If there’s one thing everyone seem to be eager to do, it would be saving the resources of their computers. Especially that people nowadays tend to run endless applications together although their resources, i.e. RAM and CPU power, are limitd at the end of the day.
One way of saving RAM and CPU power is stopping unnecessary services. Remember the indexing process you learned about in yesterday’s post? Well that was in Vista, but a similar process exists in Windows XP to also allow faster search results, but it is useless to us since we actually use Good Desktop instead, so that indexing feature just wastes valuable resources to us! Here is how to disable it.
Read the rest of this entry »
The searching engine in Windows Vista is a good improvement over its predecessor in Windows XP, did you know that it can also search into Microsoft Outlook 2007?
Anyway, we have lately encountered some problems with out search engine on Windows Vista while trying to search for some items, sometimes we were receiving errors, and sometimes we were unable to find the targeted items although we knew they were there on the computer, and we were able to reach them manually.
The best thing to do in this case is to rebuild the search index, this will clear the already existing index and will build a fresh new one. It could be a lengthy process but it IS worth it. Here’s how you can rebuild your search index in Windows Vista.
Read the rest of this entry »
When Microsoft released Windows Defender was we were all eager to install it on our Windows XP. But now as you probably know, it comes by default with Windows Vista. And guess what, people are looking for a way to uninstall it! It’s kinda funny, but it’s most likely due to the fact that people always want to try the “other” software. So if they got Windows Defender and a new version of Kaspersky is relaeased, they start running after Kaspersky! (We do that as well by the way).
So, in today’s post we’re going to teach how to uninstall Windows Defender since it’s a bit tricky.
Read the rest of this entry »
Do you that you can make your screen fonts more readable if you are using Windows XP? Well, there’s actually a possibility to sharpen the fonts on your display by smoothing their edges so they become more clear to the eye. Check the picture below showing the difference between a normal font and an enhanced one.
Want to know how you also can enhance your display fonts?
Read the rest of this entry »
Have you tried to install 4GB RAM on a Windows Vista 32-bit computer? I have tried it today, and to my surprise the computer reported only 3.GB RAM when I checked the system information.
I first thought it might be an addressing issue, I thought that a 32-bit operating system cannot address more than 3.2GB RAM, so I did some calculation and noticed I was wrong. A 32-bit operating system can address 2^32 Bytes of memory, that is 4294967296 Bytes, OR 4194304 KB RAM, OR 4096MB RAM, OR 4GB RAM.
So I was curious to know the reason for not detecting more than 3.2GB RAM although the chips were alright, I did some research and here’s the cause of that “problem” although practically speaking no memory is wasted.
Read the rest of this entry »
Defragmentation is the process of locating the noncontiguous fragments of data into which a computer file may be divided as it is stored on a hard disk, and rearranging the fragments and restoring them into fewer fragments or into the whole file. This process reduces data access time and allows storage to be used more efficiently.
Back in Windows XP, we used to analyze our disk usage by clicking on Start –> All Programs –> Accessories –> System Tools –> Disk Defragmenter, we then right click on our drive and select analyze, then depending on the result we choose if a degfragmentation is necessary for that drive or not. But since we have started deploying Windows Vista, some people have been asking about the way to do it in the new operating system.
Read the rest of this entry »
You might have heard of routing tables before, they exist in routers and computer, and they are used to store the routes to specific destinations. So everytime your computer needs to forward a packet, it will check its “map”, the routing table, to decide to which gateway should this packet be forwarded and via which network interface (in case you have multiple network cards).
In your computer, routing tables are automatically built. But sometimes, you may need to add a route to your computer routing table for testing purposes or because you might be required to design some complex network. Here’s how to do it under Windows.
Read the rest of this entry »
RDP stands for Remote Desktop Protocol, it’s a protocol that allows users to connect to a computer running terminal services and control as if they were there.
We extensively use RDP in our work and it does make our life . So we thought of sharing with you some “tricks” that we frequently use to speed up our job. If you thought RDP has no tricks, you’ve got to check the following!
Read the rest of this entry »
Isn’t frustrating when you try to log into one of your server and get this error message:
“The terminal server has exceeded the maximum number of allowed connections.”
It’s actually frustrating because if you don’t have physical access to your server, then it would be almost impossible to solve the problem unless you have someone near the server to manually logs off users from their sessions.
The reason why this happens sometimes is due to sessions that got cut off, while the server still think they’re active.
We ran into this problem today but we have set an option to prevent it from happening in the future. Here’s how we did it.
Read the rest of this entry »
Microsoft has released just yesterday the long awaited Windows Vista SP1, and it is available to download from Microsoft’s website here.
Nick White from the Windows Vista Blog wrote:
“Today, you can now download Windows Vista SP1 via Windows Update. For those of you eager to receive the benefits of Windows Vista SP1 - you can now do so!”
Read the rest of this entry »
