COMPUTER TRICKS AND TIPS

Adobe Photoshop is a given in any designer’s wish list, and it comes with a host of features that allow for excellent and professional photo editing. The biggest obstacle to any designer who wants Photoshop is the price, which can be prohibitive. Fortunately there are a number of open source (and completely free) programs out there that do much of what Photoshop can, and sometimes more.
In this collection, you will find 10 excellent examples of open source and free alternatives to Adobe Photoshop.

Google has announced the launch of their free DNS resolution service. Many ISPs and 3rd party provider such as OpenDNS snoops around or send traffic to ad servers. However, Google promises not to play with end users and send the exact response his or her computer expects without performing any blocking, filtering, or redirection that may hamper a user's browsing experience. In other words Google will not hijacking your traffic on non-existent domain name and it will follow strict RFC standard.

Q. How do I set caching dns server to speed up dns lookup for my LAN (500 PC)? The DNS lookups creating a lot of network activity. There are a few times when this causes performance issues. How do I configure caching dns under Debian Linux?

Technical variations of Linux distributions include support for different hardware devices and systems or software package configurations. Organizational differences may be motivated by historical reasons. Other criteria include security, including how quickly security upgrades are available; ease of package management; and number of packages available.

A common problem faced by new users ( and sometimes even experienced users ) is not knowing what to do when they lose their password.

Even worse, when they lose the password for 'root'. Luckily, there are several solutions to help you recover access to your system.
Root Password - Easy Method:

General Guidelines:
>>Place your computer in an open room with the monitor facing out. This allows you to see and control what is occurring on the Internet.
>> Educate your children about the Internet, both the positives and the potential dangers.

After you have used your PC for a while, you will have accumulated lots of unnecessary files and other 'junk', this can slow your PC down, so here is how to remove it...

More online image editors are available but easy and not registered user will be change or modified and morphing the image or photo to directly download in computer to save the photos

Author : Lefreut
Category : Explorer tools
License : Read-Me
Version : 1.0
Website : click here
Added on : 06/07/07
Update : 20/04/09
System(s) : Windows XP/Vista

Description :
TrueTransparency is a freeware that changes the windows border adding png support and so true transparency.

There are some programs which gets installed but not get listed in Add/Remove, which makes it difficult to remove. Now follow these steps.
Go to C:\Windows\Inf folder. In the right pane, scroll down to sysoc.inf. Open it with notepad. It will look like…

Often while startingup windows we will feel a problem called Disk Check.The check disk scan that appears at boot up because of improper shutdown of the previous session.

Gmail, Orkut and a few other Google services offer transliteration facility by default so you can easily type characters in Hindi, Tamil & other popular Indian languages using the standard English (Roman) keyboard.
Here’s a quick demo of transliteration - you type Hindi words phonetically in English script and tool will automatically convert them into corresponding Hindi words.

There are sometimes genuine reasons to unlock or crack a password protected PDF file. You have the legal right to open the encrypted PDF document but forgot the password like in the case below.

Say dad bought you a digital camera from Japan but the problem is that the PDF manual that came with the camera is also written in Japanese.
How do you quickly translate that PDF file into an English document ?

Solution: If the PDF document is not Password Protection you can easily convert it into another language via Google Translate.
The idea is that you extract the text from the PDF file and pass it to Google Translate. Here’s how:

The standard Google Translation service is pretty good for translating documents that exist on the web but if you ever need to translate Word files that reside on your local hard drive, the translator toolkit will come in handy.

Author : dlb
Category : Shell Packs
License : Read-Me
Version : RC1
Website : click here
Another site : click here
Added on : 21/12/05
System(s) : Windows XP

Author : dlb
Category : Shell Packs
License : Read-Me
Version : 1.0
Added on : 22/12/05
System(s) : Windows XP

Author : dlb
Category : Shell Packs
License : Read-Me
Version : 2
Website : click here
Another site : click here
Added on : 22/12/05
Update : 29/05/07
System(s) : Windows XP

When you are putting scan for viruses you have to disable system restore. Windows XP backups your system at times, so that you can revert back to the working condition if your system is not working after installing X software. You can select the restore point before that day you installed that X software, so your system can work normally.

If your system has a virus, your windows might unknowingly already backed up the virus with other files. Your Anti Virus software can not remove virus from these backed up files because windows is protecting them. So, after your Anti Virus scans and cleans rest of the system, the virus can start spreading again from those backed up files.

