HOW TO ESCAPE FROM "DNS CHANGER" VIRUS

• Having a power anti-virus installed may protect your system to some extent only
• Especially DNS Changer is almost unstoppable
• So to avoid it, use mannual d.n.s in your network settings(ipv4/ipv6)

Step1: Right click on your internet connection(xp)/ Network and sharing center(win7)

Step2: Properties and click on Internet Protocol Version(4/6)

Step3: Click on Use mannual DNS. save.

Step4: Check wether your system is infected or not at  http://dns-ok.us/

HOW TO SIGN UNSIGNED APPS FOR YOUR NOKIA 5800, 5230,5233(SYMBIAN)

Step1: Register in this website "click here".

Step2: you will be asked for your IMEI NUMBER

Step3: Enter your email and you will get your Certificate and Key (Notified through Email)

Step4: Download those CER & KEY and Sign any app through them.

HOW TO INSTALL 'ISO' FILES

Step1: Download Ultra iso software here.

Step2: Run it and a Virtual CD Drive is Generated in your system

Step3: Mount the ISO file INTO this drive and INSTALL the game as usually

SD CARD CORRUPTION ERRORS ??

Today, almost all of us have craze to have advanced electronic gadgets like high technology mobile phones, digital cameras, MP3 players, camcorders but almost all of us know that these electronic gadgets use memory cards to store large amount of data. There are varieties of memory cards available in the market today and the one which is most commonly used in mobile phones and digital cameras is SD (Secure Digital) card. Despite of its usage and high capacity, these cards at times render errors which represent their corruption and thus all the photos saved on them become inaccessible. However, to overcome such loss, you can perform SD card photo recovery all by you and thus recover all your invaluable photos.

Some of the most common SD card errors which a user encounters are:

• ‘Memory card error’
• ‘Card not initialized’
• ‘The card can not be used’
• ‘No memory card’
• ‘Card error’
• ‘Read error/write error’
  

  

  
  

Generally mishandling of SD cards renders their corruption. Most probable causes by which you encounter any of the above mentioned errors are:

• Pulling the memory card out of the host device without switching the device off.
• Ignoring the warnings like ‘low battery’ and ‘memory card full’.
• Ejecting the memory card improperly from the computer while its contents are open to it.
• Improper shutting down of the host device while its contents are being accessed by the computer.
• Using the same SD card to more than one host devices.

Whatever, be the cause of SD card corruption, the final outcome is all our precious photos become inaccessible. However, if we timely opt for reliable third-party photo recovery software then we can easily recover photos from SD card. Before using any third-party photo recovery utility one precaution which you must observe is to stop using the affected SD card immediately. Using the card even after encountering the error can overwrite data and overwriting of data can make data unrecoverable even by the help of most reliable photo recovery software.

One of the highly recommended and most efficient SD card photo recoverysoftware is Stellar Photo Recovery Software. The software has very intuitive user interface and simple recovery procedure which does not require assistance of an expert or knowledge of data recovery to recover the loss. The efficient software recovers your photos irrespective to the type of memory card error and has separate versions for Windows and Mac users

10 Ways to Make Your Laptop Run Faster

There is nothing more frustrating than your computer locking up, freezing, or just being pokey, especially if the client is patiently waiting for the presentation or the paper is due.  Laptops are extremely accessible to everyone, yet if only the knowledge to keep them optimized was that easy to come by.   

These 10 tips are simple things you can do to make your laptop run faster.

1.  Start with a disk cleanup.  There are several ways to access this, but one is to click on the Start Program>All Programs>Accessories>System Tools>Disk Cleanup.  This will allow you to delete temporary Internet Files, Offline Files, the recycling bin, and other types of unnecessary files. 
2. Through the Control Panel, go to Internet Tools and delete cookies and history.  This can take several minutes if it hasn’t been done in awhile.
3. Disk Defragment.  You can access this the same way as a disk cleanup, but select disk defragmenter instead.  Many programs allow you to schedule a time to do this application, as it can take several minutes or several hours depending on how much work is to be done. 
4. Malware or Spyware are big offenders of slowing down laptops.  Installing and running an anti-malware or anti-virus program and running it regularly will often times make a tremendous difference. 
5. Check your power management by accessing the Control Panel.  Select power management and then Maximum or Best Performance.  If you use your battery pack rather than being plugged in it will drain quickly, but will give you optimal speed. 
6. From the Control Panel, go to Add or Remove programs.  Remove programs that you know you are not using.  This can be a daunting task, since some programs affect others, and therefore you may want to know what’s important before you remove it.
7. Check the memory usage of your computer.   You may need to add more random access memory (RAM) to store memory, rather than using disk space that is slower in all cases.
8. Consider using registry software cleaner or repair program.  There are many good ones out there such as ccleaner.com or registryfix.com.  These will identify and repair problems within the registry.
9. New computers that use Windows Vista can be slowed down by excess animation.  It is possible to turn it off by going to the Control Panel>System and Maintenance>Performance Information and Tools>Advanced Tools.  Then select Adjust the Appearance and Performance of Windows.  The Performance Options box will prompt, and if you select Custom, then uncheck Animate Windows when Maximazing and Minimizing.  You can consider other options as well, but this definitely pep it up.
10. Use an external hard drive to store all music, photos and games.  It can be unplugged and used with multiple computers, and will save valuable space.

