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Displaying Run Command on Windows 7

Posted by Minhazur Rahaman on Saturday, August 13, 2011, In : Operating 

If you can try Windows 7, as a result you will see there are many dissimilar with Windows XP such as the desktop appearance. Windows 7 is seemed more “simple” where there are a number of menus or icons that are hidden in default, like Run command in Windows XP which has on the start menu. If you normally using the command, it never incorrect to show it until will accelerate the work you do.


Follow the following tips for display the run command.  


To activate it, you need using the W...


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Change Command Prompt Title

Posted by Minhazur Rahaman on Friday, August 12, 2011, In : Operating 

Windows is still reliable to setup mutually with DOS commands or command prompt awaiting Windows Vista and Windows 7 (Beta) still using it. Unfortunately, the command prompt display also still “reliable” with its standard title, namely C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe. If you are get bored with the same title when using command prompt you can change it with a suitable title.


In default, the display of the command prompt title is C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe , similar to the screenshot ...


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Autorun Function Disable in your computer

Posted by Minhazur Rahaman on Friday, August 12, 2011, In : Operating 

Most of the CD-ROM that sale is prepared with autorun.inf file. Every computer will run all command that being found in the file.

If you do not want your computer run that program automatically, there are two steps:

First step:

Press Shift Button on keyboard when you insert the CD-ROM into CD device. 


Second Steps:

1. Go to Start Button> Setting> System> Device Manager.

2. Clic...


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Increase Virtual Memory in Computer

Posted by Minhazur Rahaman on Thursday, August 11, 2011, In : Software Tips 

We are frequently working while watching to video or operation additional application to save time. Run application at the same time can cause computer out of memory. We often find that computers show a message what is called the "low memory” or “Virtual Memory Low” Where the remaining memory ability is low.

Occasionally we are adding a RAM to computer for solves this problem. But it is not a good solution because besides we need to deal with a hardware we need to spend some money to...


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Connect Your PC from Remote location

Posted by Minhazur Rahaman on Wednesday, August 10, 2011, In : Networking 

Using the Remote Desktop feature, you can connect your pc (host) from any other remote pc (client) and can access all computer resources (installed programs, data and any network resources). You can run any computer application on the remote computer as you were running actually sitting in front of pc.

Follow the given steps to configure your pc to connect remote pc: 

To use this feature, you will need to be logged into your pc  with administrative rights.

To perform this task, first ma...


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Share an internet connection on LAN

Posted by Minhazur Rahaman on Saturday, August 6, 2011, In : Networking 

Share an internet connection on LAN

You can share internet through LAN within some clicks. I realized that the network is broadband, and create an account on the computer. Go to "My Network Places" properties, and then choose a broadband connection. Now right click and se...


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When Your Printer's Buffer Overflows........

Posted by Minhazur Rahaman on Saturday, August 6, 2011, In : Hardware 

Yes, the printer isn't perfect. When you give the printer more load than it can "remember" from it's memory buffer, it will either hang, stop, pause or abort the print and give you an error message. Here are a few ways to fight the problems.

Compress

From experience, I found out that a printer seldom or never encounter any buffer overflow from printing text. Rather, it is graphic...


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Fighting Unknown Problems

Posted by Minhazur Rahaman on Saturday, August 6, 2011, In : Hardware 

Hardware problems are quite difficult to tackle, worse if under Windows. There was once when installing a software, I accidentally inserted the Audio hardware diskette. Thinking it was harmless, I went on, thinking I can always "undo" everything again. How wrong was I. The next moment I restarted Windows, I got the blue screen of death. Yeah, Windows is very nasty when it comes to h...


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RAM Won't Work On New Motherboard

Posted by Minhazur Rahaman on Saturday, August 6, 2011, In : Hardware 
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If you upgraded your motherboard and CPU to a brand new one, you might encounter with some RAM problems. Either the system seems slower or the total amount of RAM is displayed less than the actual amount during bootup (when you just power-up the computer).

The problem usually occur if you upgraded from a 486 to a Pentium or from non-EDO RAM to EDO. There are a few things...


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Sound Card

Posted by Minhazur Rahaman on Saturday, August 6, 2011, In : Hardware 

A world without sound is boring. The same goes to computers. Imagine playing quake with the beeps from the computer speaker. The sound card is a piece of hardware to generate high quality sound. It enables your to listen to your CD, record voices with the microphone and playing your sound files.

Don't Throw Away Your Old RAM

If you have and old PC that utilizes old 32 bit RAM, don't...


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CD-ROM

Posted by Minhazur Rahaman on Saturday, August 6, 2011, In : Hardware 
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The maximum a floppy disk can contain is 1.44 MB. To play a game with around 200 MB you are stuck with 100 over diskettes. The CD-ROM is a revolutionary invention that allows up to 625 MB at one time. However, it is read only, which means you can't store in anything.

