but are willing to spend relatively less. However, after the modification, the optical mouse glows even when the PC is switched off.
This happens with some other motherboards also. The cause of this strange occurrence is an uncommon jumper put on the main board, which is responsible for the powering of the USB buses. This provide the USB bus with the standby power (+5VSB) to enable the switching ‘ON’ of the computer via USB or PS2 devices. Connected devices were continuously supplied with electricity in this way. Read more
Removable drive is recognized but not displayed. Why?
The moment you insert the USB memory stick in the USB port of the computer, Windows reports it with a typical message tone. However, at times, the Explorer does not display the removable drive or the normal dialogue box does not open. On the other hand, all the other hard disks and network permissions are displayed in the Explorer window.
The problem hits frequent users who work in an administered network. Network permissions literally overnight. If a USB stick is used for the first time. It receives the next free drive letter, for instance,’E:\’ Windows then maintains it even in the future. Now, the IT division and the network permission under ‘E:\’ and there is a conflict with the USB stick. Windows adds the removable disk under ‘E:\’ but displays only the network drive. Read more
How to secure and import filter rules for your e-mail account
you have defined some filter rules for your e-mail account and would like to use these rules for other accounts as well. Besides, you also want to use the data on your notebook.
Thunderbird saves the filter rules in the ‘msfilterrules.dat’ file. You can edit them, but it is easier to customize them using the free extension ‘Message Filter Import/ Export. It integrates a menu command for managing filter rules in the e –mail client. This useful tool is available on http://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/2474. Right -click on ‘Install now’ on the website and select the ‘Save Target As’ context command. You can now secure the extension on your hard disk. Start Thunderbird and go to ‘Tools|Extensions’. Click on ‘Install’ and navigate to the downloaded XPI file and open it. Click on ‘Install now’ to start the setup and restart Thunderbird. To ensure the rules of an account, go to ‘Tools|Message filter’. Set up the desired account and click on the newly visible button ‘Export Filter’ in the ‘Filter for’ combination field. Then name the text file and click on ‘Save’. Read more
How can you protect your configuration settings from being accessed by others
You use a computer with several user accounts. You want to ensure that only you, as administrator, can change important browser settings such as configuration of the proxy. However, users should be able to make changes in the general settings.
The key to this is a configuration file, in which you block selected options and which you then encode online.
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Determining options concerned: Type ‘about config’ in the address bar of the browser and find the entries you want to block for other system users in the list. You cannot do without the configuration of the Internet proxy set by you in the example. The line ‘network, proxy, type’ sees to it that Firefox uses the proxy. Therefore, you have to ensure that this line cannot be changed. Read more
How to protect your system from new super cookies
Super cookies have started featuring on the menu cards of many websites, some of which are dubious in character. What are they? How can you protect your system from these elements or mange them?
In addition to the classic cookies that are only up to four kilo bytes in size, thre are much bigger Flash cookies and voracious domain memory objects (the so-called DOM cookies are also new). They grab up to five megabytes of space on the hard disk of your PC to store the information of an external website. Firefox 2.0 is the first browser to support these new standard memory objects. The cookie management of the browser does not display these objects along with the stored data, which means that they cannot be deleted. Read more
How to defragment the swap file and Registry in Windows
To accelerate your computer, regularly defragment the contents of the system hard disk. However, during the defragment process, important elements such as the swap file are skipped, resulting in the slowing down of the computer.
Windows and the current defragmenters cannot access the files which have been exclusively opened by the system. Therefore, the registry data and the swap file are usually ignored during the optimization. However, these files are used frequently and they take up a large amount of space. Therefore, their fragmenting slows down the system significantly. But then again, there are specialists to solve every problem. The tool ‘Pagedefrag’ uses the start phase of the PCs to defragment the registry and swap file. During the start phase. Windows can access them. Read more