These ten tips are proven ways to get that computer moving and prevent untimely frustration.  By utilizing some or all, you will be optimizing your system and working efficiently.  

How To Speed Up Your Computer Running Windows XP

I recently decided to see what I could do to speed up my pathetically slow Windows XP laptop, and was amazed at how much faster it was with just a few simple tweaks. I scoured the Internet for easy tips on how to speed up my computer that didn't require messing around with the registry - even as an advanced computer user, I try and avoid directly changing the registry whenever I can. The potential for screwing things up is just too great, and I reserve that kind of action only for major problems!

The laptop I wanted to speed up is a Sony Vaio that is about six years old. It has 512 MB or RAM and a screen that doesn't work anymore, so I've set it up with and external monitor, keyboard and mouse. I now use it as my home-office computer, and I do all of my online writing on it. I also have a newer HP Pavilion laptop withWindows Vista that is remarkably faster than the Sony, but after implementing the tips below the Sony's speed is now comparable to the HP, which has 4 times more RAM and a newer, faster CPU!

Speed Up Windows XP !

So here are 10 simple changes that should significantly increase the speed of your Windows XP computer...

Make Your Computer Faster !

1. Disable The Windows Indexing Service

The Indexing Service built into Windows XP allows you to search your local hard drive more quickly. It uses a lot of memory in the background and takes up space on your hard drive. If you only occasionally use the Search feature in Windows Explorer to find files on your hard drive, disabling the indexing feature can greatly increase performance, as well as free up some space on your hard drive. You will still be able to search the files on your computer, and those occasional searches will be slower, but your overall performance will be faster.

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Disable The Windows Indexing Service

To Disable Indexing:

• Click Start -> Settings -> Control Panel
• Double-click the "Add or Remove Programs" icon
• Along the left side, click "Add/Remove Windows Components"
• Un-check the "Indexing Services" box
• Click Next and follow the instructions
• You may need to reboot your computer for the changes to take effect

Remove the existing indexing

If you previously had the Indexing Services box checked, you can also remove the indexing that already exists to free up a little hard drive space: 

• In Windows Explorer, click on "My Computer"
• Right click the entry for your hard drive and select "Properties"
• At the bottom of the Properties screen, un-check the "Allow Indexing Service to index this disk for fast file searching"
• Click OK
• Depending on how many files are on your computer, this can take a while as Windows un-indexes all of your files...

2. Optimize Windows Display Settings

Windows XP has many display features that give it a different look and feel from older versions of Windows. While these features look nice, they can cost your computer a good deal of speed. Since none of these features affect the way your computer operates, feel free to pick and choose which ones you want and which you don't care about. By default, all of the options are selected, so just un-check each one that you no longer want.

Optimize Windows Display Settings

To change display settings:

• Right click on My Computer and select "Properties"
• Select the "Advanced" tab at the top right
• Under "Performance" click the "Settings" button
• Un-check to options you want to disable

Alternately, you can select the "Adjust for best performance" option at the top of the screen to speed up your computer.

3. Optimize Your Virtual Memory Pagefile Size

You Virtual Memory Pagefile is a chunk of hard drive space that Windows XP uses to supplement your physical RAM. By default, this file is constantly being resized in the background, which can waste a lot of resources. For most users, there is usually no need to have a pagefile that is more than 1.5 to 2 times the amount of physical RAM in your PC. 

