Tech & Warez

If you have a problem with you laptop and after 15-60 mins it automatically shut down, the problem is overheating. There can be only 4 reasons and 2 of them are common. I will tell you about all of them… so…
1 reason: there could be a dust in your laptop heat sink that prevents blow hot air from laptop.
Solution is: to buy air “dust-off” bottle, it cost around 5$ and use it to clean your laptop, especially heat sink from dust and that’s it… this is the most common reason.
2 reason: your thermal grease on your processor is dry. This is more problematically. If you don’t have any experience with laptops disassembled, it is better for you to bring you laptop to the computer repair store. If you want to try, you need to disassemble the laptop and find processor and heat sink on a motherboard, when you find it out, remove a heat sink from processor, remove old thermal grease from processor and put new thermal grease on it(cost 1-10$), then put everything back and assemble the laptop. This is the second common reason.
3 reason: your processor fan doesn’t work, all steps the same like in second reason, but instead of thermal grease, you need to change processor fan. When you remove it, figure out what part number it has and try to find the fan by the part number on Ebay, if you can’t find anything, try find the part by laptop model, for example: “hp dv4 fan” or “hp tx fan” and buy it. Then put new fan instead of old one and assemble your laptop. This is the third common reason. And the last one…
4 reason: if everything you tried(all 3 reasons and solutions), usually there should be a problem with you motherboard, it is the worst thing. So you need to change it. Buy new or used one on Ebay, try to find it by part number, part number you can find on a motherboard, usually near ram slots, but sometimes it can be in different places, just disassemble your laptop and take out the motherboard. When you buy a new one, put it back in your laptop and assemble it. The reason why it happened with motherboard is usually graphic chip overheating, before changing motherboard try to put some thermal grease on graphic chip, it may help and you don’t need to change your motherboard.

If you are not sure you can assemble and disassemble laptop, don’t risk, bring your laptop to computer repair store!

If you want to change/calculate all integer fields, for example you have pricelist and you want to change all prices in this pricelist, you should take next steps:

1. Open Excel document(for example pricelist), highlight one of the integer fields that you want to change and go to the function field(in the top of the document, under the menu). For example you highlighted field has line 8 and column D, so your field name will be D8, put =D8 value to function field and add some math actions, your function will be like: =d8+100, it means your field value is increased by 100.

2. To make the same things to another fields, highlight the same field, focus your mouse under the right bottom corner, click on it, hold and move it down, so =d8+100 expression will automatically copied to another fields and you will change all your field values within 1 minute. That’s it!

First of all you need to locating the pst-file, pst-file is outlook file that contains emails, contacts and other outlook stuff.  You should include hidden and system files when searching pst-files, you can do it…

Go to “My computer” -> Tools -> Folder options -> View -> choose “Show hidden files and folders”, then remove mark from “Hide protected operating system files”, you just include hidden and system files.

Usually pst-files located in:
C:\Documents and Settings\%username%\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook\
For Windows Vista the default is;
C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook\

If you can’t find pst-files in these locations, go to start -> search and try to search *.pst.

You need to relocate these files to another place, first of all close Outlook, then select all pst-files and copy them to another location, for example: c:\pst-files, flash drive, another hard drive, CD or DVD, so your files will be in safe place.

If you need to restore outlook contacts and emails on another machine or on the same machine, just copy all pst-files to the location where you want to work with it like c:\restored-pst-files. After that open Outlook and add this file, go to File-> Open-> Outlook Data File and choose pst-file… Your contacts and emails have been restored!

How to hide Mozilla Thunderbird in tray? If it’s not comfortable for you using Thunderbird in taskbar and you use it everytime, there is a solution here…

Download Thunderbird TBTray and install it on your PC, after installation, TBTray program will require a path to the Mozilla Thunderbird, just put the path and click ok. That’s it! You’ve installed TBTray.

Also you can configure TBTray to start on computer starup and your email client always will be on. Good Luck!

In this thread I want to show you how to solve most common problem “too slow” or “computer freezes”. It’s very simple steps and everybody can do it, just follow these steps:

1. Go to Start -> Run

2. Type msconfig and click OK, you will see “System Configuration Utility” window

3. Go to “boot.ini” tab and click “check all boot paths” button, it will remove all unneccessary windows path in boot.ini file. Boot.ini is the main windows boot file.