So, first turn off the system restore in all drives before starting the scanning. You can do this by going to system properties(either through control panel, or by right clicking on My Computer icon). Then go to System Restore > Turn Off. You can hit the Win + Pause on the keyboard to bring up the System Properties.

And every time scan your system by booting into safe mode because when started in safe mode, windows loads minimal files to start the system.

Task manager in your system is disabled by virus? To remove the virus you have to first make the virus not to run. The virus disables registry editor, and MSConfig also along with task manager. So, you can't able to stop the virus from loading with the windows.

You can download Process Explorer and use this utility to view and kill the processes. It offers more features than default task manager bundled with Windows.

If you like your old Task Manger you can enable it by changing options in the Group Policy Editor.

Go to Windows > Run > gpEdit.msc or you can find this in Control Panel > Administrative Tools.

Go to User Configuration > Administrative Templates > System > Ctrl+Alt+Del Options > Remove Task Manger. Disable this option. Now you can see Task Manger option enabled.

Today I got one virus in my system. When I try to login to the Yahoo messenger, it is closing without logging in. I have found a virus (don't know name) and cleaned it manually. I have taken the below steps to remove this virus manually.

• First I have checked in task manager, I didn't find any suspicious processes.
• Next I opened MSConfig (Go to run, and type msconfig). I have found one process with the name amvo.exe under the startup tab. It is located in Windows\System32 folder.
• I unchecked the process, and closed the msconfig window.
• Next I open Registry Editor (go to run, and type regedit). I have searched for "amvo.exe" and found one entry. I have deleted the whole key.
• Next I have tried to set the option to "show hidden files" (Go to Tools> View in windows explorer), as virus file is hidden. But it is not allowing me. As soon as I set it to show hidden files and clicked on ok, it is changing back to "Don't show hidden files".
• Then I have used Bullet Proof FTP software to browse the local disk, because it shows all files even hidden files. (I have already installed FTP software in my system. You can get free trial version from the website.)
• Then I have browsed to Windows\System32 folder, and deleted amvo.exe, amvo0.dll, amvo1.dll.
• This virus put an Autorun.inf file, and .cmd file in every drive's root. I have removed all those.

Thats it. Virus was cleaned. Now, I am able to use my messenger.

Don't forget to disable system restore before starting the cleaning process, and open windows in safe mode.

Update: I built two files to clean this virus automatically. After downloading the AMVO Cleaner, unzip the file to get a folder. Open that folder, and double click on the file named AMVO_Delete. It should have cleaned the virus. Please let me know whether your problem solved in the comments section below.

You can download videos from Youtube, metacafe, Myspace, Google Video, etc using the following steps
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Download Helper Firefox Extension. Once a page opened, this extension will show the available media files to be downloaded. You can select the file you need to download.

If you don't have Firefox already, get Firefox here. You can download VLC Player to view the FLV (flash video) files

Some sites will disable right clicking on the page using JavaScript. If you find this annoying there is a solution. In you Firefox, go to Tools > Options > Content. Click on the 'Advanced' button opposite to the 'Enable Java Script'. Then un check the "Disable or replace context menus". Thats it.

Many viruses disable the access to the registry so that we can't remove the virus entries in the registry. In these cases you can download the following file UnHookExec.inf. After downloaded, right click on the file, and select Install.

You can enable it manually by editing the group policy editor. Go to Windows > Run > gpEdit.msc
Go to User Configuration > Administrative Templates > System > Prevent Access to Registry Editing Tools. Disable it. You should be able to open regedit now.

Source: Tool to reset shell\open\command registry keys

I have got a virus, which automatically opening the Yahoo messenger. So, when I have looked the processes in the task manager, I have found the following processes Fun.exe, dc.exe, SVIQ.exe.

I killed those processes, by right clicking the process and select "End Process Tree". After I have killed all those processes, I searched Internet and found the following link W32.Imaut.AS (also called Dung Coi). Then I have deleted all the virus files and cleaned the registry.

I am describing the exact steps below:

• First go to the task manager (right click on the task bar > task manager) and select the processes tab.
  
• Right click on the Fun.exe, dc.exe, SVIQ.exe and select "End Process Tree". This stops the viruses from interrupting in the cleanup process.
  
• Go to the MSConfig (Win+R, type MSConfig and press enter). Go to the startup tab. Uncheck the dc.exe, fun.exe, SVIQ.exe, Other.exe, Win.exe. This stop the virus processes from starting with the windows.
  