Optimize Your Virtual Memory Pagefile Size

To set the pagefile size to a fixed amount:

• Right click My Computer and select "Properties" - at the bottom of the screen, note the amount of physical RAM on your computer
• Select the "Advanced" tab at the top right
• Under "Performance", click the "Settings" button
• Choose the "Advanced" tab of the top
• At the bottom, under "Virtual Memory", click the "Change" button
• Click on your main hard drive at the top
• In the middle of the screen, select the "Custom size" button and enter a number that is 1.5 to 2 times the amount of physical RAM in both the "Initial size" and "Maximum Size" boxes
• Click OK

4. Run Disk Cleanup

Over time, Windows XP will collect a lot of data in files that are no longer being used. By running the Disk Cleanup tool, you can safely choose which of these files to delete, freeing up resources on your computer:

Run Disk Cleanup

To run Disk Cleanup:

• In Windows Explorer, click on "My Computer"
• Right click the entry for your hard drive and select "Properties"
• Next to the graphic showing your disk space usage, click the "Disk Cleanup" button
• After a few minutes, Windows XP will show a dialog box of files you can safely delete, along with an explanation of what type of files they are
• Read the explanations for each suggestion and delete the ones you no longer need

5. Remove Your Desktop Wallpaper

A large image file used as desktop wallpaper may look pretty, but how often do you really see it? After the first few seconds of booting your computer, you probably open up some application windows and completely cover up that image! And desktop wallpaper, especially if it's a photograph, takes a lot of memory to load at startup, plus extra resources to reload each time you show the desktop again. 

Remove Your Desktop Wallpaper

To remove the desktop wallpaper:

• Minimize all open windows and right click any empty space on the desktop
• Select "Properties"
• Click the "Desktop" tab at the top
• Scroll all the way up to the top of the Background list and select "None"
• Choose a color from the drop-down box on the right
• Click OK

6. Disable Automatic Network Search In Windows Explorer

Did you ever notice that when you open My Computer or Windows Explorer, there is a pause before the window loads? That may be caused by a default setting that tells Explorer to search for network files and printers every time it loads. If your home computers are not networked to each other, then there is no need for this feature.

Disable Automatic Network Search In Windows Explorer

To disable it:

• Open "My Computer"
• Go to the "Tools" menu at the top of the screen
• Click "Folder Options..."
• Under the "View" tab, un-check the box that says "Automatically search for network folders and printers"
• Click OK
• You may need to reboot your computer for the change to take effect

7. Enable DMA On All Drives

Windows XP has a hard drive feature call Direct Memory Access, or DMA. This allows data from your drives to transfer directly from the device into memory without passing first through the CPU, thereby reducing the workload on your processor. To speed up your computer, you can make sure DMA is enabled for all of your drives (including CD/DVD drives).

Enable DMA On All Drives

To enable DMA:

• Right click "My Computer"
• Select the "Hardware" tab at the top right
• Click the "Device Manager" button at the top
• Double-click the "IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers" entry
• Double click "Primary IDE Channel"
• Under the "Advanced Settings" tab, select "DMA if available" under Transfer Mode
• Repeat for each Device listed
• Click OK
• Double click "Secondary IDE Channel" and repeat the steps above

8. Disable Performance Statistics Gathering

Windows XP has a built-in performance monitor that most users will never access, and which actually gobbles up some of the resources that it's measuring! To disable the collection of these performance statistics and free up some more resources, download this tool from Microsoft
and follow the instructions to install it. (FYI, the page says that the tool is for Windows 2000, but it is also compatible with XP)

Disable Performance Statistics Gathering

• Go the folder where you installed the tool (by default, C:/Program Files/Resource Kit) and doucle-click the file "exctrlst.exe"
• One by one, highlight each entry in the list and un-check the "Performance Counters Enabled" box
• Once all the entries have been un-checked, click "Refresh" at the top and make sure each is still un-checked
• Close the tool
• You may have to reboot for the changes to take effect

9. Run Microsoft's Free Online OneCare Scan Tool

Microsoft offers a free, all-in-one virus, spyware and performance checker athttp://onecare.live.com/site/en-us/default.htm
Firefox users should note that this tool is designed as an ActiveX control for Internet Explorer and won't run in Firefox. You should open IE and run this tool from there.

Run Microsoft's Free Online OneCare Scan Tool

Scroll down and select the blue "Full Service Scan" button.
You will need to install the ActiveX control - click the yellow bar at the top of the screen and follow the prompts.
Once the tool is installed and running, you can do a Complete Scan or Quick Scan.
If you already have a virus and/or spyware software on your computer, you can choose the "Customize..." option under the Complete Scan and un-check the virus and/or spyware scan, each of which can take several hours to run if you have a lot of files on your computer.

