Archive for March, 2008

How To Change A Cmos Battery

First the safety rules
The inside of a computer is a bad place full of electricity and sharp edges.
On the electricity side always when working on you computer make sure that it’s still plugged in to the power socket and the power is turned off, this is to ensure that any static
From you is discharged through [...]


Boot Winxp Fast

Follow the following steps
1. Open notepad.exe, type “del c:\windows\prefetch\ntosboot-*.* /q” (without the quotes) & save as “ntosboot.bat” in c:\
2. From the Start menu, select “Run…” & type “gpedit.msc”.
3. Double click “Windows Settings” under “Computer Configuration” and double click again on “Shutdown” in the right window.
4. In the new window, click “add”, “Browse”, locate your “ntosboot.bat” [...]


Notepad++ : Text and Programmers Editor

One of my earlier posts regarding text editors brought to light a number of competitors to PHP Designer. The best of the bunch for me was Notepad++. It doesn’t have the project handling of PHP designer , but as a text and programming editor it is spot on. Lightweight and useable straight away. If you [...]