Turbocache in XP

First, install your video drivers. You've probably already done this, but if you want to make sure that you have something recent, do the following:
-Right-click your desktop and click Properties
-Go to the Settings tab
-Click the advanced button
-Go to the Adapter tab (note the Memory Size under Adapter Information)
-Click on Properties button
-Go to the Driver tab
-Check the Driver Date and Driver Version to see if it's at least November 2006 and/or 93.71
-Close the dialogs.
-If your version isn't up-to-date, then download and install the latest nVidia Driver.

Install Rivatuner
-Just download it from here: http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=163
-Run the installer

iPhone Error 21 and Solution

iPhones can give you many errors. And, if you are downgrading your iPhone then you might have encountered Error 21. So, do you get this Error 21 frequently?

If yes, then the problem is, instead of landing in Device Firmware Upgrade (DFU) mode you are ending up in Recovery mode.

Now, if you can get back to DFU mode that will solve your problem. Once the iPhone is in (DFU) mode, you can follow the following process to downgrade your iPhone.

Procedure

When the iPhone is in DFU mode, this mode will bypass the operating system that is currently installed. This process aids in downgrading or upgrading your Operating System in iPhone. Remember, DFU mode is different from the usual Recovery mode.

How To Reinstall Internet Explorer

1. Insert the Win XP CD

2. Open Start / Run and type:



rundll32.exe setupapi,InstallHinfSection DefaultInstall 132 c:\windows\inf\ie.inf

Press ENTER

Speed up IE7 ( Internet Exlporer 7 )

Now there comes a time in a man life when you have to choose which browser you’re going to use. But for me I picked both, sometimes I want to see whats on the other side. Now Looking for tweaks For IE7 can be a little difficult because almost all articles about tweaking IE7 are all automated and you have to install a third party tweaking software which I don’t like. so what else could do, but to fire up my Registry Editor.

Now We can speed up IE7 page loading especially on multiple tabs and look for this key

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings]
“MaxConnectionsPerServer”=  Changedit to dword:00000010
“MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server”=Changed it to dword:0000010

Since I rarely use IE7… so Its a bit rusty when i opened it to try it for the first time.. but after closing and restart IE a noticed a difference and ohhh yeahh.. it’s goodboom you’re done.. Exit regedit restart your PC and enjoy the fast loading of pages.

Windows uses 20% of your bandwidth Here's how to Get it back

A nice little tweak for XP. Microsoft reserve 20% of your available bandwidth for their own purposes (suspect for updates and interrogating your machine etc..)

Here's how to get it back:

Click Start-->Run-->type "gpedit.msc" without the "

This opens the  group policy  editor. Then go to:


Local Computer Policy-->Computer Configuration-->Administrative Templates-->Network-->QOS Packet Scheduler-->Limit Reservable Bandwidth


Double click on Limit Reservable bandwidth. It will say it is not configured, but the truth is under the 'Explain' tab :

"By default, the Packet Scheduler limits the system to 20 percent of the bandwidth of a connection, but you can use this setting to override the default."

So the trick is to ENABLE reservable bandwidth, then set it to ZERO.

This will allow the system to reserve nothing, rather than the default 20%.

I have tested on XP Pro, and 2000

How to create a disk image of a DVD or CD using the terminal

This is a little bit advanced, but useful.

1. Insert the DVD/CD into your drive.

2. Run the TERMINAL application (In your Appplications Utilities Folder)

You will get a little window with a prompt something this: Macintosh:~ wayne$

3.Type the following and then hit return:

drutil status

It will give you some info like this:

Vendor Product Rev
SONY DVD RW DW-U21A AADB

Type: DVD-R Name: /dev/disk2
Cur Write: 4x DVD Sessions: 1
Max Write: 4x DVD Tracks: 1

This is information about your DVD/CD drive and the important thing to notice is the name, it will be /dev/disk1 or /dev/disk2

How to turn on automatic logon in Windows XP

Method 1:

You can use Registry Editor to add your log on information. To do this, follow these steps:

1. Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK.
2. Locate the following registry key:
   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
3. Using your account name and password, double-click the DefaultUserName entry, type your user name, and then click OK.
4. Double-click the DefaultPassword entry, type your password under the value data box, and then click OK.
   
