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Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Internet explorer blocked by firewall

This is a common problem among the Ie user.
Below is the solution that solve about 90% of the Ie problem at normal operations.

Solution
1. open internet explorer
2. go to Tool and click, then
3. select Internet Options in the drop down menu
4. Go to the last tap lable Advanced
5. Click on the "Reset" button
6. Click the check box to tick "Delet person settings"
7. Finaly click reset, close Ie and open it again.

You must be rejoicing now.

Good day.

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Network troubshooting



When you go to My Network Places on XP, is it blank or empty? Even if you are connected to the network, you may still not be able to see other computers on the same network for several reasons.

Firstly, you need to determine what kind of network you are on, i.e. a workgroup or a domain. If you are in a domain and you cannot see any other computer in My Network Places, it could be because DNS is not setup properly.

In this article, I will walk through several settings and configurations you can check that would commonly cause My Network Places to be empty.

File and Printer Sharing is turned off
If File and Printer Sharing is not turned on, you will never see another computer across the network. This protocol must be installed in order to be able browse for it from My Network Places.

To enable File and Printer Sharing, go to the Control Panel, then Network Connections, right-click on Local Area Connection, and choose Properties.

On the General tab, make sure the following protocols are installed and checked:

Client for Microsoft Networks
File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft Networks
Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)


If it’s not there, click the Install button and add the above protocols to the list and restart your computer. If these are installed correctly, then move on to the next check.

All computers are in the same workgroup
The second thing that needs to happen in order for another computer on the network to show up in your My Network Places list is that all the computers have to be in the same workgroup or domain.

You can check this by right-clicking on My Computer, choosing Properties, and clicking on the Computer Name tab.

Next to Workgroup, you will see the workgroup name. Each computer on the network has to have exactly the same workgroup name in order to be able to see each other. You can click Change to change the name of the workgroup.

Allow File and Printer Sharing in Windows/3rd party Firewall
Once you have enabled File and Printer Sharing, you still may not be able to see other computers on the network if you have the Windows XP Firewall enabled.

By default, Windows does not allow the File and Printer Sharing service access through the firewall, so you have to manually allow access. You can do this by going to Control Panel, clicking on Windows Firewall and then clicking on the Exceptions tab.



Make sure to CHECK the box next to File and Printer Sharing. Now the service will be allowed access through the firewall and you will be able to see if in My Network Places.

Note that if you have other firewall or Internet security software installed, it can also prevent Windows Networking features to function properly. One prime example of this is Norton Internet Security. You have to tell it which subnet to allow through the firewall or you have to uninstall it.

Open ports on your router
Another source of headaches could be the firewall on your router. If you have a newer router, some of them automatically enable their own firewalls! So you have to log into your router and open the ports manually.

The File and Printer Sharing port numbers range between 135 and 139, so if you open those up on your router, it should be enough to see the other computers on the network. You can also try disabling the firewall to test whether it’s the router that is causing the problem.

Ping other computers on the network
One other simple thing to do is to check whether you can even ping the other computers on the network. If you can’t ping them, then that means that there is something wrong with the network connection itself.

You can ping another computer by going to Start, clicking on Run, and typing in CMD. In the command prompt, type in ping x.x.x.x or ping computername.



Switch between Static and DHCP IP address
Another way to try and solve this issue is to switch the computer over to a static IP address and then switch it back to DHCP. When you switch like that, the TCP/IP configuration is reset and any corrupted IP settings like the Subnet mask, etc are fixed.

You can do this by right-clicking on Local Area Connection, choosing Properties, and then selecting the Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) entry and choosing Properties.



Then click Use the following IP address and type in an IP address that would work on your current network. Also choose Use the following DNS server addresses and type in the IP address of your router.

Click OK and then OK again. After that, go back to that screen and choose Obtain and IP Address automatically for both and click OK.