Buttons Fun

Although most CD-ROMs comes with only 2 buttons, do you know you can also skip, play previous...


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Graphic Card

Posted by Minhazur Rahaman on Saturday, August 6, 2011, In : Hardware 

The graphic card is one of the most important pieces of hardware in your PC. Without it, your super monitor with all the bells and whistles is just a junk box.

Make Directional Input

Most video cards come with simple frame capture programs, but you'll have to do some programming if you plan to integrate video capture with other operations on your computer, such as adding text data...


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A lot of about photoshop

Posted by Minhazur Rahaman on Thursday, August 4, 2011, In : Photoshop 

A sunset, especially at sea, can be an amazing color spectacle. The hues will depend heavily on the weather, though — but you can push them a bit with a gradient map. Click on the “New Fill/Adjustment Layer” button in the Layer palette and select “Gradient Map” from the list. Click on the gradient to open the “Gradient Editor.”

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Gradient Map

Click on the first color patch below the gradient, and change the color to red. Set the color patch on the opposite side to yellow, and ...


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Controlling Mid-Tone Contrasts

Posted by Minhazur Rahaman on Thursday, August 4, 2011, In : Photoshop 

To increase detail in landscape shots, boost the mid-tone contrast. Copy the background layer with Control/Command + J, and then click on Filter → Convert for Smart Filters in the menu. Then go to Filter → Other → High Pass and enter a radius of 3 pixels. Change the blending mode to “Overlay” and double-click the layer next to its name to open the “Layer Style” window.

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Layer Style window: This Layer

For the first gradient, “This Layer,” split the sliders by holding the Alt...


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Color Look With An Adjustment Layer

Posted by Minhazur Rahaman on Thursday, August 4, 2011, In : Photoshop 

Go to the Layer menu, and then New Adjustment Layer → Hue/Saturation, and set the blending mode to “Soft Light” and check “Colorize.” Use the Hue, Saturation and Lightness sliders to control the color: for a cool look, for example, set the hue at 210, the saturation at 50 and the lightness at 10; for a warm look, set the hue at 30, the saturation at 30 and the lightness at 5.

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Here is Hue/Saturation and Color Fill.

Alternatively, you could use several color layers. Create them fr...


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Levels

Posted by Minhazur Rahaman on Thursday, August 4, 2011, In : Photoshop 

When applying a “Levels adjustment,” you can set black and white points in order to decrease color tints, but where are the darkest and brightest spots in the image? Go to New Adjustment Layer → Threshold to find those areas. This function is available under the “Layer” menu.

Move the slider so far to the right that only a few white spots remain in the document. Use the “Color Sampler tool” and set down a point there. Move the slider to the left until only a few black spots...


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Simulate Infrared Images

Posted by Minhazur Rahaman on Thursday, August 4, 2011, In : Photoshop 

Open a photo in Camera Raw; you can do this either in Bridge, using the right mouse key and clicking “Open in Camera Raw,” or directly in Photoshop, by selecting File → Open as Smart Object. Apply basic adjustments to optimize your image (for example, with the “Recovery” and “Fill Light” slides), then switch to the “HSL/Grayscale” tab. Check “Convert to Grayscale,” and set the Blues down to around -85. Set the Greens to +90 and the Yellows to +20.

Trees and bushes s...


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Naturally Increased Light

Posted by Minhazur Rahaman on Thursday, August 4, 2011, In : Photoshop 

The light of the sun creates texture. There are shadowy areas and spots where the sunlight can shine without interference. To control the intensity, you can draw more light onto a separate layer or increase already existing light. Create a new layer by going to Layer → New → Layer, or by pressing Shift + Control + N on Windows or Shift + Command + N on a Mac. Set the blending mode to “Color Dodge” and the opacity to about 15%.

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Increase light on a separate layer.

Then use the brush t...


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Team Viewer

Posted by Minhazur Rahaman on Thursday, August 4, 2011, In : Software Tips 

TeamViewer is a popular, easy to use desktop sharing tool.

Once you have your friends and relatives to find a little knowledge of computerseverywhere. They will ask you for a wide variety of technical problems to help all the time, as if you were a permanent free service to customers.

Fortunately, you can count on TeamViewer 6, to provide support. TeamViewer allows you, the computers of friends, family or even customers instant access. In addition, itrequires no technical expertise on t...


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Hide the Computer Drive

Posted by Minhazur Rahaman on Wednesday, August 3, 2011, In : Software Tips 

Because of certain excuse, sometime we are probably to hide our Computer Drive (C,D,E….) in computer. 

 

Here are two alternatives that can be done to hide or remove the drive from our windows display without going through the registry editor and without using additional software.

 

The first way is to use diskpart command, and the latter by using gpedit (group policy editor), which must be both easy to do

 

The first way is by using the diskpart command.

 

1. Click Start -> Run...


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