   If there is no DefaultPassword value, create the value. To do this, follow these steps:
   1. In Registry Editor, click Edit, click New, and then click String Value.
   2. Type DefaultPassword as the value name, and then press ENTER.
   3. Double-click the newly created key, and then type your password in the Value Data box.
   Note: If the DefaultPassword registry entry does not exist, Windows XP automatically changes the value of the AutoAdminLogonregistry key from 1 (true) to 0 (false) to turn

How to connect your iPhone or iPod to your home stereo.

To connect your iPhone, iPad or iPod to your home stereo you just need a 3.5mm to RCA cable like this cable here. The RCA cable plugs into the rear of your stereo and the 3.5mm plugs into your iPhone headphone jack.

When plugging into the back of the Stereo Amplifier, you can use almost whatever inout you want: CD-INPUT, TAPE-IN, TV-IN, DVD-IN or the AUX-IN,  but do not use the PHONO-IN as it is designed specifically for a record player and won’t sound as good.

For the best results set your iPhone volume to about half. If it’s too quiet you may get noise and hiss. If it’s too loud you may get some distortion.

You can have the USB charger plugged into the iPod at the same time.

If you want you can use an Apple iPod dock, and leave the audio and charger cable plugged into the dock permanently. The dock has a line out so that it doesn’t matter what volume the iPod is set to, and it will also charge your iPod, and has a remote control.

If you are buying a new Stereo, Pioneer and others are now including AIRPLAY into some of their amplifiers. The amplifiers have a Wi-Fi receiver built in which means you can play from your iOS device over your Wi-Fi (Airport) network directly to your Stereo with no loss of quality. You don’t need to connect any cables.

Lock User Accounts After Too Many Login Failures

Add the following two lines highlighted in blue to the /etc/pam.d/system-auth file as shown below:

auth        required      /lib/security/$ISA/pam_env.so
auth        required      /lib/security/$ISA/pam_tally.so

                           onerr=fail no_magic_root
auth        sufficient    /lib/security/$ISA/pam_unix.so likeauth

                           nullok
auth        required      /lib/security/$ISA/pam_deny.so
account     required      /lib/security/$ISA/pam_unix.so
account     required      /lib/security/$ISA/pam_tally.so 

                           per_user deny=5 no_magic_root reset
account     sufficient    /lib/security/$ISA/pam_succeed_if.so uid

                           < 100 quiet
account     required      /lib/security/$ISA/pam_permit.so
password    requisite     /lib/security/$ISA/pam_cracklib.so retry=3
password    sufficient    /lib/security/$ISA/pam_unix.so nullok

                           use_authtok md5 shadow
password    required      /lib/security/$ISA/pam_deny.so
session     required      /lib/security/$ISA/pam_limits.so
session     required      /lib/security/$ISA/pam_unix.so

The first added line counts failed login and failed su attempts for each user. 

The default location for attempted accesses is recorded in /var/log/faillog.

Web Interface Logon process in Citrix

Web Interface(WI) logon process:

1. User enter URL of WI server and logs on.
2. Web Interface server contacts XML broker, xml broker authenticates user and returns application list
3. User clicks on application
4. Web Interface server contacts XML broker
5. XML broker contacts ZDC to find least loaded server,
6. ZDC returns IP of least loaded server to XML broker
7. XML broker returns IP address of least loaded server to Web Interface
8. Web Interface creates ICA file with IP of least loaded server and returns it to client
9. Browser launches ICA client and connects directly to server using ICA files sent from Web Interface

Adding Second Farm to web Interface

Open the first farm and:

Open the Access Management Console at Web Interface Server,

click “Configuration Tool” 

-> “Web Interface” 

--> right click on the site you created 

and select “Manage Server Farm” 

-> Add second Farm

Backup Access Data Store and Restore

While there is no built-in backup scheduler with Access, Presentation Server includes the DSMAINT BACKUP command for backing up Access Data Stores only. Citrix recommends that this command be executed daily using a scheduler script.
WARNING! Do not attempt to backup Microsoft SQL Server or Oracle databases using this command.
MDB: A file with the MDB file extension is a Microsoft Access Database file.
Moving / Restoring an Access Database
Access to a valid backup or Copy of the Data Store is assumed before the following procedure is started.
Moving an Access Database
To move an Access database, complete the following procedure:

1. Copy the Data Store file named “MF20.mdb” in the %system%\Program Files\Citrix\Independent Management Architecture\ folder from the source server to the target server, which will be the new Data Store host.

3 Ways to Access Your Linux Partitions From Windows

If you’re dual-booting Windows and Linux, you’ll probably want to access files on your Linux system from Windows at some point. Linux has built-in support for Windows NTFS partitions, but Windows can’t read Linux partitions without third-party software.

