Computer Tips and Online Money Making Tricks

How to Check Hard Drive Health

2010-07-12T22:09:00.000-07:00

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METHOD. I:
If you don’t have a monitoring software for disk health, you would need to download Free disk health monitoring utility. There are many options among them.

The most famous name is SMART:
This is called Self Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology). It is used to test the health of computer’s hard disks. SMART detects and reports on several indicators of reliability, for gauging possible disk failures. This is a very common device, so I mentioned it. You can go for any such utility. Read more on how to clean computer hard drive.

METHOD. II:
Run the windows check disk utility after installing the software on your computer. It will check hard drive for errors and repair if there are any problems in the system file. In addition, it will also examine the physical structure, that is, the integrity of the disk surface. This is the basic thing for hard disc health check.

METHOD. III
After the utility disk check:

Close all the software (application, browsers and any other utilities) which might be open
Open ‘My Computer‘
Right click on the mouse on your hard drive properties
Click tool tab which will be under error checking
Click on the option which says check now
Choose the option which says ‘automatically fix file system errors’
Read more on computer keeps freezing up.

METHOD. IV:
Once you are done with ‘automatically fix file system errors’,

Select the option which says scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors and
Finally click start to tune the utility. This is when the utility will check hard drive for bad sectors, when it is checking hard drive for health.
Download and then run the freeware diagnostic tool you might be having on your computer, for example Hard Disk Tune. This is a fabulous diagnostic tool to run an entire benchmark analysis of the hard drive. Not just that, it also identifies structural errors and makes a total analysis of the drive, checking every item. Read more on bad sectors on hard drive.

Once this is done,

Close the program
Shutdown computer
Switch it back ON.

Wow, Your hard disk will be fine now.
That’s it! These are the simple methods to check hard drive health.

Forget Windows Startup Password

2010-05-30T22:01:00.000-07:00

Dear Friends, if you forget your window's computer Password, Don't Worry.

You should not need to install your Windows again. Just Do IT:

STEPS:

1. Restart your Computer

2. When Login screen will appear,

Hold Down Ctrl and Alt keys togather and press DELETE key TWICE at a time.

Type user name as: administrator

and then press enter key.

WOW.. you will enter into your computer.

Now reset your password by going into Control Panel > User accouts >

Click at your account name > Click at Change my password >

just type your new password twice > Finaly click at Change password.

Now you should restart your windows

After restarting you will enter your new password.

*~ Enjoy ~*

Shrink or Resize Image File

2010-05-30T21:59:00.000-07:00

How can Shrink or Resize Image File Size

If you want to Shrik or Resize any image, you can do it easily by using
Microsoft Paint.

STEPS for Shrink image:

1. First of all > Right Click at image
2. Open with > Choose Program > Click at Paint > OK

    The file will open in Microsoft Paint.

3. Now Click at IMAGE menu > Click at Stretch/Skew > Change the Stretch Values

For example: Horizantal Value I will set 50 and Vertical Value I will set 50.

4. Finally Save the File.

   Now your image file is Srinked.

STEPS for Resize image:

1. First of all > Right Click at image
2.     Open with > Choose Program > Click at Paint > OK

    The file will open in Microsoft Paint.

3.    Now Click at FILE menu > Click at Save As > Change the Name of File > Press Save

4.   Click again FILE menu > Exit

   Now your file Size is less then earlier.

Make a Copy of Your Computer Screen

2010-05-30T21:57:00.000-07:00

Make a Copy of Your Screen with Print Screen Key

If you punched the "Print Screen" button from your keyboard and nothing happens?

Why ???

Because:
Computer makes a copy of the screen into the Clipboard. Then you can open one of your photo-editing programs and paste the screen copy. You may then save it as .jpg or .gif. You can Shrink, Stretch, Resize, Crop or Edit it using any Photo Editing Software like commonly using software is Microsoft Paint.

Stretch Computer Desktop Background

2010-05-30T21:54:00.000-07:00

If your want to set Desktop Background in full screen that is not already set as full screen

If your Windows XP or Vista or Windows 7, for Stretch background image you should do so as:

1. Right click at Blank space on the Desktop and then click Properties.

2. In Display Properties click at Destop Tab

3. Click at Position

4. Select Stretch

5. Finaly Click OK

Set Date and Time of Computer

2010-05-30T21:53:00.000-07:00

If your Computer's Date and Time is not working properly, and you have to change date and time each time while you start your computer. You can remove this problem by doing as:

STEPS:

1. First Click at Start Button

2. Goto Settings and then Click at Control Panel

3. Click at Date and Time

4. Click at Time Zone Tab

5. Now follow the picture's instructions

6. Finaly click at OK

Change your Computer Name

2010-05-30T21:52:00.000-07:00

If you want to Change your Computer Name. You can do as:

STEPS:

1. Right Click on My Computer icon that is already you can seen at Desktop (upper left side of screen)

2. Click at Properties

3. Then click at Tab: Computer Name

4. Click at Change

5. Write any name for your computer

6. Click OK

7. Click OK

Make Private your internet connection

2010-05-30T21:51:00.001-07:00

You want to keep private your internet connection, but you are facing problem.

