Trial on windows xp sp 3
Just a couple picture. Of windows 8 calling programs “Aps”. This was a windows xp computer with all latest patches and updates.
Just showing you what the Windows 8 preview installer looks like in the first couple of menus.
Category: computer
Who is your computer guy?
Understand the Computer Guy
The computer guy is just what that image suggest. He is someone who has to follow guidelines or instructions and use the safest rout to fix your computer. When he is Googling that, the I.t.guy isn’t swinging by this website, because we just don’t have enough help articles. The I.T. guy will find a legit informative website and stop there.
My clean pc
You will not see me going to that website.
I know better.
Anyone notice that the “Stop Sign” commercials have stopped?
And then replaced with that veri what ever?
My personal computer will not have my clean pc installed on it.
No magic elixir. You can’t rub oil on your head and make your friends any smarter. and yes, you can install a program and have it check for specific command lines or executables to be on your computer, but will not check to see if the command line is correct, or if the executable runs the proper process.
Your safest bet is taking your computer to a proper technician, to get a proper diagnosis of your computer and a correct solution to ensure that your computer will be repaired correctly if needed, at it wont cost you every month.
Windows 7 Can’t run .exe files?
A friend was having trouble with her laptop not being able to run .exe files.
I had to go through a few checks to see exactly what the issue was. First I had her right click an executable file and see what general tab says for type of file. Everything checked out fine in there. Said “exe”
file type exe
Now mind you, she doesn’t care much for computers but had a few things she wanted to do. So it was hard doing this over the phone.
She couldn’t open email or run a browser.
The trick was to change her registry
reg edit for .exe association
but again, she can’t run .exe files, and making a copy of her regedit.exe and renaming it to regedit.com didn’t work either. Seems that has stopped working on windows 7.
So, the solution was, to .reg file for her and email it to her so she can save the file on a thumb drive from another computer and then run the file her computer
she couldn’t copy it to notepad or create it in notepad, simply because she had no way of running the notepad.exe file. Don’t ask me why or how explorer.exe was functioning. Because I just do not know.
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.exe]
@=”exefile”
“Content Type”=”application/x-msdownload”[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.exe\PersistentHandler]
@=”{098f2470-bae0-11cd-b579-08002b30bfeb}”
Now the trick is, copy the text in the code box there paste it into notepad, save the file as “fixit.reg”, make sure it does not save with txt on the end. Then save it to a usb stick,thumb drive, memory stick, cd what ever you have to sneaker mail (hand deliver the file) the file to the computer with the issue. When the drive opens, just double click and say yes to everything.
I did do a search on the internet to see if there was another way. Everyone’s advice said to open regedit.exe on the computer with the problem. erm…… Nope. will not open .exe files.
Now I am not saying this is for everyone. She was on windows 7, and I am on windows 7 . She is using a laptop, I am using a pc. This worked for her, I might not work for you. I myself would go ahead and try it if it was the last logical solution or if I felt comfortable with what I have seen the reg commands. It just tells the computer that an exefile is exe. Pretty simple. So use that at your own risk. There is a chance that this will not work with your computer. This is not for anyone who is not on windows 7. This is for some (probably not all) windows 7 computers only. But.. .. since this post I have tried this Method on a windows XP computer that couldn’t open .exe files, and this Registry Edit did work. Here is the reg fix for Xp
Looks like the exact same set of commands.
Found Computer Case
computer case
so. now I have a new addition to my custom computer cases to work on.
I plan to strip this one to the metal. Totally sandblast this one and then chunk a clear coat and have the whole polished aluminum look.
It is a small case. There is a motherboard inside that looks like the max size that can fit inside, and boy, is it ever tiny. The motherboard is supposed to be an economical motherboard. I read a few reviews and watched a couple presentations. Why? I dunno, might not even work. I guess so I have some history on what this computer used to be. So I can stay with in the theme somehow.
No powersupply, no hard drives and no cd or dvd drives. but soon.
Built Computer from Spare Parts
I have been hanging on test parts that have been given to me for reviews, and been allowed to keep. So I have held on to them because, who the heck throws away good computer parts?
Again they were all free so they are not top end but they aren’t trash.
So I snapped together a complete computer using an old HP case.
The computer boots up fine.
The parts are now dated a bit. IDE hard drive and a single core 2.5 gig Pentium Processor and an AGP slot on the motherboard.
but the cooling is good and the boot up is fast and smooth. XP operating system.
I am considering making a contest here, or turning the computer into a Roku box type media center.