This should hopefully fix any problems you are having with not being able to browse computers on your network. If this didn’t fix your problem, post a comment and I’ll try to help! Enjoy!

Friday, July 16, 2010

Office 2010 System Requirements

Before diving into all the details, I want to answer a question that I’m sure is on all of your minds:

Can I use Office 2010 on the same hardware I’m using to run Office 2007?
In most cases, yes! CPU and RAM requirements for Office 2010 are the same as for Office 2007, so if your computer meets the Office 2007 system requirements, you can run Office 2010. A graphics chipset will help boost the performance of certain features and disk footprint has increased (more on these points later), but as general rules:

•If your current computer can run Office 2007, it can run Office 2010.
•If you’re purchasing a new laptop or netbook, it can run Office 2010.
•If you have a computer with a multi-core processor, it can run Office 2010 even faster.
•If your computer is currently running Office 2003, it’s possible that it can run Office 2010 (check the requirements to be sure).
What do the hardware requirements mean?
First off, I’d like to explain what level of performance you can expect from minimum-requirement hardware. The minimum hardware spec is about defining the kind of computer that an average Office customer needs to have in order to have an acceptable experience performing typical tasks. This means tasks like opening up and editing a 20-page report. Tasks like creating some simple pie charts or scatterplots that highlight your findings, and putting together a few slides summarizing your results for that meeting next Tuesday. Or even tasks like writing up your blog post about system requirements. You should also be able to comfortably run two applications simultaneously.

As you might expect, more intensive tasks benefit from fast chips, more RAM, or speedy hard drives, and newer hardware makes everyday tasks faster – but the hardware requirements aren’t about making Office 2010 blazing fast, or about running several applications at once, or about crunching financial models in a giant spreadsheet. They’re simply about getting typical tasks done.

A lot of other pieces of software carry both “minimum” and “recommended” hardware requirements, and you might be wondering why Office 2010 doesn’t have “recommended” requirements. The reason for this is that customers have told us that understanding hardware requirements can be confusing, and the difference in meaning between “minimum” and “recommended” requirements isn’t all that clear. For example, if the minimum RAM requirement for a program is listed as 1 GB, but 2 GB is recommended, what does that really mean? Does the customer need 1 GB or 2 GB? By including minimums, we’ve tried to make the hardware requirements as clear as possible.

How do we approach Office 2010’s hardware requirements?
CPU and RAM requirements approximately doubled between Office 2003 and Office 2007, as you can see below:

One of the pieces of feedback we’ve received from customers is that they really, really hate having to buy new hardware every time a new version of Office is released. With that in mind, one of our goals for the Office 2010 was to make sure that the minimum hardware requirement would not increase from Office 2007. We invested in improving the customer experience on minimum-requirement hardware, and we regularly tested performance throughout the development cycle. Our footprint has gotten larger since Office 2007, but we’re proud to say that we’ve succeeded in keeping the CPU and RAM requirements the same as for Office 2007.

How do you verify the CPU and RAM requirements?
To be objective about our hardware requirements, we maintain a performance test lab of machines with the following specifications:

•Intel Pentium III processor, 500 MHz
•256 MB PC100 SDRAM
•Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 3
I have one of these machines in my office, and when I got it I couldn’t help but laugh: it was manufactured in January 2000. Maintaining that machine and our lab becomes more challenging as time goes on – this hardware hasn’t been in production for years, and it keeps getting harder to find replacement parts when stuff breaks!