This list is focused on applications that support the Ext4 file system, which most new Linux distributions use by default. These applications all support Ext2 and Ext3, too – and one of them even supports ReiserFS.

Ext2Fsd

Ext2Fsd is a Windows file system driver for the Ext2, Ext3, and Ext4 file systems. It allows Windows to read Linux file systems natively, providing access to the file system via a drive letter that any program can access.
You can have Ext2Fsd launch at every boot or only open it when you need it. While you can theoretically enable support for writing to Linux partitions, I haven’t tested this. I’d be worried about this option, myself – a lot can go wrong. Read-only support is fine, though, and doesn’t have a risk of messing

3 Easy Ways to Connect to Windows Shared Folders from Linux

Connecting to file servers is something most people do on a daily basis even without thinking about it. In Linux, it may not be intuitive how to quickly connect to a samba or ftp server without a separate program. Here are a few different ways to connect to a remote file server without needing to touch a terminal.

Using Keyboard Shortcut

You can connect to a server by opening the run application window with the Alt+F2 keyboard shortcut. You will just need to specify the server type by adding the protocol at the beginning of the command. For example smb:// will connect to a samba share; other supported protocols are ssh, ftp, sftp, http, and https.

Note: In the example below my server name is playground and the shared folder is called music.

If your server requires a password to connect, fill out the next window that pops up and select how long you would like it to store your password.

A Nautilus window will automatically open with the server you just connected to, and you should have a shortcut under places on the left side and a shortcut on your desktop.

From GNOME Menu

If you are using Ubuntu, and many other GNOME based distributions, you will have a places menu on your top menu bar. Open that menu and click connect to server.

A new window will open up with a drop down so you can select what type of server you are connecting to.

For a samba/cifs server select Windows share and fill out the required information.

Note: Unlike the run application window, you do not need the slashes to connect here.

Alternatively, you can also get to the connect to server window from Nautilus’ file menu.

With a Shortcut

If you would like instant access to the connect to server window from your GNOME menu bar right click on the menu you would like to add the shortcut to and click add to panel.

In the window that pops up, search for “connect” and connect to server should be one of the results. Highlight the shortcut and click add at the bottom of the window.

Now you will have an additional shortcut on your GNOME bar for easy access.

Connect Your iPhone, iPod Touch, or Android Phone to a Wi-Fi Network

Have you ever wanted to connect your phone or mobile device to a Wi-Fi network at home or your favorite coffee shop but aren’t sure how? Today we’ll take a look at how to connect to Wi-Fi on an iPhone, iPod Touch, and Android devices.

iPhone / iPod Touch

Note: We are using version 4.0 of the iPhone OS

Find and select the Settings icon on your iPhone or iPod Touch.

Select Wi-Fi from the Settings menu.

If your Wi-Fi setting currently set to Off, tap it to toggle On the Wi-Fi access.

Once your Wi-Fi is enabled you should see available networks appear below. Encrypted networks will show a padlock to the right of the name while “open” networks will not. Tap to select the network to join.

If you choose a network that requires a password, you’ll be prompted to enter it. Type in your password and select Join.

When connected, your network SSID will be indicated in blue with a check mark beside it.

To connect to a network with a hidden SSID, select Other.

You’ll need to know the SSID, Security type, and password. Enter that information and select Join.

  

Now you can browse to all your favorite websites and connect to other devices on your Wi-Fi network.

Android

Note: We are using Android 2.1 for our examples.

On your Android device, select the Settings icon.

 

Under Settings, choose Wireless & networks.

Next, select Wi-Fi settings.

If Wi-Fi is not already turned on, tap the check mark by Wi-Fi to turn it on. When Wi-Fi is enabled, available SSID’s will appear below. Encrypted networks will by indicated with a padlock icon. Select the network to which you’d like to connect.

If password protected, type in your password and select Connect.

You should now see that you are connected to the network.

To connect to a Wi-Fi network with a hidden SSID, select Add Wi-Fi network from the settings.

Then manually type in your SSID and password, and select your network security type. Select Save when finished.

 

Now you can browse the web through your Wi-Fi router or connect to other network devices.