• Next go to the Registry Editor (Win+R, type RegEdit and press enter). Remove the following keys
• dc, dc2k5, fun under the key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
• load, run under the key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows
• Go to the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon and Modify Shell's value to "Explorer.exe".
• Remove HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\MSConfig\startupreg\dc
• Remove HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\MSConfig\startupreg\dc2k5
• Remove HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\MSConfig\startupreg\Fun
• Remove HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\MSConfig\startupreg\Load
• Remove HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\MSConfig\startupreg\Run
• Delete the following files.
• %Windir%\Help\Other.exe
• %Windir%\inf\Other.exe
• %Windir%\system\Fun.exe
• %Windir%\System32\config\Win.exe
• %Windir%\System32\WinSit.exe
• %Windir%\dc.exe
• %Windir%\SVIQ.exe
• %Windir%\System32\NWB.dat
• c:\PNga.txt
• %Windir%\wininit.ini

I have created two files to automate the process of deleting the Registry keys, and the virus files. Download Fun Virus Removal tool, unzip it. Double click on the RemoveVirus.bat file.

Thats it. I got rid from the virus. I read in the net that this virus will create a copy of virus file in directories with the same name and uses a folder icon, so that users will click on it thinking it was a folder. But, I dint get any files like that, if you got any files like that, don't click on them, delete them immediately. If you have any doubt, right click on that and select properties, then you can know whether it is a file or folder.

You can type easily in telugu with using this site.

Lekhini

You can download telugu fonts at the following locations.



Bapu Font
Pothana/Vemana Font
Lohit Font

There are lot of tools available on the web to type in Telugu.
Some of them are listed below.

You can find more resources at the following link

• Lekhini
• eeMaata
• Indian Language Converter

You can find more resources at the following link http://wiki.etelugu.org/Unicode_Editors

Baraha was developed with an intention to provide a free software to enable and encourage Indians use their native languages on computers. Baraha can be effectively used for creating documents, sending emails and creating websites. Baraha supports Kannada, Devanagari, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Gujarati, Gurumukhi, Bengali, and Oriya scripts. With an average 20,000 downloads/month, millions of users are using Baraha for creating content in Indian languages. Feel free to distribute Baraha to others.

Download me Click here below links

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Download Baraha 8.0 (What's New)

Baraha package consists of Baraha, BarahaDirect, BarahaPad, FontConvert, BarahaConvert and BarahaSort programs. This package includes TrueType fonts for various Indian languages.

System requirements: Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003, or later. (Note: BarahaPad requires Windows 2000 or later with Indian languages enabled.)

If you want Baraha 8.0 program on floppy diskettes, click here.

Baraha TrueType Fonts released under GPL.

Mozilla Firefox the most popular web browser today.The most important problem people facing while using Mozilla Firefox is its High Memory Usage.Most people avoid using Mozilla firefoz because of the above reason.Here is a solution the problem mentioned above.
But actually this problem is not coming with the Firefox as we open it for first time I couldn’t notice this thing happen. But after some time later it’s going to eat more and more memory and also Firefox start up time increasing.

Sometimes, your computer or internet connection speed becomes slower than usual. There is not any specific cause for this; this can be rectified by Disc or Registry Cleanup, Fixing the disc errors etc.
There are small softwares, which can help you to rectify these kinds of problems. Auslogics is such a award winning utility. It is easy and simple to use. You just need to run the program on a weekly basis to clean up disks and the registry, fix errors, and tune up the one-size-fits-all Windows settings to your particular computer configuration.
This will reduce the computer start up and shutdown time, improve Internet speed, and tweak Windows to its top performance.
Its latest version 4.1.3 has the ability to track eraser and disk wiper stability. It also improves the Registry Cleaner compatibility, and adds Firefox browser support to Speed Optimizer.

It has following main components:1

Let your friends here what you have written into an email. With BlindSpeak, you can send emails that convert text to voice. Recipients will receive your email as .mp3 and they simply can listen to it.

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Have you ever think of using your symbian smartphone as a web cam ? If you haven’t then think of it now and make happen with Mobiola Web camera.
Turn your Symbian phone into a high-quality USB-based web camera with Mobiola Web Camera.
Very simple to install and configure, Mobiola Web Camera consists of two software components:(1) a client application that resides on the phone, and1

Some times it happens that you forgot the password of your memory card and you have lots of your important data in your phone.
So there are two types of methods for recovering the password of your memory card with the help of nokia phone.
For Nokia s60 1st and 2nd edition phones.
1. First Install FExplorer in your phone memory.
2. Got to drive C: , you will find a file called mmcstore.
3. Send it to your pc directly and open it in notepad or rename the file.
4. At the end of the file you will find your password.

