Laptop Info Today

Posts Tagged ‘windows’

It’ been a very …. very long time since I blog anything and it feels good to be back.

Well one thing I’ve discovered after that long absence is this device : A Portable Hard Disk Duplicator

Sometimes using software might be the easiest solution, but it can be a lengthy one and corruption of data might occur if not done properly.

Aleratec came up this solution and its very useful if you got lots of things to backup in a short time.

Well this HDD duplicator is portable and it supports 2.5 & 3.5 inch hard disks (IDE & Sata I/II). Not only that you can also access your drives via a USB connection to your pc with RAID0, RAID1, JBOD Spanning or Normal disk configuration.

This device is compatable with Microsoft Windows 2000 or above, Mac & Linux systems.

Though I’m attending a Microsoft Certification course on Windows Server 2008 right now;  some of the items that I’ve learn along the way are very useful for the laptop an desktop users alike.

One thing that I find common in Windows systems alike is when the TCP/IP protocol becomes corrupted, symptoms like your internet connection connecting and reconnecting every few seconds appear.

It is one of the biggest headache for users as the repair function of this network connection did not work. You might see your IP address appears as 0:0:0:0 !

Read the rest of this entry »

The Event Viewer? What’s that?

These are the questions I received often and to tell you frankly, it took me about 10 minutes at least to educate my friends on what is event viewer, why it is useful and when you wanted to know what happen to your laptop or PC.

The event  viewer is the least used and most under-rated tool (and I mean that) by fellow Windows users. The event viewer is simply a log which notes any instance of the operating system.

Let me explain in a much easier term.

I give an example :- When an application (let’s say Windows Explorer crashes), this instance will be logged to the event viewer.

The screenshot above shows there’s an error with the NetLogon and an error indication will be further explained once you double click on that error information.

Read the rest of this entry »

I’m attending my first ever Microsoft Certification (MCITP -Windows Server 2008 Server Administration) course right and during the break time i think why not I do another post for you guys.

Ever since Windows XP Service Pack 3 is released, changes made to Windows theme function has been more stricter  than ever.

Unlike what it used to be, just by renaming and overwriting uxtheme.dll can solved the problem in less than a minute …. it doesn’t seems that way …. well not until now.

There are 2 ways actually to change the theme of your Windows and apply third party ones to your desktop.

I’ll show how how to do it and where to get fantastic themes as well for free as what you see below.

theme1.jpg

◄ Back

Next ►

Picture 1 of 5

Read the rest of this entry »

Based on my previous post, you have remember that I will post a topic on how you can use your thumbdrive as a boot install.

Since my laptop is pretty screwed, I decided to take up this challenge of doing so.

If you realized, Linux based operating system are the ones who started the idea of an OS USB installer, notably Damn Small Linux and Puppy Linux.

What about Windows?

Yes you can , though the steps might be bit technical but it’s a FACT that it is possible.

Read the rest of this entry »

Well most of you will think that I will be saying hello Windows 7, hmm …. not really…

The past 2 days has been quite horrifying for me. I decided to finally bow out of Windows Vista and welcome back Windows XP on my Lenovo Y300 laptop.

Well it’s an unthinkable thought but I finally gave up on Vista due to the following reasons.

Here’s  my take on Vista.

1. The constant prompts like allowing file operation to proceed and so on is damn annoying and performance is by far slagging even thought I’ve upgraded my RAM to 3GB.
2. It took me 5 minutes to transfer 1 GB of data from my Local D drive to my external 1TB Western Digital Hard drive in XP but in Vista it tooks me over 45 minutes!
3. There are a couple of sites that hangs upon browsing…. which finally lead me to this downgrading process.

Before you perform any downgrading there are a couple of things you MUST take note.

Read the rest of this entry »

There will 2 angles when people look at the title.

One - Some people may think I’m talking about piracy, which is simply NOT what I going to talk about.

OR

Two - It’s another crazy idea which can be sensible and realistic.

Here’s the scenario:-
You have a habit of formating your laptop or desktop most of the time. During re-formatting, you will have to get ready all the the CDs associated to the process; 1 CD/DVD for the Windows Operating System and maybe a couple of  cds for drivers. After that, if you are a tweaker you might have to tweak your Windows (disabling this and that).

What n-Lite does for you is compile everything to 1 media which is  a CD or DVD.

Think of this, you will only need 1 CD or DVD to complete the whole process of installing the operating system, drivers and hotfixes.

Read the rest of this entry »

The title might sound a bit ridulous to most but I’m not surprised if the are a few of visitors of this years IT Show (which is held at Suntec City) will be doing just that.

To top that, LCD TVs has their prices nose-dived and if someone were to say that they are going to get a 42 LCD TV for thie  laptop display ; I’m not particularly surprised.

Just take a look at the Panasonic TH-42PV8H  below.

This baby is now going down below the retail price of SGD$1299 !

Read the rest of this entry »