One of the most common annoyances with Windows Explorer is, well, annoying, because it should've been so simple for Microsoft to get it right. How many times have you selected the Details view in Explorer, only to find that it has reverted to the Large Icons view the next time you open the folder?
If you use an Ethernet or Wi-Fi connection to access your network, you might find that Ubuntu spends a few seconds during each boot acquiring an Internet address. This will be characterized by a long pause while nothing seems to be happening. Therefore, one way to provide an instant speed boost is to give your computer a static IP address.
In our world of high-speed broadband connections, we sometimes forget that a sizable minority of people use telephone dial-up to connect to an ISP.
Some years ago, hardware manufacturers realized that they could produce dial-up modems more cheaply if they shifted the hard work of decoding the signal onto the computer's operating system. With the work off-loaded, the modem’s circuitry could contain fewer and simpler components, thus saving money.
NdisWrapper is effectively an open-source driver (technically described as a kernel module) that allows Linux to use standard Windows XP drivers for wireless network devices. You might describe NdisWrapper as being a translation layer between the Linux kernel andthe Windows drivers, which can be installed using NdisWrapper's configuration tools.
Changing the default file location in Excel 2007 is pretty straightforward. When you're opening a document in Excel, by default the Open dialog box points to the My Documents folder (Windows XP) or the Documents folder (Windows Vista) as the starting location to open documents
Sometimes you have two versions of a workbook, and you want to compare the differences in the data visually. Excel provides a convenient feature that allows you to compare two documents side by side.
If you're no longer working with a excel workbook, you may want to close the excel workbook so that you can work on other documents without distraction. Closing unneeded excel workbooks also frees memory and minimizes potential screen clutter.
You can shut down or reboot your PC by selecting the System ➤ Quit menu option. Alternatively,
you can click the icon at the top-right corner of the screen. Either method will open a dialog box showing icons for various options, as follows and as shown in the next image.
Some wireless networks are protected using either the Wired Equivalency Privacy (WEP) or Wi-Fi
Protected Access (WPA) systems. WPA is effectively an updated version of WEP and offers stronger protection. There are actually two versions of WPA: WPA and WPA2. WPA2 is newer and corrected several security flaws in WPA. Both work in roughly the same way.
Some problems might arise before you even boot Ubuntu's live distro mode in order to run the installation program. This article addresses such issues.
Svchost.exe and services.exe are responsible for launching the processes associated with the behind-the-scenes programs controlled by the Services window (services.msc).
Forgot your password? No problem. There are two ways to get into your PC: the easy way and the hard way.
Windows Vista animates almost every visual component that makes up its sparkling new interface. While these affectations may be cute, they create two performance problems. For one, they slow down the motion, causing windows, menus, and listboxes to take longer to open and close, all of which makes your PC feel sluggish. Second, they consume CPU cycles that would otherwise be used to handle processor-intensive tasks like virtual memory and gameplay.
From time to time, you'll see a reference to Creator Owner in the Permissions window, but if you try to find the account by that name in one of the user account tools, you’ll come up empty handed.