For Nokia S60 3rd Phones, Nokia N-Series and Nokia E-Series
>There is almost no way yet known to hack the memory card password in case of these types of phone but there is a way to do it some of the s60 3rd edition phones and almost all the E-series phones.
>The remote lock option in E-Series phone allws you to unlock your phone by sending a sms.
>The only thing you have to do is to activate this feature by going to Tools--> Settings--> Security-->Phone and SIM-->Allow remote lock menu. The password of your memory card will be your remote lock message.
>So you have to just send a sms containing your remote lock message that will automatically change yourmemory card passsword.

Type the Below codes on the Main Screen of Your Mobile:
*#06# - for checking the IMEI (International Mobile Equipment Identity).
*#7780# - Reset to factory settings.

*#67705646# - This will clear the LCD display (operator logo).

*#0000# - To view software version.

*#2820# - Blue tooth device address.

*#746025625# - Sim clock allowed status.

*#62209526# - Display the MAC address of the WLAN adapter. This is available only in the newer devices that support WLAN

#pw+1234567890+1# - Shows if sim have restrictions.
*#92702689# - Takes you to a secret menu where you may find some of the information below:

1. Displays Serial Number.

2. Displays the Month and Year of Manufacture

3. Displays (if there) the date where the phone was purchased (MMYY)

4. Displays the date of the last repair - if found (0000)

5. Shows life timer of phone (time passes since last start)

*#3370# - Enhanced Full Rate Codec (EFR) activation. Increase signal strength, better signal reception. It also help if u want to use GPRS and the service is not responding or too slow. Phone battery will drain faster though.

*#3370* - (EFR) deactivation. Phone will automatically restart. Increase battery life by 30% because phone receives less signal from network.

*#4720# - Half Rate Codec activation.

*#4720* - Half Rate Codec deactivation. The phone will automatically restart

If you forgot wallet code for Nokia S60 phones, use this code for reset: *#7370925538#

Note, your data in the wallet will be erased. Phone will ask you the lock code.Default lock code is: 12345
Press *#3925538# to delete the contents and code of wallet.

Unlock service provider: Insert sim, turn phone on and press vol up(arrow keys) for 3 seconds, should say pin code. Press C,then press * message should flash, press * again and 04*pin*pin*pin#
*#7328748263373738# resets security code.Default security code is 12345
How to Format Nokia mobile:Do a Full phone formatting on your Nokia 6600 and Nokia 7610! as steps below,
1. Make sure you have at least 3/4 charge of battery power left.
2. Backup your contacts list and personal files to MMC memory card.
3. Switch-off your Mobile phone.
4. Press and hold 3 keys-- Green dial key,- * Star key(asterisk),- no. 3 key on keypad and then press the power on/off to swtich on the 6600 phone.
Remember, do not let go the 3 press and hold keys until you see a "formatting" word screen show!
5. After a few minutes when the Full phone formatting completed, your 6600 will back to original system and factory settings.

Windows Media Player 12, the upcoming Windows media player software that will be released on Windows 7. The interface of Windows Media Player 12 is similar like Windows Media Player 11 which Windows media Player 12 has brighter look and lighter processing than WMP11plus more advance WMP features included.But Microsoft is not planning to release Windows Media Player 12 yet.
Steps to install Windows Media Player 12 For Vista:
Before doing installation, make sure you follow the step clearly and create a restore in your computer. This way you can be sure nothing goes wrong with your current version of Windows Media Player.

01. Backup wmploc.dll from C:\Windows\System32
2. Backup Windows Media Player folder from C:\Program Files
3. Copy wmploc.dll from downloaded files in C:\Windows\System32
4. Copy Windows Media Player folder from downloaded files to C:\Program FilesMeanwhile, This Windows media player 12 has been taken from the original files of Windows Media Player 12.0.7000.7000 from Windows 7 Build 7000.

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Produle,a RIA (Rich Internet Application) became one of the most popular among the applications.Important issue about RIA is that it can be accessed any where in the world you can do same process what you have done in your PC.
Produle an RIA which introduced to create flash applications online, it’s unbelivable but we should believe. Produle helps you to build flash application without coding knowledge, just insert pre-defined elements, controls and objects.