The tool will run for a while, depending on which options you choose. When it's done, you will get a report of any problems it found and options to repair them. The tool checks for viruses, spyware, disk fragmentation, unneeded files, registry entries that are no longer in use and open network ports that may make your computer vulnerable to hackers and viruses.

10. Install Service Pack 3 to Optimize Windows XP

If you haven't already, you can install Service Pack 3 to speed up your computer. Many users report up to a 10% increase in performance just by doing this one step! You can find all the details about the Service Pack atMicrosoft's website.

I Made My PC Faster!

I've implemented all of these steps on my own Window XP computer and was shocked at how much faster it is!

The Service Pack took a long time and some rebooting install, and the Microsoft OneCare tool took several hours to complete, but was well worth it! It found some spyware on my machine and showed that I needed to defragment my hard drive. Many Windows advice sites online consider defragging unnecessary with modern hard drives, but there was a definite increase in performance after I did it...

The other tips were quick and easy to implement and most showed immediate results!

some useful win7 commands

1. Time. Need to sync the clock on your PC? The easiest way is from the Windows 7 Command line. Simply type Time and you'll be prompted to enter the new time. If you don't wish to change the time, simply close the window.

2. CMD. Sometimes you may need to open a new CMD window. Type CMD and you'll have your fresh window.TIP -- To open a new window you can also type Start. If you just want to clear your screen within the same window, type CLS. (CLS = Clear Screen).

3. Color. Tired of the Same Old Black and White look? First type Color /? to get a list of options. You will enter two choices, the first is for the background color, the second is for the text letters. Typing Color 1F gave me Blue with White letters. TIP- If you wish to change the default color scheme of the CMD interface, the easiest way is to right click the top bar and go to "Properties". Then use the "Colors" tab to choose the background and text colors.

4. Tree. This is one of my favorites. Type TREE within any particular directory, such as C, and you will get a detailed Tree structure of that directory and subdirectories. Type Tree when you first open your CMD line interface and you will see the directory structure of your user profile. TIP - if you run out of room, (like I did while testing TREE in my profile), and the output gets truncated, right click the top bar, and go to "properties". Next go the "Layout" tab. Change the default height setting of 300 to something larger. I used 500.

5. Robocopy. Robust File Copy for Windows. In my first Windows 7 CMD Line hub, I mentioned XCOPY. Now we can explore Robocopy. Starting with Windows Vista, Robocopy has been added as a default feature of the Command Line tool. Robocopy has some advantages over XCOPY, such as a progress indicator, the ability to tolerate network interuptions and a very nice output that gives a count of files that were copied, missed, or skipped. You can read more about the Robocopy command here. In my picture I used the same syntax as my XCOPY examples, with the /s and /e switches.

6. Resource Monitor. Want a fast way to check the performance of your PC? Try typing PERFMON /RES. This Windows 7 Command will take you right to the Resource Monitor window. TIP - You can also access the Resource Monitor from the Windows 7 Task Manager Console. Right click the bottom bar on your desktop, select "Start task manager" , then go to the "Performance" Tab. Then click the tab that says "Resource Monitor". (Isn't it much easier to type perfmon /res from a cmd prompt?)

7. Defrag. Anyone who has been around Windows PC's for a while knows (or should know) the importance of an occasional Defrag. One of the best analogies I ever heard was to liken a defrag to "putting the library books back on the shelf where they belong". Your PC is busy, and it is accessing files all over the place. It doesnt have time to put the books back where it always found them. Time to tell your PC to "Clean its Room!". You can start by typing Defrag /? for a list of options. DEFRAG /C /V /V will give you a nice output.

8. Find. Did you know you can search from your Windows 7 CMD prompt?. First type Find /? for a list of options and correct syntax. An example would be: Find /C "test" to search all volumes for strings that contain "test". Make sure you enclose the text in quotes.

9. CTRL + C. Tired of waiting for the search results with the Find command? Hitting CTRL + C will end the current task and put you back at your prompt (without closing the window).

10. Shutdown. You can shutdown your own PC or any PC on the network right from the command line. Start by typing Shutdown /? for a list of options. If I want to restart my PC, I would type shutdown /r. If I want to shut it off, I would type shutdown /s. You will see a message window pop up that says the computer will be shutting down in less than a minute.