Restore Hibernate option if missing in Windows
Posted on October 24, 2008 - Filed Under Computer Tips | Leave a Comment
Recently, I reformatted my computer and I noticed that when I went to shutdown the computer, there was no option to Hibernate! Perform I reformatted, I did have the option to Hibernate along with Shutdown, Restart and Standby. So how did my Hibernate option go missing?
Well, apparently even if your computer supports hibernation, you have to configure Windows to be able to properly use it! Go figure! So here’s how you can restore the Hibernate option in the Shutdown menu. Hibernation option is missing in the image below:
Send photos from your mobile phone to your Facebook account
Posted on October 20, 2008 - Filed Under Computer Tips | Leave a Comment
Just about everyone has a cell phone with a camera on it these days, which is great for capturing moments instantly, but it’s rare for those photos to ever be seen by anyone else. Getting photos off your cell phone and to an online account like Picasa, Flickr, etc can be a real pain.
Facebook, however, makes it a lot simpler to transfer photos from your cell phone to your Facebook account with their Facebook Mobile service. Basically, how it works is that you email a photo from your cell phone to Facebook and then login into your Facebook account and confirm your cell phone. After that, you can send photos directly to your Facebook account from the phone.
How to repair and fix Winsock error in Windows XP
Posted on October 20, 2008 - Filed Under Computer Tips | 3 Comments
Winsock is a specification that is used in Windows and it determines how network applications communicate with network services, such as TCP/IP. It basically defines how two network programs will communicate with each other. For example, in order for an FTP client to work correctly, it uses Winsock.
However, Winsock can become corrupted on a Windows machine during the removal of spyware or adware. You may begin to get strange errors relating to Winsock or socket errors and basic commands such as IPCONFIG will not work correctly. You may also get errors like Page cannot be displayed when trying to browse the Internet.
How to transfer or migrate files from Windows PC to Mac
Posted on October 8, 2008 - Filed Under Computer Tips | 2 Comments
Mac computers are becoming more popular everyday because of the immense popularity of iPods and iPhones. This is great for Apple, but can prove to be a pain if you’ve always run Windows (like me) and now you have to try and share files between the Mac and a PC!
Migrating files from PC to Mac can be hard or easy depending on what versions of the OS you are running. For example, if you are trying to transfer files from a Windows 98 computer to a Mac G3 over a network, forget about it! It’s too painful to configure and it would be much easier to simply burn a CD and move it over that way.
Restore missing Run command in Windows XP
Posted on September 30, 2008 - Filed Under Computer Tips | 2 Comments
The Run command missing from the Start Menu in Windows XP? If so, you may be the victim of over-zealous IT administrators! Using what is called Group Policy, they can remove the run command from the Start Menu and there’s very little you can do to get the original one back.
However, that does not mean all is lost! When you’re talking about computers, there is always a workaround! So if your Start Menu looks like this with no Run command,
Fix for Cannot remove or delete network printer
Posted on September 28, 2008 - Filed Under Computer Tips | Leave a Comment
If you work at an office, you probably have several printers added to your computer that are network printers, i.e. no connected directly to your computer. However, as you move around in the company or printers die out, that list has to be clean up every once in a while.
Sometimes when you try to delete a network printer, you may get a message saying “Cannot delete network printer” from Windows and that’s it! Great, so now you have useless printers clogging up your printer list. Luckily, there is a way to remove any network printer from your computer via the registry. Note that you will have to be an Administrator in order to do this.
