Home PC Support London. Computer Maintenance and IT Systems.

Clean and Organize Your Desktop. Desktop Enhancement Utility for Windows.

admin — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:47:04 +0000

Organize shortcuts, folders and files with Stardock Fences. Freeware Download.
Hide and/or show your desktop icons.
Works with Windows 7, Windows Vista, or Windows XP

Ping is a computer network administration utility

admin — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 20:03:58 +0000

Ping is a computer network administration utility used to test whether a particular host is reachable across an Internet Protocol (IP) network and to measure the round-trip time for packets sent from the local host to a destination computer, including the local host’s own interfaces. Wiki

How can we use this command:

Ping internal or external network

Check network: www.google.com or 127.0.0.1 (local machine)

Check some IP address constantly Ping -t www.repairpcathome.co.uk

Resolve IP Host Ping -a 66.102.9.147

Change TTL (time to live) Ping -i 10 www.repairpcathome.co.uk

Record route to count hops (bridges, routers, and gateways etc) through which data must pass to reach their destination.
Ping -r 9 www.repairpcathome.co.uk

Secure and Fast Internet. Safe Browsing. Change to Open DNS Settings for Free.

admin — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 15:06:53 +0000

1. Create a free Open DNS account

2. Setup up your computer, router or dns server

3. Sign in

4. Change your Security and Web Content Filtering settings.

5. Enjoy and share!

OpenDNS Basic Features:

Reliable DNS Infrastructure
Web Content Filtering
Basic Customization
Typo Correction
Free

DNS Infrastructure
Globally-distributed network
Anycast routing technology
SmartCache
Control
Web content filtering
Proxy/anonymizer blocking
Whitelist/blacklist domains Up to 25 domains
Customizable block page

Security
Phishing protection
Botnet protection
Insight and Reporting
Detailed reports and stats
Archived stats and logs
Administration
Web-based dashboard
Intelligent Navigation
Typo correction
Shortcuts
Support
Standard support www.opendns.com/support

Reduce RAM Memory Usage for Mozilla Firefox

admin — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:14:14 +0000

Open Firefox configuration by pasting about:config into address bar and look look for values below.

Use filter to make it snappy.

1. Set Firefox to use less memory upon minimize

config.trim_on_minimize True
browser.cache.memory.capacity 16384
browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers 0
image.animation_mode none

2. Network pipelining reduces network load and can reduce page loading times.

network.http.pipelining True
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests 8

3. Configure FF Tools

Tools –> Options –> Privacy -> Use Custom Setting for history
Tools –> Options –> Applications -> PDF & other

4. Disable or uninstall unnecessary plug-ins, ad dons etc.

5. Try open less tabs.

6. If nothing helps then try closing and opening FF again.

7. Enjoy

Set Firefox to use less memory upon minimize

FileZilla Client Password Recovery

admin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:40:04 +0000

How to Recover FileZilla’ s Client Password.

1. Open C:\Users\$username$\AppData\Roaming\FileZilla

2. Open filezilla.xml

3. Look for

4. Enjoy

GodMode. God Mode in Windows 7. All Settings in Win7.

admin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:37:17 +0000

Create a new folder.
Rename the folder to

GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}

PLACE Details. Aero theme. WIndows 7. Find Location.

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:35:28 +0000

Find out where is actual place of Windows 7 aero theme.
Information can be found in Personalize – Desktop Background – Hold mouse over the picture

Microsoft Office 2010 download, install and setup

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:01:02 +0000

Please click the following link Download to download Microsoft Office 2010

Register.
Download Office 2010 beta.
Save Serial Number /MAK key
Install
Enjoy.
The beta version of Office 2010 will expire in October 2010

Auto Logon – Automatic Login for Windows 7 User Administrator

admin — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 21:33:29 +0000

In the search line, type netplwiz or control userpasswords2 and press Enter
Click on the user account name, that you want to have automatically log on at startup.
Uncheck the Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer box.

Disable the Thumbnail Preview Feature to speed up File browsing in Windows 7 and Windows Vista

admin — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 17:17:14 +0000