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How to Install and Setup Module in Joomla

chetancs@technotactic.com (Chetan S) — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 14:01:33 +0000

Joomla Modules are content items which can be displayed anywhere on the site template by providing site position. Joomla Modules helps to extend or add new functionality to Joomla CMS. Joomla Modules are easy to install from administrator control panel of Joomla site.

STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS

1Download the compressed zip module to your local machine.

2Login to back end administrator control panel of your Joomla site.

STEPS For Joomla 1.5

3Go to Extensions > Install/Uninstall. View step

4Now click on Choose.. button View step and select module from your local machine. Now click on Upload Files and install buttonView step. After installation finishes successfully you will receive message 'Install Module Success' View step. Thats it your module is now available to use with website.

5Note that module must be enabled before using it. So got to Extensions > Module Manager list of module will be displayed.View step

6Now click on the module you installed from the list View step. Module settings will come up.

7In the Module setting change the Enable parameter value to Yes View step. Select Position View step where module is going to display on the site and in the 'Menu assignment' Select all if you want to display menu on all pages or select menu items from the list provided View step.Now click on Apply to save changes done.

STEPS For Joomla 1.6, 1.7 and 2.5

3Go to Extensions > Extension Manager View step.

4Click on Choose.. button View step and select module from your local machine.Now click on Upload and Install View step. After installation finishes successfully you will receive message 'Installing module was successful' View step. Newly installed module is now ready to use on site.

5Module must be enabled before we can able to use it so go to Extensions > Module Manager View step. List of modules installed will be displayed.

6Now click on the newly installed module from the list View step. If module is not available in the list click on New button View step List of various available module types will pop-up you will find the newly installed module there View step. Click on the module and it will be added to the list.

7Select module from the list. In module setting change Status of module to Published View step. Select Position of module by clicking on Select position button View step. Change Module assignment setting to On All Pages View step. Now click on Save & close.

Create a Classic All Programs Menu in Windows 7

chetancs@technotactic.com (Chetan S) — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 07:30:06 +0000

Many users who use windows XP prefers to use classic start menu which has classic style all programs menu. In Windows Vista classic start menu is optionally available for use. But in Windows 7 we don't have any option to use classic start menu.So we will try to recreate the classic all programs menu in start menu of windows 7 with help of start menu element Recorded TV which we are not using at all.

STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS

1Right click on Taskbar and select 'Properties'. View Step

2Now switch to 'Start Menu' Tab and click on 'Customize'.View Step

3In Customize Start Menu box scroll down through the list and search for Recorded TV element.Select 'Display as a menu' option in it and close the dialog box using 'OK'.View Step

4Now confirm all the changes by clicking on 'OK' in Start Menu Properties.

5Make sure that hidden files and folders are visible to proceed further so enable it. Read How to show hidden files and folders.

6After enabling hidden files now open Start menu and Right click on newly available 'Recorded TV' menu and click on 'Properties' View Step.

7In the library tab select Public Recorded TV and click on Remove View Step.

8Now click on Include a folder... and navigate to Drive letter:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs in Computer where Drive letter is windows 7 system drive View Step.

9In Optimize this library for drop down menu choose General Items and confirm all the changes by clicking on 'OK' View Step.

10Now open Start menu again and right click on Recorded TV and select 'Rename'. Change name of menu to 'All Programs' and press Enter View Step.

Now you can able to see the classic All Programs menu.

End NOT RESPONDING Programs with Click of a Mouse

chetancs@technotactic.com (Chetan S) — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 11:54:06 +0000

Sometimes a program crashes due to some reasons and cause block to other running processes. At this time only way is to use Task Manager and end not responding programs individually. Also we can use command 'taskkill' on command line to stop the process but many of the users are not familiar with the command line commands. So we will create a shortcut for 'taskkill' command with options which will help us to stop the not responding program with click on it.

STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS

1Right click on Desktop and go to "New > Shortcut" in context menu.View step

2In the Create Shortcut dialog box enter the following command in the location field

 taskkill /f /fi "Status eq NOT RESPONDING"

and click on "Next" to continue.View step

3Now give suitable name to shortcut such as 'End Not Responding Programs' and click on the Finish.View step

4You can also provide icon for the shortcut by Right clicking and selecting properties and click on the "Change Icon..." button in Shortcut tab.View step

Now whenever any program is not responding just double click on the shortcut to stop the particular program. Drag this shortcut in the start menu so it will be more easy access.

Hide Desktop Icons in Windows 7

chetancs@technotactic.com (Chetan S) — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:17:16 +0000

Everytime when we install newer applications it will create desktop shortcut . Furthermore Desktop gets messy when many of the application shortcuts are gets placed on desktop and consequently cause cluttered desktop.Therefor Hidding the icons on desktop will help us to enjoy our favorite desktop background .To do this Follow the steps below.

STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS

1Right Click on the Desktop.

2Now select 'View'.Inside the option, deselect the option 'Show desktop icons' . View step

After doing this all the icons on the desktop hides itself. To make them visible again follow the same steps.

Change Default Location of My Documents

chetancs@technotactic.com (Chetan S) — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 12:13:36 +0000

My documents contents by default stored at the location Documents and Settings/(user account name)/My Documents which is in the Operating system Drive.Sometimes it hogs lots of space of system drive since it was the default location to store games save files other contents of games and some software default setting for eg. sims 3 game which uses the minimum of 700MB space of My Documents.Due to such a space usage it became one of the factor for system slow down.So to avoid this it is better to move entire My Documents from its default location to other location. Follow below steps to do that

STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS

1Right Click on the 'My Documents' . Which you can find at Start Menu or on the Desktop.Select 'Properties' to bring up 'My Documents Properties' dialog box. View step

2Now in the 'Target' Tab click on the 'Move' and select destination folder where you want to move entire My Documents. View step

3Click on 'OK'.

Now, all the existing content in My Documents gets moved to the new location.

Show/Hide Extension For Known File Types

chetancs@technotactic.com (Chetan S) — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:16:21 +0000

By default in Windows extensions for the files are not visible.It can cause difficulties Whenever you are doing programming in language such as JAVA in notepad you have to save file with the extension .java sometimes it happens that we try to save the file as the extension but it not get saved in the that file type like .java instead it gets saved as .java.txt to resolve such an issue we need to enable the file extensions.follow below steps to make the extensions of file visible.

STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS

1Go to "Computer" or press Windows+E on keyboard.

2In the top left corner, Click on Organize>Folder and search options View step.

3Now Click on the ""View" tab in Folders Options.

3Remove the Check mark from "Hide extensions for known file types" and click on "OK" View step.

Changes will take effect immediately.

Other think which you must keep in mind that after this whenever you save the file from any software application you must specify the extension of it with the file name. Otherwise the file gets unreadable after saving.

To hide extensions of file follow same steps and Check the box again.