The computer is currently plugged into my little 19 inch LG tv right next to the cable box and dvd player. Nothing is passing through, like cable, or dvd player. Heck it isn’t even plugged into the internet yet. I may go wifi with this computer. Uncertain yet.
I do have other cases in the garage, but I kind of want to save those for the custom mod cases I will be doing pretty soon. but that case is very heavy. Has to be over 30lbs.
You tell me, just vote yes or no if I should give the computer away in a contest here on the tech review.
[poll id=”15″]
What becomes of Apple now
Now that we have lost Steve Jobs, we have to question what will come of Apple. What will come of computers and cell phones from here?
My worry is that no one will fill Steve job’s spot and be creative and wise as he was all in one, and still run a company as he did.
If that will be the case, then we stand a chance of very little competition. with little competition, comes little growth through competitive progress processes. The desire to make your product better than the competition is what makes innovation. With less innovation by competitive motivation, we will become stale like a gaming console that floats 5-10 years without expansion or growth. We settle into acceptance and learn to just “deal with it “. Sometimes change is good for us. Options are even better for us.
So what becomes of Apple? what ever happens to apple, will reflect on what happens to Microsoft and what happens to Linux and what happens to Android, and to RIM and Symbian.
Will Apple consider this, Will it be easier and cheaper on Apple to just go for the lazy guy who doesn’t care? if so. It will be a fast sweep by Microsoft to take in Apple, and well… Linux would be a flash and soon forgotten.
Not to be a fear monger just trying to think ahead. Hopefully Apple is thinking ahead.
What comes of Apple and do they have an announcement coming soon? They very well should, if they want to keep their stock steady.
BitCoin Review
Have you found it yet? Have you found the magic pot full of magic money that you can’t get anywhere except if you build it yourself using your computer?
Have you found your GUIMINER or have you found bitcoin plus?
With bitcoin plus, you log into the website and you just click on “Start Generating” and it starts. You are instantly generating money. tiny minuit fragments of a penny. every hour you get paid 0.00002728 bitcoin. So, what ever the current trade value of a bitcoin is, divide that by 0.00002728 and you will see what the value of an hour is to you. not a whole fricken lot.
So you search for alternatives or someone comes along and tell you how you can get more bitcoins faster, by explaining how it works. Your friend tells you that you can get a program that lets you generate the bitcoins for yourself at a much faster rate. Since bitcoinplus uses Java to run, and we all know how dead goat fast that can be. So it sounds plausible and you are now intrigued.
Your friend tells you the name of a program that you can use to do mining with. For me, it was Guiminer (Graphical user interface miner). With Guiminer you have to get the bitcoin wallet. So you can store your bitcoins in.
So now you installed the wallet and you have the guiminer on your desktop. Now what? You open the guiminer and click on the first thing you see “start mining’ nope, jack squat. So you go to the menu area to try and figure out what in the settings is set at a default what ever. Nope, again, jack squat. So now you Google how to start this stupid thing and you find some post saying ‘ I am new to this so be kind” you are thinking “ding ding found one”. Go in to read it, nope jack squat. First line out of that dudes question is ” ok I am running a Linux network that is coded to BLAH BLAH BLAH” Lost me. you are thinking ” Ok now I just want the dang thing to run once. Three days go by of refining your Google search and finally you get the jest of it. open the mining program tell it to open the wallet as a server (dude I have no idea why) tell the mining program to look locally for a server. now it works, you are cranking about a cool 30 Mhash per second. You leave your machine running all night and wake up like a 7 year old on Christmas morning only to find. Jack Squat. So now you start looking for some math to see if you will make money. Sure you will. In 111478 months. You will make a whole 50 bitcoins.
So now you find that you have to join a gang, or what ever they call them, and have yourself a bitcoin lan party because someone realized that if you run a mining pool, you can mine faster and get more bitcoins. The system is supposed to be more organized that way. But after a few days, you get back to the same spot and see that you just made the guy hosting the pool, quite a bit of money. but you. you are making. Yep you guessed it. Jack squat.
So. Again you hunt for other reasons to hope this thing is useful. You find pictures upon pictures of people who make their own mining pool. Like some guy who has like 20 computers, each computer has 4 video cards on them to help mine faster using each graphics card GPU. and you think to yourself ” well heck yeah, eventually that will start to pay off’ and then you remember that 111478 months thing and try and divide that by each video card you see in the picture and shake your head at the insanity of the whole thing. Or you totally ignore any logic and continue to tell yourself there’s money in it somehow.