If you follow these steps you can do so easily.

With the help of these steps you can control your site visited histroy and cookies.

STEPS to Control Privacy about visited and on-going sites:

1. Click Start

2. Goto Settings

3. Click Control Panel

4. Double Click Internet Options and you will see below dialog box

In the above dialog box, you can see a red highlighted portion about history, here you can set number of days to save/keep history into your Browser about visited sites.

Here you can Clear all the Previous History by clicking Clear History button.

In the above dialog box you can see a yellow circle around the Delete Cookies

By clicking this you can Delete all the previous internet cookies from your computer.

In the above dialog box you can also see a Tab: Privacy

Here you can see a red circled option i.e. Privacy

In this Options you can set the Level of Privacy by scrolling through a Bar.

In the above dialog box, if you press the Sites button, a next dialog box will appear, as shown below:

Due to help of this option you can Block or Allow any sites.

You should write the complete site name in red highlighted address bar.

Increase Keyboard Speed

2010-05-30T21:51:00.000-07:00

If you want to increase Keyboard performance, you can do as:

STEPS:

1. Click at Start

2. Goto Settings

3. Click at Control Panel

4. Double Click at Keyboard Option

5. Here you can set as per desired, the speed rate of words, curser blink rate etc

6. After final setting, click OK

How to get rid of the Sidebar in Windows Vista

2010-05-30T21:50:00.000-07:00

Here is how to get rid of Sidebar or like Toolbar in Windows Vista:

Go to Control Panel
Choose Appearance and Personalization
Then choose Windows Sidebar Properties
Untick the "Start Sidebar when Windows starts"
Press Ok

The sidebar should be gone when you start your computer next time.

Erase Website List in URL Address Bar

2010-05-30T21:49:00.000-07:00

Here is a way to delete all listing URL at your URL address bar using
Internet Explorer 8:

Go to Safety (At Top Right)
Choose Delete Browsing History
Tick the History one
Press Delete button

Your listing URL at the address bar should be empty now.

Here is the Shortcuts just using keyboard:

Press CTRL + Shift + Del
Shift + H (To tick or untick History)
Shift + D

Private Personal Diary in Internet

2010-05-30T21:48:00.001-07:00

Nowadays there are many blog that has been created. Some are about knowledge and others are about themselves.

As we go to to the digital era's, Blogspot as what I'm using now are helping people to write their diary digitally and privatise from others to view.

Here how to write private diary through Blog:

Register a blog at Blogger.com
Create a blog
Under the Settings > Permissions > Blog Readers
Tick the Only Blog Authors

Hope you will have your own digital diary soon at Blogger.com.

Remove Windows Vista Log on Screen

2010-05-30T21:48:00.000-07:00

Here is a simple way to stop log on screen in Windows Vista:

Go to Control Panel and choose add or remove user accounts and delete all accounts until you left one account only. You just need to click on the icon to edit or delete the account. If the last account is password protected, choose remove the password.

Now you should able to on computer and skip the log on screen phase.

Speed UP Booting of Windows Vista

2010-05-30T21:47:00.000-07:00

Here is the way to speed up your startup loading computer
using Windows Vista:

to 'RUN" or press "Windows+R"
Type "msconfig" and press ok button
Choose the Boot Menu at the top there
Do you see Timeout at the right there
Change to how long you want
The shorter the faster

How to run fastly any computer program

2010-05-30T21:46:00.000-07:00

How to run fastly any computer program without going to any program option.

STEPS:

1. Click at Start
2. Click at Run
3. Write your desired program name

NOTE: This name should be .EXE file of that Program. For example: mspaint.exe is the program file of Microsoft Paint.

4. Click OK.
You can see that immediately program will execute.

HELP:

Execution Files of Window's Common Programs :

First you will click at Start > Run

For Microsoft Paint >>> mspaint.exe

For Microsoft Winword >>> winword.exe

For Microsoft Excel >>> excel.exe

For Microsoft PowerPoint >>> powerpnt.exe
For Calculator >>> calc.exe
For Notepad >>> notepad.exe

For DOS prompt >>> cmd.exe

Speed UP your Computer Performance

2010-05-30T21:43:00.000-07:00

Speed UP your Computer Performance by doing Defragment your hard drives:

If your Windows XP or Vista or Windows 7 is getting slow, a wise thing to do is to defragment your hard drives!

The defragment program is built into Windows.

To do so you Just click on the

1. Windows' Start Button

2. Go to Programs

3. Go to Accessories

4. Go to System Tools

5. Click at Disk Defragmenter.

Select which drive you want to defragment, this is usually the (C:) drive.
And then click on the 'Defragment' Button.

NOTE: Before you defragment, it is best to close all other programs safely. When defragment will start, you should not touch your computer for better performance.