We verified our requirements using this hardware with the following tests:

•We measured benchmark times for 200 typical user scenarios and 1300 additional scenarios in both Office 2007 and Office 2010. The data we collected showed that Office 2010 performance on minimum-requirement hardware is comparable to Office 2007.
•Along the same lines, we tested memory use for the typical user scenarios, and found that memory use was comparable to Office 2007. Also, we never reached 100% memory utilization during our tests.
•Finally, members of our team used the test computers instead of their regular desktops for a week and reported on the experience. Performance was, as you might expect, slower than on average hardware, but nobody pulled out any hair (for reference, we believe that the “average computer” has a 2.1 GHz dual-core processor and 2 GB of RAM. We collect this sort of information through the Customer Experience Improvement Program, which Peter Koss-Nobel has explained in more detail in his blog post here.)
With this data in hand, we’re comfortable with a 500 MHz CPU and 256 MB of RAM as appropriate minimum requirements for Office 2010. To give this a bit of context, some of the least powerful computers available today are netbooks, and our data suggests that the average current netbook has a 1.6 GHz CPU and 1 GB of RAM – which is significantly more powerful than our minimum requirement.

What about disk space?
We haven’t changed the CPU or RAM requirements from Office 2007, but the footprint of most Office applications have gotten larger. These changes force us to increase the system requirements – most standalone application disk-space requirements have gone up by 0.5 GB and the suites have increased by 1.0 or 1.5 GB.

There are a few reasons for these changes:

•New features. New features mean more code. Also, even if you’re installing 32-bit Office, code changes to support the introduction of 64-bit Office increase our footprint.
•Office-wide Ribbon implementation. In Office 2010, you’ll see the Ribbon in all Office applications.
•Different suites. In the case Office Professional, the 2007 suite didn’t include OneNote; Office Professional 2010 does. Some distributions of Home and Student 2010 and Home and Business 2010 (such as the boxed retail versions) also include optional trial versions of Professional 2010 applications, which we’ve included in our disk requirements.
•Conservatism. We tend to be overly conservative when drafting hard disk requirements, and we round up to the nearest GB or 0.5 GB. For example, if we measure an application’s footprint to be 1.63 GB, our requirement will be 2.0 GB. If our measurement reads 1.99 GB, we’ll make the system requirement 2.5 GB. Our requirements are larger than the actual disk space usage of the software – and we intentionally oversize them just to be safe.
What operating systems are supported?
To determine which operating systems would be supported for Office 2010, we prioritized based on usage statistics for a given OS, as well as the engineering costs associated with ensuring compatibility and providing customer support for that OS. The following charts summarize OS compatibility for Office 2010.

Why is there a new graphics processor requirement?
If you’ve checked out Office 2010’s full system requirements, you’ve probably noticed the new graphics processor (GPU) requirement, and might be wondering what that’s all about. Another piece of feedback we received after releasing Office 2007 is that customers were interested in harnessing more of the potential of their PCs. Many computers in 2007 and most computers today have graphics processors separate from the CPU (this doesn’t necessarily mean a dedicated graphics card; for example, most laptops don’t have a physical graphics card, but do come with a graphics processor). If your computer has a GPU, it lets us perform graphics rendering tasks (like drawing charts in Excel, or transitions in PowerPoint) in the GPU instead of in the CPU, which parallelizes work and speeds up performance. This is particularly relevant for users of PowerPoint 2010, which will introduce some awesome new graphics and video integration features (more info at the PowerPoint team blog).

We chose to design for Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0c compliant graphics processors with 64 MB video memory. These processors were widely available in 2007, and most computers available today include a graphics processor that meets or exceed this standard. However, like our CPU and RAM requirements, this requirement is targeted for typical tasks – if you intensively use graphics features, you’ll benefit from a more powerful GPU.

If you want to verify the specs of the graphics core in your computer, the DirectX Diagnostic Tool will help:

•First, run ‘dxdiag’ from Run. This will bring up the Diagnostic Tool.
•Click on the Display tab: the DirectX version your graphics processor is using is listed next to ‘DDI Version’.
•Unfortunately, the Diagnostic Tool does not list your video memory, but the Device information on the Display tab will help you find the manufacturer’s specifications for your device.
Again, to put this requirement in context, the graphics chipsets in many netbooks are capable of using up to 224 MB or 256 MB of memory – which greatly exceeds our system requirement.