Oh, I assume the reason the bitcoin value dropped so much, is the early 6 months it’s value was cranked up stupid high, by the powers that started it, to get more people to help them with what ever in the heck they are doing. not because the stock market crashed. Just simply because no one wants anything to do with it. To much work, to much effort for very little pay out.
I have got to say that bit coin mining is useless.
If you do the math of the money wasted on electricity running what ever material it takes to generate bitcoin, you will be at a loss.
It’s not for broke people, to come into money with. It’s a toy for rich kids. and they validate it with an end result of 5 months later saying “see? I got $20 so it isn’t worthless”.
Don’t fall for that.
in the end you were better off staying on the bitcoin plus website and just letting it run in the background and not cause any trouble on your computer. No you will never get rich with that, but at least it feels like you are doing something with a computer that is already on anyway.
Bitcoin review
2/10
for people with addictive nature.
***update so I don’t seem like a jerk, just explaining logic behind my post***
if the money of pooling is split up amongst everyone, it would seem less profitable for the guy with 900 computers running the app, than the guy with one computer running the app.
one thing I have learned with these android phones, the more stuff you run, the faster your battery dies. This would lead me to believe that the apps are causing usage of electricity.
Means the phone that when all items are stripped and I am running a basic install of android, the battery lasts between 8-14 hours. With all average running apps the battery is between 3-6 hours, depending on what you call average apps.
note the power connector at the back of your video card, it is not there for luck. It is there for a reason. one can assume the electric bill is slightly effected by someone who upgrades to that. Especially if their computer runs all hours of the day and night, with no down time. add an app that runs that card, you can assume (from the android reference) that you will be using more electricity than just having the machine on. Run an app like guiminer, where your card is running at 50% higher temps. Mine got up to just under 180, normal temp is 105. you can surely assume that the ap is using a lot more power, along with the video card it’s self using a lot more power.
Now chunk in a second video card, and run at higher speeds (I Did this, but I didn’t see much performance increase), and re-math your power consumption.
I keep my computer turned off as much as I can.
I keep my electric bill under $50 a month (except last month, Texas weather at 100+ degrees got me to $75ish)
I wouldn’t want to see the slightest increase to my power bill for something so complicated and barely explained. I would not see the profit of it. Especially if you only see less than $100 a month in profits.
Something close to the topic with nearly no actual answer to teh original question. How much electricity am I consuming as I generate bitcoin
Inexpensive ways to Speed up Your Computer
These are the steps I take to speed up my computer. I have been doing this since my first computer, when I first noticed it was getting slow. These steps work every single time I have had an issue with a computer running slow. and I never really had to buy much. Except for canned air.
First thing is, any software that runs when you first start your computer, that is an optional software that you yourself installed, go into the options area of that software and tell it not to run at computer start up . It’s always better practice that when you install the software, tell it not to run at start up. That way you make sure the software never is an issue. If the software installer does not allow you to do so, then try the options area once you confirm that the software runs at start up. One easy way to check is look over by your clock. There might be a few icons around the clock. Go to each one of those items and right click them, go to options and turn those things off and tell them not to run at start up.
If that does not work and the option to dissable auto run is not available. Then you might have to resort to Msconfig and look in the second to far right tab. Should say “startup”. Look for anything that you installed. I myself right away look for “Jusched”, Jusched is Java Update Scheduler. Why is that running? why is that not an optional update? why does it cripple so many computers? Next is I disable anything adobe. but that is only because I don’t use adobe for anything but reading a pdf file. That can run when requested. the whole fast start stuff is bull crap and shouldn’t be an option. Adobe opens no slower if you opt out of fast start. If it does, it’s not much.. maybe three seconds. just for that I typically uninstall adobe from the computer I am using and resort to the faster safer alternative, called “foxit” lets you do more than adobe reader and is faster loading with tabs.
Next is I run a malware scanner, Like a-Squared, Bit defender
(ads moment)
Bit Defender Antivirus
Once the malware is removed. Yeah. I say that as if I am sure something is on there. Instead of the first reboot, I shut the computer off. I crack the case open and locate all heatsinks. Drag the whole computer outside and grab some canned air. I think blast the motherboard, the processor (CPU), the video card (GPU), north bridge , memory sticks, hard drives and cd/dvd drives and then I blast and wipe the interior of the computer case.
after I get the computer put back together, I boot the computer up and go about my merry way.