 

Conclusion

Whether you want to connect to Wi-Fi to communicate to other devices or just save on your phone’s data usage, it’s pretty easy to do on your iPhone, iPod Touch, or Android phone.

iPhone Backup Takes Forever

You might have encountered these tedious backups, which take ages and this is caused due to error that occurs while you update the apps from App store directly on the iPhone rather than installing it on iTunes.  This backup time usually depends on the number of apps you have installed. Moreover, you would not even be aware of the fact that your iPhone is struggling hard during the backup.

So, what do you do when you come across such issues?  Here is a quick fix that can end your backup issues forever.  This will remove the complete data and make your iPhone, a clean slate. So, you will start afresh. Nevertheless, this process could consume much time depending on the number of applications installed.

Procedure

Let us now check the process of putting your iPhone backup right on track:

• First go to iTunes and select the Edit option. Here chose the preferences. Now choose the Syncing option and select “remove all the previous backups”.  You also need to select “Disable automatic syncing for all iPhones”.
  • Now if you are a Mac user, locate the following path: Users/YOURACCOUNT/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup
  • And if you are a Windows user, locate the following path: C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Application Data\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup
• Now that you can see a Folder by name, “Backup”, delete all the files in it.
• Now plug in your iPhone, and in the applications tab, deselect “Sync Apps”.
• Now you can see a message asking that “whether you want to remove the Apps in your iPhone”. Just select Yes and this will remove all the apps on your iPhone.  This procedure will also take the backup and recreate all the files that you have removed earlier.
• This completes your sync process so, now remove any leftover apps, by holding and touching the icon until it wiggles.
• Now, in order to delete the apps, select X. This will delete any remaining apps on the iPhone. Now, sync once again.
• Now disconnect the iPhone and restart it and let it boot up.
• Now connect your iPhone back and start adding the apps one after the other.
• Now select the option “Selected applications” and “Sync applications”. Uncheck all the apps at this stage.
• Now you have to do the backup process one after the other. For this select one App and click on Sync. Make sure your sync is complete and after this, click on “Back up”. This will complete your backup.
• Now repeat the above step for every app you need and make sure keep the earlier apps checked. Do not forget to take backup for every sync. Initial backup can take long time but successive backups don’t consume much time.
• Upon finishing the backups, go to Edit and then select preference and there, select Syncing.  Here you will have to enable the option “Automatic syncing for iPhones”.

So, you are done with the backup and now you have found a solution to fix long backups.

How To Make Microsoft Word The Default Program

It seems every time I install a new software program, it insists on becoming the default program for opening up files of a certain type. If you’re like me and suddenly have Google Earth opening up Powerpoint presentations or are trying to update your resume through Windows Media Player, take these few steps to change the default program.

The main conflict I had was when I installed OpenOffice so that I could read the proposed changes to our Fantasy Football rules that my friend who didn’t have Word sent over. I literally do 99% of my typing in Microsoft Word and for two years Open Office would automatically start when I clicked a .doc. I couldn’t take it anymore and found out the answer to my problems was actually a pretty easy fix.

Make Microsoft Word The Default Program

1. Go to the start menu in the left-hand corner and when the menu appears, click on Control Panel.

2.  Click on classic view in the left menu. This will show you the icons as shown below.

3.  Double-click on the default programs icon.

4.  There will be four choices, click on the second choice that says associate file type or protocol with a program. See the screen shot below.

5.  Now another window will open with a list of file extensions to choose from.

6.  Scroll down the list until you find the .Doc extension and the .Docx extension for the newest Microsoft word file types.

7.  In the screen shot below I have found that .Doc extension and have made it blue by selecting it.

8.  Once you have selected your file type, press on the change program button at the top right.

9.  Now you can choose which program you want to open that particular file type. If you cannot see the program you want you can click on the are browse button below stop

10.  Browse for your programs .exe file and then press ok.

Here is another way to make Microsoft word the default program when opening a .Doc file:

You can make Microsoft word the default program by manually going and finding the executable file for Microsoft Word. This is the file that starts the program. It will be contained in your C drive, program files, then a Microsoft office folder, then another office folder depending on what version you have.

1.  The first thing you need to do to make Microsoft Word the default program is find any .doc file or .docx for 2007+ on your hard drive.

2.  Right click once on the file and select open with from the menu that drops down. See the screen shot below.

3.  You can choose a program to open that file. If it is not there press on browse to find your program.

2.  Browse through your C: Program files directory until you find the program winword.exe.

3.  I had to go to C drive, program files, Microsoft office, office 12, then I found winword.exe.

4.  Make sure you check the “make this the default program for opening files of this type’ box and your troubles are over…until the next time you install new programs in your hood.