What if I don’t have a graphics processor that meets the requirement?
If you’re interested in upgrading from Office 2007, and you don’t have a GPU that meets the requirement, don’t worry – you can still use Office 2010. A graphics processor that meets or exceeds the standard will help speed up some of the graphics features you’ve used in earlier versions of Office, and it will help you use advanced transitions, animations, and video features new to PowerPoint 2010. We think a graphics processor will enhance your Office 2010 experience, but again, if your computer doesn’t have one, you can still run Office 2010.

It will come as no surprise that the performance of Office 2010 benefits more RAM, a faster CPU, or newer hardware. If you’re looking to buy a new computer, or if you’re running Windows Vista, Windows 7, or Windows Server 2008, you probably already have a machine that far exceeds the minimum requirements for Office 2010 (although you should check first, just to be safe). That said, I hope that I’ve given you some insight into how we develop system requirements and what they represent. Thanks for reading!

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

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Tuesday, June 15, 2010

The Importance of Having a Website

The Importance of Having a Website for
Your Business


Do you Want to increase your profit?
Do you Want the maximum number of customers?
Do you Want to be known all over the world?
Then: You should have a web site for your business.
Having a web site is not only a decisive step into the future, but a necessary move to stay competitive in this fast paced world.
What can a web site do for your business?

A web site is an invaluable business tool for both you and your clients:
• Your web site enables you to make, as much information available to customers as you think is needed.
• It can enable customers to find out all the information they need about your products.
Such as:
• The service you provide.
• The product/ services you offer.
• The products of your products.
• Your products images with specs & prices.
• The location of your business & where you offer your service.
• Special offers to your clients.
• Contact information such e-mail, phone, fax… so that your clients can reach you easily.
What do you need for your business?
• More Profit
• More Customers
• More Contacts
• More Orders
• Modern Up-to-date Marketing
• More Satisfied Customers
• More Business
• Bigger Market Share
What you get from a Website

• You will be available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and 365 days of the year,
without more employees or customer service. No need for a lot of money for advertising.
• Your targeted clients will reach you through your web site anytime, anywhere.
• You can save money that you would spend on catalogs, brochures and mails.
Creating an electronic version of your catalog with no limit on size, more pages in web site is not by more money.
• Turn your catalog into a web site and since space on the web is inexpensive, you can describe each product in greater detail than you would do in a printed catalog.
• Forget about full-color printing, forget about catalogs, brochures and all other things.
All your company products will be online 24 hours a day, not only in distributors area but all over the world.
• If you want to change your catalog, change the design or add more products. No problem, quick documents changes and every thing will be settled without expensive reprinting or extra money for mailing, you have free-mail.

A web site can serve all kinds of companies

Companies that are trying to reach customers in different locations all over the world and have products that can be shipped to them, as well as local companies can benefit from the web site by introducing themselves to customers, show their location, list their services or offer special promotion.

The Internet solved the problem of limited space, your business now is online every time, every day. If you want more customers, you should be online, regardless of the kind of your industry.

Monday, June 7, 2010

Recovering missing folder option on tool menu list

Folder Options recovery

Recently, I came across with a virus, which simply makes you “Folder Options” invisible, and creating great troubles for me. Firstly I thought that it was some windows file that could have gone corrupt, and then i thought of running the setup once again. But when I saw what changes have been made to my registry, I saw a small change, a new DWORD value was created. Changing the value did the trick and i was successfully able to see the Folder Options and do the desired changes. If you are facing this problem too, Here is what I did.
1. Go to Start –> Run, type Regedit.
2. Go to HKEY CURRENT USER / SOFTWARE / MICROSOFT / WINDOWS /
CURRENTVERSION / POLICIES / EXPLORER
3. You will find a DWORD value “NoFolderOptions” and its value as “1“.
4. Change its value from ” 1” to “0“.
The folder options should now work properly. If in case you need to hide Folder Options then this is a cool trick as well.