Some people tell you that you need to run a defragment with your computer. I don’t see it doing much good these days anymore. Maybe back when hard drives were smaller than a floppy disk This would be a big issue, but now, the hard drives are so large, and processors are so fast and the computers come with so much memory in them, a defragment of the hard drive would be like a drop of water in a planet covered in water. Very ineffective and undetectable by a human. but you can try it. It shouldn’t hurt you. Defrag is located somewhere in your menu, usually under system tools in the start menu of all windows computers. Been there for years. Crazy they took out program manager but not defrag.
none the less, that should help you out a bit in making your computer a bit faster, or closer to the speed your computer was when you first bought it.
If you do these steps on a regular basis like once every two or three months, you should pretty much keep your computer running good for a long time with this. I usually do this stuff the same weekends I get my oil changed on my car. keeps my synced up.
I actually do all of this every time a friend or a relative asks me to work on their computer. Just getting their computer back running faster is enough to make them happy.
Custom Computer Cases Have Begun
I have forever loved to see the handy craftsmanship of custom computer cases. all of the creativity that goes into the building of a computer case, the way the craftsman found most desirable and rational. The additional modifications and personal gems of utilities that should be on all computer cases, and other modifications that you just can’t get unless you build the whole thing yourself. That stuff has me dazzled. To know that a real person with their own two hands built something that will last and be useful for many years. i have been telling myself for the past i don’t know how many years. but it was back when I first saw the custom jewelry case computer. and that was quite a while back. The person built a computer case to be in the same design as any typical jewelry case, but was one of the first people to use clear plastic for the sides and top, and to then punch holes for air flow, the motherboard was positioned just right so the air flowing in will cross the cpu, hit the video card and shoot straight out, while more air blew in over the hard drive and i think the north bridge and straight out. The computer was a work of art. but I can no longer find it in Google. He must have dropped his website.
But it’s that design that motivated me and gave me ideas. but I couldn’t ever follow through with them. I never had anywhere to build custom computer cases.Couldn’t see myself standing on the balcony of my second story apartment out in a little town known as a very bad side of town, just drilling and gluing and sawing away, like there isn’t some druggy around the corner mad at you because ” you have things” like a hand saw and a Black and Decker AAA battery screw driver you call a drill, and don’t think he wont shoot you for it and not feel bad about killing you over a worthless item so much as feeling bad that he walked all the way up to the pawnshop with a screw driver you paid $4 at the dollar general for. I do have a knack for making worthless items look a little better than they are worth so, I can see it happening.
Now that I have my own house now, I have my own garage and I have my own tools. I have about 6 spare computer cases, (getting paint) and like 8 spare motherboards.
Motherboards
It is time for me to start my dream of custom computer cases.
Not my biggest dream just a flash in the pan wish that won’t go away.
What i am Starting With
Yes, the picture is that way for a reason. So you don’t get to much of my idea. and the boxes are hiding my Big rabbit in the hat part of my magic act ;)
I do not have a table to work on just yet. I am thinking of watching Craig’s list for a scratched up raggity dinner table for cheap. To start with. I mostly want a dinner table because that means a low chair (preferably a computer chair) can sit at the table as I build the custom computer cases and I will have a large area to work with.
Please stick by as I go into this hobby and watch for pictures to be posted as I work through building these custom cases.
So far I have gathered quite a bit of supplies for this. Some was given to me, others purchased with a goal.
The cases will of course have bondo and or fiberglass in their build. Everything I can mod will be modded. I will be using what I know of computer cooling and automotive cooling, and ALL knowledge I have about design for anything. Not to look cheesy, but to look cool, while actually cooling the computer and deadening sound. Count on Retro fitting lots of stuff. Two of my cases are at least ten years old with rust on them and probably weigh about 15 lbs each. These will be fun to work with. Backs will be punched out, screw holes will be obsoleted and new holes will be drilled.
I may even slip a bit of lumber and lots of plastic into the mix. (I already have a design so go ahead and count on it).
I might even do a retro budget gaming computer, and try and do a bit of overclocking to make it that much more brag worthy.
As always, everything will come from ads in the paper, Craig’s List, Fry’s or Compusa. Any place I can get a good deal or at least the part I need.
Come back once a month, and look for the Custom Cases tab to appear at the top of the page.
Not quite sure how i want the “Custom Computer Cases” page to work out, I may just make it a page to link the different cases and their progress and process. So I can show others how I did the designs and to help motivate people to try the same thing. Or I could just plop all of the computer cases in the same page. That could get messy though. Ehh i will wing it like I do everything else. Wild a slight idea of what I want to do.
If you have any tips or suggestions or requests on custom computer cases, please post below, These ideas or questions may come in handy.
See you all in this adventure.