Category Archives: Technical

Bought the Netgear wireless router with 4 ports (N150 Wireless router WNR1000v3). I disabled wifi feature. Set the static internet ip/subnet/gateway to match that of 64.61.... DNS would be the first router's ip: 192.168.1.1 Then I went to disable the … Continue reading →

This is called the Touch Pointer. Uncheck it in Control Panel -> Pen & Input Devices -> Touch.

After my P1510 HDD failure, I've decided to just upgrade the lifebook to P1620, which has Duo Core. I got it used for around $160 on Ebay. And it works very well with Vista. Now I'm off to install Mac … Continue reading →

$50-$100 is not a bad deal for photo hobbyist, and quality is not bad. But I'm not considering it unless my iphone is 3Gs or 4G which are video recording capable.

Some websites display/convert chinese characters into hexadecimal 2-digit encoding. Obviously, the Chinese character still uses more than 2 bytes. This is a good converter.

Thanks to Experts-Exchange, this is a good solution from jasonzx:  regedit: navigate to HKLM\Software\Microsoft\WZCSVC right-click->permissions->select SYSTEM->Advanced->Select System->edit Deny:Set Value, Create Subkey, create link, delete, write DAC, Write Owner navigate to HKLM\Software\Microsoft\EAPOL right-click->permissions->select SYSTEM->Advanced->Select System->edit Deny:Set Value, Create Subkey, create link, … Continue reading →

While it is true that most of such case are due to Norton program (use the Removal tool to remove instead of uninstall), this time, it is a driver update issue for the Atheros AR5007EG model.

Just had my desktop crashed again. This time I doubt it's hard drive related. Looking up 9f code, this BSOD is likely caused by some drivers not able to support sleep mode, which my station is doing this time, since … Continue reading →

This is due to the xvid decoder. Go to Xvid folder in Start Menu and configure Decoder. In Output options, choose "Compatibility Renderer", OK. Burn again with DVD Maker, no more green bar. Thanks to the forum which linked to … Continue reading →

At Nadia's networking: XP - (no password account) cannot connect to Vista (password account) for file sharing, error: "Logon Failure: Account Currently Disabled" Found solution: The solution does seem to be in the 'control userpasswords2' command but for me it … Continue reading →