Notes on how to make Microsoft word the default program:

• This is an easy way to stop programs from clashing.
• If you do not solve this problem you will be continually slowed down with your work.

I have shown two ways to make Microsoft word the default program so it should not matter what operating system you have, this should work for you.

How to Control a Remote Computer Using Only Your Chrome Web Browser

Going remote with friends and family is helpful when you need to show them how to do something or fix a problem. Here’s how you can offer cross platform remote assistance using only Google Chrome and an extension.

In most cases you need to install software or have a special service running in the background. With Chrome Remote Desktop, all you need is your Chrome browser running to be able to take control and share your screen. Here’s how to install and use it.

First you need to install Google Chrome if you don’t already have it. Download and install it from the link below.

Then install the Chrome Remote Desktop Beta extension by going to the link below.

During the installation you will be asked to authorize the app to have access to view your email address, view your remote desktop computers, and view and send chat messages.

After it’s installed, open a new tab in Chrome and click the Chrome Remote Desktop BETA app.

Click share this computer and a 12 digit code will be generated for you.

This is a one time code that someone can use to access your computer.

From the other computer, click access a shared computer and type in the first code (spaces are not necessary).

Give it a little bit and the tab will change to the other computers desktop. While in this mode, the computer being shared can either push the disconnect button, Ctrl+Alt+Esc, or close the Google Chrome tab to end the session.

If you have trouble connecting to the remote computer or it hangs when saying verifying access code, try allowing ports 443 and 5222 to have inbound and outbound rules in your windows firewall using both UDP and TCP.

If you need further help check out Google’s help page on the extension below.

Google Chrome Download

Chrome Remote Desktop Beta

Chrome Remote Desktop Beta help page

How to show your Network connection icon in the taskbar notification area

If you want to see the Network connections icon on your windows taskbar notification area, it is very easy to do. It can be quite handy having the Network connections icon there for you to see as it will let you know if there is a problem with your connection. If you have a wireless network connection you will see the same icon pictured left, but there will be wireless signals coming from it.

Why do you need a network connections icon in your taskbar notification area?

There are some great benefits to having a network connections icon in your notification area in your taskbar. The Network connections icon will let you know if you have low connectivity, an Ip address conflict, or even if you have no internet connection at all. For example a yellow triangle appears over your network connection icon in the task bar when there is an Ip Address conflict or a bad internet connection. If you have a low wireless signal a balloon message will stem form the network connection icon notifying you of the problem.

How to show your Network connection icon in the taskbar?

1. Go to the start menu and choose control panel. Then double click on the Network Connections icon.
2. Now choose your internet connection adapter. I am using LAN ( Local Area Connection) which is with a Ethernet cable. Yours may be a wireless adapter. Right Click on your connection and choose properties from the menu.
3. On the general tab of the Local Area connection properties there is a box that says Show icon in notification area when connected. Tick this box to show the network connections icon in the taskbar.

Watch this video tutorial on how to add a network connections icon to your taskbar

This video shows how to put a network connection icon in your notification area in Windows XP. It also shows you all the benefits to having a network connections icon available in the taskbar.

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How to put a network connections icon in the Notification area in Windows Vista?

If you go to your connection properties in Windows Vista there will not be a box to tick to enable the network connection icon. If you want to place a network connection icon in the taskbar in Windows Vista then follow these steps:

Go to the start icon in The left corner of the Windows Vista desktop.

1. Right click on it for a menu to appear.
2. Choose Properties from the menu
3. The taskbar and start menu properties will appear.
4. Go to the notification tab.
5. Tick the box next to network to show the network connections icon.
6. Press apply and Ok.

Bitmap Disk Cache Failure when using remote desktop

How to disable Bitmap caching?

1. Re-open the remote desktop connection window to make a new connection.
2. Connect to the remote computer.
3. Open the remote desktop connection window on that  computer.
4. Press on the options button. (A text link for Windows Seven)
5. Go to the Experience tab, as shown in the screenshot below.
6. Untick the box next to Bitmap caching. Press the cross to close.
7. Now disconnect the remote desktop connection and then reconnect to see if the error message comes up.

I actually disable this on both computers as it can cause problems in the future.

Now the second way to fix this error is to clear out the actual cache folder that has the problem. See this article on path to clear terminal services cache folder.

Notes:

• On Windows Seven the box that you have to untick will say Persistent bitmap caching.