1Applications created via produle can be executed in any operating system because it is developed under RIA (Rich Internet Application).Produle can be used for a wide range of projects including widgets, banners, promos, animations, product guides, data apps,presentations, user interfaces for web services and any other interactive web content possible with it.
Home page : www.produle.com

The tricks that i provide here is the low balance trick.Either use opera mod wid downloadar's unlimited net area or https://i-w.net or any proxy site with airtlel live default settings at balance below 1rs and enjoy free airtel gprs.Steps are



1. Activate mo by *567#
2. Make two settings of gprs named mobi4m1 n mobi4m2
3. In mobi4m1access point-airtelfun.comhomepage-mobi4m.comproxy-100.1.200.99port-8080

One of the main drawback while delaing with PDF is it cannot be edited or republished.But if you like edit files for some reasons then this Some PDF to Word converter 1.5 tool will be helpful to you.With this you can easily convert PDF files to MS Word files.
Using some PDF to Word converter 1.5 you can convert PDF files to Microsoft word documents and to convert PDF files to MS word files there is no need of Adobe Reader software support. Some PDF to Word converter 1.5 accurately preserves text, tables, graphics and layout in PDF files. If your PDF file contains password there is an option in some PDF to Word converter and enter password in the required field before converting.

click here to download Some PDF to Word converter 1.5 for free

Converting webpages to pdf is something useful to learn,here I have text down a way to convert any web pages or website into PDF file by giving the website URL in
1HTML-PDF-Converter.com

Here I have texted down a nice trick to convert the video to DVD. Before burning a video to DVD you should convert the video to DVD format and then burn it with DVD disc.
DVDvideo soft provides a free software to convert any video to DVD.


Features:

While watching a movie or video if you like to take a screen shot from the video it is not possible to catch the particular frame as picture
Video players also will not allow to take screen shots, in this situation you can use a free software tool Free Video to JPG converter from DVD Videosoft.
Free Video to JPG Converter makes video snapshots and extract frames from video files to JPG files with one mouse click.
click here to

If you have any experience about viruses, then probably you may notice most of the viruses are affect to the task manager and disable it completely right after affect to the computer.This is because if we know that there is a virus active in our background there’ll be a chance to stop it using task manager. Disable task manager doing by viruses editing the computer registry.Here how you can fix and get back the Task manager again.

Method 1:Click Start >> Run >> and type the code below and press Enter.

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C:\Program Files directory is considered as the default directory for installing new programs in Windows and here there is a simple and easy way(registry) to modify it permanently. Just follow the few steps mentioned below.
step 1 : Click on start then run and type regedit and press enteror simply press win+r which opens run command and then type regedit and press enter
step 2 : Press CTRL+F and find for the below key in the registry
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion
step 3 : Then find for ProgramFilesDir. By default, the value will be C:\Program Files. Edit the value to any valid drive or folder and XP will use that new location as the default installation directory for new programs.
Enjoy this trick!!

If you are looking for increase the computer performance probably you’ll need to buy an additional RAM. Anyway still you want to make quite faster your computer without buying any additional resources and using only exiting materials then this is something similar for your needs.eboostr is a software which facilitate to use extra memory space on the hard drive or your pen drive to improve computer respond time and performances.

About Eboostr

Eboostr is quite similar to vista ReadyBoost and SuperFetch technology which use flash memory tospeedup computer overall performance.Eboostr gathers statistics about applications you use and how often and optimizing their performance by pre-caching their files and data on different cache devices and allowing faster access speed and reduced delays.



How to use eBooster:

First you have to download the eboostr. Trial version will never expire, although it works only four hours after every start of your pc. If you need continuously use it then you have to restart your computer again and again and it'll allow 4 hour for using it after every restart.


Install eboostr and open, eboostr Control Panel


Click Add button.

Data Recovery Tool for NTFS Filesystem

Smart NTFS Recovery is a recovery tool for Windows OS that supports the NTFS file system. The software easily recovers data from hard disks and any type of storage media - flash drives, USB drives, memory stick, PC card, multimedia card, secure digital card with NTFS file system. It can recover any deleted files, including MS Office files, photos, mp3 and zip files
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Re-Partition Your Hard Disk Without Losing Data With EASEUS Partition Manager:



Hard disk is place where to keep all data and information within the computer, it’s good to separate and keep the data in hard disk by partition. Normally most of the users will partition their hair disk to two partitions (OS and Data), this is to ensure all their data still remain in the hard disk while their operating system partition corrupted. For those hard disk where no have partition, all the data are keep together with the operating system, and there is a risk hard to recover their data when operating system was corrupted and cannot boot-in to the windows. To prevent this happen, now users can use EASEUS Partition Manager Home Edition.