4. Go to Services tab, put mark on “hide all microsoft services”, it will hide all microsoft services, it will save you from corrupt your operation system.

5. After that you should unchecked all unneccessary services, only leave those services that you know(usually I uncheched all of them)

6. Go to the next tab “Startup” and here make the same things that I wrote in step 5, uncheck unneccessary services or uncheck all. Click on “Apply” or “Ok” button and restart your computer, that’s it!!!

Now your computer must work much faster!

If you have a lot of emails everyday and you don’t have time to answer all of them or you have business email and you need to answer the same things every time, this instruction will show you how to set up autoresponder in Thunderbird:

1. Run Mozilla Thunderbird

2. Click “Write” button on the top of the main Thunderbird window, and write email that will be using for replying. After that go to File->Save As->Template, that’s it, you just create a new template

3. Go to Tools -> Message filters

4. If you have more than 1 email account, choose in which one you want set up an autoresponder.

5. Click New.. button. And you’ll see message filter window, where you can set up autorespond. Screenshot:

6. Type filter name whatever you want, than select “Match all messages”, go to “Perform these actions:” field and replace “Move message to” on “Reply with template” and in the next field choose with what template mail Thunderbird will reply. Close message filters windows.

You just create the autoresponder, if you want to autorespond within any period of time, do next steps…

7. Go to Tools -> Account settings -> in the left field choose “Server settings”

8. In the right pane find “check for new messages” label and insert in the field, time in minutes. Click OK.

That’s it! You just create the autoresponder for you email account in Mozilla Thunderbird. In the next thread, I show you how to hide Thunderbird in a tray.

If you a lot of time spend working in command line, you know that you can view a list of command, using up and down keys. If you want to change buffer size just run you command line(go to start -> run -> type cmd), then right click on a caption of the window and choose “properties”, go to options->command history->buffer size and change the number of lines. Another way to view history of commands, run cmd and type

doskey /history

and it will show you all commands that you use before. There is the screenshot…

Bluescreen or screen of death(SOD) it’s a common Windows or hardware problem. If you see message with nv4_disp error, it’s a usually problem with NVIDIA, from my experience the problem was bad driver(but sometimes it can be a video card).

There is a lot of ways to fix this problem, but the main problem already solved, we figure out the reason why it happened(bad driver). One way to fix it, is boot your machine in safe mode, you can do it hitting F8 key on Windows booting, choose “Safe mode with network”, we will boot Windows in a safe mode with network connection(internet connection).

After that try to delete NVIDIA video card driver(if you don’t know how to do it, google “remove driver windows”), but before deleting figure out what kind of video card you have(model of card) and try to find the driver on internet, on manufacture website or thru this website http://driverguide.com, I think it’s a best driver website, I know it from my experience(but after some amount of downloads, it locks for some time).  Just install downloaded driver and restart your PC.

If you still have Bluescreen with the same error, try figure out another solution on internet, if it doesn’t help, try to make first repair, if it doesn’t help also try to make second repair, the last thing what you can do is reinstall OS. Good luck!!!

Sometimes happened that chkdsk boots every time on Windows start up(it doesn’t matter how many times you already boot it, chkdsk boots every time), there is a solution how to fix it…

1. Download this registry file and open it. It will fix the problem automatically(it will change keys in the registry)

That’s it!!!

DVD doesn’t recognized in Windows, but it works in DOS, all drivers set up, but it still doesn’t recognized by the Windows system, cannot start this hardware device because its configuration information is incomplete or damaged. (Code 19). It’s a common problem in the Windows. We can fixed it in the Windows register(regedit). The solution is to delete LowFilter and UpperFilter entries from this registry area:

1. Go to Start -> Run -> type regedit -> press F3 or go to View -> Find -> and try to find “4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318″(without quotes)

2. So the full path will be: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}

3. After that delete LowFilter and UpperFilter entries

4. Close regedit and restart your PC

That’s it! Everything should work fine!!!