If your computer is used by all members of family, maybe you need set a message that will shown every computer booting up. You can put your own message in there, so you don't necessary to warn every user who will use your computer.
OK, to do it we need to modify registry. So you need open Registry Editor to modify your registry, just click Start - Run menu, type regedit in textbox then hit Enter to open Registry Editor.
In Registry Editor, drive your cursor to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE | SOFTWARE | Microsoft | Windows NT | CurrentVersion | WinLogon path. Then look for LegalNoticeCaption and LegalNoticeText keys. Modify LegalNoticeCaption will set the message title window and LegalNoticeText will set the message content. To modify them just double click on the keys. Begin from LegalNoticeCaption value first, double click it then type your desire title and then click OK button to confirm the modified value.
Then double click LegalNoticeCaption then type the message content and last click OK button to confirm it.
Close your Registry Editor and then restart your computer. When Windows XP screen appears you'll see your message box in there. And Windows XP will wait until you click OK button at message window before Windows XP continue the boot up progress.
Finally, in a few hours we can get Leopard after delayed for about 6 months. Apple's Website had been put a countdown in there. When I write this article the countdown shown 4 hours 23 minutes, Leopard will be launch.
And I am still thinking, is it worthed to upgrade from Mac OS X Tiger (version 10.4) to Mac OS X Leopard (version 10.5).
Apple write that Leopard will includes 300 new features which can attractive all Mac user to upgrade to Leopard. And I read all 300 new features and I interest these Leopard features :
Because I don't try it yet, I can not describe them by detail and I hope when I already try it, it will beyond my expectation. And I think is worth to upgrade.
When our computer begin to slow down, first time we're like a blindman because we don't know from where we must begin to fix it. Actually, Microsoft had gives a tool that calls bootvis to analyze your computer and find what driver or what item that causing your computer be slowing down. But Microsoft has been removed link that linked to bootvis but you still can find it at Softpedia (I found it on Google) and I want to write hot using bootvis.
After you download and get bootvis.msi file, double click it to start install it. Just follow the installation steps. If you've finish the installation, you can find bootvis in Start - All Programs - Microsoft Bootvis.
ust click it to open bootvis. You'll faced with empty window, if you want to begin trace your computer, click Trace - Next Boot + Driver Delays menu and then you'll asked how many times you'll repeat the trace progress. For the first time, I suggest you to fill Number of Repititions with more than once. Because if you trace it twice you will know, what the drivers that make your system slow down consistently, click OK button. Then Windows will counting down to restart your computer, you can also click Reboot Now button to restart computer directly.
During trace progress don't touch anything other than logon to your account if it restarted, lets bootvis doing its job. Once the trace is complete, your computer will restart again and will repeat it until your repetitions value is reached.
After the progress is completed, bootvis will display the result, if it doesn't display, open manually the bootvis then click File - Open menu and usually the result files save in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Bootvis folder and named such as TRACE_BOOT+DRIVERS_1_1.BIN, find the newest file.
You'll display several informations in there but the most important information that I need is Driver Delay information. Find the longest bar that indicates that it takes your booting time and resources too much. Then put your cursor mouse on bar and then a tooltip text will displayed its the device driver filename. After you get the trouble maker device driver, you can try to optimize them. One of the solution that you can take is update to the lastest driver from its manufacture.
You can also optimize your computer with it, just click Trace - Optimize System menu then you'll asked to reboot your computer then wait it until finished.
Indexing Service is a Windows service to index all your files and folders for Windows Search needs and that will help you a lot. But on other hand this service will slow down your computer because every you add or modify files or folders, this service will monitor it and record it. So, if you rarely using Windows Search (like me), just disable it to boost up your computer speed.
In fact, Indexing Service will use a lot memory resource when it start, it will using about 4MB memory resource, and approx. 30 seconds after started, Indexing Service takes up memory about 300KB.
So after looking the above fact, if you rarely using Windows Search, you have a reason to disable it now.
To disable Indexing Service, click Start - Run menu, type services.msc in textbox then press Enter key. In Service window, find Indexing Service item, to modify the setting values double click Indexing Service item in list and if you look that the Indexing Service has been stop, just leave it then close the Service console directly, but if the service in running mode , click Stop button then in Startup type combobox choose Manual value, at last click OK to confirm the modified.
If you want keep the service running but you don't want the service, indexing a certain drive, double click My Computer, right click your hard drive then uncheck Allow Indexing Service to index this disk for fast file searching option in General tab then click OK to save the setting. Now your Indexing Service still running but your drive is not indexing by the Indexing Service.
If you're boring with My Computer label that attached to My Computer icon or if you want to know the current login name/user name, try this trick.
We'll play with registry again. So you need open Registry Editor first to modify them. To open the Registry Editor, click Start - Run menu, type regedit in textbox then hit Enter.
In Registry Editor, drive your cursor to registry path : HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT | CLSID | {20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}. Then find LocalizedString key. You can modify its value directly but I suggest just renaming it because if you want back to old value you can rename it again. So, rename LocalizedString key to LocalizedString.old then create a new REG_EXPAND_SZ key by right click on empty space in right panel then choose New - Expandable String Value menu and give it name LocalizedString. After LocalizedString is created, modify its value by double click on the key or hit Enter key, the value is %USERNAME% on %COMPUTERNAME% (you can change the word but not the variable).