What is EASEUS Partition Manager ?

EASEUS Partition Manager Home Edition is free comprehensive hard disk partition management software to let you enjoy free with all the powerful functions: Resize and Move partitions, Create, Delete and Format partitions, Hide and Unhide partitions and much more. What’s more, the freeware works perfectly with hardware RAID and Windows 2000/XP/Vista Operating Systems. Your data is completely protected during all operations. Its great free tool that users can use to re-partition hard disk rather use other partition software where need pay for the license.

Features of EASEUS Partition Manager:
Support hardware RAID.
Resize and move partitions without losing data.
Create, delete and format partitions with simple step.
Label partitions - assigned to a partition for easier recognition.
View Disk/Partition property of each partition.
Hide and unhide partitions - protect important data from unauthorized or casual access.
Set an active partition - specify one partition to be the boot partition.
Powerful safety features protect you against system failures while partitioning.
Step-by-step wizard walks you through partitioning process.
Preview any partitioning tasks before completing it.
Change cluster size automatically and manually.
Undo feature any partition step.
Support hard disks from 2 GB to 1 TB.
User-friendly interface.

Problem :
When booting up to Windows XP you may get an error that reads: Unmountable Boot Volume.
Cause : This is probably because your boot.ini file is messed up.
Solution :


1. Start Windows XP with the Windows XP CD in your CD/DVD drive.2. Once you see the "Welcome to setup" message, press the letter 'R' on your keyboard to enter the Recovery Console.3. Select the Windows installation to be repaired (Administrator password required)4. You will then get a DOS prompt. From here type: chkdsk /p [Enter]5. When that is done type: fixboot [Enter]6. Type: Y at the next prompt [Enter]7. Then type: exit [Enter]8. The system will now reboot into Windows.
If for some reason that didn't work, you can boot to the recovery console (STEP 2)
Type: chkdsk /r [Enter]
When done type: exit [Enter].
This takes a bit longer, but the system should boot back into Windows.

Problem :
Error message: "Virtual memory minimum is too low. Windows is increasing the size of the virtual memory paging file."
Solution :


The virtual memory is the space your computer uses when it runs short of RAM memory. The paging file is the place where Windows handles your virtual memory settings. If your computer wants to change it, you should go ahead and let it because XP will adjust the setting to meet the current memory needs. I do not recommend changing these settings manually as Windows can manage the size much more efficiently than the user can. Making your virtual memory setting larger will increase the number of addresses and will make Windows lazy.
Adding more RAM may also be of benefit as this will reduce the need for virtual memory to be used in the first place. For running Windows XP, I suggest at least 384MB. In general, adding more RAM is the most cost effective means of boosting a computer's performance.
I recommend buying quality RAM from a reputable company. Some cheap (unbranded) RAM can on occasion be defective resulting in 'unexplained' crashes or freezes. Brands to look for are Mushkin, Crucial and Kingston.

With this Firefox Addon, you can share text between computers. You can copy and paste text between computers simply with ctrl+c and ctrl+v. This addon lets you copy text instantly between Mac, Windows, and Linux. It is perfect if you use two computers side by side. The Copy and Paste Addon works between computers when Firefox is running with ctrl+c and ctrl+v (cmd+c and cmd+v on Mac). This add-on shares your text clipboard between computers so you can copy and paste text between computers instantly, even from a Mac to a PC. To set up Copy And Paste, add desired computers IP Addresses to the Copy And Paste Preferences in the Firefox menubar at Firefox->Tools->PonPon - Copy And Paste. Ensure that Firefox is running on the local and remote computers when trying to share text.




Please note that this addon works only for texts, you cannot copy and paste images.
Download this Addon for Firefox Here

Problem :
I get an error message: "Setup was unable to open information file netoc.inf. Contact your system administrator."
I am the system admin.
Solution :
1. Insert the Windows XP CD2. Go to Start>> Run. Type in: Expand C:\i386\NETOC.IN_ -rC:\Windows\Inf [Enter]
Note: C:\ is used if that is where Windows XP is installed.

Services You Can Disable
There are quite a few services you can disable from starting automatically.This would be to speed up your boot time and free resources.They are only suggestions so I suggestion you read the description of each one when you run Servicesand that you turn them off one at a time.