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Laptop is portable ….. but an IPod as a laptop?

Well, when I explain to my friends and collegues about this discovery …. almost everyone laughed and said “You’re kidding ….right”.

As you normally guess …. it is definately a discovery, no kidding.

Technology is movin at a fast pace right now and you can actually turn your Ipod or any storage device (portable hard disk, USB drives) into a portable laptop virtually.

With Mojopac, this fantasy is a reality.

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I recently a panic call from a friend stating that her laptop has a BSOD while booting up.

As you seen above, this is another case of a corrupted boot menu which is a very common thing on a Windows XP operating system.

How to solve it?

The recovery console , what better way…..

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Recently, I’ve covered a topic on portable applications and I believe that more and more people would want to make full use of their existing thumbdrive.

One application that is not in the list of portable applications on the portableapps.com website is Skype.

Skype, as you all know, is the most used VOIP application and almost majority of the desktops and laptops in the world will have Skype installed in their PC.

Best of all, now you can make it portable and run it on your thumbdrive.

Cool ……. lets’ begin.

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Remember when there is a time when you start your laptop and it keeps on loading for a while and then it restarts. This contiues on and on …. again and again.

No matter how you try to overcome this ….. you end up in sheer frustration.

Well, if you’re using XP, you can always use the automatic repair function but what if the automatic repair function tell you that it is an “UNKNOWN” partition?

I have faced this problem a couple of times with my clients PCs and the fast way to overcome is NOT the F- word ( in a gentle manner re-formatting).

Using the command prompt recovery console is a good solution and once you are familiar with this one …. it’s a snap.

Firstly … boot up and proceed to your recover console environment.

• Next choose the drive…. by default it is 1 - which stands for your C drive.
• Type chkdsk to run a scan on your disk.
• After the chkdsk have ended, type fixboot C:
• Finally type BOOTCFG /rebuild to fix your boot up files.
  You might be prompted whether you want to attempt this operation. Just choose Yes or type Y and proceed

What it does it fix up your boot up files. For the UNKNOWN partition, once your boot up files is corrupted it messes your partition. And don’t worry, by doing this, your data will be untouched.

As I was going through websites after websites, research on new stuffs that can be of help to my visitors here in my blog, I found out this new reference which can be very useful to everyone …… even though you are a novice in PC or laptop computing.

The site is PCTHREAT.com.

If you are feeling threatened … don’t worry.

This site is extremely useful as it covers those fake anti-virus or spyware programs that are hyped to safeguard your computers but actually performing otherwise.

We know, on the internet, there are floods of anti-virus and spyware programs. But which ones are fake … hmm …. that’s a question few could answer. Even worse some of these programs suddenly appear on the desktop as a pop-up prompting you that you are infected ( it happens to almost everyone ….. me included) but actually they just wanted you buy the software.

PCTHREAT.com is extremely useful as it added in-depth info and knowledge on how these parasite softwares and how to remove them safely (instructions provided ….. ain’t that cool ).

Not only that this site will also showcase the top 3 genuine softwares that will certainly safeguard your PC and laptop.

Check out this site and I’m sure you will love it.

One of the expensive parts of maintaining a laptop is obviously the battery.

Laptop batteries can cost a bomb , if you ask me , and sometimes ifit is an old modal you might not have the luxury to find available in your nearest laptop store.

However, for those who are good in electronics, you may want to consider a cheaper alternative and hacking away your laptop batteries and save some bucks.

I stumbled upon this video and I think it is best that I share it with you ……

Laptop Battery Hack! Don’t Buy A New One! - video powered by Metacafe

I received a call from a friend today and he told me he is unable to defragment his laptop.

It came to huge surpise that his laptop is still running Windows 98SE operating system!

WHOA !!!!!

To backtrack to today, it is an operating system most considered extinct and definately want to forget. It’s been 10 years since its release and within that 10 years cycle we have seen Windows Me, Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Vista came into existence.

The answer to why people are still using Windows 98SE ……  is somewhat a mystery but anyway because it was a friend of mine so I decided to help out.

If you encounter your Windows 98SE laptop having problems with Disk Defragmentation and having an error that says “Defrag004” then you would have to perform a scan disk first before proceeding.

For those who are very familiar with MS-Dos command prompt, type scandisk /all/Autofix .

 Then proceed the defragmentation as per normal. The defragmentation process should run as it is.

The answer to the question above is definately no.

But can you install 2 antivirus on one laptop. A definate “YES” except some antivirus from Norton &  McAfee.

This question normally poped out by overally corncerned laptop users and I’m not very surprised by these questions as privacy and security are the main agendas in these questions to be made.

One thing for sure ….. you do not and need not install 2 or more antivirus in your laptop.

But ….

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