Close Regedit Editor and then restart your computer. Now, look your change of your My Computer label.
If you ever install MySQL on Mac OS X and get some troubles with it, usually first step that will taken is reinstall it. Because uninstall MySQL on Mac OS X is not a easy, usually we will reinstall it directly. Unfortunately, MySQL installer always reinstalls existing MySQL with upgrade mode. In my experiences, if you're continuing in upgrade mode, it cannot solve the problem. I suggest you to reinstall it in fresh installation, with that mode MySQL will overwrite all its files with new one. And I can’t warranty if it always solving your MySQL troubles but according my experiments, for several times, reinstall in fresh installation mode, the problem will solved.
But how do to install it in fresh install mode? MySQL will display the Upgrade button on installation screen, if you have an existing MySQL in your system.
To solves this problem, you have to login as Administrator to do this. Mac OS X will put every .pkg files in /Library/Receipts/ folder.
To go there you can use Finder or Terminal. If you're using Finder, go to Macintosh HD - Library - Receipts folder then find file mysql-5.0.45-osx10.4-i686.pkg (because my existing MySQL version is 5.0.45, so the file name may vary, if your existing MySQL version 5.0.41 so your files has name mysql-5.0.41-osx10.4-i686.pkg) then delete that file.
Or if you're using Terminal, open your Terminal first then at prompt type cd /Library/Receipts. If you already in there, type cd mysql-5.0.45-osx10.4-i686.pkg (or you can type cd mysql(then press TAB key here to completed the file name, you can type it repeatly until you find the file) and then use commands rm and rmdir in that folder to delete files and folders, you can use wildcard for files, like rm *.*.
After file mysql-5.x.xx-osx10.4-i686.pkg already removed, try to execute MySQL installer again then you get Install button in there to make fresh install.
By default, Windows XP always pointing installation program to C:\Program Files\ folder as their installation result destination. Also, Common files which always using by other softwares save in C:\Program Files\Common Files\.
But don't worry, you can modify its setting and pointing to other folder. For example, if you have 3 partitions and you want all installed softwares put in second partition and the second partition named drive D: and you want all softwares intalled in D:\Program Files, you don't need to 'sweating' to do it, just modify a key value in your registry.
Is like usual, to open Registry Editor, click Start - Run menu, type regedit in textbox then press Enter. In Registry Editor, pointing the cursor to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE | SOFTWARE | Microsoft | Windows | CurrentVersion path.
In CurrentVersion key, look for ProgramFilesDir, by default Windows XP give it value C:\Program Files\ if you want to change it, double click ProgramFilesDir key then change to your own folder such as D:\Program Files\. If you want change the Common folder too, highlight the CommonFilesDir key, double click it and then give it your own folder such as D:\Program Files\Common.
Restart your computer, now your Program Files folder has change to your owns.
Are you a web developer ? If the answer is yes, try this toolbar to learn the other websites. This toolbar calls Web Developer toolbar.
Until this article written, Web Developer toolbar has version 1.1.4. With this toolbar you can view CSS from a website, display informations of images, div order, table depth, anchor, block size, id & class detail, color in a website.
So, with this toolbar I can learn a website easily. Because if you know such as how div order in a website you can learn it an apply it on your website.
Have you monetize your blog or website ? If the answer is no, so you must know that you can get money from your blog. And there are so many advertising companies that provide online ads for your blog. And my favorite ads service is Google Adsense. Google Adsense is owned by Google. So because they are a big company, you don't need worry about the payment, they will pay you.
OK, I am consider you'll start from zero. Follow these steps to start your monetize blog.
And don't forget the most important that must get attention is don't violate the Google Adsense TOS because you can banned. Keep update your blog with good articles, be patiente, try to join to forum which talk about Google Adsense to increase your knowledge about it.
In updating content make it in regular interval, for example once update in two days or everyday.
This morning, I was ask to my friend to send me an email that containing his directory structure inside his hard drive because he wanted to print his directory structure for his DVD backup. But he did confusing about capture all his directory structure into a single text file.
Then I looked a solutions to help him to capture it. And I already look Windows Explorer and I don't found it. And I remember a MSDOS command to query all directory structure. This tool calls TREE.
OK, if you want to capture it too, open your MSDOS console first (click Start - Run, type cmd then hit Enter). To display your only structure of directory/folder just type tree at your prompt console. Tree command will display all folders and sub folders inside your current folder. So, if you're inside C:\Data folder and your type tree in there, so tree will display all C:\Data sub directories/folders. So if you want to capture your entire folders, make sure, you're in root directory (C:\) or you can also type tree c:\ to do a same action.
Tree command has 2 parameters :
1. /F, Displays the filenames in each directory as well as the directory names. For example : tree /f.
2. /A, Give you a result in ASCII mode. For example : tree /a.
And remember like I has say at above, if you don't include a folder name as its parameter, tree will display directory structure that located inside your current folder but if you want to display folder outside your current folder and you don't want to change folder just type tree c:\data (change c:\data parameter with your own target directory).
OK, we already learn about display our directory structure in screen. Now, back into main article, how to insert the result into a single file ? That's so easy, just add > [namefile_output]. For example, if you want to record c:\data structure into a file, type : tree c:\data /a > data_structure.txt. Why do I use /a parameter ? Because for compatibility issue, better save it in ASCII format.
Hopefully, this article giving some helps for you ....
